Camarilla

The throne was the last existing obstacle to anarchy.

The liberal middle class and its leaders, now in the ministry, had therefore every interest to keep on excellent terms with the crown.' the King and the reactionary Camarilla that surrounded him, were not slow in discovering this, and profited by the circumstance in order to fetter the march of the Ministry, even in those petty reforms that were from time to time intended.

The first care of the Ministry was to give a sort of legal appearance to the recent violent changes.

The United Diet was convoked in spite of all popular opposition.

but this act only provoked the insurrection of the fifteenth may by which the government was forced to acknowledge the committee to repeal the constitution and the electoral law and to grant the power of framing a new fundamental law to a constitutional diet elected by universal suffrage all this was confirmed on the following day by an imperial proclamation but the reactionary party which also had its representatives in the ministry soon got their liberal colleagues to undertake a new attack upon the popular conquests the academic legion the stronghold of the movement party the centre of continuous agitation had on this very account become obnoxious to the more moderate burghers of vienna on the twenty sixth a ministerial decree dissolved it Perhaps this blow might have succeeded if it had been carried out by a part of the National Guard only.

But the government, not trusting them either, brought the military forward, and at once the National Guard turned round, united with the Academic Legion, and thus frustrated the ministerial project.

In the meantime, however, the Emperor and his court had, on the 16th of May, left Vienna and fled to Innsbruck here surrounded by the bigoted tyroleans whose loyalty was roused again by the danger of an invasion of their country by the sardo lombardian army supported by the vicinity of radetzky's troops within shell range of whom innsbruck lay here the counter-revolutionary party found an asylum from whence uncontrolled unobserved and safe it might rally its scattered forces repair and spread again all over the country the network of its plots communications were reopened with rodetzky with yelatchitch and with windischgritz as well as with the reliable men in the administrative hierarchy of the different provinces Intrigues were set on foot with the Slavonic chiefs, and thus a real force at the disposal of the counter-revolutionary Camarilla was formed, while the impotent ministers in Vienna were allowed to wear their short and feeble popularity out in continual bickerings with the revolutionary masses and in the debates of the forthcoming constituent assembly.

Thus the policy of leaving the movement of the capital to itself for a time A policy which must have led to the omnipotence of the movement party in a centralized and homogenous country like France, here in Austria, in a heterogeneous political conglomerate, was one of the safest means of reorganizing the strength of the reactionists.

You know, being John's right-hand man and having to... maintain composure most of the time.

He's trying to climb the ladder of the Camarilla, and I'm trying to help him in that.

So when I'm alone, and it's time for me to eat, that is when I let the gangrel animal instincts come out.

Great.

And the reason is they're probably going to start asking you to do things during the day.

Well, see, the thing is...

And the reason I said a cult is because you also know that the Camarilla, this could annoy them.

And you don't want to annoy the Camarilla.

People, the well-known people, uh, you know, the politicians, perhaps they were the servants of some vampire that was controlling the city, and that the reasons why there were some conflicts between, for example, Gibraltar, uh, my hometown, is because there were some vampiric clans fighting.

You know, the Camarilla was...

Things were going on in there.

So that, that for us was also very much an experience.

No

... to come out and make one up as a Camarilla lawyer.

Yeah, no, I do, absolutely do not want that.

[laughs]

And then she looks across everybody.

Let this be a reminder for those who serve as a member of the Camarilla court.

I will not tolerate defiance against myself or the integrity of the masquerade.

That is all.

You start with an empty storefront, a long, narrow space, about 3,000 square feet.

This place is a dump, okay? In order to become prince, you need more status among New York's Camarilla, all right? The Camarilla are like the vampire government, right? They enforce the laws of the vampires called the traditions, okay? You need more status.

If you... three can turn this place into a popular hunting ground for the city's vampires, I will award you all status dots.

All right.

anarchs.

You think that they probably are Anarchs.

An Anarch is a vampire that gives the middle finger to the vampire government, the Camarilla, and decides they're not going to follow any of the rules of their traditions.

They're going to make their own rules.

Of course, some formalities eventually came.

They declared themselves part of Camarilla.

If for no other reason than to have the Ivory Tower leave them alone.

And let's be honest.

What

ranks of Camarilla officials are coming out here? No, though they pay lip service to the rank and file of the Ivory Tower.

This is their town.

And they've ruled it for quite some

The liberals demanded that parliamentarism, that is the principle that the government needs the support of the majority in parliament be inscribed in law and not merely a customary arrangement, as it still was at the time.

The Social Democrats described the crisis as a struggle against personal royal power and accused a court Camarilla of agitating against the legitimacy of the Riksdag trying to undercut the power of the elected representatives of the people.

They claimed this Camarilla had pushed the king to make unconstitutional statements.

Accusing a Camarilla, by the way, was a convenient rhetorical device in a society where you couldn't openly criticize the king directly.

But I'm pretty sure everyone who heard this accusation knew that it was directed at Gustav V personally, just as much as against the people surrounding him.

On the actual issue of defense, the Social Democrats argued that the government shouldn't increase the budget.