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O Maxwell Clarke κάθεται στην κορυφή της πυραμίδας. Ηγεμονεύει τους Invictus, ηγείται όλων των Kindred και φημολογείται πως Μάγοι και Uratha packs του δηλώνουν υποταγή. Είναι μια επιβλητική φυσιογνωμία, ένας ισχυρός ηγέτης που εκπέμπει δέος, ένας από τους αρχαιότερους βρικόλακες της πόλης.
Κατέχει την θέση του πρίγκηπα από το 1986, όταν ηγήθηκε του πραξικοπήματος ενάντια στην Carthian Matriarch. Οι βρικόλακες του Σικάγο τον θυμούνται σαν τον μετριοπαθή, τον ενωτικό, τον χτίστη συνεργασιών - αυτοί που ίσως κάποτε γνώρισαν την δολοφονική ιδιοφυία του δεν βρίσκονται σήμερα μαζί μας. Η πυραμίδα της εξουσίας των Invictus χτίστηκε γύρω του και όταν βρήκε την σωστή ευκαιρία, ανέτρεψε την παραπαίουσα Matriarch και εγκαθίδρυσε μια διαφορετική τάξη πραγμάτων.
Κεντρικός άξονας της πολιτικής του είναι το Tranquility, η απαγόρευση του Embrace και του Final Death για κάθε βρικόλακα. Άμεσο αποτέλεσμα είναι η ελαχιστοποίηση της ωμής και θανατηφόρας βίας ανάμεσα στους kindred, ενώ παράλληλα δημιούργησε μια ιδιαίτερη δυναμική για τους neonates που εισρέουν στο Σικάγο από αλλού, οι οποίοι αποτελούν ουσιαστικά την μόνη "σταθερή" πηγή νέων βρικολάκων.
The Prince's Tranquility
WHEREAS the turmoil and violence of recent nights has led to mistrust and dismay for all Kindred present and
WHEREAS the uncertainty and inclination toprecaution beggar even the wealthy and lead to the betterment of none and
WHEREAS the causes of these conflicts arise principally from innate competition, only fed and goaded by political competition,
THEREFORE I, your Prince, henceforth declare a twofold policy to ensure tranquility and prosperity for the Kindred of my domain. These policies apply to all, without exception, regardless of covenant, clan or creed. Regardless of loyalty or pledge. Regardless of station and regardless of ignorance. Any who transgress shall pay the penalty.
INJUNCTION THE FIRST. All Kindred are categorically banned from the creation of childer within the environs of Chicago and those areas within the praxis of Maxwell Clarke. There are to be, without exception, no Embraces.Those who transgress this prohibition shall be punished by enforced torpor, exile, mutilation or other punishment as judged on a case-by-case basis. Those Embraced willingly or upon request share in the guilt of their sires but are to be held less accountable. Those who travel outside the environs of the city to perform these acts and then return with the fruit of their deeds are to be judged as if they had Embraced inside Chicago itself.
INJUNCTION THE SECOND. All beneath my law are enjoined from slaying Kindred, be it directly or indirectly. While we are eternally subject to the vicissitudes of sun, flame and mortal wrath, within Chicago we shall be safe from one another.
Those who commit this crime shall be punished as above, whether they kill directly or through means of living agents. If your ghoul kills, the ash is on your hands; he does not shield you any more than a dagger protects its wielder from guilt.
BY MEANS OF THESE INJUNCTIONS, peace shall descend at last upon weary but unbowed Chicago. With no strain of competing neonate appetites, my followers can exist in equilibrium. With no fear of harm at others’ hands, we can work together to solve our problems with civil equanimity.
Should circumstances merit exceptions to these rules, they shall come only in the form of a Prince’s Indulgence, and then only with at least 12 days’ forewarning. A Prince’s Indulgence is a single night in which these rules are rescinded: while it is in effect, all Kindred may Embrace without legal repercussion, and may similarly slaughter each other with no fear of the Prince’s wrath. Do not look for the Indulgence soon: I describe it solely so that all who follow may know that in this place, in the collective, extending our condition is inextricably linked with its destruction.