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Bard of Blood: One who Invites Destruction of Blood or one who Invites Destruction through Blood

Bards have easy going, laid back and/or avoidant, cowardly personalities. They ghost their opposite Aspect until a dire crisis pushes them into their own. Their challenge is to not be ruled by the whims of their Aspect.

A Bard of Blood would have a very laid back, easygoing, indifferent and aloof personality. They would float along in life, flexible and independent from everything and everyone around them. They would freely disconnect themselves from any bond or relationship that they just weren’t feeling anymore without a care in the world for how the other person felt. They don’t really have a sense of unity or connection to the other people around them and float between them all, free and detached from everything. They would be callous in their dealings with people, but mostly unintentionally so, simply not seeing or caring how what they say and do affects others. They ignore their own responsibilities and obligations, openly break promises made only seconds ago and so might be distrusted in their community and thought of as irresponsible and unreliable. They are in essence people who just don’t really care, other people’s commitments and attachments mean little to them and they freely go along with or discard them as they please.

A Bard of Blood takes their company for granted though, and in their tendency to float off into the clouds without a care in the world, they forget that they leave people behind. Their crisis of Blood will come as a shock to them, for when they go looking for someone to talk to, someone to be around, they can find no one. They will be utterly alone and this will disturb them. They will desperately seek out companionship and some kind of company, going mad from the loneliness, their friends and family having abandoned them. No one will care about them, like they once never cared about others. They might seek out people and start bargaining with them, doing them favors, giving them things, making promises, desperate to make a connection with someone. Though they will probably just be used by the people around them, who care nothing for the Bard, who has become utterly dependent on the company of strangers.

Their challenge though is not to be ruled by the whims of their Aspect, but rather to come out of it with a healthy respect and understanding of it. A Bard of Blood that has risen to and came through their challenge will not take their bonds and loyalty, those connected to them, for granted ever again. And they will have more respect for what their aspect is or can do. For more flashy powers, they could break up convince people to break up friends, family lovers, literally destroying commitments and rings, but could also coerce or inspire others to free animals from cages or break people out of jail, literally breaking chains and metal. They could also destroy WITH chains and metal though, using it as a threat or weapon to get people to do what they want.