The following letter was sent to several Kindred in Peterborough, a city about an hour's drive from Toronto.

Vampires of the Americas,

Soon, like Toronto and Erie, Peterborough will be liberated by the Sabbat. You of the Camarilla have been shackled to the will of unworthy elders and the machinations of the Third Generation. You have laboured for the false idol of "Humanity". What is that, when mortals drink of the beast as deeply as we during these last days? It is time to arise as the children of Caine and the natural lords of man. It is time to except the love of the Beast over the self-destructve false virtue of the Man. It is time to accept the way of the Sabbat as the honest and ordained way of all Vampires.

Your elders have lied to you so many times, my children. They abase their potent blood to the petty traditions of lineage, forbidding diablerie. There is only one true elder, one true prince: Caine, father of us all. How many of you have committed thier "sin of sins", and unjustly suffered? Suffered from incompetent elders who hoard thier precious blood as a means of control? Sufferred from the self persecution of the Man, while the Beast who gives you the strength to feed and dispense justice rages in chains?

They have lied when they call us mad and "frenzied". If I was forever frenzying, could I write the truth to you now? They want you weak, cowering even in front of your prey! The Anarchs won't help you; they are a lie too, confined to the morality of slaves even as they put up the show of rebellion. We named ourselves the Sabbat to point to this lie. We parody the institution of the Man to honestly confront our natures. In returning to the Beast from which we sprang, we rebel against the pawns of the Antediluvians with our very souls. We are not made to doubt our special place in the great scheme - we know what we are from our core.

We are Vampires! To doubt that, by instituting a Masquerade, by worrying about the whining of the Man, or abasing yourself to the title of mere 'Kindred' is to make you a feeding slave for Gehenna, rather than the victors who fight at Caine's side.

Gehenna is coming. It is no more legend than ourselves. The Antediluvians will rise and devour their children while Caine weeps red tears for the lost. He wants us at His side to fight them and the Dark Queen that will be their champion. Our regent waits to bow with her holy army, her Sabbat, to fight for all of us. It is not an impossible task - the Lasombra have overthrown their founder. All that remains is for us to follow that example in holy guardianship of the people of Caine. Then, we will live as vampires should, as vampires must!

Then, we will be free.

Seek us out. Break the Masquerade to prove your sincerity and we will come. We are watching. Join us and be reborn into victory!

Shine Black the Sun,
Shine Red the Moon,
Gehenna is Coming Soon.

Severain, who rebels against Nosferatu.
Rector of Peterborough, Founder of the Silver Wrath Pack, Blooded, Twice Battle-scarred, Twice Feared as an Inquisitor against the Infernal, and Survivor of the Hunt of Edward Grey.

Written by Malcom Sheppard, and used with permission.

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