Editing Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (section)

===[[Camarilla]]===
The Camarilla, long the bastion of kindred society and considering all vampires under their rules, got fucked from several angles at the beginning of V5. The Gangrel had already left after Justicar Xavier wasnt taken seriously about the Antedeluvians. Then the beckoning starts to take their Elders and Princes away, leading to a lot of the old powerbase departing for parts unknown and creating a power vacuum. In addition, when ShreckNET got compromised and the Second inquisition rose up, the camarilla promptly panicked, blamed the Anarchs and banned all electronic communication. Never mind that a lot of Elders used law enforcement or even honest to caine hunters as an attack dog to sic on their rivals, contributing to a lot of the information that the SI had to work with.

Following this, the Camarilla decided to place stricter rules and membership becomes more exclusive, formally banning caitiff vampires in the sect and cracking down harder and harder on the anarchs before Theo Bell, Archon, anarch sympathizer and brujah representative, declared enough was enough and blew Hardestadt, inner circle member and the defacto leader of the camarilla, to pieces with a shotgun at the Conclave of Prague, taking the Brujah and moving most of the clan to the Anarchs.

Despite their powerbase shrinking and the Camarilla becoming more of an exclusive club, several clans petitioned to join in the wake of all the chaos that followed the Gehenna war. The Banu Haqim were granted the ability to join as a clan, and about half the Lasombra defected from the Sabbat and were allowed in on a case by case basis, often trading favours in exchange for entrance. This began in Chicago and will likely continue to be adopted in other areas, assuming the Lasombra don't fuck the place over. The Ministry, formerly known as the Followers of Set, were rejected from joining, so decided to join the sect more likely to appreciate [[futurama RPG|blackjack and hookers]].

Between this and the death of the end of the party line that the Antedeluvians are simply myths, the Camarilla of the present is a very different beast, and are arguably regressing to the tactics of the Elders that spawned the first anarch revolt, locking their doors and allowing the Anarchs to bear the brunt of the SI purges while they try to avoid detection and wait out the storm.