History Characters / VampireTheMasqueradeOtherSects

A MechanicallyUnusualClass, the Brotherhood of Osiris ''are'' a sect in their own right, but a tiny one that's usually lumped in with the Bloodlines instead. See Characters/VampireTheMasqueradeExtinct ClansAndBloodlines.

* DemotedToExtra: The game used to be primarily about the Anarchs as the protagonist struggling to keep their freedom against the Camarilla, with the Sabbat kept in the background. As Editions have progressed, however, the story has become more and more about the struggle between the Camarilla and the Sabbat, with the Anarchs becoming a smaller faction caught in the middle.

* AncientConspiracy: Believed to trace their origins to ancient Rome.
** Actually an AncientTradition, which makes it rare as the Inconnu are mostly devoted to achieving Golconda and staying out of mortal affairs.

* TheMole: Have a number spread throughout Kindred society, some of whom are highly ranked in the other sects.

* {{Hypocrite}}: They resent the Camarilla for their oppressive laws and using the sect's younger members as disposable pawns to keep the oldest members in power. However, [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized this doesn't stop the oldest members of the Anarchs from treating their own youngest the same way]], to say nothing of the Anarchs [[FullCircleRevolution who only want to overthrow the Camarilla]] [[RevolutionariesWhoDontDoAnything so they can be the ones tyrannically ruling over other Kindred]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: They resent the Camarilla for their oppressive laws and using the sect's younger members as disposable pawns to keep the oldest members in power. However, this doesn't stop the oldest members of the Anarchs from treating their own youngest the same way, to say nothing of the Anarchs [[FullCircleRevolution who only want to overthrow the Camarilla so they can be the ones tyrannically ruling over other Kindred.]]

* NonIndicativeName: While they oppose the closest thing Kindred society has to a government, the Camarilla, the Anarchs aren't anarchists in the sense that they're opposed to the idea of there being any kind of government at all. [[{{Hypocrite}} In fact, they end up installing their own system of authority on the same level, or in some cases even worse, as the Camarilla over their territories.]]

** ''V5'' would pull something of a 180 on this, with the Sabbat practically disappearing due to the [[ThePurge Second Inquisition]] inspiring a mass defection among the survivors and rest leaving their territories behind as they went on their Gehenna Crusade as well as the Camarilla consolidating their forces against the Sabbat in the Middle East. The Western USA (read: as far as Las Vegas) is being mostly left to the Anarchs now.

* NonIndicativeName: While they oppose the closest thing Kindred society has to a government, the Camarilla, the Anarchs aren't anarchists in the sense that they're opposed to the idea of there being no government at all. [[{{Hypocrite}} In fact, they end up installing their own system of authority on the same level, or in some cases even worse, as the Camarilla over their territories.]]

** ''V5'' would pull something of a 180 on this, with the Camarilla somewhat disappearing as they consolidate their forces against the Sabbat in the Middle East. The Western USA (read: as far as Las Vegas) is being mostly left to the Anarchs now.

* DemotedToExtra: The game used to be primarily about the Anarch as the protagonist struggling to keep their freedom against the Camarilla, with the Sabbat kept in the background. As Editions have progressed, however, the story has become more and more about the struggle between the Camarilla and the Sabbat, with the Anarchs becoming a smaller faction caught in the middle.
** ''V5'' would pull something of a 180 on this, with the Camarilla somewhat disappearing as they consolidate their forces against the Sabbat in the Middle East. The Western USA (read: as far as Las Vegas) is being mostly left to the Anarchs, now.

* HeelFaceTurn: Vampires who come from Sabbat clans reject almost all of their nastier aspects when they join the Anarchs. For Camarilla, it's a little murkier, and could be either HeelFaceTurn or FaceHeelTurn.

* {{Hypocrite}}: They resent the Camarilla for their oppressive laws and using the sect's younger members as disposable pawns to keep the oldest members in power. However, this doesn't stop the oldest members of the Anarchs from treating their own youngest the same way, to say nothing of the Anarchs [[FullCircleRevolution who only want to overthrow the Camarilla so they can be the ones tyrannical ruling over other Kindred.]]

** V5 would pull something of a 180 on this, with the Camarilla slowly disappearing as they consolidate their forces against the Sabbat in the Middle East. The Western USA (read: as far as Las Vegas) is being mostly left to the Anarchs, now.

* RebelliousSpirit: ''Very'' prominent within the movement. Doubly so with the Brujah anarchs.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters

* FaceHeelTurn / HeelFaceTurn: Almost universally the latter if you leave the Sabbat for the movement, and a bit of both sides of the coin if you're from the Camarilla.

* BadassGrandpa: The rare few elders of the sect tend to explicitly deny any leadership roles with the justification that doing otherwise would make them no better than the Camarilla and the Sabbat. Instead, they remain fighting at the front lines with the neonates. For a specific example, just look at Smiling Jack, who is 300 years old but still manages to be a friendly mentor to many new bloods.

* DemotedToExtra: The game used to be primarily about the Anarch as the protagonist struggling to keep their freedom against the Camarilla, with the Sabbat kept in the background. As Editions have progressed, however, the story has become more and more about the struggle between the Camarilla and the Sabbat, with the Anarch becoming a smaller faction caught in the middle.

** V5 would pull something of a 180 on this, with the Camarilla slowly disappearing as they consolidate their forces against the Sabbat in the Middle East. The Western USA is being mostly left to the Anarchs, now.

The smallest of the three main sects, the Anarchs reject both the oppressive rule of the Camarilla and the zealousness of the Sabbat. They draw numbers from nearly all clans present, mainly Camarilla ones, and Brujah in particular, but quite a few ex-Sabbat members have been convinced to join the fray over time and a small but notable minority of independent clans. All of them do tend to have one thing in common, however, which is desire for change.

* BadassGrandpa: The rare few elders of the sect tend to explicitly deny any leadership roles with the justification that doing otherwise would make them no better than the Camarilla and the Sabbat. Instead, they remain fighting at the front lines with the neonates. For a specific example, just look at Smiling Jack, who is 300 years old but still manages to be a friendly mentor to many new blood.

* DemotedToExtra: The game used to be primarily about the Arnarch as the protagonist struggling to keep their freedom agains the Camarilla, with the Sabbat kept in the background. As Editions have progressed, however, the story has become more and more about the struggle between the Camarilla and the Sabbat, with the Anarch becoming a smaller faction caught in the middle.

* ViceCity: Los Angeles as the center of the Anarch Free State quickly devolved into this after the ousting of the Camarilla in the 1940's, and remained as such until the New Promise Mandarinate arrived in California and shook up the power balance in the region. The ''Gehenna'' novel claims that the Anarchs reclaimed LA shortly before Gehenna started.

[[folder:Overall Tropes]]

* DemonSlaying: Hunt down demons and infernalists with extreme prejudice.

* OrderVersusChaos: Clear-cut chaos to counter the Camarilla's order, with minor variations.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: They're so powerful they really don't have to do the causal brutality and evil of the other vampire factions.

* {{Necromancer}}: Originating in a [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension group of Chakravanti necromancers]] and being based in the Underworld, they have a number, most notably the Nagaraja and the Harbringers of Skulls.

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