Ireena's Hope - Original Piece for the Curse of Strahd Campaign
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- "Do you now understand? How it is inescapable? For aslong as I draw breath we are forever bound - forever entwined in fate. So no, I do not fear him. To do so would only bring me closer to that place in my heart, a place I dare not linger - or be lured by passionate destiny." - Ireena Kolyana
A song depiciting the internal struggle of Ireena (at least my version of her) with intertwining themes including both hers and Strahds.
An original piece for my heavily modified CoS campaign.
Feel free to use in your campaign if you wish.
Please contact me if you wish to use it for any commercial use (streaming and video production included)
Thanks All. Enjoy!
This is a haunting piece, with an undercurrent of yearning for a better future. It's perfect for a woman who wants nothing more than to be free.
In love with your compositions for CoS...just great...well done!
Fantastic
This is most excellent!
Doing this as battle music in the upcoming fight against Izek. Who has grown to annoyed with the party tand desperate for Ireena
Beautiful
considered putting it on spotify?
Yes I have, However since the playlsit is constantly being updated I'm holding off until I'm somewhat happy with the amount of tracks (I plan to have a fairly healthy number) as it will be more cost effective for me to put all of them on at once rather than piecemeal.
What was the struggle you gave Tatyana? I am curious what change you made to her in this tale.
The changes to Tatyana, Strahd and Sergei are extensive, and their "origin" stories (for lack of a better term) compared to the original I have changed quite alot, so much so that most of the literature provided I've either rewritten (the Tome of Strahd being one major one) or just replaced entirely. However, in brief, Tatyana was more or less like Katerina from Vampire Diaries. She played both of them off of eachother and engaged with both of them, being both Strahd's Lover and Sergei's betrothed. She was a part of the curse laid on them by another character I added (and another massive change in the story) Delora, who was an Oracle of sorts that served thier father. Its all a tangled web of fate, (which is one of the major themes I play on in the campaign) that leads to the inevatble doom of what Strahd becomes and the cycle he becomes bound to. Tatyana beings as a pawn in a larger plot, gets caught up in the von Zarovich brothers and then slowly begins her descent when her manipulations catch up with her (things like Strahd killing Sergei which I imply was Tatyana's idea) and her conflict within herself justs wins over. She kills herself, much like in the CoS book, unable to forgive herself for what she think she has caused and thinking it will save Strahd and Sergei from their fates - obviously it doesn't. She is then reincarnated, as Strahd's cycle demands, and still constantly feels the pull towards him. Hence why my Ireena doesn't fear Strahd - she still feels that wanting to save him that Tatyana once had, though she can't place it. etc etc
I said in brief, and it probably wasn't a good summary but I'm sure ill get round to doing videos on it at some point.
@@MerlinCGBroadway epic twist. I like your modifications very much. It takes a simple villain / innocent story and adds more twists. I always saw Strahd as a sort of victim, more of himself though. This adds some a nice dynamic and complicates matters more. Very nice!
@@SupersaiyanChristian thanks alot. I hope to one day make some more detailed videos on my campaign. And perhaps release all the custom content on my patreon or something. In the meantime however, it's finishing up these themes. (Though I am beginning to think I'll always find more things to make a theme for lol)
@@MerlinCGBroadway I would definitely want to read the whole story. It's so intriguing. Changes the classical perspective of Ireena the helpless maiden.
Are there any notes ? I want to run it for my 2nd playthrough as a DM
@@MerlinCGBroadway Still waiting for that !! xD
Random question but are you able to put these up on Spotify at all? I run my D&D music off Spotify and would love to include your awesome work in our campaign, thanks!
My plan for Spotify is to upload them when I feel more comfortable with the amount of tracks I have produced as it will be more cost effective to upload them in batch rather than piecemeal. Having to pay out to add new tracks over and over will cost me a small fortune.