Camarilla Game ~ Bishop Raymond.Camarilla Game ~ Bishop Raymond.
Whilst the recent defeat of Shara has answered some questions with regards the recent Sabbat incursion into the city, the reasons behind the internal split within the group still remain unknown. What has been established is that in October 2004, the Sabbat split into two distinct groups, one led by Cardinal Van Der Meer, the other by Bishop Raymond who had accused the Cardinal of infernalism.
The truth behind these accusations may never be known, what is known however is that during the early parts of the incursion, Bishop Raymond appears to have worked primarily as a recruiter, attempting to bolster the Sabbat's numbers through various drives, the most prominent of which was a visit to the Elysium, coinciding with a simultaneous attack on a nearby carnival. Although the recruitment was not successful, it did mark out Bishop Raymond as being someone who was willing to play political games with the Court.
Research by the Court indicates that Bishop Raymond was probably embraced by the Ventrue and that he defected to the Sabbat some two hundred years ago. Assumed to be of Eastern European extraction, it is thought that he had travelled extensively with Cardinal Van Der Meer prior to his arrival in the city. No further information has been found as records of his existence have been removed from the Ventrue archive.
Bishop Raymond was the last member of the 2004 Sabbat incursion to be killed by the Court. Kindred led by Michael Redhill and Lita Bradford descended into the caverns below the Asharaka Tower. Bishop Raymond initially escaped the attack following the intervention of an unknown Nosferatu and the terrorist “White Flowers”, but was later beheaded by the childer of Count Von Almasey, William Pitt. Although his body was seen to ash, confirmation that it was him could not be gathered due to a large scale AphoPod attack on the Court.
Was Bishop Raymond the true Infernalist as some have suspected? And why have records of his existence been removed from the Ventrue archive? Even in death, Bishop Raymond poses a number of unsettling questions for the Court.
