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  The Nexus - Where Good and Evil Unite...
Singing this song will cause all not joined to the singer to become depressed, decreasing their desire to ward against magic and attack.
While singing this song, the bard magically enhances and inspires all members of his or her party, enhancing their ability to attack and recover from battle.
The bard singing this song is able to resonate their voice to such a degree that all not joined to the singer must suffer sonic disruption of their bodies.
www.angelfire.com /il/Rainock/bard.html   (1516 words)

  
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The source of their mournful songs is believed to be the spirit of a grieving princess calling out to her lost husband in a hopeless yet never-ending search for him.
What originally fueled this famous belief is the fact that lar gibbons (Hylobates lar), inhabitants of the rain forests found throughout Thailand, can often be heard singing, from the treetops, "Pua, pua, pua," or a similar sounding series of whoops and wails.
Mora reached for the sword, but was momentarily distracted by the sight of the bold bandit and left the sword where it lay.
www.geocities.com /Tokyo/9149/gib.html   (674 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Singing Sword (A Dream of Eagles, Book 2): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In The Singing Sword, the second book in the Camulod Chronicles, Jack Whyte's multivolume rendition of the history and prehistory of Arthurian England, the Roman Empire is nearing its end in Britain and a community of Roman colonists is attempting to create a society to outlast the difficult times they see ahead.
As in its predecessor, The Skystone, the main character in The Singing Sword is Gaius Publius Varrus, one of the founders of the community.
A sword fight is as likely to be followed by a discussion of the theology of Saint Augustine as by a consideration of the novel use of cavalry in warfare.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140170499   (1371 words)

  
 Sword of the Samurai - Advancedfightingfantasy.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
You are the Shogun's champion, a young samurai warrior skilled in the way of the warrior and the sword.
Your task is to recover the stolen Dai-Katana, the singing sword.
Sword of the Samurai is the only Fighting Fantasy adventure set in Hachiman.
www.advancedfightingfantasy.com /ff20.htm   (459 words)

  
 play.net >> GemStone IV
By singing tales of heroism and valor, the singer creates an aura of protection about himself, bolstering his defense by +10 Defense Strength (DS), +1 DS for every 2 Bard spells known over 1010.
While singing this song, the bard can weave vibrating air and magic around their right hand into a weapon of the Bard's choosing.
While singing this song, a Bard magically imparts all members of his or her party with additional speed, making all of their actions a bit quicker, and giving them an increased chance to dodge incoming attacks.
www.play.net /gs4/info/spells/spelllist.asp?circle=10   (3538 words)

  
 Interview | Jack Whyte
All they've done is increased the size of the hole in the altar stone and punched it right down through the table top, slipped the sword into it, covered it with a cloth and people look at it and see an altar with a cross on it: which is what they expect to see.
So that stories are about the man who made the sword Excalibur, the guy who built the fortress that we have come to call Camelot and the guy who built the mobile cavalry force that we call the Knights of the Round table.
What he did in pulling the sword from the stone was to establish clearly in the eyes of everyone who saw that he was, by right of birth and heritage, entitled to lead the country as their unified leader.
www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/jwhyte.html   (4397 words)

  
 Richard A. Bartle: The Singing Sword
One day, when he was out fishing in the loch, a golden eagle swooped down on him and dropped a beautiful sword into his little boat.
So sharp was the sword that it made a big hole, and the little boat sank, but Gordon managed to grab the blade in his teeth and swam ashore to safety.
Hearing this, the singing sword jumped from Gordon's hand and cut the instrument-maker clean in half.
www.mud.co.uk /richard/sbos7.htm   (342 words)

  
 Singing Sword Prologue
The snarling fury of the pack quickly became a crescendo of yelps of pain and fear as horse and rider laid about them, and soon one, and then all of the lean, grey scavengers broke off the fight and fled to the protection of the bushes that surrounded the clearing.
The naked man lay face down, his left arm extended and ripped open on the underside, close to the shoulder, where one of the wolves had been chewing at it.
It seems evident that he loosed himself_broke free, somehow_snatched a sword and managed to kill two of his captors before being killed himself.
www.themagicalblend.com /nebula/excerpt_signingsword.html   (1435 words)

