<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=236471.msg11638479#msg11638479">Quote from: caelcormac on 14-09-2015, 21:39:27</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Spooky - I love your crazy/awesome  array of musical instruments. Ailwin plays the pan flute, albeit poorly. Maybe you've given him some pointers?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Flute lessons are too formal a dynamic. I see a bard of Graz equally self-destructive with her music as with a sword. She's eschewed the structure of proud military traditions learning to spill blood, and in the same way she is self-taught in the vein of early jazz and blues musicians playing by ear, a black bard of the murder ballad like Nick Cave who would be fun to jam with over a bottle of whiskey, but no idea how to approach a lesson.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=236471.msg11639048#msg11639048">Quote from: Hexed on 15-09-2015, 00:59:41</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Spooky - A bard with songs of battle that are probably un... "prettied" as other bards are liable to do, as there's far more gold to be made with songs of fancy and joy then sorrow and pain to most ways of thinking. While the music's probably more sorrow filled (if I'm understanding your description right) then he'd like I could see Louis spending a chunk of allowance to listen to the various songs of battle a follower of the blood god would know.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Parts of real events and mysteries lay in the lyrics of murder ballads. What actually happened at that mining colony wiped off the map? Where is the final resting place of the late baron's cursed blood jewels? How and why did a mild-mannered Imperial scribe summon the beasts of hell for one bloody day of the Empire's fall? These songs are not just boohoo sad but relate a spoken word history of singularly terrible events across hundreds of years of history. Since the followers of Graz seem to live so much in the moment and lack a holy book, I imagine a lot of the history of the north and its battles are locked up in songs like this, and new details emerge with each regional variation of the song.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=236471.msg11639979#msg11639979">Quote from: Styracosaur on 15-09-2015, 05:22:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Spooky (Dhi): Tough.  She doesn't seem like a woodswoman (and he's not much of a townie), and Geran has a bit of an antipathy towards Graz.  Still . . . maybe he's listened to her music on a trip into town?  Maybe there's some weird similarity in her being disgruntled at not serving Graz, and his dislike of Graz?  I dunno, just throwing stuff out there.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>We share a history. Spooky grew up closer to her orc heritage, but Geran has the advantage of being better adapted to Riverbend civilization. They stand to help one another. Her worship of Graz informs who she is culturally and how she thinks about things, but she is not a proselytizing priest. Since Geran also hails from a Graz-worshiping culture, I imagine they share some discreet cultural similarities without bringing religion into it. I grew up in a Christian country as a Buddhist. Temples may have a broad focus such as Mahayana, but will draw in first, second generation immigrants from six different countries and three different schools of Buddhism because it's the shared culture, more than the exact scripture, which brings comfort. Maybe Spooky and Geran have this same shared culture in a foreign place, first- and second-generation immigrants.