Now, in 2025, the Damned hierarchy is breaking down.
Elders cling to fading privilege, young vampires rally for change, and something ancient stirs beneath the lake, whispering through dreams, promising salvation and ruin in equal measure.

II. The State of the Requiem
The Prince’s Court

Prince Nathaniel Beauregard, a Daeva Invictus elder who once owned a Southern plantation, rules from the shadows of high finance. His reign is maintained through charm, faith, and the threat of absolute destruction.
He is backed by the Lancea et Sanctum, led locally by Bishop Alaric Morrow, who insists the Prince is the city’s divinely ordained shepherd.

The Invictus and Sanctified share the same court, their faith and contracts intertwining. The Prince’s “court” meets in the Old Union Station, beneath which the walls are carved with Sanctified scripture.

But the court is fracturing. Younger Kindred chafe under his decrees and whisper that his “divine mandate” is nothing more than an excuse for tyranny.

The Rising Anarchs

At the heart of the rebellion is Rosa “Riot” Martínez, a Gangrel neonate with fire in her eyes and social media followers who don’t know how close their “#NoGodsNoMasters” idol comes to the truth.
Her faction — the Crimson Dawn — gathers young vampires, thin-bloods, and disillusioned ancillae into a movement calling for equality among the Kindred.

They’ve begun targeting Invictus feeding zones, sabotaging elder havens, and holding underground “assemblies” in disused subway tunnels.

The elders call them terrorists. Rosa calls it revolution.

The Faith and the Flesh

The Lancea et Sanctum controls most of the Kindred faithful. Their churches double as refuges and interrogation chambers. Bishop Morrow preaches a gospel of divine hunger — but in his private sermons, he warns that angels are walking again.

The Circle of the Crone, exiled to the South Side and the old industrial waterfront, practice forbidden rites. Their matriarch, Sister Nyx, claims that Chicago’s “industrial heartbeat” masks a sleeping god beneath Lake Michigan — one that preys on the souls of both vampire and mortal.

The Sanctified call it blasphemy. The Ordo Dracul calls it a pattern.

The Scholars and the Skeptics

The Ordo Dracul, represented by Dr. Vera Han and Professor Julian Cobb, quietly study the city’s metaphysical shifts.
They’ve documented strange patterns — blood sympathy spikes, wraith activity, even Strix sightings — all increasing since Rosa’s movement began.

They believe that the city’s unrest and its supernatural instability are linked.
They don’t yet know that the “angel” Bishop Morrow hears in his prayers is no messenger of God.