Independents

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hose vampires who refuse to side with any of the major factions (the Camarilla, Sabbat, or Anarchs) are relegated to a group known as the Independents. Though not a sect by any stretch of the word, "independent" vampires are often classified together for simplicity. The word describes vampires that have left (or sometimes, never joined) one of the major sects, for a variety of reasons. Some are Embraced by independent sires, and never get caught up in the snares of Jyhad. Some refuse to play the politics of the Camarilla, or are uncomfortable among the Sabbat. A very few are old enough and powerful enough to simply stand alone.
To pay the bills, Independents sometimes take on a mercenary role, playing the factions against each other while trying to avoid getting drawn in by one or the other. As one can imagine, this is exceptionally dangerous, and those vampires who claim independence generally do so because they have the sheer ass-kicking power to keep it.
As of 1999, the Clans that claim independence are:
*Assamite
*Followers of Set/Setites
*Gangrel
*Giovanni
*Ravnos
(Note that, in Dark Ages: Vampire, all Clans are considered Independent, since the setting is placed before the Anarch Revolt and the creation of the Camarilla and the Sabbat. It is unknown exactly how old the Inconnu are, but if they are a thousand years or more old, they haven't been advertising such.)
Famous Independents include: Beckett the Gangrel, Lucita of Aragon the Lasombra, Anatole the Malkavian, Khalil Ravana the Ravnos, Hesha Ruhadze the Setite, and Fatima al-Faqadi the Assamite.
*Beckett: Beckett has many dealings with the Camarilla, which sometimes leads others to make the mistake of thinking he also adopts their philosophy
*Lucita of Aragon: in 2000, Lucita became an Archbishop of the Sabbat, in her home region of Aragon
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