Dr. Eli Price

Dr. Eli Price, MD, FACS (Eliavres ap Rhys)

Apperance
Dr. Price is caucassion a 6 foot tall 45 year old male, born in Wales, England. He speaks English (Native), Gaelic, and Spanish.

Background
Travelling abroad at the time of the Avatar Storm, Dr. Price remained in Las Vegas to assist with all the resulting medical emergencies.

Once awakened, Dr. Price was trained in the arts by a diabolic Gaelic Druid who advocated human sacrifice. After discovering more of his Welsh Druidic roots, he shunned the practive aggravating his mentor.

Dr. Eli Price drives a Jeep Cherokee and currently works at St. Mary's Hospital Emergency Room in Las Vegas.

Welsh Druidism
In the Welsh myths, a druid was called dyn hysbys, which means wizard. The druids were responsible for the religious teaching and practices of the Celts. They preserved knowledge and were responsible for the sacrifices of animals, and sometimes of human sacrifices. In Welsh texts, the druids were seen as teachers, healers, seers and wizards, but not as priests. Unlike the Gallic druids, they did not pray to any god nor did they ever perform sacrifice. As seers or soothsayers, they were known as vates.

The Welsh legend, seemed to favor the apple trees. In the poem attributed to Myrddin, the antecedent of Merlin, he hid up in the apple tree, when the men of Rhydderch, but he was hidden by the magic grove.

It is not certain if the Irish or the Welsh believe in eschatology or not, but there are couple of indication that reincarnations were possible.

The Gaullish druid was a mediator between the mortals and gods; they stand between worlds, and in the case of Irish and Welsh myths, between the otherworld and mortal planes. The druids derived part of their magic powers and their divinations from the Otherworld.

"These men predict the future by observing the flight and calls of birds..."

However, there are many benefits of becoming a druid; it is still not an easy life. It may take over 20 years to learn the philosophy, divination, poetry, healing and magic. And all this without committing anything to writing. The druids, or any Gaul for that matter, were fully aware of writing down their knowledge, but chose not to do so, because they preferred to rely on memories. For the druids, their pupils were required to exercise their mind.