Gaulois

Celtic Howling Chain Bladea race of humans found close to the boarder of the saxon territory 
== Highlander ==
== Gallowglass ==
== Bothach ==
Barely above slaves in status were the bothach, those with no property rights. Here fell criminals, indebted farmers, and unskilled laborers. The bothach were unfortunates who were stripped of all rights.
== Feines ==
The feines, or freemen, were far better off. They owned their own huts, fields, and cattle. They managed their own affairs. They were one step away from being nobility.
== Flaith ==
The nobility of the Celtic social structure were the flaith. These were men and women who attained their positions by skill, wealth, the strength of their character, or leadership. They did not necessarily rise through kinship. The nobles owned property, fields, tenants, cattle, sheep, and pigs. Noble women could also own property, choose their own husbands, and some even fought in battle. But usually they ran their households and raised children.
== Artisans and Craftsmen ==
Can you make clothing, jewelry, pottery, or a fashion a bodhrán, one of those small Irish drums, or a bone whistle, or a harp with gut strings? Then you sat high on the social ladder. If could take a tree and turn it into a wagon, wagon wheel, or barrel, you were also well situated. And the blacksmith who forged swords and ploughs? Such a man was also highly regarded. Anyone with a skill in high demand sat high on the social ladder.
== Bards ==
Bards were a class of poets and singers, and in a world without books or TV, were highly respected. Bards were the Celtic entertainers and recorders of history. A ruler would take a bard into his court to immortalize his reign in song and verse. Each night the bard would play and sing for him, singing long tales, both ancient and new, and traditional ballads, while the court sipped mugs of mead or ale. Bards either played their own harp or bone pipe, or were accompanied by one who could.
== Druids ==
Higher still on the social scale were the druids. These men, rarely women, were the mediators between the Celtic people and the spirits of forest, stream, and bog, and the gods of the sun, sea, and moon. They worshiped the ancient Fir Bolg and the Tuatha Dé Danann, Danu, Crom Cruach, Lugh, Cernunos, and a host of other fearsome gods. They organized sacrifices of animals and sometimes humans. They divined the future by observing birds, the stars, animal entrails, and other means. They were sorcerers who could cast spells to turn people into animals or stones. Or so the people believed. The druids taught that people had an eternal soul which went to the Otherworld. And when St. Patrick brought Christianity, they opposed him.
They were also the clan’s healers, for they knew medicinal lore and healing spells. They were the clan’s judges, mediators in disputes, and advisors to kings. They held great power and the people feared them. The druids are so interesting, we may devote a later post exclusively to them.
== Weapons ==
# Lowlander sword
# Celtic Howling Chain Blade
# Celtic Antenna Sword
# Gallowglass sword
# Claymore
== Legendary Weapons ==
# Claidheamh Soluis
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