Once, vampires walked openly among mortals.
They did not flaunt their nature, but they did not hide it either.
The Camarilla is the invention of a treaty founded after the Dark Ages
that was a result of the Inquisition and Burning Times
that destroyed many of the Kindred.

The Camarilla is a political and social body
to which Brujah, Gangrel, Malkavian, Nosferatu,
Toreador, Tremere and Ventru belong.
Formed 600 years ago in Europe,
it is based on a system of laws to hide vampiric existence
from the eyes of mortals; these laws are known as The Traditions,
the system of hiding their existence is called the Masquerade.
The Path of Humanity is the basis of the Camarilla,
one of the central points where they differ with the Sabbat.