[Entry on PANCELTS from The Tough Guide.]

PANCELTS are frequently red-haired. They wear plaids and have NAMES you must consult the glossary in order to pronounce. By the Rules (pronounced GEAS) which govern them, they have to call ELVES Shee (pronounced Sidhe) and refer to the ENEMY as Shadow. Otherwise they are nice people who drink a lot of the water of life (pronounced Uisce) and love to tell you LEGENDS by firelight. They also fight a lot and rather well, since both men and women trained hard from the age of ten. But there is no such thing as an ordinary PanCelt. Each of them is either a MAGIC USER or BARD or Druid (pronounced like a sneeze), or sometimes all three (in which case you pronounce it Merlin.) They are governed by strong and beautiful QUEENS called things like Maebdh Aeiolaien (pronounced Mad Eileen) or strong and serious KINGS called, for instance, Daibhaeaidhaibh MacAeraith (pronounced Dave Mate), and they appear to worship the Welsh Bard Taliesin. It is in this Bard's honour that they all sing so much, even more than the Shee/Elves do. And, like the Elves, they are prone to go on about how very much better things were in the Old Days, when a HERO could walk one day from Caer Dibdh to the sea by taking a short cut through Tir n'an Og (pronounced The Many-Coloured Land).