OWBN Canon

This page is dedicated to cataloging the major changes to the World of Darkness canon/metaplot that OWBN has done over the years. This is NOT a collection of In Character knowledge your Character may automatically posses. Instead this is a collection of our own OWBN Canon that differs from White Wolf, so players can be aware of the changes our organization has made to the canon/metaplot. If you have a doubt if your character can know about of these evens on an In Character levels, please ask a Storyteller first. You may not default to knowing what provided in this page with your characters without express permission from a Storyteller.

2000

• Clan Gangrel of the Camarilla, leave the Camarilla and become an Independent clan.
• The Tremere Antitribu of the Sabbat are all killed under mysterious Circumstances
• The Ravnos Antediluvian is slain in battle after awakening from its slumber by several unrelated supernatural forces in India
• The Week of Nightmares occurs
• The Tremere Curse on Clan Assamite is broken. Ur-Shulgi, childer of the Assamite Antediluvian awakens breaking he clan. The Schism of the Assamite is formed as a portion of the clan joins the Camarilla.
• The Garou Tribe of the Stargazers leave the Garou Nation to return to their homelands after several of their ancestral Caerens fall.
• The Red Star appears in the Night Sky to all supernatural’s, the Final Nights have begun.
• The sixth Great Maelstrom occurs after the Fall of Enoch in the Shadowlands and the use of two nuclear weapons in the lands of the dead. The Stygia collapses and wraith society is torn asunder.
• The Tal’Mahe’Ra collapses and breaks apart.
• Osiris awakens and creates the Reborn Mummies. The Children of Osiris Vampire bloodline are all destroyed or turned back into mortals to serve Osiris.
• The Sabbat Crusade lead by Cardinal Polonia along the East Coast of the United States begins.
• The Avatar Storm of the Mages occurs
• The Regent of the Sabbat, Melinda Galbraith assassinated in Mexico City. The Tzimisce Zachary Sikorsky impersonates the Regent to the Sabbat from this point.
• The Nosferatu Methuselah Baba Yaga meets final death under mysterious circumstances.

2001

• The Camarilla allows the practice of Amaranth to be granted by Princes to others in their Domain as a reward.
• The Keui-Jin invade Los Angeles and the West Coast. Kuei-Jin begin covertly moving into LA and setting up influence structures in L.A. and San Francisco. Gangrel Justicar Angus gets word of this and moves in with several Archons to investigate. Angus moves against the Kuei-Jin and is sent packing. He appeals to the Inner Council for aid in driving them out." The Inner Council, wishing both to learn more of the Kuei-Jin's intentions and to avoid a panic in the Kindred community, denies their existence and sends Angus away empty handed, prompting him to leave the Camarilla.
• The Camarilla appoints the Position of Herald to the Lasombra Antitribu.

2003

• Ventrue Justicar Robert Pedder is brought before the Keui-Jin and killed for his crimes against them.

2004

• Jaroslav Pascek is made Brujah Justicar of the Camarilla
• Lucinde Is made Ventrue Justicar of the Camarilla
• The Camarilla Domian of Phoenix Arizona is visited by the Red Lister Rabbat and spreads their plague. As a result most of it’s Kindred residents die or are forced into Torpor.

2005

• Loyalist activity of the Assamite clan increased worldwide in wake of Tariq’s Death.
• Jack the Barber, Toreador Antitribu of the Sabbat, is added to the Red List
• The Sabbat regent Melinda Galbraith is revealed to be the Tzimisce Zachary Sikorsky. Zachary is slain and the Tzimisce Henry Gaurant is named Regent of the Sabbat.

2006

• Sept of Ma’at’s Blessing, the Silent Strider sept falls to the Followers of Set
• Maris Streck is appointed the new Camarilla Justicar for clan Malkavian
• A handful of Elders and Princes from Europe have gotten together and decided that the Americas are drifting so far from the Camarilla ideals that there is a real concern that the whole place may go Anarch or Sabbat within a century or two. They watched the Wickham disaster and many other subsequent scandals and have decided that things are just out of control and something has to be done. In true Elder fashion, they want to do as little of the work themselves as possible. They also want to do it in a way that serves their interests and gives them possible new assets a few decades down the line. These Princes and Elders have decided that the way to go is to find promising, talented and possibly overlooked individuals in the Camarilla and feel them out to try and start a sort of traditionalist renaissance in this part of the world by encouraging those who holding fast to the traditional ideals and practices of the Camarilla.
• The Cities of Brimingham Alabama, Portland Oregon, and Seattle Washington are sieged and fall to the Sabbat.

