Deep in the Nazilic underground, there is a machine. It has rows of blinking red lights. Some call it the Mystic Tape Deck. No one is entirely certain who built it. It is said that the machine receives transmissions from somewhere beyond the thinning walls between worlds. The transmissions arrive as music. Stories. Strange fragments of memory. They are made by beings known only as BARDS. Their work is recorded here and occasionally finds its way through the magic rectangle. Sometimes the rectangle is a book. Sometimes it is a screen. Either way, the transmission appears to have already begun.
Functionally speaking, Mystic Tape Deck serves as the musical archive of the Nazilic Library — an evolving collection of songs, recovered manuscripts, impossible artifacts, and disputed histories surrounding the Cloak of Nazili.
BARDS: Of The Shimmering Seraphs
Of The Shimmering Seraphs concerns itself with the interior landscape of the human spirit. Its twelve songs correspond to the opening sequence of the Nazilic Arcana, an initiatory collection of archetypes preserved throughout the Bell Archive.
BARDS: Of The Next Revolution
The second vessel in the BARDS series follows humanity’s gradual rediscovery of memory, creativity, and purpose after yet another civilizational collapse.
BARDS: Of The Morning Star
Of The Morning Star is generally regarded as the foundational musical text of the Nazilic tradition. More than a collection of songs, it presents a complete cosmology in thirteen movements