Waldhexe - feat. Ginny Di (Exandrian Folk Song)

[@GinnyDi]

CAN'T! WAIT!!

[@Atma_Weapon]

you sound amazing, as always.

[@blackskull1366]

your german actually sounded really good

[@justatinyhalfling]

A Waldhexe in clasic German folklore is the one who tried to eat Hänsel and Gretel. In modern German culture/children's storys, the Waldhexe has a more benign connotation, as the protagonist in picture books or sometimes as a nickname for women who enjoy growing herbs/foraging/hiking/living in a forest. It has a largely positive connotation. Germans may think of a cute children's song or nursery rhyme when hearing the title of thos song. I sure did. So the song was a surprise.😭😄

[@dormishaeli]

(Well this is a bit for information about German I'm happy to now randomly know :) and I mean, the song is inspierd by Liam's Narrative Telephone story Widogast's Web of Words - highly recomend you check it out if you haven't!

[@jonathanalvear8256]

Here's the story, if you haven't seen/heard it yet. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mafWe3d9abyFsLM

[@timswingler4219]

This comes from a non d&d game the cast of critical role did during covid. It was a form of telephone where they took turns coming up with a story recording it and sending it to one cast member who would warch it once and record their version. Basically story telephone Liam was olaying caleb widowgast/bren who was a citizen of s germanic themed nation. He along with two of his frinds was torture trained into secret assasins. When he created his telephone story was a witch story that was aligorical for his characters bacstory. He kept the germanic themes hence the name. (Several terms are basically mispelled german in the game as well eg volstruckers instead of vollstreker

[@jonblount8018]

I hope Liam gets to hear this soon.

[@MoMoOBrien]

This is hauntingly beautiful

[@nunulea1]

Moooomooooo 🥰🥰🥰

[@MoonWakir]

Filling in the seams of Matt's world building with pure gold. Beautiful and immersive.

[@faygoorangedrip4426]

Is this song Matt's worldbuilding or Liam's lol. This story was made up by Liam for his first Narrative Telephone.

[@idk49779]

I'm zemnian and can't wait to hear my old childhood tunes!!!

[@merle25168]

Same !!

[@blackbadger4419]

Dito! :-D

[@faygoorangedrip4426]

Finally. A song about my favorite night club.

[@F2214_]

Yeah the Vortex is such a nice place

[@monkeystar3652]

😂😂😂

[@SilverFlames_]

I was *not* expecting that shift, those *drums* holy shit! That was absolutely haunting

[@jenniisthewriter]

YES, ever since C2 started I have been so thankful for my high school German... I mean Zemnian, can't wait to see what y'all came up with!

[@Kestas_X]

The title is german: "Forest Witch" The text is german too sometimes. "Grossmutter" does not mean muttering revoltingly but rather is the german word for grandmother.

[@ilseh95]

As a Dutchie who understands and speaks some German, I was really wondering why the German word of grandmother was just randomly used, so thank you for giving me the association 😅

[@Loafusbreadmyre]

@@ilseh95 Also possibly used because Liam, when he told the story this is based on, referred (in character as one of the three children) to the old witch as "grossmutter", possibly just because y'know, old lady.

[@ilseh95]

@@Loafusbreadmyre if that was somewhere in campaign 2, I probably haven't watched up to that point yet. I've slowed down with watching Mighty Nein since I now also watch Bells Hells at the same time.

[@Loafusbreadmyre]

@@ilseh95 That bit isn't in C2, it's in narrative telephone, but metaphorically refers to C2. It's weird, caleb backstory stuff, but I love it

[@F2214_]

@@Loafusbreadmyre it's not from c2, but it is still mention as one of the book in caleb's tower

[@rebekahhiggins9002]

I still can’t believe we have a song based on Liam’s Narrative telephone story.

[@sturmklinge9642]

As a zemnian, that is a big fan of music that is haunting, but also beautiful; I love this

[@SCBJQ]

Your folk songs are so beautiful. I'd love to hear a Winter's Crest song.

[@drakeorion94]

Ginny Di makes everything better!

