Category
Principium Vampyri
Status
Current
Overview
This is a Vampire: The Masquerade (5th Edition) chronicle based in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States and centred around a group of Vampires who are relatively new to the area itself.
The players are brought together by a powerful Hecata Vampire called the Marchese Leonado Sforza-Colloredo and dumped in San Francisco to either sink or swim. He never really makes it clear just why the players are in the city and he has left them to make their own way in the city.
Setting
The chronicle is set in San Francisco a city going through some changes since the military take over by the Camarilla Warlord Karsh in 2017CE. The whole feel of the city and the San Francisco Bay Area have changed since his coming.
Where once San Francisco was ruled by the Kuei-jin who invaded from the Far East under which both the Camarilla and Anarchs lived in some sort of harmony under their rulership.
But since the coming of the Warlord Karsh things have changed things for the worse as he was actively enforcing the rule the Camarilla over The City itself. In the process he has pushed out any Anarchs out of The City itself which has increased the tension between the two groups.
This tension would kept increasing but for the fact that Karsh’s campaign to control the whole of the Bay Area has stalled for some reason. He has control of The City but no other region of the Bay Area.
Only those close to Karsh know what is really going on and they certainly not telling anyone, even protecting him from any external questions and investigations. But questions from the Ivory Tower are being asked just what is going on in San Francisco and even if Karsh is fit to be the Warlord any more.
At the moment The City is in a state of flux with both the Anarchs and Camarilla wondering just what is going on with Karsh, though it will only be a matter of time before someone does something and test Karsh rule of The City!
Why San Francisco?
It has become a good place for those who want to make a name for themselves either within the Camarilla or the Anarchs because of the growing tension between the two groups.
It has also become a magnet for the Hecata, especially the la Famiglia Giovanni, who have recently brokered a deal with the Warlord Karsh to return to The City again. They have retaken the control of the financial district of San Francisco and the Bank of America based there again as they once did before they were expelled from the city. The Hecata come to the city to take advantage of financial district connections to the national financial systems of the United States.
Player Character Group
The following player characters group is playing in this Chronicle: