Ever heard of the Panders? The Camarilla has a policy of treating the Caitiff like dirt. Whether you don't know your sire, or you came out the other side of death wrong, in the Cam you're persona non-grata, a second class citizen at very beast and usually stakebait for the local Sheriff.
In the Sabbat though, the supposedly monstrous Sect? Not so. Back during the Third Sabbat Civil War back in the 1950s, the Sabbat's left wing party, the Loyalists, was fighting against the right wing, the Ultra Conservatives, and the Caitiff of the Sabbat, used to being treated like dirt until then, were caught in the middle. Neither side wanted the clanless, but that didn't stop them from organizing. A Caitiff named Joseph Pander got a bunch of his Clanless pals together, waited until the Loyalists were on the verge of claiming victory over the Ultra Conservatives, and then abruptly took the side of the Ultra-Cons, attacking the Loyalists and driving them off from Ultra-Conservative strongholds.
Their charming leader made a pretty good argument to the Consistory after winning the civil war on the side of the Sabbat's right wing. If the Sabbat hated the Antediluvians, why shouldn't the Caitiff, who had no connection to the so-called Blood Fathers, be part of the war against them? Having shown their loyalty and forcing the Ultra-Conservatives to put up or shut up when it came to their ideology, the Consistory recognizes the Caitiff as an official Clan within the Sabbat, under the name Panders, in recognition of their sire.
Since then, the Caitiff have had it better in the Sabbat than any other Sect. Sure, they tend to stick together still, and some elders still prefer to use their Packs for the most dangerous jobs in the Sect, but they enjoy the same freedoms as the rest of the Sabbat. More than that, they have a unique Rite that they've cultivated under the Sabbat's Ritae system, called One of My Tribe. A vampire that undergoes this Rite sheds all previous Clan connection, including their Clan curse, and comes out the other end as a Pander, a Caitiff, taking on a new name in the process. Considering how rough some curses can be, this could be an appealing option to anyone that got Mass-Embraced into a Clan that doesn't fit them, has a curse they can't handle, or just to get away from a bad sire.
Interesting that the Sect most often considered the "bad guys" of VtM treat the Clanless vampire better than anyone else, isn't it?
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