Vampires

==The Kindred of Bandayain==
There are far more vampires Down Under than there are Garou. Far from being a dying breed, the Kindred have a thriving population of both Eastern and Western vampires. They are in fact in war with one another- violently so. In addition, there is a native breed of vampire-like creatures, the talamaur, with ties to the aborignes and the Alcheringa. The talmaur are rarely found in NSW, however.
==The Camarilla's Influence over Australia==
It was not coincidence that most of the convicts chosen for the First Fleet were kinfolk. The lupines had long been a problem for Prince Mithras and the Camarilla of England. When the decision to create a penal colony in Australia, the Kindred carefully orchestrated a situation in which those humans they suspected of belonging to the lupines were chosen as both the prisoners and the marines being sent to guard them. By judiciously getting rid of a thousand of the lupine's precious kinfolk, Mithras hoped to bring them close to extinction.
Red Meg of Clan Brujah was able was able surreptitiously take advantage of the First Fleet to get her coterie away from wrathful English elders. These six vampires successfully ghouled crew on several of the vessels and arranged for their transport to Botany Bay. Young by vampiric standards, the became the clan founders for most of Australia's Kindred. By the time other Kindred took an interest in Australia because of the 1850s gold rush, they had firmly established themselves as the Primogen of New South Wales.
*see The Primogen of NSW
*see Other Kindred of NSW
==The Kuei-jin's Influence Over Australia==
Hengeyokai like the Mokole and Rokea had kept the Kuei-jin from establishing a presence in Bandaiyan when the Chinese first discovered it. The land did not seem fertile or welcoming. Once the European Kindred settled into Australia and discovered the existence of these strange and seemingly demonic Asian vampires, they quickly enacted the White Australia Policy from behind the scenes to protect themselves. This suited the Kuei-jin just fine. However, world events have brought the Kindred of the East to Australia's populated areas where they actively war with the Camarilla as well as the other factions such as the Garou.
The Talamaur