2008

• The Camarilla Nosferatu Justicar Igor Ctarinov disappears and is replaced by Cock Robin of Clan Nosferatu
• The Brujah Bloodline of Jordanus first appears.
• The Red Lister Keminitiri makes her appearance in the Unite States
• A new Drug, a variant on Scopolmaine, created by the Black Spiral Dancers hits the United States. The drug causes those who take it to have fits of rage and anger, and thus attract banes to them.
• The Cult of Gangrel dedicated to Odin begins a War against the Gets of Fenris
• By raiding several sources of the Changelings, the Black Spiral Dancers start producing Wyrm Steel. A strong Wyrm type metal that is especially deadly to Changelings.
• The Children of Gaia of the Garou form and allow Camps once more.
• Angus, of Clan Gangrel returns
• Crows start vanishing from North America
• A cult of Gangrel known as the Fist to oppose Xavier the former Gangrel Justicar.
• The Gangrel Clan is Welcomed back into the Camarilla
• All vampires who are not Warrior Setites find their knowledge of the Combination Discipline “Typhonic Beast”: stripped from them. This was done through ancient powers by the Setite known as Thane Hyksos
• All non Tzimisce who once learned Vicissitude via a Disease find it stripped from their bodies.

2009

• Art Morgan, of Clan Gangrel becomes the Camarilla Gangrel Justicar
• The Hierophant Council of the Followers of Set awaken from their ancient slumber
• Clan Giovanni demotes the Machiavelli Family to Minor Family status
• A Spectre Civil War occurs in the Shadowlands, the Spectre Amanda rises to the rank of Once Born
• The Camarilla creates the Eyes of the Inner Circle
• The Camarilla Lasombra Antitribu Herald, Esteban Rashuan is killed and replaced by Stephan Lenior
• Tremere Justicar, Anastaz di Zagreb is killed in a surgical Sabbat Strike. He is replaced by the Tremere Lotharius as their new Justicar.
• The Garou Silver Fang house, House Austere falls and is eventually purged of its Wyrm Influence.
• All non Followers of Set and their bloodlines find their Serpentis Discipline mysteriously stripped from them. It is rumored the Setite Heirophant council was responsible.

2010

• The Rage Bay caren of the Garou is attacked and Destroyed by the forces of the Wyrm
• The Eye of Hazmiel turns up in the New Orleans with the Red Lister Alexis Sorokin aka Danya. The Camarilla pursue her in attempts to securing the eye as odd supernatural effects are impacting the city. In the end Danya trades the Eye of Haziel over to unknown parties.
• Regent Henry Gaurant of the Sabbat is revealed to be an Infernalist and slain by the Sabbat in Mexico City. The Toreador Antitrbu Venere Carboni is elected as the new Regent of the Sabbat.

2011

• The Year of Fire. The Baali Founder Moloch awakens from the ruins of Carthage along with hordes of infernal vampires from centuries past. His rampage is driven by the death of his love Troile, who was destroyed under mysterious Circumstances. The Brujah clan experencies the Month of Rage, similar to the Ravnos during the Week of Nightmares, the Brujah start hunting and slaughtering one another across the world. Brujah also, at this time, start developing the forgotten discipline of Temporis and the birth the Kairos and Dispassionate bloodlines of the clan are born. As Moloch’s Generals spread across the world to seek its destruction and ruin by Demonic forces, the forces of the Camarilla, Sabbat, Anarchs, and Independents ban together in the Convention of Fire. A treaty is formed to combat this infernal threat to all vampires. In the end Moloch is confronted by the alliance, Moloch himself vanishes with the Ghost of Troile at his side. Though the increase of Infernal and Baali threat remains in the world. The Neo-Carthgians (Vampires who seek to emulate the city of Carthage) emerge as a threat and “sect”.
• In the Wake of the Year of Fire, the Setite Temple known as the Laybrinth of Bones goes quiet.
• Several of the Inconnu leaders continue their path of Infernalism and break with the others. These, Hunyadi, believe they can channel demonic strength to combat the greater infernal threats of the world.
• The Garou battle Weep-For-Her the powerful Black Spiral preventing the return of the Eater of Souls. As a result, the Garou are able to recover an egg for the great spirit Turtle

