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THE BARDS OF IMPERIAN | |||
[GUILD LEADERS] | |||
The Soul of Music: Camaris | |||
Secretaries: Bellentine, Camaris, Icsellom, and Mercer | |||
City Affiliation: Kinsarmar | |||
Guild Professions: Bard | |||
Born from the people's love of music, the first bards travelled far and | |||
wide, carrying tales of history and heroes, news and knowledge, | |||
entertaining and informing all with their songs, sketches and | |||
performances. They varied from the Court Bard who sang of kings, to the | |||
travelling Troubadour who often sang for her supper. | |||
After the Awakening, the Bards slowly found themselves discovering | |||
fragments of a lost song, each hearing a word or note, carrying | |||
exquisite harmony itself, yet incomplete. Pursuing these, they banded | |||
slowly together and discovered that they were hearing the Song of the | |||
World, sung at the time of the world's creation in the Ancient Tongue, | |||
which speaks directly to the very soul that somehow had been Awakened | |||
itself. Over time, these individuals noticed that properly combining | |||
words and fragments of the Language could alter reality itself, allowing | |||
them to weave mighty powers with their arts. Embracing the arts of | |||
Voice, Thespia, and Artistry, they sought to maintain their traditions | |||
of spreading tales and songs, seeking out both new fragments, and new tales. | |||
Their old welcoming by many allowed their developing powers to be | |||
considered merely an extension of their music, and thus Bards are still | |||
welcome in countless places, as of old. However, there is an ancient | |||
saying, to anger a bard is to anger the world. Before the Awakening, it | |||
meant more that the bard would spread his anger in his tales, slowly | |||
turning others against the one who angered him. Nowadays, perhaps that | |||
saying has a more literal and mysterious meaning. Certainly few truly | |||
wish to plumb the depths of their power through having it focused upon | |||
them. Bound tightly together by love of their arts and histories, they | |||
are almost family-like, welcomed and welcoming, yet their power in its | |||
height could perhaps change the very world. | |||