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| - | //The College of Glamour is the home of bards who mastered their craft in the vibrant realm of the [[planes: | + | //The College of Glamour is the home of bards who mastered their craft in the vibrant realm of the [[planes: |
| The bards of this college are regarded with a mixture of awe and fear. Their performances are the stuff of legend. These bards are so eloquent that a speech or song that one of them performs can cause captors to release the bard unharmed and can lull a furious dragon into complacency. The same magic that allows them to quell beasts can also bend minds. Villainous bards of this college can leech off a community for weeks, abusing their magic to turn their hosts into thralls. Heroic bards of this college instead use this power to gladden the downtrodden and undermine oppressors.// | The bards of this college are regarded with a mixture of awe and fear. Their performances are the stuff of legend. These bards are so eloquent that a speech or song that one of them performs can cause captors to release the bard unharmed and can lull a furious dragon into complacency. The same magic that allows them to quell beasts can also bend minds. Villainous bards of this college can leech off a community for weeks, abusing their magic to turn their hosts into thralls. Heroic bards of this college instead use this power to gladden the downtrodden and undermine oppressors.// | ||
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| - | //Source: \\ MCDM Arcadia, Vol 8 \\ (3rd Party) // | + | //Source: \\ Arcadia, Vol 8 \\ (MCDM 5e) // |
| //There are few evils so frightening as a Grandmother Hag. Living in the woods, a swamp, or the top of a tower, she imprisons, robs, maims, or murders all who come near. Bards know the power of a good story, and those following the College of Grandmother’s Tales use the horror of the Grandmother Hag to their advantage. They draw upon the fears of growing old, mortality, the loss of agency, and the inability to trust those closest to you to terrify their foes.// | //There are few evils so frightening as a Grandmother Hag. Living in the woods, a swamp, or the top of a tower, she imprisons, robs, maims, or murders all who come near. Bards know the power of a good story, and those following the College of Grandmother’s Tales use the horror of the Grandmother Hag to their advantage. They draw upon the fears of growing old, mortality, the loss of agency, and the inability to trust those closest to you to terrify their foes.// | ||
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| + | ===== Legends ===== | ||
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| + | //Source: \\ Grim Hollow Valika, Pg 88 \\ (3rd Party) // | ||
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| + | //Bards of this college study the Lord Edda, which holds the sagas of Valika’s ancient heroes and can harness these legendary spirits to enhance the abilities of their allies. These bards pursue the mastery of storytelling as an art form to inspire their companions to emulate these legends. When the bards of this college aren’t counseling their companions with wisdom from the Lord Edda, they often adventure to recover lost artifacts from those stories or investigate the alleged locations of the beloved sagas. These bards don’t try to reconcile the truth that the lessons of some of the sagas contradict each other. For them, the apparent contradictions are just another facet of the wisdom that can be gleaned by studying the legends.// | ||
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| //Bards of the College of Lore know something about most things, collecting bits of knowledge from sources as diverse as scholarly tomes and peasant tales. Whether singing folk ballads in taverns or elaborate compositions in royal courts, these bards use their gifts to hold audiences spellbound. When the applause dies down, the audience members might find themselves questioning everything they held to be true, from their faith in the priesthood of the local temple to their loyalty to the king. \\ | //Bards of the College of Lore know something about most things, collecting bits of knowledge from sources as diverse as scholarly tomes and peasant tales. Whether singing folk ballads in taverns or elaborate compositions in royal courts, these bards use their gifts to hold audiences spellbound. When the applause dies down, the audience members might find themselves questioning everything they held to be true, from their faith in the priesthood of the local temple to their loyalty to the king. \\ | ||
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| - | //Source: \\ MCDM Arcadia, Vol 2 \\ (3rd Party) // | + | //Source: \\ Arcadia, Vol 2 \\ (MCDM 5e) // |
| //From the desolation of winter comes the rebirth of spring. The smell of rain and earth hanging in the air, the first bloom of green after the silent pale of winter, and the rushing waters of snowmelt. These tides of change teach bards to inspire and refresh their allies like rain, and wield power that crashes upon their foes like a sudden squall. Like the spring from which they blossom, Bards of the College of Springtide learn of endings and renewal, for no growth can come from a dead and overgrown place. But as their powers of rejuvenation swell, so too does their talent for overwhelming force, like unstoppable floods brought by spring storms.// | //From the desolation of winter comes the rebirth of spring. The smell of rain and earth hanging in the air, the first bloom of green after the silent pale of winter, and the rushing waters of snowmelt. These tides of change teach bards to inspire and refresh their allies like rain, and wield power that crashes upon their foes like a sudden squall. Like the spring from which they blossom, Bards of the College of Springtide learn of endings and renewal, for no growth can come from a dead and overgrown place. But as their powers of rejuvenation swell, so too does their talent for overwhelming force, like unstoppable floods brought by spring storms.// | ||
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| //Bards of the College of Valor are daring skalds whose tales keep alive the memory of the great heroes of the past, and thereby inspire a new generation of heroes. These bards gather in mead halls or around great bonfires to sing the deeds of the mighty, both past and present. They travel the land to witness great events first-hand and to ensure that the memory of those events doesn' | //Bards of the College of Valor are daring skalds whose tales keep alive the memory of the great heroes of the past, and thereby inspire a new generation of heroes. These bards gather in mead halls or around great bonfires to sing the deeds of the mighty, both past and present. They travel the land to witness great events first-hand and to ensure that the memory of those events doesn' | ||
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