I loved hearing this song at E4, I couldn't come to song and story time because of various reasons but I could hear it in the OC camp and I swear it shook the forrest :-D

Empire

This album is a collection of songs inspired by spending time in an imaginary world. And, it is an album inspired by some of the best people that the real world has to offer. For over twelve years, I have travelled all across Britain to live role-play in the magical lands of Mauritanja. In that time, I have seen great tales and legends play out before my eyes. I have fought in last stands. I have mourned the loss of comrades and I have sung songs to remember heroes and friends.

This is their music. This is the music of everyone who has shared my dreams. This is the music of a people who took the Unicorn as their standard and fought to be free...

Hit and Mist

On the Wall

This is a song for the Profound Decisions' live-roleplay system Empire.

This was recorded at my home.  The percussion and guitar were meant to be guide tracks only, but I liked the sound of the track with them included, so I left them in this version.

I also had a lot of fun with the backing vocals for this song and Navarr Running Song.  I even created characters in my head for the four singers  with very different voices, because... you know... roleplayer.  I think doing this helped to keep the sound ugly and brutal.

Call
As Thorn. As Thorn. Navarri fight as Thorn.

Response 1 (repeated after each line)
As Thorn. As Thorn. Navarri fight as Thorn.

Calls
As Thorn. As Thorn. Navarri fight as Thorn.

In the day or in the night we take our victory.
In the dark or in the light we're running through the trees.

Sure and swift, our arrows fly.
Upon our spears, all will die.

Know no mercy, heed no plea.
You cannot betray your enemy.

The blood will flow!

Response 2 (repeated after each line)
The blood will flow!

Calls
The blood will flow!

From the wounds of our foes!
From the wounds of our foes!

Their guts we'll spill!
With every kill!

KILL! KILL! KILL!
KILL! KILL! KILL!

As Thorn. As Thorn. Navarri fight as Thorn.

Response 1 (repeated after each line)
As Thorn. As Thorn. Navarri fight as Thorn.

Calls
As Thorn. As Thorn. Navarri fight as Thorn.

Know no mercy, heed no plea.
You cannot betray your enemy.

As Thorn. As Thorn. Navarri fight as Thorn.
As Thorn. As Thorn. Navarri fight as Thorn.

Thorn Battle Cadence

This song was originally written as part of my 30 day songwriting challenge raising money for Bardfest 2016 - and was first uploaded on Day 11 of the challenge. The challenge was by John Gathercole and it was to write a song entitled "Eagles over Therunin" which was to be set in the Empire LRP gameworld and be about Eagles seeing a massacre of Orc barbarians perpetuated by the nation of Navarr.

This is version 2.  The lyrics have changed since earlier versions.


Lyrics:

Verse 1
When the wind, in the South
Blows across the peaks of Morrow
See the eagles setting out
Gliding down into the bayou

There they soar, there they hunt,
For the snakes and eels they're fishing
But there's something in the swamp,
That they never were expecting

Chorus
Eagles, they’re gliding
And Eagles, they’re soaring
And Eagles, they’re climbing
For they are, flying over, 
Flying,

Over the fighting,
And over the falling
And over the dying
For they are, flying over,
Therunin.

Verse 2
There’s Navarr, in the trees
And they swing across the river
To a group of upon their knees
Waiting for their foes to follow

And the sound of the screams
Echoes to the cloudy heavens
Oh how strange this scene must be
To the eagles o’er Therunin

Chorus

Verse 3
There a flash, a sunlit blade.
There a spurt of blood projecting
Out across the sunken glade
Stains the mangrove deeply drinking

There it falls, and it sinks
As the arrows they are flying
Draws the creatures of the creak
Who will soon of orc be dining.

Chorus

Bridge
Through & through, Therunin
(repeated)
 
Chorus

Verse 4
When the wind, in the South
Blows across the swamps tomorrow
Breaks the stillness all around
And the silence in the bayou.

For the orcs, they have run
And the dead are disappearing
Fodder for the beasts and bugs
Soon the eagles will be feasting.

Eagles Over Therunin

A lament for the lost city of Terunael

Please forgive the dodgy mix, I'm still getting the hang of it all.

Terunael

A song to remind the Navarr that we have had great victories in Liathaven and we will one day again. Big thanks to The Norths for backing vocals/shouting ;) and backing vocals & drumming from Chris North.
IC names will be edited in when I know the spellings of them all...

7000 Thorns (original)

Ambient recordings from the larp Empire, by Profound Decisions

Empire 22

Last of my Striding

Ambient recordings from the larp Empire, by Profound Decisions.

Original song by Idwyn Splitroot (Gabrielle Falquero).

Call to the Labyrinth

Wicker Basket

A love song for the wedding of a bride from Wintermark and a Urizeni groom. The groom selfishly died before the wedding.

About Last Night (I'm Not Touching You)

Those folks in the League sure know how to party.

Thespian Style

Tanikipari

For all you crayon faced murder monkeys out there <3

Prick My Bush

A song about Navarri oath tradition, including one of my own oaths.

Painted

A song about Idwyn Splitroot's Past Life Vision

Rise and Build

"Stop! Please!" 
The Cambion woman begged. She looked on as her daughter held a blade to her own skull and began sawing through one of her horns under the command of the brutish Thule orc standing over her. Gritting her teeth Narelle forced the rusted metal through the ivory. Trembling, she held out her hand. Still clutching her bloodied horn. His grey face peered down at her with a sickening joy painted across its features. He paused for a moment, and grinned. And without breaking eye contact he said, quietly,
"Take the mother away."
 Narelle felt her stomach drop. She watched helplessly as her mother was dragged kicking and screaming through the dust-choked hallway. Overwhelmed by rage, brought to a crescendo by the pain in her head, Narelle hurled her broken horn at her captor with an almighty cry striking him square in the back of his skull. The orc turned to face her once more, a terrible fury burning in his eyes... 

Ivory Daggers is a song set and written within the world of Empire, a festival larp in the UK.
It tells the tale of a Cambion woman and her family, living under the tyrannical rule of the Thule when they seized the Runeforges of Treji in 373YE.

Inspired and derived from "Age of Agression" From The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Intro and outro clips taken from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PTM9lQncKc&t=34s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBD0GjGP6Ew&t=19s

Ivory Daggers

"Wear your tattoos, your scars with pride; they're proof that you've come this far and survived."
Life as a Navarri is not always easy, dangerous moments can spiral quickly and leave us beaten and broken. But we are never ones to give up.

A song written for and dedicated to my bestest friend and the strongest person I know.

Story in a Scar

If you would like to hear more songs before I upload them to Spotify in the coming months, I would huuugely appreciate your support on www.patreon.com/gabaneeza
I will also be uploading cursed filks/songs on Patreon that will not make it to Spotify as they are extremely off brief 😜

Credit to Beth Dooner for the profile picture and to Tom Garnett for the cover photo.
This is an account for a bunch of stuff we do around the Navarr Songs and Storytime Campfire. Feel free to share it about, the more people that know the songs the better :)

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