[@Keksalot] Actually, you can play as a Downworlder if you'd like. We will need Shadowhunter PCs, of course, but you're certainly allowed to play as a vampire, so long as you've made yourself aware of what they're capable of, what they're weak to, and how the race in general handles politics in this setting, and likewise for any other Downworlder. For anybody who wants to play faeries in particular, that's doubly important, since they're a fair bit more complicated to utilise, and certainly more alien in mindset, than most other Downworlder factions.