V5 Timeline

2001[]

A week after 9/11, Homeland Security raids the haven of Jalan-Aajav, resulting in fourteen dead law enforcement officers and the reported destruction of the Sabbat Seraph. This is considered the first recorded attack by what will later be termed the Second Inquisition.

2002[]

Admiral John Poindexter takes control of the Information Awareness Office. He greenlights a number of DARPA initiatives intended to help expose and combat supernatural threats.
The IAO locates and destroys the Nosferatu spymistress Xochitl in Ciudad Juárez, freeing the then-Associate Director Felicity Price of the National Security Agency from the Blood bond.

2003[]

After a grueling vetting process, Felicity Price becomes the Director of Project FIRSTLIGHT.
The Camarilla feeds information about the Sabbat to government agencies, using them to help burn out the Camarilla's rival sect.
The United States Congress officially defunds the IAO, partially thanks to Camarilla manipulations. Undeterred, Admiral Poindexter's hand-picked successor Roberto Farrier continues and accelerates his work under the table.

2004[]

The NSA discovers and penetrates SchreckNET.
The Eighth Direction in Russia joins what will come to be called the Second Inquisition. Members include the Newburgh Group from England, BOES in Brazil, and the Society of St. Leopold.
The Red Question releases the first version of their manifesto.
Some time after the Ankaran Sarcophagus crisis in Los Angeles, Isaac Abrams, "Nines" Rodriguez, and Therese Voerman each recognize the other as baron over the respective domains of Hollywood, Downtown, and Santa Monica, agreeing to work together as a council to re-solidify Anarch sovereignty over the city. Meanwhile, the enigmatic fledgling rumored to be responsible for the Final Death of Sebastian LaCroix vanishes.

2005[]

F.B.I. Special Affairs Division is resurrected due to the work of FIRSTLIGHT. Retired members of Project Twilight are brought in out of retirement to advise.
In the wake of the 7/7 Bombings, Detective Inspector Ishaq Khan's investigations grow dangerously close to exposing Kindred existence.

[Conjecture - the Sabbat begin the slow migration to the middle east that will be known as the Gehenna Crusade. The year was chosen to coincide with Gehenna from the Revised edition and from contextual clues. Sabbat cities slowly empty out over the span of the next decade]

2006[]

Anarchs Unbound is officially banned by the Camarilla, and dire warnings are issued about sect members mingling with the Red Question.
A Camarilla scheme to break DI Khan's resolve backfires horribly, galvanizing him to spearhead the Second Inquisition's offensive in the UK. British anti-terror unit SO13 begins the sterilization of London. This will continue for the next seven years.
Camarilla elders begin to feed information about Anarch holdings as well Sabbat in an attempt to deflect attention from their own domains.

2007[]

The Red Question deal directly with Camarilla Justicars; the next day, the 2007-08 financial collapse begins.
Marcus Questor becomes the agent in charge of the Special Affairs Division, and his ties to the IAO aid in securing intelligence of the blank body phenomenon.
Grenzschutzgruppe 10 decimates the vampiric population of Munich.

2008[]

A joint SOCOM task force destroys the Tremere Prime Chantry, decapitating the Tremere pyramid and purging Vienna of Kindred.
Carna begins her flight across the United States, spreading word of what she has learned from The Book of the Grave War to her followers.
Anarchs take the opportunity to conquer several weak Camarilla domains.
The Second Inquisition purges the Sabbat stronghold of Montreal in an event known as the "Night of Ashes".

2009[]

Mithras - as part of a scheme to wrest control of London from his rivals - has Roger de Camden anonymously deliver a dossier of intelligence to the newly-founded JTRIG. This directly leads to the formation of the Newburgh Group and lays the groundwork for the future Operation Antigen.
Gabrielle Ellis is unintentionally Embraced during a near-lethal altercation in the midst of the G20 Protests.
Joseph Peterson is humiliated after he fails to secure Chicago as the venue for the future 2016 Olympic Games. His brood brother Kevin Jackson takes the opportunity to declare his own Praxis, becoming Prince of Chicago.

2010[]

Video leaks to vampire websites showing a member of the Red Question poisoning a Tremere rival in 2001. It is the last highly publicized act of the Red Question.
The Camarilla of Milwaukee fend off a Sabbat invasion from the north.
Rafael Obrero, a medical examiner from Minneapolis, loses his wife Maria after a "Jane Doe" they were dissecting turns out to be a torpored vampire. Driven by revenge, Obrero goes on to form the Mortician's Army.
Honolulu's small Kindred population is completely purged by the IAO, becoming the primary headquarters of the organization.

2011[]

Meeting of the Camarilla Inner Council chooses a new slate of Justicars, elevating Lucinde to Ventrue Justicar for Unlife.

