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🕑 Added 2020-02-29 01:10:49 +0000 UTCA BARD?! Taking LIBERTIES?! Perish the thought!
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Given the pop cultural timing of this, one may fairly assume that this take on bards is inspired by The Witcher, and the bard Dandelion / Jaskier (depending on what version of the stories you're familiar with). I say this is fair because the liberties the bard takes with his stories of the main protagonists adventures are a recurring thing, as are the points of why such liberties are taken.
(I've thus far enjoyed the books more than the show, but that's neither here nor there).
The truth, however, is that my fascination with the idea of a bard following a hero around for stories to tell goes way back to my childhood, and was inspired not by The Witcher, but by another classic of medieval fiction:
Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
Now, Sir Robin's minstrels aren't exactly 1:1 with Dandelion, but in the same stories Racnar (now Ragnar) came from was a bard who wanted to follow the hero around and tell of his adventures. I may or may not have actually referred to him as a bard, though it's possible? I can't recall. If I did, it was probably because there was a bard character in Final Fantasy IV (there was a rich tapestry of nerdy inspiration).
Either way, his role was the same, and it's now amusing to me just how similar he was to Dandelion, whom I only learned of after watching a bit of the Netflix series.
While it's possible I'm forgetting some other inspiration, I can't recall anything other than Monty Python that could have inspired such a character, so I assume I am recalling that correctly.
Comments
WillowD
I'm seriously giggling right now. Those facial expressions are awesome.
Copper Hamster
There are generally 3 versions of any boss fight. Normal, then Hard, which is 'he comes back and is pissed'. Extreme, which is 'Tales of your exploits known throughout Eorzea'. Then there are the handful this specific bard does. orz
Fairportfan
Gotta do what i can for my rotten kid brother's sales...
Fairportfan
As i was about to say when my phone upgeficket: "...the first is 'Oath of Swords'."
Foradain
Also, it's not Liberties, it's License, of the poetic variety. ^_^
Foradain
BTW, according to Google Translate, Jaskier = Buttercup. ^_^
Foradain
And that song was actually fairly accurate, IIRC, if embarrassing to Bahzell... Great. Now I have to set aside re-reading the Safehold series to re-read the War God series. Thanks, Fairportfan! ^_^
Some Ed
I feel like it's worth mentioning that she's picking up on this thing quicker than I had, relatively speaking. I mean, I didn't grow up in a monastery, so it really shouldn't have taken me nearly so long to figure out that newspaper and TV reporters weren't bound by strict vows of accuracy. And I didn't get the point about bards until I read of the Song of Roland when I was around 20.
James C
That sounds like a nice way to include "hard mode" bosses
Copper Hamster
Okay in Final Fantasy XIV, there's this bard that has you 'listen to his great tales of you'. I.E. putting you into extremely hard versions of story line fights you have already completed. So that's a game with a long history of bard exaggeration. Oh also he's the lead dev's avatar in disguise.
Mark
"She was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp, or to have her eyes plucked out, and her elbows broken!"
Fairportfan
You should check out my brother {David Weber} fantasy series {first book is Oath
Daniel
Dragon Heart had a monk following Dennis Quaid's knight around embellishing his accomplishments. Not quite a bard, but...
coredumperror
OMG Panel 2 and 3 are the stuff of facial expression legend.
Stephen Gilberg
Come on. If bards were bound by vows of accuracy, they'd all be out of business. :P
