Santa Monica Nights (New Canon)

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Introduction:

Santa Monica Nights is a shard of Vampire the Masquerade designed as a sequel to the video game Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. The setting has been played and built for years in various mediums including tabletop, freeform RP, and a Discord community. Santa Monica Nights is largely built around my character Katalina Mendoza.

Specific Configurations:

• Prime Canon: This is the setting built around the original Katalina Mendoza.
• New Canon : This is the setting built around the new 'Boomer' Katalina.

What lore is this setting compliant with?

Santa Monica Nights is considered a direct sequel to Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. The VTM5 timeline is assumed, but in gaps that do not break the cohesion of canon VTM20 events can be used. Some important takeways:

• Not considered compliant with LA By Night (Minds Eye Theater canon). Can use the lore where contradictions do not exist.
• Not considered compliant with Vampire: The Requiem.
• Will likely be incompatible with VTMB2 if it ever comes out - lore may be adapted to conform as best as possible.
• Jenna Cross did not rise to power. Katalina killed her when she attempted to rise. ((I learned about Jenna Cross long after I had written Katalina's takeover of Santa Monica lol))
• Jeremy MacNeil existed, but is still lost.
• The Kuei-Jin is still entrenched in LA.
• Therese and Jeanette Voureman both survived the events of VTM:B, mediated to peace by Velorynza Origen.
• Smiling Jack did not leave LA.
• Velorynza Origen was the Fledgling of VTM:B and followed a Camarilla-path playthrough. She survived. She is a Tremere and is the protege of Maximillian Strauss
• Katalina Mendoza killed Prince LaCroix and did most of the 'side quest' content in VTMB.
• After the death of Prince LaCroix, Maximillian Strauss took over as the Prince as the resident Seneschal. However, after a power struggle Jacques Delahay claimed the title of Prince. The resulting power struggles required intervention from the Camarilla inner circle.
• Amadeus Backhauser is the Prince of the Camarilla since appx 2016 - a member of the Camarilla inner circle.

Timeline:

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

1951

October 21st

• Katalina Mendoza is born in Havana Cuba.

1987

June 4th

• Katalina Mendoza, known by her stage name as Kelly Johnson, dies in the Los Angeles General Medical Center emergency room from a cocaine overdose. However, minutes after her death she is embraced by her manager, Jacques Delahay, and enters the world of darkness.

2004

October 21st

• Beginning of Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines.
• A woman named Jessica Tertullian is Embraced by her Sire, Virgil Cannis. She is enlisted by the Prince to aid in his plans, provided a haven in Santa Monica by the Anarchs belonging to Katalina Mendoza, and begins her journey into the night.
• A college student named Heather Poe is mortally injured in a horrific car accident and sent to a 24 hour discount hospital in Santa Monica where she meets Katalina Mendoza. Katalina takes pitty on the young woman, and saves her life by turning her into a ghoul.

Main Factions

These statistics are considered accurate as of October 2023. They will vary based on when in the timeline things are played out.

Camarilla

Population: 82

Key Positions

• Prince: Amadeus Backhauser
• Seneschal: Jacques Delahay
• Justicar: <Vacant>
• Sheriff: Cyrus Verran
• Hound: Angelo Benson
• Harpy of Modern Style: Aria LeStrange
• Harpy of Modern Technology: Drake Montecristo

Keeper of Elysium: Maximillian Strauss

Primogen

• Banu Haqim: Kaspar Ali
• Brujah Loyalist: N/A
• Lasombra: Roman Baranov
• Maklavian: Katherine Paramour
• Nosferatu: Gary Golden
• Toreador: Jacques Delahay
• Tremere: Maximillian Strauss
• Ventrue: Nicholas Baldwin

Other Notable Kindred

• Therese Voerman
• Jeanette Voerman
• Bertram Tung
• Velorynza Origen
• Alec Donovan

Anarch Free State

Population: 102

Barons:

• Issaac Abrahms - Hollywood (De-facto leader of AFS)
• Jeremiah Hall - San Fernando Valley
• Damsel - East Los Angeles
• Nines Rodriguez - Commerce
• Mark Bane - Burbank
• Victor Temple - Bel-Air / Franklin Canyon
• Amethyst - Anaheim

Sabbat

Population: 138

Bishops:

• Alexandru (Torpor) (Archbishop)
• Emile Moscovici
• Natalyia Kempenski

Other Notable Kindred

• Aiden Carrington
• Damien Lee

Haven of Santa Monica

Population: 69 (62 thin bloods)

Baroness

Katalina Mendoza

Lieutenants

• Lily Tang
• Mike Dungeon
• Hans Orlof
• Reyna Martinez

Independents and Autarki

Population: 12

Notable Autarki

• Beckett