Vampire/Theme/Clans/Overview

Philadelphia is a somewhat unusual city, in that more value tends to be placed on one's Clan that on Covenant. Domain is granted to the Clans to divide up among their members, and the leadership of each Clan serves as a member of the Caucus that handles the majority of the city's governmental affairs. When one of the Kindred has a problem that they need to raise to someone of authority, the default contact for most situations is going to be either their Family's head or their Clan one, and in many cases those two people are one and the same.

The head of each Clan is referred to by a few different terms: most common are Sagamore or Priscus, which are both recognized by most people who have lived in the area for any length of time. Other terms might be individual to a specific clan, simply because its members decided to refer to their leader that way. The method of choosing the head for each Clan is left up to the Clan itself, but with the exception of the Mekhet, leadership hasn't changed for any of the clans in decades.