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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The Gideshu March (Band Version)

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

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Carol of Resonances

THEN, NONE WILL WALK. NONE WILL REMAIN.
WE WILL HAVE BEEN THE LAST.

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Trailer track made for the 2024 Deepwoken trailer found here:
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Call Of The Deep (Deepwoken Trailer)

Mortals
Often gaze at the heavens,
Shrouded in moonlight -

Night-sky,
Cloaked in darkness and shade,
Whispers an invite:

Starlight shimmers,
Skies grow dimmer;
Stars are falling -
Hear them calling!

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But in my heart, I know... One day, we will all return to the stars.

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A Light In The Sky (Band Version)

...And to all - a good fright!

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Joyous Hallows To All!

"TIRIS - the bittersweet awareness that all things must end

[...] Other times, the impermanence of everything around us feels haunting. To think that a thousand-year-old cathedral won't always be there. That entire cities can be forgotten in a manner of decades, vibrant languages dwindled into obscurity, fearsome gods relinquished to old books, old books turned to dust. How casually the world discards our work, with nothing but a shrug.

[...]

The mountains too are steadily crumbling away, inch by inch, year by year, soon to be recycled back into the fiery mantle from which they came. Alas, even the world is not long for this world, soon to be swallowed up by the sun. Soon enough the stars will burn out, too, leaving little else but an echo of radiation, reverberating into a heatless void. And there will be no way to tell that time is passing at all."

( - John Koenig, 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows')
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"adomania
(n.) the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all of those years with fanciful names are bursting from their hypothetical cages into an arena of the present, furiously bucking your grip while you slip around in your saddle, with one hand reaching for the reins, the other waving up high like a schoolkid who finally knows the answer to the question."

( - John Koenig, 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows')
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11:59

" 'Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave
Need no such aids as Superstition lends,
To steel their hearts against the dread of Death.' "

[...]

"But 'twas a transient calm. A storm was near,
An unsuspected storm. His hour was come.
The impious challenger of power divine
Was now to learn that Heaven, though slow to wrath,
Is never with impunity defied."

( - William Cowper, "The Task", Book VI, 'The Winter Walk At Noon')
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ELEISON

"Thus it is said that the greatest harm that can befall the army [...] [stems from] hesitation, while the disasters that strike the Three Armies are born in doubt."

( - Wu-tzu, "Wuzi", Chapter 3, 'Controlling The Army')
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The Better Part Of Valour

"‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few."

( - Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'The Masque Of Anarchy')
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Chainbreaker

"When I was young, I was told by my father -
My child, you're destined to live off the sea.
Will you fish on the ocean, like all of your forefathers?
Or will you join the Authority Navy?"

( - An excerpt from 'The Ensign's Ballad', a Central Authority folk song, as recorded in Vincent Zeneke's monograph cycle 'Songs of the Sea')
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Wardens Of The Valiant Dead

i make music and suck at videogames 

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

commissions currently closed! but i am happy to pass along any offers to fellow musicians.

any inquiries? contact me here, on Bluesky (@naktigonis.bsky.social), or via my business email, tenebrousgravelord@gmail.com

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