Munich is a large city in southern Germany.
Vampire: The Masquerade[]
During the 13th Century, the city of Munich fell under the jurisdiction of the Fiefs of the Black Cross, though it was often subject to attacks by foreign Kindred during the War of Princes. In the early 1600s, the Brujah Jann Berger would become Munich's first Camarilla Prince. Berger's rulership was mostly characterized by a series of brutal purges, as the Prince's zealous religious beliefs led him to denounce many throughout the city as "tools of the Devil", leaving them staked for the sun. Fortunately, Prince Berger's long reign would be mercifully ended by none other than his own childe Jaroslav Pascek - who would later go on to become the Brujah Justicar.
In 1806, in the wake of the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, an Austrian Tremere named Felix Ritter would claim Praxis over Munich. Ritter - despite also being devoid of any human sentiment - proved a much more popular and competent Prince than his predecessor, and thus his centuries-long rule was considered a golden age for the Kindred of Munich. While the rise of the Nazi Party and the subsequent bombing of the city during World War II did force Ritter's Court into hiding for some time, the Camarilla would re-emerge into the postwar era and reign for another sixty years.
However, in 2007, Munich would come under siege by an altogether new enemy: a German faction of the Second Inquisition known as Grenzschutzgruppe 10. This elite division of the German Federal Police managed to wipe out nearly half of Munich's vampires in a single day in what can only be described as a "tactical cleansing". Prince Ritter, all of his childer, and most of his Court were among the first to meet the Final Death. Left to pick up the pieces was a Ventrue Neonate named Ursula Eisenstadt, who after becoming Prince herself has managed to successfully rebuild the Camarilla of Munich over the course of the last decade.
Other local Kindred factions include a sizable Anarch presence within the city's eastern districts, led by the charismatic Baron Dieter Straub. Anja Giovanni, after years of painstaking negotiation with Prince Eisenstadt, leads the resurgent Clan Hecata from the Family's newly-acquired domain within the Au-Haidhausen borough. The Cult of Mithras maintains a private estate in Milbertshofen-Am Hart, owned by the Ventrue Terrence Rusk, who holds the rank of Perses within the cult.
References[]
- VTM: Camarilla (book)
- VTM: Cults of the Blood Gods, p. 234-249