Sarungano

The sarungano is a traditional figure of authority in societies on the far Roscian regions of the Toyonu coast, Iningiqhwa, and Igsania. Besides serving as a storyteller and transcriptor of laws, the sarungano is a highly transgressive character, actively ridiculing and shaming other members of society, and even engaging in heinous acts themselves – all to vindicate and enforce the highest customs of the community in question. For a region where women have a generally low status to the point of usually being considered property, a high proportion of sarunganos are female, and still others are intersex or adhere to nonbinary classifications. Stereotyped as mad witches, the nature of sarungano activities are considered truly unpredictable, and most of regular society cowers in fear from their antics, ranging from simple practical jokes to entire conquests and foundings of empires. Though the nature of their powers are considered clearly distinguished, sarunganos may also be ihembegoro patrons and lords, as well as other forms of officials in local religion.