Bards Reborn Student of Song Become a Bard and Bards College Expansion

This is rerelease of Bards Reborn Student of Song, now a Become a Bard add on due to Pevey’s new Special Edition version! Huge thanks to

Pevey for making the original Become a Bard that inspired so much of this mod and being so gracious with their help.

Enhanced Bards College

The Bards Reborn College has been completely redecorated tomake it a true “musical museum” with the help of Tcz! It now includes specialinstruments from the Elder Scrolls Online with readable museum plaques and much more artwork on the walls. When you return with Finn’s Lute and Rjorn's Drum, they will also go on display as part of the museum.

There are additional rooms to explore including a shrine toDibella and a room with tanning racks for making instruments and an alchemy station. All students, including you, now have small, but private dorm rooms with a bed and desk and your dorm room has a chest for your use. An oven has been added to the kitchen to give you more cooking options while you’re using the College as a base and respawning resources are scattered throughout the College.

Many more books were added to the library making it a great place to find some rare books and over twenty new custom ones that I added in for flavor and the questline. Overall, I tried to improve the look of the college to make it seem more like a place of learning. Once you become a full bard of the college after King Olaf’s Festival, you also gain access to a room in the tower of the college which can serve as a small player home. The library includes two player bookshelves so you can add to the college library yourself. Note that some of the books in the Bards College are static so that shelves had full appearances without going overboard on books that the mod had to load.

Expanded Questline

A new quest has been added to give you an actual learningexperience at the Bards College. The new voiced NPC Malukah Hope-Singer (created with permission from Malukah) serves as your academic advisor and the quest giver. Instead of being sent straight to find King Olaf’s verse, you will study at the college and learn the skills of a bard before being sent off into the world to prove yourself worthy of full induction.

The courses you must pass are: History, Lyrics, Historic, Musical Instruments, the Poetic Edda, the Drum, the Flute, and the Lute. Each course has an oral exam you need to pass so you will need to read books in the library, attend classes and study the items around the college. For the drum, flute, and lute, you will need to raise your bard skill by playing instruments to pass the musical evaluations. Once you complete the courses, Malukah will direct you to Viarmo who will then give you the Tending the Flames Quest allowing you to be declared a full bard at the Burning of King Olaf once you complete the quest. Afterward, you’ll be able to access the Become a Bard quests from Viarmo and