LYRICAL ADAPTATION
Bards who utilize this Edge find themselves able to switch repertoire again in less time when switching from their preferred repertoire.


BARDIC TEMPERANCE
Bards with this Edge are quite different (opposite, actually) from their teetotalling guildmates. They gain no benefits from imbibing alcohol; in fact, it hampers their abilities. Rather, it is by eschewing alcohol that they gain some measure of the benefits other bards enjoy while tipsy.

A bard with this edge is prohibited from choosing some other edges pertaining to alcohol.

DEFT HARBINGER OF TALISMANIC DOOM
Some bards and rangers have melded brandishing staves into their martial style to the point where they can brandish an offensive staff faster than most.

See also: EDGES, DODGE, ENHANCED DAMAGE, BRANDISH

PROFICIENT VOCALIST
Bards with this edge enjoy increased ability at singing without an instrument.

Bards that choose this edge may not choose Proficient Instrumentalist.


PROFICIENT INSTRUMENTALIST
Bards with edge enjoy greater proficiency with an instrument. Bonuses to singing with a given repertoire may be increased, and penalties to singing with a given repertoire may be reduced. (Instruments which are neither good nor bad for a repertoire remain so.)

Bards that choose this edge may not choose Proficient Vocalist.


TAVERN BRAWLER
Bards with this edge are accustomed to bar fights, and their martial abilities are improved as a result. Tavern Brawlers have more damaging roundhouses and brawling skills.


SOOTHING VOICE
Bards with this edge have enjoy bonuses to curative songs, as well as Tranquil Serenade. Bards tainted by darkness lack sufficient compassion to learn this edge.


LOREMASTER
Although the wee folk already possess a remarkable inherent knowledge of the properties of items, those that expend additional effort in this area find their lore is dramatically more accurate.


'WANDERING MINSTREL'
Accustomed to wandering ways, some bards have become skilled with their walking sticks. They enjoy an improved ability to fight with a staff, including delivering pugil strikes and deflecting attacks with a basic defensive spin.


'HIDDEN ASSETS'
A bard or thief with this edge is skilled at hiding their wealth and appearing truly destitute, panhandling with greater effectiveness.


'GUARDED VOICE'
A bard with this edge has, over time, developed a fighting style which better protects their most crucial asset in any fight: their voice. They are less likely to suffer an attack which deprives them of their ability to sing, although this is not entirely without its drawbacks. For example, a dagger thrown to strike the bard's throat has a chance to be avoided or deflected, but in the process can strike the bard elsewhere, even if the throw would have otherwise missed. Despite these risks, the benefits can be significant.


'SOUNDER OF THE KNELL'
A bard with this edge can, when singing a requiem over the corpse of someone they personally killed, experience more potent and long-lasting effects. It takes a significant history of violence for a bard to develop this ability.


'SHATTERING NOTE'
When singing a piercing dissonance, a bard with this edge can sustain the final note, possibly shattering glass objects in the inventory of those the song harms. Although somewhat rare, this effect can be quite satisfying. The more glass items are shattered by the bard's note, the longer it will take them to recover from singing the song.


'NOCTURNE OF DREAD'
Those who fail to resist the Nocturne of Fright sung by a bard with this edge have a chance to be afflicted with a more lasting, if still brief, fear.


WINDSONG
An arial bard with this edge sings more effectively under the open sky.


WOODSONG
A wood-elven bard with this edge can sing more powerfully when in a forest.


'SHIELD OF WORDS'
The protective songs of a bard with this edge are slightly longer lasting.


SERENADE
A bard with this edge may compel members of the opposite sex with a seductive serenade, increasing the effectiveness of several subtle songs traditionally favored by romantic bards.


DANCER
A bard with this edge has learned to dance to accompany their vocal performance; this reduces the loss of effectiveness experienced when singing a capella. In order to dance, the bard needs to be standing, singing without an instrument, lack any crippling or encumberments which hamper their ability, and have sufficient endurance (movement). This drains a small amount of movement.


'CHANGE OF HEART'
Choosing this edge clears a bard's preferred repertoire, allowing them to choose their preferred repertoire again. This is a one-time event and the bard may not experience a second change of heart.


'CHOSEN VOICE'
A bard with this edge channels divine grace in their Canticle of the Gods, empowering its standard affects and adding some new blessings. Only a bard with the sanction of a God, in the form of their sacred tattoo, may choose this edge.


'NATURE'S SONG'
A bard with this edge has learned to sing in tune with the power of nature; their offensive songs will not harm creatures at home within the wilds.


TROUBADOR TROUBADOUR
A bard with this edge has learned to work their offensive music within the bounds of the laws; within protected cities, their music can only harm wanted criminals or their servants.


