#Druidic

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'Druid's Temple', Ilton, Yorkshire

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Labyrinth Rock Carving - Tintagel - Cornwall

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"Druidic Statue Structures"

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Art by Frewin Hu

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hey it’s been a while here’s some art

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Spear of the Primal Hunter by Dungeon Strugglers

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What to do with Druidic

Druidic as a level 1 benefit is a bit of a let down for those who play Druids. It's just another language, in a game full of languages, with no special abilities or properties to it other than it can only be understood by other druids. Like Thieve's Cant, it only exists for role play flavor if the DM chooses to incorporate it, but at least Thieve's Cant has an obvious purpose in helping thieves to commit crimes and shield themselves from authorities. Druidic has no such given purpose, which is why it's hard to figure out what to do with it.

Some options didn't become apparent to me until I was trying to build a witch character and trying to find interesting things to do with spell components and potion ingredients. Then I started reading about who the druids were and the roles they played in Celtic society. Then it started making more sense.

Depending on who you ask, druids were the priests, philosophers, ethicists, material scientists, astronomers, and/or judges in their society. People went to them for advice and counsel, for legal proceedings and religious guidance. Their wisdom was kept secret because it was all oral tradition which had to be memorized. They might have even been forbidden to write down any information relating to their druidic orders. And from that, the options emerge:

Instructions and warnings to other druids about the plants and animal species who live nearby, what their uses are, if they're dangerous, and how to tame them

Directions on who to avoid in a given village as a problem person, a trouble maker, or a source of conflict

Indications if the government is corrupt, the people are oppressed, and who the source of that oppression is

Signs for navigating through and away from the population centers so they/other druids don't get lost or get bad directions from the locals. Also any interesting or useful stops off the main road that might prove interesting or useful.

How do you convey all that in a way that the uninitiated can't interact with it? What does it look like?

Thinking from a modern perspective and what I could see of ancient druids today, it would look like Ogham markings on rocks and stones. Just a bunch of lines that are totally meaningless unless you know how to read them. Then there are other ancient languages with fun elements to choose from, like hieroglyphics and pictorial glyph languages like Mayan that could be used to say a lot with very little if you understand the symbols.

That led me into thinking it would be really neat if every druid during their initiation received their own glyph that represents them, that they use whenever leaving this kind of information about a place. And when Druidic is visible to other druids, this is what it means. They see and understand the glyph symbology and can gather a ton of information from it that other people can't see.

The more I think about this, the more I want to use this in my current campaign, which has two druids in it. I think they both would really enjoy making their own glyphs and leaving them in places.

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summer solstice and pretty summer flowers

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The druid acrylic charm is amidst my favourites, I'm quite pleased with how these greens look!

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Some ki-channeling commissioned by Nyal

[thesilicontribesman]

'Druid's Temple', Ilton, Yorkshire

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Ancestor Stag

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Bat for lashes

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Pennsylvania Quartz carved with triscale imagery

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Crown of the Forgotten Circle by Griffon's Saddlebag