Recently started playing The Medium, from which this song is based on. I'm a huge fan of Akira's works, and his music plays a big role in my ambient works. This piece is dark, ambient, with a strong sense of unease ever present. The best way I can describe the emotion is not one of danger, as in a creature coming to get you, but more like someone, or something, is watching you.
Music © Shawn Badolian
Music © Shawn Badolian
Category Music / Other Music
Species Unspecified / Any
Gender Any
Size 120 x 120px
I can feel the sense that something is watching from like the shadows from this piece. It's ominous.
Again amazing work!
Again amazing work!
NIcely done. I don't really see this as foreboding. just.. Mysterious. Yet calm.
Like a traveler wandering through a forest one finds an old mansion. They enter it, having been lost for hours. The place is well maintained, spotless with not even a speck of dirt. But no one is around. They go looking through the many rooms and vast hallways still not finding any sign of someone living there. Then when it starts to pick up we find the wanderer in a gallery. They walk through and see old, beautiful paintings that seem to explain the history of the mansion and the owner. It's as they walk up to a painting that reveals that monsters are real and that the owner IS ONE (a vampire or immortal in another way).
We then hear a gentle cough, and watch as the wanderer turns around and sees the man in the painting, completely unchanged. He has gentle saddened blue eyes as he comes closer, greeting the wanderer and apologizing for not having found him sooner. Seeing the wanderer's confusion and bewilderment the man then starts explaining in more detail. We, through the wanderer's ears and eyes, listen and observe the paintings describing the sad story.
After the man tells all, he turns to the wanderer and asks "Would you want eternity? I can gift it to you. I will perish in doing so.. but I've seen plenty of this world and am ready to embrace that eternal darkness. You will have all that I own as recompence if you take my offer." Of course, the song stops before the wanderer can answer.
Edit: eew.. I made a weird block. Cut it into paragraphs
Like a traveler wandering through a forest one finds an old mansion. They enter it, having been lost for hours. The place is well maintained, spotless with not even a speck of dirt. But no one is around. They go looking through the many rooms and vast hallways still not finding any sign of someone living there. Then when it starts to pick up we find the wanderer in a gallery. They walk through and see old, beautiful paintings that seem to explain the history of the mansion and the owner. It's as they walk up to a painting that reveals that monsters are real and that the owner IS ONE (a vampire or immortal in another way).
We then hear a gentle cough, and watch as the wanderer turns around and sees the man in the painting, completely unchanged. He has gentle saddened blue eyes as he comes closer, greeting the wanderer and apologizing for not having found him sooner. Seeing the wanderer's confusion and bewilderment the man then starts explaining in more detail. We, through the wanderer's ears and eyes, listen and observe the paintings describing the sad story.
After the man tells all, he turns to the wanderer and asks "Would you want eternity? I can gift it to you. I will perish in doing so.. but I've seen plenty of this world and am ready to embrace that eternal darkness. You will have all that I own as recompence if you take my offer." Of course, the song stops before the wanderer can answer.
Edit: eew.. I made a weird block. Cut it into paragraphs
What a beautiful, and quite pensive, description. It fits it quite well.
That aside, what an interesting, though somewhat ominous offer. What curses the mansion’s master has lived with, would they no doubt be transferred to the man? Such deals always come with a catch, and as is often the case, the greater the exchange, the greater the cost.
That aside, what an interesting, though somewhat ominous offer. What curses the mansion’s master has lived with, would they no doubt be transferred to the man? Such deals always come with a catch, and as is often the case, the greater the exchange, the greater the cost.
aaww.. thanks. i was slightly tired when I listened and so my mind went wild with it.
As to the curse? This is essentially a writing prompt i am tempted to flesh out more. As it was dilliberately vague the curses could be anything. To the point of having to drink blood (vampirism) regularily, sacrificing children (either their own or other's kids), or just.. maybe the only curse is the gift itself. Immortality to where you see your own bloodline dwindle out due to natural misfortune, loss of fame, or being shunned as the head of the bloodline never aged, but everyone else did. Making it so that it creeped out all suitors to their daughter. While for their sons where killed out of jealousy or some stupid notion that their blood would gift the drinker the same immortality as their family head. And for the head of the bloodline himself? Having become Immortal made him impotent. Only those children he had before his immortality would live. And thus it can't be passed down generationally, but from a freely given gift that ends the previous gifted person's life.
The mansion's master's was given the gift when he saved the last of his gifter's bloodline from a werewolf (or incubis, or wraith, or any other monster), and his gifter rewarded him with the offer of THE GIFT after several years of friendship grew from that encounter.
As to the curse? This is essentially a writing prompt i am tempted to flesh out more. As it was dilliberately vague the curses could be anything. To the point of having to drink blood (vampirism) regularily, sacrificing children (either their own or other's kids), or just.. maybe the only curse is the gift itself. Immortality to where you see your own bloodline dwindle out due to natural misfortune, loss of fame, or being shunned as the head of the bloodline never aged, but everyone else did. Making it so that it creeped out all suitors to their daughter. While for their sons where killed out of jealousy or some stupid notion that their blood would gift the drinker the same immortality as their family head. And for the head of the bloodline himself? Having become Immortal made him impotent. Only those children he had before his immortality would live. And thus it can't be passed down generationally, but from a freely given gift that ends the previous gifted person's life.
The mansion's master's was given the gift when he saved the last of his gifter's bloodline from a werewolf (or incubis, or wraith, or any other monster), and his gifter rewarded him with the offer of THE GIFT after several years of friendship grew from that encounter.
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