Second Anarch Revolt

Despite the formation of the Camarilla and the Sabbat, self-proclaimed anarchs would continue in isolated groups. During the French Revolution, prominent anarchs used the opportunity to fight the traditional claim of the Toreador to France. Despite intentions to take the fight to the rest of Europe, the mortal revolution soon fell apart, allowing the Camarilla to move in and restore order.

Afterwards, many of the remaining anarchs made their way to the United States and from there to the West Coast. As Los Angeles quickly increased in prominence, the Camarilla established Don Sebastian as prince with the hope that he would curb the growing number of anarchs in the region. He largely ignored their presence, however, and over the next few decades, several famous anarchs made their way to the city. Finally, in 1944, Don Sebastian realized the full extent of the discontent in his city and ordered the savage beating of one such luminary, Jeremy MacNeil. Instead of instantly rebelling, MacNeil lead the anarchs in locating and studying the havens of the local Elders over a period of six weeks, and on December 21, 1944, the Second Anarch Revolt began.

The prince was killed and those Elders that were not destroyed fled the city, making it a strong victory for the anarch movement. Soon thereafter the anarchs moved south to San Diego and then attempted to liberate San Francisco. They were repelled by the then-current Prince of San Francisco, Vannevar Thomas, but in those three months they had claimed everything from the border of Mexico to San Jose. This region would come to be called the Anarch Free State, ruled under a set of principles titled the Perfect State.

Despite such ideals, the Anarch Free State soon became little more than a region dominated by roving gangs that were often at each other's throats. Whatever the reasons for the inability to create their perfect society, the invasion of the Cathayans and their efforts to turn the anarchs against one another resulted in several anarchs eventually joining the New Promise Mandarinate, with little remaining of the Free State by the year 2000.

For the Free State Anarchs, this socialist-anarchist impulse saw its ultimate expression in December of 1999, during the N30 riots. Anarchs across the Pacific Northwest used the protests as cover for an attempted coup against the Prince of Seattle. Although the coup was ultimately unsuccessful, several important Camarilla vampires were slain and the Prince only narrowly escaped assassination. The riots themselves caused millions of dollars in property damage, but police abuses nevertheless engendered sympathy for the rioters among political factions opposed to globalization as well as individuals offended by the mere existence of international organization like the WTO. Anarchs across the world cheered the "success" of the Seattle riots and laid plans of their own to use anti-globalization animus against less egalitarian domains. Then, less than two years later, an act of terrorism perpetrated by kine against kine would render all those plans obsolete.

During the events of the Second Anarch Revolt, the Camarilla fortified the domain to prevent any incursions from the roving Anarch gangs. Petrodon used Seattle as his base for incursions into the Anarch Free State. As a result of his influence, the local Camarilla was much more hostile to Anarchs than elsewhere, with radicals such as Malkavian Primogen Takuma Sononda actively hunting them down. While the Sabbat has attempted several times to take the city, they were always thwarted, thanks in part to the aid of a specialized group called the Crew. In the local asylum, the Malkavians and Toreador keep Sabbat infiltrators imprisoned.

Following the fall of the Anarch Free State, a group of Anarchs calling themselves the “Seattle Committee” have gathered in the city and try to rally support for the reclamation of their domain from the Kuei-jin. So far, only Bishop Cicatriz answered, providing them with weapons, financial support (and also an informer named Malloc, in the guise of an intelligence and communications specialist), while the Camarilla stood silent.

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