#sects.

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𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇! Don’t let the years grind you down. Don’t give in to hopelessness and fear. Look in the mirror and say these words aloud: “I deserve to be happy. And diablerie is happiness.”

UNDERSIGNED, 1. Agata “your revolutionary dream girl” Starek 2. You. This manifesto doesn’t need any more names. Go enjoy the revolution and suck some Camarilla fuckboys dry.

The Anarch Movement didn’t come into being by itself. It took hard work and organising to make it happen. This is not the sexy side of being an Anarch. Everybody wants to drive a stake into the heart of a Prince, but if you really want to succeed, you need to follow the old slogan: “Educate, agitate, organise.”

      EDUCATE means explaining to other licks, especially young ones, that there are options out there. They don’t know the history of the Anarch Movement. They don’t know about the First Anarch Revolt, the birth of the Free States, or anything else. It’s not like they can read this stuff in a book. Somebody has to tell them an alternative history to the one the Camarilla peddles. If someone believes that God has cursed them to serve the elders, they’re not going to rebel. Give them the facts and they can start thinking for themselves.

      AGITATE means talking to people, convincing them to fight. You can’t just sit around waiting for the oppressed to throw away their shackles. You need to be there, amidst the people you want on your side. For some, this is difficult because it also requires you to listen. You can’t just whack people on the head with your philosophy. You need to listen to their concerns, see how you can help them and they can help you. This way, you can achieve justice for all and build a broad revolutionary front.

      ORGANISE means turning a mob of angry licks into a motivated movement with real lasting power. Through focus and structure, anger can be channelled effectively into real change. This is especially important when facing an active enemy. If we respond as individuals instead of as a community, it’s easy to fall into paranoia and division.

a few preliminary thoughts

   – 1. 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄 𝐍𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐍𝐄 of a successful unlife is to nest among mortals. Exist as one of them. Look like them, behave like them, talk like them. Don’t let yourself be separated from humanity. Don’t give in to the idea that we somehow live apart from human culture and civilisation. The closer you are to humanity, the more successful you’ll be as a hunter and harder to detect for your enemies.

   – 2. 𝐓𝐑𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐄 alone is a fool’s errand. A lot of us descend into pointless paranoia, fearing everyone and assuming ill intent behind friendly gestures. Learn to hunt in a pack. You’ll find it’s easier, safer, and, if you fuck up, someone’s there to save your ass. And another thing: We get lonely too. Just because you’re undead doesn’t mean you can’t use someone to talk to.

   – 3. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐒, but they have one good idea: the Masquerade. If you think about their Traditions, you’ll realise that most of them are geared for preserving elite power. The Masquerade is an exception. It’s designed to protect all of our kind, and that’s why everybody should follow it. The reality is that you might think yourself as the apex predator on a moonlit night, but at high noon you’re just another fool getting burnt to a crisp.

   – 4. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐒 to define what being a lick is all about. They want to tell you about Caine, the Traditions, the Prince and all that bullshit. If you’re not careful, you’ll start believing them. You’ll think their way is the only way for our kind to exist. But it isn’t. There’s a simple remedy to their lies: Eat the rich. Once you have a taste of a Camarilla vampire, there’s no going back.

monsters of the recent past

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎 single history of the Anarch Movement or the Unbound. History is always political, after all, interpreted and reinterpreted to suit the needs of the moment. Vampire society may play host to those who remember ancient times from the Roman Empire to New York in the Eighties, but only a fool would trust the version of events told by an immortal bloodsucker.

The truth is that vampires lie. They lie to serve their own interests, stroke their egos, and spite their enemies. In this they’re no different from ordinary mortals, but the Masquerade makes it even harder to write an objective history. Reliable written sources of information on the history of the undead are scarce.

What does this mean for a young Anarch seeking to make sense of the world? How can they know where they came from and what it means to be a vampire?

You have to choose which lies you like the best.

Consider one of the most famous moments of recent Anarch history, the death of the Prince of Los Angeles, Don Sebastian, in 1944. Anarch legends tells of how the Spanish anarchist Salvador Garcia fought his way into Don Sebastian’s haven and killed him after a desperate, bloody battle.

For this and for writing the Anarch Manifesto Salvador Garcia became on of the legends of the Anarch Movement.

Did he really kill Don Sebastian all by himself?

Maybe, maybe not. Nevertheless, when he was alive Don Sebastian was nothing but the Camarilla Prince of a young, new city. In death, he became the symbol of everything wrong with the Camarilla, from autocratic practices to sheer cruelty. Even the Camarilla bought into the myth, abandoning his legacy and refusing to try to salvage the rule of a Prince who seemed so degenerate and useless.

Was Don Sebastian really worse than so many other Camarilla Princes? Probably not. But he was weak, and that was enough.

When you listen to stories about Anarch history, apply the same basic rules you should follow when you read the newspaper. Who’s telling the story and what’s their agenda? How is the issue being framed? Who benefits from this narrative? And of course, we always tend to believe those with power and distrust those without power. If you’re a young vampire, try to keep this impulse in check. Power is never on your side.

