Editing Sabbat (Vampire) (section)

==Culture==
The Sabbat, despite what you might expect, actually have a lot of ways to show they're on the same side. They have their own gang colour (Purple), an official symbol (See image), and tons of gang-signs, code words, passwords, gestures, secret handshakes and more that are *supposed* to help them identify each other. In reality though, very few Sabbat members know all of them, and have to learn to recognize one another by face. 

Usually only a Bishop or Archbishop (Think more or less a Sabbat Baron/Prince) can recognize every single Sabbat member in their domain, which of course is a total pain in the ass to do. Even worse so with nomadic packs of 'em. On top of all this, the individual packs of the Sabbat can have their own symbol, gesture, or other way of identifying themselves. Undercover Sabbat packs have even more secret and complicated ones. 

Its become common for younger pack members to start wearing crucifixes, or have them tattooed somewhere. They do it because they find it hilarious, the irony of being damned but wearing something symbols of God and Salvation. Older, more mature Lasombra think the practice is annoying as hell, or sometimes even blasphemous, even if they wear such a cross themselves. Fucking hypocrites. Their argument is that the neonates do not believe in their own damnation, or in God's immortal power over their souls. And they... apparently do? Weird cunts.

A lot of neonates in the Sabbat wonder why they need to be so damn sneaky all the time. The whole point of the Sabbat, after all, is to tear down the Camarilla and Masquerade and rule humans openly. Sabbat elders don't give an answer, given they lived through the Inquisition, and even some Bishops struggle to think up a good response. The typical attitude is that being a 'True Sabbat' is a matter of importance and distinction. You can't just have anyone and everyone waltzing in and claiming all the rights of being a Sabbat member if they haven't proved themselves. And given the pack structure of the Sabbat, many members think of themselves as being in a gang, or warband. Even have their own initiation rites and other ways of making themselves feel more special. D'aww.

The higher up one goes in the Sabbat ranks, the less frequently such symbols are seen, and the attitude of "Us against the world" turns into "ME against the world." In order to survive long enough to even reach that high up, a Kindred needs to be able to live for themselves. Fight hard for every single scrap of profit or any advantage they can get their grubby hands on. Unlike the Camarilla, the ranking isn't as rigid and as such there's no one to promote each other. The only rank and title they have is what they have the power to take. Both the Tzimisce and the Lasombra encourage this dog-eat-dog culture, as it's almost like a form of natural selection. In their eyes, this way only the strongest, smartest and most capable Sabbat end up leading. The rest are useless canon fodder.