Post by Triple 7 on Mar 9, 2019 0:44:40 GMT -8
STATUS OF THE DOMAIN
As a contested city; Seattle, WA has seen its share of blood shed. Countless amounts of vitae have ran these streets red for more than a century. This story takes place long before Seattle was even established as a city. It started as a blood feud between two Tzimisce twin sisters and a Tremere Elder back during the early 1800's. Following his rivals, Karl Johansen funded multiple expeditions to include Lewis and Clark's famous journey to the West. All of this was an effort to track his rivals and narrow down their path into the Pacific Northwest. It would take him 84 years to convince the Camarilla to interfere with the Sabbat's control over the territory.
The first siege was unsuccessful.
The second siege was taken more seriously once the Camarilla realized the Sabbat would fall so low to use a Scorched Earth Policy on their own city to drive out their rivals. Together with the backing of Alonso Cristo Petrodon de Seville, Nosferatu Justicar, the Camarilla was more successful when they were able to destroy the twin sister of the Archbishop in Bellevue, WA. It was here that Johansen was able to pull enough strings with his coterie, the Yellow Brick Road, to collapse the communal haven of one of his rivals during the day. The resulting destruction would send his other rival into Frenzy and divide the Sabbat leadership in the city long enough for the rest of the Camarilla to drive their forces out of the city. The Camarilla would choose an unlikely candidate for Prince, a relatively unknown Malkavian who at the time proved to be a better choice than the multiple Elders vying for authority. With the Justicar's approval, Pierre D'Anjou took the throne with Karl Johansen acting as Seneschal.
The city would not know peace from 1932-2015. Pierre D'Anjou would prove to be a turbulent leader, calling himself the Peacock Prince and becoming a tyrant. Public execution and trial by combat wasn't unheard of in the Emerald Domain. The Sabbat would use the growing Anarch population as cover for their return. After multiple skirmishes and tactics to weaken the Prince's hold on the city, the Sabbat returned long enough to force contestation on the city once more in 2015. Pierre D'Anjou was slain in single combat, Johansen was placed in Torpor following the initiative.
It was here that a new leader stepped in to hold the city together. Chamberlain Ome, the former Ventrue Primogen, stepped up and named himself Dux Bellorum with the city's support. With Clan Tremere in the North defending against the Archbishop's two children and Dux Bellorum Ome in the South with the other Camarilla forces; they fought a war on two fronts. They were successful enough with Ome's strategy of hiring fringe Clans and Bloodlines to help in the war. Promising Prestation and Domain, multiple Clans who didn't normally have a voice in the Camarilla stepped forward to lend a hand and make their mark on Seattle.
It worked.
The Sabbat was driven out of downtown Seattle, WA with enough force that Chamberlain Ome declared Praxis without contest to his will. Young, even by New World standards, Ome was charismatic enough to hold the loyalty of his followers while they hunted down the rogue Packs of Sabbat. The skirmishes took a heavy toll on both sides. At the end of 2018, one fateful night would prove the difference for decades to come. Ome engaged in single combat with E'll Faaba, the Archbishop herself. Wounding and crippling each other; Faaba dealt the fatal blow that put Ome in Torpor. Slipping in to slake her thirst upon him, she was driven off by the interfering Jeffrey A. Rameta. Following, the young Ventrue became a local hero when he returned with evidence of her destruction. His actions convinced the other Primogen to name him Seneschal. While Rameta deserved the respect and admiration of his peers, Chamberlain Ome's position in the city was secure by his loyal followers.
Now, in the Final Nights, the Camarilla looks to solidify their growing hold of the city still on the brink of war. A new Prince has claimed Praxis out from under a sleeping veteran. What few are left have done what they can to shore up their control in mortal society. Down, but not out, they look to gain traction on the streets of the Emerald Domain. In recent years, a growing threat from the East has proven that the Sabbat isn't the only thing the Camarilla has to worry about. Cathayans have arrived and forced old rivals to consider sitting down together for peace talks for survival's sake.
Primogen change regularly, leadership strained. Arriving characters will have heard rumors of these events and know a little of what they're facing. No one believes in the Camarilla holding Seattle, WA; their Clans have turned their backs on them and consider their efforts here in the Pacific Northwest as a fool's errand. If the gamble pays off, there is plenty of blood, money, and power for all..
