Beckett's Jyhad Diary

Beckett's Jyhad Diary is a sourcebook for Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition that details the metaplot and how it could advance past its official end in 2004.

In addition to information about the current state of the metaplot, the book contains hints for the planned Vampire: The Masquerade Fifth Edition.

Summary

 * From the Onyx Path Catalog:


 * It’s ever been a loaded word among vampires. Jyhad is in force everywhere from lofty, perfumed Elysium to cloying, smoke-filled blood feasts. Jyhad’s the eternal game played by elders, Methuselahs, and worse — it’s the agenda of beings so utterly beyond humanity, one such as yourself could scarcely understand its movements.


 * Luckily for you, you’ve picked up a copy of my diary. With my help you may just take a step on the first rung of understanding. Information worth having is information you must earn through blood, and oh, how I’ve bled for what’s contained within these pages.


 * — Beckett
 * Beckett's Jyhad Diary serves as the definitive book of setting and plot for Vampire: The Masquerade, containing 30 chapters spanning different geographical regions, encountering vampires of every clan, profiling obscure and profound segments of the mythology, and providing countless story hooks on every page.


 * Masterfully written by the likes of Neall Raemonn Price, Joshua Alan Doetsch, Myranda Sarro, Steffie de Vaan, Malcolm Sheppard, Alan Alexander, Renee Knipe, and Matthew Dawkins, Beckett’s Jyhad Diary is as fascinating to read as to use for your game Chronicles.

Background Information

 * The book was funded and expanded by Kickstarter.
 * Despite claiming that the events of this volume officially conclude in 2005, several events detailed within, such as the appearence of the Justicars appointed in 2011, make this a chronological impossibility. Author Matthew Dawkins stated that they had to apply some flexibility, and that the events detailed are not strictly chronological linear.
 * The book follows its own internal metaplot that assumes several things happened/did not yet happen
 * Anatole apparently lives and has not yet been diablerized. Lucita has joined the Sabbat.
 * The Red Star appeared and vanished.
 * The Great Leap Outward has either not happened yet in full force, or the Anarchs retook large swaths of the former Mandarinate. The betrayals of Garcia and Tara have not yet happened, Vannevar Thomas is still Prince of San Francisco. The events of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines have still happened.
 * Baba Yaga has been destroyed.
 * New York is a Camarilla city, Atlanta and Washington, D.C are Sabbat cities.
 * The Gangrel have a new Justicar despite Xaviar's decision to withdraw. The Assamite Schism has not yet happened.
 * Thin-bloods have stabilized and vampires of the 16th generation have appeared.
 * The Tremere antitribu have been destroyed.
 * Kupala has been released in the end of the Transylvania Chronicles, but has not yet made a move.
 * The Tal'Mahe'Ra is still active. The Sixth Maelstrom has not yet happened.
 * The events of the Clan Novel Trilogy Brujah apparently did not happen.
 * The Week of Nightmares either did not yet happen or was severely overestimated in its lethality.