Hi! New player here.
I have this campaign idea and a character, plot (not too completed yet so I can still discover things) and I'm having a hard time finding a good free (I'm still not invested enough to start purchasing things) system to use. My character is a no-combat bard (I don't wanna do combat for lore and for my own enjoyment) from what but I've looked at things like ironsworn but does that mean I have to follow their story rules like my or is there a way to use it?
If you have the patience here's the plot:
In a kingdom, a bastard girl from a high noble family becomes a bard to survive in high society (since bards are scarce in the land) she falls in love with the art but is commanded to sing about the king's fake feats to the people and the court to keep them in love with their ruler
One day something happens and she snaps and decides to run away, and now she is going to a distant land to find the true meaning of being a hero of the people (starts following this adventuring team that disappeared out of nowhere)
Later in the story when I'm more experienced I might have her comeback to the kingdom to face her past.
And she's a follower of ilmater a god that wants to take away pain
I hope it's here that I can ask this question if not I'm sorry.