You can use your action to inspire allies against fear or charm effects, granting them protection while you perform.

You know two cantrips from the bard spell list at 1st level, and you learn additional bard cantrips later.

You can cast bard spells, use a spellcasting focus, and prepare or know spells according to the bard rules. Your spellcasting ability is Charisma.

You can inspire others with a die of d12, typically adding it to an ally's d20 roll, attack, check, or save after hearing it but before the outcome is known. You have 5 uses, regained on a long rest.

You add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check that uses a skill proficiency you lack, and to any ability check using a tool proficiency you lack.

You can spend a minute performing or reciting to help allies recover. Friendly creatures who hear the performance regain extra hit points when they spend Hit Dice on a short rest.

Choose any three skills to gain proficiency in. At 20th level, you have 4 expertise choices total from bard levels 3 and 10, doubling your proficiency bonus for those skills.

You gain the benefits of your Bardic Inspiration more times between rests, with uses returning on a short or long rest.

Starting at 10th level, you can choose spells from any class list as magical secrets. You learn additional spells at 10th, 14th, and 18th level.

At 10th level, you choose two more skills in which you are proficient, and your expertise deepens in four total skills.

Your Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d10.

Your Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d12.

You can grant a Bardic Inspiration die to yourself or allies, and you regain one use if you roll initiative and have none left.

College of Creation feature. When you inspire someone, you can create motes of potential that empower a roll or grant temporary benefit based on the bardic inspiration die.

College of Creation feature. You can create a Tiny nonmagical item from a 5 foot cube of material, with limits on value and duration. The creation can later be used as a focus for improvisational, artistic problem solving.

College of Creation feature. You can animate an inanimate object of a size category that suits the feature, granting it movement and combat utility for a limited time.

College of Creation feature. You can unleash a final creative surge that can empower allies, reshape the flow of a scene, or produce a burst of inspiration with lasting impact.

If you do not know a piece of lore, you often know where and from whom you can obtain it. You can usually find a person, library, scriptorium, or archive that can help.