Maybe you know your history. Maybe not. But you're pretty sure it didn't go like this...It's 1821. A third of the world is ruled by the British Crown with Bloody Charlotte, 4th child of the late King George the Third and Vampire Empress sitting on the throne. The British nobility is made up of her kine, blood-bound to their Queen and reigning from Victorian Citadels shrouded by perpetual storm clouds, cast out by the corrupting presence of a manufactured class of soldier-slaves. The Promethean Guards.Maybe you were once human, or you thought you were anyway. You know better now, but that's a small horror next to the time, the reality, you find yourself in. You are displaced in time and reality both. A monster from another time. A person from another history. One where Vampires don't openly rule Britain, where the Holy Roman Empire hasn't turned to impossible magics to ward their borders and where colonies rebelled from their imperial masters, seeking their own, flawed ...
Lady Snow is the most powerful of the Boston Freehold's rulers. Even outside of her season she has considerable sway, and she rules nearly half of each year within the city.
The Atlantean Diamond claims philosophical descent from various groups originating in Atlantis, the first city of the Awakened. Though these groups were reorganized during the Exile, they credit Atlantis for giving them their beginning groundwork. These Orders, starting from the Middle Ages, are the Adamantine Arrow, the Guardians of the Veil, the Mysterium and the Silver Ladder.
A share home for students of the College. You can probably blend in with them, and maybe even use some of the college's facilities. But it won't be very private.
