Themes: traditionalism, prejudice, care, soft power
Zair is deeply convinced that the world is a good, right place. Of course, not everyone might make it - but good things happen to good people. Just look at how Sterling, their parent, pulled themselves up by their bootstraps! While their sibling Ardor focused on business, Zair decided to follow their passion for the community and shaping hearts and minds, and became a teacher - they believe that words are often the greatest weapon. They love their job and see all the neighbourhood’s children as their own - and like a good parent, they are ready to separate the wheat from the chaff. Their smooth and caring nature makes them well-respected by the parents, and they work hard to ensure that good and deserving children will have the futures they should have. And the bad seeds, those whose parents are drunkards, immigrants or layabouts - well, Zair knows how to cleverly apply discipline and humiliation to teach them their place.
After all, what is so bad about a bit of a return to tradition? People knew how to do things back in the day.
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.
