While poverty was the primary nozzle used by the empire to water the common people with negative emotions like hunger, despair, greed, jealousy, and selfishness.
Nobles cultivated trauma.
Refined. Controlled. Emotionally concentrated trauma, tailored specifically for their children.
Yes. Trauma was planned.
Ivory explained that every noble family possessed its own method.
Some specialized in identity fracture. Others in existential pressure, conditional affection, or absolute isolation.
Of course, because these induced traumas were controlled from the birth of the child to the ripe age for Soulbounding, they helped to create more... stable bonds.
In certain cases, the possibility of choosing a Soul of significant strength was possible.
However, that was a subject for another time.
