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Just Who Is "Baird" Anyway? (Patreon)

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2020-12-03 20:17:58
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Although we decided to delay November's Baird's entry to finish the final Marion chapter beta build, that doesn't mean we can't talk about "Baird" himself!

Who is the man behind the myths? How did the author of Baird's Unabridged Compendium of Faerie Lore: Rhymes, Myths & Legends of Scotch Tradition get his information? We think it's high time we give Baird's compendium an About the Author!

And that's where we need you and your ideas. Here are some things we need to know, in order to write Baird's biography:

  • What is his full name?
  • What does he look like?
  • Where is he from?
  • What are some of his amazing adventures and heroic feats?
  • Anything else you can think of!

Leave as many comments as you like! Thanks in advance-- we appreciate your help!

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KDhynamo

“Bairds” is just fae propaganda written and intentionally released to humans in order to educate them about the fae and to teach them not to mess with magic

tazkol

it would be hilarious if he started out male but ended up a female faun or something.

Anonymous

For Baird, maybe he's an Arthur Conan Doyle type where he is a highly respected genre writer but also believes in Faeries (as ACD also did irl) and most people kinda smile awkwardly and ask for more of his old mystery material instead of Deep Fae Lore. But... he REALLY wants to talk about that Deep Fae Lore and also about TFTG.

ccateni

I think Baird should be a shapeshift with the power to become any Fae he wants to assist them. That would be interesting to have someone who dedicated his life to study and assist Fae's in need.

ZBL

Baird is the grandfather/mother of the DLC Durg character. Gender fluid and ancient character.

PantherPilot

Maybe he's actually an anthro bear and through some mixup with the publisher the title of the series is actually a typo.

Mystery Soup (edited)

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2021-09-06 19:42:32 Perhaps he is a traveler, who moved to Scotland after the 100 years war, where he would discover various oddities on and around his isolated farm. Intrigued, He would begin cataloguing them. Eventually, with a small diary full of notes and encounters, he would decide to travel out and try and find more creatures and areas worth of note, leading to the writing of Baird's Unabridged Compendium of Faerie Lore: Rhymes, Myths & Legends of Scotch Tradition. Perhaps too mundane?
2020-12-03 21:26:44 Perhaps he is a traveler, who moved to Scotland after the 100 years war, where he would discover various oddities on and around his isolated farm. Intrigued, He would begin cataloguing them. Eventually, with a small diary full of notes and encounters, he would decide to travel out and try and find more creatures and areas worth of note, leading to the writing of Baird's Unabridged Compendium of Faerie Lore: Rhymes, Myths & Legends of Scotch Tradition. Perhaps too mundane?

Perhaps he is a traveler, who moved to Scotland after the 100 years war, where he would discover various oddities on and around his isolated farm. Intrigued, He would begin cataloguing them. Eventually, with a small diary full of notes and encounters, he would decide to travel out and try and find more creatures and areas worth of note, leading to the writing of Baird's Unabridged Compendium of Faerie Lore: Rhymes, Myths & Legends of Scotch Tradition. Perhaps too mundane?

Anonymous

I have two ideas! Idea one is that he was quite a lot like Malcolm, a lost soul who fell in love, but got tangled up with fairies and magic along the way. After bungling through countless magical hijinks, he decided to study them and write down his findings for anyone who might follow in his footsteps. Idea two is kinda the reverse: Baird is/was a Fairy who fell in love with a human. He wrote the book to act as a sort of bridge between the two peoples. (Also, I think it might be neat if he was an ancestor/relative of Malcolms. Maybe getting tangled up in magical adventures runs in the family?)

Nocturn3

What if Baird was pulling all this lore out of thin air? They just HAPPENED to be accurate and true when in reality he doesn't know fae exist nor how spot on he was with his writings?

Anonymous

Maybe Baird can have some "fun facts" about him. Like not only is he a good author, but he can make a killer grilled cheese as well.

Bilbono

KH is correct, "Baird" is just a collective intelligence pseudonym created by the British Secret Service Bureau acting as controlled opposition to prevent the public from learning about the fae. It's all part of a Thelemic conspiracy and /ourguy/ Malcolm is breaking the conditioning.

Chau-ta-u-auch-ca Rollings

Bard MacMillan of the Lochaber Macmillan's was a tall lean lad growing up in the shadows of Tintangle castle in Cornwall his father and mother had moved there to be closer to his mother's ailing parents who promptly filled the young strawberry blonde lads head with tales of king Arthur the Wizard Merlin and the lady of the lake Nimue it was this that sparked a life long passion that drew him further in to Fae lore Upon his grand parents passing he and his family moved back to Scotland there he helped his mother raise and care for his sibling re telling them the stories he grew up on and when that was done and they wanted to know more he sought out the lore of the highlands of his birth which lead him to college to study and gather tales from all over the isles including those of the Welsh and of Ireland by the time he finished and complied his great work he had filled out a bt more and sported round horn rimmed glasses and a full beard being the delight of any family gathering as he always had a new tale to spin for nieces nephews and eventually his own children.

