Timeline

## 1781

Virginian aristocrat Vannevar Thomas is captured among other rebels in the War of Independence, but is "saved" by being Embraced into the Ventrue clan.

## 1800s

### Late

Experts believe the Mafia is imported to America by Italian immigrants at the end of this century.

## 1803

### September

#### 19

The First Sabbat Civil War in the New World ends with the Purchase Pact (named after the Louisiana Purchase), which officially forbids war against other Sabbat members.

## 1810

Father Hidalgo issues the call for Mexican independence from Spain.

## 1824

The Mexican Empire is overthrown and replaced with the United Mexican States.

## 1838

The Enlightened Society of the Weeping Moon opens lodges in California and Oregon.

## 1848

Jonathan Stepford is born.

In the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo, Mexico cedes Texas, California, and much of the land in between them to the United States.[3]

Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. A gold rush in the western United States creates a population boom in San Francisco. The city becomes an easy target for supernatural predators

## 1849

Diego Don Delfonso becomes Prince of San Francisco.

Vannevar Thomas is sent to secure West America for the Camarilla.

President Polk confirms the discovery of gold in California in a speech before Congress. The California Gold Rush begins. John Eaton Simcoe travels to San Francisco setting himself up as a banker and investing in several successful businesses in the city.

## 1859

Montelaine, a Tremere, replaces Diego Don Delfonso as Prince of San Francisco.

## 1866

The Rosicrucians are founded, leading to greater magickal awareness among Sleepers.

During the Great Symposium in Istanbul of the Kiasyd, the Tremere scholar Pyotr Stanislav is allowed entry. Disagreement results in violence between the various factions and ends the tradition of the Great Symposium.

## 1871

*The Devil's Night:* The Great Fire of Chicago ravages the city, destroying multiple supporters of Prince Maxwell. In following chaos, Lodin overthrows Maxwell. Rumors are that a Malkavian had started the fire.

## 1874

### October

The Silver Ladder hold a Convocation in Sacramento to address the "Nameless Problem."

## 1875

Steamship service begins between San Francisco and Seattle.

## 1877

Cyrano replaces his clanmate Montelaine as Prince of San Francisco.

## 1880

Jebediah Hawthorne seizes the Princeship of San Francisco, instigating the height of the civil war between him and Cyrano.

## 1888

The Spiritualist Henderson Nealy Embraces Doctor Jonathan Stepford.

## 1893

The World's Columbian Exhibition takes place in Chicago to celebrate Christopher Columbus arrival in the New World. Doctor Jonathan Stepford attends as part of his training and coming out into Kindred society. Many Toreador consider the Exhibition the beginning of the modern era.

## 1897

Cyrano finally fully defeats Jebediah Hawthorne.

## 1898

Prince Cyrano can get no rest, as the Ventrue Archon Raine begins contesting him for the Princeship of San Francisco.

## 1906

Theodore Fleckman attempts an Entropy effect to sink California. The attempt sends him into a Paradox realm, later dubbed Fleckman's Folly.

An earthquake hits San Francisco, forcing a reconstruction of the city.

In the wake of the Great Earthquake and the Final Death by fire of Prince Cyrano, Prince Archon Raine enjoys the first of a handful of years as Prince of San Francisco.

## 1910

Vannevar Thomas takes the Princeship of San Francisco from Archon Raine, who continues to fight and intrigue against him.

### November

The Arcanum opens two new Chapter Houses in the United States: one in San Francisco and one in Washington, D.C.. The opening does not go as planned, as only two Houses were in the budget, while some money had to be put aside for rebuilding the Boston Chapter House.

#### 24

Members of the Arcanum Executive Committee visit the new American Chapter Houses on the Arcanum's anniversary, announcing their decision to grant the American Houses autonomy. Jonathan Kelvin is to be granted directorship of the American Chapters, and will move to the Washington, D.C. House.

## 1916

### December

#### 29

Felix Yusupov, a Silver Fang Kinfolk, (allegedly) kills Rasputin. Various canon books describe Rasputin as being a member of several different vampire clans, a Shadow Lord, a Ecstatic, and a Puppeteer. The truth remains murky.

