The Blossom, The Bull, The Cockerel, The Crow, and The Lynx: The Five Families

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The Blossom, The Bull, The Cockerel, The Crow, and The Lynx: The Five Families

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The All Night Society of the City That Never Sleeps is ruled from on high by the Covenants, but for the vampire on the streets, much of their night-to-night existence is influenced by the Five Families. These five bloodlines have held the Priscus Council since the nights before the Church Coup, and most have held power for considerably longer.

The Anvari thrived in the golden age of sleaze and drugs of Old New York, building an empire of drugs, blood, and sin. By the time of the Church Coup, the Pushers were the de facto rulers of the Carthian Movement in the city; though their fortunes suffered perhaps irreparably in the Coup, the Cataclysm, and the Shadow Heresy, the survivors of the brood have slowly begun to rally. While most of the Families’ heads are the sires and grandsires of their Houses, Maria Roja instead holds the leadership of her siblings and cousins by virtue of her pedigree as the eldest surviving childe of their dead founder, and by the power she holds as Seneschal to Prince Kavinsky.

The youngest of the Families, the Adrestoi are by far the hungriest. They hold a stranglehold on the financial sector in the city, and reap the wealth which comes with that domain. Though barely more than an ancilla, their ruthless patriarch Max Adrestos has carved a place for himself and his brood with a calculated mixture of ruthlessness, financial acumen, and - some whisper - the darkest sort of blood sorcery.

Unlike the other Families, The Cockscomb Society is deeply split in the city, tensely divided between the ruthless Queen of the Undercity Eva Visser and her rebellious childe Keith Bullard. Worse, the Family’s loyalties are sharply split between the Invictus and the Carthian Movement accordingly, and only the Nosferatu clan’s penchant for hardship-necessitated unity keeps the Family’s gatherings from becoming bloodbaths. Still, between the two broods, the Society controls both the city’s underground and the kine who maintain it.

New York has always been a city of immigrants, and in many cases a city of the hungry, the desperate, and the outcast. It is among these hard-luck souls that the Childer of the Morrigan have dwelled and found company since the arrival of Mother Maggie in the mid-1800s. Acting as shepherds and protectors of the city’s lowliest residents, the Stormcrows have benefitted from their flocks among the city’s counter-culture, homeless, and immigrants.

It is a hard thing to dwell in the shadow of your enemy, much less to thrive in it, but the Lynx have never shirked away from a challenge. Thriving among the working-class, tech sector, and politicians of the city, the tentacles of Allie Whitechapel’s political machine reach far indeed. Their grasp on City Hall and the NYPD often prove vital to the upkeep of the Masquerade, and Whitechapel’s brood are not at all shy in using the power that such service has brought to them.
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