An abridged version of the London WoD storyline 2006 - 2012 (present day)

[Crowley]

As requested...

So, this is about as concise as I think I could make this summary of the Baa'li 'invasion' that formed the bulk of the early WoD threads in London.

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On new years eve 2006, the Sabbat attack a party being held by the Prince of London, Gabriel Rodermark. The Sabbat Cardinal of Moscow, Niccoli Cento, has dispatched the Archbishop of Moscow, Katarina Gordislava (and her vizier, Tremere mage Sergei Vishnyakov) to London to cause trouble for the Camarilla and eventually take control of the city. During the course of the attack, a Sansa Martin, a human is mortally wounded and unknowingly becomes a ghoul of Gabriel Rodermark. In the aftermath of the attack, the London Primogen meet to discuss the attack. It is the first time that such a large scale assault on the Camarilla has been made in many years, as England has for a long time been considered a safe-haven for kindred. Privately, Gabriel Rodermark dispatches his brother, a Malkavian named Michael Rodermark (known as Jude) into the care of a Toreador named Martin Le Roux; both leave for Chicago.

In the city of Liverpool, Sansa Martin meets with and befriends an ancient mage, Rod Stafford. In London, Katarina Gordislava meets with the Bishop of London, who recommends that she hire an Assamite assassin, Vahid Hesam to destroy each of the London Primogen in her quest to take control of the city. To get at Gabriel, Katarina kidnaps Sansa Martin and murders her flatmate. While investigating the scene of the crime at Sansa's flat, Gabriel meets Rod, who had been invited to visit. When pressed, Gabriel reveals to Rod that he is a vampire.

Vahid Hesam is despatched to the London Tremere chantry, to murder the Primogen. His mission coincides with a visit from the Tremere mage and scholar, Thaddeus Post, and quite unexpectedly with an attack from within the chantry. The secretary to the Regent of the chantry is in league with the Baa’li, and performs a sacrificial rite that summons a huge leviathan from a central London lake. All around the country, Tremere chantries are thrown into turmoil as similar uprisings take place. Thaddeus Post rushes to a meeting with the London Primogen. There, he meets fellow mage Rod Stafford for the first time. Faced with the prospect of a war against demons, Katarina Gordislava contacts Gabriel Rodermark, proposing a temporary truce between the Camarilla and Sabbat. Katarina returns Sansa to Gabriel’s care. Gabriel receives word, via the Ventrue Primogen (and later Prince of London) Roland Salisbury that he must travel to the Isle of Dogs to meet with a pack of London Garou. They believe that it is the Kindred who have been causing the chaos brought about by the Baa’li, and a fight ensues - between vampires, Garou and Baa’li - in which Sansa is killed. Gabriel embraces Sansa.

The allied Camarilla and Sabbat investigations reveal that the Baa’li intend to open a huge summoning portal at Stonehenge. Gabriel, Thaddeus, Katarina and almost everyone travels to Stonehenge to battle with the demons. The immortals Fiona and Michele Hawkins are transported into the middle of the battle, from Chicago, thanks to the plane-walking powers of the wereraven, Crowley and Keeva, the Bastet. When Gabriel is mortally wounded, Crowley transports himself, Gabriel, Keeva, Thaddeus and Sansa to Mexico. To stay alive, Gabriel diablerises an ancient Mayan Kindred, and in doing so becomes an exile from the Camarilla.

In London, Roland Salisbury assumes the role of Prince. On their return to London, both Gabriel and Sansa are locked in the Tower of London, pending judgement from the Camarilla. Thaddeus releases Gabriel from the Tower and he flees to continental Europe, returning in 2012 (present day) as part of a shipment of ghouls, intended to be used as hunting prey for a group of Hunters who have used the Olympics as a good excuse to set up new cells of operation in London. Michael/Jude breaks Sansa out of the Tower. The two live together for the next six years, with Sansa believing that Jude is Gabriel. Jude is staked by the previously mentioned hunters and Sansa briefly enters the 'care' of the Giovanni, Ewan Dunsirn and his cousin, the Garou Liam Dunsirn. When Gabriel returns to London, the two of them are taken into custody again by Prince Roland....

...and that's where we got up to.

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[Lilaena De'Ville]

That is where we are!