## 1918

### July

#### 17

Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II and his immediate family. However, Princess Anastasia, a Silver Fang Kinfolk, escapes, and is secreted out of Russia by Silver Fangs via moon bridge.

## 1922

The Carthian Movement is acknowledged as an official covenant for the first time by the Invictus Prince of San Francisco.

## 1934

Coit Tower is constructed in San Francisco.

## 1945

### March

The Perfect State is adopted by anarchs in California and the Anarch Free State is formed.

## 1955

### February

Rebecca Washington is born into a homophobic family.

## 1957

Jonathan Stepford Embraces his wife Mary Stepford (née Levin) after Peter and Tammy Walenski revealed that he was a cleaver to Prince Lodin of Chicago.

## 1965

### August

#### 11

A highway patrol stops a group of two black men near Watts, Los Angeles, for reckless and possibly drunk driving. It comes to tensions and the situation spins out of control as other Afro-American inhabitants of Watts attack the police. The Watts Riots follow. The Sabbat uses the chaos of the riot to invade the Free State.

#### 12

In the second night of the Watts riots, the Sabbat manages to drive the Anarchs into the defensive. The Cardinal supervising the crusade declares an easy victory.

#### 13

Under the leadership of MacNeil, Attucks and Garcia, the Anarchs mount a counter-attack against the Sabbat invasion of Los Angeles. The battle becomes more intense and violent than any of the Second Revolt.

#### 17

After four nights of battle, the Cardinal calls off the crusade, knowing that even if the Sabbat would defeat the Anarchs, it could not hold the territory. More than a half of the defending Anarchs have met Final Death. Despite the victory, the Anarchs continue to bicker and fall into gang conflicts.

## 1966

The Church of Satan is founded in California.

## 1968

Michael-Christopher Warren is born; one of his parents is Deaf.

## 1970

### May

#### 10

Dafyll of House Gwydion takes command of the sidhe forces in San Francisco.

#### 12-20

The Battle of the Bay between sidhe and commoners in California.

## 1972

Aline Levesque founds the Nine Fires in San Francisco.

## 1973

The woman who will become Petra is born to Bink.

## 1974

Cassady Embraces Perry Commons as part of a larger project to plan for after the revolution.

## 1975-1990

The Lebanese Civil War begins when Palestinian forces back Muslim militias to overthrow the Christian, pro-western government.

## 1979

### June

Rebecca "Reb Redwings" Washington is Embraced.

## 1980s

### Late

A Wizened named Silicon Jack establishes the Crystal Web, an internet-based freehold.

## 1984

In need of an interpreter, Duncan Campbell Embraces Michael-Christopher Warren, now a Naval Flight Officer.

## 1985

Archon Raine lies to his child Julian Luna about Prince Vannevar Thomas's Brujah allies, claiming that they grossly violated Camarilla law so that Julian would slaughter them. In the wake of this doleful strike, Archon is able to take the Princeship of San Francisco from Vannevar Thomas.

## 1987

The War of Mages erupts in Chicago over the search for the Celestial Flange.

## 1990s

Reb moves to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Anarch Wars rage across the West Coast.

### Late

The Assamite methuselah known as Ur-Shulgi awakens, breaks the Blood Curse that had been cast upon his clan, and began reinstating the strict doctrine of the Path of Blood. This lead to a schism among the Assamite, causing many of them to defect to the Camarilla or the Sabbat.

## 1992

Prince Archon Raine decides to step away from the Princeship of San Francisco, naming his childe Julian Luna as his heir.

Department 37 is founded to investigate undead activity in Chicago.

## 1993

The epic War of Chicago between Garou and Kindred occurs.

Multiple Garou attack The Succubus Club, causing multiple deaths. The Methuselah Helena escapes the attack, but her ghouls die during the fight. The Garou are killed as well, but the last Black Furies manages to kill Prias before she dies.

#### 31

A group of mages meet Madame Cleo in San Francisco.

### November

#### 7

The San Francisco Technocracy schedules an emergency Symposium for tonight.

## 1994

A small group of Virtual Adepts takes over Cell-V's old chantry in San Jose and turns it into a software design studio.

## 1996

Jochen Van Nuys seizes the Princeship of San Francisco from Julian Luna in a coup after a Brujah by the name of Cameron assassinates Archon Raine. As a reward, Cameron is named Brujah Primogen of San Francisco.

