Theme Songs

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Awesome idea and song!
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Sorta like in Assassin's Creed with Juno haunting the Helix servers/Internet, and the Instruments of the First Will worshiping her?

All we need is a Sage! xD
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And here's one for George, albeit with zero lyrics. Considering his job and what he generally does, all he needs is some creepy music box ditty. Kinda like this:

Right-click here, and select "Save Target As..."

Alternately, just left-click the link and then hit Back once you're done listening.

Edit:

Aaaand, here's one for Khadim, who might show up whenever I do get around to writing his bio. If he had any say in his situation, he'd be sipping tea or fruit juices under date trees in Marrakech, but nope. He's stuck in Rhode Island and beholden to a stupid flashy wizard - albeit one he's gotten to at least respect. Not that it changes the fact that he'd really like to stop schlepping stuff around for the wizard and actually get to acting like the immortal lounge lizard he actually is.

Considering, Thievery Corporation's most, well, Middle-Eastern tune ever fits him like a glove.



2nd Edit:

Here's another one for Meris, Nine Inch Nails' La Mer. Reznor wrote this at Big Sur while contemplating suicide, but there's something about the French Creole lyrics that feels like you could pull a positive spin on them. I more or less thought of Meris shortly after her escape from Dalarath - essentially once she'd have managed to pick herself up from her and Nereus' failures.

I don't have a hard time reading these lyrics and essentially hearing "I'm here, they haven't killed me - I've just stopped for a breather. I've got a plan and they won't stop me. Nothing can stop me now."



French Creole lyrics:
Et il est un jour arrivé
Marteler le ciel
Et marteler la mer

Et la mer avait embrassé moi
Et la délivré moi de ma caille

À rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant


English Adaptation:
And when the day arrives
I'll become the sky
And I'll become the sea

And the sea will come to kiss me
For I am going
Home

Nothing can stop me now
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I saw this on Facebook, and I immediately thought of Meris. I imagine she has a *HUGE* musical library on her computer/MP3 player, as her lifestyle hasn't allowed her to collect records, cassettes, or cds. It'd have anything from Middle Age chamber music, 40s swing, World genre, and even Top 20s of the 90s and 2000-2010s. If she's feeling fatigued, she'll run a medley of songs on a loop to get in the right frame of mind.

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The same goes with Nereus, but as I've said before, he tends to purposefully avoid anything Orcadian or even recognizably Celtic. He actually loves the stuff, it's just a bit too painful for him to hear on an emotional level. Gaelach flutes or Uilleann pipes just kill him. This is probably why he's been posing as a Mediterranean man for several generations and iterations - there's no massive sads attached to the balalaika.

He'd probably love an immersion in several South American cultures as well, but atmospheric pressure is an issue for someone who's been living close to sea level or below crushing depths for centuries on end: the opposite situation - extreme altitudes and mountainous terrain - is troublesome. I figure he'd love visiting Bolivia or Peru, but him choking or fainting as soon as he leaves the plane would be a concern.

Plus, being a guru of sorts, he's obviously sampled his fair share of lounge-ish arrangements from around Indonesia and India. That ends up in a pretty diverse discography the Chamberlain only reluctantly tolerates.

I'm pretty sure Nereus would steal my parents' old CD jukebox, actually. I grew up on RealWorld Records, the soundtrack for Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ and weird Pakistani religious music that felt like a musical alien coming from our super-White and super-French Canadian living room speakers. We'd actually surprise our neighbors when they'd name some of their native bands - we'd nod and go "Oh yeah, here's the entire list of what they produced under Peter Gabriel's label, and we've listened to all of it unironically!"

We had the most hipster of all soundtracks - and we still do - but we weren't hipsters about it. XD







I think it's easy to figure why I had a big Industrial-slash-Black Metal phase, considering, and why I'm still mostly into some subsets of Electronica. I spent my entire childhood just soaking in semi-organic and non-urban music to such a degree that I just had to break away, counter Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with some Goa Trance or freaking Cradle of Filth...
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When i think about Dalarath, I tend to realize how much the Myst series' own underground city, D'ni, influenced how I tend to project Dalarath in my mind. A lot of the D'ni or half-D'ni characters in that universe have very echo-y, very cavern-inspired electronic themes. I'd link the entire soundtrack to Riven as being an inspiration for that city, but YouTube is pretty shit when it comes to linking playlists in video form...

