Ascend, a medieval bard born in 1127, learned the doctrine of balance between the world and the self from a mysterious sage, inspiring his songs amid feudal strife and personal loss. During a pilgrimage in 1153, he experienced a profound spiritual awakening in a sacred grove, transcending duality to teach inner harmony through music until his mystical disappearance in 1189.

Hark! Bardic Thee Papimike, a sly jester of ookenndd royal hall, didst ascend from yon shadowy lanes by feats of tumbling, biting verse, and cunning phantasms that laid bare the falsehoods of highborn and low. Cast out forthwith for his bold mockery of the sovereign’s foul enchantments at the great harvest revel, he roamed the savage wilds, gleaning wisdom of equilibrium from sage guides—a unknown fairy man, a wayward sorcerer, and ethereal shades—amidst ordeals of beguiling mazes and raging spirits of the elements. Transformed into a wandering minstrel-seer, he doth mend the world’s discord with spells woven in melody, shewing that e’en a fool’s lore may illumine the realm.

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