This word seemed appropriate because of the picture (see down below in another post):
Druid -- A druid was a member of the high-ranking class in ancient Celtic cultures. Druids were religious leaders as well as legal authorities, adjudicators, lorekeepers, medical professionals and political advisors. Druids left no written accounts. While they were reported to have been literate, they are believed to have been prevented by doctrine from recording their knowledge in written form. Their beliefs and practices are attested in some detail by their contemporaries from other cultures, such as the Romans and the Greeks.
The part that struck me as interesting is there there were no written accounts. So really, we could make up anything we want to about them, much like we do with RPGs. It's fascinating to me that a culture might have been shunned by doctrine to keep a history. Where would we be without our written language, our written history?
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