What I like about Riven's soundtrack is that it feels dark and mysterious, but not in an oppressive sense. You get a sense of place from these tunes, but it's very subdued. Dalarath has a lot of secrets - especially at night - and the rebels flourished in secret chambers and hidden corridors carved out of the surrounding stone. There's beauty, but it's hidden. There's hope, but you have to dig in to find it. There's good people, but they speak in hushed tones while everyone's asleep. Sometimes, thanks to these people, you get to see the Void Weavers' gifts being used in new and impressive ways. Vertical pools of water guarding secret doors, physical access points to small worlds and sanctuaries carved out of the Darkhallow, hidden coves and balconies where supposedly devout Squids sneak away to enjoy illicit snippets of surface-world beauty...

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No matter how hard I try, I can't shake the notion that Chauncey is made to be a Lovecraftian variation on the Doctor, from the Doctor Who series. It started with me having a rough picture of Nikolaas Buck in my mind, and then realizing I had to more or less make a one-eighty for Chauncey, once his soul does regain control over his body.

I keep imagining him as youthful and jaunty despite his apparent age, arrogant but kind-hearted, a bit mad thanks to the centuries he's spent as a formless spirit in the Darkhallow, but still very much invested with a sense of place and pride. He's well aware of the kind of badassery he could potentially pull off, as the Augur's direct descendant, and is constantly a bit giddy at the prospect of showing off - but the last thing he wants is to hurt or offend those people he's started to care for. Being a physical being strikes him as being an awesome experience he wishes he'd gone through earlier, but he's past having resentment towards anyone concerning it. Expect weird snacks involving odd food combinations, electronic flotsam getting smushed together into weird devices, fuel-based cars turning into something like Coulson's Lola - and the kind of grinning defiance towards the Others that speaks of how above all, pissing off Amaxi strikes him as being fun. He grasps the seriousness of the stakes at hand, but he tends to laugh in the face of self-seriousness or affected self-importance - except when he's guilty of it.

I could see him blowing George's mind with a Non-Euclidian mechanical construct of incredible complexity he just effortlessly assembles without really thinking about it - and he'd admit to not knowing what this thing does once it's turned on.

"Wouldn't it be great if I turned it on and it turned out to be an endless coffee dispenser? Oh, or a carnival music machine that spins cotton candy! But what if it isn't? What if it's an... Evil... Machine of... Evil Deathy... Stuff? We'd better not turn it on, then, I should just scrap it. Note to self: No Death Machines, Please..."

Considering...

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So you've already listed Hollywood Nocturne for Tom, but I've got one that works for his tirelessly suppressed and yet raging subconscious mind. Being an incubus, if you go back to the root of his mental processes, all you'll sense is smothering, suffocating lust. There's lots of aimless energy to it, none of it is exactly harmful, but you'd be able to sense that he's constantly making an effort to keep himself from turning into way too much of a good thing.

And that sense of "way too much" he's holding back probably would go well with Aphex Twin's Windowlicker.



On the same theme, Amon Tobin's Bad Sex comes with an inventive use of moans and groans lifted off of porn videos - and used as instruments - and a continuous and slow Samba rhythm. There's some sophistication in there, a melody that's imposing control, but it's giving shape and structure to something that would otherwise be messy, decidedly organic and rather aimless. If he were to plug into the Darkhallow and shape a part of it to fit him, you'd end up with the classiest of Modernist houses - but there's one locked, throbbing and sweating door he never opens. You could probably hear something like this reverberating through that particular wall, a cacophony of multiple instances of Tom and Aislinn talking, laughing, arguing or working together - and doing a lot of things better left to the imagination.

The only thing that doesn't fit is the title - Tom's been around for too long to let his instincts take over single-handedly, and he values memorable moments of intimacy. Staggeringly Good Sex would be a better bet, but I'm not Amon Tobin.

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I imagine Greg Rendell and Spearhead crossed paths a few times after peacetime was resumed, and the same could be said of Elysium's imprisoned head and Aspasia. David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World seems like it describes Rendell well enough, and also touches on the sacrifices Transgenics had to make in order to either stay under his boot, or leave out of their own accord.

You can blame The Phantom Pain for that, but I think Rendell has a thing for 80s synth-pop. He probably has a few Eurythmics albums buried under all the Classical and ethnic music compilations he keeps around. That makes Midge Ure's version of Bowie's song really fitting.



We passed upon the stair,
We spoke of was and when,
Although I wasn't there,
He said I was his friend,
Which came as some surprise.
I spoke into his eyes,
"I thought you died alone
A long long time ago."

"Oh no, not me,
I never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world."

I laughed and shook his hand
And made my way back home,
I searched for form and land,
For years and years I roamed.
I gazed a gazley stare
At all the millions here:
"We must have died alone,
A long long time ago."

"Who knows? Not me,
We never lost control.
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world."

"Who knows? Not me,
We never lost control.
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world."
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Interesting! I never would have thought of Rendell being into 80s synth-pop. Must be one of his quirks. :) However, the song certainly fits him, as well as the Chimeras' struggles.
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