Farba or Princess Káyugwá was the first (and only) daughter of Alááfin Bona Sanòwá. Alááfin were so busy with ruling, spiritual matters and their nvéwò or harem. The latter involved a lot of sex, certainly, but all the men were eunuchs and all the women did not have a penis either. As a result, the Alááfin had very little time and a statistically smaller chance to become pregnant, which meant that there were fewer princesses to dispute succession. Bona Sanòwá had had one sister, whom she killed herself because said sister was a heathen and the cause of a succession war. Fewer children was a good thing.

Consequently, one would expect the single child of the Alááfin to be pampered and shut away in the Great Mudbrick Palace, but Bona Sanòwá had served as a general and a soldier and she wanted her daughter to experience the hardships of life outside Uwára too. The chance to make a journey presented itself with the news of an upcoming royal wedding in one of the youngest players in the land, the Kingdom of Bornem or in Obibo the Oba-Ifà fa Borinéme. Inhabited by the Kada peoples around Lake Kada, it seemed that the chiefs of the Borinéme tribe of Kada had claimed kingship, expanding to areas not far from Tozàn borders. As they were followers of Kaya, this was no threat, but good news, rather, and the Alááfin hoped that this state would last longer than the previous kings of all the Kada, who came from the Ipàn people.

To show the good will of the Alááfin, Farba Káyugwá went on her way to attend the traditional wedding ceremony where the husband was selected, something entirely different from how she would find her husband, since she would not have one. She could just pick literally anyone married to her cousins, nieces and aunts, and enjoy a whole host of eunuchs and pretty ladies to boot. And Káyugwá was very bisexual, so she did not mind at all.

Her retinue consisted of a hundred men (or rather 72 men and 28 women) of the Afìnà Akòsan, the Palatial Guard, all on horseback, although the horses were small but strong ponies, all armed with the famous Obibo longbow. They came bearing gifts for the happy bride, but as was usual also expected a ceremonial tribute in return.