A nomadic people, the Roma of Oslein don’t stay in one place for too long. Roma culture is on a gradual decline in large part due to younger Roma opting to live in parts of the world away from their fellows, slowly but surely losing ties to what makes their people unique. Some Roma communities, however, try to keep their traditions alive by organizing community events. Duke Tobias Dreyar from the Magianan Empire, himself of Roma descent, is the chair of the Mortal Coil Foundation (MCF). The MCF is a non-governmental organization created specifically to organize cultural events and provide support to members of the Roma community all across the globe.
Many Roma are vegetarian or vegan, due to their religion, or simply their upbringing, if their parents were more religious and raised them on a largely vegetarian diet. Should the Roma eat meat, however, they make sure to use every part of any animal they slaughter, or to make good use of what they don’t use, such as for fertilizer, or bait while hunting. Nearly all Roma wear a braid, whether it be large or small, as a symbol of their cultural belief that all things are connected and intertwined.
In their own nomadic communities, Roma don’t use surnames. When they venture into the wider world, they would commonly use the name of a parent as their surname, such as Jaern, son of Maxwell, going by Jaern Maxwell on government documents.
The Roma insist that they always lived in Oslein, and that the Creator is strictly a divine being. The Ajak people of northern Osma, however, claim that the Roma are their kin, who fled the nation during the Grand Coronation in the early years of the Reign of the Divines, and that their god is actually a man named Ors, and was simply their leader at the time.