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==History==
===Early History===
[[File:Rodokan migration.png|thumb|left|300px|A map showing the route of the Rodokan Migration.]]
While some scant evidence of prehistorical habitation has been found on Rodoka, it is widely accepted that the island was uninhabited when the Rodokan people reached it some time between 900 CE and 1000 CE. The
===Tavari Settlement===
▲While some scant evidence of prehistorical habitation has been found on Rodoka, it is widely accepted that the island was uninhabited when the Rodokan people reached it some time between 900 CE and 1000 CE. The predominant theory states that they originally came from northern Novaris and migrated southward along the coast. Evidence shows that they reached the area that is today [[Vesienväl]] in the 1st century CE and adopted their language, Vällic, before continuing southward. The Rodokan language, along with modern Vesienvällic, is a descendant of Vällic, which is itself descended from [[Asendavia|Asendavian]] and the other Gliat Shean languages. Oral tradition among the Rodokans gives the name Vaimsaar, meaning "Island of Ghosts," to the island now occupied by [[Meagharia]], indicating they had some familiarity with it. The Rodokans are known to have been a very ocean-oriented culture and are believed to have been somewhat nomadic before they settled on the island of Rodoka. The etymology of the name "Rodoka," which dates at least to the 1st century CE, is unknown.
There were some 400,000 Rodokans living on the island, many of them in the city of the same name located on the southern coast of the island, when explorers from [[Tavaris]] arrived in the year 1620. First contact is recorded as having been markedly friendly. By that time, the Rodokan people had established a government of some twenty loosely-confederated tribes whose chiefs acknowledged an elected High Chief as their leader. The Tavari agreed to settle in open land and traded with the Rodokans. Akronists led the Tavari settlement efforts with an interest in spreading the faith, and a vast majority of early Tavari settlers were Akronists. Akronists shared with the Rodokans a great spiritual and economic significance for the ocean, which was an early point of bonding for the two groups. While [[Akronism|Akronists]] could not eat the meat of land animals, both could share in seafood, and both hunted whales and used whale oil products. As Rodoka has a drier climate than mainland Tavaris, with a distinct dry season, the exchange of different crops and agricultural products was an early bonding point between the cultures. Tavari rum, distilled from sugarcane, became very popular among the Rodokans, as they did not produce any distilled liquor. The Rodokans gave the Tavari the name "''ruumkandja''," meaning "''rum-bearers''." The first and largest Tavari settlement was Lantaž, meaning "paradise," that was settled on the coast approximately 1 Tavari monai (1.053 km) to the east of the Rodokan's largest settlement, also named Rodoka.
[[File:Rodoka Native Flag.png|left|thumb|250px|This flag, flown by the High Chiefs of Rodoka from the 13th century to 1634, has historically been used by the Native Rodokan community. Today, it is the flag of the Rodokan Native Tribal Administration.]] ▼
Relations between the Tavari and Native Rodokans remained cordial in the first years of Tavari settlement, but markedly declined in the year 1632. That year, an Akronist Temple was opened in the city of Rodoka after having been under construction since the Akronists first arrived. During the consecration ceremony, the High Chief at that time, Jürjo, is said to have brought a dead lamb to the Temple and offered it to the Akronists to eat - apparently intended as a joke. The bringing of a dead animal killed for sustenance into a temple was a grave desecration, which was made worse when blood and eventually the body of the lamb itself fell to the floor of the Temple. This event would cause an irreversible desecration of the building, and the Holy Ambassador representing the Matron at the service actually collapsed and died upon the lamb falling to the floor. The High Priestess of Rodoka, Ilara Lendreaž, ordered that High Chief Jürjo be killed to atone for the desecration. This would lead to the outbreak of violence between Akronists and the Native Rodokans.
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==Government==
▲[[File:Rodoka Native Flag.png|left|thumb|250px|This flag, flown by the High Chiefs of Rodoka from the 13th century to 1634, has historically been used by the Native Rodokan community. Today, it is the flag of the Rodokan Native Tribal Administration.]]
Prior to 2020, Rodoka held the status of an "unprovinced territory," just as other Tavari overseas territories. An elected Rodokan Assembly acted as an advisory body and proposed legislation to an Administrator appointed by the Prime Minister, who held the power of veto. After the passage of the Rodoka Act (2020) in January of 2020 and the subsequent passage of a referendum that August, Rodoka became a fully-fledged province of the Kingdom of Tavaris. The Rodokan Assembly expanded in membership from 20 to 150 and became the Legislative Council of Rodoka, a body that appoints a cabinet led by a First Councillor.
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