Now, lets take a sho Cairo. Now lets talk. On the Name Tammanend We were gonna be called the that sounded Movement. A lot of us thought it the stupid. Most of the kids called Tammament Movement. I like it,. Then you had some assholes Of course Cairo knowsrevolution. Fuck, they ve trying to say it in Munsee or been having them for millennia.
That place is some other Native American like a hot potato. Except instead of a potato, they lang uage they didnt know. And instead of thro wing So we called it the Carthian it because it gets too hot, they typically stake the Movement, named after fucker and everyone supporting him.
It lasted a long Sorry to my fellow ladie s for the gend had a wom an in charge for damned time, and Aristotle there.
But Cairos not emb ers, whic h is about fucking as long as anyone rem thought it was peachy keen. So, it was good enough for us. Sometimes, you can have too much revolution.
But when is revolution too much? When is the safety of maintaining a status quo worth the stagnation of progress? Imagine my saying that in the voice of the wise old man in that curio shop on Canal and Centre.
Were gonna focus on the most recent revolution. The turmoil going on in the mortal world made it real easy and convenient for the Kindred world to twist turn upside down.
Ali Bagher was a typical theocrat. Basically: Do this. Dont do that. Exceptions are punishable by death. Im sure you know the type. He did his tyrant shtick, as Princes are wont to do.
He got his ass dusted one hot July. It was not your run of the mill power seizure, either. It wasnt some pompous-assed blowhard stepping up with a bunch of his toadies demanding the former Prince step down because yadda yadda popular opinion or whatever lies new Princes tell themselves so they can sleep during the day.
A Neglatu took him out. Neglatu From the few witness stories, our intrepid ed to know Neglatu raided Elysium when everyone was I say Neglatu like youre suppos enants are, present. They marched on the scene, and twenty what that is.
You know what rev eone with or so revenants outright fucking slaughtered right? Thats when you kill som come back. Ali Bagher, his Sheriff, and a few other officials fang, or kill a ghoul, and they tty elders, who tried defending him.
Most everyone fled. This is mostly a problem for shi. Neglatu Some revenants died in the chaos, more than and licks that kill a lot of people ey keep stables non-revenants. Fourteen citizens died, the most are like revenant masters. Th ir masters popular count says. Point is they took the city in of revenants who will follow the an incestuous less than ten minutes of massacre.
Its like hav ing personal army. Hes Carthian. I mean, be a very s with a bunch of mindless, hungry monsters to Carthians, because you and I dont think of raid Carthian behavior. The crazy part is he administers Now, hes in charge. He rules with his little broo pire, hian domain Ive ever heard of. Theres one vam whats probably the most directly democratic Cart nteer committees to advise him on less pressing one vote for most issues, and he allows opt-in volu leader.
Everyone Ive talked to say that except for and Cairo news; theres some shit thats hit their air Now, thats a huge except.
Because Ive seen the the le city. Hes teetering on the brink of shattering print that would get a fucker killed in any reasonab se p of Israeli Invictus is looking to move in and depo Masquerade. One of my informants tells me a grou the up with your cracks about the greater stability of him for the greater stability of the region and shut Middle East.
The leader talks a good game about defending the Cairo looks stable. Everyone says it looks stable. Hes defended territory rights of the indiv idual, and guaranteeing the vote That prime feeding grounds. Hes democratized policy. Maybe Ali Bagher was a dick. Fuck, he was almost certainly a dick. Cairos honeymoon phase with our Neglatu Prince.
May still in its be Im wrong. Maybe hell turn out great. Who knows? When we heard word of it, it sounded interest ing.
So we and a few others sent people to look Cairo. They confirmed the best and worst of into it. The city seems stable, aside from the thre Masquerade. And considering the turmoil righ ats to the t now in that area, a broken Masquerade coul absolutely devastating. But its not our place d be to fix it, and I dont even think we really coul Best we could do is adopt some new laws to mak d if we tried.
Law One: The act of creating a revenant is pun ishable by death. Law Two: Anyone involved in forcibly deposing a government official cannot serve in the next governing body. Ashes do nants: If you kill this shit anyway.
If nt rise as revenant you dont want to di s. You should be do sp os e ing Mayor Blasio is mak of bo dies, dont fucking ing our Requiems kill people. Le d, so he can keep up ts not make his running around. W the good work. We e can all pretty muc dont want Neglatu isnt black and white h be on the same pa , though.
The Laws ge there, right? Th in pl is heard of anyone bi ac e. It should be enforced ting it because of th. I havent Neglatu in the sewe is law yet. But, Ive r system, so who kn heard rumors of a alligators there too. Then again, Ive he ard rumors of. And who is involved in deposing government officials?
