The Camarilla's Archenemy is the monstrous sect known as the Sabbat. Its members are percieved as mindless savages and bloodthirsty fiends by the Camarilla and independent clans alike. While the Kindred in the Camarilla espouse concealing themselves among mortals, the Sabbat favors to revel in their undead nature.
As the Sabbat reasons, vampires are a cut above mortals, who are merely food or diversion. Who needs petty mortal morality when one is a blood-drinking, immortal monster? Sabbat vampires are inherently alien, and their behavior reflects this.
Cities held by the Sabbat are some of the most violent placees in existence, challenged for this only where the Sabbat and Camarilla vie for supremacy. A city under Sabbat control is an explosive, volatile place; murders occur nightly, and rape and robbery are to be expected every turn.
Thus, the Sabbat threatens every city it touches, creeping like a cancer into communities. Though it is arguably no more 'evil' than the degenerate elders of the Camarilla, the Sabbat is almost universally more blatant.
Now more than ever before, the Sabbat has the Camarilla on the ropes. Many Camarilla neonates, frustrated by that unattainable power and stagnant ineffectiveness of their elders, have joined the Sabbat in open protest. Numerous cities that were once bastions of Camarilla strength now exist in contension. Camarilla princes fear the swelling tide of the Sabbat, and with good cause.
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The Camarilla
I heard that the Sabbat drink each other's blood and burn their sires to cinders at their coven meetings. I've been to Sabbat cities before, and they're the most rundown, violent hellholes in the first World. Did you know they handle snakes, practice black magic and bury each other alive? As if being a vampire isn't curse enough - these guys have to raise the Devil on top of it!
- Pentangellis, Tremere neonate
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The Independents
They're insidious, those Sabbat. At least with the Camarilla, you know they're going to stab you in the back. Those maniacs in the Sabbat sell you insurace while they're setting your haven on fire and hangigng your sister upside down in the basement. Don't give an inch, though, because if they respect you, they're more likely to burn down someone else's house.
- Zander, Ravnos black marketeer
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