Marseille (also rarely spelled as Marseilles) is the second-largest city of France. Located on the Mediterranean coast, the city has the largest port in France for commerce, freight and cruise ships.
Overview[]
Founded circa 600 BC as the Greek colony of Massalia, it became the preeminent Greek polis in the Hellenized region of southern Gaul. The city-state sided with the Roman Republic against Carthage during the Second Punic War and was an important European trading centre.
Vampire: The Masquerade[]
Antiquity[]
Marseille was founded circa 600 BC as the Greek colony of Massalia by a group of exiled Brujah and Toreador from the city of Phocaea, in Asia Minor. In its earliest days, these Cainites established a more-or-less democratic system of government, in which mortals held great liberties under the leadership of the undead artists and philosophers. This apparent golden age came to an end with the Punic Wars, which the divided the two clans by their preference for one side side or another: the Brujah, naturally, favored an alliance with Carthage, while the Toreador leaned toward Rome. In 102 B.C., through the machinations of the Toreador, the city was occupied by Roman legions, accompanied by a force of wraiths in the service of Charon. The Toreador had hoped to use their new alliance to win the power struggle against the Brujah, but found themselves outmaneuvered in turn by the Roman Ventrue and Lasombra and sidelined entirely. The players thus exchanged, the political game continued, this time resulting in a Lasombra hegemony that would endure until the days of the Anarch Revolt.
Dark Ages[]
In the Dark Ages, the city-state was headed by a council of several kindred (Ventrue, Lasombra, Cappadocian and perhaps Setites).[1]
Anarch Revolt, Marius, and the Free Republic[]
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Final Nights[]
In the modern nights, Marseille is considered as a city of the Camarilla, and it is famous for its rebellious moods and apparent political instability. In the late 1990s Virginie led a successful Sabbat siege against the domain.[2]
Vampire V5[]
After 2008, the city was largely cleared of vampiric activity by the Second Inquisition, when numerous captured vampires were placed in black sites and experimented upon in order to discover their weaknesses.
Residents[]
- The Salamander, tenth generation ancillae and member of the Kindred-Kine Collective
- Yvette, The Salamander's mortal victim
Princes of Marseille[]
- Demetrius of Massilia (circa 1st century BCE) Ventrue[3]
- Saint Regis (Dark Ages) Toreador[4][5]
- Bourdona (Tremere)[6]
- Carna (Tremere)[7]
Mage: The Ascension[]
In 1443, Phoebe Tetramegestus of the Sangreal Chantry in Marseilles develops the Heat Trace Effect, which tracks a target based on the slightly warmer air left behind them.[8]
References[]
Le Monde des Ténèbres : France
- ↑ VTDA: Vampire: The Dark Ages Book of Storyteller Secrets, p. 16
- ↑ VTM: Chaining the Beast, p. 121
- ↑ VTM: Clanbook: Ventrue Revised, p. 21
- ↑ VTDA: Dark Ages Europe, p. 32, 49, 55
- ↑ DAV: Players Guide to High Clans, p. 44
- ↑ VTM: Milwaukee by Night, p. 51
- ↑ V5: Beckett's Jyhad Diary, p. 4, 18
- ↑ MTAs: Hidden Lore, p. 17