After the dust settled,
vampires were largely arrayed in one of two Sects:
the Sabbat and the Camarilla.
The eldest vampires worked mostly from behind the scenes,
or at the high levels of Sabbat or Camarilla society, remaining hidden,
or controlling important princedoms or the new Justicar positions.
The war between the two sects raged on and off during through the centuries.

The primary impetus for the growth of vampire kind
was the colonial period of Europe; vampires spread along with their mortal minions.
Often the Sabbat forged the way,
seeking a safe ground from the superior strength of the Camarilla,
and the Camarilla followed to claim the lands for their own.
Vampires spread throughout the Western World,
the America's, Australia, Africa.
Only in the East did they meet serious opposition,
as they met strange bloodlines and even clans, that resisted their expansion.

Modern vampires live almost completely hidden from the mortal world.
The disruption of the Inquisition was yet another
break in the chain of vampiric history,
and most modern vampires have difficulty conceiving of
unlife without the Sabbat or Camarilla.
The rapid expansion of young vampires in the last century
resulted in a number of cynical kindred that completely deny
the origins of vampiric society,
believing that the Antediluvians, if they ever lived,
must surely be dead by now.