These nights after the war are perilous.
There are certainly still issues with various groups of humans. And there are certainly still things about Kindred life that are still a secret (Like just HOW addictive vampire blood is.) but modern nights aren't as perilous for those reasons at all.
It's all the goddamn vampires.
There aren't a lot of actual elders around anymore. Many have gone to earth. Many have been destroyed. A statistically significant number were driven into torpor because they were too crazy to deal and too crazy to simply get out of the way.
The usual brake on kindred behavior is the certain knowledge that there are powerful elders who don't know you and don't care a whit about you until you step out of line. But with many cities, most of the elders are gone, and the Ancillae have been going from crisis to crisis so long, that they aren't really able to step on developing problems until they become a crisis too.
Add to this, a media that has saturated the public with the idea that vampirism is both cool and sexy and you begin to understand that there are many people who want to become vampires. And in some cases, if those people have enough money…they can.
Add to this, a number of people embraced in recent years who don't seem to understand the old system of doing things, or why it was a good idea for so long. Most of these vampires don't really understand the whole concept of "Eternity" yet, and so they go about embracing girlfriends or ailing family members, not realizing that there is a huge downside to all of that.
Add to this, that while there are many matters that are quietly dealt with, a "Prince" can no longer order a blood hunt or execute a vampire for embracing another vampire. Murdering a vampire is as serious a crime as murdering a person under the law. The only way that a vampire gets punished for embracing someone, is if the embraced vampire accuses his sire of doing so non-consensually. Which is then treated like a murder…or a sexual assault. The precedent in law isn't really clear yet.
As a result, The Vampire population has been increasing. The Crone and the Ordo see the problem to come quite clearly. The Sanctified cannot, under their own doctrine, allow a vampire to be slain, and miss his judgment by god. But they also struggle with the fact that the godless carthians and Crone have the greatest numbers. The Invictus, don't WANT a number of fledges in their ranks and are watching the Carthians become the same sort of moribund edifice that they used to be.
This problem is compounded by the fact that a lot of these new vampires don't really hunt. The synthetic blood supplement that most of them buy, means most of them don't have to hunt quite so much, still accidents happen. A youngish vampire might be strapped for cash in a particular week and then freak out in a nightclub. Such things make the papers. Such vampires go to jail...Unless of course law enforcement, either kindred or mortal "Accidentally" destroys them.
Another problem that is slowly but surely taking shape is that there a number of young vampires with vitae addiction, and a few, that have become interested in Diablerie. And there isn't much that can stop them at present.
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