The Inner Circle

The Inner Circle

The Upper Echelons As described by Fearless Alys, Kingmaker of Clan Tremere, Traditionalist Faction, Bucharest There’s them and there’s us. Yeah, we’re Camarilla. We uphold the Traditions, play our political party games, and quaff rare vintages of bloody nectar while a string quartet plays nearby. But, and it’s a big one, we aren’t the policymakers.

I’ve built up three Princes who still hold their thrones to this night, even with all the trouble we’ve had recently. But neither I, nor they, are anything compared to the big bosses in the shadows.

Yeah, we know shadows. We know how to hide from mortals.

But these guys know to hide from us. They are shadows. You think an Archon tells you before she comes to the domain to cut off the Sheriff’s head? Do you think she tells you why she just decapitated the poor bastard? Tell me, who do you think is leaking all that Church of Caine crap into our domains? It’s not a few faithful neonates. If the Justicars want us to build a church, we’ll find ourselves building a whole bunch of the things without even knowing why.

So yeah, we go on with our busy little non-lives and pretend we’re important. Just remember there’s someone who can raise you up in an instant, or destroy you with a thought, and you don’t even know their name. administration The Inner Circle by Carmelita Neillson, Archaeologist and Archivist of Clan Toreador It is difficult for a historian such as myself to educate others on the Camarilla’s long, colourful history, when so many gaps intentionally exist. I can name a few — new Traditions passed but swiftly abandoned, a clan receiving an invitation to join our sect but burning the bridge before crossing for no apparent reason, much surrounding our past involvement with the Setites...

Appropriately, among our greatest mysteries we count our greatest masters. The Inner Seven 1 3 T H E V I E W F R O M T H E T O P INNER CIRCLE direction JUSTICARS tradition, enforcement ARCHONS PRINCES execution must once have been the lords of their clans but who now dare indite their names? By concealing identity behind law, needed cruelties and exactions are enabled.

Without a target, revenge cannot be aimed, resistance cannot flourish. The orders come in whispers in the Blood, sudden certainty within the Justicars, a brief feeling of talons gripping the neck.

But mystery does breed speculation, as well. My favorite?

Remember this is but rumor, but… what if the Inner Circle comprises more than the Camarilla clans?

Think of it. They were seven, we are now five. Do the Gangrel and Brujah elders truly wish to abanC A M A R I L L A unprepared Prince in a loosely held regnum — well, harpies still whisper about what happened “when the Veil came back down hard in San Antonio” and who wound up under it when Petrus visited in 2006.

Justicars act as monarchs of their clans, appointed by the Inner Circle to 13-year terms. Few, save the Ventrue, serve more than one.

Justicars may command any of the assets and resources of the Camarilla at will, including every member of it.

Whether such exactions seem more like a valuable honor from royalty or a loathsome theft by tyranny depends on the Justicar’s etiquette, and on whether it was your childe and haven they confiscated. don ultimate power within the Tower for mere principle among the Anarchs? Or say the Lasombra leader never left, or that ambassadors from the Banu Haqim sit at the table. Perhaps one of the Old Clan claims a seat by some unimaginably ancient law of Enoch.

It’s all just theory, of course. It would be a little disturbing were we to find our Inner Circle was comprised of four members of the Ministry, two Malkavians, and a Lasombra, wouldn’t it?

The Justicars With only five clans inside the Tower for now, the five Justicars take on even more responsibility … and power. They must represent their clan, decide matters of war and law, and act as the voice of the Inner Circle.

Above all, they enforce the Traditions. A Justicar descending on an current justicars juliet parr, Justicar of Clan Malkavian and former Sheriff of North London molly macdonald, Justicar of Clan Nosferatu AS FORETOLD BY IVY REO, ORACLE AND COUNSEL TO THE JUSTICARS, CLAN MALKAVIAN The number of Justicars will again number seven, for seven is an important number not only to the Usurpers but to the al-Amin, and all remain present. Yes yes yes.

Listen. Can you hear it? Gears are turning. Change is happening. The Justicars must remain seven for the Camarilla to remain strong. The Inner Circle knows this. They know without seven the pillars will collapse. The roof is too heavy with five pillars alone.

Five? Who ever heard of five pillars?

Mm-hmm. Yes yes yes. If we cannot make two pillars we must import them. From where?

Egypt, perhaps? I know of at least one strong pillar in the dark. I know of a pillar drenched in blood. I know of a pillar once drawn by the architect, but it snapped in two in the builder’s ropes. What to do? What to do. diana iadanza, Justicar of Clan Toreador and Bane of Clan Gangrel ian carfax, Justicar of Clan Tremere and former Archon of Karl Schrekt lucinde, Justicar of Clan Ventrue, named “Justicar for Unlife” in 2018 Clans Gangrel and Brujah were represented by Geoffrey Leigh and Manuela Cardoso Pinto, respectively, until their clans departed the Camarilla. Rumors abound of a neutral Kindred soon to be appointed as Justicar of Outsiders, representing antitribu and officially unaffiliated clans.

Archons Archons are not simple hired killers. Archons are elite hired killers.

And warriors, and scholars, and investigators. Each Justicar handselects their own Archons, even competing for exceptional servants.

The candidate Archon gets one chance to decline. If they accept, they serve the Justicars, enforcing Camarilla law, seeking out secrets, or spying out the foes of the Tower.

Some Archons operate alone, others in coteries. Often, the Justicar binds these Archons to themselves, or to each other, with a Blood Bond. Even unbond, the Archons have less freedom of action than their masters — but they can order a Kindred put to final death, and expect to be obeyed.

Indeed, an Archon can decimate an entire domain or regnum 1 4