Posted by wheeljack on March 27, 2000 at 18:07:57:
In Reply to: Repost: posted by An Old Arbiter on March 27, 2000 at 17:52:23:
In the case of fire and ice, I kind of thought the bard's words and sound were stirring the air around them into the very thing they sing about. Hmm, which does sound awful magical, now that I think about it.
BUT, there's always been a thin line between singing and uttering incantations in different cultural myths. Think of different native american and african tribal dances, or some of the things Indians believed in the book Black Elk Speaks. Music was about communication with each other, or gods, or nature.
There are all sorts of different strands of types of bards through history, through the battle "skjalds" to the Sirens to the scops of old that many seem to insist on bards in CF being.
> Yes, it’s true that music and the spoken word can have a great impact on the attitude of a person. However, there is no way some arbiter or Imperial, half beaten to death and scared shitless, is going to sit and listen to a lullaby from some Battlerager and be put to sleep. I don’t care if you rock like Metallica, there is no frickin’ way you’re actually going to convince someone that they’re on fire or a frightful fiend is out to get them unless you’ve dropped some SERIOUS acid.