Wahres Wort College

Wahres Wort College is a small, respected, but highly specialized school of bards that focuses less on creative works, and more on journalistic reporting and critical analysis. These bards do compose music and pen manuscripts, but their work always focuses on events as current and practically important to the common citizen of Völkervier as possible. While other bards may seek to compose their magnum opus, or to find a brilliant song to woo crowds of every kind, the Warts of society (as they're "affectionately" called by the council houses of Völkervier) tend to pen new songs, plays, and oh so many, many pamphlets every month. While recycling a melody or musical arrangement over and over again might be considered hack composition by other bards, the Warts have no qualms with doing so. A single melody might be utilized for over a hundred songs with new lyrics, each set specific tailored to current events, before a new one is composed. The result tends to be as effective as it is annoying. Often playing on street corners or pubs of the lower classes, the droning melodies of the Warts are the very definition of earworms, digging their way into the minds of the people as easy to remember, easy to sing, and easy to digest pieces of news. Or at least that's the supposed intent. Critics of their methods claim that while the melodies of their songs are easy to remember, the words become too easily lost to time, and their meaning is often ignored altogether by their audiences. Yes they may learn the new lyrics of the week or month, and sing with all the vigor and passion of an angry mob, but without time to consider what it is they're actually saying, critics say that at most the songs become a rote din of discontent among the masses without the sharp point of specific grievances.