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The Camarilla's history, like so many other parts of the Kindred's tale, is a long bloody one. Born in the fires of rebellious change and watered with much spilled vitae, the sect has grown since its early days as a bulwark against youthful rage and mortal hunters. In 1381, a band of English peasants rebelled against their local lord, drawing the attention and aid of several young Kindred. Though quickly put down, the mortal rebellion and aid of several young kindred. Though quickly put down, the mortal rebellion left its mark on those of the Blood who took part. Frustrated in their rise to power and often suffocated under their immortal elders' iron grip, the childer of Europe kindled the beginnings of their own rebellion. The early 1400s saw the spark that would ignite a wildfire of rebellion throughout the Kindred of Europe. A young Brujah by the name of Tyler assaulted an elder Ventrue named Hardestaadt. Inspired by this insolence, childer rose against their sires throughout the continent, clearing the avenues of power with blood and fire. War raged against the eldest of the clans. At the height of the madness, the rebels destroyed the Lasombra Antediluvian and claimed to have destroyed Tzimisce himself as well. Bolstered by the diablerie of their elders, the rebellious youth, now called anarchs, marched through Eastern Europe, laying waste to the work of centuries. In those lands a means to break the stranglehold of the blood bond had been found, and suddenly, many neonates and ancillae were slipping leashes elders had thought secure. Eager for the opportunity to diablerize European elders, the Assamites joined the fight on the anarch side. In 1435, Hardestaadt gathered the elders in convocation and proposed an arrangement to deal with the anarch movement. The arrangement he offered would cross blood and territorial lines to deal with the issues of the Kindred as a whole. True to form, most elders offered little more then skepticism and left for their own havens to wait out the anarch storms in the way they weathered so many trials for centuries before. A few, though, remained and joined Hardestaadt in his vision. They were the Founders, and they would lay the groundwork for the next five centuries of Kindred society. By the middle of the 15th century, the Founders had persuaded enough elders to join their cause to put forth significant resistance to the anarch rebellion. Coteries drawn across clan lines, bound by a single purpose, gathered across the known world. With their aims finally united, the elders of Europe began to regain ground on their factious childer. When coteries hand-picked by the Founders and their intimates finally returned with the location of the hidden Assamite fortress of Alamut, the demise of the revolt was all but assured. The war ground to a stalemate of minor skirmishing. In 1493, the Anarch Movement agreed to parley with the Camarilla. The Convention of Thorns convened in an abbey in England, and there the anarchs accepted terms for surrender. The treaty allowed those anarchs who wished to come into the fold of the Camarilla to do so and levied punishment against the Assamites for their role. In this treaty, the Camarilla came into its own as the guiding sect of Cainite life. Motivated by the Inquisition, which had raged across European in a fiery backdrop to the Anarch Revolt, the new sect deemed the long-ignored Masquerade would become the centerpiece of their order. No more would those of the Blood visibly lord their power over mortals. Instead, the Kindred would act from the shadows, enforcing the Traditions and protecting themselves from the fires of mortal wrath with a charade that would come to span the globe.
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