Interaction

  "Inside Lethe'aime, order is King. But outside, in Lethe'min, strength rules. Those richers inside the city spend all of their time reading and studying, working and researching. But out here in the wasteland sun, we got no time for such things. We got to be strong out here, or we die. That's the law of the land outside the walls. While we're still a part of Lethe'aime, we're about as different as can be. Us and them are separated by walls of stone what reaches to the skies, and we don't bother them, and they don't bother us. It's better that way. Outside the walls of Lethe, them that lives on the inside are not welcome, though we don't do nothing to stop them. We're scared of them, though nobody out here would admit it. We can't show weakness out here or it'll be called on, and no one wants to hear the piper's calling out here.

They used to come out here all the time, trying to civilize us, make us more like them. It wasn't a popular venture, to say the least. We're just too different, us too used to struggling to survive, them too used to surviving without struggle. They wanted order in the streets, to set up shop in form of a government like theirs. They suggested we vote for it, democratic and all. Us who are used to taking power by force weren't able to understand what they were after. And if that weren't enough, they was wanting them to vote, and not us.

We made them forget that idea, because what room do they who've had no hand in the fighting have to tell us who to follow? It's not favoritism what makes a man be followed, not votes, it's stones, plain and simple. And if you don't got that, you got nothing. Out here, you have only the clothes on your back, the knife in your hand, and your name, and you protect all of them until your dying breath, because that's all you have, and you can't let anyone take them away from you. That's the way life is in Junction Point, and you can't fight it, can't change it, you just live it, learn it, go with it, and try to carve out a piece for yourself and your gang. Thanks for the drink, stranger... What'd you say your name was?"

Relationship with the Mage City

All outside the walls are very wary of the mage city's walls. They don’t understand it, don’t know what goes on inside, how it got there, or who lives there and they don’t care. Deep down they are all afraid of it simply because it is the unknown, however none of them speak of it and it's high marble walls have just become part of the background, dirtied at the bottom as if the vileness of the outcast city has washed like waves upon it's walls. If a strange sound comes from inside the walls at night, many may look it's way and stopping in their tracks, but none of them speaking of it and none of them daring enough, or caring enough to find out what it was.

Gangs

Mostly a "melting pot" of the races most poor and outcast individuals within one city or region who are trying to work together to survive.  It is most common that they form of gangs who get together not only as pure instinct for protection, but also as a very loose structure for leadership. 

The city is subdivided in many sections that seem to have no rhyme or reason – though it is most likely to find guilds primarily composed of one race near the corresponding statue to their god.  Sometimes, the palisade sections are grouped around an inner section, where the most powerful gangs survive.  (Think of it like a daisy with a central eye).

Leadership structure is more or less "law of the jungle", those strong or brave enough to step up and try to lead do so, and those who know they cant don’t. The gang leaders have to constantly keep in mind that there are others who would want that power as well. And the entire system is full of greed and corruption. The thieves and poorest of poor on the streets not associated with a gang perhaps could find themselves paying a "tax" to "Boss Smith" for the gang's protection.

OOC Comments for further reading:

As far as the feel of the place, I recommend seeing the movie "The Gangs of New York" for an excellent interpretation of "The Five Points" located in what is now downtown Manhattan. The poor Irish immigrants who migrated over created one of the most dirty and dangerous communities in all of the country's history.
 

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