To take a walk along our rugged south coast, to stand on the cliffs overlooking the bay of Brindisi, or to sit by the shore in one of the many coves, is to take a step back in time. Sitting in a bar watching the fishermen bringing in the daily catch not only takes us back to the time our our great grandfathers, it can take us back far futher to the mysterious times when raw magic washed down from the hub and the gods fought wars against each other and mages in a continual battle for mastery of the disc, as all along the southern coast it is possible to find and walk around Quoits made by our earliest ancestors. these large stone donuts, standing on edge and often encircled with standing stones can be found on headlands from Finisterrae all the way to the Guadalajor river and the border with our neighbors Puertaboba.
The purpose of these stones can only be the subject of speculation now. Where they used as an aid to funeral rites, sacrifices, or as defense from magic? We shall never know, indeed, the list of possible uses for these rings is almost endless and impossible to prove even in these enlightened times of science. What these mystical donuts are able to tell us however, is a little about our own past. If we look at neighboring countires we can see that these monuments to primitive faith are by no means unique to Brindisi, they occur in all unspoilt places from our lands to the turnwise ocean.
This has interesting implications for the origins of the Brindisian people. Since there have been no stones of this kind found anywhere turnwise of our borders until the lands of the Wyrmberg near the Caderack mountains, it must be inferred that the earliest lasting Brindisian culture originates on the Hubland Steppes, around the Vortex plains. Although the modern Brindisian would be unlikely to be confused with a hublander, it appears that our predecesors came to our lands by way of the Rammerock and Blade mountains, probably hugging the coast in their migration and passing south of what are now the Genuan swamps through Kythia before settling. This would make the people of Llamedos, whose ancestors did much the same kind of migration from the same place although in the opposite direction, close relatives of ours. Certainly, there are similarities in our two cultures most noticably in folk art and music, in those places where these are still permitted.
This theory of Coastal Turnwise Migration is further supported by various smaller artifacts found in our coastal regions. A number of items, mostly jewellery, weapons and coins are on display in the museum of Delpragii in Napoles, these bear a marked similarity to items still in common use by the human tribes living in the lands around and rimwards of No Thingfjord. This suggests that these early settlers had indeed found the promised land, they were able to set up forges, implying stable villages and towns, and also spend time on making niceties, indicating that leasure time was available and therefore that food was plentiful and fear low. The evidence from coins shows a degree of sophistication and if not a monarchic system of government, then at least a feudal arrangement implying the kind of law, order and stability that this invariably brings.