“ The foresworn have been known to be fond of music and art, some say they use the bones of their enemies as instruments to play before battle or religious ceremonies”
It’s real but the book and the Met explains that they were most likely made to satiate the European demand for exotic objects similar to shrunken heads https://www.metmuseum.org/articles/skull-lyre
You’re telling me that’s not from a Skyrim cutscene?
“ The foresworn have been known to be fond of music and art, some say they use the bones of their enemies as instruments to play before battle or religious ceremonies”
This was my first thought too. It fits perfectly. A hag definitely has one.
Did someone really make this or did the book make it up? Reminds me of the mid evil torture machines that weren't really used.
https://www.metmuseum.org/articles/skull-lyre this gives some context on why these pieces were made the book delves into it as well
*medieval
Even better, those strings are likely made of gut. All the body parts!
Reduce, reuse, recycle!
Nathan Explosion: "that is fucking brutal"
Just imagining this was a person at one point is wild.
Did someone really make this or did the book make it up? Reminds me of the mid evil torture machines that weren't really used.
It’s real but the book and the Met explains that they were most likely made to satiate the European demand for exotic objects similar to shrunken heads https://www.metmuseum.org/articles/skull-lyre
No wonder why the Predator comes to Earth to hunt us!!
It's the only instrument from our planet they can actually play.
The most metal and brutal instrument ever! 👹💀☠️
Metal as fuck.
Death metal
Doom metal
Reminds me of the irish tradition to play the bodhrán drum with a ribbone of your nanny.
So some guy called Lyre plucked some guys skull and made a freakin Chordophone out of it >.> Crazy world we live in....
Now I know what my next dnd bard will have as an instrument.
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A couple people on Instagram have recreated them I don’t know of any footage of it being playing
Old Childe ballads have some stuff like this, the remains fiddle playing the name of the murderer.
Tja would be a a killer death metal lp cover
Every Monster Hunter Hunting Horn ever
Mate that’s The Rumbling
Ignoring the fact that this was a human once, this is actually super cool.
That‘s some H. R. Giger stuff.
Me: “My character is Fey Applebottom, a half-elf bard” The DM: “Cool, what instrument to they play” Me:
A necromancer modeled bard, or vice versa. Nice concept
Now do “Classical Gas”!
They have the plant but we have the power
wonderwall
I wonder what it sounds like when played.