The Flamingo Casino was envisioned as a symbol of gangster Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel's desperate bid for legitimacy in his life. Plagued during its construction by wartime shortages, Mafia ties and ill luck. The grand opening was a flop due to its last-minute dating and inclement weather. Siegel himself never got to see his creation become profitable - early in 1947, he was famously shot to death.

The small and scattered Awakened population of Las Vegas were astute in noticing a familiar symbolism in the construction of Siegel's casino. The ostentatious hotel, erected in what was then the desert, seven miles south of Las Vegas proper appeared like a flop, but to a Hermetic card sharp, L�on Fitzurse, bani Fortunae, there were potent connections all over the place. Lines of sacred geometry forming a crucial juncture of mystical energy, the inauspicious location in a desert wasteland evocative of the The Tower of the Tarot arcana. Even Siegel's death had powerful symbolism to a member of Fitzurse's Cabal. Euthanatos Madeleine Porter saw in the gangster's demise a re-telling of an ancient myth; the King that provides prosperity to his Kingdom by sacrificing himself for its sake.

The question of if Siegel consciously affected these portents or was unwillingly enslaved to them went unanswered at his death. Over the next few years, Fitzurse and his Cabal quietly assumed the Flamingo, then concealed themselves within the building's architecure. The discovery that Siegel had built a large enclosed vault in the building in the paranoia of his last days made the perfect beginnings of a sanctum. Though Reality had been slowly strangleholded by the forces of Reason, in the middle of the 20th century, the Ascension War had not reached full-blown prorportions, and the proper rituals to further protect the vault from the eyes of enemies attracted little attention. Once founded, the Chantry opened its doors, cautiously, to their fellowes in the Nine Traditions. The transient nature of Las Vegas ensured that most of their guests were transient fixtures, rather than permanent additions, but over time, secondary cabals formed and a loose fellowship established itself.

Sometime in the late 1960s, L�on's tenure ended after a protracted conflict with a rival collaboration of Verbena and Ecstatics, and a junior member of the Chantry, Salvatore DeVito rose to take his place. The people he gathered around him to share administrative responsibility changed several times in the ensuing decades - presently, they are a tightly-knit trimvirate comprising of himself, a relatively young Cultist of Ecstasy, Tara Kalavan, and Clark Ahti a Dreamspeaker who fulfills almost exactly the same obligations as the woman who preceded him.

When the Open Eye arrived in Vegas in 2007, the Tower Inverted raised neither hand nor protest against the newcomers' founding of a power base in the city. If anything, they just continued with operations as usual; castling around their assets in the onslaught of city-wide problems Gavin O'Neil seemed to bring with him from New York like an ill wind.

Their doors have never been formally closed, even if they have been prudently cautious about advertising their presence. With the escalation of ruin in Las Vegas, the remaining mages of Tower Inverted have begun to extend their cautious hands out into the circles of the Awakened a little more readily.

Appearance:
The casino has been expanded considerably from its original structure. Hotel towers have been added to the original building; the entrance doors and driveway, once lit by a single neon sign, now lay beneath a dazzling array of red and gold lights that almost make the place look like it is ablaze. At night, the walls are illuminated in trademark, rosy, flamingo pink. Like most gaming establishments on the strip, the doors open into a dim, timeless haze of a gaming floor, a lounge and attractions such as the flamingo enclosure.