Rokung (ROE-kung) is very like Gelmir, apart from the points noted below. The people are the Roki (ROE-key). The coast is on the Inner Sea.

Individual marriage is not practiced. In each tribe, all the women are married to all the men. The tribes meet regularly, and two tribes will arrange for their children to marry, forming a new tribe. As the members of the original tribes age, finding it harder to manage to grow and hunt enough food, and becoming fewer, they gradually drift into the villages of their children to live, where they are respected and well looked after.

Some chiefs, with an especially high reputation for wisdom, become Judges. Difficult cases are brought to them for judgement. The case is only described vaguely, and then they indicate which party is in the right, plaintiff or accused. This custom of giving judgement at a distance seems to be as just as any other legal system.

Bogs are sacred places, beneath which the Gods dwell with the souls of the slain, feasting and being entertained.

In times of misfortune (plague, famine, drought, losses in war, etc.) one of the shaman’s apprentices volunteers to take a message of remonstrance to the Gods. He is given rich gifts of gold and amber and iron to placate the gods with, then his neck is snapped with a deft twist of a piece of wood in a noose. He is weighed down with the gifts and thrown reverently into the bog, to speak with the Gods.

No one apart from chiefs and shamans can go into a bog, or fly over it.

Male Roki wear their hair in a Mohican, and shave their faces. They also wear a scarf as a wide sash, into which they tuck their money-pouch and dagger.

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