Themes: capitalism, greed, entitlement, privilege, inheritance, fascism
If Sterling was lucky for a slum kid, their child, Ardor, was luckier than most in La Cage. Born to relative comfort, they feel very entitled to their good fortune and their family’s position and determined to improve it. After finishing their Central Jamrock high school education, they came back home full of ideas about how to improve their parents’ struggling family business - mainly by focusing on the bottom line, cutting costs and not coddling the ungrateful riff-raff who work for them.
They persuaded their parent to put Ardor in charge of managing the day-to-day operations of the workshop, and since then, they have been gradually tightening the screws. They regularly clash with their parent and others in their family about their pragmatic, cutthroat strategies and have taken to occasionally going around their parent altogether - better to ask forgiveness than permission, after all.
Everybody who lives in La Cage is mostly poor and desperate. The families and professionals living in Apartment Blocks are the ones who really try to keep some semblance of normality in their lives. The Block B consists mostly of tradesmen and people of other desirable professions. People with no exceptional wealth or status, but the ones who are good and honest at their job and are beneficial to the La Cage. Educated, but not burgeois - teacher, nurse, students, social worker or people jilted from Block A. They mostly want to stay far from the troubles and extreme ideologies (to a small degree of success) but are willing to help each other as much as they can - like a big family.
You surely heard about Von Bergen, didn't you? The old LEGENDARY Von Bergen, a mighty hero who saved the King himself near La Cage in the times of the Revolution. It is said, that he was a real chevalier and maybe even an ancestor to some La Cage folks! There is a society of sentimentalists, avid fans, amateur historians, and military veterans of the ancient regime. Their woe is forgetting of the old ways, their main concern promoting the great acts of the heroes (and also the King) killed by the Revolution.
Some young people of Revachol felt lost in life. Nothing made sense and they saw everything around them going to shit. Slowly, they realized what was causing this - the foreigners, bringing in drugs and crime, and the liberals that love them so much. Then, a solution hit them - fascism! The Iron Cadence is formed out of fascists (although the less radical of them prefer being called Traditionalists) of varying degrees. Not necessarily racist fascists, but quite often that. Joined together by a sense of the world being wrong and wanting to put it to right, by staying in SUPREME HEALTH, having SUPREME LEADERSHIP, and basking in SUPREME FRIENDSHIP.
