Masquerade Chronicle Worldbuilding
Contents
- 1 Cities and Officers
- 2 Allies & Enemies
- 3 Canon Events - Anarch
- 4 Canon Events - Independent Alliance
- 5 Canon Events - Camarilla
- 6 Canon Events - Sabbat
- 7 Former Sabbat
- 8 Epic Battles
- 9 Epic Events
- 10 Clan Specific Events
- 10.1 Creator of Stone - 1121
- 10.2 Feast of Folly - 1346
- 10.3 The Great Prank - 1346
- 10.4 Assault on Castle Hardestadt - 1394
- 10.5 Assault on Castle of Shadows - 1405
- 10.6 The Bite / The Betrayal - 1444
- 10.7 Attack on Ceoris - 1467
- 10.8 Break-in! at The Mountain - 1495
- 10.9 Opening Ceoris Prime Chantry - 1520
- 10.10 Allthing - 1824
- 10.11 Destruction of the Sabbat Tremere - 1999
- 10.12 Survivor of Venice - 2008
- 10.13 Survivor of <Redacted> - 2009
- 10.14 Bank Withdrawal - 2009
- 10.15 The Battle in the Urals - 2010
- 10.16 Allthing - 2011
- 10.17 Chilean Black Out - 2011
- 10.18 Exodus from the Mountain - May 2011
- 10.19 The Wipe - 2012
- 10.20 Fall of Vienna - 2012
- 10.21 Voivodes Petition the Tower - 2014-2015
- 10.22 Survivor of the Sundering - 2014
- 10.23 Survivor of Project Twilight - 2015
- 11 Founders and Leaders
- 12 Footnotes in History
- 13 Gone but Not Forgotten
Cities and Officers
London
Vienna
1391 - 1435 Prince of Vienna (pre-Camarilla) Andrei Hermannstadt
Allies & Enemies
Canon Events - Anarch
Signatory of the Status Perfectus - 1944
Beating of Jeremy MacNeil - 1944
- November, 1944: Prince Don Sebastian Juan Dominguez attempts to oust the Anarchs from Los Angeles by ordering Jeremy MacNeil detained and beaten
- December 21, 1944: Jeremy MacNeil and the Anarchs begin the Second Anarch Revolt and establish a Free State.
February 7, 2011: Jeremy MacNeil leads a group of Brujah Anarchs in a show of force against the Tower at the Conclave of Prague, killing the Ventrue Hardestadt
Witness to Edict of Succession - 2007
Canon Events - Independent Alliance
Treaty of Alliance - 2011
Alliance Amendment (witness) - 2016
Alliance Amendment (witness) - 2017
Alliance Amendment (witness) - 2018
Canon Events - Camarilla
Convention of Thorns - 1493
Bob - spends the entire Convention ranting to anyone within earshot that the clans who join with the Camarilla are letting their doom in by the front door. Some who still respect her give her words genuine consideration, others ignore her as a raving lunatic, but ultimately she is left behind as the Camarilla rises with Clan Malkavian as one of its founding pillars.
Tremere Bid for Tower Entry (Banu Haqim Blood Curse) - 1496
Treaty of Tyre Witness - 1496
The Promise Witness - 1528
Conclaves
Conclave of Turin - 2010
Conclave of Prague - 2012
- February 7, 2011: Jeremy MacNeil leads a group of Brujah Anarchs in a show of force against the Tower at the Conclave of Prague, killing the Ventrue Hardestadt
Bob
Mertin Puttkamer
Zoltan Vancura
Conclave of Halifax - 2013
Conclave of Miami - 2014
Conclave of Havanna - 2015
Conclave of Abuja - 2018
Conclave of Paris - 2019
Canon Events - Sabbat
Sabbat Founder (Sacking of Silchester) - 1493
Bob After her failure at Thorns, Bob witnesses the Sacking of Silchester, but declines to join the Sabbat.
Purchase Pact Witness - 1803
Signatory of the Revised Code of Milan- 1933
Milan Defector - 1996
The Jackal's Call - 2013
Former Sabbat
Alfred Perfidious
Jack Savage
Mace
Walter Merrick Former Sabbat. Joined the Camarilla in 1801 along with his entire pack. Current Prince of Trenton, NJ.
