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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7086640" data-attributes="member: 6683613">Sigh..."Orpheus plays his harp, and fixes the lion in his flashing gaze, and speaks in a voice like thunder. And at the sound of his words, the savage creature recoils from him in fear and physical pain. (Meanwhile, Hercules picks up a leopard and hurls it thirty feet.) Blood springs from the lion's eyes, first in drops but then in rivers, as Orpheus continues to recite barbed words, cruel words, words to flay the body and the mind. (Meanwhile, Perseus cleaves at a tiger with his adamantine sickle-sword.) At last, the beast lies dead and the poet stands victorious, never having lifted a weapon but armed with the most beautiful and terrible of all magic. (Meanwhile, an arrow from Atalanta finishes off the last fleeing puma.) As silence descends over the battlefield, the other warriors, blood-spattered and weary, look with awe upon what their youthful companion has wrought."What exactly was so challenging about understanding that? The paragraph was about Orpheus' part of the fight. It neither stated nor implied that his party-mates just stood back and watched. In fact, if they had done that, they probably wouldn't be "blood-spattered and weary", would they? This is a normal encounter. This is what bards can look like when they do battle with the magic of words. It is an awesome power, and it is no more diminished than any other class by having other people also there doing their thing. If you're going to complain about a bard standing back and killing people with words of power rather than fighting like a manly man, then you should also be complaining about a wizard doing exactly the same thing -- after all, wizards too can cast a spell literally called power word kill. Being able to kill people with words of power is manifestly not silly. If anything, it's terrifying. So terrifying, in fact, that the superstitious worry bards and filidh might be capable of this is precisely the reason real, historical Celtic lords tried to tread lightly around them. So you can keep repeating "silly" "silly" "silly" all you want, you can even shift your goalposts all you want, it's not going to help your case.</blockquote>

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