Gulg

Gulg is a city only in the loosest definition of the term; it consists of a cluster of forest villages enclosed by a single wall. Most buildings are made of thatch or mud, and roads are little more than trampled earth, worn down by the feet of generations. 

Gulg is roughly divided into small communities called Dagadas, each of which comprises five to fifty huts. A dagada is enclosed by a wall or fence (wooden, stone, plant, or mud) and is built around a well shared by the dagada’s residents. Each well is monitored by one (or more) of the Queen’s Scribes. 

Lalali-Puy is an absolute monarch in the purest sense: All property inside the Mopti Wall is hers, and she holds the ultimate power of life and death over all citizens, from the lowest slave to the greatest Judaga warrior.