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| “ | Sammy and I were fighting because the people in the Hollow deserve better than a two-faced old man who handed out cans of food whenever the mood hit him. Who always did what Sal Marcano told him to do. Even if it pitted him against his own people. | „ |
| ~ Cassandra to Lincoln Clay on her war with Sammy Robinson. |
| “ | Fear drives people to seek out all manner of protection. God, the Invisibles, the lwa. But sometimes that is not enough. | „ |
| ~ Cassandra. |
Cassandra is one of the three tritagonists (alongside Vito Scaletta and Thomas Burke) of the 2016 video game, Mafia III. She is the enigmatic leader of the Haitian mob who becomes an underboss of Lincoln Clay's crime family, and assists him in destroying the Marcano crime family and breaking their control over New Bordeaux.
She was voiced by Erica Tazel.
Biography[]
Background[]
Not much is known about Cassandra's past, but it's noted that she had a troubled childhood. It is unknown if she was born in Haiti or was a first-generation American. A picture is briefly seen of her as a little girl with her father, whom she said emigrated to the U.S. from Haiti. She said her mother noted a streak of alriusm in her and hoped she could parlay that into a career in education, but she could not imagine the idea of her growing up to become a teacher. She also mentions having one sister, whom she said she adored. Despite her hard childhood, she found a companion in her sister, whom she said would play jump rope and hopscotch with until dusk.
As a full-grown woman, Cassandra fell in with the Haitian mafia and lived in Bayou Fantom. Due to the mystery surrounding her, Cassandra was rumored to be a vampire or zombie resurrected via voodoo magic, which is highly unlikely. Cassandra would have a daughter named Caroline, who lived with her mother and her great-grandmother in a shanty in the bayou.
Cassandra managed a voodoo shop that was originally owned by Kilmic Eugene Robbins who bought the building in 1905, but there were no real estate records to show how the property transferred from him to Cassandra. The second floor above the store served as her private residence and office to coordinate criminal affairs. By 1967, Cassandra would learn that the Black Mob leader, Sammy Robinson, would start to serve Italian mob boss Sal Marcano, which led her to attack his rackets. These attacks were commanded by Baka, who had a greater hatred of Sammy than even Cassandra did. Baka's hatred was that Sammy was kicking up to white gangsters. Cassandra's hatred was not as intense, later remarking that while she did not like Sammy paying tribute to Marcano, she was a realist on that part, knowing the Black Mob was too small and weak to avoid this. Cassandra did not like how Sammy commanded Delray Hollow, believing him to run it in an olympian manner, as well as being too timid to stand up to Marcano when he did something that put the neighborhood at a disadvantage. While Sammy had been praised by the neighborhood residents for being a generous man, and later eulogized by Charles Laveau (through his pirate radio broadcast) for helping pay the rent or medical bills of those who were destitute, as well as donating large amounts of food to the local soup kitchen, Cassandra scoffed at this as "a man who gave people a couple cans of food when the need hit him". Baka's attacks on Delray Hollow affected everyone in the neighborhood, as people were being mugged for jewelry and money, and the numbers game was attacked as well, where the people in Delray Hollow bet on the daily numbers. This soon impoverished the Black Mob and caused Sammy to fail to meet his monthly payments to Marcano.
Mafia III[]
Cassandra's faction would be hurt by Sammy's foster son, Lincoln Clay, who decided to eliminate Baka when he learned that Sammy was being attacked by the Haitian mob. She would pretend to be an abuse victim of Baka when Clay killed him. Using a thick Caribbean accent, Cassandra pretended to be a woman in distress and screamed about how she was raped before running off. Lincoln remarked to himself that Haitian girls are out of his league, having ideas alien to him. Shortly afterwards, Sal Marcano turns on Sammy, who kills him as well as setting fire to his bar. Also killed were Sammy's son Ellis and Daniel Burke, the son of Thomas Burke. Cassandra's attacks on the Hollow are terminated for a twofold reason; the Haitian mob has been weakened by the loss of Baka and multiple men; the death of Sammy and Ellis has eliminated the chain of command. Combined with the recent impoverishment, the Black Mob fell apart.
Cassandra would meet Lincoln once again when he wanted to recruit her as his underboss to kill Sal, and she agrees in exchange that he kill Ritchie Doucet. She says that Doucet killed her sister. However, her agreement is on shaky terms. She says that she is going to have a hard getting her men to work with Lincoln Clay, who killed Baka earlier that year. She also demands control of Delray Hollow, to which Lincoln agrees now that the Dixie Mafia controls the neighborhood in the wake of the Black Mob's dissolution. John Donovan later composes a dossier on Cassandra. He remarks that there were so many stories on her he did not know what to believe. Donovan also remarks that he broke into Cassandra's voodoo shop and lifted her fingerprints, however neither the Louisiana State Police nor the FBI returned with a match, which further added to her mysterious past.
