Editing Flamepunk:Social Order (section)

===Lower Classes - The Common Laborer===

Life for the lower class is rarely pleasant. The dominant experience of the lower class Kioran is navigating their way through their Guild duties and their responsibilities to the Church, while trying to put enough food on the table not to starve. The Guilds' laborers - by far the most numerous of guild employees - spend their lives performing backbreaking, dangerous work in the massive forges and factories, paying just enough to keep most employees in perpetual debt with the Guild. 

Smoke, heat, and soot are the lot of the Guild laborer, as is blacklung and the risk of a horrible death in a fiery accident. Employee dissatisfaction may be rampant, but mass protests are extremely rare, because the Guilds are not shy about using all of their leverage to compel compliance.

While the Guilds work the lower classes to the bone, the Church preaches that virtue is embodied in a selfless worship of the Holy Flame and a patient wait for the world to come. Dissatisfaction is smoothed over by the Church's services, inspiring sermons, and a careful and precise management of human behavior, born from centuries of experience.

For the common man or woman, the influence of the Hadar is found in the graft and bribery that often accompanies certain activities; in the exorbitant cost of non-Guild goods; and in the street violence that erupts with regularity in the poor neighborhoods.