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A World of Darkness
Second Edition
by
Mark Cenczyk (Asia), Ben Chessell (Caribbean),
Richard Dansky (North America), Graeme Davis (British Isles),
James Estes (Egypt), Alex Hammond (Caribbean), Angel McCoy (Africa),
Deena McKinney (Europe), James Moore (Central and South America),
Lucien Soulban (Arabia), Richard Watts (Australia)
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Home of the Brave: North America by Night .........................................................................................................4
Basic Stats ....................................................................................................................................................................................4
The United States of America .......................................................................................................................................................5
The Biggest Plum of All: New York City........................................................................................................................................7
Kingston, Ontario ........................................................................................................................................................................12
Chapter Two: The Caribbean In Darkness ...................................................................................................................................18
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................18
Other Inhabitants ........................................................................................................................................................................20
Some Notable Vampires .............................................................................................................................................................22
Places and Events ......................................................................................................................................................................24
Chapter Three: El Baile De Sangre: Central and South America...............................................................................................26
The Clans....................................................................................................................................................................................26
Others .........................................................................................................................................................................................28
Central America ..........................................................................................................................................................................29
South America ............................................................................................................................................................................34
Chapter Four: The British Isles.....................................................................................................................................................41
Geography ..................................................................................................................................................................................41
History.........................................................................................................................................................................................43
The Kine......................................................................................................................................................................................48
The Kindred of Britain .................................................................................................................................................................51
The Fiefs .....................................................................................................................................................................................54
The Clans....................................................................................................................................................................................56
Characters of Note......................................................................................................................................................................58
Carfax Abbey: an Anarch Rendezvous.......................................................................................................................................63
Chapter Five: Tales of the Old Country: Europe by Night..........................................................................................................65
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................65
The Kindred of Europe................................................................................................................................................................66
The Clans....................................................................................................................................................................................67
Other Beings ...............................................................................................................................................................................69
France.........................................................................................................................................................................................70
The Low Countries: The Netherland, Belgium and Luxembourg ................................................................................................72
Scandinavia: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland And Iceland .................................................................................................74
Germany .....................................................................................................................................................................................75
Austria.........................................................................................................................................................................................75
Switzerland and Liechtenstein ....................................................................................................................................................76
Italy .............................................................................................................................................................................................76
Spain And Portugal .....................................................................................................................................................................77
Greece ........................................................................................................................................................................................78
Eastern Europe ...........................................................................................................................................................................79
Russia, The Ukraine, Belorus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania And Moldova .....................................................................................81
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Turkey .........................................................................................................................................................................................83
Story Seeds ................................................................................................................................................................................86
Resources and Inspiration ..........................................................................................................................................................86
Chapter Six: Desert Winds: Arabia by Night ...............................................................................................................................88
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................88
A Brief Overview of Islamic Practice ...........................................................................................................................................90
Islam And The Ashirra ................................................................................................................................................................90
The Keening................................................................................................................................................................................91
Ashirra Unlife ..............................................................................................................................................................................91
The Clans....................................................................................................................................................................................92
Other Denizens of the World of Darkness ..................................................................................................................................94
History.........................................................................................................................................................................................94
Saudi Arabia Travel Guide..........................................................................................................................................................97
Story Seeds ..............................................................................................................................................................................101
Faction: Hajj ..............................................................................................................................................................................102
Chapter Seven: The Forgotten Kingdom: Egypt .......................................................................................................................103
History.......................................................................................................................................................................................103
Major Regions...........................................................................................................................................................................106
The Kindred ..............................................................................................................................................................................109
The Kine of Egypt .....................................................................................................................................................................110
Story Seeds ..............................................................................................................................................................................115
Chapter Eight: Africa: The Dark Continent ................................................................................................................................116
The Kindred in Africa ................................................................................................................................................................117
Kenya........................................................................................................................................................................................118
Mombasa Island........................................................................................................................................................................119
Visitor Information .....................................................................................................................................................................122
Kindred Influence in Africa ........................................................................................................................................................127
Other Prodigals in Africa ...........................................................................................................................................................129
Story Seeds ..............................................................................................................................................................................130
Chapter Nine: Strangers: The Kindred of Asia..........................................................................................................................131
The Land of the Ten Thousand: The Kindred of China.............................................................................................................132
Beijing .......................................................................................................................................................................................132
Shanghai...................................................................................................................................................................................135
Hong Kong ................................................................................................................................................................................136
Chongqing.................................................................................................................................................................................138
The Shaolin Monastery .............................................................................................................................................................139
The Western Clans in China .....................................................................................................................................................140
The Gap of the Generations: The Kindred of Japan .................................................................................................................141
Tokyo ........................................................................................................................................................................................142
The Western Clans in Japan.....................................................................................................................................................143
Other Denizens of the East.......................................................................................................................................................144
Chapter Ten: Australia by Night .................................................................................................................................................145
History.......................................................................................................................................................................................145
Geography ................................................................................................................................................................................148
The People................................................................................................................................................................................149
The Cities..................................................................................................................................................................................150
Sidney: A Free City ...................................................................................................................................................................151
Melbourne .................................................................................................................................................................................154
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Chapter One:
Home of the
Brave: North
America by
Night
I'm a no-good coward, an American too. A North American, that is. I'm guilty of murder of innocent men, innocent women, innocent
children - thousands of them. My planes, my guns, my money, my soldiers - it's my blood on my hands. It's all my fault. I must not
think bad thoughts.
