General Class Description
Bards are the singers of the realm of Hibernia. They use instruments to perform most of their repertoire. Their songs provide nurture and protection during and after battle. In addition, Bards are capable of increasing run speeds for their groups, which proves useful when attempting to outrun the enemy on the battlefield, or for traveling from place to place.

In addition to songs, Bards can also heal and cast spells to enhance themselves and groupmates. They have the ability to stop people dead in their tracks with crowd control spells. Bards can specialize to gain additional healing abilities, area of effect crowd control abilities and offensive abilities (weapons and shout).

Available Races	Starting Race Attributes - (What are attributes?) Rising attributes are in blue.
	Charisma Primary	Empathy Secondary	Constitution Tertiary	Dex	Qui	Int	Pie	Str
Celt	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
Firbolg	60	70	60	40	40	60	60	90

Please Note: It is true that empathy appears as a highlighted attribute for the bard class, and that empathy grows as a bard levels. In the early days of design, empathy was indeed a crucial statistic. However, as the class was implemented, empathy did nothing, but the attributes section was in error. We have since balanced the class with its strengths, weaknesses, gear, and abilities, with the knowledge that empathy does nothing for this class. Please consider charisma, constitution, and dexterity as the most important attributes for your points.

 Specializations
   Points per Level: - (What are these?) 1.5
      Class Weapon Specializations
         Blades
         Blunt
      Class Spells - (What are these?)
         Regrowth
         Regrowth Specialization
         Nurture
         Nuture Specialization
         Music
         Music Specializaton

 Class Abilities - (What are abilities?)
      Armor: Cloth, Leather, Reinforced
      Weaponry: Staves, Blunt, Blades
      Shield: Small
      Miscellaneous: Given based on Character Level
          Sprint, Evade I (10), Evade II (25), Tireless (15)

 Realm Abilities - (What are these?)
      Bard

 Tradeskills - (What are these?)
      All

Master Level Paths - (What are these?)       Perfecter       Sojourner

 Class Trainers and Locations
      Fuinshata in Tir na Nog
      Faolan in Grove of Domnann
      Tacyn in Shar Labyrinth