Introducing the Charkozu family

There are two kinds of people in Armada Prefecture: the citizens and the elites. The citizens came here, and still do, because they think it's better than staying up north. The elites come here because they know that staying up north would be even worse.

My great-grandparents came here because they tried their hand playing a round of politics in Cloudbirth. In the game of politics, they got the worst hand: good enough to look like serious contenders to power. By the time the cards got reshuffled, they had been assigned to a prestigious military post in Armada Harbor, from which the Charkozu family has never recovered.

In Cloudbirth politics, you see, prestigious assignments in the Frontier Prefectures is immurement in a brick wall. Only more polite, you see. Courtiers use it as a way to simultaneously reinforce the house and rid it of unwanted members.

Their children's children's children are still working on breaking out of the wall.