The Devil's Night was an important event set in 1871 Chicago, that led to the Ventrue Lodin overthrowing the city's Prince Maxwell.
Overview[]
Conflagrations started by a suicidal Malkavian rage through Chicago like an epidemic, incinerating everything in their way. Amazingly enough, only a few mortals lose their lives, but the fire destroys 18,000 buildings and almost completely wipes out Maxwell's followers among the Kindred.
Lodin saw his chance to become Prince, waits until Inyanga is out of town and then attacks mercilessly. Together with a group of Toreador and Ventrue, he attacks the Prince. Maxwell escapes through a window and doesn't return to Chicago until the end of the 20th century. Lodin tolerates no rivals next to him, and removes all other Ventrue in town with surgical precision. Since that night, all members of the Ventrue in Chicago are progeny of Lodin.