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Revision as of 01:52, 14 April 2022

Contents

Cities and Officers

London

Vienna

Andrei Hermannstadt Prince of Vienna (pre-Camarilla) 1391 - 1435

New York City

Nissim - Tremere Lord of the Northeast Megalopolis from 1945 to Present

Allies & Enemies

Smiling Jack

Joan Jordan Jojo fought alongside Smiling Jack and they became friends during the Southern Crusade during the 2000s (SW Region)

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

Silas Grimsby

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

Nissim

Treaty of Tyre Witness - 1496

Zoltan Vancura

The Promise Witness - 1528

Conclaves

Conclave of Turin - 2010

Mertin Puttkamer

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
Charles Hakstege
Mertin Puttkamer
Zoltan Vancura

Conclave of Halifax - 2013

Conclave of Miami - 2014

Mertin Puttkamer

Conclave of Havanna - 2015

Conclave of Abuja - 2018

Andrei Hermannstadt - Attends a delegate of the Carpathians

Conclave of Paris - 2019

Charles Hakstege
Mertin Puttkamer

Canon Events - Sabbat

Sabbat Founder (Sacking of Silchester) - 1493

The Forest of Teeth - A terrifying force at the Sacking of Silchester, where it took many human and kindred lives whiles exclaiming "devour them" from its many mouths. It went on to help mold the Sabbat in its earliest decades, leaving a mark on the sect that would last for centuries.

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

Alfred Perfidious

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

Andrei Hermannstadt - fights in Sibiu, Romania and surrounding areas during the conflict

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

Mace

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

Alfred Perfidious
Bob

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.

Ritual Participants

Write Up

Clan Specific Events

Creator of Stone - 1121

Tremere, Gargoyle

Feast of Folly - 1346

Cappadocian

Benjamin Assi Caesarea

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

Zoltan Vancura

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:

Jerry Holiday Nissim

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.
Nissim
Andrei Hermannstadt - offers his hospitality in Sibiu, Romania to the Tremere affected by this disastrous event and assists some in reestablishing havens and helps them arrange safe passage.

Voivodes Petition the Tower - 2014-2015

Tzimisce
Andrei Hermannstadt

Survivor of the Sundering - 2014

Ministry

Survivor of Project Twilight - 2015

Giovanni, Lamia

Benjamin Assi Caesarea

Founders and Leaders

Anarch Railroad - 1840

Liberty Club - 1850

FREEP (Anarch Free Press) - 1995

Anarch Free-State Militia - 2004

Silas Grimsby

Ivory Masks - 2010

Society of the Crypt - 2016

Giancarlo Giovanni

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.

Joan Jordan aka JoJo negotiated a treaty with the pack of weresharks in the San Francisco Bay.

Andrei Hermannstadt became a close personal friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart after meeting the aging composer in Vienna in 1781 and acts as his patron till his death in 1791.

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