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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8789060" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>The Lore Bard seems to follow the mythologically accurate Celtic bard.</p><p></p><p>The Celtic bard is known for ones praise causing blessings and ones clever humorous satire causing injury, even physical harm.</p><p></p><p>The Celtic bard functions as a member of a government court whose job is to praise the leader of court, thus magically stabilize the government. But the bards evolve into important technocrats in their own right. The bards are scholars, literally founders of reallife universities. They are go-to experts in various fields of knowledge. Many farflung government courts felt it valuable to include a bard as a member of their courts.</p><p></p><p>The D&D Lore Bard is blending the fate-magic of praise or satire, with the scholarly aspects of the bardic institution and universities.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It turns out that the Norse tradition of the skald is non-native and actually comes from importing the Celtic bard tradition. The skald start off singing the praise and stabilizing the government of the jarl, including the history of the family that the jarl comes from, but within a few centuries become important technocrats in their own right, as experts of the law and legal system, such as Snorri. The skald have a Norse spin on the bard tradition, doing songs in the Norse language, and individuals known for magic are doing Norse magic. But the skald is Celtic origin.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>These particular bard traditions are simultaneously charismatically magical and scholarly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8789060, member: 58172"] The Lore Bard seems to follow the mythologically accurate Celtic bard. The Celtic bard is known for ones praise causing blessings and ones clever humorous satire causing injury, even physical harm. The Celtic bard functions as a member of a government court whose job is to praise the leader of court, thus magically stabilize the government. But the bards evolve into important technocrats in their own right. The bards are scholars, literally founders of reallife universities. They are go-to experts in various fields of knowledge. Many farflung government courts felt it valuable to include a bard as a member of their courts. The D&D Lore Bard is blending the fate-magic of praise or satire, with the scholarly aspects of the bardic institution and universities. It turns out that the Norse tradition of the skald is non-native and actually comes from importing the Celtic bard tradition. The skald start off singing the praise and stabilizing the government of the jarl, including the history of the family that the jarl comes from, but within a few centuries become important technocrats in their own right, as experts of the law and legal system, such as Snorri. The skald have a Norse spin on the bard tradition, doing songs in the Norse language, and individuals known for magic are doing Norse magic. But the skald is Celtic origin. These particular bard traditions are simultaneously charismatically magical and scholarly. [/QUOTE]
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