Druids & Wicken

You are taking my answers out of the context. Please read what I was replying to.

I am not going to comment on that.

that was seriously an accident i might have left clicked to auto correct i am very sorry. the capital letter only in Celts on top of that, if i hadn’t wrote it myself I too would be offended.

Agreed, also it was kind of pointless to use a quote since it was just above, I’ll edit them out.

Although burning a wicken or healer seems kind of f’ed up it would be historically accurate. :frowning:

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druid’s not dead. i’m from brittany, the last celtic part of france, which trough history, have been quite distached from the rest of the country and even nowadays, the druidic tradition still exists and live on trough education from parents to childrens. and by druid i’m not talking about the neo druidism. just the pure basic and oldest way of celts. this culture lived on and is still very inplanted in folklore across europe.

Britanny is indeed very specific and interesting land, as it absorbed many refugees from saxon-controlled Britain. Those people might be especially interested in preserving their culture, so it makes sense to me…

Very little is known about the religion of the Boii and Volk-Tectosage tribes though, who were settled in nowadays territory of Bohemia and Moravia. From archeology, we know about their material culture, yet their traditions and customs practically died with the removal of the druids, in Bohemia, this happened cca 50-25 BC with pressure from both Romans (south), Germans (Northwest) and possibly also Dacians from the East. The ordinary population stayed here though, as later culture of the Marcomanni shows mixture of both influences, celtic and germanic, in some aspects.

Also, there are also very few information about the original slavic deities/pantheon in the region. Down on Albis, where paganism survived for a longer period, we have some evidence from the Saxon chroniclers, but not for Bohemia itself, whose nobles embraced christianity from the Franks (at least nominally) around year 844/5 already.

So unfortunately no druids in medieval period though. But some hermits deep in the woods were common around Sazava river. That’s how the local monastery originated I guess…

It would be really cool to have some mod centered around the celts, though.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could trade with gypsies or foreign merchants from France, Russia or even the middle east. You could get your fortune told ,or even barter for rare items like unique armor, swords, different species of bird.

It was already mentioned in some older thread - gypsies migrated to Europe in the 2nd half of 15th century, which doesn’t fit into game’s timeframe.

Also, I doubt there were any French or especially Muscovite (Russia emerged much more later) merchants in HRE in that time. Germans, Italians were. Jewish merchants were common in most towns.

Yeah, but aren’t they also allowing 15th century fighting.