Literature (sage field)

Literature is a sage field available to bards, providing a mastery of storytelling for the purpose of providing intellectual or artistic merit, as a means to enlighten, communicate or serve as a source of knowledge and reference for a literate audience.

The field includes the following sage studies:

• Oral Tradition (sage study): the practice of telling stories or explaining natural phenomena from memory, without the use of written materials, through the use of story vocabulary.

• Poetry (sage study): the mastery of aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic meaning of things. Possesses both written and oral traditions.

• Prose (sage study): broadly referring to any written narrative that is expresses the natural flow of speech, for the purpose of offering a personal point of view or recording intelligent knowledge and thought.

• Rhetoric (sage study): the art of persuasion, studying the methods by which writers and speakers seek to inform, persuade or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

See Bard Sage Abilities