New York

Vampire

While there are rumors of Native American Cainites in the New York area prior to the 16th century, the first European vampires to arrive came with the Dutch colonists in 1625. Kindred involvement in the area probably started earlier with the expedition of Henry Hudson in 1609. By 1664, when the British assumed control of the city after naval engagements and then business negotiations with the Dutch, there were a number of Kindred in the city eager to make a name for themselves. A number of Sabbat also inhabited the city, led by the Bishop Ecaterina the Wise and waiting for their chance to assume power. By the end of the 17th century an estimated 20 Cainites hunted the 10,000 or so mortal kine of the city. In 1897 during the Victorian Age, but more accurately the Gilded Age, both the Camarilla and Sabbat were active in the cities that would soon become New York. The Camarilla were led by their Ventrue Dux Bellorum Joseph Wellesley, alongside such Ventrue as Catherine Trandor and Aimery de Methuin, a trinity of Nosferatu namely Augustin, Calebros, and Radcliffe with Teeth, and a chantry of Tremere led by Eleanor Van Hasen. The Sabbat in the area were led by the Lasombra Cardinal Francisco Domingo de Polonia, the Brujah Bishop Ecaterina the Wise, her rival the Lasombra Bishop Turlev, and an outsider Ventrue antritribu named Thomas Albee. Independents included the non-Sabbat Ventrue antitribu Douglas Callihan, Donatello Giovanni (Hecata), and Lenore (the Ministry).
While the Camarilla nominally controlled New York City for several centuries afterwards, it was always against the backdrop of constant battle with the Sabbat. In fact, the Sabbat membership on the island of Manhattan likely equal or exceeded that of the Camarilla. This lasted until 1929 when the enterprising Ventrue Michaela took advantage of the Sabbat's lack of interest in the financial dealings of Wall Street. She bought up stocks in the wake of the massive stock market crash and eventually made back her investment into a billion-dollar fortune. She used this fortune to attempt to stabilize the city and declared herself Prince in 1980 but this only served to instigate Sabbat reprisals. Michaela desperately tried to fend off the Sabbat, even recurring to the tactic of mass embraces, using her childer as cannon fodder against the Black Hand.
The Sabbat had unchallenged dominance over the city until the Battle of New York of 1999-2001, when a combined force of the Camarilla from inside and outside of the city successfully swept the Sabbat hierarchy from New York. The battle ended with what the 9/11 attack. Where Prince Michaela, and many other elders faced Final Death. They where meeting whithin the Twin Towers, in an attempted a parly with the sabbat under the leadership of Archbishop Polonia, when the towers colapsed. With Michaela decapitated with many other elders, both Camarilla and Sabbat, a council of Justicars established Calebros of the Nosferatu clan as Prince Pro-Tempore of the domain.
As a result, New York is a city where numerous ambitious Kindred stake their claim. Domains are fluent, but some trends have been observed. Wall Street is traditional Ventrue domain but with the threat of the Sabbat nearly gone, the Clan now branches out to secure more neighborhoods for itself. The Nosferatu have their main haven in Manhattan. The hideout also serves as one of the main hubs for SchreckNet, resulting in a very tech-savvy population. The Tremere have held the Chantry of Five Boroughs, located at Barnard College, through the entire time of the Sabbat occupation. Several smaller chantries constantly relocate, a holdover from that time. Around six Hecata maintain a permanent haven in the city, mainly operating via their extended family. The Anziani (the council of Hecata) have decreed that no more than six vampires of their Clan are allowed in the city. New York has money, souls and criminal activity galore, so the Necromancers maintain their presence diligently. The Ministry (formerly The Followers of Set) have several temples, their main one being in Harlem and a smaller one in Queens. Individual Setites run their own cults that nominally answer to the head of the temple in Harlem. The Camarilla hand turned a blind eye, after their takeover, with the activities of the Ministry. But after the Ministry officially entered the Anarch movement, many belive they no longer, can turn a blind eye to the Ministy, and their domain i Harlem. Anarchs hold domain on Staten Island. Sabbat packs that survived the Battle have gone into hiding, using the old infrastructure of their sect to sabotage the Camarilla. A special kind of jargon has developed that advertises the sect's activities right under the nose of Camarilla, like clubs named Gehenna that serve as racks or signs that read "No Cams or Videotaping Permitted".
The first casualty of the SI, SchreckNet has been dismantled after being discovered by the National Security Agency in 2004. The NSA were unable to capture a complete archive of it before engineers from clan Nosferatu realized what had happened and purged the database under orders from the Camarilla. Soon after around 2005, Calebros stepped down and one of Michaela's surviving childer, Hellene Panhard, assumed princedom. Under her leadership, the vampires of New York have managed to build a stable community, with the Anarchs mainly cooperating.
In many cities, the Nosferatu traditionally make their havens among abandoned subway tunnels and sewer lines. Not in New York, here most Nosferatu have their havens above ground.

