Muse's Song
by Z. Robins aka Nuada Silver Arm

To call the muses song a changeling must spend a point of glamour, then roll his permanent Glamour vs. a target number equal to his banality. Every success adds one to any dice pool having to do with creating art (performance, dance, crafts, etc.). These dice can be used to go beyond the normal limits of skill.

When a fae uses the Song there is always some outward manifestation of the power. A shaft of sunlight may seem to fall upon them, or shadows may gather to their voice. The manifestations are never the same, the depend upon the fae, the art, the situation, and other factors. However, they are always appropriate, and always magical - if not obvious.

There are a few limitations however.

1. The Muses song will sometimes inspire Glamour, but it is by the coincidental glamour rules, and not as Rapture. (Generally the use must 1. Be dramatically appropriate, and 2. Get more than 7 successes on the art roll).

2. The number of success has a cap equal to the characters Remembrance.

But there are some nice side effects.

1. If the character gets more than 7 success everyone listening, or viewing, the performance/art will become enchanted. In the case of permanent art, like paintings, this only works the first time it is viewed. (Unless the character does some other magic - some among the Crystal Circle can make them permanent, but the method they use is secret).

2. A character who gets more that 5 successes in front of a person who is already their dreamer can inspire them so that they will immediately begin working upon art of their own. (It jump starts the musing process). With 10 success this can work even if the dreamer had been burned out by ravaging or banality recently.

3. The character can play instruments and use artistic methods that they have no training with.

4. Bards who are already skilled, and use the Song to augment their art may be able to reproduce the Kinain Bardic Gift (The Enchanted, pg 75). To determine if they are capable of this add together their skill or talent in the art (without attribute) and the successes from the Muse's Song roll, then subtract 5. The resulting number is the level of the Bardic Gift that they can use (with the standard system). Note that when the time comes to make the Bardic Gift's roll the successes from the Muse's Song do not count - they were burned up by the effort of calling the gift.