Minstrel

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Gruff and unkempt but skilful with the fiddle. Now in his late twenties, Minstrel decides to travel the world for reasons he yet knows. All that mattered was that he escape the banality of hamlet existence, where sons are doomed to repeat their fathers’ miseries, vices, and poverties. Curse the feudal caste. Curse the plague.

Vital stats
Dark brown hair and eyes, 5'10", medium-build 175 lbs
Light armour - travel light, javel knight
Simple sword - to cut paths through thickets; last resort for combat
Small knife for fruit peeling, fish de-scaling and other alimentary elementary
Fiddle - instrument of choice. He discovered early of its mysticality, musicality, madrigality in strings. How it could pacify snakes, one rabid jackal drawing too near grandma’s granary, and even send unusual slivery patterns across still lakewaters.

Limericks
With music and wit, he wins (most of the time) himself free ferry rides and ale.


That was just a facade. Minstrel very well knows why he travels the world--in search of a cure to the Bard's Bane.

[Archival]

Musical decomposition (two threads) - Minstrel saved Violet from the Harlot's Flask. A brief but brilliant musical repartee ensued. After a night in an abandoned building, Minstrel found Violet gone. She left behind a purse to reimburse the injured bard for his lost violin.

The episode revealed Minstrel's curse--his kiss tragically kills. He had given up all hope, choosing to suffer loneliness rather than kill, but the encounter with Violet renewed his search for a cure...

A sketch of a scene


Time to Land Wee Sparrow! - Minstrel witnessed a werebear mugging Ash Sparrow. To protect them from the public, he used his wit and rhyme to pretend it was a street show. Now the two were-cretins followed him. He shook them off by leading them to an Ox Hide Outpost (where pelts and animalskins were sold).