Reading Darienite Legends (Exalted Fan Song)

[@vlad-ovidiuadam6489]

What a great story...what a great voice and musical suite. The voice isn't AI generated too is it? Cant be that advanced yet

[@prodigalsun5260]

@@vlad-ovidiuadam6489 I am sorry to inform you that our future AI overlords can already imitate a human voice to this level. The story is from the Exalted setting if you are interested. It’s a bit of a twisted version of the true story. Darienites are actually demon worshippers but the founder of the cult was a chosen of the sun god but falsely demonized so things kind of got weird over the years. But everything is mostly true except the Dragons part. The Dragons actually worked alongside the Unconquered Sun against Malfeas but the Chosen of the Dragons betrayed the Chosen of the Sun so the Dragons got made bad guys in Darienite legends… it’s complicated. I was actually going to have an intro where the vocalist is reading the title of the book and pointing out it might not have been entirely right but also saying the person who sold it guaranteed it was of decent quality. But the AI went insane on that part in particular for some reason. Intended intro: What is that you have there, Rhea? You asked Makarios for stories involving the sun? Let’s see… If it’s something Makarios would sell to you, there’s no question to the quality. You can’t read it? He’d never sell something worthless to a customer… Why would he- Oh… curse him… He knew you had me… Give me a bit to read this over. Let’s see… A treatise by Darien Nightbreaker… Probably spun from the dream of a Darienite somewhere out there.

[@vlad-ovidiuadam6489]

@@prodigalsun5260 I am now... impressed but quite conflicted

[@prodigalsun5260]

@@vlad-ovidiuadam6489 There’s a few words at least Suno can’t seem to handle. I should have a list. An example would be wind as in winding path. If I told it “path that winds” it would use the weather term.

[@CaesarJulius99711]

I wanted to ask if this is what Pyre was saying when she mentioned, “Though I called your Infernal rites profane, You taught me secrets all the same.”? Is this why she left the deathknights: to follow Creation?

[@prodigalsun5260]

@@CaesarJulius99711 Kind of. I’d say this is representative of their relationship after that all smoothed out. A whole intro had to get cut out because the AI went bunkers where Maiden is informed Rhea sold a dream to Maiden’s “uncle”. It’s kind of weird if I tell yall the mostly nicer Pyre actually knows demonology from Maiden. Demons are complicated in setting. One of my favorites being: “ Makarios appears as a youth with hair of copper wire and a rainbow shimmer upon his eyes. His foremost de- sire is to spread his sigil across Creation, binding mortal dreams to him. Sorcerers call Makarios to advise them in trade negotiations or to bargain for his otherworld- ly treasures. Crueler summoners set the demon to tor- menting foes in dreams. Those wishing to bargain with Makarios must do so in dreams, where he resides in a citadel of apple-green chrysoprase and white alabaster, filled with sensual de- lights. The wonders Makarios offers are rarely found in Creation: gems of crystalline sorrow, nightmare-scented perfumes, the language of toads. His cost is always fair, though well-negotiated.” Dream-Binding Sigil: A character with Occult 5, or Occult 3 and a specialty in Demons, may make a difficulty 3 (Intelligence + [lower of Linguistics or Occult]) roll to draw Makarios’ sigil on the brow of a willing or helpless mortal. Marked mortals can’t regain Willpower from sleep, and can’t dream at all unless Makarios visits them. Every (10 - Integri- ty) days a marked character with zero Willpower goes without recovering any Willpower, she either gains the Minor Madness Derangement (Exalted, p. 168), or increases the Derangement’s intensi- ty one step if she already has it. Removing the mark unbinds her dreams, but doesn’t remove Derange- ments. She can wash away an inked or painted sigil, but a branded or scarred sigil must be removed either with magic capable of healing crippling injuries or by cutting away the marked flesh But Darienites are a canon group in setting that believe Solars are demons but they are infernalists so they are cool with Solars. I find it interesting.

[@CaesarJulius99711]

@ aaaaah, I see: gotta keep making notes on this game in relation to the story lol. I def enjoy all the stories attaching together in these songs!!! Top 4 are Gallows, Pyre, the Maiden, and (I gotta memorize her name still) Sinful Engineer

[@prodigalsun5260]

@ Maiden is one of the favorites with one of my players. Seems like either I’m not making the best songs for her or she’s not particularly popular on KZbin. Then again, I have not portrayed her sarcastic side in song because I try to focus on her sense of nobility in contrast to Guillotine. I have a song I might want to remaster which is her getting mad at the listener for calling her eyes spectral blue. (For context there’s a necromancy spell in game that makes its caster’s eyes spectral blue hence I said Guillotine is a rare ghostblooded that has blue eyes instead of red or sickly green and Maiden was born with Azure eyes which is a sacred color among demons.) I portray one of the few instances Maiden gets violently angry is her eyes being compared to Guillotine’s. Demons are a huge can of worms I need to crack open eventually. Demons are more “alien” than fully evil. Creation in setting is derived from concepts from all primordials combined while demons are derived from singular Primordials (Yozis) so imagine a lifeform that is derived from a singular branch of concepts. They get wacky or horrific. One of the weirder ones are teakettle courtiers. Genuinely playful. They are loyal. But they are poisonous… and they are violently enraged at the sound of laughter. Found the intended intro: Intended intro: What is that you have there, Rhea? You asked Makarios for stories involving the sun? Let’s see… If it’s something Makarios would sell to you, there’s no question to the quality. You can’t read it? He’d never sell something worthless to a customer… Why would he- Oh… curse him… He knew you had me… Give me a bit to read this over. Let’s see… A treatise by Darien Nightbreaker… Probably spun from the dream of a Darienite somewhere out there.

[@prodigalsun5260]

@@CaesarJulius99711 On the subject of Gallows being in your top four. I am trying to work on a song explaining the concept of a ghost-blooded with either Guillotine or Gallows being the singer. Seems like Guillotine would be the more likely to list the facts correctly but Gallows could probably display their nature better. Guillotine being no nonsense feels like her mindset is at least understandable in terms of honor. In that way she is supposed to be at least predictable, like once the players know her, they know she’s going to follow the code of Chivalry, which the code is horrific while Gallows is supposed to be more impulsive and is acting on her own whims.

[@prodigalsun5260]

@@CaesarJulius99711 I am thinking of starting songs about individual spells. Maybe Pyre for first sorcery spell and Maiden for first necromancy spell but not sure if Maiden’s first spell mention being necromancy makes it seem like she likes Necromancy over sorcery. That and for KZbinrs I have to eventually bring up the subject that one of Maiden’s shaping ritual is blood soaked pilgrim. Which in story Pyre is aware Maiden is a blood soaked pilgrim but probably does not fully know the scale of the practice. (I went with Maiden knows even Pyre wouldn’t be fully open minded to the worse aspects of it.)