After Dovi was conceived, the Roko Tui Bau at the time, approached his parents with an unusual request.
The relationship between the Roko Tui Bau as sacred King and the Vunivalu of Bau as his warlord hence underwent a role inversion in the early nineteenth century.
Vunivalu of Bau | Bau | Tui | Roko Ukić | Tui, Pontevedra | Roko Tui Bau | Roko | John Tui | Tui T. Sutherland | Tui Cakau | tui (bird) | Roko Maršas | Roko Belic | Bau (island) | Bau-Bau | Tui Tokelau | Tui (bird) | tui | Katma Tui | HMNZS ''Tui'' | HMNZS Tui | Guo jin min tui | Bau Graves |
She married Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi I in November, 1886, with whom she had six children, including Adi Vuikaba, Ratu Tiale Vuiyasawa, Adi Salote Mokoiwaqa, Adi Kacaraini Loaloakubou and Ratu Sir Josefa Vanaaliali Lalabalavu Sukuna, one of Fiji's greatest statesmen of the 20th century, not to mention her youngest child - Dr Ratu Jione Atonio Rabici Doviverata, father of former Vice-President and Roko Tui Bau, Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi.
The Lovoni people, being an independent kingdom with several strategic tributaries, ensured their role as mercenaries of war in the central Fijian province of Lomaiviti, which at the time of European contact, was undergoing a major power struggle between the Noble Houses of Verata and their ally and kin the House of the Roko Tui Bau and the rising power of the Vunivalu of Bau.