From Founding to Me

From Founding to Me

of Note

What can I say about the centuries after that?

Many Lasombra show a flair for the sea, perhaps reflecting part of our dark founder’s mortal preferences. The antitribu seem to do even better at sea than the main clan. Pirate fleets harassed the clan’s financial interests and made things risky for Cainites trying to move their slumbering bodies by sea. On land, the antitribu struck where they could find weaknesses in the local Sabbat and otherwise mostly watched for defectors willing to join the true clan’s lineage.

The Sabbat, meanwhile, spread like wildfire. Some people will always hate humanity, and they respond to a message of brutal vengeance and heartless domination.

In fact, to my shame, I was one such person. I mistook my adolescent fervor for some real insight into the human condition, and when a monster offered me the chance to indulge my hatred forever, I took it. It took me more than a year to realize how wrong I was and longer than that to find out how I might go about doing differently.

Eventually, I made my way to a small gathering of Lasombra antitribu. I won’t tell you where I came from Chapter One: An Unmirrored Corridor or where I found them, except to say that neither my origin nor my destination was Seattle. I came here for personal reasons that matter only to the individual I had to speak with before destroying myself. While with the antitribu, I met Montano and learned much of what I’ve recorded here.

I came to my decision to seek destruction not long thereafter. If Montano, as ancient and powerful as he is, cannot stop his errant clan, what hope do I have?

I saw too many elder antitribu becoming monstrous themselves, creatures of blood isolated from any human joy or hope, seeking only an endless cycle of nights like this one. I need something more to sustain me, and if there is nothing more, than I am not sustained.

May God have mercy on my soul. I do not believe he will.

Memo to Scourge Adam Pretorius: Dammit, Adam, this could have been a major fiasco if our people in the department weren’t on the job. Look at this. Masquerade breach first class. You tell me that allowing those damned Lasombra to take part in court routine is a good idea. Antitribu be damned, I say, they’re all the same. Clear them out, or we’re going to get more fuckups like this.

— Liam Genet, Seneschal,