A song made hastily for Profound Decisions' Empire LRP festival - celebrating Taric Thornsbane's famous drink!

Woeful-looking but wonderful-tasting: the 'Bregasland Brew'! Fresh from the heart of the Marches.

LYRICS

Here's a drink there's one for everyone,
Here's a drink there's one for everyone,
Here's a drink there's one for everyone,
One Bregasland Brew.

Here's a drink there's one for everyone,
Here's a drink there's one for everyone,
Here's a drink there's one for everyone,
One Bregasland Brew.

Give me one more drink,
One more song, one more dance and then I'm through!
While the nobles pine for the Dawnish wine,
They long for the Bregasland Brew!

Give me one more drink,
One more song, one more dance and then I'm through!
While the nobles pine for the Dawnish wine,
They long for the Bregasland Brew,
Oh they long for the Bregasland Brew!

Here's a drink there's two for everyone,
Here's a drink there's two for everyone,
Here's a drink there's two for everyone,
Two Bregasland Brews.

Here's a drink there's two for everyone,
Here's a drink there's two for everyone,
Here's a drink there's two for everyone,
Two Bregasland Brews.

Give me one more drink,
One more song, one more dance and then I'm through!
While the nobles pine for the Dawnish wine,
They long for the Bregasland Brew!

Give me one more drink,
One more song, one more dance and then I'm through!
While the nobles pine for the Dawnish wine,
They long for the Bregasland Brew,
Oh they long for the Bregasland Brew!

Here's a drink there's three for everyone,
Here's a drink there's three for everyone,
Here's a drink there's three for everyone,
Three Bregasland Brews.

Here's a drink there's three for everyone,
Here's a drink there's three for everyone,
Here's a drink there's three for everyone,
Three Bregasland Brews.

Give me one more drink,
One more song, one more dance and then I'm through!
While the nobles pine for the Dawnish wine,
They long for the Bregasland Brew!

Give me one more drink,
One more song, one more dance and then I'm through!
While the nobles pine for the Dawnish wine,
They long for the Bregasland Brew,
Oh they long for the Bregasland Brew,
Oh they long for the Bregasland Brew!

WAHEY

Bregasland Brew

Something woke you, some bird or beast, but it is still dark. Stars tell their stories in the skies above you, and the clear night breeze strokes hair from your face. The day was long, but this night is longer, wrapping around you in the frozen space before dawn. Many were lost this day, many who will not return back through this stone archway. Thoughts, memories, regrets... bittersweet fireflies of emotion flickering across your consciousness. 
And then, as you stare off somewhere beyond the horizon, the first breath of sunlight stretches up to colour the clouds. It tints the leaves around you as the sky welcomes this new day with hope. You close your eyes, feeling the sun on your face, and smile.

Sunrise At The Sentinel Gate

Hercynian Heart
Original song by Brynell Goldengrove
Photo by Daniel J. Schwarz on Unsplash

Lyrics:
I left my steading on an autumn day when wind was in the trees
I packed my bags and I bid farewell, the wider world to see
I hadn't traveled very far before I realised
I could walk these trods forever but my heart in Hercynia lies

I'll roam far, from Reikos to Kahraman 
I'll roam far, from Skarsind to Therunin
I'll roam far, I'll sail the Bay of Catazar
I'll roam far
But my heart's in Hercynia

By winter I had made it to Hanmark, there I stayed
The Winterfolk were kind to me and gave me bed to lay
My days and nights were always filled, good company and wine
But this land is the Markers' home, Hercynia is mine

I'll roam far, from Reikos to Karaman
I'll roam far, from Skarsind to Therunin
I'll roam far, I'll sail the Bay of Catazar
I'll roam far
But my heart's in Hercynia

Spring saw me in Sarvos, the land of masquerade
I set my wares on a wooden bench and there I did good trade
But though the Leaugish arts are fine, and their bards are skilled in song
I left to head back to north because for Hercynia I long

I'll roam far, from Reikos to Karaman
I'll roam far, from Skarsind to Therunin
I'll roam far, I'll sail the Bay of Catazar
I'll roam far
But my heart's in Hercynia

Hercynian Heart

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

It was recorded in my front room in one take, so it is very rough.  Thanks to Jez Lawrence for recording equipment and expertise.

