this song came out right when i was assigned a 6 mile for cross country, this song is unironically a great running track

i love this little "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" part at the end

The Gideshu March is a popular marching song of the Central Authority - the iron-fisted guardians of the Central Luminant. Written in the year 1180 by August Gideshu, an Authority officer, the march quickly became popular among the rank and file soldiers, with many regiments choosing the song as their marching tune. Some even consider it to be the Authority's unofficial anthem - though the Authority elites' stance on this is not entirely clear.

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i got bored and decided to make some vent music. yes, for the imperialist faction. lo-fi beats to commit warcrimes to ;)

this is the theme representing the Central Authority in the game - or at least a vocal reinterpretation of the theme by me. sometimes when i write melodies for Deepwoken, i like to come up with accompanying lyrics (fun fact, the Summer Company theme also has lyrics for it).

if you listen closely, you can hear the refrain part ('We would give our lives for the cause') play in the Starswept Valley ambience on guitar. B)

consider this a little something to make up for the fact that the Deepwoken OST Vol. 1 isn't out yet - things are taking a little longer than i would've liked(i literally only have the ferryman phase 1 & 2 tracks to remaster to be able to release the OST. but the FL Studio project files for those are SO LAGGY)! but i'm very close to wrapping up the release. expect some sort of announcement within the coming week.

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LYRICS

We're masters of the oceans wide,
Custodians of relentless tide!
For the Authority we fight -
Within this dark a blazing light.

Hurrah, hurrah, three cheers for the cause!
We truth uphold, and also laws!
For the many, the few, the big, the small -
We would give our lives for the cause!
We would give our lives for the cause!

We're wardens of the valiant dead,
From shore to shore our boots will tread!
The furthest reaches we shall tame,
Bring order, peace, Adretian fame!

Hurrah, hurrah, three cheers for the cause!
We truth uphold, and also laws!
For the many, the few, the big, the small -
We would give our lives for the cause!

Hurrah, hurrah, three cheers for the cause!
We truth uphold, and also laws!
For the many, the few, the big, the small -
We would give our lives for the cause!
We would give our lives for the cause!

The Gideshu March (Bonus Track)

You measured risk, you took the chance,
Now what awaits, guess, in advance -
DANCE, puppet, dance! Dance if you can!
The flames have called the Ferryman!

( - Naktigonis)

Dance, If You Can!

The beginning of the end.

The place where souls are tormented until they undergo trials from the voices of The Depths.

Perhaps it is a mercy to be forgotten in this wasteland, as venturing further may result in a fate worse then death.

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This cover was composed with live-audio guitar and vocal recording. Alongside some synthesizers.

I intend to make an entire album for each layer of the depths.

Credits to Naktigonis for the original song: 
https://soundcloud.com/naktigonis

Credits to R-10 for the thumbnail: R-10#0042

Osciliation - The First Layer (Deepwoken Fan OST)

"In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain, 
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp, 
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!"

( - William Blake, 'The Tyger')

Sin-Smelted Scoriae

"To reassert my rule, I sought out unscrupulous men skilled in the application of force. Tight-lipped and terrifying, these mercenaries brought with them a war machine of terrible implication."

( - The Ancestor, 'Ancestor's Memoirs: The Brigand Pounder', from the video game "Darkest Dungeon")
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"Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter’d with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds [...]."

( - William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act III, Scene I)

And Let Slip The Hounds Of War

"yet now!
the sun fades out as thousand-voiced
  the lamb does howl back at the wolf,
       unhinging far its maw,
            and lunging for the neck -
the blood-starved beast is eaten,
and the hunter now is prey.

the field-mouse at the falcon ruby-eyed shall leap
and tear apart with claws its feathers and its wings,

the stray gazelle, wild-eyed and fanged,
shall hunt its fear-elected king -
the dread-maned lion, - in a petty feast;

the rabbit now shall turn to beast,
blood-starved, with fire in its eyes,
it stalks the fox, in wait of time to strike."

( - Naktigonis, 'our book of modernity')
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"[...] A humming vibration is all around you, resolving into new tones as you let your perception wander over its octaves. Your eye wanders up towards the snow that covers the peak. Snowflakes float eternally in a stilled wind. Layers of packed snow perch precariously on each other, unsettled by the sound of the vibration. You are staring at the beginning of an avalanche, and you can almost imagine, almost feel all that snow collapsing down the slopes towards you.

But you are safe in a moment that's been stretched, pulled like taffy, soft and warm and enveloping your body."