2012[]

Simultaneous conclaves are held in Chicago and Prague. Theo Bell assassinates Hardestadt (and possibly Jan Pieterzoon) at the Prague Conclave. The Brujah formally leave the Camarilla.
Juggler surreptitiously produces a Hollywood zombie movie filmed in Gary, Indiana. The film is heavily coded with pro-Anarch messages. The Anarchs of Hollywood recognize his handiwork, and back his claim to become the Baron of Gary.
A group of Kindred led by an infiltrator compromise Second Inquisition operations in the Midwest across three states, disrupting a city-clearing operation in Detroit.
The Heralds of the Sun are awakened by the Cult of Mithras to help prepare their Methuselah god-king for the Ritual of Transferring the Soul.

2013[]

Queen Ann is decapitated in London, effectively concluding the sterilization of the city.
The Camarilla meets with the Banu Haqim and the Setite Ministry on the same night to weigh the merits of admission into the Camarilla. The Ministry meeting ends prematurely when a bomb levels the hotel where the dignitaries are convening, with the blast reportedly destroying the Justicar Molly MacDonald. The preferential optics of the Banu Haqim selecting a discreet, small-town kitchen in Denmark as their venue likely results in their admittance to the sect. Facing rejection, the Ministry instead moves to align themselves with the Anarchs.
The Camarilla takes Mexico City.
Maxwell returns to Chicago after two decades spent battling the Sabbat in Central and South America.

2014[]

Modius is deposed as Prince of Gary, Indiana after a ghoul lets slip that it is he who is responsible for the deaths of numerous Kindred in the city after sending Sullivan Dane a box full of intelligence. With the blessing of Annabelle Triabell, Modius is placed under arrest by the Anarchs.
Prince Quentin King disappears from Boston under mysterious circumstances. While many assume him to have been Beckoned, in reality, King had been captured and imprisoned by Hilda MacAndrews in retaliation for the humiliation and mutilation she'd suffered on the Prince's orders.

2015[]

A mysterious hysteria plagues several members of the Boston Camarilla.

2016[]

A progressive mayor is elected in Gary, Indiana.
The Sub-Ministerial Level Consultation Program to Address Stochastic Crisis Events (SMLCPASCE), an operation of the Second Inquisition, is formed.

2017[]

Massive slaughter in Berlin stretches the Masquerade to the breaking point. Berlin becomes an Anarch domain after Prince Abraham Wolff is destroyed in the street.
The suspicious murder of a young woman named Laura at the Black Dog Hotel makes headlines in Las Vegas.

2018 []

The initial jumping-off point of the timeline, as of the publication of the V5 Corebook.
Vannevar Thomas claims praxis over Los Angeles. The city's Anarch barons quickly negotiate a truce with the Camarilla in order to avoid an immediate, highly destructive war.
Antwerp, Belgium is taken over by the Anarchs after centuries of Camarilla rule. Storming Elysium at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts under cover of the city's ongoing gilets jaunes protests and riots, the rebels crush in the skull of Toreador Prince Delphine Gaël, who was trapped in a trance. He meets Final Death being stuffed into a barrel and burned next to a police barricade.
The Voerman sisters' Asylum franchise has expanded internationally, with nightclubs opening all across America, Asia, and Europe.
The Succubus Club debuts in Los Angeles, with Victoria Ash herself in attendance. The evening is finished out with Baron Victor Temple publicly executing his rival Bobby Blaine on the dance floor.
The Banu Haqim formally join the Camarilla.

2019[]

Clan Lasombra is granted formal membership in the Camarilla after a vote in Chicago, following a diplomatic campaign by the Amici Noctis. The ritual sacrifice of Malenkov and other high-ranking Sabbat members are among the notable concessions rendered. Most other cities accepting of them begin following the general rule of thumb that one Lasombra must be sacrificed for every one who is to join the sect.
The domains of Boston, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut merge into one under the praxis of Hazel Iversen. However, at the Unification Party meant to celebrate this alliance, the assembled Kindred are attacked by agents of the FBI's Special Affairs Department, resulting in several Final Deaths.
The torpored body of Zelios is discovered in a labyrinth hidden deep within the sewers beneath Griffith Park in Los Angeles. He was eventually recovered and awakened by Maximillian Strauss.
Baron Isaac Abrams of Hollywood leaves Los Angeles to answer the Beckoning.
The M. F. Sumtsov Historical Museum in Kharkiv, Ukraine hosts an exhibition on Ancient Egyptian artifacts, including among other items an intact enameled sculpture of Set that dates back to at least the 15th century BCE.
What's left of the former Prince Quentin King is sent to the Final Death in the backroom of a Boston Red Salon.
The Odenses Pact and the ceremonial Vermilion Wedding between Victoria Ash and Tegyrius cements the alliance between the Camarilla and the Ashirra.
Herald Chaz Price is destroyed by the Anarchs, triggering a war between them and the Camarilla for control of Los Angeles.

