Players can play as a fighter, thief, warlock, witch, bishop, elf, bard, or gnome. Other groups eschew any division into bard, ovate, and druid. It is a mystic troubadour or traveling bard who sings and plays the saz. In "" the tiefling bard NPC Haer'Daelis can join the party. Summon the Orphic bard to stranger dreams. She started a serious affair with the bard Robert Burns. She studied with Ben Bard and Bliss-Hayden. He has been described as a "Slavic bard". Becker met future songwriting partner Donald Fagen while they were students at Bard College. He was also seen in the series Bard of Blood. The hamlet consists almost entirely of the Bard College campus. Miriam now fully accepts and is happy with her friendship with the bard. Others such as Jason Bard, Harold, Onyx, and Toyman work for him. John Grey was a professor at Bard College in upstate New York. "Jali" means something similar to a "bard" or oral historian.