There
is no death! What seems so is
transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian,
whose portal we call death.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The
Giovanni have been in Baltimore longer than nearly every other clan in the
city. However, their power has waxed
and waned throughout the years, and they have spent much of their time gaining
back what was once theirs anyway. This
has prevented them from expanding too far, too fast. This is mostly due to Viktor Albrecht's machinations, as the
Prince is afraid of the Giovanni getting too much control over the city. None the less, the Giovanni have a near
monopoly on the ports of Baltimore (most of which were retrieved after the
Sabbat were driven out of the Delmarva Peninsula) - and Baltimore is the fifth
largest port in the United States, making the city a valuable asset to the
Necromancers.
Constanza Giovanni
The
childe of the late head of the Giovanni in Baltimore, Constanza was the obvious
heir to her sire's domains. She has
already loosened a few of the tight restrictions that her father, Lucio, held
over their clan, allowing a flourishing criminal empire to grow under Anthony
Milliner. She uses her charm and her
beauty to get a leg up for the Giovanni, and she has developed some good
business contacts for herself (and for her clan). She works most often with Guiseppi Valerio and James Chamberlain,
and has gained the respect of each of those parties.
Anthony Milliner
The
purveyor of the majority of the Giovanni holdings (namely, all of the ports
that the family calls their own), Anthony Milliner is probably the highest
profile of all the Giovanni in Baltimore.
He controls the shipping facilities for the Necromancers, and he
secretly allows drug and gun trade for Derrick Anderson and Carter Macavoy to slip
through his warehouses (for a fee, of course).
Anthony is eager to get the Giovanni back into more criminal activities,
seeing them as merely an extension of legitimate business and an important part
of the Giovanni income. With the death
of Lucio, nothing stands in Anthony's way save his own shortcomings.
Giovanni
Holdings
The
Giovanni call a good deal of the city their own, but especially its waterways
and its docks. Little Italy has long been
ground zero for the Giovanni, and there is no denying the influence that the
Necromancers have on the area, especially in the form of Boccaccio's, one of
the premiere Italian restaurants in the United States (and the headquarters for
the Giovanni). Anthony Milliner
controls - or at least knows the person who owns - nearly every port in the
city, most notably the Port of Baltimore itself, allowing the Giovanni to
dictate what goes in and out. And their
firm grip on Westminster Hall and Baltimore's Catacombs allows the Giovanni
easy access to as many dead bodies as they need for their fiendish Necromancy.