2020[]

A devastating Second Inquisition offensive, spearheaded by the Society of Leopold, roils the vampiric population of Los Angeles. The Camarilla, finding the situation untenable, withdraws from the city once more as Prince Vannevar Thomas and his court abandon the city. The L.A. Anarchs quickly regroup and attack the Society, decapitating their leadership and crippling their operations in the city. Victorious in the moment, they redeclare the sovereignty of the Anarch Free State and pronounce the Camarilla persona non grata.
New York Anarch baron Douglas Callihan is unexpectedly found dead in his office. Prince Hellene Panhard sends Lasombra clan representative Julia Sowinski to investigate on behalf of the Camarilla.
Multiple cities throughout the Baltic States all experience massive spikes of "itinerant Kindred" moving east towards Russia.
Prince Lettow Kaminsky of Tucson succumbs to the Beckoning.
Anarchs begin to flock to the city of Milan to fight back against the oppressive rule of Prince Prospero.
Paul Sterry discovers the existence of vampires after his daughter Michelle is drained into a coma by Walter Nash. Sterry sets out on a campaign of revenge, his technological skills allowing him to uncover the identities of several Kindred in Chicago - including Nash.

2021[]

Rafael Obrero intentionally facilitates his daughter Alejandra's Embrace in an attempt to create a loyal vampire infiltrator for his crusade. Instead, Alejandra frenzies and kills her father before fleeing.
Prince Arundel of Ottawa goes missing, leaving Seneschal Eden Corliss in charge of affairs.
In the wake of a bloody assault by the Mortician's Army, Cecily Bain becomes Prince of the Twin Cities.
After months of violence, the last remnants of the Sabbat's Baltic Migration cross over the Russian border. Local Anarchs believe that the Black Hand is pursuing something - or someone - towards Siberia.
Mathieu Cassel hosts an exclusive auction of Kindred artifacts in Munich.
Prince Markus hosts the Second Convention of Prague at St. Giles Church in an attempt to end the cold war that's been raging between the local Camarilla and Anarchs since 2012. Unfortunately for both sects, an ESOG strike team ambushes the delegates and burns the church to the ground.
Justicar Ian Carfax is destroyed by Lupines.
Reports circulate of a brutal civil war in Brazil between the Sabbat and Thin-blooded followers of the Path of the Sun.

2022[]

A blood cult known as the Cult of Aristovoros begins to cause turmoil within the city of Athens. However, it's later revealed that the cult is little more than an elaborate ploy by Sophia Komnenou to seize power from the reigning Prince Peisistratos.

2023[]

Justice travels to Venice, seeking out the Hecata conspirators responsible for the destruction of their sire, Mahmoud.
A coterie is assembled by the Camarilla Court of Montreal in order to investigate rumors of the Sabbat's resurgence within the city.
Conventicle Alchemie is held in Trencin.

2024[]

Theo Bell and Agata Starek wipe out a Sabbat nest in Belfast.
The Plague-Bride is sighted in a small village in Romania.
A hunter group known as the Hunter Offensive emerges in New York City, bankrolled by the tech mogul Aaron Fletcher. These hunters successfully manage to destroy several Thin-blooded and Fledgling vampires, even going so far as to plant explosives in the Art Hole Elysium in Queens, destroying the gallery and very nearly annihilating the Court of New York. In the aftermath, Sheriff Qadir al-Asmai manages to track down and kill Fletcher, ending the threat for the time being.
An infamous Elder known as "The Nomad" awakens in an abandoned building in Seattle, having spent over a century in torpor. Their awakening coincides with the final stages of a Sabbat conspiracy that devastates the local Camarilla in an event later dubbed by the mortal press as "Red Christmas".
Anarch leader Zivko Batrovic is destroyed by the Camarilla, leaving the Unbound of Milan scattered and directionless.

2025[]

Following a series of bloody betrayals, the Ravnos Kali manages to flee New York in possession of a vial containing the vitae of the Ravnos Antediluvian. Pádraic Conroy is one casualty of her escape.

Unknown/Indeterminate/Ongoing[]

Augustus Giovanni is murdered, staked, or otherwise driven into involuntary torpor. His personal menagerie of wraiths and spectres are unleashed from captivity.
Clan Hecata is founded at the Family Reunion, reconciling Clan Giovanni with the Cappadocians and their cousin bloodlines the Samedi, Harbingers of Skulls, and the Lamiae. A contingent of displaced Nagaraja is also brought into the fold.