2014

• The 4th Sabbat Civil War. An Assassination Attempt on Sabbat Regent Venere Carboni occurs, resulting in his disappearance and suspected death. As a result the Sabbat Consistory breaks in their choices to react. Half of the Consistory starts to impose Authoritarian laws and has several Archbishops and Cardinals killed. In their attempt to instill law and order in the Sabbat to prevent a Civil War the cause one instead. Several factions of Cainites are revealed in the Sabbat. The Ecclesiastical Faction maker their appearance as a faction vying for supremacy in the Sect as the religious leaders of the Sabbat. The Keys of Solomon appear as a group of Diabolists seeking to continue to aid the Sabbat, no longer hiding among the shadows. Cardinal Moncada seemingly returns from the dead and long dead Seraphim Corvus returns to the Black Hand. In the end at Ecumenical Council, Venere Carboni returns in a paranoid rant about a hidden conspiracy of the Sabbat. Few listen, as he is killed and blamed for causing the 4th Sabbat Civil War. As a result, the Tzimisce Radu of Bistri is made Regent of the Sabbat.
• The Camarilla Red Lister Dylan makes is seen around North America wielding what is believed to be the Sword of Troile.
• The Wraiths of City of Stygia is reclaimed and remade. The 6xth Great Maelstrom has ended. Stygia, the Guilds, and Legion begin to rebuild.
• A Second Week of Nightmares occurs, but instead of the Ravnos being slaughtered once more, they receive cryptic and apocalyptic visions.
• The Garou are given the 8th sign of the Phoenix

2015

• Clan Nosferatu experiences the Brood War between its members of various sects.
• The Anarch Manifesto “Anarchs Unbound” is released.
• The Knights of the Moon, Malkvaians with Dominate in clan instead of Dementation, unite as a faction within the clan.
• Camarilla Justicar Jaroslav Pascek steps down and is replaced by Manuela of Clan Brujah as their Justicar
• Camarilla Justicar Cock Robin of Clan Nosferatu Steps down and is replaced by Warwick of clan Nosferatu.
• The Renascut bloodline of the Ravnos clan appear. Now almost any Vampire of any clan can undergo a mystical ritual and become Reanascut
• The Garou and Changelings begin to form an alliance and treaty between their two peoples.
• The Assamite Antitribu of the Sabbat reclaim their Unconquered Alamut in India
• The Red Star explodes in the night Sky and shards of it fall to earth. Only the Supernaturals of the world can see this, but the Red Star is no more.
• A cleansing energy washes across creation, corrupted nodes and hives wither in the face of the onslaught from the Seat of Entropy itself. Voormas' forces in other locations manage to deflect some of the energy, but more than half of the corrupted locations of the world are either destroyed or cleansed in the process.
• Blood Spot is introduced. A mystical Kindred App that blocks all Masquerade breeches on the Internet. It is released by a group of Anarchs known as the Digital Draculas

2016

• The Camarilla creates the position of the Harridan and Furies. They are the primer global Harpies of the Camarilla. The first Harridan is Cornelius Yul the Toreador Harpy of Rome
• The Changeling Concordia of North America erupts into Civil War with the Kidnapping of High King David
• The Hell Wars begins, as various factions of Infernalists via for supremacy.
• Haqim, Antediluvian of Clan Assamite awakens and returns to Alamut. Many Assamites around the world feel this and choose to answer the call to return home to Alamut. In his awakening, all Vampires in the city of Damascus meet final death at Haqim’s hands.
• Year of Smoke: Strange creatures known as the Daeva appear around the world. They take the form of dead kindred or possess others. The Kindred world falls to confusion as to the origins of these creatures that seek to wipe out their kind. Some suspect the vampire cults of the Memeosyne or the Joacastians caused it or know the answer. Rumors start to spread this is a new flood from god to wipe out the Kindred race.
• The Archduke of the Fallen, Abaddon stirs and moves. He spread his influence and power throughout the world. Creating a new Infernal infection he seeks to corrupt others to his cause and side. Those infected and die have their souls sent to Abaddon to empower his growing hunger of faith. Finally gaining his power base in the Amazon, Abaddon grows in strength.