As a contested city; Seattle, WA has seen its share of blood shed. Countless amounts of vitae have ran these streets red for more than a century. This story takes place long before Seattle was even established as a city. It started as a blood feud between two Tzimisce twin sisters and a Tremere Elder back during the early 1800's. Following his rivals, Karl Johansen funded multiple expeditions to include Lewis and Clark's famous journey to the West. All of this was an effort to track his rivals and narrow down their path into the Pacific Northwest. It would take him 84 years to convince the Camarilla to interfere with the Sabbat's control over the territory.
The first siege was unsuccessful.
The second siege was taken more seriously once the Camarilla realized the Sabbat would fall so low to use a Scorched Earth Policy on their own city to drive out their rivals. Together with the backing of Alonso Cristo Petrodon de Seville, Nosferatu Justicar, the Camarilla was more successful when they were able to destroy the twin sister of the Archbishop in Bellevue, WA. It was here that Johansen was able to pull enough strings with his coterie, the Yellow Brick Road, to collapse the communal haven of one of his rivals during the day. The resulting destruction would send his other rival into Frenzy and divide the Sabbat leadership in the city long enough for the rest of the Camarilla to drive their forces out of the city. The Camarilla would choose an unlikely candidate for Prince, a relatively unknown Malkavian who at the time proved to be a better choice than the multiple Elders vying for authority. With the Justicar's approval, Pierre D'Anjou took the throne with Karl Johansen acting as Seneschal.
The city would not know peace from 1932-2015. Pierre D'Anjou would prove to be a turbulent leader, calling himself the Peacock Prince and becoming a tyrant. Public execution and trial by combat wasn't unheard of in the Emerald Domain. The Sabbat would use the growing Anarch population as cover for their return. After multiple skirmishes and tactics to weaken the Prince's hold on the city, the Sabbat returned long enough to force contestation on the city once more in 2015. Pierre D'Anjou was slain in single combat, Johansen was placed in Torpor following the initiative.
It was here that a new leader stepped in to hold the city together. Chamberlain Ome, the former Ventrue Primogen, stepped up and named himself Dux Bellorum with the city's support. With Clan Tremere in the North defending against the Archbishop's two children and Dux Bellorum Ome in the South with the other Camarilla forces; they fought a war on two fronts. They were successful enough with Ome's strategy of hiring fringe Clans and Bloodlines to help in the war. Promising Prestation and Domain, multiple Clans who didn't normally have a voice in the Camarilla stepped forward to lend a hand and make their mark on Seattle.
It worked.
The Sabbat was driven out of downtown Seattle, WA with enough force that Chamberlain Ome declared Praxis without contest to his will. Young, even by New World standards, Ome was charismatic enough to hold the loyalty of his followers while they hunted down the rogue Packs of Sabbat. The skirmishes took a heavy toll on both sides. At the end of 2018, one fateful night would prove the difference for decades to come. Ome engaged in single combat with E'll Faaba, the Archbishop herself. Wounding and crippling each other; Faaba dealt the fatal blow that put Ome in Torpor. Slipping in to slake her thirst upon him, she was driven off by the interfering Jeffrey A. Rameta. Following, the young Ventrue became a local hero when he returned with evidence of her destruction. His actions convinced the other Primogen to name him Seneschal. While Rameta deserved the respect and admiration of his peers, Chamberlain Ome's position in the city was secure by his loyal followers.
Now, in the Final Nights, the Camarilla looks to solidify their growing hold of the city still on the brink of war. A new Prince has claimed Praxis out from under a sleeping veteran. What few are left have done what they can to shore up their control in mortal society. Down, but not out, they look to gain traction on the streets of the Emerald Domain. In recent years, a growing threat from the East has proven that the Sabbat isn't the only thing the Camarilla has to worry about. Cathayans have arrived and forced old rivals to consider sitting down together for peace talks for survival's sake.
Primogen change regularly, leadership strained. Arriving characters will have heard rumors of these events and know a little of what they're facing. No one believes in the Camarilla holding Seattle, WA; their Clans have turned their backs on them and consider their efforts here in the Pacific Northwest as a fool's errand. If the gamble pays off, there is plenty of blood, money, and power for all..
