Originally posted by Ideon
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The Masquerade was previously upheld in the Dark Ages as the "Silence of the Blood". It wasn't an invention of the Convention of Thorns.
The Camarilla's innovations were in wide-scale organization and enforcement, and elevating the Masquerade from common-sense rule to across-the-board lethal mandate.
The faction that split didn't do it because they went or believed "masquerade schmasquerade".
The Anarchs, those who remained as such, split because they called bs of the actual leveling of the field.
The Sabbat split because basically the same with some added aversion to the very concept of elders.
The Camarilla reacting to the SI as it does is indeed a repeat of the mistake and does quite vividly the build-in challenge of the approach. Only difference being so far that with their attempt of having new conventions some called bs of doing it all the same again. In general, just because one was there, doesn't save one from repeating history, especially if that one might have amassed some hubris since 1493,..
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