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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arduin Angcam" data-source="post: 1651278" data-attributes="member: 21114">Hi Pbartender,I've just finished a book called "Chronique des derniers païens" by Pierre Chuvin. This book has been translated in English by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, in 1990. under the title " A Chronicle of the last Pagans ". Chuvin stresses the fact that the last way for pagans to publically celebrate their faith after the prohibition of their cults was to disguise them into theater, comedy, fortune-telling and so on. In fact, a celebration like carnival and the different masquerades that still occurs nowadays are remembrances of the celebrations unseparable from greek-roman divine service. The emperors did not dare suppress those celebrations because of social pressure and the tradition went on. It also made street artists and comedians considered as bad christians or even full pagans until a very late period. For instance, Molière, the great French comedy author and an actor himself was denied a christian burial in the late 17th century, like all his fellow-actors of the time. Hence a possible explanation for bardic powers. They may come from Celtic or Greek-Roman gods (cure spells) that are still worshipped through dance, theater, fortune-telling, and the like. Bards may adress their prayers to long-forgotten divinities like Asclepios when they cure people. But they disguise it via an artistic skill in order to confuse the inquisitors and even the good people who never miss an occasion to cry wolf when they see unexplained powers. The NPC class of Aristocrat should suffice to make a courtier or a Renaissance noble. The bard is a much more powerful character with an ability to survive the real mean streets of European 16th century helped by powers of another age.Hope this helps.Arduin.</blockquote>

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