2017

• The Stargazers Tribe, in part, returns to the Garou Nation
• The Silent Strider Tribe of the Garou break the curse placed on them by the Followers of Set and can access their ancestors once more.
• The Changeling Fomorians awaken and return. The Green, Red, and White Court of Fomorians spread to corrupt and combat the Changelings.
• The Garou Nation starts to form inroads with the Beast Courts and the Ahadi

2018

• The White Court Fomorians of the Changelings corrupt the Well of Fire
• The Sept of the Wheel of P'Tah and the Wheel itself that acts as a Grand Central Station of Moon Bridges connecting the Old World to the New World is shut down.
• The Deava are revealed to be the memories and would long dead vampires, more often then not of Clan Malkavian. They are led by the Clever Prince, The Plague Bride and the Eater. Three potent Malkavian Methuselahs that carry on the crown of Malkav itself.
• The Midnight Express of the Wraith has started to be rebuilt
• The Ravnos Methuselah Yama awakens from his slumber. Split into two beings, he seeks to find a way to resurrect his dead sire, the Ravnos Antediluvian
• The Mythical Ancient Vampire Dracian first starts to appear, and awaken his descendants.
• The Mage Tradition council is reformed.
• The White Court of Fomorians is defeated.

2019

• The Nosferatu Rabbat is removed from the Camarilla Red List
• The Second Inquisition starts. Members of the Society of Leopold expand and grow their numbers. They seek other allies among the mortal world and start their official crusade among Vampires.
• In the Shadows, the Tal’Mahe Ra returns and uncover a returned ghostly Enoch in the Shadowlands
• Ossian of the Camarilla Red List is hunted down and killed
• The Black Monk appears seeking the Eye of Apophis. Numerous Hunter groups move to oppose him.
• The Garou Sept of the Green in New York City falls to the Wyrm
• The Ravnos Methuselah Yama is defeated and contained, though whispers exist of his followers remaining.
• The Faceless one of the Abyss stirs, the Realm of Dusk is born and the Lasombra clan of vampires moves to restore order in the Abyss and the Lords of Shadow. As a result the Order of the Void Lasombra who police the Abyss appear and the Brotherhood of Rafazi move to serve their Abyssal God in the Faceless one. The Two forces meet among clan Lasombra and normalcy returns to the Abyss, though Dusk Remains.
• The Daeva issues comes to a conclusion. The Eater manages to rise in power to that of its own Antediluvian becoming known now as Chronus. The Corontai of the Malkavians are gone. Ayisha Jocastian is DIablerized. In the end, the Daeva are gone.
• The Get of Fenris Arn Guth Stormbright is killed.

2020

• In the Shadows, the Telyavelic Tremere return from what seemed to extinction. The Majority join the Sabbat and few remain loyal to Clan Tremere under their thumb.
• Marconius, founder of the Kiasyd Bloodline is locked away in the Abyss by his “sister” Hrostsuitha, who returns to lead the bloodline anew and away from their treason against the Sabbat.
• Seemingly returning from Final Death, the Nosferatu Methuselah Baba Yaga returns to Russia.
• Ahab, the Traitor of Clan Salubri returns.
• The Salubri Antitribu of the Sabbat sieged and claim the country of Panama for themselves and the Sabbat.

