Brandubh (raven black)
BARD (26)
- Follows the knight, instigates and baits the knight in order to have a fun story to tell.
- Ambition: to become a court bard, and no longer have to live the life of a hobo-beggar, going from castle to castle and scrounging for a dull tale that earns him a haystack to sleep in and scraps from the Lord’s table.
- Wishes he were like Taliesin, that famous bard whose words held spellbound the bards of his liege’s enemies. This bard tends to stumble in his stories, begin it well, and then stutter, or clam up, and the story grows weak, and ends in limping, thin manner.
- He was trained at a bardic school as a descendant of a poet and reputed in his tribe. (he trained there for six or seven years) Upon his graduation, he was to give his Composition, and he did it well. But this bard, after years of service, was sent away because a wandering bard, with no training, proved the mightier in word, and held this bard spellbound. This bard’s liege made the wanderer a courtly bard, and his courtly bard a wanderer. (might be that bard also had fallen in love with the looks of the liege’s young wife, and felt rather discarded when she chose a foolish knight, nephew and heir to the throne, as her lover)
- He is not bitter, angry, or timid. He has lost his muse, and cannot feel the story like he had when he was youthful (teenager).
- Characterized by head knowledge, eloquence, specific and sharp words, trouble-maker, mischievous, harsh and unforgiving, but a thinker that meditates on events and lets them rest in his heart for a long while after. He does his best to be conscious of what he’s doing, and therefore feels extremely out of place when he has to make a gut decision.
- Driven by selfish ambition (deal the cards he’s dealt, and do what he can to get what he can out of it) Pragmatism. Pride of life (intellect, using your senses to perceive and analyze, earning what you have using cunning). Despises ignorance and/or stupidity (and does what he can to make their lives miserable -- doesn’t see them as equals, but more like animals he can train and use, or else discard)
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