Today's Trinket Compilation is...
SONGBOOKS
A good/fun excuse to practice the writing half of these trinket pics, since they're mostly very similar images. Also has been a bit of a fun research project, trying to plumb canon mtg cards for mention of songs and lyrics. Can people recognize any songs mentioned in the descriptions?
- Riverspan Songbook - A collection of tunes from the Alighieri Ol' Battleaxe Inn & Tavern. Drinking songs, folk tales, and murderballads.
- Harper Songbook - Songs from the Forgotten Realms in one way or another. These are indeed all real songs from the games and movie.
- Greyhawk Songbook - A reference to Valoa and 70's D&D stuff. Most of the tunes mentioned are the names of old modules.
- Femeref Songbook - Mirage and Visions references led me down the rabbithole wherein I discovered there is indeed a whole properly written poem of "The Love Song of Night And Day" and it is indeed groovy.
- Dwarven Songbook - Like... there were a lot of these in old mtg flavor text. That was a solidly fun discovery. Just some classical dwarfy rhymes about digging, drinking, and smashing orcs.
- Bullywug Songbook - An excuse to get classy. The music in this is meant to have something of a baroque quality to it, with a little bit of grossness and violence given the bullywug court of Hither.
- Sacred Songbook - Another Dominarian book full of hymnals and history. There are indeed a lot of cantos.
- Witchlight Songbook - Probably written for the carnival calliope or the steam organ. Why yes the pipe organ version of a certain Cyndi Lauper song was stuck in my head for the circus part of the adventure.
- Feywild Songbook - It is nice that the campaign itself comes with some, and this was an excuse to just keep the Agdon Longscarf theme written down and memorized.
- Baldurian Songbook - Aaand an excuse to callback to the BG3 Decima I've been meaning to play with more. (Seriously Shadowheart and Laezel have been just a delight, and its fun roleplaying Decima, the sweet morally bankrupt cinnamon roll as the adult in the room.)