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| | The World of Darkness includes various different species and beings, and each of them has their own organizations and political factions, vying for power in titanic struggles that barely manage to remain hidden from humanity. Each denizen of the world was, after all, human (or close to it) at one time, and they have never lost the human urges to fight for power, make their wishes known, and demand the right to change their place in the grand scheme of things. | | The World of Darkness includes various different species and beings, and each of them has their own organizations and political factions, vying for power in titanic struggles that barely manage to remain hidden from humanity. Each denizen of the world was, after all, human (or close to it) at one time, and they have never lost the human urges to fight for power, make their wishes known, and demand the right to change their place in the grand scheme of things. |
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| − | ==The Camarilla==
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| − | The vampires of the world are mostly split into two major factions, the Camarilla and the [[Sects#The_Sabbat|Sabbat]]. Generally speaking, the Camarilla represent the "civilized" face of vampire society, although they are by no means incapable of savagery and cruelty, especially if they think it might gain them a political advantage. Its founding clans are the [[Brujah]], [[Gangrel]], [[Malkavian|Malkavians]], [[Nosferatu]], [[Toreador]], [[Tremere]], and [[Ventrue]], although the Gangrel have since left the organization to become [[Sects#The_Independents|Independent]]. The ostensible mission statement of the Camarilla is to keep mortals from discovering the existence of vampires in order to responsibly maintain the world from behind the scenes, although how well they succeed at that, or whether some of them are even trying very hard, is often up for debate.
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| − | | + | |[[File:Camarillalogo.png | x300px | link=Camarilla]] |
| − | Members of the Camarilla refer to vampires as "Kindred", regardless of whether those vampires are members or not - which is not surprising, considering that they consider ''all'' vampires to be members of the Camarilla. In their view, the Camarilla is the necessary and agreed-upon political template for vampiric society, and anyone who disagrees is not only being unnecessarily difficult, but is literally a traitor to the sect. There are some side benefits of this haughtiness for the other sects (for example, Anarchs and Independents are allowed to live in, interact in, and even sometimes thrive in Camarilla cities as long as they follow the rules, since they are technically counted as members of the Camarilla), but it shouldn't be surprising that many younger vampires don't know if they believe that this is all that benevolent.
| + | |[[File:Anarchlogo.png | x300px | link=Anarchs]] |
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| − | ===Traditions===
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| − | The Traditions are the Camarilla's most fundamental laws, applicable to all Camarilla Kindred and enforced scrupulously in all Camarilla territories. According to ancient lore, they were handed down by the very first vampire as the incontrovertible laws of the species, although this origin story is considered mere folklore by most, and the elders maintain that they hammered out the Traditions through common sense and compromise millennia ago. Breaking a Tradition always carries extreme consequences in the Camarilla; although a few Kindred might get away with being saddled with negative Status or bloodbound to someone in order to teach them a lesson, most major infractions result in the lawbreaker in question being sentenced to death.
| + | |[[File:Camarillaheader.png | link=Camarilla]] |
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| − | ====The Masquerade====
| + | |[[File:Sabbatheader.png | link=Sabbat]] |
| − | The Masquerade is the Camarilla's poetic way of describing the rule that no Kindred may ever reveal themselves to humanity or allow humans to discover the existence of vampires. Exactly how a Kindred keeps the Masquerade intact is up to them, and the most common methods are avoiding being in the mortal public eye, using costuming or makeup to more closely approximate a human while in public, never using obvious Disciplines in front of mortals, referring to other Kindred only by nicknames instead of by vampire-specific vocabulary, discouraging mortal belief in vampires wherever possible, and even killing any human who might have accidentally found out too much.
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| − | | + | |[[File:Independentlogo.png | x300px | link=Independents]] |
| − | Breaches of the Masquerade are serious, and all Kindred nearby or capable of helping are expected to do so if one occurs, even if they had nothing to do with causing it. Influences in the media are often used to cover up or spin a story so that it doesn't appear to have a supernatural explanation, and even averted breaches of the Masquerade can cause those involved to be punished for their carelessness.
| + | |[[File:Autarkislogo.png | x300px | link=Autarkis]] |
| − | | + | |[[File:Inconnulogo.png | x300px | link=Inconnu]] |
| − | ====Domain====
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| − | | + | |[[File:Independentheader.png | link=Independents]] |
| − | | + | |[[File:Autarkisheader.png | link=Autarkis]] |
| − | ====Progeny====
| + | |[[File:Inconnuheader.png | link=Inconnu]] |
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| − | ====The Accounting====
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| − | ====Hospitality====
| + | |[[File:Ghoullogo.png | x300px | link=Ghouls]] |
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| − | ====Destruction==== | + | |[[File:Wraithlogo.png | x300px | link=Wraiths]] |
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| − | ===Status===
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| − | ====Positive Status====
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| − | ====Negative Status====
| + | |[[File:Hunterlogo.png | x300px | link=Hunters]] |
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| − | ===Prestation===
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| − | ===Organization & Enforcement===
| + | |[[File:Hunterheader.png | link=Hunters]] |
| − | | + | |[[File:Mageheader.png | link=Mages]] |
| − | ====The Inner Circle====
| + | |[[File:Changelingheader.png | link=Changelings]] |
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| − | ====Justicars & Archons====
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| − | ====City Offices====
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| − | ==The Anarchs==
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| − | basic description of the anarchs, mission statement; respect most cam trads
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| − | ===The Convention of Thorns=== | |
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| − | ===Abolishment of Elder Power=== | |
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| − | ===Organization & Enforcement=== | |
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| − | ====Lack of Overall Organization==== | |
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| − | ====City Offices==== | |
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| − | ==The Sabbat== | |
| − | basic description of the sabbat, members, mission statement, we hate the shadowy antediluvian illuminati
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| − | ===Organization & Enforcement=== | |
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| − | ====The Regent & Enforcers====
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| − | ====The Consistory====
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| − | ====Pack Structure====
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| − | ===The Auctoritas Ritae===
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| − | ====The Blood Feast====
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| − | ====Creation Rites====
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| − | ====Monomancy====
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| − | ====The Vaulderie====
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| − | ===Status===
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| − | ====Positive Status====
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| − | ====Negative Status====
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| − | ==The Independents==
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| − | basic description of indies, members, why they don't enter other sects
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| − | ===The Assamites: The Treaty of Tyre===
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| − | ===The Followers of Set: Blood Purity===
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| − | ===The Giovanni: The Promise of 1528===
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| − | ===The Ravnos: Exile from Asia===
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| − | ===The Kuei-jin: The Great Principle===
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| − | ==The Autarkis==
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| − | basic description of autarkis, we are old and throwing a tantrum
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| − | ===Declared Autarkis===
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| − | ===Excommunication===
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| − | ==The Inconnu==
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| − | basic description of the inconnu, we are the illuminati the Sabbat fear
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| − | probs not even bothering with full description of splinter groups
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| − | ==Non-Vampire Beings==
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| − | ===The Garou===
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| − | ===The Changelings===
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| − | ===The Wraiths===
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| − | ===The Mages===
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| − | ===The Hunters===
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