Dragon Age: Inquisition - Songs of the Exalted Council

Bardcore is an internet-born microgenre in which contemporary pop, hip hop, and rock songs are reimagined as if performed by medieval or early Renaissance minstrels. Arrangements typically substitute modern instrumentation with lutes, harps, recorders, hurdy-gurdies, rebecs, shawms, hand drums, and choir-like vocals, while adapting melodies and harmonies to modal idioms (Dorian, Aeolian, Mixolydian). Lyrics are often translated into faux Middle English or archaic diction, and mixes are treated with intimate, stone-room reverbs to evoke a historical ambience. The result is a playful blend of historical pastiche and modern earworms that embraces both meme culture and early-music aesthetics.