Refugees fleeing Babel's fallen towers migrated westward for generations. A mysterious stranger guided them toward an island in the western ocean, promising virgin hills where stone could sing. These peoples reached Wales near 4000 BC, named themselves Cymroth.

Brother Wyn wrestles with irreconcilable chronologies: merchants date events to 4000 BC while Scripture places them at 2200 BC. A merchant explains through the potter's wheel analogy that time spun faster after Creation, gradually slowing until reaching present measure around King David's era.

The towers at Babel were real, built under Zeus's instruction to force all voices into one note. When struck with lightning, the Song shattered instead of unifying, tongues divided, and refugees fled westward.

Cwmni'r Llwybrau operated as a merchant guild for six thousand years. They dealt in tin, amber, bronze goods, salt, and textiles across routes connecting the eastern Mediterranean to Atlantic coasts.