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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8297418" data-attributes="member: 58172">The Druid is often wrong. Most shamans dont shapeshift into animals. Even the ones who do, dont do it all the time. Likewise, the elemental tropes are often wrong, depending on the culture. In a Nordic context, the Druid can be useful for certain Jotnar.The Bard is exact for a shaman. If a particular shaman can shapeshift, the Bard has a spell for that.Shamanic magic and the Bard class.For Noaidi shamans among the Sami, there is a chanting tradition, called Joik, whose music is spontaneous improvisation, while meditating to evoke the mindful presence of a specific place, animal, person or so on.Generally, the chanting is wordless, but words and lyrics can spontaneously happen as part of the evocative connection.This kind of chanting is ancient among the Sami. It is thought to resemble the masculine protective magic among the Norse, which is specifically sung. Norse, feminine, shamanic magic is spoken as commands and instructions. Later Christian Norwegians outlawed the Sami Joik chanting, because it sounded like the pre-Christian Norse magical traditions.Wikipedia has a writeup about the Joik that is decent.[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joik[/URL]This musical aspect among the Nordic shamans compares to the Native American cultures and the Asian cultures, including the Shaman proper.</blockquote>