Answer:
What do you get when you cross a pig with a karate expert?
I am a type of cheese made backwards
My full powers come when my makers are dead. I await a heavy hat to put on my head. What am I?
My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to play. Yet wherever I go, I must take my bow or else I have nothing to say. What am I?
I go in hard come out soft. Blow me hard and I’ll make a pop.
Dark, feathery, and popular in Baltimore and fantasy books.