ALSIUM
610 BCE
The seas were calm as the boats approached the shore of Italia. Tyrrhenus had conducted the voyage as planned, stopping for two days of trading with the Ostians, then pushing off and turning north just when prevailing winds dictated it. This misdirection would allay concerns that their local hosts might have about the direction of the fleet, and it allowed Tyrrhenus to steer his people north to a relatively virgin area surrounding the small settlements of Alsium.
The boats that he commanded were designed for shallow draft, so they could approach coastlines that had no ports or docks. He knew that his passengers could wade ashore, but they were also bringing trading goods of their own as well as more that they had secured from their previous stop, so he sought out inlets t
