Sabbat

Description:

The Sabbat is a loose organization of Cainites who reject the Traditions. Unlike the Camarilla, the Sabbat believes in the Antediluvians and Caine. Also known as the Sword of Caine, as they believe they will be the army Caine will use to destroy the Antediluvians once Gehenna arrives.

After the rise of the Second Inquisition and the start of the Gehenna Crusade in the Middle East, the Sabbat has (seemingly) given up on controlling the cities of America and flocked to the war zones of the world. However, most Sabbat domains are still out-of-bounds to the Camarilla. A "Gehenna War" between the Camarilla and the Sabbat is being waged in the Middle East and the disputed regions of Ukraine. The conflict began as the majority of the Sabbat abandoned most of its domains to wage what they perceive to be a pre-emptive "crusade" against the coming Antediluvians. In response to this aggression, the Camarilla began fighting them back in order to preserve the Masquerade and to protect torpored methuselah from any Sabbat war parties who may confuse them for Antediluvians.

The Chicago Folios also gives some information about Sabbat. Chicago, for all its corruption and horrors, understands though it may wallow in degradation, it has nothing on the empire of perpeturbation that is the Sabbat. The city has had many horrific encounters with the fanatical sect, most recent being the dread nights of 1993. Little is known about the fringe and alien sect. What is known is the Sabbat relinquished control over its holdings and threw itself into a purported "Gehenna War." With the advent of the Lasombra defection, there have been whispers of concern about what the Sabbat will do in retaliation. To help the Lasombra in their quest to join the Camarilla is to potentially put a target for the Sabbat on your back. The Chicago Sabbat have become a cell organization, perpetuating atrocities by some byzantine design. These cells have become known as "The Seven Fires" - the surviving cells not called off to the Gehenna War, destroyed by Edward Neally, or killed by the defecting Lasombra. This is likely a name given to them due to their ferocity, related to their brutal "ritae", often connected to fire, their appalling "games", or something to do with their numbers of operatives or groups known as packs. The Seven Fires leave nothing but carnage and perplexing propaganda in their wake. In their graffiti, their trail of mutilated bodies, and arcane scrawl, they reference the story of Peter Pan, possibly an allusion to the Lasombra defection and "losing their shadow". These Cainites are appearing close and closer to Chicago border, emerging in more run down or economically suburbs. What befell the Sabbat in the United States is still broadly a mystery. Packs disappeared, the hierarchy dissolved, and many of the Cainites remaining in place lost their grip on reality and stability as their purpose disappeared.

While most Kindred try to resist the Beckoning, Sabbat vampires go towards it. In the Sabbat: The Black Hand, it's revealed that the Gehenna War is not only focused in the East, but all over the world.

Resources:
V5 - Sabbat.pdf