Just like in pretty much anywhere else, in Arandolia people love good music, plays and poetry. The masses gather around Skalds like ants around a sweet, dancing along the merry melodies of their musical instruments and paying close attention to their rhyming words.

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A good performance may very well echo throughout many months to come at the humming of busy workers, or even be reproduced by other musicians around. Skalds can therefore be an invaluable instrument at not only improving morale and public order by entertaining the masses of soldiers and civilians alike, but also an excellent means of spreading any ruler or commander's fame across the land, enhancing their reputation and the public opinion about them, or even bringing supporters to any given cause.

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In fact, Skalds can even be paid to sing satirical tunes undermining the authority and the influence of a rival person, which can surely put them in serious trouble, but can also cause great problems to their target's reputation.

Some people say that "the pen is mightier than the sword", and for a skald such a thing is as true as the day! A short and catchy set of cleverly rhymed verses on a seemingly ordinary piece of paper can very well mean the ascension of anyone by the glorification of their heroic deeds, or even someone else's downfall by the laughable mocking of any given failure. Either it actually being the truth, or not.