Loralaria
| Exquisite and richly complex, the crystalline harmonies of Loralaria intertwine the powerful, conducting Dead Voice of Crys and the masterful control and rhythmn of Jilai Clarramore, the first founder of the Symphonium Opera House. In modern times, Morshoth Windwhisper reestablished the guild, bringing back its resonant music evocative of chiming gemstones. |
| Skill | Learned At | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Composition | Master+0% | You may compose songs expressing your own creativity. |
| Sustain | Master+0% | The ability to maintain a song. |
| CrystalSong | Master+0% | Fuse harmonics gems to your instrument. |
| GemAffinity | Master+0% | Store your gems in an interdimensional space. |
| BlueBerceuse | Master+33% | A gentle lullaby... until they're asleep. |
| DiscordantChord | Master+66% | This painful chord shall crush the disharmonic soul. |
| JadeGrazioso | Gifted+0% | A graceful tune to soothe the bones. |
| CrimsonCourante | Gifted+25% | Do a quickstep to this fast music. |
| Refrain | Gifted+50% | A musical structure that allows repetition of a stanza. |
| Reprise | Gifted+75% | A musical structure that allows reversal of a stanza. |
| LoralChord | Expert+0% | Crystallise the flesh of your foes. |
| AureolinAubade | Expert+25% | This passionate tune will be certain to seduce. |
| ChromaConcerto | Expert+50% | Guard yourself against elemental ravages. |
| CaptiveAudience | Expert+75% | Both friends and enemies hear nothing but your songs. |
| MidnightMinuet | Virtuoso+0% | Your listeners shall have to dance, albeit badly. |
| FleckedFortissimo | Virtuoso+33% | A deafening note to bring someone to their knees. |
| VioletVibrato | Virtuoso+66% | Induce mental degeneration with a varying melody. |
| Crescendo | Fabled+0% | A masterful composition by Morshoth Skyplume. |
| EmeraldGrazioso | Fabled+25% | Soothe your mind and body with graceful notes. |
| StratusSerenade | Fabled+50% | A light and airy tune. |
| SkySforzando | Fabled+75% | Lock your friends in an aeonic field. |
| Encore | Mythical+0% | Play a rousing encore performance. |
| RedRubato | Mythical+25% | Painfully warp time around your foes. |
| ClearCapriccio | Mythical+50% | Wrap your allies in a powerful restorative field. |
| Convergence | Mythical+75% | Warp sapce around someone, moving them far away. |
| Funebre | Transcendent+0% | A long, sombre song to end their life. |
Composition
| Syntax |
| COMPOSE NEW <song> COMPOSE LIST |
As your ability in your song specialization increases, you will be able to compose new songs. You can write your own song and set it in stanzas. Each song can consist of up to 9 stanzas, and certain powers can also be invested in each stanza. Powers are divided into 3 types: Low (L), Medium (M) and High (H). Low types can only invested in stanzas 1-3, medium in stanzas 4-6 and high in stanzas 7-9. Low stanzas generally have simple effects, medium stanzas have stronger effects, and high stanzas have very strong effects. Some song powers need to be targeted and others will create a passive effect that stays around you. As a general rule, you will not be able to stack passive effects.
When playing a custom song, it always begins in stanza 1, each time you play the song, it progresses to the next stanza until the song ends or you change to another song or a certain amount of time elapses, whichever comes first. Note that before the time elapses, you can take other actions so long as you continue your performance before the time elapses.
Sustain
| Syntax |
| SUSTAIN |
This ability will allow you to slow the music you are playing to imperceptible levels, effectively freezing the music in place.
CrystalSong
| Syntax |
| ATTACH <gem> TO <instrument> DETACH <gem> FROM <instrument> |
| Power: 1 (to attach) (Matrix) |
If you are able to acquire charged gems from the Matrix Research Institute, you may attach any three charged gems onto your instrument. Instrument gems may affect songs, though multiple gems of the same type will provide no extra benefit.
GemAffinity
| Syntax |
| INGEMRIFT (INGR) [<amount>|ALL] <item> OUTGEMRIFT (OGR) [<amount>|ALL] <item> |
Your affinity to charged gemstones will allow you to store them in an extraplanar rift that only you can access. The gem rift holds gemstones harvested on the Continuum plane.
INGEMRIFT (INGR) puts a given number of a single type of gem (or all by default) into the GemRift. If no amount is given, then the first item found will be used (or the entire first group, if the first item is a grouping item).
OUTGEMRIFT (OGR) takes a given number of a single type of gem (or all by default) out of the GemRift. If no amount is specified, then the default is to take out only one gem.
INVGEMRIFT (or IGR) peeks into the GemRift to take a quick inventory of what is stored there.
BlueBerceuse
| Stanza:Low (1-3) Targetable: No |
A bard's enemies who hear this gentle lullaby will take health damage when curing with a steam pipe. This power will be boosted by a turquoise crystal fused to your instrument and deal additional mana and ego damage.
DiscordantChord
| Syntax |
| PLAY DISCORDANTCHORD <target> |
| Power: Variable (Any) Damage Type: 100% Magic |
The discordant chord is tuned to especially harm those ears which are already suffering the tonal ailments of a musician, doing greater damage the greater the number of these afflictions the victim has. The power cost is 2 power for each affliction the victim has from among: manabarbs, egovice, and an achromatic aura. If the hapless victim suffers all three of these tonal disorders, and powerspikes, their suffering shall be grievous indeed - losing half their mana and ego in addition to immense pain.
