Hello! Allow me to help with your questions.
First, I'll quickly cover the Camarilla structure.
At the VERY top, there are the Inner Circle and the Justicars, who determine the laws that they want all of Kindred around the world to obey. If a Prince fucks up, it's the Justicars who will punish them by sending agents called Archons. I don't know where the Justicars are based, so don't worry too much about them. In most VtM games, they never come up.
Each city run by the Camerilla has a Prince. (A Prince can be any gender, and may choose to go by another title such as "Sovereign." Most of the time, they go by Prince though, even if they are female or NB.) In order to claim a city as theirs, a Prince declares what's known as Praxis, which summarizes the Prince's "right" to hold power over the city.
Under the Prince is the Primogen Council, which is made up of one member of each clan in the city. The Primogen is often (but not always) the oldest and most powerful member of that clan in the city, and represents the entire clan in court meetings. The Prince may also seek advice from their Primogen Council. Occasionally, an individual Primogen will have a second in command known as the Clan Whip. If a clan has only a very small population in a city, (like, less than 10 maybe) the Prince might not bother with having them be represented by a Primogen. I'd expect that, despite probably only having one, MAYBE 2 members of their clans in Purpee, City Council of Darkness will probably have them all be the Primogens for their clans anyways for the lols.
The Seneschal is the personal advisor to the Prince, the Prince's second in command, and acts as the Prince when the Prince is unavailable.
The Sheriff is the one who hunts down Kindred rule breakers and punishes them according to the Prince's orders, including preforming executions. Sometimes the Sheriff has deputies, known as Scourges or Hounds.
The Herald is the messenger for the Prince, who makes sure the Prince's messages reach the ears and/or eyes of all the Kindred in the city. They also often collect (and spread) gossip. Sometimes they're called Harpies. (Especially if the Herald is female.)
The Keeper of Elysium is the city's Kindred events coordinator, and makes sure everyone obeys the rules of Kindred gatherings. In particular, it's usually forbidden for Kindred to use disciplines at Elysium, because they don't want to risk triggering their Beasts into frenzy and possible murder and/or Masquerade violations.
The Shadow is a formal advisor assigned by the Prince to watch over a coterie of young vampires to help shepherd them, teach them Kindred ways, and act as a go-between for the coterie and the Council.
And now a quick rundown of the clans! There are 14 of them in Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition. I'll do them in alphabetical order. You should *definitely* do more reading on these yourself, because each clan has it's favored disciplines, and it's own clan banes, etc. There's a LOT more to them than what I've written here!
Banu Haqim - Known for their passion for justice and upholding their very strict moral codes.
Brujah - Rebels who usually oppose authority. It is EXTREMELY RARE to have them in the Camarilla. They're usually the spearhead of the Anarch movement. (Apparently Zeath is a Brujah though lol)
Gangrel - Kindred who tend to be more animal/beast-like. They are also usually Anarchs. (The Camarilla don't want "animals" in their court...)
Hecata - Necromancers who use blood magic to create zombie slaves, trap ghosts, etc. They usually only embrace new vampires from within their own family.
Lasombra - Kindred who use shadows and Oblivion powers. (The thing Bat Child has in her throat.) They have strong ties to the Catholic Church and have only recently been allowed back into the Camarilla.
Malkavian - Kindred who are cursed at their creation with some kind of mental illness, the symptoms of which can be very extreme.
The Ministry - AKA The Followers of Set. They believe vampires
have a different origin than the accepted dogma, and as such, don't play along well with the Camarilla. They tend to be lairs and tricksters with lots of snake imaginary.
Nosferatu - Cursed with the "repulsive" flaw, often have a hideous outside appearance. Known for being very strong, usually very smart, and often using Obfuscate to hide themselves. (Darkness Man.)
Ravnos - Another mostly Anarch clan. They are cursed with Wanderlust. They have to sleep in a different place at least once a week, or they start burning alive from the inside! They tend to be daredevils.
Salubri - A clan that has almost been hunted to extinction because their blood tasted ridiculously good to other Kindred. Their curse is that and also each one has a third eye in the middle of their forehead that weeps blood when they use their disciplines. There are only rumored to be 6 left in the entire world. (But you can fudge that for your own storytelling.)
Toreador - The very beautiful, glamorous, art-loving Kindred. (Madeline is a very stereotypical Toreador.)
Tremere - The Blood Witches and Wizards, often feared by the other clans for their blood magic. They have their own internal social structure called the Pyramid.
Tzimisce - The flesh crafters who can change their own appearance to be however they want. (And can change the appearance of other people too at high levels.) They tend to be your "dark lord in a high castle" type, and Dracula was one in the VtM lore.
Ventrue - The Clan of Kings who usually prefer to be in charge of things. Most of them are in the Camarilla. They tend to be big users of Dominate to both get people to do their bidding, and to wipe their memories afterwards. (LaVonte is a Ventrue.)
Thin-Bloods - What's this? An extra clan? Well, kind-of. You see, each generation of Kindred has "weaker" or "thinner" blood than the generation that came before them, to the point now where sometimes, vampires are created who are not considered by most other vampires to be "real" vampires at all. These are called Thin-Bloods or Duskborn. They have their own abilities, Thin-Blood Alchemy, that can mimic or replicate the disciplines "normal" vampires get. Sometimes Duskborn can walk in the daylight, or eat human food, or still have their heart beat. They still have to drink blood though. They're not quite human, and not quite vampire. (For more on Thin Bloods, I strongly recommend you watch Project Ghostlight: Private Nightmares on Youtube.)
The clans that are favoured by the Camarilla are the Ventrue, Toreador, Tremere, Nosferatu and Malkavian. All the others are generally considered either entirely unwelcome, or on a case-by-case individual basis as determined by the Prince of that city. The reasons for why this is are very long and complicated in the VtM lore, it but basically boils down to either religious war, or Anarch rebellion.
Please feel free to ask me any other questions about Vampire the Masquerade you have!
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