The Architects of the Monolith

You want to join the Architects of the Monolith

You see imperfection in the world and know you’re the one to fix it. You have plans you need to see in concrete and steel. You know the Kindred are screwing around with tea parties when they should be upending the table. You believe in the Carpenter’s genius and want to help complete her work. You want to build something no one can ever tear down. 

Who Are They?

The Architects as a Covenant exist as engineers of All Night Society where no one holds the reigns or cracks the whips. It's not a democracy or anything like that, they don't believe in the Carthian's goals. Rather it's a mechanism, everyone has a place and a purpose. They believe in total freedom. No Sheriffs, Princes, or Traditions to hold back Kindred, Instead they they believe their new world will simply stop problems before they even show up. Everyone will be happy, in their place, and the machine will run perfectly. They believe in The Monolith, a clockwork society that they alone can build over the ashes of the old order.

They believe in this cause with just as much religious fervor as the Lance or the Chorus do in their God or Gods. Their founder is seen as a non religious propeht of the future. Much like the Ordo they're scientists per excellence, using kindred administrative roles to experiment on and within the society they're embraced into. The Monolith uses advanced and mystical sciences to return the city to their exact specifications that only they can see. So far? It's had mixed results, but  that's sort of the point. One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. All more data for a better world.

Origins

Ermenjart, The Carpenter, is the founder of this covenant. She doesn't exactly remember who she was though, rumors of her being a former Spear or Dragon, are plentiful, and truly in cities where they aren't in the public they tend to hide within the two covenants.  Regardless this is what is known about her. She rose from a long torpor in the 17th century, in her torpor her beloved city of Paris spoke to her, it exposed the lie of the All Night Society. Vampires could never be trusted to rule one another, so new mechanisms of praxis would need to be constructed, immune to political and personal agendas. The City revealed this new design through a language only it spoke, the engineers the flow through urban paths and secretly guide humans lives. In her dreams it was revealed that these mechanisms were malleable, that if you could tune yourself to the city itself then the cold logic of Architecture - Math, Steel, and Objectivity- might guide the Kindred race, not the passions of the Beast or the ego of the Man. Within this new society, this Monolith...every Kindred is their own master. It was from this that she designed the Gilded Cage. These revelations were record in her work La Societe autonome. In a clear sober style she outlined her plan to the exact year of the great works completion; 2600 CE. For her discovery's she was shunned by Parisian Kindred society, her work was burned and they gave her the name The Carpenter, which she embraced. A Carpenter mends after all, and that is what she was going to do.

How They Work

They function similar to multiple other covenants combined into one. They have the religious fervor of the Spear or the Chorus, the ability to adapt mortal organizational schema to their needs like the Carthians, the scientific drive to experiment like The Dragons, and the desire to exert control like The Invictus. They are a Kindred deep state. Rarely are they public, and only in specific circumstances when The Experiment asks for it. They an unelected and eternal force that does the jobs others push down the line, they do it all while incorporating their sacred designs into everything they do. Some claim their is something duplicitous or evil going on, but the Masons argue that it's all very clear and open if you just read the damn book. They are useful bookkeepers, city planners, seneschals, and Elysium masters. They never coerce or manipulate converts, reason is their greatest tool, though not everyone recognizes the brilliance in that.  Rarely are they in charge, they like to support as they're currently doing in Anchorage. Their organization is led by the ethic and aesthetic of their members who achieve the rank and title of Keystone. Unlike most covenants they actually have a direct line to contact their founder as well as their founders three childer, her Hands of Glory, coordinate global efforts and every Monolith leader reports to them in some way shape or form.

(For a full write of the Architects of the Monolith see page 133 of the False Gods: Ventrue book)