The Silverstring Troupe

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The Crafting of History

The fabulous ensemble around the voice of fire Amara Silverharp consists of five people from different locations and species:

• Amara (human, female, harp & voice)
• Ribald (human, male, lute & flute)
• Yanmaec (dwarf, male, drums & voice)
• Caelliara (Kulthari, male, pan flute & double flute)
• Cinsihe (moon elf, female, violin & voice

Sometimes history writes itself

Amara met her first musical companion on her way home after the devastating lose in the competition for the best bard in the entire kingdom, hosted by the king himself. If you want to read about it, search no more: Amara Silverharp

After the meeting with her parents and the oath to look after her, sworn by the slightly older Ribald, they started to sing and dance and compose in Methellona more frequently. At some point Amara was bored of the always same songs and even fresh composed ones couldn't fulfill her longing for somewhat different.

Her first find was in the very settlement where the runes of the runic alphabet were discovered. The place was located underneath under Vigilda, the very home of the Four Lords.
The third find was in a destroyed temple near Yenur. It was a tune so sweet, soft and gentle describing the many deeds of Lanialellara and her beauty that it caused Amara to become a Believer of her and the Six. She even found one of the old original pendants, a single feathery wing, made out of iron.

The People

The people around Amara Silverharp are brilliant individuals as unique as their instruments and tunes. Let's dive into their history, shall we?

If you want to read about Amara, then fear not, I got you covered:

Ribald

• Race: human
• Presented sex: male
• Age: 46
• Brown hair to his shoulders
• Blue-grey eyes
• 172cm tall
• weights ~86kg
• slightly crooked nose (maybe a fight?)
• barely visible cheekbones
• appears slim, but isn't
• surprisingly strong fingers

Characteristics

Ribald is a happy, playful man. He laughs often, sometimes loud, sometimes gentle, but you can see when he is laughing for himself or his friends or just for the audience. He wears all colours of blue except for his shoes which are mostly brown and of good, genuine leather.

If he is alone in the room, he can switch between attention-grabbing to lurking in the shadows without getting noticed.

Ribald plays the lute. It is made out of yew wood and he plays it mostly in gentle tunes but he has some tunes to go with a tavern audience which wants to hear about epic stories and lovely ladies. He is well known for his more story-like plays and is sometimes requested by noble folks.

Ribald's History

Ribald was born to a couple in Dorstein. His father was a shoemaker and his mother a maid in a nobles house. The coins were good, but not much, so he worked in a smith nearby, cleaned after his master. The tasks didn't required a lot of attention so his minds wandered and he began to sing. Quietly, when his employer wasn't listening or when he was working at the anvil.
But eventually Ribald got catched doing it and he was aloud to sing louder and more. His dream of playing at the local tavern was getting bigger by every week that passes.

He put every spare coin aside to buy himself the lute he was hoping for and got it after nearly two years, freshly made by a local craftsman.
He began to play at the local tavern and since these performances got him more coins as in working the smith he now only cleaned there three days a week, on the other seven he played in two different taverns and an inn.
One time he was singing and telling a tale of a very beautiful wife which cheated on her husband because one of the Six had come to her, he didn't know that he was retelling the story of a nobleman and his wife. This nobleman sent men after Ribald and he was forced to fled the city of Dorstein, bid his parents farewell and a promise to come back in one piece.
Ribald did - in fact - came back. The bounty was still on his head, but rumours were that the nobleman died and his son was holding onto the grudge. So he visited his parents until they died and played on two evenings in two different taverns. This tradition was interrupted with the event that the King was hosting. He didn't think to take part in it, but there was this girl. She appeared out of nowhere in the tavern he was drinking and played and sang and told tales and her voice was burning like fire and sometimes clear as silver and sometimes both.
He was interested and spoke to her. After taking the oath from her parents to look after her he now rides with Amara. He considers himself very lucky.

Yanmaec

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Characteristics

Yanmaec's History

Yanmaec (dwarf, male, drums & voice)

Caelliara (Kulthari, male, pan flute & double flute)

Cinsihe (moon elf, female, violin & voice