Though my one aim in Myth is to destroy them, I have found out something of the origin of their god and weapon of choice.
Well, here goes.
In Celtic Ireland, around the time of the Roman Empire, a group of religious gurus known as druids acted as the local priests and prophets. They were said to be the followers of Crom Cruach.
Crom Cruach. Now where have heard that name before? Oh, yeah, he's that dude the Ghôls (those filthy animals) worship.
Well, it turns out that he was a fertility god who was recognized by a king ruling around 1000BC called Tiernmas or Tighearnmhas. He set up a cult of followers to worship Crom Cruach who became the druids.
They were the advisers to the High King Laoghaire and they warned him of St. Patricks coming. This was a bad thing because they were pagans.
So, along came Pat. and converted Ireland.
This could be seen as similar to Alric coming and defeating Balor or a similar situation in a previous age. In which case, maybe the Ghôls of Myth played a bigger part in advising the Levellers and Forces of the Dark than we may have originally thought. After all, the know the names of all the dark gods.
I picked out Alric in particular because he came and supposedly broke the Cycle bringing light into the land forever. When Patrick came, he brought Christianity into Ireland forever. (Let's not go into the present-day struggles). Alric beat Balor (converted the world) and then killed Soulblighter and maybe the Ghôls afterwards (got rid of the druids).
Alric's breaking of the cycle could be likened to the Celtic cycle of rebirth and regeneration being forgotten after Christianity. Although, in fact the Christians just absorbed it into their own religion. Maybe Alric has only kept a cycle but turned it into a Lighter one.
Back to my original point.
The druids were known to carry sickles to cut their mistletoe (you've all read Asterix, right?). And what is the Ghôls favourite weapon? It is called a cleaver, but it's obvious that it is in fact a sickle. A cleaver is more rectangular.
Also, Druids were present in Britain, Wales and France. The name for France during the Age of the Roman Empire was Gaul.
Gaul–––Ghaul–––Ghul–––Ghol–––Ghôl.
Well, maybe.
