![]() ![]() The weighted types have their knobs fitted with iron ferrules to maintain structural integrity. Shillelagh may be hollowed at the heavy "hitting" end and filled with molten lead to increase the weight beyond the typical two pounds this sort of shillelagh is known as a 'loaded stick'. It is also believed the blackthorn has mystical properties. Wood from the root of the blackthorn is used because it makes the knob less prone to crack or break during melee. There are tales druids craft a similar weapon called a Knobkierie from a plant called a "Kudu Lily" in lands so far to the south no blackthorn grows and where the Earthmother must work differently, but I am unable to confirm this. Blackthorn is also commonly used to create divining rods, though Druids prefer apple wood for this purpose. ![]() The term commonly refers to a simple blackthorn stick, but this is incorrect. Shillelagh are made from sloe blackthorn wood. ![]() If a druid sees a character of another class with a shillelagh, it is assumed the weapon was either stolen or removed from a druid's corpse. It is not uncommon for a druid to have a collection of shillelaghs they have used near a chimney in their homes, if they have one. Though while a druid may barter or supply allies with other druidic weapons, a druid will never sell or barter a shillelagh away. Like weapons such as the Bear Sword, Hand Claws, or an Insect Censer, a shillelagh cannot be purchased under normal circumstances, only druids make them. Also, while a druid's cudgel is a magical item, there is no inherent magic in a shillelagh, only a small power from the Earth Goddess is infused in it. Where a shillelagh is exclusively crafted from a blackthorn root, a druid's cudgel is solely made from the limb of a freshly dead oak tree killed by some natural cause. Other spelling variants include shillelah, shillalah, and shillaly.Ī shillelagh is often confused with a Druid's Cudgel, or Druid's Club by non-druids. It is associated with Druids and the folklore of the Moonshae Islands. Kellock the Curmudgeon in The Fire of Spring DescriptionĪ shillelagh is a druidic wooden walking stick also used as a club or cudgel, made from a stout knotty blackthorn root with a large knob at the top. And if they are no longer a fighting people, something picturesque and violent and splendid has gone from the world. If they no longer have their collection of cudgels in the chimney-corner, they are no longer distinctively a fighting people. If the Ffolk have forgotten their magic, their poems and ballads are dead things. If these things be true, the Ffolkish people are marked for destruction. I t is said that the Ffolk no longer cultivate the black thorn berry no longer believe in the magic of the blackthorn fire, and a recent writer on Callidyr averred that there were to-day probably not a thousand blackthorn cudgels in the in whole of the Isles. ![]()
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