How is Bards of Destiny music composed, and are its instruments faithful to the novels’ timeframe?

Toledo, the Bards of Destiny composer, has greater creative latitude with the novel soundtracks, while aiming to stay within the folk music genre. The individual songs take their direction from the scenes in which they appear. The novels’ time-travel elements allow deliberate departures from fifth-century instrumentation. In Blades of Destiny, Dagda wants a powerful drum sound and tasks Breanna’s Seeress, Livie, with finding Irish drums in the future. Her search brings Scottish marching kettle drums into fifth-century Erin. The distinction matters: the music responds to the fictional scene, including its time travel, rather than making a blanket claim that every instrument belongs to fifth-century Ireland. The Music Hub and Blades of Destiny soundtrack page provide starting points for exploring the published music.