• TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network
    9·
    3 days ago

    Fun fact about druids - in their tradition pretty much every break from the norm, like writing things down or cutting herbs wrong, was punishable by being clubbed to death.

    Fun fact two: In France Druids were exterminated by Romans with help of Bards. Bards were basically a competting sect of the same faith with Druids and they sided with Romans to save their own skins and eliminate their rivals.

    • Archpawn@lemmy.world
      61·
      4 days ago

      I think it’s odd that they’re not. They’re generally portrayed as liking nature, and nature has no problems with animals killing and eating each other. I’m a vegetarian because I care about the individual animals, and I’m not a fan of nature and I would never become a druid unless it’s part of overthrowing the natural order.

  • dragonshouter@ttrpg.network
    6·
    4 days ago

    To be fair the word has drifted a lot from its inception. If you want the second one you need to do some very in depth research on Celtic social dynamics. Also it’s more fun to have magic Though it would be cool to have an actual magical druid as a religious leader of a group.

    Same way that the word Tyrant just meant absolute ruler but in a neutral connotation; kinda like the word king. NOW it means an unjust ruler but it just meant ruler to early Greeks