Ventrue Primogen

[Caiaphas Redfern]

((I'm posting this here because there's no appropriate IC section in which to post it. A copy of the hand-written letter below is sent to each of the remaining Ventrue in the city. A copy is also sent to each of the other Primogen and the Prince. Feel free to decide whether or not you will have received it. :] It is written in...some kind of brownish ink.))


Scions Inheritors and Lords of Ventrue

By Virtue of being an Elder of our Blood in the Fullness of my Power and exalted by the ancient Legacy of Kings I hereby claim and don the Mantle of Primogen

My Shield it shall be that wards our Honour and Dominion
My Sword it shall be that rises against the Enemies of Clan and Sect
My Heart it shall be that drums the Rhythm of our shared Dignitas

This I do for the Love of this tormented City in which I have long held Domain and expecting the Fealty of my honoured Brethren to whose Protection I am now sworn

This I do offering my Fealty in turn to our Lord the Consul Maximus Arcadius Augustus Prince of Aquae Sulis

This I do in the sight of the Camarilla and of Heaven

Let any of my Blood who would challenge this Oath do so forthwith or hold his Peace now and in the Nights to come

~Caiaphas Redfern Childe of Joseph Blaine and Elder of the Line of Hardestadt the Founder~

[Storyteller]

Thanks For the purposes of IC information you wish circulated amongst the player base you can email it to an ST; it will be put into the rumour section of player Downtimes or go into the brief for next game. These forums are non-obligatory reading and we do not expect all players to look here. Mainly, that's the reason there is no such board designated. We do not want the forums to become a requirement for gaining important public IC information.

[Caiaphas Redfern]

((True, thanks. That would mean waiting several months, however; recent revelations and developments have compelled Redfern to move much faster and with greater force than that. But yes, I would be grateful if you'd be so kind as to put it in briefs or whatever medium you think best! Much obliged to you.))

[Storyteller]

((Shall do.))

[Caiaphas Redfern]

((The following is circulated to Kindred society in general, but in particular the Ventrue and to the Prince, Harpy and other officers of the court.))

Honoured Kindred of Aquae Sulis

By Virtue of bearing the Mantle of Primogen of the Blood of Kings I decree that
Lady Marie Darrieux Childe of Edward of the Line of Mithras and Ancilla of our Blood
Be henceforth known as Whip of Clan Ventrue and my Second in all pertinent Duty and Power
That in my Absence She stands in Loco Primogentis
That furthermore She is considered Loyal in our Sight and honi soit qui mal y pense
That furthermore She is Favoured by my Will and so Harm to Him who would do Her Harm.

~Primogen Caiaphas Redfern Childe of Joseph Blaine and Elder of the Line of Hardestadt the Founder~

((Email also sent to refs))

[Caiaphas Redfern]

((With the same circulation as the above.))

Honoured Kindred of Aquae Sulis

By Virtue of bearing the Mantle of Primogen of the Blood of Kings I hereby decree that
Jedediah Knox of the Line of Hardestadt and Neonate of our Blood
For his Efforts in girding the Domain of Aquae Sulis for War in the Face of the Sabbat Threat
For his Work in securing the Rail Roads against Encroachment and Usurpation by Forces from beyond the Domain
For his unbroken and sincere Courtesy and Deference to the Imperium of his Elders
Be known and esteemed as a Kindred most Loyal to our hallowed Sect

~Primogen Caiaphas Redfern Childe of Joseph Blaine and Elder of the Line of Hardestadt the Founder~

((Email also sent to refs))

[Caiaphas Redfern]

((The following is transmitted as usual to Primogen, officers and frankly anyone Caiaphas has ever corresponded with. If you think Caiaphas would know how to get in touch, feel free to have received a copy, or not if you think not. Refs feel free to cross-post to FB for those crazy people who don't use these beautiful boards.))

Kindred of Aquae Sulis

A prince who bows to another prince as his master is not Sovereign in the eyes of the Camarilla, nor will our sect ever allow for a ruler to claim dominion over a empire of many cities in self-destructive pre-Camarilla fashion as Mithras seeks to do. Arcadius is manifestly not a prince but the slave of a master who seeks to topple the Ivory Tower, and one can know nothing but contempt for his impotent declarations.

We have learned enough to know that his claim to have been waiting to hand over power to a kindred who asked - except as a puppet of London - is only yet another transparent fiction, just as was his lecturing us two months past that feeding on children was both morally indefensible and threatened the First Tradition - while he wasted months of his sheriff’s time and that of others investigating the matter, and on the very same night was overheard attempting to bribe a Kindred of my own blood to frame me for this thing that he had declared a crime and was himself committing.

Yet by our will all his influences and resources are now broken, all his servants lie dead or are captured, and his last personal haven is uncovered. The cur has nothing - not even valour - on which to fall back, and has now gone to ground, hiding himself from all as he attempts to minimise his master’s losses; this he does by seeking to taint the next Prince of Aquae Sulis in the eyes of all surrounding domains with the poison chalice of Mithras’ public approval - a desperate act but one lamentably likely to work. And though we hunt him still, I regret that he may succeed in wriggling, worm-like, from our grasp, and flee into the night.

Nevertheless, what a cowardly minion such as he will never understand is that a rightful lord does not run, does not forsake his domain, does not relinquish his oath and will neither betray nor abandon those who have placed in him their faith. Unlike him, I shall make myself trivial to find, for I shall be in my domain, the BRSLI, now as before. Know that my allies - those who yet uphold the integrity of our Camarilla - will not yield. Know also that the other cities of Britain, all arrayed against Mithras, watch in hope and marshal their strength.

To those among you who cleave still to the Ivory Tower and defend her honourably, I offer hope that the true King of Kings will give you the strength and courage to prevail. But to those who have sold themselves as slaves to the master of London, or those mere opportunists that wish to slake their infernal cannibal urges, I say that in the meantime it is my judgement that waits for you here.

Come to me that I may quench the heat of my fury in your blood.

~
Caiaphas Redfern, Elder and Primogen of Ventrue, of the line of Hardestadt the Founder