[Dungeon Fantasy] Druid without obligation to Nature

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by Tuk the Weekah

To be fair, evileyeore did say "contemporary first-hand"...

Exactly.

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.

Which is largely what I suspect was going on with many of the Greek philosophers who wrote about the Celtic Druids.

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.

It would also be easier if the Druids had kept written records instead of using the apprentice/oral teaching tradition.


I can't wait for time travel to be invented so we can get proper first hand accounts of history.