Toward the

Toward the

CHAPTER ONE: THE HISTORY OF THE ANARCH MOVEMENT the East African coast. The success of these antitribu has underpinned much of the animosity between the Lasombra of the Sabbat and the wider Anarch Movement. wave of diablerie. Despite the invitation to join under the banner of the Camarilla, the Assamites maintained their independence. It was the reaction of the Lasombra, however, that shaped the course of things to come.

A few Anarchs also set sail with pirate crews toward the West Indies, where they believed they could claim praxis over pirate ports and establish their own territories.

Conflict with the Sabbat followed as the Sword of Caine passed through the region on its way to Central America (which would become the center of its New World empire.

Pressured by the growing influence of the Followers of Set in Haiti, Anarch presence in the area faded as they , emigrated toward the eastern and southern coasts of the Americas. Today few Anarch domains — with exceedingly powerful figureheads who affect Old World titles — still dot the Caribbean region.

The Lasombra wanted negotiation, not surrender.

Betrayed by the submission of their Anarch fellows, they declared undying war against the Camarilla and everything it stood for, burning Silchester to the ground as they departed in disgust. Many Tzimsice followed them. Fifty years later, supported by a growing number in the clans across Europe, they emerged from the shadows as what the Children of Caine now know as the Sabbat.

Once signed, the Convention of Thorns brought a tense peace to Europe. Slowly, the fires of the Inquisition waned and vanished to whence they had come. While the Camarilla established a social policy similar to what had existed before the Revolt, a lasting victory had been made that could never be undone. The destruction of two Antediluvians and countless elders taught those who survived that the old ways of the Jyhad were not inviolate, and could no longer suffice. No more could the elders trample the young without reprisal… In the eyes of the Camarilla, the New World was of secondary concern to Europe, its traditional stronghold. The Americas often served as a convenient dumping ground to which undesirable Kindred could be exiled. Many Anarchs subject to blood hunts took the opportunity to relocate to the New World. Here, there was no Camarilla, only the rulership that they seized for themselves. Many of the Anarchs who sailed west were elders of the Movement who had fought in the Revolt two hundred years before. In the Americas, they could truly achieve the sovereignty they had desired for so long. …unless they did it very carefully.

Toward the New World As colonization of the New World intensified, more Anarch elders deserted Europe, leaving their younger brethren to fill the void they left behind. These neonates were left leaderless and in disarray for decades. Many turned their back on the ideals of the Anarch Movement and returned to the stifling stability of the Camarilla as the momentum faltered. Others focused their rage against the Ivory Tower and joined the Sword of Caine, whose Cainites they believed were the only ones who could make a difference now. It wasn’t until the French Revolution that these wayward Anarchs saw a sign.

The 16th century held much appeal for the maturing Anarch perspective. Before the colonization of the New World, only a handful of Anarchs had the vision to leave Europe and settle in territories untouched by the Camarilla.

With tales of pirate activities along the African coast and across the Caribbean circulating in such publications as “A General History of the Pyrates” it wasn’t long before these Anarchs saw potential in piracy.

Almost as if setting the stage, the Anarchs in America took front-row seats as the War of Independence begun. Indeed, many prominent Anarchs established their reputations during this era. Among them was Smiling Jack, a Brujah Iconoclast who rejected the influence of the Old World upon the New and aided the American revolutionaries in their bid for independence. A former buccaneer Embraced by one of the early Anarch explorers of the Caribbean during the 17th century, Jack believed that if the New World maintained its ties to the Old, the Camarilla would eventually extend its influence Traditions to the Americas.

Ultimately, his prediction was accurate and the War of Independence didn’t prevent it. Nevertheless, it did inspire events in France that strengthened the Movement there.

A small number of Lasombra antitribu Anarchs were inspired by the tales of Libertatia, a settlement where pirates and freed African slaves lived in an anarchist state. The assumed division of power had been eradicated and all were equal in the territory they had claimed and developed for themselves on the edge of Africa. The Lasombra antitribu, with their affinity for the sea, sailed toward Africa in the hope of establishing their own Cainite Libertatia.

They settled in Mombasa where they seized praxis of the domain and cultivated the herd on their own terms. The city remains an Anarch domain in the modern nights despite its presence in the territory of the insular laibon vampires of that continent, and piracy is ever-present on