Kaymakli
An underground city carved into the stone walls of the mountains of Anatolia, Kaymakli played an im- portant role in the history of the clan overthrown by the Giovanni in their bid for immortality. As a hid- ing place for early Christians, the tunnels of Kaymakli also hid fugitive vampires of the Clan of Death, who fed from the persecuted Christians and studied their forbidden necromancies.
By the time the Giovanni had betrayed their parent clan, Kaymakli had become a footnote in clan history. The remains of the broken clan once again took ref- uge in Kaymakli, however, shutting themselves away from the outside world until they could rebuild their strength and plot against their wayward childer. For most, however, Kaymakli proved to be a deathtrap. Ancient wards prevent those Kindred who enter from leaving, making investigations into the tomb-city a one-way proposition to all but the most powerful of vampires — or those who can circumvent the ward by slipping past the veil of the living and the dead.
Tonight, Kaymakli is a dangerous place, where unknown numbers of sleeping elders lie torpid and the treasures of their necromantic troves lie undis- covered. Of those who have risen from their ageless slumber, many have joined the Sabbat in an effort to claim vengeance over the Giovanni. Others have made eldritch pacts with the Tal’Mahe’Ra, however, and that sect considers Kaymakli a “golgotha” — a Kindred stronghold where the barrier between the worlds of the living and the dead is weak. These con- verts to the True Black Hand use Kaymakli as a por- tal between the sect’s Underworld domains and the physical world, and command a host of ancient spirits whose epochal anger they may quickly fan to fury.