The Orpheus Group goes public.

## 1998

Greg Gorgeous is born.

The wraith of the Antediluvian Cappadocius emerges from the Tempest, transformed into an angry spectre that haunts the last descendants of the Conspiracy of Isaac. He is laid to rest in Boston thanks to a ritual conducted by the surviving Children of Isaac.

## 1999

Xaviar, Justicar of the Gangrel, encounters an entity he believes to be an Antediluvian. When the Inner Circle dismisses his claim, he leaves the Camarilla, taking the Gangrel with him.

### June

Fighting over Calcutta continues between the Ravnos and the Kuei-jin. The Ravnos begin employing Sabbat mass-Embracing techniques, resulting in the deaths of large numbers of thin-blooded vampires, thereby hastening the awakening of the Ravnos Antediluvian Zapathasura.

In the first week of June, sensitives around the world begin having horrific and prophetic nightmares. The period becomes known as the Week of Nightmares. Some demonologists suspect this is a sign of the return of the Prince of Nightmares.

#### 21

The Sabbat siege of Atlanta begins on this Monday night, when the city's Elysium (the High Museum of Art) is attacked by a mighty joint force of Lasombra legionnaires and Tzimisce war ghouls. Most of the elders of Atlanta are destroyed during the surprise attack - including archon Julius of the Brujah clan. It is the first strike in a massive Sabbat offensive against the Camarilla domains in North America.

### July

The Technocracy implement Operation Ragnarök. They use neutron missiles and four reflecting orbital mirrors to reduce the Ravnos Antediluvian to dust. Simultaneously, Technocrat Xerxes Jones detonates a nuclear device in the Labyrinth at the mouth of Oblivion, while the forces of Stygia drop a relic nuke on Enoch. So much spirit energy releases the Sixth Great Maelstrom and starts the Avatar Storm.

The Red Star – also known as Anthelios or Wormwood – appears in the sky.

### November

The Camarilla goes on the offensive against the Sabbat and takes New York from them.

## 2000

The last known Entangled Awakening takes place, with the Acanthus mages Pyramus of San Francisco and Thisbe of Wellington swapping bodies.

### February

#### 19

Former Justicar Xaviar adresses Karsh, the Warlord of the Camarilla. He cites the old legends of his Clan about Churka, stating that he has seen proof of Churka's "giants" on the West Coast. Stating that the old legends of their Clan are true and the way of the Camarilla is delusion, Xaviar urges Karsh to join him and abandon the sect to prepare for Ragnarök.

## 2001

### May

#### 22

Mortal scientists detect a new planetary body in the solar system, distinctly red in colour, which they dub 2001 KX76.

## 2002

Petra is kidnapped and made into a Gargoyle as part of the war effort against the New Promise Mandarinate.

Sara Anne Winder is sent by the Ivory Tower to replace Jochen Van Nuys as the Prince of San Francisco and head of the resistance against the New Promise Mandarinate.

## 2003

### August

#### 8

A small Silicon Valley firm, Virtual Solutions, burns down in an electrical fire. 10 employees are killed. Arsonists are confused how multiple fires could spring up at multiple points throughout the building. The CEO is reportedly attempting to develop virtual chatroom to link the company's servers with an undisclosed server outside the US. The National Security Agency is showing up to consider new angles to the investigation.

### September

#### 1

Pentex Holdings has a meeting of the Board of Directors in the Sacramento Marriott. While the entire board enters the executive suite the meeting is held in, only Franklin Rubin, subdivision director of finances for Pentex, is seen leaving. When hotel staff enter the suite later this evening, they find none of the other executives present.

#### 15

Seven brutal murders have occurred within a 15-block radius in the Bayview area of San Francisco over the past two months. The most recent victim was discovered Tuesday (the 9th). All the victims were killed in what police describe as a "ritual" manner, their bodies drained of a considerable amount of blood, which was not found at the scene of any of the crimes. The San Francisco Police Department informed fearful citizens that it is following "all possible leads" in the case of the so-called "Bayview Killer," but admits that it hasn’t made much progress.

## 2004

Anarchs Unbound, a New Manifesto for the Digital Age is sent to various disaffected Camarilla Kindred across the globe via email. The responsible cabal is soon called the Red Question.

