The Chicago Folios
The Chicago Folios
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Mature Content Warning: contains graphic and written content of a mature nature, including violence, sexual themes, and strong language. Reader discretion is advised.

A city as large as Chicago requires more than a surface study to find out its secrets.

Princes, Primogen, and all those other Kindred with titles and notoriety may claim to uphold the Masquerade, but they delight in the undead fame and status. There are others, well-hidden, with deeper secrets, darker ambitions, and elusive sects buried in Chicago and its surrounding towns and cities.

Chicago contains sufficient stories and mysteries to entice any neonate and bewitch any Kindred scholar. From accounts of clandestine meetings to encounters with horrific beasts, these folios provide a deeper insight into the city’s darkest tales.

The Chicago Folios put any vampire reading them in danger, but through that danger, the possibility of enlightenment.

The Chicago Folios include:

  • Accounts of vampire mysteries in the heartland of America, spanning the activities of Camarilla, Anarch, Independent, and other, even more terrifying Kindred.
  • Dozens of chronicle hooks laid out in a way that any Storyteller, new or old, might use them to start a new chronicle of Vampire: The Masquerade or add fresh content to an existing one.
  • Over 20 individual Kindred with biographies, aspirations, secrets, connections, and purpose for inclusion in any chronicle, whether as antagonists, a supporting cast, or inspiration for playable characters.
  • Loresheets for new vampires introduced in this book and chronicle threads from the Vampire: The Masquerade metaplot.
  • New Blood Sorcery rituals, handling the Thaumaturgical powers devised in the domains of Chicago and Milwaukee.

This purchase unlocks the content in the digital reader on Vampire: The Masquerade Nexus, as well as in additional features as they become available during Early Access.

Table Of Contents

Modern Times

Introduction

  • Chronicle Rewards
Entering the City

Chapter One: The Camarilla Record

The Once and Future King
  • Bottom Rung
  • I Live With Bread, Like You
Tortoise and O’Hare
  • Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?
  • In and Out
Iron Fist: Velvet Glove
  • Fountain of Knowledge
  • Long Live the Prince
From the Ground Up
  • Grindstone
  • Impresario
Good Evening, Nightwalkers
  • Nightwalking
Bar-Room Brawl
  • Handling Gengis
The Unfortunate Embrace
  • More Complicated than it Seems
Incendiary Information
  • Shut it Down
Chance Encounters with Hunters
  • Beware the Huntsmen
“Is this one of yours…?”
  • Clear as Day
Dearest Club Member
  • Exclusive Invitation
Help for Hire — Warehouse Rebuild
  • Seeking Employment

Chapter Two: The Anarch Accounts

Beckoning Whispers
  • Reopening a Cold Case
  • Outrunning the Past
  • A Desperate Rescue
Flowers in the Garden
  • The Lilies
  • Words from the Blood
Changing Allegiance
  • An Explosive Entrance
  • Flames Spread
Boyce’s Advice
  • An Anarch May Look at the Prince
Mendoza is Dead
  • Murder Mystery
  • Mixing It Up
The List of Ten
  • Who Made the Deal?
  • What Would Tyler Do?
Revenge is Sweet
  • The Plan
  • The Attack
The Traditions — A Feminist Perspective
  • At the Rant
  • About the Data Stick

Chapter Three: Independent and Mortal Perspectives

Bad Medicine
  • Light Up the Night
  • Surgical Strike
Unholy Autopsy
  • Factory Farmed Fangs
  • Captured!
Oh Brother
  • An Errant Childe?
  • Fighting Back
Severed Ties
  • Whizzkid
  • Opportunity Knocks
Waking Nightmares
  • Haunted House

Chapter Four: Heretical Threats and Observations

The Church of Caine
  • Divine Intervention
  • Our Brother’s Keeper
  • Rebuilding the Church
The Church of Set
  • Eating its own Tail
The Black Water
  • Auguries
  • Snatch and Slash
The Ashfinders
  • The Most Dangerous Game
  • The Little Village Inferno
  • Reign of Ashe
The Sabbat
  • The Seven Fires
  • A Letter
  • Only the Offal Remains
The Bahari
  • Strange Entreaty
The Cult of Mithras
  • The Mithraeum
  • Auspicious Meetings
The Cult of Shalim
  • The Little Black Book of Basaras
  • Baptism by Nothing
Other Oddities
  • Cult of the Crawling Tongue
  • The Purgatory of Gus
  • The Music of Zal

Chapter Five: Character Folios

The Banu Haqim
  • Arjun Shah
Clan Brujah
  • Jennifer MacKay
  • Lianne Miller
The Caitiff
  • Devin Boyce
  • Shejana
  • Zal
Clan Gangrel
  • Anthius “Dread”
  • Lewis “Lulu” Sheng
  • Max “Blooper” Hagen
  • Nadine “Nitro” Lewandowski
  • Tyrus
Clan Lasombra
    Braden White
  • Eustace Lancaster
Clan Malkavian
  • Andrea Harvey-Staboli
Clan Nosferatu
  • Martin
  • Salt
Clan Toreador
  • James Royston “Dr. Benway”
  • Mateo García
Clan Tremere
  • Arden Canty
  • Clarence Bartleby
Clan Ventrue
  • Alphonse Gabriel Capone
  • Amelia Locke
  • Milena Aronyan
  • Tatyana Makarova

Chapter Six: Loresheets

  • Archons
  • The Convention of Chicago
  • Descendant of Menele (Brujah Characters Only)
  • Goblin Roads
  • Justicar Lucinde
  • Khalid al-Rashid
  • Kindred Dueling
  • Malkavian Family (Malkavian Characters Only)
  • Occult Artifacts (Tremere and Banu Haqim Only)
  • The Pony Express
  • Sheriff Damien
  • The Wolf Pack

Chapter Seven: Blood Sorcery Rituals

The Rituals of Chicago
  • Level 2
  • Level 3
  • Level 4
Rituals from the Milwaukee Chantry
  • Level 3

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