two can keep a secret...if one of them is dead

[kleenexwoman]

I didn't know this was a real word. I thought it was just something White Wolf made up. Actually, I kind of thought it was a type of flower.

camarilla \kam-uh-RIL-uh; -REE-yuh\, noun:
A group of secret and often scheming advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.

Camarilla comes from Spanish, literally, "a small room," from Late Latin camera, "chamber" ("vault; arched roof" in Latin), from Greek kamara, "vault."

For those of you who aren't LARP dorks: In White Wolf games, the Camarilla used to be the group of vampires who worked together to make sure that mortals didn't know vampires existed. They tended to put vampires in influential places in the mortal world to accomplish this. Still tend to, and usually meet in Elysium (a little safe haven for vampires, one room) to talk about it. The Sabbat were the "bad" vampires who wanted mortals to know and fear vampires. Now there really isn't any single Sabbat, just a bunch of little outlaw groups who cause trouble on and off. It's much less morally ambiguous that way.

Comments

[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

It's new to me, and it's a great word!

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

I laughed at that as well! I knew it meant 'cabinet' in Spanish (there is/was a used clothing shop in San Antonio called Camarilla), but I didn't know it was an English word.