( - Fallen London, 'A Dream of Stillness: Look' (Upon A Painted Sea) storylet)

INSOMNIA

"We climb higher. The reflected light off the sea still silvers the sky to our south. There are cheerily coloured beehives, ranged in rows in fields set back from the road. Wild-flower meadows, small vineyards.

We cross a wide pass between high peaks. Beech and pine have thickened in the lower ground, and I can smell resin in the cooler air. A sense of mountain communities and forest wilderness grows. The extent of the woods here makes a nonsense of human frontier lines. Beeches march over borders."

( - Robert Macfarlane, 'Underland')

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Album cover art by Hautdesert:
• https://ko-fi.com/siegeperilous
• https://twitter.com/Hautedeserte
• hautdesert on Discord

Blood And Thunder

"For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come 
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life."

( - William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet', Act III, Scene I)
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"My enemy is twice dead, and I still have him."

( - Iain Banks, 'The Wasp Factory')

A Darkness Beneath

Not much is known about First Lieutenant August Gideshu, the author of the song, himself. Supposedly an Adretian in origin, his unusual surname seems to indicate an older lineage, likely one reaching back to the Pre-Tidal epochs, when the Adretian peoples were contained within their mountain homelands, squabbling as scattered tribes. The Gideshu family name appears several times in various historical Authority records, though never in a rank higher than First Lieutenant.

Authority records indicate that August Gideshu served aboard the Central Authority Sailing-Ship (or CASS) 'Zephyr', under Captain Hector Corbet. Little else is known about this ship's crew or specifications, aside from the fact that it served in the Eastern Luminant, and experienced several clashes involving the Etrean Navy, in which they emerged victorious. Gideshu himself is noted as having distinguished himself in one battle by bolstering crew morale during an Etrean boarding - possibly by starting to sing the eponymous march, suggesting his fellow crew were familiar with his penmanship.
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Background visualiser art by Hautdesert:
• https://ko-fi.com/siegeperilous
• https://twitter.com/Hautedeserte
• hautdesert on Discord

The Gideshu March (Band Version)

happy new year 2024!
(belated upload because... i Forgor :skull:)

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Background visualiser art by Hautdesert:
• https://ko-fi.com/siegeperilous
• https://twitter.com/Hautedeserte
• hautdesert on Discord

Carol of Resonances

soooooooooo this description aged poorly huh? lmao

a bit of history!

i made this track as a joke sometime in may 2020, heralding it to be a theme to the 'cat race' in deepwoken (at which time no such race was in game). the addition of a cat race called Felinor (thanks to this track and the meme that it helped spawn) was confirmed october 4th 2020 by Arch_Mage.

we did it folks. we really have! cat race REAL pass it on

(the description below is now outdated and is not the actual lore for the Felinor, but i'm keeping it just because it's a Funny™)

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Theme of the Felinor race from the upcoming Monad Studios title, Project Deepwoken.

A race with feline-like qualities, the Felinor are a capricious lot. Often vagarious and of swinging moods, they are experts at self-preservation and survival - boasting sharp claws on paw-like hands, the Felinor are renowned for their combat skill.

Fighters through and through, the Felinor do not build magnificent castles or form enormous kingdoms - instead they live in gregarious nomadic communities of modest size, wandering from place to place, seeking new resources to ensure their survival.

Naturally curious and of sharp senses, the Felinor also make for incredible explorers - though, their innate disdain for water, and their proneness for seasickness often hinders their attempts at seafaring. Nonetheless, numerous Felinor explorers have carved their names into the cornerstones of history...

As a result, the Felinor have spread far and wide - roaming hills and valleys, deserts and tundras, they are a cunning and hardy race of capricious feline-like warriors.

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I CAN'T BELIEVE I GOT YOU NERDS TWICE HAHAHAHAHA TOO GOOD
i'm joking.
i emphasise, THIS IS A JOKE.
this track wasn't commissioned for the game and i made it for the meme. same vein as 'All Hands On Deck!'.
but if i learned anything from 'All Hands On Deck', is that everyone will see the title and listen to the track without any critical thinking and go 'yooo DG leak with no brim'

and that more than suits me >;3c

it may be true what they say - no cat race in deepwoken... but there will always be a deepwoken cat race in our hearts </3

(i think i may be biased considering my past experience playing tabaxi in dnd 5e lmao)

No Time For Paws (Project Deepwoken OST - Felinor Theme)

i make music and suck at videogames 

currently working on the OST for Deepwoken, a Monad Studios game! B)

commissions currently closed! 

any inquiries? contact me here, on twitter (@Naktigonis), or via my business email, tenebrousgravelord@gmail.com

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