Category:Apple of Discord Setting

Timeline:

The Early Era

Pre-1624 - While there were vampires in the Americas before the founding of New York, as far as current occupants know, they did not consider the area to be particularly important. There are only rumors from this era. 1624 - The first permanent European settlement is too small to support any vampires, but it grows across Governor’s Island and lower Manhattan. 1628 - Saul Meira of Clan Lasombra is the first vampire in New York City, opening the way for many to come and later earning the title of Bishop. 1673 - A large influx of Sabbat join the city during the Dutch/English wars. 1776 - As New York grows, it attracts the interest of all sects. Members of the Camarilla and the Anarchs take the Revolutionary War as an opportunity to settle in King’s County, Queen’s County, Westchester, and even Staten Island, while the Sabbat suffers the British occupation and the Great Fire. 1792 - First reports of a pack of white werewolves travelling in and out of the city for unknown purposes, and slaying any vampires they encounter. 1812 - New York supplies packs to Sabbat crusades up and down the East Coast, leaving the city more open than usual.

The Splintered City Era

1825 - The Erie Canal opens and New York prospers. Christopher Farrier, a Gangrel of the Camarilla claims domain over most of King’s County and Staten Island after killing Bishop Saul Meira. It’s rumored the gangrel had help from other supernaturals at the time. The Sabbat appoint a new leader and hold their ground in Manhattan and the Bronx, while Queens continue to be scattered unaligned and anarch territories. 1854 - The so-called ‘White Wolves of Wall Street’ kill Christopher Farrier, either proving or disproving the rumors of his alliance with them depending on who you ask. The Camarilla continue to hold their share of the city. 1870 - The incorporation of Long Island City leads various Anarchs of Queen’s County to elect a Baron, Zephyr A.J. Redmon of Clan Malkavian. 1898 - Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx join Manhattan to form the Greater City of New York. Most vampires had been resisting the unification, and promptly descend into war as they fight to maintain influence and territory. 1900 - Tansy Offenbach of Clan Toreador’s magnificent celebration of the new century marks an end to the open conflict between sects. Nobody can quite agree on everything that took place, but it settles the non-ascendant status of the city for some decades to come. Many Camarilla and Anarchs claim small parts of Manhattan and the Bronx from this time on, though the Sabbat remains the largest sect. 1901 - At the height of sectarian peace in New York, a group named The Compass Table gathers together leaders from several sects. Within nine months, it has self-destructed, but not before reorganizing several methods of influence around the city. The resulting coteries continue to be a force in the mortal world. 1904 - The opening of the first subway draws intense Nosferatu interest in the city. Barebones and her childer begin regularly passing through, though they do not settle in any one place. 1926 - The Harlem Renaissance brings interested young Anarch and Camarilla into contact. These groups set challenges for each other, all targeting the Sabbat, a tradition which grew into the Strivers Club. 1938 - The opening of the Cloisters marks a secret cross-sect collaboration between the Nosferatu and a few other trusted loremasters and artifact collectors, which becomes public knowledge in the 1990s as they open the Library of the Sixth Worthy to all clans. 1957 - The Third Sabbat Civil War kicks off in New York. It ends with the recognition of the Panders. Gwendolyn Rogers, a particularly dangerous local Pander, takes the opportunity to claim Coney Island as territory for her ‘clan’. 1969 - Coney Island goes over to the Anarchs, but immediately gets into a spat with the existing Movement in Queens. More Caitiff gather in the area. 1970 - Kwon Min-kyu, of the Viper bloodline arrives in Queens. He takes advantage of the Anarch conflict and gains a great deal of power in the area.

The Camarilla Era

1990s - Through repeated influence attacks, the dedication of several archons, and an alliance with the unaligned clans, the Camarilla push the remaining Sabbat out of the city, adding Manhattan and the Bronx to their territory. 1999 - The Library of the Sixth Worthy becomes a public part of kindred society in New York, basing out of the Cloisters. It’s said that the Banu Haqim Viziers joining the Camarilla was the key change, as Heloise Arceneaux of the Banu Haquim becomes the secretary of the Library of the Sixth Worthy that same year. 2001 - Alejandro D’Anconia of Clan Ventrue reforms the The Compass Table, gathering kindred together to deal with a huge surge in hunter activity. Their newsletter, Bulletin of the Supernaturally Concerned, also known as “The Bulletin” becomes very popular reading. 2011 - The remnants of the Sabbat crash a major Anarch gathering in Queens, leading to so much chaos that the entire Camarilla goes into lockdown. A number of particularly dangerous hunter groups form at this time, leaving the city with the question of who disappeared during The Beckoning and who was simply ashed. Former Baron Zephyr A.J. Redmon joins the Camarilla and becomes the secretary of The Strivers Club. 2014 - As the Carpathians begin negotiations with the Camarilla, an elder of the Old Clan known as Radomir Kocelj Nitriansko arrives on Long Island and begins accumulating the territory and servants of elders who have not been seen since the Beckoning. 2016 - The coterie known to NYC Camarilla as The Traitors goes public as the Independent Alliance expands. Under this coterie’s leadership, the Independent Alliance drives the Camarilla out of Queens.