Settite History in Paris
Few Clans are seen as corrupt as are the Followers of Set. The Sabbat even decided to destroy them whenever possible. The Camarilla, through, is still blind at the corruption the Setite can create around them, and generally see them as dangerous but useful pawns, as are the Assamite.
When the Camarilla formed, the new Camarilla Kindred were not too sad to hear few of the Setite answer the call. One of them was Theti-Sheri. She had arrived in Paris with the Ventrue Alexandre and she was already known as a Kindred who loved pleasure before anything else. Her first victory was when she agreed to help remove the Lupine threat from Paris in exchange of a title of Primogen. While she failed to get the title, she caused the destruction of the Prince, and succeeded with his help to ward Paris against the Lupines who threatened her interests.
Of course, some among Alexandre's closest advisors (among them Saviarre) thought Alexandre was mad to accept this. Others thought Theti-Sheri was even more by claiming such stupidity. Her knowledge of Thaumaturgy was outstanding for one not of the Clan Tremere, at a time when even them were struggling to control their Discipline, and effectively, she succeeded, with time and work (and sacrifices, but no one knows or even wants to know) to corrupt slowly the capital of France and its surroundings, and make this region unsuitable for them. The Lupines started to fight each others as the woods receded, instead of uniting to fight the human threat, and even the Gangrel knew infighting. The two comunity knew, then, a decrease of their numbers, as well as their sanity unknown before. The corruption was subtle, and with the help of others Setites, and carefully laid intrigues, she succeeded to advance in her goal.
When Beatrix took the Prince's crown, Theti and the Clan took a more active part within the Kindred Harpy whose power was growing fast. Even through her Torpor, the Clan's power and influence grew, slowly, or course, but steadily. Anyway, Theti-Sheri showed she was a strong supporter of the Camarilla, and of the Toreador way of life, as she even supported the Prince when he enforced the Toreador Hegemony and the creation of the Masques. And part of the Toreador could not help but love the beautiful Setite Methuselah.
And as she contracted the Treaty that authorized the Toreador to come to Setite-controlled Egypt unharmed, she became the Setite Ambassador, and as such, the Duchesse of the Setite.
Since then, around Theti-Sheri was formed a little setite cotterie of strong Camarilla supporters, and bons vivants who find similar tastes among some of the Toreador (most of them Beautés Poseurs), and others Clans, like the Ventrue or the Malkavians. Their loyalty to the Camarilla was sometimes doubted upon, but no proof was found about it. To the ones who claim Theti was corrupting the Camarilla Elder with her salon games, the others claim that they know how to live their unlife as untertainingly as possible, and that they don't need the advice of fearful Kindred afraid of their shadows.
Theti-Sheri knows better...
