First off, Fid here is getting a canon update -- when he wakes up from being dead, he's been fast-forwarded to the end of a pretty brutal war against both gods and creepy elder races, in which Ultimately Good Things Happened But At A Terrible Cost.  He's also come back with a neat new fiddle to wear around like some old-school arty hipster.

More importantly, he's leveled up in weird ways.  I don't want to bore anyone with the details, but long story short, Fiddler dying triggers an event that  makes him something of a mini-god, known as an ascendant.  He doesn't get any sort of neat battle powers or anything, but he and his soldier bros who also have died and ascended have a new job -- guarding the gates of death.  And by guarding, I mean welcoming people, particularly soldiers and those killed in battle, to dead-land with manly back-pats and compassion and human, semi-squishy feels like some big hippie-dippy frat brigade who, when all lumped together, equal the god of death.


WHAT THAT COULD MEAN FOR YOU THE FIRST:

Well, a lot of people are dying in battle.  So.  If you choose to participate, your character might dream a bit of ghostly frosty-looking fellows in uniform, riding very dead-looking horses.  Or they might just wake up feeling less horrible about having died, like someone was out there in the great happy island in the sky, giving a shit about them and their lives and what they'd gone through.  And understanding.  That's what they're there for, after all.  Or your character could just avoid all those gross feels. >D  It doesn't require any participation effort at all, just something you can keep in mind when your characters start waking up.

WHAT THAT COULD MEAN FOR YOU THE SECOND:

There's this other neat trick that Fid has.  That fiddle he's been carrying around since he woke up here isn't just for show -- he can play, and then he can play -- and that's what he's going to be doing, once night falls.  He's going to ask for names of the dead; doesn't matter if they've come back to life thanks to island voodoo or not, just anyone that somebody else might want to remember, particularly in regards to having died in an unjust manner/before their time.  Hell, even themselves.  And then, when he's listened to what he's given, he's going to play.  Normal music, yes, but for those who are affected, it's a bit of heartbreak followed by catharsis.  Affected people will be able to see the faces of those whose names have been mentioned, and are also subject to Fiddler's emotions through the music.  They don't even have to physically hear it, if they're off on the other side of the island doing things that are not stalking the network.  (If this sounds confusing, I copypasta'ed the relevant passages from the book itself, to get a better perspective -- you can read that here.)  Essentially, whereas the above Nifty Trick is all about comforting the dead themselves, this one is all about comforting the survivors.  Again, no real audience participation is required, though I will be putting up a video post for it, should anyone want to Talk About Their Feelings or tell him to knock that sappy shit off or w/e.

Questions?  Comments?  Votes of confidence/no-confidence/commodity cheese and cheap schapps?   Ask away, or poke me on plurk @miriya.  Thanks for listening -- and now back to your regularly scheduled soul-crushing deathmatches! /o/