SWASHBUCKLER
This edge can improve the ability of a bard to evade blows. It is only useful to bards somewhat more charming than they are agile.


'DAUNTING PRESENCE'
All successful bards have a strong charm and sense of the theatric, enabling them to evoke a sense of awe or dread. However, independent of this, some bards are people worthy of genuine fear, able to kill and maim a hundred different ways with the power of their voice alone. For these bards, their theatrical ability magnifies the seeds of hestitation or trepidation in an enemy's mind a hundredfold, causing even those who despise them to occasionally lose their nerve for a moment and fail to attack them. While such hestiation is rare in a seasoned adventurer, it can easily save the bard's life.

For this ability to work, the victim must be able to both see and hear the bard; it works better as the victim's morale falls or fear grows.


'FEIGN WEAKNESS'
A bard with this edge may use their acting ability to appear more wounded than they actually are, to some degree exaggerating the severity of their wounds.

A bard with this edge may not choose 'Feign Strength'.


'FEIGN STRENGTH'
A bard with this edge may use their acting ability to appear less wounded than they actually are, to some degree concealing the severity of their wounds from their assailants.

A bard with this edge may not choose 'Feign Weakness'.


'ERODE CONFIDENCE'
A bard with this edge may taunt and banter with their enemies as they fight, gradually lowering their morale.


'LANGUID LULLABY'
The audience of a lullaby sung by a bard with this edge may also be very briefly oversome with a powerful languor, temporarily visiting effects not unlike a slow spell upon them.


'FORCE OF PERSONALITY'
A character with this edge may attempt to resist mental and paralytic effects with the strength of their potent personality rather than with their mental prowess.


'ALCOHOL TOLERANCE'
A character with this edge can imbibe greater quantities of alcohol before suffering ill effects.

A character with this edge may not choose the 'Bardic Temperance' edge.


'HABITUAL DRUNK'
Developing their alcohol tolerance to an extreme degree, a character with this edge may imbibe truly terrifying amounts of alcohol with no apparent side effects. At some point, alcohol poisoning will still set in as normal.


'DAUNTING DIRGESINGER'
A bard with this edge may sing maledictive songs to greater effect.


'COMBAT SHOWMANSHIP'
A bard with this edge may display their weapons prowess in combat to greater effect.


'PERFECT PITCH'
A bard with this edge may tune their instruments more reliably and swiftly.


'ELVEN ROMANCE'
Further focusing upon the arts of romance for which their kind already have an affinity, an elven bard with this edge enjoys a more consistent bonus with the romantic repertoire.


'FRIGHTFUL FIEND'
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'DISTORTION OPPORTUNIST'
A character with this edge has developed a fighting style which capitalizes upon the sensory distortion of their foes, distracting them with feints and quick, silent moves that confuse them even further and cause more blows to go astray.


WARSINGER
The battaglia of a bard with this edge, if sung while fighting, inspires allies who hear it with more pronounced immediate inspirational and debilitative effects.


'MUSICIAN'S CARESS'
A bard with this edge grips their instrument for dear life, making it somewhat harder to wrench from their grasp by various means.


'RAUCOUS RACKET'
A song of cacophonous clamor sung by a bard with this edge may also fully deafen its victims for a short time.


'INSPIRATION OF ANGELS'
The beneficial songs of a noble bard with this edge are more powerful when heard by an audience that battles the wicked.


'DEPTHS OF DEPRESSION'
A bard with this edge has learned to capitalize upon the depression and doubts of their enemies (when present), enabling them to sing harmful songs to those with low morale to greater effect.


'INSINUATIVE OVERTURE'
When a bard with this edge sings an apocalyptic overture, they are more likely to visit illusions of fire rather than ice upon those more vulnerable to the effects of fire and to likewise visit illusions of ice rather than fire upon those more vulnerable to the effects of cold.


'PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHT'
An intelligent bard with this edge better understands the keen workings of the highly developed mind, and how to find the proverbial gaps in their mental armor. Even the finest minds have phobias, quirks, and foibles to be played upon, in ways that a dimmer mind could not be so occupied.


'GLORY HOUND'
Some bards thrill in the thick of battle, regenerating mana more effectively while fighting, especially while fighting formidable opponents.


'KILLING JOKE'
In violent Thera, it is no wonder that even bards of a comic bent often turn their cheerful art to murder. A bard with this edge sings comedic damaging songs, including the dread grand nocturne, to greater effect than normal.


'HEAR LIGHT'
A bard with this edge has honed their sense of hearing and listening skills to such an extreme degree that they can ignore or reduce some of the effects of blindness, so long as they are not also deaf. Some say that these bards have so gifted of ears as to be able to hear light itself, although that is, of course, impossible.


SCRUTINY
With long experience reading the moods of crowds, a bard with this edge may discern something of the mood and fatigue of those they see.