Hey Raesh, your outline of the Heritages looks spiffy to me. ;)
But I do want to second what he said - we are NOT trying to force ANYONE to join a Heritage. If you WANT to join one, fantabulous -- but if you find that your bard just doesn't fit in one category, that's quite all right; you'll still be able to learn the various Heritages' feats, etc.
Which is why we HAVE gone with Songsworn as the combat heritage, instead of just making Songsworn an end goal of some bards within a BattleBards Heritage - you can still be a fighter without being a Songsworn, just as you can still be a scribe or historian without being a Lorekeeper or a performer without being a Performer (dude, I want a different name...).
Oh, and one thing Raesh and I were discussing, and I'll throw it out there just so y'all kinda have a view of how we're seeing the Songsworn Heritage: You don't have to have the skills of a fully trained Songsworn to join; they'll train you. Just expect that you'd be (if we were looking at, say, titles) wearing "apprentice Songsworn" type of titles for a while, depending upon your skills when you do join.
-V.
"Reject me not, sweet sounds! oh, let me live,
Till doom espy my towers and scatter them.
A city spell-bound under the aging sun,
Music my rampart, and my only one."
-Edna St. Vincent-Millay