[@dormishaeli]

This is incredible, beautiful and haunting Your voices match together so good! And this "Exandria tales" songs concept is just Can't wait to hear more!

[@bethbaskett3]

Chase, you wrote an awesome song, and you and Ginny are such amazing singers! I just listened to two angels singing about a creature that eats children...

[@dertr_cz3749]

Chase and Ginny Di, both of you one big awesome work ! The instrument work and voice work of yours was amazing ! I will put this song on my list of songs I want to learn and sign, when I finally buy myself guitar. It will be hard to learn it only by myself, but that is my decision. Both of you continue in your arts, you are awesome inspiration to me and I'm sure to many other people !

[@eygon1330]

I need this in Spotify!!!

[@Killerjerick]

I'll never understand how you don't have more subs, this is beautiful, it tells such a great story and evokes a feeling of belonging, each of your songs could very well have been played in medieval times, and fit so well with the general theme of D&D. Thanks for another song on my playlist Chase & Ginny!

[@CasuKaga]

not even 30 seconds in and i already got chills 😭😭

[@swarmthatwalks1775]

This was really good. Like really good. I loved the drums near the end. Not to mention the singing. Chills.

[@Atma_Weapon]

this was amazing. hauntingly beautiful, and the drums made for a great shift. almost like the kids were running away. and ginny sounded amazing, as always. keep it up, guys.

[@earowemusic]

So after holding forth on pronunciation gate-keeping bs over on twitter, I realized I hadn't actually sat down and listened to this. So, so good. And to my expertise (of two semesters highschool german thirty years ago, lol) your pronunciation of german words is better on average than some very popular german singers when they switch to english... :)

[@gracehagele5462]

This is MAGICAL!! I can't get over those drums! and the vocals holy crap

[@rmorganslade]

Listen I'm very excited about this ok

[@carmelr5504]

This is so beautifully haunting!! So is this based off Liam's narrative telephone ghost story or are they both based off an original folk tale?

[@ChaseNoseworthy]

This is based off of Liam’s story! I believe he wrote it himself

[@carmelr5504]

@@ChaseNoseworthy Ah awesome, thank you!

[@IcsMan]

Was so hyped when I got the notification that I immediately dropped what I was doing to listen. Amazing as always

[@7DdlySns713]

This is amazing and has the right mix of haunting, beautiful, and flow. Everything is so well put together, and works well. Satisfyingly creepy according to a friend as well! It reminds me of narrative telephone. Infact I think it is related...

[@emeraldbreeze5096]

THIS SONG WAS A BOP!!

[@goingpostale]

I really enjoy your voices together!!

[@nemonamenlos7330]

Chills! Just chills! Your voice and style of music fit so well with this story.

[@xolouney9238]

wow this was haunting! amazing song like always (and the prononciation on Waldhexe was perfect btw^^ )

[@lostinthemelody983]

The way this absolutely wrecked me. Thank you. What a beautiful, chilling, heartbreaking way to tell the story of Astrid, Bren, and Eadwulf

[@nicholaselliott339]

Freaking amazing! Thank you Chase and Ginny, this is truly a classic worthy of Exandria and I look forward to incorporating it into my campaign as well...

[@julialabusch9403]

This. Slaps. Oh my god.

[@aidanb.9423]

UGH i love this

[@rakbel316]

Incredible!

[@curuthalion_]

This is really good! I really loved Liam's little story in narrative telephone and you two made such an amazing song out of it! I totally didn't expect that little shift in the middle, but damn it gives this song so much soul! Also as a fellow German speaker, the few German words here and there were just delightful and reminded me so much of Caleb! I miss the Nein already

[@highgoat6474]

That was very good! Your voices really complement each other.

[@cerridwenrowan]

Breathtaking.... Glorious ❤️

[@adamletts885]

So beautiful

[@blackandwhitesunsets2285]

This song is beautiful and amazing, as they always are! I love it so much!!!

[@Nerdingwithmama]

Absolutely stunning

[@duncanpurssell1998]

Sounds amazing well done

[@Bellandora]

Wow! That is gorgeous instrumental and vocal work!

[@tahinaandale3197]

Goosebumps!!

