VtES Storyline History

White Wolf organizes so-called storyline events for VtES about once every year since 2002. The storylines each feature a particular theme or an event often with special rules and/or extra promo cards. Over a period of one to two month storyline tournaments are then held throughout the world in which these rules are in effect. The name of the winning clan of a tournament as well as a report is sent back to White Wolf. Then White Wolf determines which clan was victorious in a majority of tournaments. Together with the reports the outcome of the storyline is determined and the winning clan receives a vampire with the special feature or a card related to the storyline for the clan as promo card or card in the next expansion.
General information about the storylines can be found at White Wolf's official site.

Past Storyline Events

1. "The Baltimore Storyline" -- February 2002 -- Prelude.
   
   • Description: "The Baltimore Storyline" was based on White Wolf's clan novel series. The series included the powerstruggle for the control of Baltimore between the different vampire sects. The first storyline events only had sparse rules additions, and besides the crypt which must be clan-based, the only difference to a regular constructed tournament was, that players were allowed to add the promo card "The Meddling of Semsith" to their decks.
   • Winning Clan: "Lasombra", close second: "Ravnos".
   • New Card: " The Meddling of Semsith".
   • Resulting Card: "Baltimore Purge".


2. "The Eye of Hazimel" -- November 2002 -- Storyline Rules && Prelude.
   
   • Description: "The Eye of Hazimel" storyline featured the struggle for the control of the "Eye of Hazimel", a mythical, powerful artifact, similar to those events that took place during White Wolf's Clan Novel series. In addition to the clan-based crypt rule, special rules were included which resembeled the struggle for "The Eye of Hazimel" as a center piece of the tournament.
   • Winning Clan: "Tzimisce".
   • New Card: "Eye of Hazimel".
   • Resulting Card: "Fiendish Tongue", and the promo cards for the next Storyline Event.


3. "Lambach's Legion Storyline" -- September 2003 -- Storyline Rules & Results.
   • Description: This storyline featured Lambach's efforts to raise a legion of loyal Tzimisce followers, for purposes known only to him. For this the new card the advanced version of "Lambach" and "Legion" could be included in the deck.
   • Winning Clan: "Giovanni".
   • New Card: "Lambach" and "Legion".
   • Resulting Card: "Siphon"
     
4. "Prophecies of Gehenna" -- 2004 -- Storyline Rules && 12 individual rules.
   
   • Description: The storyline's focus were the final nights in advance to the coming of Gehenna, the Armageddon in the "World of Darkness". Instead of a single tournament, the event was played in a league format. There were 12 rules affecting the whole game, of which two rules were in effect during any given of the 11 league rounds.
   • Winning Clan: not tallied worldwide.
   • New Card: "Prophecies of Gehenna" and "Erciyes Fragment".
   • Resulting Card: n/a
     
5. "Infernal Plague" -- October 15th to November 30th, 2004 -- Storyline Rules && Prelude.
   
   • Description: The "Infernal Plague" storyline prominently featured Barbaro Lucchese’s and his efforts to spread infernalism within the Camarilla, the Sabbat and the other sects. The tournaments rules mainly based on an auction where players could receive a bonus to their initial pool if they choose to be on the infernal side.
   • Winning Clan: Toreador (infernal) and "Ventrue" (non-infernal).
   • New Card: "Barbaro Luchese", "Port Authority".
   • Resulting Card: "Helena (Adv)", "Alan Sovereign (Adv)".
     
6. "Infernal Plague: The Return of Nergal" -- October 1st to December 18th, 2005 -- Storyline Rules && Deck
   
   • Description: After the incursion of the infernals into the ranks of Camarilla and Sabbat, "Nergal, the Prince", and the efforts to stop Nergal and his infernals minions. In the final round of the tournament, the currently leading player could play a specially constructed deck and try to win against the other four players of the final table.
   • Winning Clan: "Nergal, Prince of Hell" deck (Toreador).
   • New Card: "Nergal".
   • Resulting Card: "Nergal (Adv)"
   • Additional Cards: "Nergal, Prince of Hell deck"
     
7. "Reverend Adams & the Millenium Cultist" -- November 2006 to January 2006 -- Storyline Rules && Rules Update
   
   • Description: This storyline centered around Reverend Adams, a Caitiff (clanless) vampire. The Reverend's Millenium Cultist group causes great turmoil among Sabbat and Camarilla alike, while trying to control him, both sides try to take advantage of him and his followers to their own ends. Throughout the storyline tournament players could take control of the Reverend, and play cards from the specially prepared deck when controlling him.
   • Winning Clan: Ventrue.
   • New Card: "Reverend Adams".
   • Resulting Card: "Reverend Adams (Adv)" (not yet released).
   • Additional Cards: "Millenium Cultist" deck

Build-Your-Own Storyline
In addition to the official storylines, a Prince or playgroup may write, organize and play their storylines based on the classic "World of Darkness". This concept is known as "Build-Your-Own Storyline". The editor, which can be any player, designs a story or theme on which the BYOS is built around. Based on this background story he devices a set of particular rules for a local tournament in which other players may participate in as in any other regular Storyline tournament. The outline on how to build one's own storyline can be found here.

Examples for "Build-Your-Own Storyline" tournaments:

• Sao Paolo 2005.
• Sydney 2005 -- check the sidebar on the left for further navigation.

Future Storyline Events
White Wolf has announced that in 2008 a new Storyline Event will be held, this time revolving around the "Anarch" movement in the "World of Darkness".