Editing Roddun (section)

===Kinship===
The center of roddun morality is the notion of ''kinship''. Rodduns divide the world up into five categories, based on how closely they know a person: picture a grouping of five circles, with a dot in the center; that dot is an individual roddun, and each circle represents a distinct level of kinship. The first circle is immediate family: parents and siblings. Second circle is more distant relatives: aunts, uncles, cousins. Third circle is people one trusts, fourth circle is people one knows, and finally, fifth circle is people one does not know. 

To put things simply, roddun morality is based on the notion that the closer you are to someone, the more moral you are obligated to be to that person. A roddun bases its behavior on the simple question "How close are you to me?" and is judged by its peers on that same merit. That's not to say that roddun don't sometimes go against the grain, but their social cohesion is built around this distinctly nepotic view of obligations; a roddun is expected to favor those who are its closer kin during kin disputes. Being perceived as willing to act against closer kin marks a roddun as a criminal, someone to be shunned.