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Message: <blockquote data-quote="silentspace" data-source="post: 1214384" data-attributes="member: 14316">Rowyn moves to the performance area to sing “The Ballad of Sir Thomas the Fool,” using her magic to enhance the telling.  During her performance, two half-elves enter the tavern, causing quite a stir.  They are both handsome, well-built males with curly blond hair.  They look like brothers, and judging by the crowd’s reaction, they are well known and well liked in Radigan.  They are wearing simple, almost peasant clothing, but when one of them passes by, Dunathar notices that the clothes are exceptionally well made, and of fine cloth.  One of them carries a lute.Rowyn’s performance wasn’t as good as her last, and she only collects a couple coppers.  The half-elf with the lute, seeing this, exclaims to the assembled crowd “Come come!  You can be more generous then that!  There are so few traveling bards these days!  We should reward this good bard for sharing her song with us!”  With that, he gives a silver coin to Rowyn, winking at her.  After that, several others contribute their own coin.  Rowyn ends with five silver and eight copper coins.Then the one with the lute begins a song.  The audience is rapt.  Rowyn sees right away that he is a master performer, and he gives an extraordinary performance.  His name is Merin, and his brother is Gremin.  They belong to the Norn family, one of the Lesser Noble Families that make their home in Radigan.  Merin sings a song of his own composition, called “The Seiges of Radigan”.  It tells the story of the Gorukan sieges over the past two decades, and how Lord Mayor Brent, the Three Noble Families of Radigan, the Order of Ellior, and the Temple of Heironeous, supported by the good citizens of Radigan, repelled siege after siege.  You can tell these were horrific, epic battles, filled with blood and loss, but Merin Norn fills the song with jest and comedy, and you are struck with images of dwarven warriors running between the legs of giants, elven archers knocking Gorukan cavalry right out of their saddles as the Gorukan horses ran happily to eat apples out of the elves’ hands, and siege engines sinking as the wizard Torcid Ellior turned the ground beneath them to mud.  Merin and Gremin rode out with Lord Mayor Brent, Merin inspiring the troops with his song while Gremin fought bravely at his side.Most of the guards and drivers rush forward to thank Merin with their coin, but he refuses all of it.  It seems he performs here quite often, but only to have fun and entertain, not to earn money.  Maybe the two have enough wealth of their own.Merin and Gremin come and join your tables.  “Hail and well met!  We heard that a caravan had arrived today!  We see so few travellers these days!  Please, tell us of your travels!”</blockquote>

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