I finally got my Who's Who of Non-Classical Mythology (Sykes and Kendall, Oxford University Press, 1993) yesterday, and while browsing through it, I found this under the entry for Druids:

I found this very interesting cause the druid and mage classes are commune/city equivalents, both using demesnes in combat and sharing the skills of runes and dreamweaving.

However, lest I mislead you, I must include a quote from the Magi entry:



Astrology is not the department of druids and magi in Lusternia, though whether wiccans and guardians are more priestly than they are could be debated (and probably has been).


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Hmm...I'll have to look it up sometime. Sounds interesting.

As for the Guardians/Wiccans being priestly, they seem to be the spiritual leaders of the cities/communes, which would imply (to me) that they are of a priestly nature. Whether "priests" is the correct term or not is certainly debatable, but I've always seen them as the spiritual leaders of their home cities/communes, so I would say that you could call them, generically, "Priestly."

Historic Magi have pretty much nothing to do with Lusternian mages. Ours are based more off of the standard fantasy conception.

Same deal with druids, except the standard just happens to be a tad bit closer to what actually was. Real druids were never heralds of nature so much as they were priests of a mythology with a stronger tie to natural cycles than the Greco-Roman model.

See: Wiccans.

Hm-- Wiccans are the real Druids?

Provisionally stated, of course.

Since the historical druids never wrote anything down, including beliefs or practices, all we really have to go on are a handful of myths and quasi-historical references to them.

In the words of Spinal Tap:



EDIT: No small amount of current scholarship disputes the fact that Stonehenge was a druidic structure.

Duhhhh. As everyone knows, Stonehenge was made by aliens.

I used to live five mins drive away. I know.

Aliens working in conjunction with the Illuminati and the Reverse-Vampires, to be precise.

And the Illuminati merely being a cover for the hybrid descendents of the aliens and their human concubines. Don't forget that part.

The Tralfamadorians, of course. To let their messenger know that they were sending him a replacement part.