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Full moons are always beautiful, but what's better than a full moon on October 31st? For the ancient Celts, the the festivity of Samhain marked the closest possible step of our world to that of the otherworldly spirits and entities, among which were also ghosts. And this is probably the most ghostly piece I've ever arranged until now.
This is actually a commission for a friend of mine who is narrating an RPG campaign of "Dungeons & Dragons - Descent Into Avernus". He gave me some verses taken from the original game's lore, and asked me to put them into music. According to the story, this heartfelt ballad will be sung by the ghost of an elven bard haunting a tavern known as the "Elf Song Tavern". As I was creating the piece I started growing more curious about the woman's ghost and the story she told and found out what the history of Elturel consisted of. It was apparently a prosperous city which was blessed by a divine gift: a second sun in the sky, illuminating it day and night. One day though, a curse turned this sun dark and threatening, and chaos descended upon Elturel in the form of an army of demons. I tried to do my best to recreate such desperate feeling both in the song and in the video accompanying it.
Also, I am very sorry if it took me some time to upload something new, I keep having problems with my sequencer and only this morning I managed to remove some corrupted tracks from this project and replace them with new ones in order to make it work and export everything properly. If I miss some full moons in the future, know that this will most probably be the reason.
Anyway, I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for making this channel reach 300 subscribers, I hope you enjoy the song and have a wonderful evening. Happy Halloween/Samhain to those of you who celebrate it, I will see you all on the next full moon, hopefully!
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The background picture, as well as the lyrics to the song, belong to "Dungeons & Dragons - Descent Into Avernus".
All audio material belongs to me. The harp recording is acoustic, as usual.
Here's the lyrics to the song:
"O sing a song of Elturel
Of water, woods, and hill
The sun dawns on her ruddy cliffs
And fields green and still.
This land of long-abiding joy
Home of the strong and brave
Renowned by all, across the realms,
And never once a slave.
O sing a song of Elturel
When foes are at her door
Her fields torn by cloven feet
From some infernal shore.
Arise the mighty Hellriders
Take up your swift, keen swords
Then charge into the hellish fray
And scatter devil hordes.
O sing a song of Elturel
And when the night does fall
Sleep safe beneath Companion’s light
Until the dawn does call.
We’re bound by mortal covenant
That only ends with death
And so we’ll sing of Elturel
Until our final breath."