The Cockscomb Society is an aristocratic Nosferatu bloodline that imitates the Hellfire clubs of the late 19th century. The founder of the Society, Potter Woolsthorpe Wycombe, was loosely affiliated with a certain "Abbey" in the late 19th century. He supplied them with Kindred and other supernatural captives to torture for pleasure, but at some point their behavior reached a limit even he could not tolerate. Wycombe instead became determined to cling to humanity--not in a moral or spiritual sense, but a social and economic one.