In the north-east of Mousillon, just south of the Forest of Arden, stand scores of monoliths in complex arrangements of concentric circles. No one knows who Farulin actually was or what the stones signify, but peasants who go missing in the area can often be found sitting by one of the monoliths, staring up at the sky. They cannot be woken from this dull state of awareness for several days.[1a]
The truth is that Farulin's Brothers are possibly the oldest Human-built structures in the whole of Bretonnia. They were built to create a strange magical effect that befuddles those who stray within their boundaries, to keep the curious away from the barrow of an ancient chieftain of the Breton tribes. Long dead before Gilles was ever born, this chieftain must have been a powerful warlord with many skilled sorcerers at his beck and call for the spell on Farulin's Brothers to remain after all this time. His barrow still stands at the centre of the monolith fields, undisturbed even by the curse of the restless dead that hangs over Mousillon. The chieftain's chariot and warhorses were buried with him in an antechamber where corroded bronze horse armour still lies, while the stone coffin in the chieftain's own burial chamber has remained sealed in spite of the efforts of time, damp, and vermin.[1a]
Why did the chieftain buried amid Farulin's Brothers, doubtless a supremely powerful man, not rise to prominence as Gilles later did? The answer can be found on bronze plates buried with him, which are inscribed with complex pictograms that a talented scholar could translate. They tell a dark story of battles, corruption, and suicide, which suggests perhaps there was a dark fate upon Mousillon even before the days of Landuin.[1a]