What is a Druid?

[Terankar]

So from reading this topic, a druid is in fact a type of priest that gets different spells than your normal cleric would.

They are using oaths to their deity to be built around as a character.

Is this a corrected understanding of this topic?

As a quick and dirty summary? Kind of, yeah.

Thanks, and yeah that is quite a different take on it with all the great takes this thread has.

[Hoihe]

Found this bit on druidic interaction between faiths:

http://www.candlekeep.com/fr_faq.htm#_Toc16090491

Candlekeep as a website provides direct interaction with the various authors of Forgotten Realms, including Ed Greenwood himself. So, it's pretty much Word of God.

[Terankar]

So how he explains it, he basically calls a druid a type of prestige class for clerics.