ORIGINS
While it is true that Travellers and the Rom share an origin in the Indian subcontinent around 500 AD, the two peoples separated early in their respective developments. Where the Romany people spread out from India to Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa, the Travellers migrated in waves toward eastern and central Europe. It is believed that by 800 AD, the Travellers had completed their separation from the Romany peoples, in large part due to the Travellers’ discovery of abilities concerning the manipulation of time.
Certainly by 900 AD there are mentions in early Otherworld journals of “travaillour theofs” being prosecuted for thefts committed upon various members of the newly formed L’au-dela, as seen in this translation of an entry by the Dresden Watch dated 28 January 90
