Just because you are a Bard doesn't mean you can use magic...but it doesn't mean you can't. Welcome to a world where everyone has the potential for magic, but not everyone finds it. The Free Bards are one of the keepers of this power and are trying to keep music a free commodity.
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Bardic Voices: the Lark and the Wren.
Rune has never had it easy. Being a bastard, even if your mother won't admit it, isn't
great in a farm town in the middle of nowhere, where the women have nothing to do but
gossip. Rune plays the fiddle, when Stara, her mother, allows it. One day she gets bullied
into proving her worth...by playing for the Skull Hill ghost. |
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The Robin and the Kestral.
Gypsy Robin, Gwyna, and Kestrel, her husband, Johnny Brede, are making their way through
life as minstrels. They pass through Rune's old village and on a whim decide to play for
the Skull Hill Ghost. He grants them life for the music and gossip about Rune. Little do
they know that it would start them on a course to rescue a town from the influence of a
corrupt Bishop. |
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A Cast of Corbies: Bardic Choices.
The Bardic Guild has decided to make it hard to be a Free Bard. The Kingsford Faire has
opened pavilions, where you can hear Guild Bards and Minstrels play for only a small
offering. The novelty is enough that everyone pays for that. The Free Bards retaliate, by
holding there own pavilions which are free, but it's not enough. Somehow they have to find
a way of surviving the winter without the help of the great Lords... |
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The Eagle and the Nightingale.
Nightingale leaves the Kingsford Faire and is immediately prevailed upon to go to the
capital of the country. She despises cities and tries to avoid it, but is talked into
going. She needs to discover a way to keep the King from passing legislation against the
Free Bards, but how? Help comes in the form of T'fyrr, a bird man with an incredible
voice. |
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Four and Twenty Blackbirds. Someone is murdering the simple minstrels of the kingdom. They are all found stabbed by a dagger shaped like the one used by the Church for rituals. And each is more grim than the last. Who is behind it and why? |
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