  
 Internet Book List :: Book Information: Singing Sword, the
Legends do not tell of Arthur's great-grandfather, Publius Varrus, the warrior who marked the boundaries of a reborn empire with his own shed blood; they do not tell of Publius' wife, Luceiia, British-born and Roman-raised, whose fierce beauty burned pale next to her passion for law and honor.
The Singing Sword continues the gripping epic begun in The Skystone.
As the great night of the Dark Ages falls over Roman Britain, a lone man and woman fight to build a last stronghold of law and learning - a crude hill-fort which one day, long after their deaths, will become a great city; a crude hill-fort which one day will be known as Camelot.
www.iblist.com /book5194.htm   (254 words)

  
 Meta- Singing Sword
The domain name itself originates from a fictitious company, Singing Sword Software, which as far as I can tell dates back to September of 1997 with the creation of the terrible entity which is called Maze.
In fact, the majority of my earliest forays into pixel-by-pixel computer art had much to do with swords, as did my very first creation with that magickal 3-D raytracer, POV-Ray.
Oh, and I would like to emphasize that I conceived Singing Sword Software long before I became aware of the novel by Jack Whyte.
www.singingsword.com /misc/about.html   (357 words)

  
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May cause disaster if another is also trying to sing this song in the same room.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1025 Singing Sword Song Through clever manipulation of vibrations, a bard singing this song spell can direct his or her weapon to fly after the caster and attack foes, using the same skill as the caster's.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1030 Song of Sonic Disruption The bard singing this song is able to resonate their voice to such a degree that all not joined to the singer must suffer sonic disruption of their bodies.
members.aol.com /terraggw/spells/bardspel.txt   (1679 words)

  
 Tee Morris's Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Tee Morris's Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword.
The investigation progresses with Baddings using his own unique talents to discover the truth behind the murder but it is not until he receives a personal invitation to dine with Capone that he truly realises the position he is in and the importance of the mysterious artefact.
When Baddings discovers a picture of the sword he realises that rather than being some ancient artefact it is in fact from a more magical origin as the weapon has a strange script running along its length — a script that Baddings immediately recognises as Elvish.
www.eternalnight.co.uk /books/m/morristee/billibubbaddings.html   (501 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Singing Sword at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
His weapon making include a special sword, made from metal found in rocks that fell from the sky.
It is here, though, that the reader sees the famed Sword of the Stone formed and the very beginnings of Merlin's mysterious wizardry.
Neither the reader nor Varrus knows the importance of the sword when it's first made, but eventually it becomes the Sword of Kings.
www.epinions.com /content_151016214148   (539 words)

  
 Fable Rumors and Conspiracies FAQ - IGN FAQs
Here are the times: picnic area: 12:00 bowerstone: 3:00 hero's guild: 6:00 woods area: 9:00 -The Singing Sword and The Bards Many believe there to be a sword in Fable called the Singing Sword.
If you notice in many of the taverns there is a bard who will sing for you if you give him 10 gold.
This would make sense about the bard being tied into the singing sword since bards sing and are all about music.
faqs.ign.com /articles/550/550950p1.html   (2114 words)

  
 Sasha Goldenhair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The first thing she did was to open a chest in a dungeon they were in.
The quest got a little delayed when Zeiron got his left arm cut of by some monster, and Gwyn a fighter in the same party got the name SLAVE tattued on her chest by Drow-elves.
She and her friends are currently on the paladins quest for his Holy sword and Holy armor.
crpp0001.uqtr.uquebec.ca /w4/npc/human4/sashagoldenhair.html   (463 words)

