In the northern reaches, above Unicorn Pass, the Celts and Druids live free from the shackles of god or man. Living between the Norse, the Jutes, and the Christians, the giants and dwarves, the Celts are a trading, hunting, and fighting culture. North of Christian Highland Celtic is the lingua franca, though many traveling Celts also know Anglish and quite a few of those know Dwarfish and Jute.
The Celts prefer to stay away from the mountains, and live on the hills and plains between the two ranges. Near the mountains, horses and pack animals are unsafe: they attract hippogriffs and gryphons.
The great mountains of the west are almost always visible in the Celtic valley: its high peaks are visible from a hundred and forty miles away, or five to six diagonals on the map.
- The Celts: Religion
- Religion in Highland: The Celts
- The Celts: Time
- The Celts measure their months strictly by the moon. They don’t have specific names for each month, but may name those that begin with one of their four festivals. For example, the month corresponding approximately to the Christian May is the month of Beltane.
- Wizard Runes
- Celtic wizards are mnemonic. They, rather than using special components, used carved runes as components. However, these carved runes must be carved during a specific natural event. The rarer the normal components, and the higher the spell’s level, the rarer the natural event must be. First level spells, for example, might have to be carved during a specific lunar phase, or from a twig bathed in the sun’s dying light. Fourth level runes might…
- The Celts: Places
- Places in Highland: The Celts
