Line of Kaloyan

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.

George Orwell, 1984

Introduction

Descended from a dark elder with venomous intentions, the Line of Kaloyan is a group of brash iconoclausts focused, with a nigh-suicidal passion, on avoiding the steady creep of social decay and bringing about a true sense of equality and justice to a world that's never known such a thing. While their ancestry can be traced back to the sixth century, they became more common around the 17th Century onward. Some say that they were always there, just getting louder. Some say that the lowest of the line realized what was happening, and started to turn against it.
There is, however, no escaping the sense that they're fighting against something, and that their battle has only become more desperate in the Final Nights. Nobody's quite sure what it is, though.

House Summary

Everything has a place, and a purpose. Whether the purpose is immediately apparent or not, one should not allow it to serve as a distraction.

Kaloyan the Vlach

The Line of Kaloyan are engaged in a desperate guerrilla fight against the tyranny of their Elder and his Childer, fighting to avoid and overthrow the bleak future he intends to create. His idea of a New Carthage is a police state, ruled by the government: an Orwellian masterpiece. As best as they can, his Childer try to avoid the full extent of his plans coming to fruition, but his influence is significant. They're a family through and through, banding together and doing their best to seem subservient lest they attract his attention, but sometimes, despite their efforts, they do.
They're fighting a losing battle to avoid his nefarious plans. Their own ranks are beginning to fracture as he finally begins to stir, breaking them apart without a great deal of difficulty. However, thus far, they haven't split - they've continued to work to bring a small bit of equality to the grim World of Darkness, fighting for their cause despite the obstacles in their path.
Meanwhile, their progenitor watches what he can, influences things, and lets them act as a smokescreen while he continues his work. The Final Nights are falling, and only one side will remain standing.

Features

While Elders typically feature a sympathy with harsh views, around the 9th Generation, an underlying streak of commitment to social justices and freedoms became apparent. Those Embraced after the change in the lineage's attitudes need to have both a commitment to social justice. Combat skills aren't looked down upon, but they're not vital - a certain low cunning, however, is. Most members need to be able to keep their under the table lest it attract attention - building influence in groups aligned with causes of equality, or developing economic health in neighborhoods so that feeding might be easier.

Lineage

• Kaloyan the Vlach
  • Various Elders
    • Evangeline Séguier
      • Twilight
        • Derek Scantlebury
      • Theodore Donowitz
        • Barnett Henderson
          • Allistair Henderson
        • Aaron Fontaine
        • Kate Horton
      • Mick Diamond
        • Emily Black
          • Candy

History

Pre-Victorian Age

• Kaloyan, the Vlach, is Embraced.

Victorian Age

The French Revolution (1789-1799)

• A French noblewoman, Evangeline, found to be sympathetic to the French Revolution is snatched from the Guilotine and Embraced.
• Evangeline joins the fledgling Anarchs behind the French Revolution, assisting where possible.

Victorian England (1800-1835)

• In 1805, Evangeline is summoned to England for an unknown purpose.
  • A small band of Victorian Anarchs is created under her, focused on remaining quiet and avoiding attention as they attempt to overthrow the social injustice of the era.
• In 1809, a police inspector's daughter expresses her disgust at the excess of a dinner party while the poor starve outside, along with the mistreatment of the servants.
  • She is recruited and Embraced into the line, as elegantly and quietly as possible.
    • The decision is a poor one, and Evangeline is reprimanded for the decision to Embrace someone still tied to their mortal life, intimately.
• In 1810, Evangeline comes up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone.
  • The daughter, who will become known as 'Lady Twilight', an infamous bushranger, is sent to Australia, along with her father, to deal with the Rum Rebellion and make it a land unclaimed and free.
  • Evangeline returns to France, leaving her brood behind.
• In 1832, Paris undergoes the famous 'June Uprising'. The Camarilla take the city.
  • Evangeline is acknowledged as a member of the Camarilla in Paris, under the watchful eye of Kaloyan.

Australia, the Gold Rush Years (1820-1880)

• In approximately 1820, Twilight revolts against the staid, Victorian-esque manner Sydney conducts itself in, and strikes out for the bush.
• Up until 1860, the infamous female bushranger, 'Lady Twilight', is leading a gang of Brujah bushrangers, robbing carriages and distributing money to the poor of the new and growing colonies.
  • The press is defaming her despite this.
• After a failed attempt to ghoul a reporter, in 1861, 'Lady Twilight' elects to Embrace a promising reporter and keep him in Sydney to report on her escapades.
  • Her mythic status is solified, and she continues for the next twenty years.

Australia, a new Country (1880-1930)

• In 1880, the presence of the bushrangers is a continued thorn that is dealt with by the Camarilla. Lady Twilight is the only survivor.
  • She meets with her child, and they work together for a time, investigating the incident that led to her gang's death.
    • Twilight joins the Camarilla, along with her Childe, at Evangeline's urging.
• Throughout 1890, the line tries its best to help Sydney grow into a healthy, equal city, building civil infrastructure and making it grow as best as they can.
• Come 1918, Evangeline departs Flanders on a troop carrier, making the trip to Australia.
  • She doesn't reveal her reasons, but throws herself headlong into developing the city.
• With the creation of a new capital in 1927, Twilight and her Childe are sent to Canberra to take it and help build the country into one where social justice is not a distant dream.
• In 1929, Evangeline is put into torpor for unknown reasons. Her loyalty to the head of the line increases, significantly.
  • Some say that she'd done something Kaloyan didn't appreciate.

The Modern Nights

The Golden Age (1930-1950)

• Details not entirely settled.
• The line helps instill a strong sense of social responsibility into the country, despite interference.
• A Brujah Prince of the Line is installed in Sydney(?), with Evangeline's assistance.
• Mismanagement and corruption within the new Federal Government is widely reported.
• In 1949, the Prince of Sydney is killed.
  • Evangeline resigns as Primogen of Sydney, departing to Brisbane, and her humanity starts to dive into a downward spiral.

Conflict (1950-1990)

• Stuff. Communication between Brisbane and Canberra.
  • Evangeline becomes Scourge(?)

The Final Nights

• Evangeline has not visited in some time. Some of the line journey up to find her and visit, as quietly as they can.
  • A quiet conversation occurs in a private room of Elysium. To this day, nobody's sure what was said.
• Twilight becomes the Primogen of the Brujah in Canberra.
• Evangeline vanishes.
  • None of the line speak of her. Ever.
• Twilight's behaviour becomes erratic and she disappears from the Canberra Court. Some say she is dead, some say she joined the Sabbat.
  • Twilight's childe, Derek, assumes the mantle of Primogen of Canberra