May
The Storm came in May. Fires in Stoke and Birmingham and news that Lady Starr, Malkavian Justicar had been murdered by Anarchs, led by the former Sheriff of Birmingham, Norton. Norton was quickly on the offensive, claiming the blow was struck for the freedom of all Anarchs. Azezel, a Caitiff made his presence known to mixed reaction from the Camarilla and the Anarchs, but quickly seems to have found a friend in Grant of the Brujah, proponent of the "Court of the Kindred", an idea for an institution that would deliver non secular justice. The Praxis of Southampton was seized by the Beauforts, but they denied that they were forming an Imperial Domain. Prince Connor of Carlisle quickly attacked the move, before demanding the surrender of the domain of Michael McAllister of the borders.News arrived from Burton of the disappearance of a number of elders, and the emergence of the Brujah Prince, Thought, and his council of advisors. A number of Anarchs were seen there, amongst them it would appear was Janus, not quite as dead as people would have believed.
As the month drew to a close, the Kindred of Albion learned of a great victory in America; Lord Mocsica, the Toreador Justicar had finished the siege of San Diego and was rumored to be headed back to his home... In Europe.
Around a week later, Janus announced that he had survived the bomb blast at Newbury; and that he had spent a lot of time wandering around the realm, and now that Starr was dead, maybe there was a chance for peace after all. In the north, Connor of Carlisle, with the backing of the Princes of Edinburgh and Newcastle, seized the praxis of the Michael McAllister's Northumbria.
As the Harpies began to report on a number of goings on in London, involving Archon D'Aragon, his honour passed on a message from his Justicar, Lord Arian De' Mocsica. And then everything changed.