[RPG] Can a Sabbat vampire leave its sect and join the Camarilla

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I thought about this question after dreaming I was a Sabbat vampire and for some reason I rebelled against them and allied myself with Camarilla (yes, I have crazy dreams). Thinking about this, I found this question, which talks about the possibility of a vampire being a sleeper agent inside the other faction, but that is different than my case – I'm talking about one actually leaving Sabbat to join Camarilla.

For what I remembered, Sabbat vampires have a kind of blood bond after being embraced – according to White Wolf wikia, there is a kind of weak communal blood bond called Vinculum, which "generally makes pack members supportive of and loyal to each other, though it does not produce the extreme reactions of a full blood bond". The Vinculum can happens during the Vaulderie, a "blood rite practiced by the Sabbat to break any existing blood bonds and unite the pack members closely together"; Vaulderie happens immediately after the Creation Rites to turn someone into a True Sabbat.

So, for what I understood, this means that any True Sabbat will have a kind of blood bond with other Sabbat members (i.e., it's pack). Since Vaulderie break former blood bonds, theoretically a Camarilla member can join Sabbat.

But what about the opposite? How can I justify a Sabbat Vampire leaving its sect to join Camarilla, if it's even possible, both in mechanical and setting aspects?

Best Answer

While researching for writing my question, I found a few possibilities:

  • False Sabbat: A newly created Sabbat Vampire who have not participated in the Creation Rites is still a False Sabbat, and so he's not bond to any Vinculum. So at least the Vinculum bond will not be a problem when changing sides.
  • The Severed Hand: According to this thread exists a high-level Thaumaturgy ritual (Severed Hand, Level 7 Thaumaturgy Ritual, Archons and Templars pg. 147) which can break the Vinculi bonds, but only very high-level Sabbat know about it:

Known only to a very select few among the Sabbat Inquisitors, the Ritual of the Severed Hand is employed in the breaking of Vinculi. Inquisitors use it to recover spies and agents they have inserted into Sabbat packs suspected of heresy. Because of the ritual's questionable origins, it is rarely used in the modern nights, and some Inquisitors have even suggested destroying all known copies of the formula, lest it fall into the hands of the Camarilla.

Since these vampires fear that the ritual can be discovered by Camarilla, it's not impossible that it happens, although, since it's a high-level Thaumaturgy ritual, it will hardly be of use in low-level chronicles.

P.S.: I thought a Lasombra Antitribu can work, but if I take what is wrote in their description in the Guide to the Camarilla (p. 58) they're not an example of conversion from Sabbat, since they are either vampires who "are older than the Camarilla itself" and turned their backs on the nascent Sabbat or are the children of these old vampires (in both cases they never were Sabbat members in the start).

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