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.