Here's me as a fierce yet cute Celtic warrior. Turns out that, contrary to the Asterix comics, the Gauls considered boars too sacred to eat. I have some (probably slightly anachronistic) undies on for modesty, considering that some Celtic warriors liked to go into battle in the nude. Hopefully he won't be bested by any pesky Romans and given a fierce wedgie to humble him!
Nah you're good. Twas only a few tribes on continental Europe who went into battle naked. Gauls never really did that, and depending on the era they ended up ditching the woad, too.
Nah you're good. Twas only a few tribes on continental Europe who went into battle naked. Gauls neve
It's quite a fanciful portrayal in fairness (and the artist looooves drawing characters wearing just briefs X3). Apparently when people in modern times tried making skin dye from woad they found it to be pretty poor and liable to cause bad reactions. Curiously the Celts were quite a widespread cultural grouping, so there were Celtic peoples in what's now Poland, and as far east as Anatolia.
It's quite a fanciful portrayal in fairness (and the artist looooves drawing characters wearing just
Nah that's true. Woad sucks as body paint. But the way Romans described it translates like "dyed their skin" rather than painted it so they could have meant tattooing. They were built different if they were tattooing themselves with a skin irritant.
Nah that's true. Woad sucks as body paint. But the way Romans described it translates like "dyed the