Like, can if you trick people into revolution you be the one planning the ass? Thats a tough one. The Carthi ault? What issue because its a new law. Bu an Law wil l sor t it out. So far, its not been an t well find out soon enough, Im government officials.
We have sys sur e. Bes t bet is, dont fucking forcibly depose tems in place. You might not lik systems, because the systems giv e the sys tems, but they like you. Work wit e us society. Its all social contra h the ct.
Theres Cairo out of the way. I lik e Cairo, because we took some any of their culture in such a wa adv ice from them, but we didnt y that they couldnt use it any mo actually steal We didnt steal shit from them. Thats the closest thing we get to heroic: There was our positive.
Not par ticularly positive, but you take what you can get when youre dea ling with Murder Culture. Now were going to go for the negativ e. Oh boy! But its okay; its mostly about a culture overseas that pre tty much nobody in America kn about. Unless you talk to a Vietna ows mese-American, most American knowledge of Vietnam ends with s the Vietnam War, and even then, spotty and full of propaganda.
Ser its iously. Tell me something you kn about Vietnam that doesnt relate ow to a war that ended forty years or pho. Thought so. You can. Fuck, across eight Murder Culture years of war, America dropped a million tons of bombs ans a culture Murder Culture basically me per year. Vietnam, for those at home, is a little smaller blame our that normalizes murder. We than California, and most of the conflict didnt spread h our need for victims.
We rationalize it wit to its edges. Not all of those bombs went off when ing number of our blood even though a shock they were supposed to, but decided to go off later. The g. We say that victims dont die from feedin US used Agent Orange to shred the foliage so their uld mean a lot the fall of the Masquerade wo helicopters could see National Liberation Front forces We tell ourselves more death in the long run. That stuff caused millions to protect our all sorts of bullshit in order of life-ending complications.
Seriously, Google some ring people. It destroyed tons of rice field l likely never be farmable were invaded by other species, and wil to move into the cities, which again.
This hurt the farmers, who had to beg in with. The war might have Long story short, its always about ripp simple way of looking at things. So lets talk people, and defines every aspect of the resting place, because despite about a little history. Vietnam is an inte es ever are. Lieu been united for Kindred in a way few plac its distinct split in the mortal world, its long nt happened to it. Then the Carthian Moveme Hanhs Imperium stood strong for nearly.
I cant think of a single pa rt of fou r hu nd for the better First, she ran an Imperium hiatus. This might be some of my New World t lon g wit ho ut ex ten de d who has remained active tha yea rs are rare, and when you do find them, theyre over a cou ple hu nd red privilege talking, but elders variety. We become old er, we get str on ger.
Ou we get Context for the kiddies: As he r an d die. Vampires just grow closer and closer to not like hu ma ns , wh o wit influence from the Blood. Its eep. As igh t of ba da ssi tud e gets to be too much, and they fall asl entually, the we en critical mass every night.
Ev yr e fre sh , new, and no t so badass. But its like a collag en they wake up, the they sleep, the blood thins. Wh y stop being able tha t pow er wi ll ris e. Wo rse , after a couple centuries, the e, and imal blood injection; itll go away in tim a bit alr ead y. Do you know how every night, an ve probab ly felt thi s to feed from human blood. Th ats how anc ien t Kin dre d are, except instead of eschew sounds that much less appetizin dred blood.
Since she did In scientific terms, Lieu Hanh nt is, shes a du rin g the rev olu tio n eh, Im getting ahead of myself. Poi meet Final Death tnam at large. She comes up in stories tha Second, shes stion the k in lik e the six tee nth cen tury. Many people que a real-world princess bac from Th is is in par t bec au se the story involves banishing people storys historical accuracy. Bu t she s Me kh et, so she Earth and her being immorta d of thing we fro m it. An d you kn ow , vam pire.
So immortals not the kin she was banished tend to question. It wasnt a As the story goe conquered sir e or som eth ing. Wit hin the first century of her rule, she inherited it from her her influence as the mortal side did. Her push from end , the Fre nch we re abl e to conquer the land, thanks to she may have. In the Kindred world; Lieu Hanh rem ained , thi s ha rdl y refl ect ed in the militant Catholics. However ed to Vietnam to pay thr ou gh out Fre nch occ up ati on.
French Kindred even travel empowered ce. Im not here to educat I dont want to spend too much n, one of our ins and out s of Vie tna me se Kindred history. Phuong Nguye you about all the cialist. Shes a spe Ventrue, she can tell you wed all but the not as a tyr ant , but cer tai nly as an authoritarian.