Epic Battles
Battle at Chorazin - 636
Minor leader in the Omen Wars (networking) - 1022 to 1391
Local leader in the Anarch Revolt (networking) - 1391-1493
Bob Disgusted by the elders of her clan and their enaction of the Great Prank, Bob throws in with the Anarchs during the Revolt, though she ultimately abandons her cause to stay independent of all the sects.
The Conference of Caine - 1910
Third Sabbat Civil War - 1957
Epic Events
Toreador Grand Ball - 1988
Bob Re-emerges into Kindred society after several decades of being off-grid, and with renewed vigor and visions of impending (but unspecified) doom.
Mertin Puttkamer
Destruction of Bangladesh - 1999
Ritual to Save the World - 2009
June 21, 2009: After years of planning, Thaumaturges and Necromancers gather a variety of Kindred with unique abilities and attempt a ritual to stop Gehenna (“The Ritual to Save the World”). When the Red Star fades not long after, some believe it may have even worked.
Clan Specific Events
Creator of Stone - 1121
Tremere, Gargoyle
Feast of Folly - 1346
Cappadocian
The Great Prank - 1346
Malkavian
Bob Part of a vocal minority that opposed the Prank, Bob stood as witness to her clan's great tragedy. After the Prank she spent decades working with younger Malkavians and helping them to master Dominate and cope with the loss of their connection to Malkav.
Assault on Castle Hardestadt - 1394
Ventrue
Assault on Castle of Shadows - 1405
Lasombra
The Bite / The Betrayal - 1444
Lamia, Giovanni, Cappadocian
Attack on Ceoris - 1467
Gargoyle, Tremere
Break-in! at The Mountain - 1495
Banu Haqim & Nosferatu
Opening Ceoris Prime Chantry - 1520
Tremere
Allthing - 1824
Gangrel
Destruction of the Sabbat Tremere - 1999
Tremere
1999: The Camarilla Tremere perform a powerful ritual that purges nearly all of the Tremere Antitribu from the Sabbat. Known ritualists:
Survivor of Venice - 2008
Giovanni
Survivor of <Redacted> - 2009
Malkavian
Bank Withdrawal - 2009
Ventrue, Giovanni
The Battle in the Urals - 2010
Gangrel
Allthing - 2011
Gangrel
Chilean Black Out - 2011
Ministry
Exodus from the Mountain - May 2011
Banu Haqim
The Wipe - 2012
Nosferatu
Fall of Vienna - 2012
Tremere
- February 8, 2021: The Prime Chantry in Vienna is sacked and destroyed. Those claiming responsibility are a hunter organization known as the Arcanum
Jerry Holiday - held off multiple hunters at great risk to his own unlife and was critical to allowing other Tremere to escape before the Chantry fully fell.
Voivodes Petition the Tower - 2014-2015
Tzimisce
Survivor of the Sundering - 2014
Ministry
Survivor of Project Twilight - 2015
Giovanni, Lamia
Founders and Leaders
Anarch Railroad - 1840
Liberty Club - 1850
FREEP (Anarch Free Press) - 1995
Anarch Free-State Militia - 2004
Ivory Masks - 2010
Society of the Crypt - 2016
The Column - 2018
Average Joe's - TBD
Footnotes in History
Alfred Perfidious was a mortal contemporary of Aleister Crowley's in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn with occasional interaction and association between 1898 and 1915.
Gone but Not Forgotten
Malkavian
Camilla Banes
First Malkavian Justicar. In the late mid- and late-1400s, Bob pleads with Camilla Banes to remove the Malkavians form consideration and throw the clan's support behind the Tremere instead. Obviously, Bob is unsuccessful in her efforts; the Malkavians join the Camarilla in 1486.
Vasantasena
The First Malkavian Antitribu. Bob has a lengthy conversation with the first Malkavian antitribu at the Convention of Thorns / Sack of Silchester. Bob is firmly opposed to the Camarilla but also sees the dark future of what the Sabbat will become. Based on this conversation, Bob refuses to join the Sabbat, fixing her path as Unaligned