Words from Cerilia
Brief notes on the songs, their themes, and the worlds behind them.
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A mother keeps her son and her hope alive after her family’s fall. Fire hidden beneath snow becomes an image of patience: surviving the winter before deciding when to rise.
Inspiration TBD
Tribes of the Heartless Waste
A rescue at sea becomes a warning to flee. The survivors’ terror and the thing following beneath the waves make this a song about the limits of courage when the sea belongs to something larger.
Inspiration TBD
An old warrior who thought his fighting days were over answers one more call. The song honours a promise kept when kingdoms, victories, and even hope have begun to fail.
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An anthem told from Alamie’s point of view, where a divided inheritance becomes a dream of reunion. Its pride is sincere, but the song also shows how an old grievance can grow into an imperial ambition.
Inspiration TBD
Birthright Campaign Setting
A wandering maiden’s bond with rivers becomes a fragile kind of freedom. As that living connection is threatened, the song turns from wonder toward loss, belonging, and the fear of having nowhere left to return.
Inspiration TBD
The Rjurik Highlands
I wrote this after a campaign run by one of my assistants in Kvigmar. The players and the challenge they faced really moved me, and I wanted to turn their adventure into a song.
Inspiration The players and their challenge in my assistant’s Kvigmar campaign.
A lament for a protector whose grief hardens into hatred. Rather than excusing what he becomes, the song mourns the person he might have remained if he had been able to forgive.
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Blood Enemies, Abominations of Cerilia
A handful of thieves cross the desert toward a guarded palace and an impossible prize. The pleasure of the song is in secrecy, nerve, and the moment a dangerous theft becomes a legend.
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Cities of the Sun
A baroness holds together a realm built through struggle rather than an easy claim to greatness. Beneath the courtly threats is a quieter story about determination and the daily cost of keeping something hard-won alive.
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Player's Secrets of Roesone
A forge-song about work, memory, and a people’s refusal to disappear. Hammers and mountain halls give the music its scale, but the heart of it is the bond between making, defending, and belonging.
Inspiration TBD
Player's Secrets of Baruk-Azhik
Sailors chase the promise of silver into a coast that offers neither welcome nor mercy. The refrain turns that promise into a warning: the fortune beneath the ice may cost more than anyone can carry home.
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Havens of the Great Bay
A supposedly refined performance collapses into a bawdy tavern song. Its jokes turn on hypocrisy, appetite, and the gap between respectable appearances and what the crowd suspects is happening behind them.
Inspiration TBD
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