She disallo Lieu Hanh ruled parison g Vie tna ms Kin dre d pop ula tion disproportionately low in com rarest Embraces, keepin e wine of longevity comes from a law , as it sta ted , wa s tha t Th to its mortal populace. Her n as an effort to we mu st kee p fro m run nin g dry. Critics painted this decisio small cellar; one r, unilaterally nim um. Sh e did not hin g to assuage those concerns, howeve keep dissent to a mi r cases, and sir e of nea rly eve ry vio lation of her law.
In three popula slaughtering both childe own. As the story goe The sires, tho e courtiers n sw ord one hu nd red tim es before her Court could blink. Th them with a woode ling to ash. Du Friendliness wit r of which an ded Vie tna me se sup por t in both food and troops, neithe War I, the French dem mo rtal issue, Lieu Hanh remained vid e. De spi te thi s bei ng a Vietnam was prepared to pro tnamese Kindred nt, an d ref use d to reb uk e her French Kindred allies.
Vie decidedly sile speaking up ly exp res sed the ir dis ple asu re with her rule, while not yet organized and qu iet al. This was mostly to cut supply lines the Chinese could use against Japan.
Japan received some help from Germany during. Ge istance had support Japan to station in Tonkin rm an y ma de an ag reement with France to allow in the north, bordering Ch Vietnam, this was before Ja ina. At least one million died as a side Hanoi was of particular int erest in this struggle, since also housed the Viet Minh go Lieu Hanh held her court in vernment for its short rule Hanoi, and Hanoi advisors, locals viewed outsi of the country.
Lieu Hanh ke ders as mostly dangerous. As pt French Kindred kind. Lieu Hanh claimed thi fam ine too k over, the Kindred hungered in s as a victory, as proof her preparation for such a traged rig id po licies on the Embrace were clearl y. The city wasnt buying it.
The French stepp wasnt having it. The Kindred ed right back in and took ove looked to Lieu Hanh and he r. The Viet Minh this shift in power.
It seeme r French advisors, blaming d Lieu Hanh could do nothi conspiracy for organizers against her were ng to calm her people. Worse three of her childer adopt still, the three chief of vary ing ages were supp ed fro m pa st Em brace crimes. Where the thr osed to help keep her in tun ee withdrew from her, barely spe e wit h mo der n Kindred and mortal societ aking to her in favor of the y, they ir gangs of dissenter.
By this point, Hanoi had fou r factions. None of these factions numb d Huong Do each command ered more than a dozen me ed another faction. Shit was tense, and the Viet Minh revolutionaries just kicked France out of the country. With it, Lieu Hanhs council fled as well, leaving her with almost no support against her three protges and their gangs.
To resist the crises faced by the region, the North Vietnamese govern ment instated numerous reforms that pushed the country toward more Communist rule.
These political campaigns targeted landowners, with extreme rent and land reform that ultimately led to the executions of many thousands of property owners.
Some voices in the Southern part of Vietnam disagreed with this path, and numerous world powers chimed in to support one side or another. The United States aggres sively supported the southern part of Vietnam, as part of a push to reject Communist ideolog y for fear of the Soviet Unions growing political influence on the world arena. They thought, at the time, that if one country fell to Communism, the world would quickly follow suit.
Its probably worth mentioning that everything suggests the vast majority of the population would have voted in favor of Communist power. Famously, a rigged vote skewed heavil y in favor of those resisting Communism.
One hundred and thirty-three percent of Saigon voted agains t the Communists. Thats worse than Chicago numbers. Lets not get it twisted, though. Shit was fucked up all around. Thats a lot of words that lead to a pretty reas onable response: The people were pissed. The peop le lashed out. Since Ngo Dinh Diem won the presidential election, and he was super conservative and aligned with the US and other powers against Communism, the back lash came mostly from Communist forces.
He was not some freedom fighter GI Joe motherfucker, either. If you collaborated against his government, he had you impriso ned, tortured,. This happened to thousands of his oppon ents. So even in South Vietnam, the supposed side against Communism, you had massive groups organizing against this shit.
North Vietnam helped that along, since that kind of organization could lead to its desired goals as well. It wasnt a hard picture to paint, either. The United States was a scary fucking place. Vietnam was close enough to see what it could do if you fucked with them. So they looked like imperialist bullies. Through the early s, North Vietnam began to set up shop and militarize in opposition to Diems government and its United States backing. He wanted to look like a quiet supporter.
He wanted South Vietnam to beat back the northern Communists on their own. So all his support looked like rich shitbag white people help. Case in point: The US and the Diem regimes worked together to relocate the non-Communist South Vietnamese into little isolated communes, where they couldnt be influenced by the scary Bolsheviks.
