Traditionally, Minstrel was just a term given to singers of ballads and airs who travelled the by-ways of the Old World, making a living from their songs. However, the world has a more precise meaning. Many people found the peculiar talent Elves have for song made them ideally suited to the role and therefore those wandering Elven balladeers became known as Minstrels to distinguish them from their plainer Human contemporaries. Much later, the distinction began to disappear as great Human singers began to enter the employment of Noble houses. Minstrels enjoy the advantage of guaranteed bed, board, and spending money, though in return they are expected to produce words and music as the patron demands (and some find the task of composing odes on the beauty of their patron's spectacularly-plain spouse interferes unduly with their artistic freedom). Though the life can hardly be described as hard, many Minstrels find themselves forced to become adventurers, having left their employment rather hurriedly following indiscretions with members of the family. Elven Minstrels tend to lead the wandering life out of preference; their temperament does not suit them to working for a Human master and many hold to the opinion that mere Humans cannot properly appreciate their art anyway.
Only Elves may hav a basic career as a Minstrel; others may become Minstrels after having been Troubadours.
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Skills
Trappings
- Lute or mandolin
- Sheet music
- Colourful clothes
Career Exits