The tradition of the mafia could be traced back to the ancient days when Siracusa was just a barren region. According to the founding myth, the tradition's origin could be traced back to the six children of the "She-Wolf," the leader of the Sette Colli tribe. Even though they were related by blood, her children often fought against each other over food and land. As they grew up to adulthood, they started to found their own tribes, worsening their relationship. Saddened by her children's bloody feud, the She-Wolf chose to "ascend into a moon's shadow."
The ascension of the She-Wolf prompted the tribe to made peace with each other. They reorganized their respective tribes into "families," sometimes known by the term famiglia, and divided six of the seven hills equally to each other with the seventh, the Sette Colli City, dedicated to the She-Wolf's memory. Since then, the six Families are able to coexist in peace for centuries to come, leading to their branching into the current Twelve Famiglie.
The modern nation-state of Siracusa was founded following its independence from Leithanien centuries ago. The period was marked with strives and lawlessness, making it echoeing the ancient feud of the Six Families. Sixty years ago, in the year 1039, Signora Sicilia, the current head of state, unified the Twelve Famiglie under the Curia Grigio to end such chaotic period through the religion of the Lateran Church and a new legal system called the "Pistole e Ordine,“ the "Gun and Order." Under her order, all famiglie must share their powers with each other equally with three prominent one, the Bellones, the Rossati, and the Saluzzoes, leading the Curia. Since then, there is a temporary peace among the famiglie marked with prosperity brought by Columbians of Siracusan descent through their wealth and technologies, especially during the heydays of the Texas famiglia.
Behind its outward peace, however, conspiracies and political schemes are prominent behind the scenes where each one of them vying to become the sole famiglia of the country. In the meantime, the common folks are living under the threat of the famiglie in which they will face a life-and-death situation if they are accidentally involve in their matters. Even then, newer generations have been finding their own answers to rebel against such ancient tradition and build a new country without the famiglie.
At one point, a diplomatic crisis between Siracusa and Gaul almost occurred in response to an "authentic" Siracusan restaurant in Lingones, Gaul's capital, which offered a pasta with sauce made from chocolate and Originium Slug liver, which was seen as an "insult" despite being praised by Gaulish nobles.