D&D Ambience - The Underdark

The Underdark was the vast network of underground caverns and tunnels underneath the surface of Abeir-Toril. It was home to a host of evil beings driven deep into the caverns at the end of the age of demons.
The Underdark was not one giant cavern under Faerûn, but rather, many huge networks of caverns and caves. As a result, it was not always possible to travel from one end of the Underdark to the other. The Underdark was divided into several domains that were similar to continents of the world above. While it was possible to travel from one place to another within a domain, separate domains tended to have very few passages linking them.
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[@Katnoxx]

Nothing better than reading The Legends of Drizzt whilst being immersed in the vibes of the underdark.

[@kerem-w5f]

With this ambiance, reading "War of The Spider Queen" is better...

[@menslady125eif2590]

Move quietly, everyone. There are older and fouler things than goblins in the Underdark...

[@menslady125eif2590]

*draws sword* Filthy things!

[@sirvalot8360]

menslady125 no, wait! I'm a bard. I shall talk to them.

[@menslady125eif2590]

.....(keeps a grip on my sword) I am watching them carefully.

[@gabriellawrence109]

Drow Warrior: yo mumah gey xdddd

[@sirvalot8360]

menslady125 by Bane's bulging ballsack! I have never seen drow so vile! Kill them all, my charisma is wasted on these...things.

[@eclecticspaghetti]

Ah, wonderful. Reminds me of my first house.

[@skyrunnerbc9635]

Erm....did it make those sounds when it was windy outside?

[@HalfPint-pf3ww]

Mister Chicken holy fuck. I chuckled

[@OronoDiane]

LOL

[@kelticjoshkeltichunter4426]

was it a cavern deep underground and had vast open spaces...if so tell me where it is, I want to buy it.

[@marcus4046]

Such soulless sounds and evil demeanor.........reminds me of that girl three towns ago.

[@Chernobog34]

2 minutes in and I already know i'm putting this on a playlist. My party's just about to start Out of the Abyss. This will be perfect.

[@ashleybee2190]

Me too!!

[@hamiltonians7235]

Me too!!!!

[@cellula2302]

I'm here before OotA too!

[@sheevanevahdunrong1874]

same

[@wesleyviers1550]

I'm also about to start running OotA! I'll be using this as well!

[@alexanderjones5109]

this is perfect! i had originally planned on playing kinda creepy music but then realized my notes start the session off with "the underdark is eerily quiet." so this video works a lot better!

[@genevamartiny8209]

Ever since my gm brought us down into the underdark and the Dread Tunnels I have been deathly afraid of going anywhere near there again, both in and out of character. Keep in mind that essentually I was the only player there, the one other person being a temporary player while most all the characters were ghosted. In our game the Dread tunnels are connected to Nhilus the god of maddnes (ddont know if thats cannon) so seeing just how much this impacted me my gm has made it so my character has piqued nhiluses interest or something and if there was anything that Merain is truly afraid of it would be Nhilus and his influence.

[@jordangregoire2822]

This is so good for the Underdark, I play a Svirneblin so I spend A LOT of time down there with my party. We're currently working on taking down the Aboleth Sovereign. Scary stuff. We're almost down into Glass Pool.

[@ButcherShrike]

I may not play DnD, but I must thank you for ambient videos like this! I'm an artist, and It's been so hard to find ambiance for worldbuilding. This fits perfectly!

[@SakuragiSayo]

I play Pathfinder, their equivalent is just called "The Darklands" but in the games I run I have homebrewed (?) it to be a specific name, no that name is not "Underdark" in case anyone is wondering. I have an NPC traveling with the party that way I feel like I'm actually playing instead of just running the game. The campaign takes place entirely in these vast and numerous caverns.

[@theperson8275]

Reading the first chapters of the first book in the Legend of Drizzt Do'Urden as I listen. Amidst these dark echoes and the howling of winds from the heat fissures my mind furnishes it with the bloody clashing of elves, the crackling of lightning bolts and the muffled screams of the murdered under dark sorcery.

[@85gumed]

This is THE BEST source of ambience music for D&D. I just wish they were under 90 min long, so I could add to my discord playlist T_T

[@SwordCoastSoundscapes]

i'm working on setting up a band camp page with shorter versions. stay tuned :)

[@redsabre69]

Can also try youtuberepeat for it if you play this on your phone, laptop or tablet.

[@kronksstronkstonks6360]

Was looking for something as a backdrop to my rereading of The Legend of Drizzt's first trilogy. This will do nicely methinks.

[@jaredbrothers1344]

Reading it for the first time today

[@arrestedeffort]

The darkness surrounds you. The darkness shrouds everything. Movement is apparent and the movement is dangerous. All around the walls are crushing, looming as if to threaten collapse. But this is the home, the dark, the warmth. This is still home, and you know you can't leave.

[@cberg2731]

Been playing D&D on and off for 30 years and I wish I had access to this stuff back then.

[@dreamingforward]

Anyone who makes it through the Underdark must receive a permanent immunity to mind-effects like insanity. And there should be some deep crystal, Dark Heart, that no one knows what it does or even how to price it but extremely rare. And an enchanted blade of some sort.

[@absolutejoy2702]

My players have been tasked to go over to a neighboring nation to further out why the monarch has suddenly fallen silent and chaos is erupting all over that continent. Little do they know the city has been pretty much been collapsed into, the equivalent of the Underdark, the Hollow and should they then complete the explorations and everything that entails then I’m granting them immunity to all mind related effects and they all basically get the Haunted background effect from the horrors they’ve experienced

[@Yabuturtle]

Great ambience for my character, who is a Circle of the Land Druid, specifically an Underdark Druid. ^^

[@JestaKilla]

For the record, the Underdark is *not* originally from the Forgotten Realms. It began in Greyhawk, like so many other things in D&D that FR has tried to claim as its own. The Underdark properly belongs in every campaign setting.

