New Bordeaux

The City of New Bordeaux is a fictional city located in Bordeaux Parish, Louisiana. It is the most populous city in Bordeaux Parish and is located near the Gulf Coast. It is based off of New Orleans, Louisiana, but it does not replace New Orleans in both canon game and MinneEagle canons.
== Description ==
New Bordeaux is a true southern city, located in coastal Louisiana. It was inspired off of New Orleans, Louisiana, a real-life counterpart, but New Orleans' presence is noted in both canons: the Mafia and the MinneEagle canons. It is the main setting for Mafia III, but appears in a fan-made series - Red Dead Revolution II. The city is situated south of a large lake and north of Bayou Fantom, which serves as the border of the Gulf Coast. There are numerous rivers that separate New Bordeaux, with a lot of swamplands and marshes surrounding the city. It is also a neighbor to Sinclair Parish, which is over a hillside and accessed via a country road west of Bayou Fantom.
== History ==
=== Early History ===
New Bordeaux was established sometime in 1718 within southern Louisiana. It eventually became somewhat of a melting pot city as it became more populated by African Americans, Cubans, Italians, and Irish people, but most of the city was still highly segregated and racist as of the 1960's. Although some shops opened its doors to most other minorities by 1968, the year that Martin Luther King Jr. died, some shops were still segregated to minorities and those who wandered inside would be considered loiters and would be harassed or forced into leaving. By the 1960's, many crime families and gangs fight for control over the city, but the most powerful crime family is the Marcano Crime Family, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who had taken over New Bordeaux thirty years prior.
=== 1936 ===
In 1936, Jonathan Wallace, an outlaw from the American Southwest, traveled to New Bordeaux after receiving a tip about a leading official of the Lasting Lighters being present in or around New Bordeaux and tracked them down to the old Eaglehurst Plantation house, just southeast outside of the city within Bayou Fantom. It turned out to be an ambush and Jon was forced to shoot and kill every attacker there, which included corrupted members of the New Bordeaux Police Department. Jon escaped the plantation with his life and escaped into the city, being chased along the way. The law cornered Jon until he jumped into the nearby river and swam back into Bayou Fantom, escaping into the swamp alive. He never returned to New Bordeaux.
=== 1945 ===
In January of 1945, Lincoln Clay, an African American child of Dominican and Italian descent, was born in New Bordeaux, but was raised in an orphanage. He lived in the orphanage for years until he was formally adopted by the Black Mob, which consisted of Sammy Robinson, his wife Perla, and their son, Ellis, all of whom he became close to.
=== 1952 ===
Around 1952, Vito Scaletta, a former mobster from Empire Bay, New York, was exiled from his former city and sent to work as a racket holder under Sal Marcano for the next decade and a half.
=== 1968 ===
In 1968, African American Vietnam War veteran Lincoln Clay returned home to New Bordeaux in February. However, he returned home to find that the Black Mob, his adoptive family was indebted to the Marcano Crime Family, and the Haitian Mob was giving them trouble. Lincoln took care of the Haitian problem, and the Marcano's hired Lincoln and his crew to rob the Federal Reserve to pay them off once and for all. While the heist went sideways, it ultimately proved successful. However, the Marcano's went back on their word when they betrayed the Black Mob in Sammy's bar, with Giorgi Marcano shooting Lincoln in the face, which he survived as the bullet only grazed the side of his head, and then shooting Danny Burke in the head, Ritchie Doucet stabbing Ellis multiple times in the gut, and Sammy being shot down by Sal, then set the bar alight, leaving the barely still alive Lincoln to die. However, Father James Bellard, the Family's close friend and priest, passed by the bar and saw it lit up, rushing in to find a barely alive Lincoln, rescuing him and pulling his unconscious body out of the bar, allowing him to recover at the orphanage for the next few months.
Lincolm remained in a coma for a little over four months, until he recovered around June. Since then, he had desired to wreak vengeance on not just Sal and Giorgi, but on the entire Marcano family until there are no surviving members left. Lincoln spent the next four months hunting down and taking over the city racket by racket, and death by death of the Marcano Crime Family. After finally drawing Sal and Giorgi into a corner, Lincoln confronted both of them at their unfinished hotel and casino and stabbed Giorgi with his knife, and after having a drink with Sal and discussing their past and comparisons, Lincoln finally stabbed Sal and threw him out of the window of his penthouse.
Outside, Lincoln was offered a deal by Leo Galante: end his blood feud now, and only give back 20% of all of his kickback in exchange that he could run New Bordeaux however way he wanted, or if he so desired, he could leave without any problems. After discussing what to do next with his trusted comrade John Donovan and Father James, Lincoln ultimately resolved to leave New Bordeaux, leaving control of the city within Vito Scaletta's hands, earning him his dream of running everything his way.
=== 2016 ===
Around 2016, Father James still lived in New Bordeaux, even taking part in a documentary about Lincoln, and Vito, now elderly, still lived atop the old casino that Sal tried to open, and he spat on his grave one last time by not just finishing the casino he tried so hard to build, but opening another, turning New Bordeaux into the "Las Vegas" of the South.
=== Post 2016 ===
It was noted that Vito died in his penthouse sometime after 2016 from old age.