Bards · The Chorus · Citizen 033

Harley

the Heartstring

Bard · College of the Mended Measure

The Sheet

STR

-1

DEX

CON

INT

WIS

CHA

Affinity Hearthfire Ward the Undertow Bane the Cold Between

Proficiencies Performance · Medicine · Insight · Keeping (bold = expertise)

Bard · College of the Mended Measure

Music that repairs without smoothing. The crack stays visible — and holds.

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The Ladder

What they learn

LV 1

Mend the Measure Play over a break — object, wound, quarrel — and it knits; the seam remains honestly visible.

LV 3

Keep the Crack Anything you mend cannot be Smoothed; the memory of the break stays with its owner, on purpose.

LV 6

Duet for One Play a sufferer's grief back to them, accurately; they gain your ward for the day and one fresh save vs despair.

LV 10

The Extra String 1/story, the harp sounds a string that is not on it, and one thing beyond mending — a promise, a friendship, a name — holds anyway.

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For the Guide

How to run Harley

VoiceQuiet, exact, kinder than the room deserves.

WantsTo mend without erasing. To leave every seam showing. To count the strings and get nine.

Do this nowThe Heartstring mends — the break holds, and it is allowed to have happened. “(nine strings; in a grieving room, count again)” A repair-musician whose work is the opposite of the Smoothing: everything she fixes remembers being broken. Her harp carries nine strings — in a room grieving honestly, count again. Canon still open; promoted to the Mended Measure.

“(nine strings; in a grieving room, count again)”

A repair-musician whose work is the opposite of the Smoothing: everything she fixes remembers being broken. Her harp carries nine strings — in a room grieving honestly, count again. Canon still open; promoted to the Mended Measure. The Kingdom · Mice Compendium Citizen 033

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