[@dreamingforward]

Interesting. I thought it was FR.

[@iamnotevenanumber3312]

True that. Feel a bit sad about how GG was pushed out of his own universe. But it sure is cold and stormy on The Ice Spires of the commercial gaming world.

[@papacthulhuspricht...5820]

Didnt know that either. But good to know

[@TKFKU]

Technically it began in Mystara in the pre-Greyhawk years but yes, Realms likes to think it started everything.

[@97Multiphantom]

Perfect ambiance for Tears of the Kingdom’s Depths!

[@dravenpool]

Going to start DMing Out of the Abyss soon and this is just PERFECT!

[@swordlessfish2203]

Hey, just found your channel today, and I gotta say thanks so much for the content that you provide! I can't wait to use some of these in a home campaign I've been running for about a year now, hopefully it will keep everyone on track and in character, and set the tone just right for the mess they've found themselves in.

[@nathanforester5993]

Perfect for going on an adventure where you encounter the dreaded beholders.

[@Chozo_hybrid]

Love this channel, has been of great use. Was wondering if you would think about doing an ice and/or crystal cavern type thing. Type of place you would find dragur frozen inside and the like.

[@SwordCoastSoundscapes]

ice cavern - i like it. I'll add it to the list :)

[@lostsonofcyric]

Love this! It's perfect for my campaign.

[@gaminghazard8057]

recently my party decided that the underdark would be a dandy place to venture into, there is nothing i could do to stop them and they got captured by drows very quickly ofc, the ambience paired with this music is really neat though so they have that at least while they are being dismembered by various creatures. (the party is level 9 and the suggested level for underdark for 5e is 12-14).

[@ravandilgrayleaf8530]

As a drow main i came

[@grunxs]

Nice, gonna use it this week in a campaign. Thx mate.

[@WeTravelOnlyByNightAsItsSoHot]

If you like this Lustmord's Other is probably worth a listen.

[@verdantis9960]

Ohh I thought of another request. Any chance of an eerie demonweb pits, layer of the abyss kind of ambience? If there are tormented cries, even better. I really love your Nessus video. :D Skittering spiders and the like would be great, though I'm not sure how you would create that sound. xD

[@SwordCoastSoundscapes]

Chloro Mind I’ll add it to the list, good idea ☺️

[@kronksstronkstonks6360]

How fitting that essentially a Lolth soundscape would be requested on a soundscape for the home turf for the Drow.

[@bloodbros44]

beautiful, thanks for the upload!

[@Colin12475]

The underdark is no place for newbie players.

[@SwordCoastSoundscapes]

Neither is it a place for anyone who favours the sun.

[@zachariaravenheart]

Oops. A new player who just started joined my group right after entering the underdark XD. She’ll be fine

[@TheBaconWizard]

@@zachariaravenheart Dead by now, I assume XD

[@sandrols7]

First campaign I was every in, first game even, was in the Underdark. It took the DM a whole year to kill my character, and that was purely by character's choice!

[@cujo7600]

Uh-oh, too late

[@kyubii972]

Woot thank you buddy

[@henriklyckholm245]

The locations in the underdark, city of the duergar, Darklake, Menzoberranzan please

[@dennislogan6781]

Gee, I wonder who that one eyed pirate hat Drow with a rapier is supposed to be in the picture?

[@lofiartist1827]

This is lovely

[@frankiefontaine7865]

Just found this. Best find of the year!!

[@dreamingforward]

You work your way around the tunnels but each step is infected with anxiety. At any moment some demon could be ready to jump out or even just sitting there silently, waiting to take you to their chamber where they will extract you for life force as long as they can. Months, years for some... It all depends on how strong your mind is, or perhaps how tempered your heart.

[@pst5345]

The moment when all but 1 idiot do have darkvision and he lights a torch....😃

[@Taverna_do_Hamanaia]

Hey dude can I use it for the backtrack of a video? Putting obviously the link of this video on the description

[@benthiemann5361]

SO GOOD!!

[@Lexy-ob2nc]

i love it

[@VikingFyre]

This sounds a lot like the ambient audio from Arx Fatalis

[@brandonotto3031]

I would like to use in my D & D twitch streams and KZbin. Is there a link or something you want me to use or just your KZbin?I Am also Looking for battle music.

[@Tina-yu3pb]

Love it

[@85gumed]

Would you change the videos category to other than "music" so we can convert it to mp3 with clipconverter? pleaaaaseee

[@Richkid554]

theres any number of converters that will download the video or audio for you. just google youtube downloader. any of the first 5-10 links will work.

[@Missmonkey88]

I don't have a twitter or anything and I'm not sure how to contact you here, so I'll just leave a comment. Do you mind if use some of your stuff in youtube videos if I make sure to credit you in the description?

[@Royale-p]

The only thing better than the Underdark is the Feydark

[@papacthulhuspricht...5820]

The sound when i am in closet. Home sweet home.

[@HalfwaySauce]

Drip drip drip

[@ThePoshestEgg]

I feel the urge to purge the underdark

[@jkbenbot9305]

Went here for mushrooms very spook,

[@captainsweeney5964]

Why is your comment #1

[@pandacakes6613]

@@captainsweeney5964 It's the best comment

[@serhankapucu5885]

It is very scary , l wouldnt want to be in so a place

[@emanueldemetriad]

really good but wish it didn't have water drop sfx. very unfitting