Connections
- The Bard is one of the gods of the Undying Cycles of Creation.
- The Day of the Bard is presumably named after him (08.21)
Bards
- Olga Pignose’s father was a half-elf bard.
- Bards and musicians who might be capable of playing the didgeridoo to summon Old Leviathan are kept at Skullreach.
- One of Thorek Ironhide’s subordinates in the Marche of the Winterjarl is an old bear-bard named One-Eyed Kevanjr, who is said to be able to recite in their entirety seven sagas of seven days’ duration each.
- Algrael the Gelderer
Musical lore
- Gnoll bards sing of ancient battles when warriors rode wyverns into battle, and sightings on the eve of conflict are considered auspicious.
- A popular dwarf chant tells of how in a dark hour, the wyvern (29.29) will save them. She will turn her fury against the gnoll armies and scatter them across the desert.
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Bards sing of when Ravenscraig (03.19) was a harbor thick with the sails of a hundred nations, and of every merchant residing in a gilded palace
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A gnoll bard composed a Lowing saga about the Cavern out of Time (39.31)
- Any decent Thringish bard can sing at least a dozen laments over knights doomed to wander with lions.
- Elven music can twist a man’s wits and the vile giggles of gnollish bards can break even an archmage’s concentration, but dwarf drummers make music that sinks deeper than either.
The bards tell many stories of Ulthar the Loved, but none more often than the one of how Ulthar reclaimed the Green Lady’s shawl from the Steeple of Alberon itself (29.14.14).