Category:Apple of Discord Setting

NPCs:

Name: Alejandro D'Anconia (he/him)
Clan: Ventrue
Status: Camarilla Neonate
Note: The Secretary of the Compass Table is the youngest of the three society secretaries in New York, and the only one who can claim to be the founder of his group. He balances this classically overachieving Ventrue accomplishment with an often-informal approach to The Bulletin's and unlife in general which leaves him out on Staten Island, in the oldest, most isolated, and least valued parts of his clan's territory. His opinion on this is not publicly known.

Name: Sara Weinberg (she/her)
Clan: Banu Haquim
Status: Camarilla Neonate
Note: Formerly a librarian for an associate of the Councilor of the College of Flesh and Blood, it's said the current Secretary of the College of Six Worthies gained her current position as part of a bargain to store certain Banu Haquim artifacts in New York after her clan joined the tower. Once, this made her the the least likely of all her peers to take a side or venture an opinion, but the Beckoning unchained Sara from her hierarchy and her debts, and now it's really just a question of when and how she begins to play the game...

Name: Zephyr A.J. Redmon (she/her)
Clan: Malkavian
Status: Camarilla Neonate
Note: This former Baron of Long Island City only joined the Camarilla after the disappearance of her great-grandsire, Prince Caldwell, and is more of an enemy of the Caitiff of Coney Island and the Traitors in Queens than a supporter of the Tower. Regardless of the grudges that time has inflicted on her, as Secretary of the Strivers, Zephyr embraces and embodies the passionate humane nature of her society. It's unknown if her issues with weather and time of day are her true clan derangement or an affectation.

Name: Barebones (she/they)
Clan: Nosferatu
Status: Unaligned Ancilla
Note: This nomadic dealer in secrets and artifacts comes through New York on the regular, always with a few family members along for the ride. Barebones seems to be in it for the traveling as much as the wheeling-and-dealing and always appreciates learning, seeing, or experiencing something new.

Name: The Traitors (coterie)
Members: Min-kyu "Min" Kwon of the Vipers (he/him), Amity Carter of House Goratrix (he/him), and Nadav Rivera the Caitiff (they/them)
Note: A coterie of former Camarilla members and independent clans that currently leads the Independent Alliance territory in Queens. The Traitors ripped their domain from the Camarilla, and the scars are still fresh. This coterie is also rumored to have more members than just the public few... hopefully none still in the Camarilla.

Name: Gwendolyn Rogers (she/her)
Clan: Pander/Caitiff
Status: Anarch, Unknown
Note: The leader of the Caitiff of Coney Island favors long skirts, braided hair, and dropkicking people through walls. This Ex-Sabbat 'Anarch' keeps her domain so walled-off from the rest of the city that there's no public information about her politics other than the amount of violence involved. But no public information doesn't mean no information. 'Empowering the clanless' seems like a likely goal, but who are her allies?

Name: Radomir Kocelj Nitriansko (he/him)
Clan: Carpathian Tzimisce
Status: Unaligned Elder
Note: The most visible and perhaps the most powerful Elder on Long Island, Nitriansko came over from the Old World when his clan joined the Camarilla and then very pointedly did not follow them. He's been putting together a modernized voivode's domain in the area ever since, with blood bonds and well-rewarded retainers all around. Montgomery Sutton of Clan Ventrue is known to act as his public face.

Name: The White Wolves of Wall Street (pack)
Tribe: Unknown
Status: At Large.
Note: This pack of werewolves travels in and out of New York as they please, with significant influence in the Financial District. It's said any Kindred who tries to meet with them privately is a fool who will soon be ashes, but there's a few records of conversations held in public that did not end in violence. It's also said some of these wolves are as old or older than many of the Vampires in New York.

Inactive NPCs

• Gabriella Meira - The earliest leader of the Sabbat in NYC, a Lasombra. Died to a combination of the Camarilla and werewolves.
• Archbishop Rodgrigo - A historical leader of the Sabbat in NYC, killed by a Lasombra who later went to the Independent Alliance.
• Christopher Farrier - The first prince of the Camarilla in NYC, and a Gangrel. Died to werewolves.
• Ansel Van Wylon - The second prince of the Camarilla in NYC, and a Nosferatu. Died to a coup.
• Delphine Caldwell - The third prince of the Camarilla in NYC, and a Malkavian. Disappeared during the Beckoning.

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 - Gabriella 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 Gabriella Meira. It’s rumored the gangrel had help from other supernaturals at the time. The Sabbat appoint their first Archbishop, a Brujah Antitribu named Rodrigo Valentine, to hold their ground in Manhattan and the Bronx. Queens continues 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 under Prince Van Wylon of Clan Nosferatu.
• 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.
• 1891 - Archbishop Rodgrigo falls to a more recently arrived Lasombra by the name of Azazil in a brutal Monomancy.
• 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.
• 1915 - Delphine Caldwell of Clan Malkavian destroys Prince Van Wylon in a well supported coup. The first act of her praxis is to open a number of territories to vampires fleeing the first world war.
• 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. Archbishop Azazil flees the city in 1991, and none of the following Bishops or Archbishops last more than a year. The Sabbat called this the ‘Bishop of the Week’ decade.
• 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 Sara Weinberg 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. Prince Caldwell is among the missing kindred. 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.