Ravenbreath

Strung with silence and soaked in stolen memory, the Lute of Hollow Echoes doesn’t play for applause—it plays for identity. Crafted from dark elderwood and veined with threads of Gilded Essence, its melodies are haunting, addictive, and laced with something no listener understands until it’s too late.

When it sings, memories unravel—names forgotten, faces misplaced, emotions misassigned. The audience never knows what they’ve lost, only that something feels… different. And the bard? They remember everything. Lives they never lived. Love they never earned. Grief they didn’t survive.

Some say the lute was forged by a mourning fey. Others claim it grows stronger with every performance. What is certain: it doesn’t just echo the past. It steals it.

And once it’s taken your story—it doesn’t give it back.

Aldrin

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The Song That Isn’t Yours

They arrive where the music is needed most—and wanted least. Pirate taverns, noble courts, secret parlors lit by candlelight and secrets. Their songs don’t beg for attention—they demand it. And once the lute begins to glow, no one looks away.

No one remembers quite what was said afterward either.

There’s talk of an enchanted instrument, one strung with something more than catgut and charm. Some say it carries a tune that binds. Others say it takes. But none speak of it twice. What lingers after a performance is not melody—it’s loss, the kind you don’t notice until something you loved feels missing.

They don’t stay long. Just long enough to be noticed. And just long enough to leave you wondering what else they carried away besides coin and applause.

Because somewhere between verses and vanished memories, a pattern forms. They’re not gathering fans. They’re gathering something else.

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