Repeat after me, kids, any time a wealthy world power decides to relocate a massive number of citizens from a poorer nation, it does not fucking end well. When Lyndon Johnson took the US presidency, things got worse. Within a year of his taking the seat, he decided to push hard into Vietnam, in order to fight back the Communists. Three million soldiers, over a full percent of the United States population, deployed to South Vietnam.
Much of Johnsons justification for sending soldiers like some skirmishes on the Gulf of Tonkin was fabricated to win over public support.
The Kindred, the childer, they didnt take sides. They couldnt. In a warzone, every vampire has to focus on survival, first and foremost. This is why Kindred revolutions almost never happen during human revolutions, but frequently happen after them. Well touch more on that later. Through the fighting, everyone banded together. The already meager Kindred population in Hanoi fell dramatically, leaving less than twenty vampires by the wars official end in Ironically, Hanois human population rose, as more and more refugees flocked to the city in light of the combat.
Saigon fell. Maybe three million mortals died. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam rose from the remnants. Sometimes, shits just not working, a leader re of change. Lieu Hanh cognizes it, and they kn was smart. Her city didn ow better than to fight t fa il; he the winds have prevented.
Starving vam mortals starve, they ty pires are WAY different pically turn inward. Th from starv ing mortals. Bu W hen Starving vampires beco t m os tly , they , you know, starve. Th and-so washed up 80s country you see late ni eyre actor. Theyre a little bit gh t co mmercials about, featu junkie, a little bit Hann ring so- Hulk.
W hen half your ibal Lecter, and a little citys mortal population bit Incredible from anyone, and ther is on deaths door that es a good chance they on ly ex ac erba te s the problem.
Feed vampires. This means ll die. That means less lost control. This means blo od al l ar ou nd. This means hungrie how that works? Basic more dead humans. Th r ally, it was hell. That was Nobo eu Hanh said, Sure. Ch dys seen her since. It ange it. Th an election for iate ly af te r Lieu Ha nh left, the three held Ki nd red public. Their first act in office Immed e from th e re m ai ni ng est and with no surpris s in the city three won with no cont nd re d po pu lat ion tr ipled, as most vampire st year, the Ki throw future elections.
Within the fir tia l dy na st ies , an d to wa found influen the ble d to Em br ac e in a desperate attempt to ru nn in g hu ng ry thanks to the famine scra m vampires we re u th at rig ht no w in Hanois history, most at pr oblem any better. Now in addition remind yo e mix di d no t m ak e th a ton of vampires to th ions thanks to some ut terly region suffered.
Adding had to comm it a nu m be r of ex ec ut pires, our new regime to a bunch of new vam d about egregious Masquerade issues. It looks like Hanoi ha t theyre clo d t be fully accurate, bu hundred thirty Kindre These numbers may no 85, there are re co rd s of at lea st on e died ty Ki nd re d du rin g the revolution.
By 19 is is to sa y, ov er ha lf the Kindred in Hanoi twen r to sixty. Th Ha no i, bu t th e ac tu al population was close hu nd re d pe rc en t. Th e population doubling liv ing in rose over fou r g th os e fou r ye ar s.
The actual population cancerous. But theres ce the revolution. Reco have larger Kindred po red Kindred ha ve di ed in Ha no i sin me no i. Ive go put the es. Undesired Side Effect: End of the Empire irety of what While Lieu Hanh ruled the ent revolution we now call Vietnam, once the tely, her childer came, that fell apart. Immedia e Hanoi. So instead, the executions caused by the famine. While a y could. Instead, in they looked shot that down without even the slightest consideration.
Its not fair, causes arbitrary and unnecessary toward a reactionary Communist-inspired idea: Territory is unfair, and nobody needs to starve. Without territories, you can feed wherever you need to, and thus think about all the ways this idea Now, I want you to put this magazine down, take five minutes, and just were a Leonardo da Vinci of stupid, was stupid.
Not just stupid, but inspired levels of stupid. Like, if there Kindred politics which also came out this idea would be his Mona Lisa. For almost twenty years, the law says declaring territory is treason agains even. Saying, This is my haven, get the fuck out is a capital offense. I cant In fact, it caused quite a few Needless to say, this didnt help the famine. It didnt curb the deaths. Population fluctuated even more still, as sires scrambled to Embra l offense to claim territory, but if representation and some semblance of safe feeding.