The Camarilla

Hellene Panhard, Prince of New York City
Qadir al-Asmai, Toreador Sheriff
Valerie Duval, Ventrue Scourge
Thomas Arturo, Toreador Harpy
Sophie Langley, Toreador Patron
Robert Larson, Thin-blood Primogen
Carter Vanderveyden, Malkavian primogen
Aisling Sturbridge, High Regent of the Chantry of the Five Boroughs
Calebros (Nosferatu and former Prince)
Addison Payne (Ventrue Primogen)
James Rafferty (Ventrue)
Aisling Sturbridge (Tremere High Regent)
Ephraim Wainwright (Tremere Regent)
Eugenio Estevez (Tremere Regent)
Adelaide Davis, Obsessed Malkavian killer
Samira, Banu Haqim Primogen
Invidia Caul, Tremere
Katherine Weiss, Brujah.
Mia Morgan, Brujah.
Torque, Brujah
Samira, Banu Haqim.
Addison Payne, Ventrue.
Princess
Agathon, Tremere
Gianni D'Angelo, Nosferatu
Hope, Malkavian Kaiser, Nosferatu
Cara Montgomery, Malkavian
Benoit Segal, Toreador (Childe of Sophie)
Eric's Sire, Brujah Latino woman
Amanda's Sire, Ventrue blue-eyed man
Lamar's Sire, Toreador elegant man

The Anarchs

Boss Callihan, Anarch Baron
Howard, (Coterie: Midnighters)
Vincent Cerutti, Lasombra (Coterie: Midnighters)
Mia Morgan, Brujah
Torque, Brujah Anarch Baron

Other Kindred

Francisco Domingo de Polonia (Lasombra and former Archbishop)
Tamika, Gangrel
Declan, Gangrel
Juno, Tremere
Raoul, Gangrel
Sana, Thinblood
Julia Sowinski, Lasombra.

Kine and Ghouls

Gregory, Sophie's ghoul retainer
Julie, Sophie's retainer
Jackie, Kaiser's ghoul
Bruce, Samira's ghoul
Marty, Torque's ghoul
Jessica Lowell, Eric's ex-girlfriend in life
Benjamin Newman, Amanda's boss in life
Emma, Lamar's sister in life
Frank Dougherty, Journalist
Silvia, Agathon's abuela
Father Anthony, possessor of True Faith

Maps

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  New York City

  New York city was, at the brink of the new millennium, a battleground between rival sects of vampires: the Camarilla and the Sabbat. Home to millions of mortals and hundreds of vampires, the city shook as the conflict took the form of economic espionage, political manipulation, and outright physical violence on and below the streets. In the end, the Camarilla succeeded in driving the Sabbat out of the city, and if the Camarilla rule was unsettled immediately after the war, the last two decades have solidified its rule into a more-or-less stable configuration - although not everyone is entirely pleased with the shape of that structure. Now, the Anarchs of New York were at first deeply suspicious of the new Prince that was chosen after the war, but they have come to find her more tolerable than a... more inflexible autocrat. Spared some of the obvious sources of friction by the new Prince's willingness to bend a little bit and accommodate reality, New York's Kindred have built what seems to be a more-or-less stable foundation on which they can pursue their individual and collective goals - for a time. But, to the victor go the spoils, and after ousting the Sabbat, the Camarilla lost no time in ensuring that their spoils were the best spoils. The Camarilla claims domain over the entire city and the Anarchs have found themselves - under their ostensible "leader" Baron Callihan - relegated mostly to the borough of the Bronx.

Type

Metropolis

Owning Organization

Camarilla