Unstable, explosive, and swept by whirlwind riots. Everything is true and everything is permitted. This city is the female stronghold where the Countess de Gulpa, the Countess de Vile, and the Council of the Selected plot a final subjugation of the other cities. Here everything is true and nothing is permitted except to the permitters. This is the university city, the center of learning where all questions are answered in terms of what can be expressed and understood.
Complete permission derives from complete understanding.
Naufana and Ghadis are the cities of illusion where nothing is true and therefore everything is permitted. The traveler must start in Tamaghis and make his way through the other cities in the order named. This pilgrimage may take many lifetimes.