I have been thinking on this while at work and I have come up with a thought to tack onto Veloth's idea. Bruma first appears in the written record in 1E 1167, a full 467 years after the Battle or Red Mountain and Jurgen's essence swallowing (lol, made myself laugh). But the city could be older than the records.
If we take that and add it to Veloth's theory, it could be that Bruma was established as a result of Empress Hestra's imperial expansions. With the Legions subjugating the Reachmen and welcoming High Rock into the empire this could be when the Colovian estates joined the Empire officially.
Maybe Bruma was established by the anti-Imperial Cyro-Nords of Colovia? Although Bruma is not in Colovia and is understood to be a Nibenese county, but in truth it is more Nord than Nibenese.
While the Colovians were off having fun with the Alessian Order, which although defeated at the Battle of Glenumbra Moors was still powerful in the Colovian West, maybe at this time there was a anti-Alessian Order sentiment in it's own territory leading to the establishment of Bruma as a Nordic city following the old ways.
Perhaps when looked at like that there is room for both Veloth's theory and the Jurgen one?
I have been thinking on this while at work and I have come up with a thought to tack onto Veloth's idea. Bruma first appears in the written record in 1E 1167, a full 467 years after the Battle or Red Mountain and Jurgen's essence swallowing (lol, made myself laugh). But the city could be older than the records.
If we take that and add it to Veloth's theory, it could be that Bruma was established as a result of Empress Hestra's imperial expansions. With the Legions subjugating the Reachmen and welcoming High Rock into the empire this could be when the Colovian estates joined the Empire officially.
Maybe Bruma was established by the anti-Imperial Cyro-Nords of Colovia? Although Bruma is not in Colovia and is understood to be a Nibenese county, but in truth it is more Nord than Nibenese.
While the Colovians were off having fun with the Alessian Order, which although defeated at the Battle of Glenumbra Moors was still powerful in the Colovian West, maybe at this time there was a anti-Alessian Order sentiment in it's own territory leading to the establishment of Bruma as a Nordic city following the old ways.
Perhaps when looked at like that there is room for both Veloth's theory and the Jurgen one?