Caliburn Island

Caliburn Island is an island off the coast of Boston, Massachusetts in New England. It has great historical and political significance to Kindred society, and has a higher-than-usual kindred-to-kine ratio.

Once the location of a coastal port town, the island might have been the first stop of many vampires coming to the New World. But in particular, is was the place vampires of the Old World sent the unruly or the mildly criminal who, by status or boon, might have been spared the Blood Hunt and instead sent across the Atlantic to expand their Elders’ reach and simultaneously be put out of the way.

From this reputation as the island of ill-fitting Kindred, House Morningstar arose, where a group of outspoken but well-lineaged Ventrue transformed it from a house of ill-fitting Kindred to a crossroads of the world. In its golden age, Caliburn Island was an emblem of industry on the East Coast, serving as a resource and transportation hub that funneled the goods of kindred and kine through its shipyards.

Today, however, that iron grip has weakened. A boom in the mortal population over time made the control and influence more difficult to retain over time; the Camarilla still claims praxis over Caliburn Island, but in practice, the they only really hold influence over most of Avalon.

In years past, The Camarilla also had a very strong control over Avalon's immediate suburb to the south, a town called Sunset. But times have changed, and House Morningstar’s influence wore thin over time. Then came the fall of House Morningstar, and the reality-shattering revelations: Caliburn Island has been a supernatural dumping ground for centuries, and House Morningstar apparently has been reaping the benefits of controlling powerful buried artifacts. The head of House Morningstar, Leto, is rapidly losing allies in the Camarilla and many members of House Morningstar are dead or bloodhunted. Now, Caliburn Island has been sealed off by an ancient agreement between sects, and the future of its populous is uncertain.

Avalon

The unofficial capital of the island, Caliburn City is the historical center of the island's culture.

• Downtown is the business district of Avalon, full of tall skyscrapers including the Pentex building.
• Sunset is a suburb of Downtown, including many notable buildings.
• Thatcher is an impoverished community claimed by Clan Assamite.
• Norfal is the neighborhood surrounding Caliburn High School and Caliburn Library, claimed by Clan Malkavian.
• LaGrange Hills is a wealthy residential and suburban area claimed by Clan Ventrue.
• Saltwell Hills is a residential neighborhood originally founded by servants to residents of LaGrange Hills estates.
• Glenburg is a commercial neighborhood surrounding the cities primary park.
• Eastlake is a lower class neighborhood named after the lake it borders.
• Wigham is a rural part of the city, historically claimed by Clan Gangrel before their departure from the Camarilla decades ago. It is now the Rack for the Camarilla.
• Crowding is a neighborhood that was created as sellers tried and failed to extend Glenburg's commercial district, instead Crowding it.
• Short West is a young and thriving artistic community claimed by Clan Toreador.
• Long West is an upcoming brewery district, consisting primarily of taverns and bars.
• Burghampton is the site of Caliburn General Hospital and is claimed by Clan Tremere.
• Camelon is a district of warehouses that used to be the production center of the city before the buildings aged out. Now primarily used for storage.
• Amesbury is an impoverished community on the edges of the city.
• Buxton is a middle working-class neighborhood.
• Messina is a factory production district in Avalon.
• Quintin is a lower working-class neighborhood.
• Carhaix is a middle class business district in Avalon.
• Redding is the site of the city docks and a somewhat shady part of town, claimed by Clan Brujah.
• Clan Nosferatu holds dominion over all sewers in the city.

Brighton Beach

The modern and more touristy-side of the island, Brighton Beach has its own neighborhoods as well:

• The Strip is where the bridge from Boston connects to Caliburn Island, leading to many tourist-focused stores and attractions being located here.
• Victoria Hills is a neighborhood that overlooks the ocean and the Caliburn Bridge, designed for the modern upper class.
• Midtown is the cultural district of Brighton Beach, filled with many institutes of the arts.
• Bridgerton is a more traditional upper class neighborhood, known for it's spaciousness and trees.
• Oldtown is the center of Brighton Beach, with some of the original buildings of it's founding located here.
• Hearthfire is the traditional residential neighborhood of Oldtown.
• Downing is a commercial district, originally named for the textile stores that operated here.
• Waxwood is a middle class industrial district named after it's production of stringed instruments.
• The Boardwalk is an entertainment district, home of music venues and clubs.
• The Outlets is the modern commercial district of Brighton Beach for those that avoid the tourist traps of The Strip.
• Nexus is the modern tech neighborhood of Brighton Beach, full of startups, cyber dealers, and silicon-focused entrepreneurial endeavors.
• Branbury is an impoverished neighborhood filled with the lower class.
• Brewerhouse is a brewery district, serving both the lower class of Branbury and the working class of the Royce Industrial Park.

