Timothy 6:10 said that the love of money was the root of all evil, yet society has dictated that it is that small collection of coins that makes the world go round. The Baddacelli decided long ago that there was one sure way to avoid the evils of currency: by controlling the way it passed to and from them. To this end, they established themselves as a merchant family long before they ever felt the cold touch of the Requiem. The Baddacelli hail from Northern Italy in the early Renaissance and they have extended their influence across the world, following trade routes and setting themselves up amongst many of the international commercial companies of today. Small in numbers they may be, but their aptitude for business manipulation is rivaled only by the likes of the Ventrue in its scale and magnitude. It is maybe for this reason that they have become diametrically opposed to the Licinii family of the Ventrue in a covert war that has been fought for the best part of five hundred years. Not long after the family entered into Kindred society, they soon realized that eternity was an asset not to be cast aside by any means. With it they could plan extensive expansion into Europe and across the world, controlling mortal monetary affairs in the market places of the 1500s through to the stock markets of the modern nights. However, as they set about their expansion into Northern Europe they ran into problems. The noble houses of the courts they set their eyes upon to become their primary clients in the area, since they were the largest centers of wealth in the Old World, were being gradually taken over by the Licinii. Co-incidence or direct rivalry from the start, none but the oldest of the Baddacelli know, but it quickly developed into an underground war when it was clear that the two families were in direct opposition over the same goal. Whilst they donâ??t share their enemies hatred of their opponents, they are not inclined to liking them very much either. They donâ??t miss the opportunity to score a hit on their adversaries and when they set themselves up in a city, they first set about making a vast contact network to learn of any Licinii presence, which they then begin to tear apart a small bit at a time through digging up their nastiest secrets and turning them against them. Resourceful and the keepers of everyone elseâ??s secrets, they are information brokers without par with extensive financial backing to call upon. But just how far has their business empire extended around the globe in the last five hundred years?