"It seems to be working so far. The Camarilla's been around almost six hundred years, and vampires in general a lot longer than that. It, uh, isn't always with methods as nice as the ones I talked about, but so far we haven't managed to all get ourselves wiped out by hunters or werewolves or anything else that doesn't like us."

He sighs and shakes his head. "When it really breaks down, it usually goes in favor of the mortals - there's a lot more normal humans out there than there are vampires. My city was pretty much abandoned by Kindred for five years because a conflict got too big and spilled over into the mortal world. Most of the vampires involved in that mess met final death; the ones who didn't just had the sense to bug out."