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Blue sections are lore, while Red sections are critical events which should be common knowledge. Spoilers!
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<aside> <img src="/icons/apple_red.svg" alt="/icons/apple_red.svg" width="40px" /> Creation (???): Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden, by God, for the First Sin: disobedience.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/run_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/run_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> To Nod and Enoch (???): Caine leaves, fleeing for the Land of Nod. There he builds the First City, by Embracing three mortals: Enoch, Caine’s son; Irad, his nephew, and Zillah, Caine’s lover. The Second Generation, or Enochians, then sire the Third, which is made of the heads of the Thirteen Clans. “Kine”, or mortals, are used as livestock…
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<aside> <img src="/icons/yin-yang_gray.svg" alt="/icons/yin-yang_gray.svg" width="40px" /> The Second City, Babel (6000 - 2200 BC): The Antediluvians are each cursed by Caine, for slaying their sires: each Clan now bears an Unique Curse unto itself. Mortals flee, each bearing a new language, and kinship. Each Antediluvian leaves, and some are believed to be slain.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/meeting_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/meeting_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Carthage (150 - 140 BC): To counter an alliance of Brujah, Assamites and Baali, four Clans come together: the Roman Ventrue, the wanderer Malkavians, the seafaring Lasombra and the Greek Toreadors. As they each use their mortal pawns to beat the others, things come to a end, as Rome destroys Carthage, and pours salt over its ruins…
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<aside> <img src="/icons/sword_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/sword_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> The Fall of Rome (476 AD): Infighting in the Roman alliance between Ventrue and Lasombra, amplified by Lupine and Brujah and Gangrel raids from the barbarian North, caused the fall and destruction of the Roman Empire. The Dark Ages begin, with Clans splitting into High and Low.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/view_red.svg" alt="/icons/view_red.svg" width="40px" /> Saulot is Dead, Long Live Tremere (1133 AD): Tremere, leader of his Clan, finds the tomb of Saulot, Antediluvian of the Salubri, and feeds upon his vitae, becoming the first new Antediluvian. After doing so, the Tremere slowly manage to gather allies, as to usurp the Salubri and become a Low Clan, while hunting down the surviving bloodline into extinction…
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<aside> <img src="/icons/chess-rook_gray.svg" alt="/icons/chess-rook_gray.svg" width="40px" /> The Sect War (~1450 - 1493 AD): Fearing the Inquisition and hateful of the rule of the elders, the Anarch Revolt began, with the Brujah Tyler guiding it against the Ventrue Hardestadt. Finally, the Anarchs and the nascent Camarilla reached an accord, the Convention of Thorns. Only the Sabbat, the extremist wing of the Anarch Revolt, decided to fight until the elders were wholly eradicated…
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<aside> <img src="attachment:42c0eef9-bddc-499c-9dbf-14c6f3b29820:Gargoyles.jpg" alt="attachment:42c0eef9-bddc-499c-9dbf-14c6f3b29820:Gargoyles.jpg" width="40px" /> The Montmartre Pact (1497 AD): To stop the Gargoyles from warring with their Tremere masters, the Camarilla liberated the Gargoyles and integrated them in the Tower, and forbade the Warlocks from creating more of them…
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<aside> <img src="/icons/chess-bishop_purple.svg" alt="/icons/chess-bishop_purple.svg" width="40px" /> The Sabbat Grows (1803 - 1933): The Sabbat, realizing that the only way to win was through hardening themselves, created a strict code, and a hierarchy that could be resumed with three words: might makes right. With a new Regent at its helm, the Sect took over Mexico, Canada and many American cities. Furthermore, the Sabbat introduces the Code of Milan as a codex of rules for itself.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/chess-king_blue.svg" alt="/icons/chess-king_blue.svg" width="40px" /> King of the East Coast (1968-1997): The Prince of DC, Marissa, and Marcus Vitel, the Ventrue Praetor of DC, are embroiled in a conflict to defeat the Methuselah Sybil, and strong-arm the Camarilla into making Vitel a King, a ruler not unlike Mithras in England, and with powers that rival those of the Inner Circle.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/shield_blue.svg" alt="/icons/shield_blue.svg" width="40px" /> BSI (1994): The Bureau of Special Investigations, after uncovering the events of the Great Crusade, and some internal warfare with other governmental agencies, manages to siphon a budget that would allow the USA to stem supernatural threats, such as “Nocturnal Entities” or “blank bodies”, as they are referred to in official briefs.