Editing Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (section)

==Modern Fluff Changes==
The quick and dirty summary is that the Camarilla has weakened, some clans switched around in the sects, and the Sabbat are fighting Camarilla elders in the Middle East in the Gehenna War. Also, the inquisition is back and now has connections with the alphabet soup agencies because the NSA got into Schrecknet, revealing kindred society to a degree. This led to such events as the Tremere Vienna Chantry getting blown up and the Camarilla forgoing the use of modern technology for sensitive communication. The Second Inquisition believes kindred suffer from "the blank body virus", named for the absence of body heat seen when a vampire walks in front of a thermal camera.

All the above has led to kindred cities being run by much younger kindred than usual. The stranglehold elders had has loosened as they are summoned to the Middle East by a psych-spiritual call known as the Beckoning. There are a lot more thin bloods too, and most full-blooded vampires still don't like them.