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WE NEED YOU!!!
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"Do you want to come to my house?" said a spider to
a fly..."
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-May Howitt, "The Spider and the Fly"
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"If the fly accepts, it deserves whatever happens next.
What a fool."
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-Kulska Krakov, pack priestess.
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Sects are groups of vampires and clans that
supposedly share an ideology. They are a modern
invention, but an important one. The sects emerged
in the wake of the Great Anarch Revolt, an uprising
that drowned all of old Europe in blood during the
fifteenth century, as though the surrounding oceans
had swallowed the firm land that had belonged to it
for centuries. Many elders accepted membership in
the sects grudgingly, dismissing them as "nonsense:
Blood is the only thing that matters." In the
nights before the Great Anarch Revolt and the
Inquisition, our elders say, no such groups existed.
Some argue that is how things should remain: a
vampire in a city of any size can go a decade or more
without seeing another Kindred, so what use is a
sect?
Even so, most vampires belong to one sect or
another. Some insist on their independence, claim no
preferences, or pledge themselves to a clan rather
than a sect. The Camarilla is probably the largest
and most important, though its Sabbat rivals are
gaining ground. The secretive Inconnu, when one
manages to speak to any of its strange and elusive
members, maintains that it is not a sect, though it
certainly seems organized and somehow remains apart
from the others. At the opposite extreme are the
Anarchs, who do everything they can to look like a
sect even though they are the first to ask the
Camarilla for help when the Sabbat appears at the
borders. For that reason, the Camarilla considers
them under its supervision.
In Prague, the traditional Camarilla was long the
largest sect, but until recently it found itself
under the Sabbat's boot, plunging the city into a
war between these two great factions. Even so, they
are not the only players here. There is far more
than you may think at first glance. Keep reading and
discover it for yourself...
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