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As someone who studied the Celts and their civilization at my university, it has been more than a source of frustration to see so many Celt OCs who are meant to represent all the Celts. For me that is practically impossible to represent into one character without ignoring and leaving out huge chunks of other Celtic groups who are in themselves distinctive enough to have their own representation. They shared a similar enough culture and related languages, which is why we collectively call them “the Celts” but don’t be fooled into thinking they were identical to each other. Even at the core, the Insular and Continental Celts had significant differences between each other. And about 90% of the Celt OCs I see often have only traits of the Celts of the British Isles, which means everyone concentrates on the Insular Celts but completely ignores those on the mainland. No matter how I’ve look at it, you cannot create one Celt OC. Logically it is not doable. Sorry, I am not out to ruin your fun if you do have a Celt OC, I simply want to encourage people to take a closer look at the different Celtic groups and see how fascinating each group is on their own. They’re really fun to read about and it just makes me sad to see how people just skim over them and crush them all into one OC.

Now for some of the Celtic clothing, I got them from a reference book based on what was found but with others… I had to get a bit more creative since I wasn’t able to hunt down any good description on their appearances at the time. Well I just made use of what’s pretty close to being accurate for Galatia, Celtiberia and Belgica. Also short swords are normal, long swords didn’t appear until the Vikings appeared.

Hope you enjoyed the comic and that you found it interesting!

Description
As someone who studied the Celts and their civilization at my university, it has been more than a source of frustration to see so many Celt OCs who are meant to represent all the Celts. For me that is practically impossible to represent into one character without ignoring and leaving out huge chunks of other Celtic groups who are in themselves distinctive enough to have their own representation. They shared a similar enough culture and related languages, which is why we collectively call them “the Celts” but don’t be fooled into thinking they were identical to each other. Even at the core, the Insular and Continental Celts had significant differences between each other. And about 90% of the Celt OCs I see often have only traits of the Celts of the British Isles, which means everyone concentrates on the Insular Celts but completely ignores those on the mainland. No matter how I’ve look at it, you cannot create one Celt OC. Logically it is not doable. Sorry, I am not out to ruin your fun if you do have a Celt OC, I simply want to encourage people to take a closer look at the different Celtic groups and see how fascinating each group is on their own. They’re really fun to read about and it just makes me sad to see how people just skim over them and crush them all into one OC.

Now for some of the Celtic clothing, I got them from a reference book based on what was found but with others… I had to get a bit more creative since I wasn’t able to hunt down any good description on their appearances at the time. Well I just made use of what’s pretty close to being accurate for Galatia, Celtiberia and Belgica. Also short swords are normal, long swords didn’t appear until the Vikings appeared.

Hope you enjoyed the comic and that you found it interesting!