Sure, its a capita on that turf and fuck with you. In a couple of high-profile cases, Kindr ed those Kindred to be holding territory claims. Whatever in the fuck that means. Basically, they assum explanation, but all evidence territory on everything but paper. Im sure this doesnt require much ring dissidents. The Long Lo Suoi was an answer to this Invictus just say, We have the problem with famine and pestilence brought on right to kill who we please, by by Hanois Kindred.
Its a network of mortals who virtue of being the First Estate. So youve got all these theyre any worse than your people who know who were are, and how we work. Long story short, vampire hunters. And not just Unlike your average Western your average, cross-in-the-face-power-of-Christ- gests even compels-you hunters.
These fuckers learned from Kindred regime, everything I hear sug itories the guerrillas. People had havens, but feeding gro erships theyve got leaders, theyve got a military arm, were just not really a thing. Yay for lead isy. Thats and theyve got a political arm. Their leaders that manage to keep away from hypocr in a ton exist to organize and motivate the hunters.
The rare and admirable, even if it resulted ing military arm lays traps, and battles the local of deaths and some corrupt bullshit tak , for those vampires through attrition and terrorism tactics. Apparently This usually means fire and outnumbering. It it worked for, it worked for well. Their political This gets worse. No territory also mea when arm informs local citizens. They dont run people dont have to be accountable for a problem around saying vampires exist or any shit like and where they feed.
If you cant pin in that that, but they commit to local action campaigns, on a given vampire, theres no sense s means instating curfews and neighborhood watches. They vampire being discreet or sensible. Thi s get encourage the young to always conceal a weapon. This They dont seem interested in ending the plag ued with a dumb vampires sorry e cases vampire menace or anything like that, so Hanoi lack of accountability has led to massiv nam hasnt mobilized against them at large.
Once of anemia, which isnt great since Viet are. Then you have numerous dead which leaves everyone in , and an entire chunk of the city thats com grounds for months to come. Hanois is a Movement divided. Lieu Hanh was Unaligned, but sometimes her childer call her a Carthian or an Invictus to suit their particular needs at the time.
The childer tell that the covenants were not so deeply entrenched in Hanoi until the revolution. Maybe half the Kindred owed allegiance to a covenan t, and most Carthian. Later, everyone was Carthian. Well talk about that in a bit. Our information suggest s limited membership in others exist, for example, rumors of a Dao Mau Circle of the Crone cult are common, as is a faction of Lancea et Sanctum hiding within the ranks of the Carthian Movement, inspired and perhaps still mentored by a member of Lieu Hanhs French advisory circle.
The state demands all members pay membership to the Carthian Movement and no other covenants, but not all members are so strict. In fact, the three faction leaders have each independently said that relig ion is not a bane to the Movement, but that organized relig ion threatens the sanctity of their city. Leiou Ye is the credited first of the Cham people. Their faith, from the bits and pieces cobbled together for this piece, appears to be inspired by medium channeling, and by old East Asian Muslim traditions.
She tells us that one such cult blends its goddess veneration with a strange anti-elder dervish-like relig ion from Thailand.
It teaches that elder s must be destroyed, essentially recycled regularly for the betterment of the Kind red species. While this sounds like it wouldnt go over well anywhere, the relative youth of Hanois Kindred keep the idea from reaching true taboo status. Another less-confirmed cult worships Au Cor, the mythical creator of the Vietnamese people. Dung Giang was Lieu Hanhs first surrogate childe or at least the oldest that survived to the revolution.
Hes also the most hard-assed. If you hear about an execution in Hanoi, it was Dung Giang. Early on, he set his gang up to be the best of the best, and the smallest faction. He set extremely high and often contradictory standards for those who wanted to hang with him, and demanded intense performance if.
Th is ke pt his gang small, but he kn they wa ers would also bu ilt a str on g sen se of competition, so the memb closely. This remov ing ly inv est igate ea ch oth er for corruption, with hopes of each meticulous for their allies. He did most of the dirty work. If there was a problem, his gang rooted that problem out and destroyed it efficiently. They also see him as a necessary evil for the status quo. He gets to be the bad cop, which makes the other two factions look nicer by comparison.
She was tired, the middle childe. Her faction is the most populous, and the least discerning. She took in the might weary, the weak, and the disenfranchised. By most criteria, her faction looked the way you of Giangs expect a citys Carthian Movement to look, if set upon by a stronger oppressor in the form gang. She gets to set her faction up as the underdogs. So theyre the heroes to push forward and advance legislation and actions for the people. They get to look like less terrible when Dung Giangs people act like utter monsters, even if theyre just acting like slightly as the bad monsters.
As Dung Giangs forces police her people read: murder , she gets to paint them ic relationship guys, which helps her own morale. Essentially, those two factions have this sick, symbiot where they cyclically devour each other.
