History of the Sabbat

The Lasombra rose against their progenitor. The Lasombra Gratiano led these anarchs. This was in the 14th century and the oppression of the feudal system that ruled mortal and Kindred life was beginning to fuel the imaginations of Assamites and the anarchs flocked to Gratiano. They gathered in Sicily where the Lasombra antediluvian had its haven. They fell on it and Gratiano drank its blood. This freed the Lasombra from the ties they had to it. This was the start of the rise of the Sabbat. As the Sabbat formed Gratiano took the position of Archbishop, much to the surprise of many of the others.

Next the Tzimisce rose to break their ties to the old ways. They warred with their elders and the land was drenched with their blood. The childer eventually defeated their sires and went after the Tzimisce antediluvian. After another bloody battle they defeated it, and so the Anarch Revolt Began.

Childer rose against their elders and many clans destroyed their elders although no other Antediluvian fell to the Anarchs. When even the most powerful were attacked by their childer, aided by the Assamite clan, they knew that a solution must be found to the problem.

One of the greatest mistakes of the Anarchs was to be too open to the mortal world. Mortals turned to the church and the church set the Inquisition to finding the Kindred and killing them. These churchmen found many of the Kindred and it made the war even bloodier than in the beginning as elders left some of their remaining loyal childer to the inquisitions torches.

The elders eventually tried to appease the Anarchs with the Convention of Thorns. This solution really did nothing for the anarchs but since they felt as if they were stuck with nowhere to go they accepted it. That was not every anarch though. Those who would not accept the Convention rampaged through Thorns and burned it to the ground. This was the turning point for the split between the Camarilla and the Sabbat.

The Next Step

The Sabbat and the Camarilla continued to war in cities that held large populations of both. The Sabbat could not overcome the Camarilla in the cities that he Camarilla had held for years though sot hey set their sight on the new lands opening up, specifically in America. The Camarilla were not interested in the savage country allowing the Sabbat to gain a stronghold in the future United States. They used the revolution and other wars to gain power in the New World. The few Camarilla that came found that the Sabbat would not let them stay in peace. The Sabbat found that they could "starve out" the Camarilla by forcing them to either feed or continue the masquerade.

The Sabbat fell to warring among them selves though. Their lack of organization led to many power conflicts that tool much of time of the Sabbat. While they were warring among themselves the Camarilla came to America almost unnoticed. This awoke the Sabbat to their problems and they turned inward to fix them. They drafted and agreed to the Purchase Pact. This did not last though. The Lasombra and the Tzimisce blamed each other for the Camarilla coming into the new world and they took it out over Canada and Mexico. A new pact was drafted but also failed as the Third Sabbat War broke out in 1957. This ended with the coming of the Panders (a shoot off of the Brujah bloodline). The Sabbat realized that they needed to unite themselves for good.