LittleNapoleon
>>48879984

Neat idea! Most importantly, we need to find the lost Sherlock Holmes manuscript where faeries TFTG Watson!!!

LittleNapoleon
>>48880667

Interesting concept! Although in his written work he comes across as less of an advocate for the fae and more as a precautionary preacher.

LittleNapoleon
>>48883833

It's certainly very believable! Not everything in this tale need be fantastical after all ^^

LittleNapoleon
>>48884759

These are all great ideas! Yeah, we definitely want to tie him into one of the in-game characters ^^

LittleNapoleon

Very true! Baird could well be one of those enlightenment era Scottish intellectuals who went around and collected these tales to preserve the oral myths for posterity.

affie-beck-lauder

For many generations, the Ross Clan had been the protectors of the highlands regions. This honour was granted to the family by King Robert The Bruce as a reward for their help in saving his kingdom from English conquest during the War of Scottish Independence. While this official history of things acts as if this was the order of things, the true history of the clan reaches back deeper into the mists of time. Far before the Vikings claimed to rule the seas, or the Romans marched to show the greatness of an empire by controlling these lands. No, the clan is older than even the Celts and their settlement of these lands of old. For you see, Clan Ross is a deeply old clan. A Clan whom came to rule the land not by conquest or force of arms. But by a deeper understanding of what the lands meant. Of love for the wonders these lands held, but also knowledge of the terrors that remain hidden away deep within the mists of timeless legends that cover these lands. This is the real reason a king rewarded Clan Ross. Not just because they sent some troops to help him, as much as the history books might try to tell you. No, the real reason is because it was a sub section within the Clan kept the ancient knowledge alive, and used that to save a young kings life when he was tempted away from his destiny by fae attempting to weave their wicked ways over him. Now in the years since, the family may have fade in power over the lands, even losing their castle they had been able to raise in a vein showing of their power over the lands. Yet even to this day, the Clan still has a level of power to them, more so the part that has never forgotten those legends of old or the truth in the simple stories told to their children as they send them to bed each night. The latest in this long long of keepers of the old and master of the ancient ways is a man called George Ross. Born in 1871 in the city of Inverness. Even at a young age, the boy had a interest in trying to explore the land and find out the hidden secrets that lay in plain sight before a world that seems to think it has moved on from them. As the boy became of age, he soon set out to learn the craft of mastering the ancient ways of the Clan. Which he took to with great passion as he began to explore not just the highlands, but other areas of Scotland and beyond. Still, as he got older, he started to notice that the world was becoming more cut off from the wild lands that paths of iron and the machines made to cross them have started to cover the lands. For this reason, George started to discover for himself that the sense of magic to the lands seemed to be showing signs of fading. Which some of his peers took to meant that progress from the Empire was taming even these wilds lands. However, George know this was not the truth of the matter. What George knew was that the ways of the old and the magics they used had simply wished to move out of sight for the changing world happening before them. While others saw them going away, George knew they had simply started to wait for the time when they could come back and reclaim the lands of old for themselves once more. For this reason, he knew there would come a day that knowledge of the true terror and beauty of the highlands would be lost forever, and thus leaving those whom came after lost without a means to know what this all meant. And this, dear readers, is why this great tome was first written. It was created to teach, to warn and to make people love the both the small and great and powerful of these lands. Or else face doom in an era when these words are lost to time.

Eli Cummings

I feel like it would be neat to have baird tied to alana. She is always hinting at some past fae related event but maybe baird stepped in during it to help or teach.

Pope Julius II

I definitely like the idea of Baird being a sort of tragic mirror for Malcolm. A guy who fell in love with a fey creature but then lost her somehow. Maybe she simply vanished as fey are want to do and his book is a record of all the different fey he met as he searched Scotland for her. Or maybe he drove her away because he unknowingly committed some kind of fairy taboo and so he dedicated his life to collecting knowledge of fey beings in the hope of sparing some future person (like Malcolm) the same heartbreak. On a lighter note, it would be funny if Baird got transformed and or cursed/bewitched a bunch of times over the course of his many years of research. I imagine Malcolm finding Baird's personal journal and it having various entries like "Hello again journal, I apologize for how long it's been since I last updated you but I have been a bit preoccupied as I have spent the last few months as a horse. On the bright side however I have learned conclusively that Púcaí do not apricate being accidentally sat upon. However, they are amenable to reversing their curses if given a heartfelt apology, assuming you are fortunate enough to encounter them a second time."

LittleNapoleon
>>49147027

Hahaha, those are both excellent ideas, and very clever! We may be thinking along similar lines ; )