The Bokhi

The Bokhi are an indigenous civilization located on a peninsula to the south-east of Yehar. They are divided into several city-states and tribal confederations, and have been quite isolated and peripheral.
==Appearance==
The Bokhi have bronze-coloured skin, almond-shaped eyes and are short and stocky with broad faces. Their men always wear beards and headwear, which varies between the various city-states. In the cities, all men must wear the same haircut, headwear (apart from the nobles) and beard, while on the countryside all members of the same family wear the same haircut. Often, Bokhi men allow their hair to grow out in shoulder-length, while females are tying their hair in a knot above the head. Slaves are wearing their hair short. Rulers are never cutting their hair, and instead have it braided and carried above the ground by servants, who always are freeborn.
Males are wearing tunics that go down to their knees, while married females are wearing robes with long sleeves. Slaves are wearing simple skirts made of animal hides or cotton, and are in some places having rings made of copper inserted in their noses, or are disfigured in other ways.
==Culture and Religion==
The Bokhi Religion is bearing similarities to the Yeharene religions to the north-west of them, but is also characterised by a worship of ancestor spirits, who are said to inhabit objects in the household and are said to watch over, gossip and intervene in the lives of their descendants. What is the primary characteristic of Bokhi religion is their near absolute fatalism. This has affected all aspects of their society, including their laws.
The Bokhi are seeing their gods as omniscient and omnipotent. Thus, there can not happen anything which is contrary to the will of their gods. Their culture is disawoving mourning beloved ones, as their death happened when their gods willed it, and in what way their gods willed it. Punishments are organised in a way that allows the sentenced an opportunity to escape. For example, if a man bound to the rising tide water is making himself free, or is freed by his compatriots, it will be considered that the gods chose him to live. The Bokhi believe that all people have their place in the world and an own individual fate, and that it is impossible to interfere with that fate, since the gods would not want it.
The Bokhi cities are built out of wood or dried mud, while public buildings are made of clay bricks. They build their temples on pyramidal-shaped mounds, and are ruled over by priest kings who perform human child sacrifices, by allowing a lottery to choose a house where a family is giving their child to the gods. If the child runs, a new lot is drawn. The family of the escapee is not punished however. A sacrificed child won't go to their relatives in the afterlife, but will live amongst the gods, but will be allowed to visit their relatives so they won't be sad.
The child is sacrificed by being suffocated with a rope made of silk, while being intoxicated and sleeping on beer filled with poisons from snakes, so they won't feel any pain.
==Blue Obsidian==
In Bokh-Huled to the south-west of Bokhi territory, in the desert region called Ijiftar, the rare Blue Obsidian is mined, and turned into weapons and tools. It is remarkably strong and sharp, but cannot so easily be worked. It is mostly used by the elite as jewellery, spearheads.
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