Editing Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (section)

===[[Anarchs]]===
Following the Camarilla closing its doors to all but exceptional kindred and the response from Theo Bell, the Anarchs have split off into their own sect proper. The average Anarch city is a mess of gang violence without anyone holding enough power to make Anarchs behave and usually either follows the trend of "the barons are just as bad as the princes" or Sabbat wearing anarchy symbols (which makes them rather vague) as the kindred form into gangs and fight nightly for territory, usually both.

Not to say that going Anarch has no benefits. Sure life is tougher and fighting is rampant but night to night you have a little more freedom. The barons generally are slightly better than the Princes of old, and likely wont demand your fealty or gifts of blood so long as you stay out of their way, plus with a slightly more democratic leaning being a complete bastard is discouraged. However, with no obligation to be fair and even less in the way of oversight if you're not popular, you're at the mercy of other vampires and can expect little in the way of actual support or recourse.

Unteathered from the Camarilla, they've come into their own, for better of worse. Thin bloods and Caitiff have, being generally persceuted by the Camarilla, flocked to the Anarchs in the face of the Camarilla becoming even more hostile to them. The Gangrel, originally simply independant, have joined up with the Anarchs too, as did the Ministry and Brujah clans. Heck, even a load of younger Tzimisce have latched onto the sect. They also made some territory gains of their own (retaking California and usurping London and a few other cities).

V5 seems to be intent on building the Anarchs into the proper rivals to the Camarilla in the face of moving the Sabbat out of the limelight and in fairness, a lot of people are okay with it. Many considered the Sabbat to be comically evil and with the depth of a puddle(then again the Anarchs arnt exactly chomsky with fangs). It helps that the unique clans most people wanted to play are no longer consigned to a sect that considers skinning people for the lulz to be a sacred practice. However, there are obviously people who believe that the sect is boring, underwritten  and its horseshit that the entireity of vampiric society rapidly changed over the course of a decade when it had stayed mostly stable for so long.