Bloodletting Angels
Camarilla
The Camarilla of New Orleans exercise only nominal influence of city affairs, leaving most of it up to the herd. The Prince’s open-arms policy does not endear her to all of her fellow Kindred, but she has support of most of the Primogen. Since Katrina, Kindred are invited to New Orleans to enjoy the wonders of the city, but only if they bring something to contribute to the repairs and improvement of the city and the welfare of its citizens. The sect is more interested in maintaining a variety of holdings and havens, and these Kindred own clubs, hideaways, safehouses, time-shares, and retreats all over the city and near the lakes and rivers.
Key Location
The central Elysium for the Camarilla, and where they meet to enjoy decadent salons and courtly functions, is a vast cemetery in the Audobon District (the southwest corner of the city), where a vast park also spreads and meets the Mississippi. Enclosed structures and towering gates ensure privacy for the Camarilla. The Camarilla’s Rack – prime feeding grounds – is considered to be in the 7th Ward, a poorer section of town.
Clan Structure
Toreador dominate the halls of Elysium in New Orleans. Maybe because of that, a strong rival Nosferatu presence emerged years ago. The other five clans are well-represented in New Orleans, too.
Rules
Perhaps due to her Toreador blood, or (as some whisper) a side deal cut with the so-called “fairies”, she has explicitly ruled that bonified artists are off-limits for feeding, ghouling, or Embracing purposes. Violation of that rule in the past has led to expulsion from the city, and strife between the Camarilla and some of the independents. Otherwise, the Prince enforces the Six Traditions with only half-assed interest. Even the Masquerade only barely concerns her, though she punishes blatant breaches with Blood Hunts.
Sabbat
After its failed siege during the hurricane crises back in 2005, the Sabbat conquest of New Orleans lost all steam. Some of its recent local recruits even defected to the Anarchs, disgusted by the sect’s mishandling of a problem that affected mortal family members. Of course, the Sabbat considers such traitors all weaklings, but it lacks the power to do anything about the Big Easy right now. Instead, it maintains a quiet bunker in the Algiers District south of the Mississippi, across from the French Quarter district. The Sabbat there are spies and scouts only. Serpents of Light are among the most common vampires that the sect uses in this town.
Anarchs & Autarkis
Anarchs are few and in between in New Orleans. They have little to rant and rave about, after all. The ones that are present are here not to pursue any kind of political game but to enjoy the relatively easy unlife the Camarilla offers. There are more Cainites who call themselves independents, or Autarkis after the old Kindred term, than those who would claim to be Anarchs. There are a disturbing number of Samedi in the city, for example. Conversely, there is no known Cathayan presence in New Orleans to match its small Asian population and the Middle Kingdom’s apparent disinterest in the city’s “first-strike” strategic value.
But the two most powerful independent groups are the Giovanni and the Followers of Set. Both were awarded territory, which other Kindred are not to violate, within the city. The Giovanni were given the Village de L’Est, which lies far to the north along the peninsula shouldering Lake Pontchartrain, neighboring the Lake Catherine resort district in fact. Here the handful of vampires and network of familial ghouls build their finances and eagerly explore the city’s vast troves of death.
Meanwhile, the Setites accompanied Caribbean and Créole immigrants from the islands, of course, and settled throughout the city. However, their official territory is limited to the Lower 9th Ward, where many of the immigrant mortals settled centuries ago. This district, across the canal from Bywater, is a sprawling slum now (especially since Katrina), but that only makes it more vulnerable to the Setites’ corruption.
