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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8296964" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>Aye. It would make for a fun elemental rock-paper-scissors game. Look at Pokémon with their 18 elements/power sources/martial arts types!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Druid being invented out of whole-cloth isn't entirely right: we've got Celtic mythological and heroic characters like:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gwydion and Mâth from the 4th Branch of the <em>Mabinogion</em>,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Biróg and Cian from the <em>Glas Gaibhnenn</em> (though Cian might be one and the same as Gwydion),</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cathbad from the <em>Ulster Cycle</em>,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Relbeo the Nemedian,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Amergin Glúingel of the Milesians (also a Bard),</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the blind Druid Mug Ruith from various spots in <em>The Book of Invasions</em> (who might be one and the same as the Solar healing god Dian Cécht) and his daughter Tlachtga (if Mug Ruith = Dian Cécht, then Tlachtga = Airmed),</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tadg mac Nuadat and Bodhmall from the<em> Fenian Cycle</em>,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bé Chuille from the <em>Metrical Dindschenchas</em>,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the Gallizenae of Île de Sein in Brittany and similar druidesshoods:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Naw Chwaer of Annwfn in "The Spoils of Annwfn",</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the Nine Witches of Ystawingun in "Who Is the Porter?",</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the nine witch sisters and their mother in the Breton lay "Vita Prima Samsonis",</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the Nine Sisters of Avalon in the<em> Vita Merlini</em>,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">and the Nine Witches of Caer Lloyw (Lloyw = Glow = Gloucester) in <em>Peredur mab Ebrauc</em>.</li> </ul></li> </ul><p></p><p>There's also of course the Greek and Roman accounts of the Gaulish and British Druids, and references to Druids and their works and characters in Irish and Welsh tax codes and other literature, and there's what we have from archeological records as well.</p><p></p><p>Yes, the D&D Druid is just as equally built from Neo-Paganism but it's a stretch to claim that they were invented out of whole cloth and that Druidic practices are mostly forgotten. D&D is about myth and story and folk heroes, and we have a LOT of surviving Druid stories, though they are filtered through medieval Christian lenses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8296964, member: 6803643"] Aye. It would make for a fun elemental rock-paper-scissors game. Look at Pokémon with their 18 elements/power sources/martial arts types! Druid being invented out of whole-cloth isn't entirely right: we've got Celtic mythological and heroic characters like: [LIST] [*]Gwydion and Mâth from the 4th Branch of the [I]Mabinogion[/I], [*]Biróg and Cian from the [I]Glas Gaibhnenn[/I] (though Cian might be one and the same as Gwydion), [*]Cathbad from the [I]Ulster Cycle[/I], [*]Relbeo the Nemedian, [*]Amergin Glúingel of the Milesians (also a Bard), [*]the blind Druid Mug Ruith from various spots in [I]The Book of Invasions[/I] (who might be one and the same as the Solar healing god Dian Cécht) and his daughter Tlachtga (if Mug Ruith = Dian Cécht, then Tlachtga = Airmed), [*]Tadg mac Nuadat and Bodhmall from the[I] Fenian Cycle[/I], [*]Bé Chuille from the [I]Metrical Dindschenchas[/I], [*]the Gallizenae of Île de Sein in Brittany and similar druidesshoods: [LIST] [*]The Naw Chwaer of Annwfn in "The Spoils of Annwfn", [*]the Nine Witches of Ystawingun in "Who Is the Porter?", [*]the nine witch sisters and their mother in the Breton lay "Vita Prima Samsonis", [*]the Nine Sisters of Avalon in the[I] Vita Merlini[/I], [*]and the Nine Witches of Caer Lloyw (Lloyw = Glow = Gloucester) in [I]Peredur mab Ebrauc[/I]. [/LIST] [/LIST] There's also of course the Greek and Roman accounts of the Gaulish and British Druids, and references to Druids and their works and characters in Irish and Welsh tax codes and other literature, and there's what we have from archeological records as well. Yes, the D&D Druid is just as equally built from Neo-Paganism but it's a stretch to claim that they were invented out of whole cloth and that Druidic practices are mostly forgotten. D&D is about myth and story and folk heroes, and we have a LOT of surviving Druid stories, though they are filtered through medieval Christian lenses. [/QUOTE]
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