After Doucet is killed, Cassandra becomes one of Lincoln's underbosses alongside Vito Scaletta and Thomas Burke, who also want to see the Marcano crime family be destroyed. She can be assigned territories by Clay during sitdowns. While she argues with Burke and Scaletta over whom should run turf, she holds a grudging respect for both men. She also asks Lincoln to seek out Emmanuel, her second in command, in order to intercept marijuana shipments from the Dixie Mafia. Those shipments will be taken to Cassandra's rackets; buttressing their earning power.
Fate[]
Betrayal {Caroline}[]
If Lincoln doesn't give Cassandra any turf, she will end her partnership with him and retaliate by sending her men after him. He will kill her men and critically wounded her, where she will give him a locket that has a picture of her and her late daughter, Caroline. After her demise, Emmanuel Lazare takes over as the leader of the Haitian mob as Lincoln and his other underbosses continue their campaign against the Marcanos.
Subplot Mission {.45 in My Hand}
Cassandra asks Lincoln to steal firearms from the Dixie Mafia, and later the New Bordeaux Police, in order to help arm the residents of Delray Hollow. Lincoln is hesitant about such a mission but agrees that it may help prevent another tragedy that befell her family. If Lincoln completes all assignments, in private he will demand the full story from Cassandra. She admits that it was not sister who was killed by Ritchie Doucet, rather her daughter Caroline. She also admits that some of the feud was her own doing. The Dixies were running a still close to her residence in the bayou. Cassandra's grandmother was a religious woman who considered moonshining a sin to the extent that she destroyed the still. The Dixie Mafia retaliated by gunning down Cassandra's home. Her grandmother was killed instantly. Cassandra attempted to get Caroline behind a dresser to shield her, but she was caught in the crossfire. Cassandra blames herself for all of this, saying if she was armed, Caroline would be alive today. Lincoln is unsure what to make of this after Cassandra has lied to him multiple times before.
Rule Alone[]
Another act of betrayal can happen if Lincoln takes John Donovan's advice on killing his underbosses to have complete control of the city. Lincoln will say that "it ain't personal, just business" as he takes his pistol and shoots her, along with Thomas Burke and Vito Scaletta (assuming they survived untl this point). Her death is immediately avenged, albeit indirectly, by Father James, who anticipated this. Years later, the Monsignor admitted that he did what he did as he saw Lincoln and no better than the likes of Sal Marcano.
Rule Together[]
If Lincoln decides to rule New Bordeaux with his underbosses, Cassandra presumably maintained her rule of the Haitian mob and continued running territories given to her.
Control[]
If Lincoln decides to leave New Bordeaux, Cassandra will take over the city if one of three outcomes happened beforehand: 1.) Cassandra was the sole surviving underboss. 2.) Lincoln awarded Cassandra every district in the city. 3.) Lincoln divided the city between her and the other underbosses, but Cassandra's money and power was sufficient for her to command the Haitian mafia to take over the city on her own.
Cassandra continued her command over the Haitian mafia but her title wasn't respected by others. As FBI agent McGuire remarked "There was not a crime boss from Seattle to Boston who acknowledged Cassandra's rule of New Bordeaux". Many criminals and mobsters, and even the Commission itself, went after Cassandra and her organization, but failed due to her length of control over the city. McGuire says how an Italian mob boss was buried in the sand at high tide, a Columbian drug baron had his throat slashed in an X-rated movie theatre, a Cuban capo was immolated in front of everyone at his daughter's Quinceanera, and a Russian gangster was beaten to death with crowbars in the parking lot of a Briar Patch restaurant. The violence came to the attention of the state legislature. The governor declared martial law on New Bordeaux and locked down the city with the State Guard. Cassandra responded to this by shooting the governor herself in the head when he was giving a speech.
McGuire remarked that Cassandra had to deal with what many considered the greatest criminal syndicate in America :the federal government. McGuire noted that the federal government is like an angry bull elephant; it is murderous, never forgets, and most dangerous of all, it is patient. It would wait until the city gave Cassandra up, or Cassandra surrendered herself to the FBI. Until then, Washington D.C. withdrew all federal funding for New Bordeaux. Public schools closed, roads deteriorated and mounds of uncollected garbage were seen in the streets. In the 2000s, New Bordeaux faced a test from the one who was in charge of us all: God. A hurricane tore through the city. The locals called it "Hurricane Cassandra" as it had caused the same destruction as herself. The infrastructure was in such bad shape and civil defense was nonexistent, which caused a chain reaction. Levees broke and half the neighborhoods in the city, to include Delray Hollow, were deluged. New Bordeaux had become known as an "American Atlantis" due to this destruction, and McGuire says it is unbelievable a major American city can become a ghost town. Cassandra's fate is unknown, as it is was never determined if she perished in the disaster or fled to Bayou Fantom. If she survived, it is also unknown if she retired from crime or continues to rule the remnant of the city from the shadows of the bayou.
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