  
 EQDiva - Everquest Bards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The bard Epic is the Singing Short Sword, the epic bard weapon with great stats and a proc that gives the effect Dance of the Blade - a full party buff that adds 55% haste, 30 strength, 30 attack and lasts for 2 minutes and 30 seconds and has a range of about 150 feet.
Most of the pieces required for the Singing Short Sword are quite easy for a high-40's/50's bard and can be done alone.
Baldric Slezaf pulls a fantastic looking sword from its scabbard and says, 'I might be willing to part with this wonderful sword if I were able to perform this symphony.
www.eqdiva.com /eq/epic.aspx   (783 words)

  
 AllaKhazam's Magical Realm - Your Everquest Community
Sing Warsong of Var shir or Battlecry of the Vah Shir for overhaste as chorus of celerity and rousing rondo won't stack with epic.
This epic has been somewhat upgraded by Songblade of the Eternal, although the songblade does not act as all instruments, only modifies singing, and you'd have to be in a very high end and elemental capable guild to enter the Plane of Time for this weapon.
However, the effect of the songblade is a definite upgrade to the Singing Short Sword, since it can be manually triggered.
everquest.allakhazam.com /db/item.html?item=348   (4405 words)

  
 EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Magic Items with "Quirks"
The sword grants the bearer the cleave feat during combat and does an additional 1d8 damage on every hit.
Examples include: PC must eat spinach prior to using guantlets of ogre power, sword must taste blood before it is sheathed, cloak of charisma must be taken to a nudie bar each night or cease working for a day.
The sword that doesn't accept failure: This +1 shocking longsword was the sword of a Paladin that always did his best and didn't suffer failures.
www.enworld.org /showthread.php?t=77358   (3239 words)

  
 The Singing Sword (Camulod Chronicles (Paperback)) by Jack Whyte, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0613176499
Legends do not tell of Arthur's great-grandfather, Publius Varrus, the warrior who marked the boundaries of a reborn empire with his own shed blood; they do not tell of Publius's wife, Luceiia, British-born and Roman-raised, whose fierce beauty burned pale next to her passion for law and honor.
The Singing Sword continues the gripping epic begun in The Skystone: As the great night of the Dark Ages falls over Roman Britain, a lone man and woman fight to build a last stronghold of law and learning--a crude hill-fort, which one day, long after their deaths, will become a great city.
Sword and the Centuries: Or Old Sword Days and Old...
www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0613176499.html   (444 words)

  
 mod the sims 2 - Testers wanted: Singing Sword *updated*   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
All my medieval simmies were listening to Coco the singing bird, but this is far better for my knights.
I downloaded it too it works fine and I have univ, so if it's not working for you then try the new CEP just like everyone is saying and if it don't work then its something else maybe it only works with unvi, the only thing you can do is just give a shot again!.
I had made a little scenic medieval place for two gravestones of two of my beloved sims and have placed the singing sword there with some of my custom ambient music so that whenever any sims visit the gravesite, they will be enveloped in sombre mysterious music from an equally mysterious singing sword!
www.modthesims2.com /showthread.php?t=67233&highlight=knights   (1063 words)

  
 Fiction Factor - Review of Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword
The case puts him at odds with the police and in trouble with Capone's goons but worst of all, it brings up a part of his past that he thought was a distant memory.
When he discovers the true nature of the Singing Sword he realizes there's a lot more at risk than just a gangland war.
With quips about elves polishing their armor until it glows (making them easy targets) and more, Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword kept me entertained and giggling throughout.
www.fictionfactor.com /reviews/billibub.html   (413 words)

  
 DREAM OF EAGLES 02 THE SINGING SWORD - Jack Whyte - Penguin Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Born of the chaos of the Dark Ages, the Dream of Eagles produced a king, a country and an everlasting legend—Camelot
Creating their own army and joining with the Celtic people of King Ullic Pendragon, the colonists emerge as a new breed of Britons, ready to forge the government that will be the Round Table and its Knights and to prepare the groundwork for the future coronation of Arthur, first High King of Britain.
With all the drama, passion and violence of England’s most vibrant history, The Singing Sword continues Jack Whyte’s bestselling chronicle of the dream that gave birth to an enduring legend.
www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140170499,00.html   (154 words)