Royce Industrial Park

• Docks District is a district almost entirely consisting of docks and their related buildings.
• The Walls is a district named after the giant walls of cargo containers that are stacked along the shore here.
• The Storehouses is a district that was originally production focused, but has been abandoned in favor of newer buildings. Many of the buildings here are abandoned or used for storage.
• Steeltown is an industrial district that produces steel from the iron being processed on Caliburn.
• The Grindhouses is an industrial district that produces items from the nearby Steeltown. It's named after the sounds of grinding of steel that can be heard within it.
• The Tenderloin is a working-class residential neighborhood primarily consisting of steelworkers.
• The Flank is an impoverished neighborhood that contains the slaughterhouses of the island.
• The Belly is a middle class white collar neighborhood for the industrial park, primarily consisting of management of steelworkers.

Other Locations in Caliburn

• Saunders Ridge
• Isle of Morgan
• Chalice Hill Cemetery sits between Avalon and Saunders Ridge, serving as the resting place for a wide-range of demographics.
• The Rocky Fields sits to the southeast of Avalon, known for being un-farmable to the settlers, boulders are the only thing that grow here.
• The Middle Fields is mostly farmland, nestled between Avalon and Brighton Beach.
• Oaken Fringes is an expansive and mostly uninhabited area to the northeast of Brighton Beach.
• Pearl Island sits in the very center of Caliburn, named after a pearl in an oyster.
• Breaker Island is known for the many massive underwater boulders surrounding it, leading to the requirement of old shipwrecks to be broken down upon the island.
• Maiden Bay is a shallow bay that large ships cannot enter, named by sailors who claimed to see beautiful women in the water.
• Rocky Straight sits between the Isla de Morgain and the mainland, known for the rocks hidden within.

Notable Caliburn people

Caliburn City Council

	Katie O'Connor Mayor of Caliburn
John Berger Chief of Police		Howie Samson Fire Chief
Ted Williams City Auditor		Cindy Adams City Coroner
Bobby Carl Director, Public Works		Karen Copperfield, Esq. City Prosecutor
Jennifer Arthur Director, Community Affairs		Dr. Nancy Hale Director of Health
Brian Berly, Esq. Member at-large (Owner, Berly & Berly Co. LPA)		Dan Spangle Member at-large (Owner, Dan & Sons LLC)
Dr. Elaina Mercer Chief Technical Officer (Director, Housing NOW! Agency)		Ramesh Langathan Member at-large (Principal, CIHS)

List of other Caliburn Municipality Positions

Chief of Community Engagement	-	Trayvon Reed
Chief of Communications	-	Patricia Lawson
Chief of Economic Opportunities	-	Michael O'Hara
Chief of Acheology	-	Samantha Green
Chief of the Environment	-	Edard Blake
Chief of Historic Perservation	-	Victor Marshall
Chief of Landmarks Commision	-	Rubio Donnelly
Chief of Parks & Recreation	-	Milolsav Vega
Chief of Equity and Inclusion	-	Mayra Kahmiri
Chief of Policy & Strategic Planning	-	Navinder Cole
Chief Financial Officer/ Collector Treasurer	-	Rick Bennet
Chief of Human Services	-	Caty Fuller
Chief of Operations	-	Willem Brooks
Chief Information Officer	-	Angela Newton
Chief of Streets	-	James Denson
Mayor Chief of Staff	-	Rachel Carlisle
Executive Assistant to the Mayor	-	Steven Harper
Island Reeve	-	Jenn Clarke
Chief of Arts & Culture	-	Caroline Summers