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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 4189339" data-attributes="member: 56189">Like?The only one that I've ever come across is Taliesien, and that was a mythical tale based around a magical birth. Somewhat an exception rather than a rule and even then, his magic was limited mainly to shapeshifting and clairvoyance and a bit of elemental stuff, ie. druidic.All the so-called 'bards' in folklore gained the title of bard as a secondary aspect, not a primary one. They were mainly warriors and druids who happen to be good at poetry and story-telling. Something valued amongst heroes, since someone has to sing your praises and who better to do it than yourself?There really aren't any mythical or otherwise examples of bards to draw on, which is why they're hard to conceptualise and create. The 1e bards were based on the Celtic folklore where pretty much every god was a druid-warrior-poet, and the most famed god was the best at all of it.Most bards were basically just up themselves heroes who wanted everyone to know about their deeds so that their story would live on. It was the only form of immortality people had in a world without the written word.</blockquote>