Performance

Trait Description: Performance covers all forms of artistic expression, from storytelling and acting to dancing and singing. It also includes the theatrics of making rousing public speeches. Characters with this Ability also know how to perform a wide variety of songs, plays, dances, jokes and stories.

Specialties: Improvisation, Playing the Lyre, Singing, Storytelling, Solo Performances, Dance, In a Particular Nation, To Members of a Particular Social Class

Trait Effects: Someone with Performance 1 can sing popular tavern songs in a pleasing voice and dance well enough to get invited to the next ball. Someone with Performance 3 can move an audience to tears with a speech or tell stories so engrossing that guards ignore their duties to listen more closely. Someone with Performance 5 can start a riot with a short speech or play a song so beautiful that it will touch the heart of one of the Demon Princes of Malfeas.