The Bridge Wars — A Turning Point in the Sprawl

In the nights following the collapse of Camden into Sabbat hands, the region became a festering wound in the sprawl, a wasteland of broken Masquerade, ritual carnage, and feral ideology. But it wasn’t until the Bridge Wars that the true shape of the conflict emerged.

The assault began with a coordinated strike on the Walt Whitman Bridge. Sabbat shock troops and Anarch saboteurs launched a surprise attack, detonating key structural points and flooding the area with frenzy and fire. The bridge was reduced to twisted steel and blood-slick concrete within hours. The Camarilla, tipped off by a Nosferatu informant whose fate remains unknown, was able to mobilize just in time to hold the Ben Franklin Bridge, but only barely.

Though the Philadelphia side of the Ben Franklin remains under Camarilla control, the New Jersey side was lost. It is believed that the Sabbat now guard it like a sacred threshold, warding it with blood sorcery and ritual traps. Kindred who attempt to cross from the Philly side are rarely seen again. Some say their souls are shredded before their bodies hit the water. Others claim the bridge itself hungers.

In response, the Camarilla pivoted fast. They carved out the I-95 corridor, launching a brutal counteroffensive that decimated several Anarch enclaves caught between Camden and Trenton. The corridor is now a fortified artery of Camarilla influence, patrolled by ghouls, bloodhounds, and ritual sentinels. It is not safe, but it is theirs.

Only the two northern bridges, the Tacony-Palmyra and the Betsy Ross, remain reliably passable. They are watched, warded, and occasionally contested, but they offer the only stable crossing points between Philadelphia and the New Jersey sprawl. Kindred who travel them do so with caution, knowing that even a whisper of likely Sabbat movement can turn a safe passage into a death sentence.

The Bridge Wars reshaped the geography of power. Camden is now a no man’s land. The bridges are scars. And every crossing is a gamble with fate.