Lost Tribe

The Lost Tribe was the foundation were the sect known as the Black Hand was built.

The tribe was basically a bunch of Kindred (mainly rogue Assamites), centered around the Weeping Master and his disciple Anosh. These Kindred had found an ancient and mysterious valley, in which the Weeping Stone stood.

This stone cried drops of blood, which filled the drinker with sorrow, rage and regret. The Weeping Master believed that this stone was the petrified Zillah, preserved by Caine after she had witnessed the slaughter of her brethren by the unfaithful Third generation. The Lost Tribe believed that by drinking the blood, they severed their ties to the cursed Antediluvians and instead formed a covenant with Caine himself, destined to stand by his side during Gehenna and his judgement of the Antediluvians and their progeny. The apocalyptic message of the Black Hand resonated within the nascent Sabbat and the Black Hand joined the rogue Anarchs a short time after the Convention of Thorns, serving as a semi-independent sub-cult within the sect that acted mainly as assassins.

Unbeknown to them, another, much elder, sect had begun to infiltrate the ranks of the Black Hand, until even half of the highest Seraphim had forsaken their original mission for the goal of the "True" Black Hand: serving the Antediluvians during their rise on Gehenna and to propitiate them by sacrificing their ill-begotten progeny. As the  methods and goals of both sect seemed to mirror each other closely, few amidst the sect suspected about this infiltration, only when many of the Hand who had been secretly part of the True Black Hand - including two Seraphim - suddenly vanished after the first spirit nuke hit their hidden headquarter in the shadowlands during the events that lead to the creation of the Sixth Maelstrom.