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[Spencer from The Hills]

I've never had the best grasp of Lasombra concepts, but why was he targeted in the first place? Don't Lasombra tend go for more ambitious people?

[Spencer from The Hills]

Funnily enough, this talk of power fantasy and VtMB reminds me of the TV show Jessica Jones. One of the ways in which that works as a power fantasy for me is the agency that the protagonist has as a successful self-employed PI, even though most of the job itself sounds both boring and dangerous. I suppose that the equivalents in VtM are Autarkis like Beckett and Lucita....

[Spencer from The Hills]

It clearly has t&a fantasy, but I think that whether or not it's a male power fantasy is a different question. It is in the sense that fuzzball described, but is that what the writer meant? Why make a point about it being power fantasy at all? What I assumed that it meant was a fantasy of having a type of power prized by men in particular....

[Spencer from The Hills]

My impression from V5 is that Anarchs are, not to be flippant, generally anarchist. Revolutionary councils are said to exist, but formal government systems are exceptional. That's unlike the Carthians....