The Mexican Crusades
From LanceaSanctum
"Lord let me not falter in this place of devilish sin. The Kindred here far beyond encouraging the worship of ungodly demons, seek to embody those wretched beings themselves. They present themselves in vile material splendor, calling for the blood of the faithful in their guttural tongue. They whip the mortals to a frenzy of vice and degradation at every opportunity and laugh at their debasement in filth splattered temples. There is no possibility of an alliance. They must be erased." -- from the writings of Francesco de Maluenda, Nosferatu of the Lancea Sanctum, dated 1534.
When kindred first came to Mexico they discovered the existence of an ancient sect of vampires worshiped by the natives as gods. Isolated from the world for untold centuries, these vampires enslaved whole civilizations, captivating them with magics and subjugating loyalty through vinculum. They worked masterful evils upon their pets demanding excessive ritual sacrifice and mass killings, some reaching into the thousands; there were beheadings and flayings, they mutilated woman, drown children, and ate the dead. It was an age of unparalleled enlightenment -- a success rivaled only by its monumental failure. The ancients embraced mass lineages to serve them; ruling over the entirety of mesoamerica, but generation after generation they saw the petty rivalries of lesser vampires give way. In time their bloody utopia fell into chaos, god against god, clan against clan, childer against sire; those who survived the slaughter maintained anonymity out of fear of vengeful ancients or the repetition of past mistakes.
In Tenochtitlan 1519 a small cult of Aztec spiritualists performed a ceremony to awaken the gods in hopes that the gods would save them from persecution. This act prompts what is later called the Massacre in the Main Temple. Startled by the horrific sight the Spanish descend upon the priests slaughtering them all. The blood of the faithful feeds the earth and stone; and Coatlicue, the eldest of the ancients and mother to them all, begins to stir beneath their feet -- she awakens among the diseased ridden corpses of her people. In a fitful sleep her mind had already fallen prey to the fog of eternity; her empire never fell, everything that had occurred had done so within the parameters of her control. Only now was she truly needed; only now was there a threat to her rule. Leaving a trail of diseased and bloodless corpses in her wake, Coatlicue flees North into the mountains to unearth other ancients to help her repel the invaders.
The Sanctified arrived in Mexico 1519 with the Spanish army sent from from Cuba. Many of those present were Legate to the then Archbishop Ramiro de Leon, recently anointed as an extension of the Lancea Sanctum in Spain overseeing developments in the new world. Upon their arrival they were slaughtered without hesitation or mercy; save one. He remained in Mexico for two years to carry out the task that he had been assigned. When he returned he confirmed the Archbishop's worst fears. In a missive to Spain his Excellency claimed that the single greatest threat to the Traditions and to the Word of Longinus since the Luciferians, had been found. Nestled in the heart of Mexico, an ancient cabal of Circle of the Crone waged open war with the Spanish in an effort to reclaim the shattered remains of their unholy empire.
Many would answer his call for Crusade in the years that followed but in order to ensure the survival of the Covenant they were forced to mass embrace. They looked to the sinful heart of man; to the soldiers, the prisoners, the bureaucrats, and the clergy. These men became Crusaders born into damnation to serve god almighty in cleansing the earth of heresy. Among those damned was Santiago de la Vega; a disavowed noble, excommunicate, and genocidal madman. The ex-conquistador was possessed of pathological prejudices, which coupled with his expert swordsmanship and tactical military training transformed him into a perfect weapon. Throughout the course of the war his brutal and unrelenting tactics proved vital to the success of the Crusades. Countless felt the wrath of his endeavor personally but it was the fateful destruction of Coatlicue that his legend is founded upon.
In the final nights of the Mexican Crusades Santiago de la Vega led the Sanctified to victory against the Old Devouring Mother. Of the 9 Crusaders that entered her temple only 3 survived but it was Santiago who surfaced bearing proof of her destruction upon his ashen blade. In a single night of blood, glory, and retribution, the 21 year war was ended. He was glorified by the coven and to this night his deed is still widely perceived as miraculous.
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