Redhound

A very silly Malhann track first played at Empire E2 2023. Joined by Tarik (Andrew Ruddick) on the guitar and extra vocal flavour. To the bards of Empire : you rock. To the patrons of the bards of Empire: you rock more. 

Pay your f****ing bard

LYRICS

A thousand years
A thousand thorns
Lives cut short along the trods
But no more, no more
For at last, we know the vallorn

A dance they danced so long ago
Set wheels turning, trods to grow
Terunael did fall, and yet
Our past mistakes we won't forget

The magic warped, the forest sang
And so our endless war began
We fought and fell, we fought and thrived
Ensuring that Navarr survived

A thousand years...

Our vantage it did rise and fall
Til Merel laid the ground for all
Then Neb took those foundations strong
And shared it all to right old wrongs

The library was found at last
By Sian who sought out secrets past
It grew and spread by Nathair's hand
To all who fought throughout the land

A thousand years...

Navarr and Thorn laid out a path
To stand against the vallorn's wrath
We danced their dance, we did our part
For trods with vallorn end and start

Our task, it seems, is near complete
This ancient foe we can defeat
For it is known, and will be done
Despite the efforts of Cold Sun

A thousand years...

A Thousand Years of Longing

This song is written for and by the regulars of the drunken goose

The Drunken Goose

This is the song of the dance of blood banner for all who wish to hear there story. 
Music and Lyrics by Sebastian Broken-Bough (Jay OC)
Sung by my good-freind Blair Swiftheart (Jai OC)

Dance of blood

Lyrics by Eskah Swift Hart and Torin Swift Hart
Guitar by Sebastian Broken-Bough

Now bitter once sweet

Keep me warm tonight

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

This is a pretty rough version.  It is too slow and goes off the click.  It is my first go at using Pro Tools First in place of audacity and there some improvements in terms of post-production.

I will re-record at some point, but my doing a recording of Ode to Shadowglyn Distillery was long overdue, so this will suffice for now.

Lyrics:

Verse 1
Well, I've travelled the land,
While I held in my hand.
A dram of the finest whisky.

For I'd purchased a cask,
As my striding went past,
the Shadowglyn Distillery

In all of the empire, 
There's nothing compares,
No Astolat brandy, 
Nor Freeborn liquor,
To a single malt served neat.
To this connoisseur,

The greatest of whiskies is found...

Chorus
In Shadowglyn,
All your friends will be there,
In Shadowglyn,
Drinking amber nectar.
In Shadowglyn.
When you sip it,
You'll lighten your spirit.
And sing while you're getting them in,
In Shadowglyn.

Verse 2
All my wandering days,
On the trods far away,
'twas a tipple of whisky my prize.

When I emptied my stock,
I returned, but with shock!
For the heavenly taste was denied!

For my friends were enslaved,
And many were dead.
The buildings burnt down.
The grain pulled from their beds.
But worse, the damn orcs had shat in the kegs! 

No whisky at all could be found...

Chorus

Bridge
For long lonely years,
I drank deep of my tears,
And all shots were like ash in my mouth.

'till the day I did learn,
That a man they call Wern,
Was the saviour – yes the saviour – of my malt...

Verse 3
So I'm leaving today,
And I'm planning to stay,
In a hall where I'll never be barred.

Be sure, I'll defend her,
And never surrender,
My bottle, my dear uisge beatha.

For some walk the trods,
And some ward vallorn,
Some fight Drujan orcs,
And others Jotun,
But my dance led me here,
And I've got a home,

Where whisky shall always be found...
And downed!

Chorus

Coda
All your friends will be there,
In Shadowglyn,
Drinking amber nectar.
In Shadowglyn.
When you sip it,
You'll lighten your spirit.
And sing while you're getting them in,
In Shadowglyn.

Ode To Shadowglyn Distillery

Jamie Wakefield