Everyone has a story. Everyone has a history. Everyone suffers from the End Times. The Antagonists in this future world of darkness are no different. The Vampires sects where decimated. The Camarilla and the Sabbat collapsed, not having the numbers to sustain them. Fear and anger is rampant. But just because the political body is down it does not mean the spirit is dead to. In those surviving vampires, be it Sabbat, Camarilla or Anarch their personal views have not changed. A scourge no longer has reason to cleanse for a Prince that does not exist but a Primogen may still have that desire for order and power. The Sabbat still seeks that freedom to rule, to kill, to dismember. How strong the beast calls to them will make the difference if they are friend or foe or if they have the fortitude to evolve from past perspectives.
The Tal'mahe'Ra was a bizarre paranoid conspiracy of a Sect that spends little time in contact with the other factions of Kindred society. Very little is known about the “True Black Hand”, and some Kindred consider stories of its existence apocryphal. Its stronghold lies in the ,Underworld the realm of the dead occupied by ghosts of things long lost to the modern world. Thought to be an an amalgamation of supernatural species it was the Western faction that mainly involved itself in vampire politics. They compiled great work on each of the clans with designs to aid the Antideluvians in destroying their childes. This was far from what happened. During the events of the End of Empires they where annihilated. Their city of the Dead Enoch destroyed. The cult was split. Most fleeing in disillusion. Others fracturing into smaller Ghenna cults. Alone and vastly underpowered with the destruction of the Sabbat and Camarilla a like only tiny pockets of this cult remained true to their faith. Believing that the devil hides in sheep’s clothing Enoch was in fact corrupted and they where fools to believe otherwise. With renewed vigour they strive to finish what Ghenna had begun. Hunting the last remaining pockets and sabotaging the Vampires new world order called the Politeia before it can take root. Though the Antideluvians are no more there must be the Ending they where promised.