Rooster Province

Rooster Province is the southern-most province in Nikan.

History
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Geography
It sits between the Monkey Province to the west and the Dragon Province to the east. To the north, it's bordered by the Boar Province. Ankhiluun is the main city of the Rooster Province.

Tikany
Tikany is a township of the Rooster Province, most of its denizens are farmers and peasants. Rin grew up in Tikany, fostered by the Fang family.

Demographics
The people in the Rooster Province tend to be farmers and poor merchants, and are of lower socioeconomic background compared to other provinces. They are often a poor and illiterate majority.

Notable Residents

 * Matchmaker Liew is a matchmaker in Tikany, Rooster Province. She appears in one scene only, in which she informs Rin of her match with a wealthy merchant and importer three times her age. Matchmaker Liew is described as overweight.
 * Tutor Feyrik is the only tutor at Tikany village, and Rin’s teacher. He teaches tuition-free evening classes to the peasant children of Tikany. He lives at the library. Feyrik was implied to be either from Sinegard, or having lived there. He is described as a small wizened man.
 * Feyrik has a gambling addiction to Divisions, a popular game in Tikany's gambling dens, despite his poor skill at the game. He agrees to tutor Fang Runin for the Keju in hopes that her passing the exam might bring in an influx of paying students, and enable him to pay off his gambling debts. Rin pays him for his tuition with six tael worth of premium opium that she steals from the Fangs.
 * Fang Kesegi is Fang Runin's foster brother, and the Fang's son. Rin essentially raised him. When Rin leaves Tikany for Sinegard, Kesegi begs her not to leave him alone with 'her', meaning his mother whom Rin calls Auntie Fang. They meet again during the Civil War, when Kesegi and his mother are refugees settled in camps outside of Arlong.
 * Fang Runin, the heroine of the series grew up in Tikany of the Rooster Province.