Kyle Strathcona is a Ventrue antitribu of great influence in the Northern Territories of the Sabbat. Kyle began unlife as a diplomat between Toreador-controlled Scotland and the southern English Ventrue. His skills as a leader and politician gained him the princedom of Montreal in the "new" Canadian territories in North America. However, he grew sick of the hypocrisy of the Camarilla, and defected to the Sabbat soon afterwards, became Ventrue antitribu and was made Cardinal of Canada and the Northern Territories.