Heartsinger

When the planet adopted humans and started giving them bits of her power, enhancing their abilities and minds, humans had no idea what was happening. In some cases it happened quickly and people lost their minds. In other cases abilities developed slowly and as humans discovered new capabilities within themselves they kept them secret.

Heartsinging, the ability to sing and draw out psychological and emotional pain in others, is rare. It is a powerful talent, and while practice has been known to improve and refine the ability, it is something you are either born with or not. A Heartsinger can sing any song and draw out the emotions in others. It can have words or not, meaning or not in the song and the effect is the same.

Some humans and even some dragons are immune to the heartsinging ability. It does not stop them in their tracks, it does not capture them in a spell of emotion, cleansing their hearts and minds of accumulated hurt and frustration. They are not purified by the experience of listening to a heartsinger’s song, whereas most people are.

A Heartsinger has the ability to keep a community healthy without getting bogged down in everyone’s secrets. Only a Heartsinger must be allowed to sing, to exercise his or her ability regularly- or the ability will destroy the Heartsinger.