Kiamo Ko serves as the home of the Tigelaar family: Fiyero, his wife Sarima, their kids Irji, Manek, and Nor, his sister-in-laws, and later, a house maid/nanny. Elphaba Thropp arrives here on a caravan accompanied with a mysterious boy named Liir; later, Nanny arrives to stay with the two. Elphaba stays with the family in the castle until they are arrested and killed by Cherrystone's Gale Force; thereafter, Elphaba lives a hermit lifestyle alone with Liir and Nanny in the castle. During this time she begins to be known as the "Wicked Witch of the West", as she begins to study magic from the Grimmerie almost obsessively until her ultimate demise by the hands of Dorothy Gale.