The Maggias are an enormous family, with more than 50 blood relatives located within the city and almost 100 other in-laws, cousins, and live-in acquaintances; any Maggia home is constantly be filled with a variety of relations and hangers-on. The family made its original fortune in the winemaking business. Gilberto Maggia, the family's patriarch, is both head of the Vintners Guild and master of the Guild that governs all the food production trades (butchering, baking, brewing, etc.). 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. Another faction of the family, led by Gilberto’s younger brother Prospero, lives in the Commons section of Caercala, and makes 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. Prospero has been frequently linked by rumor to the activities of underworld organizations, though no criminal charge has ever been levied against him. Gilberto and Prospero have not spoken to each other for many years and communicate with each other solely by innuendo.

Category Guilds

< della Cava | Guildsmen | Warrusche >

Gazeteer MNO | Maldonaise, Kingdom of? >