A group of these bards began to form around the growing issue of Viaxis Vammush, and wanted to use their art to spread awareness and raise issues against Vammush.
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Machadisine Sulrashiborim by Jarhed
Machadisine Sulrashiborim, also called Macha, was the leading bard in this group. She was known for her skills in improvisation, and thus the group of bards she formed specifically focused on this artform.
With their improvisational skits, Sulrashiborim's group started to perform first in Ealla, and later around Draconian Territory, urging people to use their voices to call for Viaxis to stop and leave the position. To, as some would say, vamoose. Thus, the name of the group began to stick: Vammush Vamoose. A call for Viaxis Vammush's exile and abdication.
Misused Talent
Their mission statement was, mostly, well-meaning. They wanted to stop a tyrant that had created a potentially world ending disease. However, the goals of Machadisine Sulrashiborim were not as noble. She was equally concerned with making herself into a figure that the world could latch onto, laugh at the jokes of, and listen to. Due to this, the art she made often lacked the teeth that a truly political piece would require to have any actual bite.
Instead, Vammush Vamoose just gave Viaxis a platform, as they would use some of his statements as jumping off points for their improv. When using his talking points, this spread his speeches and letters to more people, allowing them to hear what he had to say, even in a mocking way.
Thus, Vammush gained some people who thought, perhaps, Viaxis was not as bad as they said. Perhaps it was being exaggerated for the ego of Machadisine Sulrashiborim. Perhaps she was to blame for the state of things, in some way, not Viaxis.
The people who believed this were small in number, but their voices reached Viaxis Vammush in a way that Vammush Vamoose did not, and soon he began calling for the arrest of the dissenting bards.
Then came the chance for Machadisine to truly show where she stood. Would she stand up for what she said against the tyrant, sacrificing herself for the cause? Some of the other bards of the group did so. Machadisine Sulrashiborim, however, fled to
Udai, where she later contracted Dragon's Doom and died. She wished to go there to seek a new spotlight away from Vammush, but instead died in obscurity to her rival's own creation.
At least, she called him her rival. He viewed her group as a nuisance more than anything, and did not even know her name.
Legacy
Ultimately, the view of Vammush Vamoose is disputed by many. Some see them as well-meaning artists with a message that they could not get across well enough. Others, instead, saw them as a product of a selfish feud that wanted more to inflate their own egos than actually do good.
They did raise money for those suffering from Dragon's Doom, but instead of focusing on that, they focused on the same thing they always did: ragging on Viaxis Vammush for the same old things. His isolationist tendencies, his hyperviolent nature, his manipulative manner of speaking, and his strange poses. They created a caricature of the man which has survived long after both him and the group that made it.
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