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There are cute bards playing my fav tracks at Limsa 🥲😭😭😭💕💕

Plus some clasdics like Wake me up when September ends

I love bards sm you have no idea

#ff14 #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #bard magic

Is Neeul a "went to college" Bard or is he a "Learned through trial-and-error + pillow talks with spellcasters he hooked up with" Bard?

Neither! I actually have a canon, world-building answer for this, and amazingly, it isn't even horny! (sorry if that's disappointing.)

Neeul's bard spells work by channeling the Legacy or "Spirit" of notable orcs of history. The war songs, chants and ballads that are passed down through his tribe's story-keeper are what make up each of his spells.

It isn't, strictly speaking, directly channeling their spirits the way a cleric [or necromancer] would summon them from the after life. He could, in fact, summon the "spirit" of an orc who is still alive. But the idea is that the story of the Orc's actions and deeds (whether good or bad) get cemented into a powerful Legacy, which the songs then manifest into affecting real change in Neeul's surroundings.

So for example, Heat Metal is a story about an orcish blacksmith whose forge burned hotter than the sun, Dissonant Whispers tells of a chieftain who, plagued by paranoia, abandoned his tribe. So on and so forth.

Interestingly, as is the case with real life, Stories can be more powerful than the Truth. Many of these songs have changed over the years, ranging from details getting lost or exaggerated, up to fiction getting recorded as fact. But nonetheless, these stories are powerful tools and important to Neeul's culture.

Thank you for coming to my OrcTalk!!!

#Oc Lore #Thanks for the Ask #Bard Magic #5e Bard #Bard #Neeul

Yesterday I got Voyager as a trial character for one of those planet collection battles and in two notes I went from "character I know nothing about and am thus indifferent to" to "I am enchanted and I must have her".

#bard magic #reverse 1999 #voyager