Vampire History
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History
Barbary Coast (1847-1906)
Seamus Quinn, an ambitious Ventrue businessman with extensive shipping interests in Boston, New York, and New Orleans, came to San Francisco by ship to exploit the new city and establish himself as Prince. He brought with him the ghoul, Michel Dufresne, who ran his New Orleans business and quickly Embraced an influential member of the rapidly growing Chinese community, Jin Ai. With the explosive growth of the city, he decided to Embrace Michel in 1880 to act as his emissary to other Invictus in California.
Reconstruction (1906-1950)
The fire after the 1906 Earthquake destroyed Quinn. Jin survived through the efforts of his diligent ghouls while Michel was in Sacramento on business. The struggle for control of the city was brief because Michel's power base was less centralized in the city and he was able to muster his resources faster. He took the place of his sire and Embraced one of his ghouls, Hugh Ramsey. Jin did the same with his grandniece, Jianzhen Ai, who's quick thinking had saved him from the fire.
Two outside Kindred came to the city late in this period. The first was a Mexican missionary named Father Niceto Castanos, a member of the Lancea Sanctum who had passed through the city before during his travels and decided, eventually, to settle and tend to the spiritual needs of the local vampires. Hugh Ramsey converted within a week of his arrival, resulting in considerable enmity between the Lancea and the Invictus. The second was a refugee from the Second World War, Solomon Loeb, one of the mysterious Ordo Dracul.
Counterculture (1950-1980)
Polly Kendall of the Circle of the Crone came to the city in the early 1950s fleeing Lancea persecution in Boston. She was soon joined by Ilona Berczi, another refugee from the East Coast. The covenant grew with the Embrace of Ilona's childe, Annie Wright in 1968, but Polly's childe Katie decided to persue her ambition with the Invictus.
The Carthian Movement was introduced to the city by two very different men. Edward Azana came to the city from Los Angeles, a former gang-banger who had alienated his allies in the south. Larry Fan was an radical activist Embraced by Ilona who redirected his mortal goals towards Kindred equality.
Gangrel biker Rojas Roca and his two childer Richard Carrocela and Everado Cabanillas came into town in the 60s. Rojas was converted by Father Niceto but the other two opted to remain in the area anyway.
