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6/20/2025, 8:19:12 PM
>>95897682
Best example of an evil bard that comes to mind if Drosselmeyer, from Princess Tutu.
He is, essentially, a writer who can make what he writes down become reality that has taken an entire town hostage, warping them into different versions of characters from the stories he has written. None of them are aware of this, or even that they are unable to leave. He just makes them act out the storylines that he has scripted, and then when he gets bored smashes the pieces together to have characters from the wrong stories be in places they shouldn't be to cause chaos. Basically like a dungeon master that wants the players to do things they didn't expect, but still ultimately has an ending he's willing to railroad them into.
The problem, of course, being that Drosselmeyer's stories were largely unpopular because they are *all tragedies*. So once you realize you are in one of his stories, you know this is going to end very poorly.
An evil bard could have a similar gimmick, perhaps focusing not on written prose but instead on things like plays, but with a similar focus on Tragedy. He sets up and causes tragedies, which means that you can use to to be the prime mover behind everything from as grand as the fall of a kingdom as the king descends into paranoia and madness, or something as small as a man being driven to suicide by his own poor choices ruining his life. The suffering is the point. The fact that they *could* have chosen a better path, but didn't, is what makes the bad end tragic... and the punishment justified.
Best example of an evil bard that comes to mind if Drosselmeyer, from Princess Tutu.
He is, essentially, a writer who can make what he writes down become reality that has taken an entire town hostage, warping them into different versions of characters from the stories he has written. None of them are aware of this, or even that they are unable to leave. He just makes them act out the storylines that he has scripted, and then when he gets bored smashes the pieces together to have characters from the wrong stories be in places they shouldn't be to cause chaos. Basically like a dungeon master that wants the players to do things they didn't expect, but still ultimately has an ending he's willing to railroad them into.
The problem, of course, being that Drosselmeyer's stories were largely unpopular because they are *all tragedies*. So once you realize you are in one of his stories, you know this is going to end very poorly.
An evil bard could have a similar gimmick, perhaps focusing not on written prose but instead on things like plays, but with a similar focus on Tragedy. He sets up and causes tragedies, which means that you can use to to be the prime mover behind everything from as grand as the fall of a kingdom as the king descends into paranoia and madness, or something as small as a man being driven to suicide by his own poor choices ruining his life. The suffering is the point. The fact that they *could* have chosen a better path, but didn't, is what makes the bad end tragic... and the punishment justified.
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