Huong Dos Faction. We liberated her from Hanoi. Ill get on Huong Dos awesome. Huong Dos our girl with that in a bit. But, we like Huong Do. They called themselves a wor reasonable group. They billed themselves g time standing between Khanh Ly and Dun that means mediators, and spent a lot of from Final Death.
Giang, defending one member or another to pass more laws than the This positioning put her in a unique place the raw voting power of Khanh other two factions combined. Even without use. She pulled votes from both Lys faction, Huong Do was a legal powerho Do didnt start the bills to break sides, often both at the same time. Huong fact, her faction was notably up territories or open up the Embrace. In she didnt support? Lets talk dissenting against them.
The other big bill about that. So in , Khanh Ly and Dung Giang supported the law that probably put the nail in their regimes coffin. Hanoi declared membership in the Carthian Movement mandatory without exception. This came with it a few interesting stipulations: Membership in other covenants was similarly outlawed. Even if youre Carthian, you cannot maintain membership in an additional covenant.
This flies in the face of the Carthians general acumen for moonlighting all over the place. Speaking against the Carthian Movement is considered an act of treason, a high crime that, if proven guilty, is punishable by death. Proven guilty changes from case to case.
Sometimes, it means hear from influential members. Sometimes plotting again say st the regime on camera isnt quite enough. You cannot come into Hanoi unless your recognized as a member of the Movement, with an influ e ential member willing to vouch for you. A few Kindred from China, Laos, Thailand, and other parts of Vietn am have found this out the hard way. At first, they made exceptions for those willing to disavow their former covenants for the Movement upon arrival.
THAT chan quick ly when one alleged spy entered Hanoi with that ged loophole. In practice, it means every single new Embrace has to be introduced to Kindred, the Masquerade, and all that business before the Embrace. After all, being a Carthian is an at-will thing, so you have to make the conscious, informed decision to join. Since you have to do it immediately after becoming Kindred, you have to get the skinny before youre bitten. This means every Embrace must first be a Masquerade breach.
This also means that those not so keen on joining the Movement have to be killed. It means fascist outfits arent really that sexy, because everyones wearing them. This brought on the first few real attempts at overthrowing the new regime.
These attempts came from within, of course, with some uprisings against Dung Giang, and one against Khanh Ly. The attacks on Dung Giang were put down savagely, and were You chose The at at fo r a se co nd : Carthians fough co ink on th mostly planned to tes to ca ncel this law. Th thus sw in g vo her faction, and join other coven ants. It could happ m at es su ggest most of th e e case fo r ne ar ed front.
A ll es ti This has been th ch an ce ag ai n st a truly organiz forcers. Hanoi has a Dung Giangs en Carthian thinks defect, bu t ar e af ra id of ently waiting to Movement is curr. Theyre overdue for another Between the territory ism and ty ra nn ica l po lic e st at ioning blend of anarch strange and nonfunct come hard. He ar in g this stuff, we had to bunch of We respon de d in ki nd.
If we ha us. Du rin g th is pr ob at ion for probationary stat venants in New member to volunteer th ad vo ca tin g for th e other recognized co wi s.
As well, shes tasked far. But we straddle th e line Carthian or city election is has on ly ha pp en ed tw ice so their numbers a bit. Th York, to try to bolster passed. We dete rm in e wh o is in a gi st mpire gets a represen brace, you need at lea Apple. Every ninth va through elect ion. We ch an ge up re pr esentatives every year a lit tle weird, but when you re member vote council.
Th is so un ds of our representative e heard a two-thirds majority t to wa it a ye ar for the tides to change. Iv uve only go r of the youll get approved, yo for their votes in favo that if you dont think demanding fa vo rs or wh at ev er about representatives a couple horror stories ovable way. But none of th os e st wi th ev er y sin gle city block tracked, and ev have maps recognized thing. We cks of open hunting gr ounds here Territorys a hard, ex ce pt ion of a few blo onsible for it, with the e an app thatll tell yo u whose turf block has someone resp e of ou r gu ys ev en m ad are open for travel.
On can turn on alerts wh en youre or there. Major streets nction. He se t it up so yo u time, using the GPS fu you. Its like liv ing in the youre on at any given grounds, it vi br at es an d aler ts of your allowed feeding if theyre okay to feed hunting; if you go out rcars, they ha ve ap ps th at te ll them re. Ex ce pt in st ea d of everyone having hove to he ar pointless argumen ts from people futu Sher iff do es nt ne ed ubly nice; because the somewhere.
