Disclaimer: My gods, she writing something PG? It's the Apocalypse! Most characters are property of Disney/Buena Vista Corporation. Any names you don't recognize are mine. At least as much as they can be.  This is meant to be done in the old fangirl tradition, sorcerer meets girl, plans to exploit her and eventually falls in love. Hey don't bitch. Sometimes it's good to get back to basics. BTW, the names you see here are taken from popular Celtic and Irish heroes, but they are NOT the heroes themselves. Too much of a time warp that I don't feel like dealing with. The poem here is of Celtic origin, though I couldn't for the life of me tell you who wrote it. You may notice part way through I stop using italics when somebody speaks. I found this necessary as the character can not remember his native tongue and thus must assume that he is speaking naturally.

A NOTE ON DRUIDRY: I would have to say that out of this entire thing, only about 1/300th of it is based on 'real' Druidry, be it ancient or modern. Believe me, I wouldn't be here explaining it if I didn't feel it deserved explanation. My intentions with this fiction, (and bare in mind the word fiction) was not accuracy but rather atmosphere. I wanted to create an image of a world unlike most of the other fictions out there, taking on a group that isn't often used and a culture that is so detailed that to skip out on certain things would kill the point of the whole fic. There is so little known about the actual Druids of ancient Gaul, and most of it was written by outsiders who (like the Victorian society of England) felt themselves better than these 'simple' and 'barbaric' people. So every word we do have is to be taken with a grain of salt.

Now with that said, I would like to say that Druidry is indeed alive and flourishing today in many forms and facets. If you would like to research the noble art in it's modern day incarnation, try researching the following organizations.

Reformed Druids of North America

(RDNA)

Ancient Order of Druids in America

(AODA)

Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids

(O.B.O.D)