- X, "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts"
No other continent is as much a battleground between
Sabbat and Camarilla as North America. Then again, no
other prize is as rich. New York, Los Angeles and
Washington, D.C. are all worth fighting over; the markets, the
media and the missiles are all desirable. There are rich veins
of silicon to be mined in the computer firms of California,
Washington state and Massachusetts; there are also vast
untapped natural resources in the Canadian north and in the
wilds of Alaska. The Great Plains are still the breadbasket of
the world, and starving an enemy's herds is as good as
starving him directly. There are prizes well worth going to war
for here, and the master strategists of both sides - as well as
those who stand behind them - know it.
Geography
Europe's Kindred population often exists along clearly
delineated clan and sect lines. Spain? Lasombra and Brujah.
Austria? Tremere... and so on. This is not so in North
America. Repeated waves of immigration to and migration
across the continent, not to mention a decided lack of wars to
decide internal boundaries, have thoroughly mixed vampires
of all clans and affiliations across the United States and
Canada.
A Note of Format
In Europe the battles have grown a bit stale and a bit
predictable. Here they are still fresh and savage, as even the
denizens of longest standing have been here for a mere
handful of centuries. Things have not ossified the way they
have in the Old Country, nor are there still-potent indigenous
creatures strong enough to challenge the Kindred for rule of
the night. On a stage mostly cleared of those pesky
werewolves, and with the Antediluvian puppeteers not
betraying their hands to their puppets, a bloody play is acted
out every night by the vampires of North America. Even the
bit players find the action intense and deadly.
For purposes of this book, "North America" refers to the
United States and Canada. Furthermore, as there is so much
internal diversity and inconsistency across those two
countries in the World of Darkness, rather than doing a brief
state-by-state and province-by-province breakdown, we
provide brief overview of the major regions of the continent,
with a special focus on two cities: one large, the other not
quite so large.
Basic Stats
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Canada
for ready travel from city to city on the ground. Blunders can
lead to exile, and exile usually means death here. Plus, with
such intense potential pressure from the kine, Canadian
Kindred will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with their princes in
punishing offenders. After all, there's nowhere for them to run
either.
Covering nearly four million square miles, Canada has a
human population of just 27 million mortals, and most of
them live within 190 miles of the southern border with the
United States. Most Canadian territory is putatively under
Camarilla control, but in actuality anything above the magic
190-mile mark (and much that is below it) is left to the
Lupines. There is a strong Sabbat presence in and bordering
eastern Canada; parts of Quebec (including Montreal) and
Ontario (including Toronto), as well as major portions of the
United States bordering these regions, are under Sabbat
control. The so-called Maritime and Prairie Provinces
(including such cities as Alberta and Edmonton) and British
Columbia are all essentially free from Sabbat taint, but are as
sparsely populated by vampires as by humans. The two
largest cities in Canada are Sabbat. After all, what do the
antitribu care about the fishermen of the Grand Banks?
Infiltrated by Japanese vampires, British Columbia stands
outside the wars of the Sabbat and Camarilla. Ruled by the
independent Prince Sigfried, the city of Vancouver is a model
of efficiency for other princes. Effectively free of sect
entanglements, the city is ruled by its prince alone.
The United States of
America
For Camarilla vampires, the question is whether or not the
Masquerade can be maintained. Canada's violent crime rate
is much lower than the States', mandating much more
caution on the part of Canada's Kindred. In general, they are
fewer, farther between and much more reluctant to take
human life unnecessarily than their American counterparts.
This is not so much an expression of morality as one of self-
preservation; excessive violent crime shocks and mobilizes
Canadian society in a way that no longer touches Americans.
Fueled by public outrage, the search for a violent criminal will
prove relentless until the perpetrator is found.
Canada has vast natural resources and a solid high-tech
industrial base. The Prairie Provinces, in addition to Alberta's
oil fields, have extensive agricultural industries. Edmonton
houses, among other things, the world's largest shopping
mall, home to its own criminal (and perhaps Kindred)
subculture. On the east coast, the struggles over Quebecois
independence and the depletion of the Grand Banks fishing
shoals have severely damaged the economy of the Maritime
Provinces. Quebec and Ontario, though, remain prosperous
rivals in the heart of the country even as the one repeatedly
threatens to secede and the other works diligently to get
Quebec to remain.
The Quebecois separatist movement, countered internally by
the Federalists and externally by the rest of the country,
centers around the French-speaking minority's attempts to
secede from the rest of Canada to form a Francophone
republic. A referendum on secession in late 1995 showed the
province's population to be narrowly in favor of remaining
part of the Canadian union, for now.
As stated earlier, most of the vampiric population is
concentrated in the cities and towns along the U.S. border.
There is no Sabbat presence west of Lake Huron, meaning
that the Camarilla rules the Prairie Provinces uncontested.
The population is the usual mix of the seven main clans with
a smattering of others, but all are on their best behavior. The
miles between the cities are too long and too Lupine-infested
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