This is do eo ne elses feeding grou nds. My little story here covers a long span of time that Im theres a lot of outrage, beauty, and problems between not hitting on. Her city was falling apart. She was the smart moderate, trying to save her home. But ultimately, her efforts were no more effective than polishing the deck chairs on the Titanic. She l New York ice. She got ple nty of offe rs from all over Asia. But, in typica adv asked for backup.
She asked for we ma rch ed in and offered Huong Do a way out in broug ht in a cre w, and fashion, we opted to roll hard. We utiful democracy. Shes already s us. Shes bought in comple tely, and its gro ups for six of the pas t eig acted as representative for her has bee n invaluable to the Movement, and shes a n her e. He r exp eri enc e beautiful. Youd think she was bor iev ing.
Its like shes got a new lease on life. She s not sto ppe d ach workhorse. Shes not stopped wor ely holding utt erly fuc ked. Hu ong Do wa s the stretched, snapping fabric bar What about Hanoi? Well, Hanoi is es, but alm ost all have turned their backs on her.
Huong has some lines. So we cant t wit h are afr aid to spe ak ope nly across the Internet or phone Even those she can connec mo st of her faction is now dead or imp risoned. Bu t we kno w tha t even get solid information at thi n and are now striking preemptively agains t lea der s hav e dou ble d dow We know that the remaining two city s ove ral l defenses.
We know outsiders fro m drama tica lly hu rtin g the any potential revolution, which is rces are true to er par ts of Vie tna m are loo kin g and potentially colluding, if sou Thailand, China, and oth strike and remove the regime.
I tell myself tha l pro bably mean Inv ictus outsiders ma rching in fac t tha t the rev olu tion wil a long time coming. I ignore the gra y is goi ng to come in and act like a prime r utiful in the city.
Ou tsid er and dismantling everything bea r the canvas, but what ng ; the y mi ght be abl e to eve ntually paint something else ove coat over a flawed painti ever. Maybe Lieu Hanh lies in waitin g, ready to step in when the city most. But theres the rub of mo needs her st sav ior stories, right? Theyve needed her for a long damned true, can we forgive her for ove time.
Even if its rlo oking all the chaos and sufferi ng? Then I shut up and remember that now, weve got Huong Do. Least we can do is preserve the thing they had, so it cant all most beautiful be painted over.
Ranted a bit there about Hanoi. I know I spent a bit of time there trying to justify what we did with Huong Do. But thats the thing, isnt it? Youve got to tell yourself stories in a way that lets you control the narrative, and make yourself feel okay. Spin the story right, and were just shitty, horrible people. Nobody wants to tell the story about how theyre a shitty, horrible person.
Now lets contrast New York with its historical foil, Los Ange les. Spoiler alert: This story makes me feel good about myse lf, too. LA is a shithole; its the worst the Movement has to offer, and at least were not them.
Los Angeles was always a Lancea et Sanctum stronghold. Youd never think of it, with the way everyone sees LA as some liberal, hippie, progressive, politically corre ct bastion. But thats mostly because people dont know the reality of Los Angeles. Just because Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fly around the world rescuing underpriv ileged babies, doesnt mean that Holly wood isnt like the most corrupt, conservative cesspool in the world.
Entertainment is a place where peopl e are willing to overlook terrifying politics and celebrate the awful. After all, entertainment makes you feel good, right? To your average sheep, nothings better than feeling good; and theres no crime greater than denying a little cheap entertainment. I mean, Los Fucking Angeles. City of Angels. That name didnt come from nowhere. A bunch of imperialist murdering relig ious fucks settled Los Angeles. Some of them were Kindred. Some of those Kindred lived for a long time after that founding, after all the human founders were long dead.
They ruled the Los Angeles nighttime. Archbishop Felipe Montrose ruled from allegedly until, well, now. I say allegedly because all records suggest he was the only vampire in the tiny little ranch town back in those nights. I say, well, now because anyone you ask tells you that tonight, LA is a Carthian city. Just not on paper. Not yet. When California joined the Unite d States in , immigrants rushed in, so a few Kindred followed suit.
But Los Angeles wasnt a major city until later. It grew quick ly with the Santa Fe railroad from Chicago in Holly wood and World War II construction needs blew the place up.
The early part of the twentieth century really marked Archbisho p Montroses reign. Everyone knows those. But Hes been a how to change it. Montrose is a shit. His Im Kindred live by without being self-aware. This thin g where communion, which is a disgusting Tradition says that if a single vampire holds e, and you feel you eat a wafer, and it turns into Vita supreme executive and legislative power in a tever-the-fuck- all magica lly tick led by Jesus or wha city, he or she will bring about a law that more ever ma kes Sanctified sorcery work.