If you have an octave active in the room, its magical ability to block the curing of auric ailments will prevent them from being consumed by the discordant chord. Additionally, it will increase the damage of your chord for no extra power cost.
JadeGrazioso
| Stanza: Low (1-3) Targetable: No |
This graceful, flowing melody will help the bard and his allies regenerate health. This power will be boosted by a jade crystal fused to your instrument.
CrimsonCourante
| Stanza: Low (1-3) Targetable: No |
This fast tempo music will speed the balance recovery of you and your allies (2/4 bonus), though it will have the opposite effect on equilibrium recovery (-2/-2 penalty). If a garnet crystal has been fused to your instrument, the equilibrium malus will be nullified.
Refrain
| Syntax |
| PERFORM REFRAIN <song> [<target>] |
Instead of moving forward in the stanzas of a song, you can repeat the last stanza you performed as a refrain. You can refrain as many times as you desire.
Reprise
| Syntax |
| PLAY REPRISE |
| Power: 1 (any) |
By reprising your melodies and harmonies, you can take your song back one stanza.
LoralChord
| Syntax |
| PLAY LORALCHORD <target> |
| Damage Type: 50% Cold 50% Asphyxiation Can Target Denizens |
This chord is similar to the basic minor second except that it is tuned to the resonance of the Continuum and will turn your target's flesh to crystal.
AureolinAubade
| Syntax |
| PLAY AUREOLINAUBADE |
| Stanza: Low (1-3) Targetable: No |
This beautiful love song may cause your sworn enemies to become afflicted with pacifism, luminosity or healthleech. Using a beryl gem will give this a chance for two of those.
ChromaConcerto
| Stanza: Mid (4-6) Targetable: No |
This special song will give the bard and his or her allies some protection against fire, cold and electrical damage.
CaptiveAudience
| Syntax |
| CAPTIVATE AUDIENCE |
This will affect all allies and enemies in the room who can hear and are not already captivated by a bard. Those who are captivated will only pay attention to your songs and thus will only be affected (either negatively or positively) by your song effects. Blanknote or Blankchord will break the captivation.
MidnightMinuet
| Stanza: Mid (4-6) Targetable: No |
Your enemies who hear this powerful song will be compelled to dance, causing them to lose balance. This power will be boosted by an onyx crystal fused to your instrument.
FleckedFortissimo
| Stanza: Mid (4-6) Targetable: No |
This extremely loud number causes your enemies to fall to their knees. If a charged bloodstone is attached to your instrument, this power will also have a chance at preventing an opponent from curing with lucidity slush potion.
VioletVibrato
| Stanza: Mid (4-6) Targetable: No |
The rapid alternation of pitch will cause the bard's enemies who hear it to become afflicted with clumsiness, hallucinations, paranoia, epilepsy, confusion, or recklessness. There will be a chance to give a second affliction if an amethyst crystal is fused to your instrument.
Crescendo
| Stanza: Mid (4-6) Targetable: No |
This rousing music will inspire the citizens of Hallifax to greater heights, causing the damage they do to be increased. This powerful sound was inspired by the lyrics of "The Collectivist Crescendo" by Morshoth Skyplume, the first guildmaster and founder of the guild.
EmeraldGrazioso
| Stanza: High (7-9) Targetable: No |
The graceful, flowing notes will gently cure the bard and his or her allies of afflictions. This power will be boosted by an emerald crystal fused to your instrument.
StratusSerenade
| Stanza: High (7-9) Targetable: No |
This light and airy tune takes effect only while you and your allies are in cloudy terrain. It will grant a moment of foresight, and if played with a diamond attached, will also speed the body and give a chance to dodge incoming attacks.
SkySforzando
| Stanza: High (7-9) Targetable: Yes |
The force of this music will disrupt your target, as well as afflict them with two random mental afflictions. This power will be boosted by a sapphire crystal fused to your instrument and deal timewarp in addition.
Encore
| Syntax |
| ENCORE PERFORMANCE |
| Power: 3 (Any) |
By playing an encore performance, you will speed quickly through your song at a faster tempo - your recovery of equilibrium when playing songs will be halved.
RedRubato
| Stanza:High (7-9) Targetable: No |
This intriguing music varies the speed within its musical phrase which is juxtaposed against a steady rhythm. The effect causes time to warp around the individual before damaging them. The amount of damage is based on the amount of time is warped on that individual. This power will be boosted by a ruby crystal fused to your instrument.
ClearCapriccio
| Stanza: High (7-9) Targetable: No |
The free casual form of this music has a mystical effect to the bard and his or her allies, wrapping them in a powerful aura of alacrity and healing afflictions. However, due to its sheer power, the song will draw to a close after this stanza has been played. If a diamond crystal has been fused to the instrument, you and your allies will be cured of a few more ailments and the aura of alacrity will last longer.
Convergence
| Stanza: High (7-9) Targetable: Yes |
It will focus all the musical energy on one person, causing him or her to immediately be flung to another room in the area, bypassing all resistance against magical summons. It will send a song back two stanzas when performed.
Funebre
| Stanza: High (7-9) Targetable: Yes |
Lead your foe down a musical crescendo so compelling and captivating that it will draw out their every last desire to live, should it end. Once you start the killing note, you can do nothing that will disruptthe song.