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A World of Darkness

Second Edition

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.

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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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