Cutefinder: Song Magic in Golarion
When you say the words Song Magic, the first thing that may come to mind is the power of bardic performances and the spells they can weave while singing. However, while ubiquitous, it is only the surface of what the power of music is capable of manipulating. On distant planets, insight into the fabric of reality allowed technological advancements that could bestow powerful effects to even inexperienced singers, allowing for compositions that could evoke energetic forces, conjure and transmute swaths of land and even maintain life through an entrapped harmonic pattern, well beyond what stories a mere minstrel could spin.
This cosmic power remained largely isolated from external influence, however—beyond contact with rare interstellar vessels with colonies of people on their own, one of which achieving it only by chance through convergent research into similar powers, the secret of Song Magic and the principles to utilise it remained on the lone planet far, far away from Golarion. It was only through cosmic misfortune that one such vessel fell from space some ten thousand years ago, its debris hammering craters into the earth and scattering dust into the sky to create a thousand years of darkness.
While bound to a tiny peninsula of Sarusan where the bulk of the ship buried itself into the crust, it was this event that brought true Song Magic to Golarion.
Song Magic in the World
The Innsmouth Tower Emulator and the Fourth Tower of Artonelico
New Hymmnos Dialect: Shellan Ciel Note
As the Tower Emulator is built on different technology, the traditional Central Standard dialect of Hymmnos is not the only one that can run on it; indeed, it is not the most efficient when it comes to deploying Hymmnos Extracts either. When the Innsmouth sailed the stars, a prototypical alternative was created to better interface with the rest of the Innsmouth's systems, but aside from a few lines of Hymmnos it was written and executed through machine code. Long after the Innsmouth fell, the descendants of the specialised Reyvateils built to service this alternative dialect formed a cabal and wrote an interpeted language for it, allowing their crafters to more readily create new song magic on their own.
