Not a single one of the characters is mine, and their KC asked a quick question in a slow moment:

What is your favorite kind of singing?

Ammon: Ask your trivia of someone else this time.

No, our business is defeating our opponent.


Bishop: "Here's your money..."

Well yeah, there's other kinds of singing I like, but they aren't very organized, being for very small groups and short on words.


Casavir: Any choir, raising their voices in a hymn of praise to any of the gods of light; though I do prefer Tyr, of course. The treble of a young voice in an elegy of a life well spent, is especially affecting.


Elanee: The song of the healthy land. When I am still enough, all the life of the Mere sings around me. From the earliest morning bird calls, to the insects calling to mates with sound or light, to the nearly silent ruffle of an owl launching off to begin its hunt in the evening, all these sounds make a beautiful, ever changing song.


Grobnar: I don't think I have a favorite. Any song, sung with skill or enthusiasm, has its charms. Each language or society has its masterpieces. Some of the intricate rounds for a dozen voices that I grew up on, would probably sound only like noise to you. Work songs of some cultures are very hard for an outsider to hear. The wider vocal range of some races, does offer some potential, but that will be a future study.

My favorite singing is any that really moves the listeners and causes some kind of change in them. For the better, I hope.


Khelgar: Ah lass, I miss hearing the voices of me clan raised in song, be they traditional sagas or merry drinkin' songs. Music you can feel to your toes.


Neeshka: Dunno, don't really have any I like. I really hate child choirs though. Their precious little voices pierce my eardrums.


Qara: I don't care for singing, but music has its proper place in the background of any civilized gathering. I really don't like high pitched, squeaky voices singing nonsense!


Sand: Ah, I suppose you have found a regret, after all. It is a subtle and profound one as well. I miss the easy speech and harmonies of speech and songs of the People.

Our young druid is a good child, but she's been nearly as isolated from the People as you. She hears only the songs of nature, and little of the songs of those of us who outlive some of nature's cycles. Some communities of our folk live in constant songs, in the music in speech, and meaning in music. In 'human lands,' it is a harsher cadence and noisome smells. There are compensations, but I miss that elusive tapestry of song.


Shandra: We never really had many bards travel through when I was a child, and we didn't sing all that much. Just the usual songs for special events or holy days. I guess my favorites were the songs my father tried to sing at harvest. He really couldn't sing very well, and our hired hands usually snickered for a while.


Zhjaeve: A pure tone or tones that help me focus my concentration. These sequences can be nearly silent, or the result of several of my colleagues in contemplation. Wandering and dissonant at the start, they always resolve into a harmony, despite our differences.


A/N: Sorry, no octopus squashed by a beer wagon...