Cleaners of Nadoba

The cleaners of Nadoba is a story of how walking all over people long enough eventually invites retribution. And how one should not underestimate the necessity of even the dirtiest of jobs.
Nadoba's upper crust believed that many of the filthiest jobs of the city was best handled by undesirables. And that in turn anyone engaging in such work was unclean. Despite the cleaning, working and hauling all being essential, those who did it was seen a s scum, kept separate and out of sight unless needed. It naturally bred resentment, until it boiled into armed conflict.
A conflict that the clever, resourceful and hard working cleaners won.
Their victory spelled the end of the cleaners. Reborn in the fires of conflict, they took a new name and new cause. But their origin still holds valuable lessons for those who pay attention.

Career

Qualifications

Either being born into it or having the position thrust upon you as part of a criminal punishment.

Career Progression

All career progression was internal, with the most experienced cleaner leading crew and teaching newcomers.

Payment & Reimbursement

The cleaners of Nadoba were paid. Barely enough to live, but they were paid.

Other Benefits

Ostensibly, having their own homes, taverns, doctor's offices and so on was supposed to be benefits. In practice, it allowed the city's nobles to minimize funding, resulting in shoddy, unsafe buildings that only remained standing up because the cleaners themselves put in the effort to keep the habitable.

Perception

Purpose

The cleaners handled most of the unclean work, sweeping streets, hauling corpses, maintaining sewage and the like.

Social Status

The cleaners were the lowest of the low, seen as bad company, criminals and the like, filthy, unwashed and diseased.

Demographics

At its height, as much as 25% of the city of Nadoba's population were cleaners.

History

Sanitation jobs had always been seen as a job for the unclean, unwanted and other dregs of society in the town of Nadoba. But with the city growing there came an increased need for such people. A bigger population produced more waste, be it through the sewer, waterworks on the graveyards. As such, being condemned to the ranks of cleaners became a common punishment for most crimes, with the child of cleaners being forced to share their profession.
The cleaners were treated poorly, confined to their own section of the town, a ramshackle collection of buildings held together more by hope than any material. The cleaners were in every way kept separate. But this also started to create a sense of camaraderie between them, that it was them against the world. Slowly but surely, these disparate outcasts formed a community.
It all came to a boil in 2532 AIT. The cleaners decided that if Nadoba needed them that badly, they could either pay them accordingly or handle things themselves. At first, the leaders of the town did not care. They were sure the cleaners would fold quickly and come begging for scraps. But the cleaners had stockpiled food and made their own, small garden plots, meaning they were in no danger of starving.
As sewers backed up, corpses began rotting in mortuaries and filth piled up, with the houses standing uncleaned and stained, the nobles sent in the city watch to beat some obedience into the cleaners. But they were prepared. People who had hauled heavy cargo all their lives laid into the frontlines with hammers and shovels. Chemist turned the cleaning solvents into improvised bombs. Ambushers harried patrols by maneuvering through the sewers.
In the end, the town guard was shattered and the cleaners demands rose as further retaliation for the attempt. The city capitulated. Fresh off their victory, theys cast of their old identity. Thus ended the cleaners of Nadoba in the birth of the Parliament of Crows.

Alternative Names

Filth haulers, Dirty ones

Type

Sanitation

Demand

Staple of old Nadoba