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| - The village is located along the river Devar-Tete Whye, in an inhabited land called the Grand Crescent. To the east, there is the land of Thunderclap. The people of Calla Bryn Sturgis are almost all either farmers or ranchers, the wealthiest of them being Wayne Overholser. They grew rice and wheat, and raised cattle and sheep.
- Calla Bryn Sturgis is one of seventy or so communities along the 6,000-mile arc of the Borderlands known as the Grand Crescent in Mid-world. Calla Bryn Sturgis is located approximately a third of the way down the Crescent, and was the site of the first major battle fought by Roland Deschain's ka-tet on their road to the Dark Tower.
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| - Calla Bryn Sturgis is one of seventy or so communities along the 6,000-mile arc of the Borderlands known as the Grand Crescent in Mid-world. Calla Bryn Sturgis is located approximately a third of the way down the Crescent, and was the site of the first major battle fought by Roland Deschain's ka-tet on their road to the Dark Tower. Calla Bryn Sturgis is primarily an agricultural community, rice being one of its primary products. The town has existed for at least a millennium; the population of the Calla is not large, around 140 able-bodied men, a slightly smaller number of women, and approximately 99 pre-pubescent children. Another addition to the town is Andy the Messenger Robot, a lovable servant robot who has inhabited the town since time out of mind. The majority of the community's children are born as twins. The rare "singleton" child is a cause for much excitement in the Calla. Calla Bryn Sturgis, like most of the towns in the Calla Borderlands, is set up similar to the New England town style, including the use of a town meeting. Due to the enormous importance of rice to the community's survival, many aspect of Calla life demonstrate respect or even mysticism to the crop. A common weapon, sharpened plates (similar to the chakram) named Orizas (or 'Rizas) after Lady Oriza (the first user of the weapon), share a name with the genus for rice plants, oryza. The term "commala" refers to a number of aspects of Calla life, most notably the Rice Song to which Roland danced to win the favor of the Calla's citizens.
- The village is located along the river Devar-Tete Whye, in an inhabited land called the Grand Crescent. To the east, there is the land of Thunderclap. The people of Calla Bryn Sturgis are almost all either farmers or ranchers, the wealthiest of them being Wayne Overholser. They grew rice and wheat, and raised cattle and sheep. On rare but consistent occasions (about every three decades), the Wolves would come to Calla Bryn Sturgis and take one child from each pair of twins. They would extract the brain matter of the children and feed it to the Breakers so that they could continue their work. The children would be returned as "roont," or ruined, and could no longer function as normal human beings. This was put to a stop when Roland Deschain and his Ka-tet, along with many citizens of the Calla, defeated the Wolves.
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