Sunset Empires

Nineteenth Century China and Japan are in turmoil. European Colonial powers exert barbaric influence. The Quincunx is outraged by the intrusion of Western Cainites, but are the outsiders actually responsible for the chaos? Are the Devil-Tigers party to the Opium Trade? Is the Quincunx's indignation over invasion a ruse to hide its own complicity? Power makes for strange bedfellows.

Sunset Empires is a historical setting for Kindred of the East. Neatly framed between the Opium Wars and the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, this sourcebook not only enables players and Storytellers to participate in a rich period of the Middle Kingdom's history but allows them to shape the future. Welcome to the dawn of the Fifth Age.

Sunset Empires is part of the history of the World of Darkness; therefore nobody gets to play the part of the wholly innocent victim. Everyone takes a role in setting the course of the Victorian Age; everyone must eventually pay the piper. This book serves as a historical setting, covering the 19th century almost in its entirety, but it also serves as a vehicle to involve characters in one of Asia's most trying times. Why discuss the Opium Wars when characters can take part in them? Why mention Japan's rapid modernization if characters can't join the internecine fighting dividing the Japanese uji