An excessive feeding of the Crone, a giant fucking affront to the Circle restriction is a common example. Disallowing believe that and pretty much anyone that doesnt vampire one group from the Embrace Longinus was the blah blah king shit cle didnt take is another. Requiring all prophet whatever. But fuck if the Cir Some of the potential witnesses to all that terrible shit and run with it.
Any time you force an entire city to practice a single religion, thats grade-A fuckstickery. Its freaky, its beautiful, and its a powerful show of how oppressive religions dont always get the last laugh.
Their cult is amazing. It prohibits violent death of any mortals, it focuses on bolstering the poor neighborhoods, and its basically the best thing to come out of Los Angeles. Folk Catholicism for the motherfucking win. This cult is more Carthian than LAs entire piss poor Movement. No idea if its a real thing or just an image, but the leader of the cult has a skull for a head.
I dont care who you are: That is badass. A lot of vampires think its some zany bloodline or whatever. The cult says its because shes moved beyond the. That is its a com plicat ed ma sk. She has a skull for nk need for the flesh. Some thi m cartoons. For the Francisco, Orange Long story short, times neede for ces coming from San Diego, San crazy div ers e; you ve got inch thick of a revolution.
Its ple of As ian factions. The LA Movement is hu ge. Youd Mexican gro up s, a cou ones got County, and then youve got too ma ny coo ks. Th eres no formal leader. Every , but its really a sto ry of and think this was a good thing you get thi s dis org an ized mess that plays pranks revolution should go. So their own ideas for how the Shit, he knows en ts too big for Mo ntr ose to just start killing fuckers.
Movem ruffles feathers. Of course, the cane for show. Theyve l rev Twenty years of active, voca sti tut ion. Th ere s no Carthian Law.
Next pa rty we do, not brought ab ou t a con tyrant from office. Theyve dr un k, the yr e fuc king hilarious. If youre sob er, constitutions. If you re Ill bring some of their draft theyre just sad. The young are also the lea The best of LA are the young d too comfortable to take risks. He ll, some of the ent are too div ers e an oldest members of the Movem ur ch int o some militant Catholic ho ly army thing.
Carth ian s an d the Ch Movement fights to align the Do gs, mo st of the m Embraced in the late s and Fairfax calle d the Ok i y getting Theres a cool group out of ad em ic an arc his t pu nk thing, and theyre finall to push for a we ird ac early s. Theyre try ing thold. But its still an ets helpe d alt ern ati ve ph ilosophical thinking get foo some traction since the Intern e, not com placency.
Problem is, there s a fuckton of JFK, the y ne ed cou rag uphill battle. To paraphrase complacency in LA. The Circle of the Crone. The Invictus. The Lancea et Sanctum. The Ordo Dracul. Each has its fierce devotees, its jealous rivals, and its relentless enemies. Now,for the first time, the covenants speak for themselves. A variety of stories from each of the covenants, all told in their own words.
Never-before revealed secrets, like the fate of the Prince of New Orleans. New blood sorcery, oaths, and other hidden powers of the covenants. Customers Who Bought this Title also Purchased. Reviews 6. Please log in to add or reply to comments. I personally like this quite a lot. I think that a lot of people don't look at the stories as inspirational tools. They seem to go "where are my tables". In fact, I thought the same when they first released the clanbooks, but as soon as I read the first one it was the Nosferatu , I instantly loved the formula, it really creates useful encounters and adventure seeds.
The "crunchy" rules material is useful too, but the modular-like setting stuff is very useful by itself. No it doesn't unfortunately. To be honest it is quite disappointing if you are expecting useful tools as a storyteller. And it doesn't really add much if you are a player either. The book is more a collection of short stories revolving around each covenant. As David said, they don't go into this. Requiem 2. Outside of the lose idea of a Prince, the idea is that each city is meant to have developed it's own political system.
They might share some roles here and there, but in the end they're meant to all be unique. The stories in the book basically highlight this more, but giving examples of how the covenants have run various cities, and each one was different with different sorts of positions. So when designing your city, it might provide inspiration, but you could also just as easily take inspiration from any source of how a city has been run, from real history to any fiction you have read.
Lukasz L. Interesting if at times a bit illegible collection of short stories, but not much else. Mikko T. When I heard that Secrets of the Covenants is going to be like the Clan books I was feeling hesitant. Jacob K. The creative writing is superb and very atmospheric. If you've been out of the world of Requiem for a while, it really draws you right back in where you left off.
The major theme of "Secrets of the Covenants" is the globalization and advancem [ A customer. This book is a great look at the sometimes vastly different incarnations of the Covenants as they spread across the globe [ David C.
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