# Xanila — Tarzan the Untamed character guide

> Xanila in Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0016-xvii-the-walled-city

## Snapshot

A queen of the walled city of Xuja whose authority over its mad inhabitants makes her both captor and potential ally to those who enter her gates.

## Who they are

Xanila shares rule of Xuja with Prince Metak, presiding over a sealed civilization whose people are consumed by inherited insanity. Her position places her at the center of the power struggles that engulf Tarzan and the prisoners once they are brought inside the walls. As queen, she controls the fate of strangers in a city from which few ever escape, and her decisions ripple through the desperate bid for freedom that dominates the Xuja sequence.

## In the story

### [The Queen's Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xix-the-queen-s-story)

The old queen who has lived among the Xujans for sixty years, recounts her story and warns Bertha.

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