What is a bard? What are the characteristics of a bard? I'm not talking about the game, but the reality.

bard existed as early as the heroic age of ancient Greece, probably in the 1th century BC. Homer's epic is based on the story sung by bard. Bard often can't read, and tells stories of mythical heroes orally, and performs at banquets of nobles in the palace. As early as the 1st century AD, the Latin writer Lu Kanus described the bard as a national poet or singer in Gaul or Britain. This custom gradually disappeared in Gaul, but it survived in Ireland or Wales. Irish minstrels have preserved the tradition of singing poems by singing. In Wales, the word bard has always been synonymous with poets; Bards in the 1th century were divided into different grades. Although this kind of poets declined at the end of the middle century, this tradition in Wales survived and was celebrated at the annual national competition of poets and musicians.

So their poems are generally passed down orally, so you just need to write some gorgeous, beautiful and easy-to-pass poems and become famous, so you are a bard.