The Tremere have always been the support of the Camarilla, it's base and part of it's power. More so in New York than elsewhere, the Chantry of Five Boroughs is renowned world wide for it's show of adaptability and of how Thaumaturgy can be used to combat the enemies of the Sect. One of the reasons the Camarilla even lasted in New York spells the Tremere, and everyone knows it. No small part of that was due to the former Regent of the Chantry, Aisling Sturbridge. She is now appointed Pontifex of the Region, as the predecessor Peter Dorfmann is believed to have been slain when Washington DC fell to the Sabbat.