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| − | A recent phenomenon within the Lancea Sanctum, the Crimson Cavalry combines Sanctified theology with survivalist mentality. It may yet add domestic terrorism and thus challenge the Masquerade as nothing has in centuries.
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| − | In the 1950s, a cell of Sanctified discovered the Christian Identity Movement: a racist, apocalyptic offshoot of fundamentalist Christianity that claims that Aryan-descendent whites represent God’s true “chosen people,” who will fight for Him against the “lesser races” during Armageddon.
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| − | Entranced by the implications of Christian Identity, these Kindred adapted a skewed understanding of the Testament of Longinus to this mortal theology, concocting a witch’s brew of racism, anti-Semitism and radical Tollisonism. According to the founding members of the heresy, only whites were worthy of the Embrace, which was not a curse on the vampire himself, but on the “mud people” upon whom vampires were meant to prey.
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| − | The group styled itself the Crimson Cavalry, an oblique reference to the Book of Revelations: “And there went out another horse that was red; and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another; and there was given unto him a great sword.”
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| − | The cult’s dogma, distilled from a canon of unwritten sermons, has four points.
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| − | First, the End Times are approaching, and the “True Church of Longinus,” which consists of white, Christian Kindred, must prepare for the coming Holy War against “mud people,” which includes non-whites, non-Christians, gays and liberals among the kine, as well as a variety of disfavoured clans and bloodlines among the Kindred.
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| − | Second, human suffering must be maximized, which is the purpose for which God created the Kindred. To that end, all political and social orders must be brought down and replaced with total anarchy.
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| − | Third, the practice of Theban Sorcery must be stamped out, since it merely a form of “papist witchcraft” that distracts the Faithful from their holy work. Finally, the prophecies contained in the Book of Eschaton must be fulfilled, since, according to the heretics, they are not predictions of future events leading up to the End Times, but rather a road map for things that must be made to happen before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
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| − | The Crimson Cavalry is a highly secretive organization, even with the context of Kindred and Lancea Sanctum society. Many of the current members are descended directly from the heresy’s founders. Thus far, the Cavalry’s focus has been on training for its Holy War rather than actually going out to fight it. The vampiric membership is broken up into cells spread across the American Midwest. These insular cells use mortal hate groups and survivalist groups as front, directing them to perform hate crimes in an effort to heighten tensions among the kine without actually drawing attention directly to themselves.
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| − | The vampiric members also work to undermine domains and parishes held by other factions, including mainstream Lancea Sanctum domains, so that they can identify and eventually assassinate Theban Sorcery masters in preparation for the final conflict. Leaders of this heresy typically believe that their numbers are not great enough for open warfare against the “mongrels,” and more importantly, that the signs have not yet been fulfilled, but one night, the trumpet will sound and the last seal will be broken, at least in his eyes. On that day, the Crimson Cavalry will set the world to burn.
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| − | === The Creed of the Crimson Cavalry ===
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| − | ==Reference==
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| − | *Lancea Sanctum pg 63
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