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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7098162" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=83759&amp;stc=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=83760&amp;stc=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Memes aside, seriously, why would the Bard ever not be doing both? And the idea of a guy singing while slaying may seem silly to some folks today, but it very much did not before the modern era. In the Middle Ages? Absolutely nothing remotely silly about singing a heroic ballad while fighting. The Bard doesn't turn music into magic because someone had a weird dream one day. The Bard uses music as magic because for 99% of human history, music was vastly more than just entertainment, in the minds of humans. Language was vastly more than just communication! Magic and Poetry have been inextricably linked for at least as long as we have written record of anything! The idea of a person speaking the right words, singing with a beautiful enough voice, playing an instrument so exquisitely, or speaking with such incredible, clever, and/or expressive command of linguistic form, that literal beasts are moved, gods weep, miracles occur, rivers are becalmed, trees from from burnt husks, and grown warriors are made unable to raise arms in combat, didn't become anything other than a core part of the fabric of the human understanding of the world until at least the Renaissance. I keep forgetting about this thread, and then coming back and being shocked anew that anyone could have any amount of that knowledge and consider the Bard a silly concept.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7098162, member: 6704184"] [IMG]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=83759&stc=1[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=83760&stc=1[/IMG] Memes aside, seriously, why would the Bard ever not be doing both? And the idea of a guy singing while slaying may seem silly to some folks today, but it very much did not before the modern era. In the Middle Ages? Absolutely nothing remotely silly about singing a heroic ballad while fighting. The Bard doesn't turn music into magic because someone had a weird dream one day. The Bard uses music as magic because for 99% of human history, music was [I][B]vastly more than just entertainment[/B][/I], in the minds of humans. [I]Language[/I] was vastly more than just communication! [I]Magic and Poetry have been inextricably linked for at least as long as we have written record of anything! [/I] The idea of a person speaking the right words, singing with a beautiful enough voice, playing an instrument so exquisitely, or speaking with such incredible, clever, and/or expressive command of linguistic form, that literal beasts are moved, gods weep, miracles occur, rivers are becalmed, trees from from burnt husks, and grown warriors are made unable to raise arms in combat, didn't become anything other than a core part of the fabric of the human understanding of the world until at least the Renaissance. I keep forgetting about this thread, and then coming back and being shocked anew that anyone could have any amount of that knowledge and consider the Bard a silly concept. [/QUOTE]

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