The History of Bridges1400 AC (After the Catastrophe): Benjamin Kerr charters the domed garden city of Bridges as a neo-Edwardian city-state with the North American Federal Oversight Authority.
Over the next 300 years, the Kerr family becomes a benevolent hereditary monarchy. Around 1700 AC, mismanagement and greed causes the rich/poor gap to widen. Corruption increases, and gangs begin to form in the swath of slums outside the opulent city center known as “The Pot of Gold.”
Around 1750 AC, many crime families emerge, engaging in racketeering, extortion, bribery, etc. Wrought-iron fences are raised to keep the hungry from coming into the wealthy areas of the city. A religious group called the Dealers, based in the Cathedral, raise charity houses just outside the fence to help the poor.
