I think we’re not supposed to look too closely if Gulool Ja Ja was a good ruler (or father tbh) or not because then we’ll see all the cracks and duct tape barely holding his legacy together.
The Mamook issue was like a hole in the wall though. Like we’re told both sides were fighting, he and his group stepped in (sounds like they battled both sides) to get them to temp ceasefires. I think all we get is both sides were like, wow Gulool Ja Ja’s group overpowered both of us because they accepted their difference and used their strengths to work together. And the way it’s presented to us him forcing a sharing of meals broke some of the tension and then the rest is history and everything is hunky dory come to Tulliloyal if you want to live together or stay here and no fighting ok ;’).
But present day we have, the two groups just don’t fight anymore but there’s still conflict. So much so that the follow NPC aethercurrent quests reveals they neither group has set aside their difference enough to openly trade resources. With, those topside, one of the important resources being the bananas that are used to make their unified cuisine from when everything was “settled”.
Toss in it was revealed that toddler Wuk Lamat was purposely injured (or attempted murder?? She was pushed into a hole or something) and it was assumed to be by people from Mamook that still held a grudge.
You’d think maybe if he was a good ruler he’d IDK look into that incident a little harder than, I’ll just adopt her to protect her from the bad Mamook. Like that’d be a good time to go, maybe I need to readdress the relations and issues with Mamook. Maybe double so whenever he learns of Bakool Ja Ja’s existence because he should be aware of the pains it takes to have another two head successfully.
His whole thing was about unifying people but he ignored what was going on in his home town after he checked off stopping the war in that area and got them to have dinner together. Mission accomplished?