Personality
While he intends to be intimidating, and genuinely can be due to his extreme skill as a necromancer and hemomancer, Bard is also somewhat arrogant and immature, often throwing a juvenile tantrum when his plans fall. His childishness, however, hides a mind that is a master at forward planning, having a number of bodies created using the Clone spell to transfer to if something goes wrong (something he has done in the story more than once) and while tactically he is no genius he is extremely hard to kill due to his tendency to build contingencies on top of contingencies.