The Argaw ruled Arg-Sîmoríg. They were descendants of the Wômaw settlers who had seized the island from it's indigenous Fale inhabitants. These Argawin speaking people remained close to their ancestral kinsmen, and maintained strong trade ties with the Aegaw and Lôchans, who also descended from the Wômaw. A very civilized and urbanized society, most Argaw resided in the four cities of northern Arg-Sîmoríg: Zyras (at the northern tip), Sîmor (on the east coast), and Tôr and Nhâg (north of the large, central lake called the Stoybûr). The only remaining Fale settlements were sprinkled in hills west of the Akâk Wetlands, in the southwestern quarter of the isle.