Jan must work with Prince Garlotte, refugee demagogue Victoria Ash, archon Theo Bell, and the mysterious Prince Marcus Vitel to try to stop the Sabbat onslaught.Ī major theme of the book is how the Ventrue appear to be caring leaders but are awful people underneath. The city of Baltimore, Maryland becomes the establishment's new headquarters with the arrogant Prince Garlotte as the new defender of "civilized" vampiredom. Well, perhaps panic is not the best word as the Inner Council sends not even a Justicar to defend the New World's cities but a single representative in Jan Pieterzoon. The Fall of Atlanta was terrible but it is the fall of Washington D.C. The premise of this novel is that we get a sense of how the Camarilla is responding to the Sabbat's successful invasion of over a dozen cities. They may not be as exciting a set of leaders as the Lasombra, Tzimisce, Toreador, or Tremere but they get the job done. This book does a decent job exploring the contrast of the Ventrue's affable leadership contrasted to their dark entitled self. They've also been the protagonists of many works like Prince Julian Luna from the ill-fated Kindred the Embraced. Many of the great villains of the setting have been Ventrue like Prince Lodin, Hardelstadt the Younger, and Sebastian La Croix. Serving as the suave leaders of the Camarilla, they've always been somewhat vanilla compared to other Clans. Each book also served as an illustration about what a specific clan was all about.Ĭlan Ventrue is the vampire clan of nobles, knights, politicians, and executives. A magical artifact called the Eye of Hazmiel was serving as a wild card during it and each new book's protagonist was a glimpse into one of the individual undead's journey. It is a series published in 1999 and told a thirteen novel story about the conflict between Sabbat (bad vampires) invading the cities belonging to the Camarilla (less bad vampires). CLAN NOVEL: VENTRUE by Gherbod Fleming is the fifth novel of the Vampire: The Masquerade Clan Novel series.
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