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/church_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/church_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> Vox Dei Triumphalis (1996): The Second Inquisition is reinvigorated, with a Silver Bull by the Sant’Uffizio calling for the Hunters to fight the good fight. There is a renewed interest by the Vatican to reopen a military academy for the Gladius Dei, which finally happens the next year.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/pill_pink.svg" alt="/icons/pill_pink.svg" width="40px" /> Redline, Enduro, Hi-Speed (1998): Pills, with odd markings, reach the black market, and they are revealed to be pulverized vitae, made by ghouls to enhance themselves (some blame the Ducheski, while others blame the Caitiff and the Nothians). Some end up in BSI custody…
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<aside> <img src="/icons/syringe_brown.svg" alt="/icons/syringe_brown.svg" width="40px" /> FEDRA (1998): As BSI is unequipped to deal with research, funds are allocated towards a new department: the Federal Epidemiological Directorate and Research Authority. FEDRA is the R&D wing of BSI, and also studies captured “Nocturnal Entities”; they also reproduce the captured enhancement pills for their agents.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/computer-chip_red.svg" alt="/icons/computer-chip_red.svg" width="40px" /> The Angels’ Accord (2000): The Anarch hackers and Hacktivists in the US send the first shot of rebellion, by causing Y2K, globally. With the West Coast rising up, San Francisco becomes an Anarch Free City, and Los Angeles being split between the Anarch baronies and the Tower. With the Angels’ Accord, Prince Artemis Devereux manages to negotiate peace, on behalf of the Camarilla. Portland is lost to the Camarilla, who puts it into quarantine…after the Second Inquisition destroys the local Prince and Elysium.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/pram_red.svg" alt="/icons/pram_red.svg" width="40px" /> Resurgence/Relapse (2005): For the entire month of March, many vampires were returned to mortality, something that shook Kindred society to its core. While many blamed the Malkavians, calling it “the Great Inside Joke”, the rest, especially the Camarilla and the Anarchs, called it Resurgence. The Sabbat, however, considered it a Relapse, something that would never happen again… Dhampirs, conceived during the month of March, were born on the same year.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/heartbroken_red.svg" alt="/icons/heartbroken_red.svg" width="40px" /> Operation Vampyr (Early 2007): The Anarchs successfully negotiated a tenuous agreement between the Camarilla and the Sabbat. All parties agreed to a complete truce, with no combat, until they could rescue their captured Kindred, and Dhampirs, from BSI black sites where experiments were being conducted. After overwhelming S-TAC forces and liberating a prisoner transport convoy headed for a black site, BSI was forced to save face by claiming "terror attacks" had thwarted their operation...
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<aside> <img src="/icons/shuffle_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/shuffle_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> Détente (2008 - 2017): BSI and the Second Inquisition agree to work together on certain operations; FEDRA and the Vatican Archives are sharing information, and the Gladius Dei and S-TAC are doing joint exercises.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/aries_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/aries_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> The Dhampir Order (2020): Rumors inside the Camarilla and Anarchs about “dhampirs trained and militarized by the Second Inquisition” are confirmed as truth: Portland, OR is reinforced by the SI, who occupies it with a contingent of dhampir hunters.
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<aside> ☣️ Haemovirus-V (Early 2023): A mysterious new virus appears, and forces some vampire into torpor; it is called Haemovirus-V. Clan Tremere is at the forefront of the efforts to create a cure, with Vienna coordinating the matter…
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<aside> <img src="/icons/city_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/city_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Escape from New York City (2025): For a period of two months, the Kindred of NYC have to hide from an AI, called Leviathan, using mortals enhanced with prosthetics, real-time coordination through cameras, and robots, to exterminate them. Magister Hans Frankenstein, alongside his “Monster” called Klaus, coordinates with Calebros and Aisling Sturbridge to destroy it, and save New York. This almost starts a confrontation between King Marcus Vitel, who disliked the many Breaches he would have to cover, and House Etrius, who was involved in the creation of the AI. Fortunately, things die down once boons change hands and the situation is defused. [This is secret knowledge]
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