Dallas (WOD)

Dallas is a city in the state of Texas, within the United States.

Vampire: The Masquerade

Dallas has been a major target of the Second Inquisition in recent years, with numerous havens being burned out and those that remain existing on a knife's edge of security, distrustful of all those around them.

It's Camarilla Prince and Primogen Council rule both the cities and suburbs of Dallas and Fort Worth in an official capacity. In practice, the DFW area is too big for the Dallas Camarilla to rule, so the Prince has turned Fort Worth's management over to a second Primogen counsel for Fort Worth and the surrounding region. The Prince of Dallas retains the right to veto acts of the Fort Worth Primogen, and the Fort Worth Primogen must report formal decisions to the Dallas Primogen for final approval. In return, the Fort Worth Primogen are left to manage most of their own affairs.

Kindred inhabitants

• D'Espine
• Meerlinda

Werewolf: The Apocalypse

Werewolf inhabitants

• Splinterfang

Kinfolk inhabitants

• Max Carson

Locations

• Cinderblock, jazz club owned by the Toreador D'Espine

Celestial Park

At one point, Celestial Park was a piece of hotly contested territory among the werewolves and mages of Dallas, being some sort of repository of mystic energy that the two factions of supernatural creatures coveted. The problem for the Kindred wasn’t that the Lupines and will-workers were eager to shed each other’s blood over the locale. It was that the park was located in a wealthy, secluded neighborhood where the former Prince of Dallas maintained a haven. When the supernatural sparks flew, Prince Charlemagne couldn’t help but get involved, because at the very least, he’d have to cover the whole thing up as a Masquerade breach that wasn’t even caused by the Kindred. Visually, Celestial Park is nothing out of the ordinary, simply a cleared and well-tended sward of stone-circled fairway in the center of half-million dollar homes. Marble steps descend into the park, upon which are carved quotations from prose and poetry that revere the heavens. At the center of the green, however, stands a stone plinth that houses a large sundial in which a person functions as the gnomon. It does have a unique characteristic, however. Anyone who stands at its center can hear any conversation happening anywhere in the city just by thinking about it. Once the secret of the plinth made it to the Kindred community, Charlemagne wasted no time in declaring it a Princely asset, hoping to consolidate his power by allowing other vampires to use it in exchange for prestation or fealty. To his surprise, the werewolves and mages already had other designs on the plinth, and adding vampires to the power struggle for its benefits escalated the city to near civil war. The failed power play broke Charlemagne’s power by exposing his naked ambition, as well as earning him the attention of the other supernaturals. He abdicated the Prince’s seat and in exchange to the powerful Primogen for being able to keep his private domains and local interests, he wards the mysterious relic in Celestial Park. It’s a thankless and ongoing job, as no few Kindred risk the ire of the Lupines, the witches, and the ex-Prince for the sake of a scrap of spoken secrets. And Charlemagne has been known to “hire” Kindred trespassers to protect the park in exchange for absolving their breaches of the Tradition of Domain.

Trivia

• During the delayance over the GURPS Mage: The Ascension book, one of the points of contention between Steve Jackson Games and White Wolf with their license agreement involved plans by SJG to publish their own Dallas By Night book. Which White Wolf wouldn't allow them to do at the time.

References

• VTM: Night Road