[@calebdegroot2838]

This is gonna be awesome

[@Greif98]

This was great

[@ajarvie01]

I'm a simple person, I see Chase and Ginny, I click. And like.

[@ravenqueen4873]

❤❤❤ omg this is from Liam narrative telephone episode

[@fortheloveofmerthur]

Heck, Chase, this is amazing. Got chills

[@SeerOfTime577]

You and Ginny did so AMAZING. Oh my word.

[@HonnaMusic]

Mm, when that percussion came in 😁👌 perfect man

[@Starleigh]

That was hauntingly beautiful!! Stunning work!!

[@countkingpen]

Amazing!!!

[@jessdickensvo]

Full body chills! Fantastic work!

[@therightdragoneye9754]

Please tell me this is coming to Spotify??

[@DMingThoughts]

Absolutely glorious!

[@AndaraBledin]

So lovely. ... but I had to re-listen to like 20 seconds of it because I was so fixated on confirming that the camera really was not quite stable... super distracting for me. >_

[@michaelbraico631]

Oh that, that is goooooood.

[@shadowvictini6972]

Amazing

[@eric_moore-6126]

Your songs are so good. I wish I'd become a Critical Role fan before campaign 3 so I understood the context for any of them.

[@Vaelyhn]

Holy shit this is so good.

[@heyvedur]

This is great, but isn't this song leaving out the whole part about the Vortex? I remember it being a central aspect of the story.

[@pizzedahff3127]

Ginny Di brought me here.

[@maubeerbluffin4552]

This is beautiful. Why would a woodland witch eat blood and bone though... It sound more like a song about a werewolf or something like that

[@nemonamenlos7330]

It's based on Liam's first Narrative Telephone story, which is a parable for Astrid's, Eodwulf's and Caleb's story.

[@faygoorangedrip4426]

@@nemonamenlos7330 I'm pretty sure Liam's narrative telephone was about a night club called the Vortex, but okay.

[@symphony_in_plaid4592]

@@faygoorangedrip4426 wasn't it about dry kids or something?

[@emmabagley9349]

Three words: Hansel and Gretel

[@Monkey_Jesus]

Natural 20 for Performance.

[@Dwarfinator1]

This is awesome, is there anywhere we can download this?

[@Ashmurtagh100]

This has got to be a reference to liams naritive telephone story, but changed a bit because I think that was called the vortex

[@CruciferWarden]

Could you do a song called Fall of the Cinder King?

[@tim2the_core66]

The word Waldhexe sounds not so cool if youre German XD. But its a very nice Song.

[@stellas4033]

Nice tune, but I do wonder why choosing to sing Waldhexe and not forest witch? Are you interested in the German language?

[@Ignorethis12345]

It's from Caleb's narrative tellaphone where he tells this story from his childhood. (It's actually a metaphor for his backstory.)

[@nathalieboelens6568]

Beautiful! Too bad about the wrong pronunciation on “grossmutter” though.. But still worth listening to on repeat.

[@DevilSeiji]

Why the hell bother with german if you can't even properly pronounce 1,2,3? Not even gonna address Großmutter.

[@ChaseNoseworthy]

I thought it’d be in the spirit of the original narrative telephone to royally fuck up the pronunciation. Glad you hated it 🤗

[@GinnyDi]

Hey man, learning other languages is hard, and also a very worthy pursuit. Just because Chase wasn't able to instantly learn to pronounce German like a native speaker doesn't mean he deserves to be shat on for it. This is a really unkind way to approach someone trying something new.

[@DevilSeiji]

@@GinnyDi Google translate is right around the corner with text to speech. Großmutter/Grossmutter is a bloody damn easy word. Balatantly mispronouncing it the english way shows 0 research or purposeful mispronunciation. And we are not talking about entire sentences, we are talking about very few words.

[@DevilSeiji]

@@GinnyDi I just noticed: Please don't refer to other people with "hey man" or "hey dude" without their consent. I am nonbinary and not a man .

[@whatsworthonearth8700]

What the heck?! Are you german, Devi? I am propperly and rightfully ashamed if you were!