  
 Singing Sword, The eBook - Franklin Electronic Publishers
With the sword Excalibur, Arthur became England's greatest king.
With The Camulod Chronicles, Jack Whyte tells us what legend has forgotten: a history of blood, violence, passion and steel, out of which was forged a great sword, and a great nation.
As the Dark Ages fall over Roman Britain, a lone man and woman fight to build a last stronghold of law--a crude fort, which, long after their deaths, will become a great city; a fort known as Camelot...
www.franklin.com /estore/dictionary/BBS0312706421DLDA   (168 words)

  
 The Singing Sword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It was then lost from history for several centuries, before ending up in the Maze in the late 1700s.
When used in battle, this mighty blade sings.
Its singing has been credited with rout of numerous armies, and has even sent Trolls into hiding the sound is so terrifying.
www.eng.uiowa.edu /~tscheetz/Maze/sword.html   (74 words)

  
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She hands the Sword over to Elias, but it seems reluctant to part with her.
Elias is supposed to use the Sword to free the General, but short of his asking "How do you turn this thing on?" it's pretty clear that he doesn't know what he's doing.
The problem, of course, is that in order to pull that off the writers would have to know the character thoroughly and would have to have presented him to the readers in such a way that the exit would have been in-character.
www.andrews.edu /~drazen/S102.txt   (4710 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The Saxon Shore (Camulod Chronicles) by Jack Whyte
They pledged their lives to fulfill a dream for the future: independent survival in Britain amidst the ruins of the Roman Empire.
But Uther is dead of treachery, and all that's left is the babe Arthur, who must be prepared and trained, for far too soon will come the day when Arthur must unify the clans of Britain and guard the mighty sword Excalibur.
Now he must prepare the young Arthur to unify the clans of Britain and guard the mighty sword Excalibur.
www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0765306506   (187 words)

  
 www.reviewingtheevidence.com | BILLIBUB BADDINGS AND THE CASE OF THE SINGING SWORD, by Tee Morris
It's peppered with wonderful quotes like "Trouble is a princess in high heels," and "Driving on the wrong side of memory lane." But the humor never overwhelms what is a solid detective plot, with a singing sword standing in for the Maltese Falcon.
I have discovered that reviewing is a wonderful way to become cynical about the state of literature; so many things sound great, only to disappoint for one reason or another.
BILLIBUB BADDINGS AND THE CASE OF THE SINGING SWORD is the Holy Grail of reviewers -- the book you would never have found on your own but can't praise enough.
www.reviewingtheevidence.com /review.html?id=4946   (563 words)

  
 Archived Weblog Entry - 03/08/2004: ""   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
My wife winkled me out of the basement a couple of hours ago and dragged me out into the world for a long walk and I loved every minute of it.
There are birds singing everywhere and the weeping willow trees are developing that febrile, pale yellowish tinge that lets you know the buds are going to be popping out shoots any day now.
It really seems strange to think that, after being snowbound for so long, we could be golfing within the next couple of weeks if these temperatures were to last for a while.
www.penguinblogs.ca /whyte/archives/00000029.html   (449 words)

  
 Baltic Wizards: Estonia, Wise and Free, Land of Wonder Legends: The Singing Sword
The evil Wizard saw the gleam of the sharp Sword, and determined to steal it.
And as he went along he called on his Sword to come back to its brother; he begged it to return, but there was no answer.
And Kalevide dreamed of a better Sword than the first one, a Sword forged in the work shop of Ilmarinen, Finland's Wizard, forged in that wondrous workshop in the interior of a great mountain at the middle point of the earth.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/bw/bw21.htm   (858 words)

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