The v5 Camarilla book makes it clear that the Vermillion Wedding was a mass murder event, with bodies piled everywhere for days and the servants being killed after cleaning it up (except for one, apparently… putting aside that letting them live seems like a Masquerade breach).

I realize that vampires are Bad People, older vampires are Very Bad People, and v5 is more lax about what loses you humanity. But this seems like exactly what the game has said not to do for multiple reasons since the 90s:

• Mass murder makes you lose Humanity; it’s the antithesis of maintaining control.
• One of v5’s big themes is resource scarcity, represented by blood, and it’s way more efficient to drink a non-lethal amount from multiple kine and maintain your herd.
• Mortals notice if a lot of people all end up missing or dead.

How do you square this with your interpretation of the Camarilla at your tables?

My best guess is that the guest list was full of older vampires who are well past caring about mass murder, and the kine were flown in from conflict zones rather than being locally sourced.