Burning Times

Most elders refer to the Inquisition and its crusade against the supernatural as the Burning Times, for the pyres that illuminated the sky and heralded the end of the open reign of cainites about humanity and for the many vampires that fell for the witch-hunters and were beaten by the use of fire, one of the ancient banes of the descendants of Caine.

The term was first coined by the Tremere Aisling Sturbridge