Sarasota
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City Court
- Prince: Juliette Castelle
- Seneschal: vacant
- Sheriff: Barron Declan
- Master of Elysium: Bishop George Goodcab
- Scourge: Don Carlos Juan Mendoza de la Vega
Overview
Sarasota is a young city that has suffered much upheavel in the last year. Only time will tell if the city will stabilize.
The City of Sarasota is composed of several districts. Those districts are composed of most of Sarasota and manatee county. The districts and the domains contained in them can be found here at Sarasota, FL.
The City has several Elysiums a few of the more prominent are the Ritz Carlton, The Ringling Museum, and the famed Traditional Elysium that's stood as long as the city has hosted a Kindred population, the Sarasota Opera House.
The Ritz Carlton
The Ringling Museum of Art and Ca'da'zan
The Sarasota Operahouse (4th Tradition Elysium)
History/Timeline As Per VSS
(As per the VSS)
The first coterie of Vampires began influencing the area around Sarasota in 1855 when Manatee County broke from Hillsborough County. The coterie’s agents had informed them of the land of opportunity and the riches to be found in the new world peninsula and the frontier of Florida. That place would become the garden of their Empire. Utilizing land speculators the coterie managed to purchase all the land that currently makes up Manatee and Sarasota Counties. With the land in hand they began preparing colonization.
The Founding
The colonization took decades but by the begging of the 20th Century the population of the area could now comfortably support the coterie and their childer which immediately began to relocate, abandoning their former positions and severing all connections outside their new province.
The Clan Wars
The Greatest challenge to the early Aeternalis years was the death of Valkis in a citywide fire. Clan leaders fought and argued over who should lead the budding Imperium. The region split into to two rival provinces of Sarasota and Bradenton. From the maelstrom rose the Imperium’s next leader: Nanclus, the grandchilder of Valkis.
Reunification
Under Nanclus’s guidance, the Clans hostilities toward one another ended and was redirected to expanding the Imperium’s influence. Nanclus captured Bradenton and declared the entire region the Manasota Province, birthplace of the Aerternalis Imperium.
Manasota -Tampa Conflict
In their quest for territory, it was inevitable the Imperium would encounter other Kindred Domains in battle. Where the Imperium had anticipated acceptance and glorious return to Kindred society, instead they found themselves in a decade long debacle that cost many lives and gained the Imperium nothing.
It began with a chance encounter in Ybor, as an Imperium scout was captured within the Domain of Tampa. Prince Aysha al Busaidi interrogated the Imperium spy for days before any information of his origin could be obtained. Demanding answers, agents of Tampa were sent south of Tampa Bay. When the agents failed to return, al Busaidi was furious.
What could have led to a rapprochement between the Kindred peoples instead led to all-out war. For a decade this covert warfare persisted, with more and more Imperium espionage and sabotage attempts being conducted within the Domain of Tampa and Al Busaidi defeating the aggressors every time. This left its mark on the Aeternalis people, who learned first hand of Tampa’s Prince’s ferocity in battle, and of her follower’s willingness to destroy civilian targets as a means to an end.
The Imperium Fades
The Imperium was stung by its defeat. Their empire began to collapse, as resources had been wasted on supporting the war. A political coup prevented the Imperiums fall to ruin by debasing and replacing the Praetor as a figurehead instead of supreme ruler; ending all hostilities toward al Busaidi and Tampa. Slowly over the decades the Senate managed to rebuild the Imperium. The Imperium remained in isolation throughout this period never once revealing itself to outsiders.
Nanclus continued to serve as Praetor, growing more and more paranoid and determined to expand the Imperium. With his honor and prestige at stake, he decides to strike again. Nanclus sent coteries of his best honor guards to surrounding domains in an attempt to destabilize them. When discovered by the Senate, Nanclus was immediately removed from the Praetorship, his actions were conducted without their support.
Fearing retaliation, the Senate sends emissaries to assess the damage and repair them; thereby breaking decades of isolation. The Aeternalis Imperium now finds itself exposed and vunerable.
History/Timeline After Start of Play
As Sarasota became well-known and immigrants and visitors flooded into the city, the existing population had to deal with greater and greater upheavals in its government. Giuseppe Mancini was appointed Praetor after Nanclus was staked by the Senate. Yet shortly after he was deposed by Bishop Thomas Allan, who two weeks later was deposed in bloody coup led by Dietrich Eckhart, the Prince of Fort Myers, installing his grandchilde, an Invictus named Janus Masterson, as the new Praetor.
To make the new government seem legitimate, a new Senate was formed formerly electing Janus Masterson and continuing to follow the laws of the city as previously established under past leadership. Another Invictus, Paladin, then rose to prominance. Mancini, no longer the Praetor, had become the head of the Senate (a position known as the Proconsul). Paladin maneuvered the Senate to vote "no confidence" against Mancini and became the new Proconsul, rewriting the "constitution" in progress.
A few months later, Janus Masterson went missing and is to this day presumed dead. In the political chaos that ensued, a Crone named Metus declared himself Prince and abolished the Senate. His rule lasted for approximately two months before his own death, after which praxis was once again assumed by Thomas Allan.
Unpopular as a Prince, Thomas Allan's court was eventually attacked by The Rusty Crowbar, hired by a dienfranchised Kindred. Though Allan himself escaped, his court was more or less wiped out and continued rule was impractical. The former Proconsul, Lord Paladin, was still well respected in the city and agreed to take over the postion of praxis from Thomas Allan with unanimous suport of the remainder of the city and the public promise of a Major Boon to Allan.
After a year of rule, Paladin stepped down to "travel some" and awarded the title of Duke. Juliette Castelle was appointed Prince thereafter.
