SCHRECKNET VLA-7 // RECOVERED FILE classification: nodes-only provenance: external source review — the White Wolf cache (unverified, cross-filed) ------------------------------------------------------------ FILE: WHITE WOLF SOURCE REVIEW node note: an operator pulled a civilian wiki mirror of the old literature. Most of it we already know. The parts below are the parts we did NOT have on file. Handle as rumor with good posture — and remember that a wiki that is too accurate about us is itself a Masquerade problem. ------------------------------------------------------------ SECTION 1 — CAMARILLA OFFICES (the ladder above the prince) ------------------------------------------------------------ prince - domain ruler, holds Tradition rights (Creation, Final Death "up to a point"). seneschal - the left hand. Runs the city when the prince cannot be seen running it. keeper of elysium - maintains neutral ground. Breaches there are punished twice. sheriff - prince's enforcement arm; may demand any Kindred present for questioning. scourge - hunts the UNWELCOME. In hard domains that means Caitiff and thin-bloods on sight. harpy - records boons and slights. Social credit office. Never insult a harpy twice. primogen - elder council. Advisory on paper, co-rulers in older cities. archons - sect-level agents dispatched to domains in crisis (Sabbat war, Masquerade collapse, elder feuds). They outrank every prince but answer to the justicars. justicars - seven, one per founding clan. Outermost law. inner circle - the actual top. It meets; nobody admits it meets. alastors - specialized archons. See Section 2. flag OFFICE-CREEP: if a name in a domain holds an office no charter lists, log the office. Sometimes the office is the signal, not the person. ------------------------------------------------------------ SECTION 2 — THE RED LIST (ANATHEMA) ------------------------------------------------------------ - The Inner Circle maintains a list of Kindred it wants dead on sight: the Red List. Members are called Anathema. - Procedure per source: TWO justicars must agree to prosecute, the name goes before the Inner Circle, all assembled representatives must concur. That is a high bar. The list is short. That is why it is feared. - Hunting is done by ALASTORS — archons sworn to the list. - Killing an Anathema grants a "Trophy" — a major boon, worth more than most unlife savings. - NODE APPLICATION: cross-check every high-threat registry file against Red List rumors. If one of OUR files is on THEIR list, we have leverage; if one of our COOPERATORS is, we have a problem inside a month. directive: do not volunteer Red List status to anyone. Boons attract hunters, and hunters bring Second Inquisition dogs. ------------------------------------------------------------ SECTION 3 — THE INCONNU (monks of the long game) ------------------------------------------------------------ - Elders who walked away from the Jyhad: no sect, no blood bonds, "beyond the game." - Rumored command: a COUNCIL OF TWELVE seated in the Carpathians. Below them, MONITORS — watchers assigned to observe whole supernatural institutions (the Camarilla, the Sabbat, mage chantries, and — we assume — networks like this one). Traveling agents are called EQUITES. - Named in the source, file with attribution doubt: Mokur (Salubri, 4th gen, founding member), Cretheus (Ventrue, 5th, Council), Eshmunamash (Brujah, 5th, Council), Hauzal (Nosferatu, 5th), Demtius (Malkavian, 5th), Guillaume (Brujah, 5th, "Prince of Switzerland"), Valerianus, Dominus (Ventrue, 5th), Vlad Tepes (Tzimisce — source claims 5th gen; our Impaler file holds 6th with a diablerie upgrade disputed; both can be wrong), Danika Ruthven (Tzimisce, 6th, Council), Demetrius (Malkavian, 6th, Council). flag MONITOR-PARANOIA: the Inconnu watch institutions. This network is an institution. If your traffic shows a third reader that is not SI and not rival Kindred, log pattern, do not engage, report VLA-7. Monitors historically leave networks alive. They prefer ledgering us to burning us. ------------------------------------------------------------ SECTION 4 — ANTEDILUVIAN APOCRYPHA (new fragments only) ------------------------------------------------------------ - Bracket convention: scholars write [Ventrue], [Toreador] to name the founders without saying their names, "as a precaution against drawing their ire." Adopt the convention in all files. It costs nothing and the alternative costs everything. - Third Generation capacity per old rulebooks: traits to 10, unknown blood pool, unknown spend per turn. Practically: if a fight looks winnable, you have misidentified the enemy. - The GEHENNA sourcebook scenarios introduce previously unknown founders, each scenario a different set. One is a woman called THE SHAPER who took the name "Sarah"; unique Discipline moves and reshapes matter itself. Treat as scenario-lore: possibly canon, possibly a lesson dressed as a story. - Setite heresy: Set Embraced HIMSELF; the other twelve Antediluvians were made to thwart him. - Baali priest ANGRA MAINYU claimed visions that CAINE HAD FIVE CHILDREN, not three. If true, two clans are missing from every registry on earth. - Path of Lilith variant: ARIKEL and MALKAV were twins, children of Lilith, with a younger sister NAHEMA who took the Embrace and descended to Hell without losing touch — her spirit bound to her brothers and ALL their descendants. flag SISTER-CLAUSE: any contacts who speak of "the sister" in Toreador or Malkavian business are either lunatics, Liars, or correct. All three are dangerous. Log wording verbatim. ------------------------------------------------------------ SECTION 5 — MASQUERADE MECHANICS (how breaches actually die) ------------------------------------------------------------ - A breach is any evidence of vampiric nature: feeding, visible Discipline use, wounds knitting in public. Ghouls count as standing potential breaches. - Enforcement is self-policing with penalties, and princes famously prefer "an early morning dusting over a thorough search" — the cleanup is often assigned by proximity, not guilt. - The VENTRUE treat Masquerade-patching as a science: cash, Dominate, media surgery, whatever the patch needs. - Origin note: Rafael de Corazon's speech of 1450 made enforcement the Camarilla's founding policy. NODE APPLICATION: our own site-breach protocol mirrors this. You are the dusting when it is small and the witness when it is not. ------------------------------------------------------------ SECTION 6 — V5 SHIFTS (recent, cross-checked) ------------------------------------------------------------ - CONCLAVE OF PRAGUE: Theo Bell (Brujah archon) slew Hardestadt the Younger. The Camarilla blamed Anarchs and locked membership down: no Caitiff, no thin-bloods in many domains. - BANU HAQIM entered the sect in numbers after their schism, under an accord called the ODENSE PACT. - Half of clan LASOMBRA and their leadership cadre (the Friends of the Night) began joining city by city — payment in SERVICE, not boons. - Read for us: the Tower is hiring its old enemies. Any Camarilla channel offering membership to a Lasombra or Banu Haqim contact is now PLAUSIBLE, not automatically a trap. Verify by fee structure, not by flag. ------------------------------------------------------------ STANDING DIRECTIVE ------------------------------------------------------------ The wiki is a mirror. Mirrors are useful until something on the other side starts using them to watch back. Cross-file everything above against registry and wire. Where our files and the cache disagree, record BOTH readings. Where the cache has something we do not — copy it fast, before the next audit of the mirror.