“negotiation” where they pretended to bargain for thing they claimed were important to them. In the end they turned over records of a previous failed experiment, proclaimed it the dreaded Sigma 23 and went on with their own business, which had nothing to do with the domain of Virginia in the first place.

After an incident in North Virginia where members of clan Brujah murder a local Tzimisce Anna Nevermore, a recently embraced Malkavian is placed in the local accounting of Santiago de la Cruz. Having witnessed the attack, Dolby Nevermore her sire, feels that the kindred of North Virginia are too self absorbed and prone to violence to effectively care for his childe. He asks Santiago to care for her and he accepts. Anna relocates to Washington DC and is taught the correct ways of the Camarilla and raised to adhere to them.

While attending an Elysium in Southern Maryland which was being thrown as some sort of tribute to Patrick Kennedy, members of the nWo and the First Family attempted to collect some sort of retribution against the Lasombra for words said against Tiffany Mankiller. Despite the collected presence of both of these groups, they could not intimidate, and since no attacks were made, it is presumed that they were unwilling to attempt such. The group stared down the collected might of the nWo and the first family, and they blinked first. Santiago's wife, Juliana

Gambino-de la Cruz, shaken up by this experience returned to Malan to attend to family business. It was the last time that anybody would ever see her again. Her ghoul, Isabella remained behind and was taken in the employ of Santiago.

It was at this point that Santiago reprised his role as Ambassador to the various domains and started seeking a peace that could last amongst the four cities. Alas such was not possible. Hard-line personalities in the domain of North Virginia would not allow for old prejudices to be put aside. Even though many within North Virginia were not present to see the formation, or knew the history of the nWo, they took up a position against them anyway.

In a move that surprised and still have many confused, The Lasombra withdrew from Washington DC, instead choosing only to claim a small portion of the city as their own. The rest they remanded into the custody of a small group of Kindred, whom they would later reveal had been instrumental in clearing out portions of Washington DC along side them. This group, under the leadership of a Ventrue name Author Worth, claimed Washington DC as a true Camarilla city. Worth declared himself the first

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