[Dungeon Fantasy] Druid without obligation to Nature

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Originally Posted by malloyd

Actually I think there are a couple sentences in Tacitus and perhaps a few others, so at least we know there really were some priests called druids - Caesar didn't make them up entirely.

To be fair, evileyeore did say "contemporary first-hand", and Tacitus is getting most of his cultural info for Britain and Germany from his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who campaigned there some 20-30 years before Tacitus did any writing. It *may* be less biased than Caesar's work (although it could equally be a very early example of the romanticization of the Noble Savage contrasted with the Debased Civilization of Rome), but it is most definitely second-generation, second-hand info.

All of this would have been so much easier if Caesar had seen fit to write sacerdos or vates or what have you, instead of transliterating the (theorized) Keltic word *druwides into Latin.