From the introduction: Originally founded by a dwarven lady, outraged by a recent trend towards clean shaving, the College of Whiskers serves as a home for bards who treasure facial hair in all its forms. Just like other bards, they travel far and wide, proudly displaying their beards and mustaches, while seeking to catalogue the many varieties of pogonological styles across the world, their cultural heritages, symbolic meanings, and most famous bearers.