#bard'

beneath the sandy wasteland to the easta thousand hungry insects click their jawsthey rise up to the surface for the feastand catalyse the fall before the cause

they scuttle under rocks and through the sandand calculate their callous plans alonethey twitch their limbs and scar the broken landand crush each other reaching for the throne

Yeah that’s basically Bard of Mind, what’s great is that they might end up doing this to other people regardless of whether they are allied or enemiesThe bard of mind can also kind of do the inverse, allowing people’s minds to wander into bad places or think of really bad ideas that will eventually lead to their own destruction

I’m kind of going into headcanon here but I think at some point all bards will lose all traces of their aspect in themselves [Gamzee having no rage while being sober, cronus being cronus] so the same might happen to the bard of mind which sounds kind of awful

Prince of Blood and Bard of Mind sounds like a really awful combo to go up against, I guess you could hope that the bard will accidentally sabotage the prince at some point if you’re against them

The Prince of Blood and Bard of Mind would work together pretty well against groups of people, and I think the larger the group is the betterWhen the Prince of Blood causes groups to degenerate and fall apart, the Bard of Mind might either prevent people from thinking clearly and tracing anything back to the Prince, or better yet, people might start overthinking things and start blaming each other somehow, causing some good stuff

The Bard of Mind and Prince of Blood’s title stuff mainly co-operate outside of literal fights, and I guess outside of the context of my 100+ person session they can do this to denizens, consorts, and carapaces as well, just deconstructing whatever social hierarchy there was and preventing anyone from becoming coherent enough to fix it

oh god can you imagine how depressing it would be to be a bard of time

Or a bard of anything to be honest

The Bard of Time is someone who destroys time, specifically by inviting its destruction or by allowing time itself to destroy things

Neat thought would be of a bard who passively makes things grow old and wither or rot around him, or someone who may make entire periods of time just skip by or be undone/reset without warning

I swear I know somebody who is a Bard of Life, I just can’t place who

The Bard of Life is somebody who invites the destruction of life or allows destruction to happen by unchaining the aspect of life

I imagine the bard of life being someone who walks around and flowers and grass and small animals just drop dead around him every once in a while, and his very presence is toxic enough to shorten the lifespan of anyone around him [regardless of his personality]

The Bard of Life also [similar to gamzee beginning without any rage in him, and cronus having no hope in him] may begin their quest without life. This means they may be a zombified version of themselves, or a ghost, or [depending on your spiritual view on robots] a construct

They can also invite destruction through life, meaning living beings and rampant growth can overrun enemies or allies and destroy them

People’s lives leaving behind some kind of destructive influence

For Heir of Rage I think I actually posted about that but that was back in the day and I’m actually too embarrassed about that snapshot to link you so anyway

The Heir of Rage is one who inherits rage as an aspect. They may be passively protected by fear or anger beforehand as well: Others may not want to do them harm out of fear, or problems may be solved through a sudden burst of strength wrought by anger.

Heir of Life, one who inherits life? They are protected by Life as an aspect so I suspect they could casually regenerate themselves or even passively have other things regenerate themselves if needed. Eventually they may inherit Life as an aspect which means they will be able to use Life as a tool to breathe creation and new life into things that are dead or broken