Salvador García is a Brujah Anarch Baron, currently residing in Los Angeles. He played a pivotal part during the Second Anarch Revolt, continuing as a famous Anarch leader for years to come.
Biography[]
| “ | Those who die for libertas are martyrs. Heroes. Remember their names, and count yourself honored to fight for the same cause. | ” |
| — Salvador García | ||
Born in Spain in the late 1800s, Salvador García was the son of Spanish farmers. In young adulthood, García joined various movements occurring in Spain. During his tenure in one of these groups, García was beaten by the police, and while he would not recover, his savior appeared in the form of a vampire named Ferdinand. Ferdinand offered García both immortality and to keep fighting oppression, and Salvador accepted.
Now a vampire, García joined the Brujah in fighting back against Ventrue controlled Spain. In a successful attack on the Prince of Barcelona, García's sire was destroyed, and with him the Spanish Anarch movement. García promptly fled to the United States, making his way across the country and coming to rest in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
Along with Jeremy MacNeil and other notable Anarchs of the time, he plotted the Second Anarch Revolt. When the revolt finally came to fruition, García led a party on Prince Don Sebastian Juan Dominguez's home on the night of the revolt. It is claimed that García was able to kill the Prince in one-on-one combat, and this became a rallying tale for the Anarchs, as García killed a vampire three generations below him.
After the revolt, García authored the Status Perfectus, and since then, the Anarch has traveled abroad helping various revolutionary groups in their struggles. During his travels, he witnessed the inefficiency and disorder of the Anarchs and came to believe that they were just another bunch of thugs, no better than the Sabbat. MacNeil hindered him from challenging Mohammed Al-Muthlim and the Crypt's Sons, who Garcia believed to be a Sabbat pack that were trying to infiltrate the Free State. This made him very pessimistic for the Free State's future, until the first Kuei-jin arrived in 1999.[note 1]
Nights of Prophecy[]
The Cathayans promised to wipe out the Crypt's Sons in exchange for his loyalty. García, who did not want to risk his men's unlife against the foreigners, accepted the deal. He came to believe that the New Promise Mandarinate was a better chance for equality than the Free State had ever been, for it avoided the old gangland feudalism that had dominated the Free State.
García has learned a great deal about the Cathayan culture, but believes them to be religious nutjobs. He does not share their belief in the Yama Kings or the coming of the Sixth Age.[note 1]
Modern Nights[]
Garcia now travels from domain to domain, assisting Anarchs in building the Movement and fighting against the tyranny of elders in the Camarilla.
Description[]
Salvador Garcia is not famous as a killer of Camarilla Kindred or a reckless Masquerade breaker, yet many Princes fear his coming to their city more than any violent troublemaker. Garcia fights the war of ideas, traveling from city to city rousing the local Anarch underclass to fight for their rights.
Garcia's role is like that of a union agitator: he talks to young licks, helps them see that they don't have to accept their miserable role in undead society, and carries news from other domains. One single visit can leave ideas germinating in the minds of a city's disenfranchised, leading to the birth of a new Anarch Movement.
Originally famous as the chief ideologue of the Anarch Free States in California and the killer of the old Prince of Los Angeles, Garcia now visits his home city only rarely. Instead, he uses his extensive contacts in the Movement to travel from domain to domain, spreading the revolution and evading Camarilla forces keen to see the "undead Che Guevara" executed.
Loresheet[]
A Way With Words: You've studied the thoughts of not just Salvador Garcia, but all well-known Anarch political ideologues. You're a veteran of the Movement's political debates and can hold your own. For this reason, you get two extra dice in any roll involving a political debate where you invoke Anarch principles.- Old School: You've met Garcia and advocated the ideas of abolishing Princes and establishing domains with decentralized power. This gives you cred among old-school Anarchs of the California Free States generation, who kept the Movement going through the lean years before the current explosion of activity. Because of this, you have the equivalent of a three-dot Mawla representing older Anarchs who like you, though they will help you only in matters of the Movement.
- Enemy of the State: The Camarilla despises you because of your open advocacy of Anarch ideas. They attempt to discredit you by spreading bizarre rumors: you sold out your domain to strange Chinese vampires, you didn’t really do the heroic acts ascribed to you, you’re actually a Sabbat infiltrator, and so on. As an unintended consequence of these rumors, all attempts to find real facts about you are made at a two-dice penalty to the relevant roll, and any information gained is tainted by falsehoods unless the roll is a critical win.
- The War of Ideas: Garcia teaches many young licks about the ideas of the Anarch Movement. Some of those ideas were formulated by him, but not all. Indeed, you once wrote down a vision of how undead society should be organized, and that text has become part of Garcia's standard spiel. Because of this, you're known all across the Anarch territories and can use this fame as the equivalent of three dots of Allies in any Anarch domain.
- Rise Up: You know how to talk to your fellow Anarchs, and they know what you stand for. When you call for a revolution, things will happen. Unfortunately, you have no control over what exactly will happen. Once per story, you can make a Politics roll to rile the local Anarchs into action. Gauge the scale of the effect by the number of successes rolled (three can give you a spontaneous raid on the Prince's haven, while six might start a revolt encompassing most of the city's Anarch population).
Character Sheet[]
Note: The most famous ideologue of the modern Anarch Movement, Salvador Garcia is one of the original instigators of the Second Anarch Revolt and the author of the Status Perfectus, the founding document of the Anarch Free States, as well as the widely read An Anarch Manifesto.
Born to a farming family in Spain, Garcia has been a rebel throughout his life and unlife, having taken part in countless struggles against authority. He has avoided taking power, preferring instead to focus on supporting the various strands of the Anarch Movement in different domains and developing the ideology of vampiric liberation driving the fight against the Camarilla and other tyrants.
His fortunes have waxed and waned depending on the current political fashion among the Anarchs, but at the moment he’s once again on the rise. The recent successes of the Movement, the threat of the Second Inquisition, and the cracks in the facade of the Camarilla have all increased the demand for someone who can put together a good old-fashioned revolution.
According to the legend of the Second Anarch Revolt, Garcia destroyed the Prince of Los Angeles, Don Sebastian Juan Dominguez, in a daring raid. There are rumors that this is not really true and that something darker and more terrifying occurred that night, granting Garcia his victory.
Note Modern Nights Update: Update General Difficulty to 5 / 4 (adding 1 to all Pools), Add two dots of Disciplines, Lower Humanity by 1.
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References[]
- VTM: The Anarch Cookbook, p. 80-81
- WOD: Le Monde des Ténèbres: France
- VTM: Trilogy of the Blood Curse 1: The Devil's Advocate, p. 216-217, 272, 278-279
- VTM: Nights of Prophecy, p. 79
- VTES: Anthology
- VTM: Beckett's Jyhad Diary
- VTM: Anarch (book), p. 194
- VTM: In Memoriam, p. 114