So I have been planning on doing a playthrough with a male Cousland archer rogue.
The problem is that my favorite rogue specialization is the Bard and I am RP-ing this Cousland as someone who does not know how to sing.
So how can he be a Bard, from an RP stance ?
If you look into who a bard was from a historical standpoint, bards were the ultimate entertainers. The writing about Leliana and Varric in DA2 follow the functions of bards in the medieval period. They weren't just singers, but story-tellers and evolved into basically spies who could share or even sell secrets. Their talents were in entertainment. For Leliana it was both singing and story-telling, though with Varric we'd hear more about his grand tales and risque books. If your bard was more of a story-teller, writer, or even a playwrite, it may work if your backstory has someone who can't sing. Though, can your Cousland play an instrument? Or does he not have any musical talent? Perhaps over time he could learn the lute from Leliana, since she would teach her bard skills to others.
Follow Nathaniel's lead and scream like you just stubbed your toe:
A tough call which is worse between Nathaniel and Zevran.
Well what is it you like about being a Bard if it isn't being a singer? If it's just the ability to boost the whole team with your inspirationalness, then the "song" could just be a battle yell.
Follow Nathaniel's lead and scream like you just stubbed your toe:
Or... or MAYBE... he's the Dragonborn. #plottwist
Shoots her foot for hash-tagging, ends up screaming like Nathaniel.
Well what is it you like about being a Bard if it isn't being a singer? If it's just the ability to boost the whole team with your inspirationalness, then the "song" could just be a battle yell.
It's all about that lore. Honeypot wants a good story. Which is very bard-like in kind.
Bard isn't actually singing, despite what the gameplay tells you. Bards are simply extraordinarily skilled rogues with a particular fighting style. When Leliana goes to teach you to be one, she mentions things like throwing daggers... Not singing practice. Being a bard has nothing to do with singing, at all. The singing is just the colorful way they make you go into your bardic fighting stance. My bard didn't sing and didn't tell stories at all, but they were a bard. As in someone who knows how to fight and kill like one. There's an assassin of Orlais' empress in DAI and when she kills several of your soldiers in mere seconds and fights your party, she isn't singing any songs while she does it. Bards are simply assassins, ones with a different fighting style than Crows.
Bard in gameplay, you're correct. As I'd mentioned with real life lore, bards were basically information brokers who degraded themselves for courtly entertainment. If anything, DA's rogues are like nearly every other fantasy game that uses D&D as a model. NWN (Forgotten Realms D&D) has a bard rogue. DA lore has bards act like a bridge between real life history and D&D, with a large dose of espionage. They're spies.
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