What is World of Darkness and Vampire the Masquerade?

The World of Darkness is a setting of our game where society reflects our own modern world. There are supernatural creatures, that operate behind the curtain which are pulling the strings of the human society ever since the beginning of the civilization - Vampires.

For this game specifically our main focus is on one part of the World of Darkness universe which is Vampire the Masquerade (V5) and Hunter the reckoning (H5). 

Other Supernaturals like Werewolves, Mages, Ghosts are present and might appear but they are not the focus of this game.

A Vampire the Masquerade game is a gothic punk with horror elements. The stories of the vampires are all tragic. All of the vampires are cursed. There are no "heroes". Together we explore the darkest themes of human nature. And it's completely up to you in what way you want to suffer and what kind of themes you want to explore both as a character and as a player in a safe enviroment.

The most important part of this setting is the Masquerade we play secret societies that are infiltrated within human society and they act as they are normal people and in instances where the Masquerade is breached they "take care" of the people which happen to know of existence of the supernatural either by mercilessly killing them, making them a ghoul, wiping out their memory and other creative uses of protecting the sacred tradition which is the most important. 

The reason why the Masquerade began to exist is so the Vampires can protect themselves from their biggest enemy (and food) : Humans. 

Why does this exist? The First Inquisition was tasked to rid the world of evil and heresy in all its forms in the name of God and the Vampires began to hide within the society in order to not be destroyed. Vampire leaders formed a Camarilla, an organised sect, an elite club of Vampires with 6 traditions which one of them is Masquerade, the Camarilla has well defined structure where Prince rules the whole domain (a city) and has the infrastructure around him that is supporting his/her's rule.

Historically Anarch Movement had many variations but in recent nights it was re-formed as a rebel society against Camarilla's tyranny of Elder vampires ruling the young. 

Anarchs vary and does not have a one concrete ideology or infrastructure it has many different interpretations from many different Anarch ideologies it can be a low life club, democratic vampire society, gangsters, different power structures than Camarilla's (multiple Baron leaders compared to Camarilla's one Prince). 

The Anarchs have one thing in the common they only believe only in the Masquerade from the 6 traditions and oppose the idea of being ruled by a single Prince.

In the modern nights the main conflict is within those 2 vampire sects which is about : what to live for, how to live, how to hunt, what's acceptable in our society, and who rules and how.

There is also one religious war sect who reject the traditions known as Sabbat which used to be more relevant in different centuries but right now they are on a religious conquest in the middle east, but they do partisan-like disturbances within domains in current times.

In the modern nights there is also the Second Inquisition which emerged from the First Inquisition but this time some of the government's secret special operatives became hunters. Now they are on hunt against the supernatural vampires trying to purge them from the society. With them joins all kinds of institutions like variety of churches, science institutions and the government. All working in a secret. Everyone is protecting the Masquerade in order to not create a chaos within the world.

There are many vampire cult's that are present the most relevant for our Nitra by Night game are : Church of Caine and Bahari which you can read about on our website.

VtM can be about personal struggles where you fight against your Vampiric nature and try to help those who you care about the most from the supernatural world and from the real world, it can be about your romance with another vampire, it can be about your rivalry with another vampire, your struggle with your Sire if you love him or hate him.

The game is about suffering and you can personalise your suffering with whom you want to suffer and what kind of themes of the game you want to explore and to what level.