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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6115715" data-attributes="member: 4936">Hmm, that does help.Okay, let me throw out a basic notion and see where it leads.My character was perhaps originally from the lands of Llewelyn...probably not actually noble, since they'd be more solidly Christian, I expect. The older faith would linger in the peasantry though, even if people practiced it in secret, or in forms mixed with Christian.For whatever reason...perhaps her parents are more deeply immersed in the old faith, or perhaps she evinced some kind of 'natural gift' for it if such is possible, or perhaps a chance encounter with a druid led to it...she leaves home to go to Ynys Mon and learn the rites and lore of druidism.Upon completing initiation, she decides to return to the lands of her youth...remembering perhaps that there is still support for old religions among the people there (which would also explain the lord's ambivalence, as he tries to juggle the need for overt Christianity with a desire not to alienate his people), and seeks to establish some kind of a revival before the missionaries quash it all.This puts her at odds with the priest in the court, whom I think should actually be a pretty sympathetic figure, rather than a caricreature of intolerance. Of course, there'd be other priests who believe that his light hand is to blame for the flourishing of paganism in this area...so there are perhaps greater dangers on the horizon.</blockquote>