Lord Marcus was the founder of the Path of Power and the Inner Voice (although there are some Tzimisce who would challenge that claim) and a member of the Black Hand. Within his Shadow Maximes', he wrote down a set of rules to bring some kind of order into the anarchical Sabbat and to bring the concept of actual politics into its fold to counter the machinations of the Camarilla. Despite a heavy start (due to most Sabbati found more fulfillment in business like hunting and warfare)