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We are a monolithic and ruthless cabal, expanding and maintaining our sphere of influence with hidden hands. We infiltrate rather than invade, subvert before we debate, intimidate without asking our lessers their opinions. Our power flies on incubus wings by night instead of marching with armies by day. Nothing can stand in our way, as none can stand athwart a shadow.

Every nightmare dreamed up by paranoids, every righteous fear of the persecuted, every conspiracy postulated by law and hinted at in lore: the Camarilla reaches farther and does worse. It controls lives, money, and history. They told your ancestors what to believe, they tell the media what to report. If the Camarilla want a secret kept from the kine, they bury the story... and the storyteller.

Master conspirators and manipulators do not pull together in the same harness like tame oxen. The Kindred within the Camarilla us tools of manipulation and deceit on each other just as they do on the kine and on other sects. But they agree on one truth: We are stronger inside the Camarilla than anyone outside of it.

Why do we exist? Above mere survival and mutual protection, what justifies our improbably and selfishly prolonged unlives? The answer is something bigger than ourselves: the Camarilla.

Some see our sect as merely the system that protects us from becoming fire and ashes on the streets. But the truh is that everything that lives (or makes a decent imitation) needs a dream. Everything that thinks needs a purpose. Are the Kindred not the best evidence of this? When creatures that merely go through the motions of survival encounter those of us who carry in our veins the dreams of our ancestors, who wins? We do. Dream and purpose drive us, or they should. Without them, we may as well embrace the Beast and cease our pretence of control.

And that, in a nutshell, is the Camarilla’s mission: control. By directing the most powerful and effective Kindred with a single will — that of the Inner Circle — we amplify their power and effect. By extending our reach into mortal governments, corporations, crime syndicates, churches, and everything else that tries in their own feeble way to corral humanity, we extend our control to the four corners of the earth. From penthouses to nuclear blast shelters dug out under mountains, we are influencing and guiding humanity, using our extraordinary talents to improve our common world.

about the anarch movement

Some time around 2006 the Second Inquisition started targeting our own. How did this happen? Who gave them the information that lead them to Vienna? Clearly the Anarchs. It was then that the Justicars decided it was too late to turn back. They subtly added Anarch groups and domains to the kill-lists. It was a cold move, but they had it coming.

As the Anarchs grew wise to the plot, they began to voice their dissatisfaction. They did this by lopping the heads off of several notable Princes and mailing them to the Justicars. Alas, poor Voorhies of Amsterdam. I was with Justicar Carfax when we received his skull.

One might look at the series of events and say the Camarilla betrayed the Anarchs, but they had gone too far. They weren’t content to attack us directly, they attacked the Masquerade itself, causing prominent – and I mean prominent, just look up the footage – breaches in Glasgow, Marrakech, Dallas, and New York, and bringing the Second Inquisition to our door. And this is their fate now. Finally left on their own to deal with the monsters they have awoken. Soon enough they will come back to us, whining for aid, but we shall refuse them. As the torch lights move in on them, we will look on from the shadows many and strong, but motionless. We, who respect and protect it, deserve this gift of immortality, they do not.

HOW TO TALK ABOUT ANARCHS

Anarchs are incompetent, and this incompetence characterises everything they do. Contrast Anarch youth with Camarilla experience. Even when they are not violent, the Anarchs are sloppy, fail to think things through, and take risks without considering the consequences.

Anarchs tear down. They never build. Anarchs are famous for destruction, rioting, and murder, but when it comes to establishing any kind of order of their own, they fail. This is why the Anarch Free States in California has never managed to establish a clear set of laws or a system of government.

Anarchs don’t know what they want. Many Anarchs talk about change, but they have no coherent vision or clear demands. This makes it impossible to negotiate with them, as their ideology is too incoherent to produce a negotiating position. This is made worse by their perennial inability to produce leaders one could talk with.

Anarchs are hypocrites. For all their talk of freedom and equality, they still use humans the same way as any other Kindred do. They preach the right of Kindred to live how they want, yet oppose the desire of Camarilla Kindred to live in the Camarilla.

Anarchs should be grateful, but instead they’re motivated by envy. Without the Camarilla and its Traditions, mortals would have eradicated the Kindred a long time ago. Anarchs fail to understand this. Instead, they are envious of the power elder Camarilla Kindred have accumulated. They want that power for themselves, but they don’t have the patience to work for it.

Anarch areas are not safe. The lack of a Prince or Sheriff means that Anarch cities are dangerous, violent places where Kindred can get killed for any reason, or no reason. Without laws and authority, Kindred society is ruled by the most powerful and the most brutal, who take from others what they want.

Anarchs endanger the Masquerade. Because they have rejected the Traditions, the Anarchs breed like rabbits. Every Anarch city is overpopulated with Kindred. This means that even if the Anarchs had the ablity to maintain the Masquerade, breaches would happen.

Anarchs collaborate with the Second Inquisition. Many Anarchs have never developed a clear Kindred identity. They still see themselves as part of their mortal communities, and because of this, they collaborate with the Second Inquisition to attack all of our kind.

Last and most importantly, remember that everything the Anarchs want is always unrealistic. They don’t understand how the world works, and their ideas are impractical. Sure, their ideas can sound beautiful and just, but they won’t survive contact with reality. This is why the Camarilla is the best and only option.

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