Potential dialogue spoilers below if you've not done the content this song is from: "I found myself unable to refuse. At that moment, my mind was a storm of questions, yet one roared the loudest... Did Athena ever truly love me?" Such a phenomenal cover of the song that so truly encapsulates the pain and submission of Hephaestus. The climax near the end gives me chills everytime at how dramatized you were able to turn lahabrea's ascian theme!
Love the contrast between the artwork (of some eldritch abomination) and the chill jazzy arrangement. Either way, great work with blending the instruments together!! Thank you so much!
I am ngl, this is not what I expected going into this initially but I suppose the fact that I've been coming back to it over the past week or two is telling lmao Man, especially that bit starting at 3:50ish has me experiencing emotions about the old man... it's giving him sat alone in a dim and too-empty apartment drowning complicated emotions in a neat whisky or something /pdead
Thank you so much! I love that it made you emotional. I was thinking of how conflicted and complicated Lahabrea would feel towards his other half and also towards Athena and wanted to put that into music. Glad you enjoyed it :)
3:54 "I'm a creeeeep... What the hell am I doing heeeere?" xD But seriously, great work, as always. As someone who did some arrangements during university times, I know how much work this is. :D
Most beautiful arrangement I've heard from one of my all time favourite themes on my favourite fight in the game Perfect theme to cry while making a tree with your loved ones (and wipe again) Jokes aside, brings a tear to my eyes. Wonderful
SPOILER: 'No more than was necessary for my god to be reborn...' It really puts those cutscenes in ARR into context. His god was never Zodiark... 'The hour is at hand, behold but a sliver of my god's power!' It was ULTIMA... Athena...
oooo I can hear, the synth in that song is similar to the clarinet in my arrangement! I loved p5r, in fact a song from p5r might be making an appearance on another ff14 cover soon...
don't think it will happen as ff14 music is copyright etc and I don't want to step on that at all! If you want, you could download the mp3 although it's not as convenient as spotify :D edit: it's up on spotify now!
This was not at all what I imagined when I clicked on this video, but I am blown away at how good this is.
Thank you so much! I like making arrangements that is different to the original :D
Potential dialogue spoilers below if you've not done the content this song is from:
"I found myself unable to refuse. At that moment, my mind was a storm of questions, yet one roared the loudest...
Did Athena ever truly love me?"
Such a phenomenal cover of the song that so truly encapsulates the pain and submission of Hephaestus. The climax near the end gives me chills everytime at how dramatized you were able to turn lahabrea's ascian theme!
Thank you! I'm very much looking forward to how 6.4 would bring the story to a close :)
Both Hephaistos p2 and White Stone Black deserve a lot more fanworks than they got. Great job for this.
The percussion is so chill, I love it
Also the part at 3:54 is so inspired
Thank you! I love emotional swells like that xD
Can't believe I found this so late. This deserves 100x more views!
Thank you!
Love the contrast between the artwork (of some eldritch abomination) and the chill jazzy arrangement. Either way, great work with blending the instruments together!! Thank you so much!
thank you!! it's my first time trying to incorporate other instruments and I'm very happy with how it came out!
i love this arrangement so much! makes me all emotional about pandaemonium. it's such a unique take on white stone black but it works so so well
Thank you :)
Every new track from you is such a treat, they always make such good chill music to write to
thank you so much! Hope the writing goes well for you
Wow. I'm blown away-- you've arranged this in a style and emotional tone that's so different from the original track and IT WORKS SO WELL.
thank you very much!
Wow this is something special. I'm glad the YT algorithm brought me here. Thanks for making this :)
Thank you for listening!
This is a arrange that really paints the tone and feel of the original and its story significance in a new light. Absolutely love it!
thank you! I'm glad
i love this just the right amount of nostalgia and ptsd
this is absolutely killer
I am ngl, this is not what I expected going into this initially but I suppose the fact that I've been coming back to it over the past week or two is telling lmao
Man, especially that bit starting at 3:50ish has me experiencing emotions about the old man... it's giving him sat alone in a dim and too-empty apartment drowning complicated emotions in a neat whisky or something /pdead
Wow, that was amazing, great job.
thank you for listening!
Had to overcome my anxiety to comment but this is just so beautiful it makes me tear up every time. Thank you so much for sharing it with us🥲
Thank you so much! I love that it made you emotional. I was thinking of how conflicted and complicated Lahabrea would feel towards his other half and also towards Athena and wanted to put that into music. Glad you enjoyed it :)
3:54 "I'm a creeeeep... What the hell am I doing heeeere?" xD
But seriously, great work, as always. As someone who did some arrangements during university times, I know how much work this is. :D
Thank you! Yes programming all the instruments took a while... also I didn't notice that chord progression similarity, that's cool!
ABSOLUTE BANGER
thanks Corgi!
oooo albi is my friend!!! so cool to see their art for such an amazing arrangement
Albi is great! Thank you for listening :)
For someone who know the lore of an abomination on the artwork. This version really fit his lore.
Thank you! This arrangement happened as a result of me wondering what would be going through his mind as part Lahabrea and part Hephaestos
its so good! ty!
thank you for listening!
Most beautiful arrangement I've heard from one of my all time favourite themes on my favourite fight in the game
Perfect theme to cry while making a tree with your loved ones (and wipe again)
Jokes aside, brings a tear to my eyes. Wonderful
Thank you so much! This fight was so fun to do (and also painful in pf)
SPOILER:
'No more than was necessary for my god to be reborn...'
It really puts those cutscenes in ARR into context. His god was never Zodiark...
'The hour is at hand, behold but a sliver of my god's power!'
It was ULTIMA... Athena...
😍😍😍
Fucking hell this is so good pardon my language but I have literal chills 😭
ahaha thank you! whenever I get chills from music it inspires me to write something just as emotional
1:21 I don't know why but this reminds me of "Ideal and the Real - End Version" ( 2:30 ) from Persona 5 Royal
oooo I can hear, the synth in that song is similar to the clarinet in my arrangement! I loved p5r, in fact a song from p5r might be making an appearance on another ff14 cover soon...
any chance of you uploading this to spotify?
don't think it will happen as ff14 music is copyright etc and I don't want to step on that at all! If you want, you could download the mp3 although it's not as convenient as spotify :D
edit: it's up on spotify now!
Bro this is like if Evil Lahabread suddenly had a change of heart and said fuck you to Athena