Strahd's Sorrow - Original Piece for the Curse of Strahd Campaign
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- "For when the fourth bell tolls will our dark lord feel his heart, with all its grief and sorrow, trapped in agonizing purgatory" - Delora
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!
To me, the thing that I think broke Strahd wasn’t just Tatyana killing herself. I think his “Love” for her was nothing but a trick that the dark powers pulled on him. I think what broke him, was when his own soldiers turned on him. Strahd spent his entire life at war, his army was likely the closest thing he had to a family. When they turned on him, he slaughtered them to a man. He had irreparably turned to evil, he was so repulsive that the men he had led for decades to countless glorious victories tried to kill him. At least, that’s the approach that I’m taking in my campaign.
I'm borrowing that
Whole series of novels and lore books have been written on the dude. No idea why you people still feel the need to deduce what is already there.
That's a really cool approach.
I'm really excited for how I will run Castle Ravenloft once I start my game in a few months or so. I've decided to run the castle as a place that time refuses to forget, so there are echoes of Tatyana and Sergei's wedding day everywhere in the form of reskinning the encounters for the rooms. Shadows might be guards living out their last moments as another shadow rips them to shreds, skeletons with wedding invitations approach the party and try to determine if they're guests, the servants' quarters is now Tatyana's room, and ghost dress in the wardrobe was one of her favourites, now it replays her last moments. I feel like it'll be interesting to see how the players react to the castle and also to see how it has affected the NPCs that live there.
I mean I’m sure that hurt, but if you look at the foreword of the Curse of Strahd 5e book, it’s very clear that the creators really wanted Strahd to be emblematic of that possessive, toxic, selfish love; that sick sense of romance as owning another being who simply wants to live their own life that was the basis of the modern vampire legend. That’s not to dismiss your interpretation, I think that is a fascinating angle to approach his character from, but if you’re trying to truly represent the twisted arrogance and ego of Strahd, I think you need to accept that he truly did “love” Tatyana, if you can define his selfish lust as love that is.
@@chand911 Because they aren't actually necessary to running Curse of Strahd. Plus, it's just *better* for people to run their own interpretations, rather everyone playing the same version of the same villain. Too many groups wanna play this campaign for overlap to not happen if we did that.
My friend and I are working on modifying CoS too. We added locations from 2nd edition and stuff from the Van Ricten book. We might use this for a new npc who works under Rahadin.
Van richten is a good book. Some of the villains are bonkers!
I love that the art and music is giving me vibes of a game over screen for a retro gothic horror roguelike.
I absolutely love this song. It's so beautiful. It sounds so tragic and melancholy. I'd feel really sympathetic if it was anyone other than Strahd lmao. Seriously though, a great music piece. It does a great job of showing the sort of tragedy in his character. Even though that tragedy is largely put on for show. This piece really gives a good feel for Strahd's character.
Also, I have no idea who Delora is but they're very poetic and I appreciate that.
@@mjdragonmaster6559 It's from my heavily modified campaign. Changed alot of things, added alot of things. Quests, characters, locations and even altered large story details etc to make it all truly mine.
@@MerlinCGBroadway sounds cool! Hope you're all having fun with it.
"I did not die, nor did I live. I became undead. Forever." -Strahd von Zarovich-
A banshee nearly TPK'd us in Vallaki. Barovia is a unforgiving land... 🧛
Been planning a DnD session for the boys and this is the exact music I need for the vampire menace that grows within the empire
Oh this is just fantastic! Absolutely using this for my own CoS game when the group goes off hiatus
Thanks alot! Hopefully will be doing more soon. Really enjoyed this one :)
Wow, this is genuinely beautiful
This is so perfect. Very well composed.
I've finally stopped crying so I can write better how I feel about this song.
I haven't played the game but I saw Strahd in a fanart and it caught my attention, I researched it and I liked its story, you can somehow say that I have fallen in love with Strahd
The point is that with this song I had a mixture of feelings, maybe I feel too much empathy towards the villains, however the pain it reflects, the loneliness, that desire to no longer be living because everything is gone hit me quite hard. It just made me want to get to Strahd and hug him (even if I die in the process) and somehow calm him down, it's a weird feeling but I just want to end his pain even if it's not possible, even if his curse drags him back.
It hurts, I'd just like to help him even if it's a Game.
Thank you so much! Strahd (especially my interpretation I feel) truly is a tragic character. I'm glad you like it!
@@MerlinCGBroadway Love him as you have no idea, maybe try to learn the song
@@RigelCetus might I suggest checking out another piece of mine. My personal favourite, that I think really describes the tragedy of Ireena Kolyana and her link to Strahd, which can hear as their themes combat eachother and intertwine. I think you'd really enjoy it.
@@MerlinCGBroadwayI would appreciate the suggestion (sorry if I'm wrong, English is not my native language) I really think I'll try to try the game, really the melodies are so appealing that I could spend hours and hours listening to them. If this video increases views it is my fault.
Remember that Strahd only became a vampire because Tatyana, a woman whose land he invaded, rejected him, and his whole curse is that he simply won't accept the fact that she doesn't love him.
That is so beautful!
I think this is fantastic! The only thing is that grief is misspelled. :o
Grief? It says sorrow?
@@idiotbox3221 The title card/quote: "'For when the fourth bell tolls will our dark lord feel his heart, with all its greif and sorrow, trapped in agonizing purgatory" - Delora"
Ohhhh my bad, I couldn't read it very well. Thanks for the explanation
@@hfed2591 so it is lol my mistake
I love your music,
I was just wondering if you have uploaded it to spotifiy? I have seen messages from one year ago saying you were waiting so you could expand your library
Not yet. I'm still, in between other things, in the process of figuring the publication process out. Thank you for listening! :D
the beginning sounds like somber spongebob square pants
This is great! Have you got sheet music by any chance?
Also in it for this. Would be amazing
who is delora?
Delora is a new NPC I added as part of the heavy modifications I've made to the campaign. She has a vital part in the new backstory of the Von Zarovich family. Essentialy, she was an Oracle/Seer that convinced Barov to war against the neighbouring nations and aided in his eventual decline to madness and curse the family. There is more to her and she is far more involved than I can state in brief on youtube but that's the need-to-know I'd reckon. There are a number of other things that I've added and changed and alot more details I plan to share at some point in the future, like things like who Delora is etc