2021

• Abaddon the Archduke and Madya the Baali are confronted by a combined force of Kindred under the Convention of Fire Treaty. The war spills into the Amazon between demonic forces and those opposed to them. In the end Madya is slain, but not before releasing a book detailing the names of many infernalists across the world. Abaddon is set back some, but not defeated, as he still seeks a perfect vessel.
• A Political “War” of sorts erupts among the Toreador Clan of Vampires. The Guilds are divided between supporting various Toreador Elders.
• The Ventrue Methuselah Tiamat, rises from her slumber
• The Sabbat lay siege to Budapest and reclaim the city for the Sabbat from the Camarilla.
• The Camarilla Red Lister, Dylan is slain by a combined force of the Camarilla and its allies.
• The Undead begin to rise in India. The more necomatically inclined vampires of the area move to discover what is causing the dead to rise once more.
• The Fomorian threat to the Changelings is fully defeated and an accord struck between both sides. For now, the war has seemed to end.
• The City of Jerusalem is closed to outside Kindred by the Lioness

2022

• The Camarilla Harrdian Yul is fired due to scandal, in their place the Nosferatu Elder Maryann Fletcher is made Harridan
• Rumors abound that Goratrix of the Tremere Antitribu has returned, but only appears in mirrors. As a result clan Tremere mobilizes to discover the truth and combat any threat a returned Goratrix may have.
• The Camarilla officially approves the Office of Assamite Justicar. Tegyrius is named the first Assamite Justicar of the Camarilla
• Haqim, the Assamite Antediluvian rises from his throne to combat an ancient god known as Hanbi. The end result of which is the disappearance of both. However, it is revealed the ancient ties of Hanbi to the Clan runs deep, and that Ur-Shulgi was being manipulated by him. In a grand gathering of clan Assamite across all sect, Ur-Shulgi is confronted as he plans to wipe out the clan for letting his sire die. After a great battle and the return of some his humanity, Ur-Shulgi spares the clan and leaves them behind to not be seen since. In the aftermath, Al-Ashrad is slain by Izhim Ur-Baal, Anath childer of Haqim rises to join her childer Tegyrius in the Schism, Alamut is opened up once more under the new leadership of Nakurtum. Lastly the Unconquered are lead by a new Hulul, Enkara childer of Izhim Ur Baal. The Assamites across the world are broken and suffer their own Month of Blood with the “death” of their Antediluvian. The clan seeks to rebuild and find a way to move forward in the Final Nights.
• Justicar Tegyrius of Clan Assamite forms a political marriage with the Toreador Victoria Ash

2023

• The Order of Moloch, an anti infernalism group of Baali approach various Kindred groups in both seeking acceptance and a group of Infernal Baali seek to open the first well of Sacrifice and unleash the Sleeper within. Once again, under the Convention Fire Treaty the alliance of Kindred stop the Well from being unlocked. The Camarilla accepts the Order of Moloch, while the Sabbat reject them as the enemy to be slain. Creating the first rift between the two sect under the Convention of Fire.
• The Laibon of Africa close off their territory to any outsider not of their sect. In their place the Laibon send ambassadors to the rest of the world.
• Rumors of Al-Ashrad’s possible return or resurrection boom among clan assamite.
• The Gargoyle bloodline of the Tremere is declared a free and Independent of the Tremere bloodline of the Camarilla
• Several Brujah Methuselah rise once more from the ruins of Carthage, seemingly haven to not awoken during the Year of Fire. These Brujah Methuselah seek to corrupt and recruit members of the Brujah Clan to their beliefs of Carthage and the Neo-Carthagians. The Brujah clan resists and eventually defeats these Brujah Methuselah. In the process, a new Brujah Bloodline known as the Santos appear among the clan. Tunisia is now a divided city controlled by the Brujah of various sects to make sure the threat of Carthage remains over.
• Former Brujah Justicar Masako defects to the Sabbat
• The Crotana Tribe of Garou start to be reborn and reappear.

2024

• Art Morgan steps down as Gangrel Justicar for the Camarilla, in his place Milov Petrenkov rises as the new Gangrel Justicar
• The Eye of Hazimel is returned to the Ravnos Methuselah Hazimel
• Several Gangrel Ancients and bloodline founders make their presence known among the clan.
• The Tal’Mahe’Ra collapses once more.
• The Quincunx Wan Keui Court of China seeks to form a treaty with the Camarilla.
• The Uji of Japan Wan Keui seek to form a treaty with the Sabbat
• The Green Courts of Kroean Wan Keui Seek to form an alliance with the Independent clans of Kindred
• The Golden Courts of the Wan Keui of the Philippines seek to form an alliance with the Anarch sect of Kindred