Voice magic (what most laymen call bardic magic) first appears in the written records a mere twelve thousand years ago, which makes it a late and curious development. Some children who awaken to the use of vharin/aether around their tenth year possess so meager a reserve that they are deemed no threat and thus unsuitable for temple training. Those who still hunger to wield some form of power, in modern times, seek out the sole school in Ætaine that blends priestly and magely visualization with deliberate vocalization, allowing such weak-blooded practitioners to raise or cast down the hearts of others through song or speech. Their methods are closely guarded, but from what a companion has shared, the essence lies in how they picture vharin/aether and then shape it with tone, pitch, and resonance. Further study is warranted, though I have found myself unable to employ this technique at all. Perhaps it depends upon having only a narrow trickle of vharin to guide, rather than the large reservoir a mage or priest commands?