### January

#### 11

An unprecedented rave takes place simultaneously at nearly every location in San Francisco tonight, drawing almost every resident into its wild revels. The so-called "Avatar Trance" was sponsored by two groups, the Waydown Viktae and the Bay Area Bacchantes. Police and FBI attempts to shut down the city-wide dance party fail completely, and authorities are baffled by malfunctioning equipment and the "conversion" of officers and agents to the ecstatic vibe.

## 2006

The Camarilla bans "Anarchs Unbound". Justicars and Archbishops alike begin to hunt techno-savvy neonates down, believing that they collaborate with the Red Question.

## 2007

The Protect America Act results in numerous vampires coming under government surveillance. A united offensive of CIA, NSA and the secret service of the Vatican result in the destruction of more than a thousand vampires worldwide.

## 2008

Acting on analysis from FIRSTLIGHT after the discovery of SchreckNet, the Second Inquisition destroys the Tremere Prime Chantry in Vienna using drone strikes and ground assaults, believing it to be the international headquarters of vampiric activity. The impact of the event on the clan cuts even deeper than the immediate political consequences, destroying the Pyramid and causing the the clanwide blood bond to sever, leading the clan to splinter into different Houses.

In the wake of economic collapse, the Protect America Act, the weakening of the Tremere, Occupy, and agitation by both Hollow City akuma and Sabbat, the New Promise Mandarinate crumbles, giving rise to the Heaven Promise Society, a new sect exploring the possibilities of syncretizing both Cainite and Gui Ren philosophies. Over time, it also comes to serve as the first true organization for the Hungry Dead as a whole, providing an even richer, more diverse philosophical foundation.

## 2010

The Mekhet Basil meets with the Sin-Eater Tajea in California to deal with the Parasite, an otherworldly entity which has afflicted him.

Tajea meets with a mage going by the Shadow Name of Horus. Horus informs her about the Parasite's origin and possible ways to destroy it.

Tajea meets with the Promethean Charlie in San Francisco, discussing her problem with the Parasite. During their talks, Charlie takes her into a trace that proves fruitful.

Tajea realizes that the entity is the creature that killed the mortal from whom her Geist sprang, and uses that knowledge to destroy it when she and Basil meet again in Oakland.

## 2011

The 41st official conclave of the Camarilla's Inner Circle. The Justicars are Lucinde (Ventrue), Ian Carfax (Tremere), Juliet Parr (Malkavian), Geoffrey Leigh (Gangrel), Manuela Cardoso Pinto (Brujah), Diana Iadanza (Toreador), and Molly MacDonald (Nosferatu).

The Akritai order finds the lair of an ancient vampire beneath the Czech Republic. The order takes heavy losses, but manages to kill the vampire, gaining access to her library, which includes a copy of the Book of Nod and the Apostate Auguries.

## 2012

The Convention of Prague. Camarilla and Anarch representatives meet to discuss the threat of the Second Inquisition and the rebellious Anarchs. Both sides blame the other. The convocation ends in disaster when Hardestadt the Younger is slain by Theo Bell. The Anarchs are expulsed from the Camarilla, along with all Kindred above the 13th generation.

## 2018

Henry Embraces Greg Gorgeous, dubbing him "Goop". Professor May Shepard Embraces her graduate student Lee Bridges.

The Banu Haqim join the Camarilla. The Amici Noctis assign Talley to put together a diplomatic delegation to negotiate Clan Lasombra's entry into the Camarilla; he begins by approaching Prince Marconius of Strasbourg, the first of the Kiasyd and recent defector to the Ivory Tower.

The Camarilla officially returns to Los Angeles under the praxis of Vannevar Thomas, former Prince of San Francisco. He names the Tremere Maximilian Strauss his Keeper of Elysium.

## 2019

Clan Lasombra accedes to membership in the Camarilla after the court of Chicago votes to approve their petition. The diplomatic efforts of the Kiasyd in Strasbourg contributed heavily to the welcome the Lasombra receive from the Ivory Tower.

## 2021

The Second Inquisition hammers Los Angeles, causing former Prince of San Francisco Vannevar Thomas to abdandon the Princeship of Los Angeles as the Ivory Tower flees.