Song of Heroes endows the Bard with several chances to trigger an effect on other running Bard songs along with particular actions to Heroes itself. The use of 1050 will give a chance on the triggering of automatic things going on in the battle such as spell renewal, Singing Sword strikes, the use of a CS based Bard song, a flare from a Sonic Sword, the values of the Sonic armor or shield you have, etc. Along with this your INF is dramatically boosted (say +20 Stat Bonus) and your appearance becomes larger than life, creating additional AS/DS and CM abilities, as if you were slightly larger/stronger/quicker more like a true Hero of legends you are singing of!

For example, the Singing Sword song activates your Singing Broadsword upon it's attempt to attack a certain foe. Suddenly, a massive vision of a hero leaping into form and clutching the broadsword then swinging it with exaggerated effects is activated by a good roll on the Heroes song effect. The activation was based on INF bonuses with Luck with level, everything else so that this was a particularly good roll on top of the activation happening itself, thus the swing applies a +50 AS and a double flare which is also given a chance to be a 'Hero' flare.

Every action is through the filter of being boosted by the Hero song. Another time Stunning Shout is used and the Hero song kicks in for a boost to CS of +13. When a few songs renew, a vision of a hero appears before the Bard and the spell cost is cut in half! Each effect carries a chance to get a very expansive variation of how large the effect of the spell is, based on Luck and INF.

When Heroes is sung AT a foe, the CS effect is to overwhelm them with a vision of a hero whose overpowering songs and colorful vision appear so large, dominating that the foes will suffer forms of shock. This will be at every foe in the room leaving them potentially stunned, incapacitated, with lowered DS/AS/CS/TD/CM abilities, on the ground, even fighting for the bard instead of against (joined/charmed party member). Also, the Bard will suck mana out of the foe upon the successful warding of the spell at a separate rate of +1 per second which continues with a warding chance every other second at a heightened rate (symbolizing a Lucky streak)-- +1 first wave succeeds, second second +2 succeeds and triggers a third chance with +3 and the odds get less and less the higher the numbers are for the returns along with the level and everything for the ratio of foe/bard.

When 1050 is EVOKED it becomes a Utility spell where they can create a mana battery for themselves as well as a vision, encumbrance reducer and a partner for their songs. If Loresong is used with the Hero vision while in a node then the song will be given a large bonus to revealing secrets. The more audience members, the bigger the bonus. When songs are started with the vision in the room then the hero will help with a reduction in initial costs of mana to sing. The hero is a vision of mana expressly and thus is able to function as a channel for it. This will assist vastly in channeling between types of Mana (huge boost to all MC's) and be able to *store and refresh itself with* mana. When the Bard fails to renew or is sent into shock from renewal then the mana of the Hero may be tapped. Though the Hero may disappear and need to be sung back into life if the cost is too great a strain in mana for the Hero to retain form then the bard at least will be saved from the nervous shock and stoppage of the songs. During battle, the mana may draw from the pool of energy collected by the Hero form. The *more stored mana, the higher the odds and larger effect that the mana will trigger a bigger advantage when activating other Hero based effects as above*. When Singing with the Hero, the Hero will have actions which encourage the bard and sing along with their own ancient verses and instruments. This has a refreshing effect on mana refreshment within the node -- *and a boost to all to mana refreshment in the room* so the encouragement of public singing is high for the master Bard!


When CHANNELED the spell becomes a Mass Effect spell and this raises the INF +10 with +2 rise to all Stat Bonuses for 20 minutes! A lovely Bard Massie on top of it.