Archetype:Magic Wielding Bard

Magic Wielding Bard
Link (The Legend of Zelda) combines magic and musical prowess with enchanted musical instruments.
Archetype of:	a musicial bard who uses magic or supernatural abilities.

The character is a mythical bard or skald with magic or supernatural skills.

Capabilities

The bards were held in high esteem in ancient European cultures due to their affinity with words, creating oral poems and dealing with words. This ability was normally reserved by holy men and sages, because words were considered (even today) as one of the most powerful mediums for magical powers: While regular magicians could conjure curses, bards were specialized in humiliating their foes to the point that they were hated and despised for years, sometimes for all of eternity if the verses were immortalized. In later times, however, the role of the bard was confused with that of minstrels, and both eventually mixed and melded until they became indistinguishable.

Magic bards are capable of using magical abilities and fusing them with musical prowess to create spells that can either heal, curse or destroy enemies with an arsenal of multiple different effects.

Applications

• Conceptual Music
  • Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Charisma
    • Influential Presence
    • Persuasion
• Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Artisan
• Incantation
• Luck Magic
  • Blessing Manipulation
    • Blessing Inducement
      • Luck
  • Curse Manipulation
    • Curse Inducement
      • Jinx
• Music Magic
  • Musical Empathy
  • Siren Song
    • Mystical Singing
      • Musical Spell Casting
  • Support Powers
• Performance Art Mastery
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Musicianship
    • Magic Instrument
      • Musical Weapon Proficiency
  • Mystical Dancing
• Sound Magic
  • Musical Inducement
  • Sound Manipulation
    • Sonic Healing
    • Sonokinetic Combat
    • Sound Sculpting
  • Voice Manipulation

Associations

• Musical Mastery
• Trickster
  • Magic

Limitations

• Magic has a price.
• Magic Negation/Magic Destruction can affect their magical capabilities.

Known Users

• Milil (AD&D)
• Troubadour (Ah! My Goddess)
• The Bard (The Bard's Tale)
• Lyude (Baten Kaitos)
• Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi (Bleach) via Kinshara
• Doviculus (Brutal Legend); via Electric Guitar
• Eddie Riggs (Brutal Legend); via Electric Guitar
• Miku Izayoi (Date A Live)
• Daisya Barry (D.Gray-Man)
• Maria (D.Gray-Man)
• Noise Marie (D.Gray-Man)
• Leliana (Dragon Age)
• Melodica (Fangbone!)
• Edward Chris Von Muir (Final Fantasy IV)
• Azura (Fire Emblem: Fates)
• Finder Wyvernspur (Forgotten Realms)
• I-No (Guilty Gear XX)
• Demyx (Kingdom Hearts II)
• Sona (League of Legends)
• Link (The Legend of Zelda)
• Bongo Bongo (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
• Amalla Su (Love Hina)
• Tayuya (Naruto)
• Brook (One Piece)
• Butler (One Piece)
• Elan (The Order of the Stick)
• Students in the Bard Track/Bard Coven members (The Owl House)
• Pied Piper (Pied Piper of Hamelin)
• Brendan (Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire)
• May (Pokemon: Ruby/Sapphire)
• The Pied Piper (Ravenswatch)
• Fiesta/Frightful Fiesta (Skylanders)
• Wolfgang (Skylanders)
• Karyl Sheeden (Tales of Destiny)
• Musa (Winx Club)

Gallery

Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi (Bleach) can use his Kidō-Type Zanpakutō, Kinshara, to play powerful mystical melodies...

...And using his Bankai, Kinshara Butōdan, he plays an orchestra of which the music can generate Psychosomatic Illusions.

Amalla Su (Love Hina) possesses a magical flute that enables Weather Manipulation.

The Bard (The Bards Tale)

Leliana (Dragon Age)

Eddie Riggs (Brutal Legend)

Doviculus (Brutal Legend)

Demyx (Kingdom Hearts II)

Lyude (Baten Kaitos)

Azura (Fire Emblem: Fates)

Brook, the Soul King (One Piece)

As a Bard, Elan (The Order of the Stick) uses music to perform spells.

With her Army Breaker Diva Gabriel, Miku Izayoi (Date A Live) can play a variety of mystical melodies with supernatural abilities.

Scanlan Shorthalt (Critical Role/Vox Machina)

Edgin Darvis (D&D: Honor Among Thieves)

The Pied Piper (Ravenswatch)

Videos

Battle of the Bards-2

A Crap Guide to D&D -5th Edition- - Bard-2

TerminalMontage Original - The Fruitless Quests Of Nabiu (PILOT)-2

Perception Check (Official Music Video) - Tom Cardy-2