Maggia Family
The Maggias are an enormous family of merchants, with more than 50 blood relatives located within the city of Haven, and almost 100 other in-laws, cousins, and live-in acquaintances (apprentices, wards, old family friends with no other place to go). [var:private-access-phre3d]This book can only mention a few of these individuals, but it may help the GM to remember that any Maggia home will constantly be filled with a variety of relations and hangers-on, giving him leeway to insert almost any kind of NPC encounter he wishes.
The family made its original fortune in the winemaking business. Gilberto Maggia, the family’s patriarch, is both head of the Guild of Provenders that governs all the food production trades (winemaking, butchering, baking, brewing, etc.) and a member of the Council of Borough. There has been a Maggia on the Council of Boroughs since it was first established, and their opinion has traditionally carried great weight in the Council’s deliberations.
Gilberto and his sisters Portia and Gallia form the nucleus of the branch of the Maggia that live in The Heights; they want to reduce rather than intensify the conflict between the nobles and the guildsmen, and seek to identify compromises that can bring the two groups together to work toward a common prosperity.
The family’s home in Haven is located in The Heights
Another faction of the family, led by Gilberto’s younger brother Prospero, lives in The Commons section of Haven, and make their money through heavier industrial enterprises like grain milling. Prospero loudly defames his siblings for abandoning their simple origins, and claims that they have become as pretentious as the nobles they supposedly supplanted as the city’s administrators.
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Prospero has been frequently linked by rumor to the activities of the underworld organization known as The Black Hand, though no criminal charge has ever been levied against him (for more information on the operations of The Black Hand. Gilberto and Prospero have not spoken to each other for many years and communicate with each other solely by innuendo.
Family Leader: Gilberto Maggia
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