[It sounds more like a sorcerer, to Taako, someone who has magic in their blood rather than it being something they've learned or channelled from another source, but Lí's explanation makes sense.]

Most bards tend to carry around a weapon as well, if they're doing the whole adventuring thing, but like, I'm not gonna waste my time with a sword when I can kill someone with magic.

[He still carried his sword, but he used it all of once, in an entire year. He doesn't bother with it in Riverview Quarantine.]