You can use your action to create a magical duplicate performance effect, shape it into forms of artful creation, and empower allies with your inventive magic.

You can inspire others through stirring words, music, or performance. As a bonus action, you can grant a Bardic Inspiration die to a creature, usable to add to an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw. At 20th level, the die is d12.

You can use your bonus action to animate a Large or smaller nonmagical item that you create or that is present nearby, turning it into a protective or helpful construct under your control.

You can use a musical note, a poem, or another piece of art as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.

You have proficiency with three skills of your choice.

Choose any three of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that does not already include your proficiency bonus.

You can use songs, chants, and rhythmic speech to help restore your allies. Any friendly creature that spends one Hit Die at the end of a short rest regains extra hit points equal to one roll of your Bardic Inspiration die.

You can counter harmful effects by using performance and presence to disrupt them, granting creatures advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charmed.

You gain expertise in two skills of your choice.

You learn to manipulate the fabric of creation. You can magically create a Tiny intangible Performance of Creation item, and later make it tangible.

You can create an item out of nothing within the limits of size and duration defined by your class feature. The creation becomes especially potent at higher levels and can be used to empower allies or hinder foes depending on the situation.

Your creative magic becomes overwhelming, allowing you to unleash multiple animated creations at once and intensify your control over conjured objects.

When you roll initiative and have no uses of Bardic Inspiration left, you regain one use.

You can replace a bard spell you know with another bard spell when you gain a level in this class.

At 6th level, you learn two spells from any class. At 10th, 14th, and 18th level, you learn two more spells from any class. These count as bard spells for you.

Your Bardic Inspiration die is d12, and you can use it many times per day thanks to your high level and Font of Inspiration.

If you do not know a piece of lore, you often know where and from whom you can learn it. You can usually find a place in a library, archive, university, or other scholarly institution that will house your research, and you are expected to share what knowledge you possess in return.