The Camarilla is a construct made by victorious elders for victorious elders. Everything in it (from the veneer of legitimaticy to the scrapes of powers and respect given to the youth) serves the ultimate purpose of keeping them in power, and the neonates in check. Most vampires know this truth.
As you say, the Camarilla is stronger when it keeps a facade of "equality" but it's just a facade anyway. The Prince of London is a serial diablerist, addicted to vampiric blood and routinely kill "useless" neonates to satisfy her hunger. The Prince of Berlin was known to kill on sight any vampire entering in his city and refusing to be blood bond to him. Both of these things are close to common knowledge. And nobody can/will do a thing, because Princes are the ultimate power in the Camarilla, unless they do something so absurd that the Inner Circle must intervene to preserve the whole organization.
Sometimes, it goes to a boiling point. The sheer idiocy and brutality of the Prince of Los Angeles led to the Californian Anarch Revolt. But 99% of the time? Princes get away with it, because they have the personal and structural power to do so.
So, basically, rules are for the lower people, not for the Princes. Unless they are weak Princes, or engage in something so heinous/dangerous that even the very very lenient Inner Circle must intervene. As such, the example of a rulebreaking Prince in Sins of the Sires is a very common one, and his "crime" is almost laughable compared to some examples (like the ones given above).
As you say, the Camarilla is stronger when it keeps a facade of "equality" but it's just a facade anyway. The Prince of London is a serial diablerist, addicted to vampiric blood and routinely kill "useless" neonates to satisfy her hunger. The Prince of Berlin was known to kill on sight any vampire entering in his city and refusing to be blood bond to him. Both of these things are close to common knowledge. And nobody can/will do a thing, because Princes are the ultimate power in the Camarilla, unless they do something so absurd that the Inner Circle must intervene to preserve the whole organization.
Sometimes, it goes to a boiling point. The sheer idiocy and brutality of the Prince of Los Angeles led to the Californian Anarch Revolt. But 99% of the time? Princes get away with it, because they have the personal and structural power to do so.
So, basically, rules are for the lower people, not for the Princes. Unless they are weak Princes, or engage in something so heinous/dangerous that even the very very lenient Inner Circle must intervene. As such, the example of a rulebreaking Prince in Sins of the Sires is a very common one, and his "crime" is almost laughable compared to some examples (like the ones given above).
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