Beyond the Storm
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| Beyond the Storm | |
| Author | Marco Miglio di Padeno |
| Genre | Pseudo-archaeology |
| Publication date | 13 TT |
| Publication place | La Rossa |
Beyond the Storm is a pseudo-archaeological book first published in 13 TT, written by Rossan amateur archaeologist Marco Miglio di Padeno. Originally responsible for the discovery of the Montesuvian Pottery in 27 TT, to this day the oldest known evidence of civilization on the island, his respect in the eyes of the wider scientific community would wane as he resorted to fringe, unfound theories later in life. Published in large part thanks to his Family's status on the island, he would be given access to the state-owned printing presses in order to publish his text.
Based on little to no scientific evidence, the book details the arrival of an ancient civilization to the island, traveling through the Storm that surrounded it. According to the text, the ancient people possessed advanced sea vessels capable of sustaining the weather, but an unfortunate sea accident left them stranded on the Rossan island. Most of their equipment destroyed, the crew would find themselves interacting with the island's native populace, slowly learning their language and integrating into their culture. Teaching them about toolmaking and construction, the primitive native population would advance into a proper civilization, allowing for their rapid development in the third millennium TT. The original crew would mix with the island's population, and the signs of their ancestry would remain lost to time.
Written in the period shortly before the Second Calming, the book would gain in popularity in the years after the storms cleared, more than a decade after the author had passed. Due to the sudden knowledge of the existence of other populated islands across the archipelago, amateur interest in the book would suddenly rise, going beyond the fringe circles it used to be contained in. While the archaeological community has widely discredited the book as "literary fiction in the guise of history" (words belonging to the dean of the University of Mineria at the time, Bruno Minestrici) due to its lack of reliance on evidence and overt leaps in logic, theories about migration across the Attu Archipelago have begun to gain in prominence in recent years. However, as the author had no way of knowing other populations existed, in addition to the fact that most credible theories believe migration to have happened in a hypothetical period before the formation of the storm, the historians of La Rossa have continued to disregard the book in the following decades.