Naktigonis"Here in the eye of the storm, the winds ease. You are ringed by scudding clouds. A silver radiance illuminates your engine, like resurgent moonlight [...]. The voices on the wind clamour, until a peal of stern thunder stills them."
( - Sunless Skies, 'The Storm That Speaks' interaction) -----
Naktigonis - The Storm That Speaks (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2023-01-03 | "Here in the eye of the storm, the winds ease. You are ringed by scudding clouds. A silver radiance illuminates your engine, like resurgent moonlight [...]. The voices on the wind clamour, until a peal of stern thunder stills them."
( - Sunless Skies, 'The Storm That Speaks' interaction) -----
Background visualiser art by guest artist Nyme/Nymea: • twitter.com/spoiledskin • beefcage on Discord -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/naktigonis.bsky.social My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - A Carousel Of Hearts (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2024-12-24 | And remember: whether you're a warrior, a merchant, or a friar - the Carnival of Hearts is for your heart's desire!
…We're still working on that tagline.
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Background visualiser art by guest artist Nyme/Nymea: • twitter.com/spoiledskin • beefcage on Discord -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/naktigonis.bsky.social My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - Blackdamp Ballad (Lonesome Version) (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2024-09-07 | "This is a bedding plane, formed when the rock was being laid down as sediment on a seabed. Strata movement has prised the sides of the plane apart millions of years later, water has worked to burnish an absence between them, and our onwards route is into this deep time space, this deep time vice.
[...]
In that vanishing point, neither of us speaks. Language is crushed. We are anyway too busily engaged building structures within ourselves that might house our spirits, for the pressure here is immense, a weight of rock and time bearing down upon us from every direction with an intensity I have never experienced before, turning us fast to stone. It is a fascinating and terrible place, and not one that can be borne for long."
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - Blackdamp Ballad (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2024-09-07 | "Dust smogging the air; the tunnels ahead forking out; flickering lights and shadow-movement. The walls of the tunnels are inscribed with gouged patterns: spirals, cross-hatchings. They look like the cuts of a creature trying to claw its way out of a trap, or the ritual petroglyphs of a tribe.
[...]
The lizard-machine feeds at the face, the conveyor belt continues to trundle ore towards the hopper, and I am struck by a sense of the creatureliness of the mining operation: the avid clawing at the rock, the tunnel network that has been created. I remember cross-sections I have seen of the interiors of termite mounds and ants' nests, rabbit warrens and mole runs. Neil's map of the mine, with its hundreds of miles of intersecting drift, is just the plan of another animal's burrow-complex, bored out in search of resources."
[...] And yet, somewhere deep down, you find yourself rooting for the storm, hoping for the worst. As if a part of you is tired of waiting, wondering when the world will fall apart - by lot, by fate, by the will of the gods.
[...] The apocalypse is one of the oldest fantasies we have. But it's not about skipping to the end of the story. It's a longing for revelation, a revealing of what we already know but cannot see - that none of this is guaranteed, and there's no such thing as "ordinary life". That our civilization is just an agreement, one that could be revoked at any time."
( - John Koenig, 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows') -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - The Windsingers Dance (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2024-02-24 | "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
( - Sun Tzu, 'The Art Of War') -----
"The better part of valor is discretion [...]."
( - William Shakespeare, 'Henry IV', Part I, Act V, Scene IV) -----
Us you will guide, Bravest of the brave! Even should the ocean become your grave!
May you return, Victory in hand, May you once again tread on steady land!
Glory you'll earn, Echo shall your name In the books of history, crowned in fame!
Onward, to the darkest chasms! May you never falter, And may your way be led by Song!
Onward, to the deepest fathoms! May the light protect you, May you return triumphant, strong!
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"The Song of Fathoms", colloquially also known as "Oscillation", is a popular tune well-known around Lumen. Despite this, it remains a musical piece surrounded by discussion and dispute. In spite of the fact that we know exactly how old the piece is, and who the original author is, certain events and clauses of history mean that we cannot reliably verify its true arrangement and original text.
[...] [F]ollowing the formalities, as the observers cheered on, the first expeditionary [Diver] force - 'The Pioneers', with Akarad at the fore - descended the cave system and dived into its waters, following the path until they disappeared from sight. At their descent, a musical piece, then called "The Song of Fathoms", was performed by the Scholars' Orchestra of the Scholars of Markor. The piece itself was commissioned for the ceremony collectively by the High Convocation, and the performance was conducted by the Chambermaster of the orchestra, Ingrid Jura. -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - The Gideshu March (Band Version) (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2023-12-02 | Not much is known about First Lieutenant August Gideshu, the author of the song, himself. Supposedly an Adretian in origin, his unusual surname seems to indicate an older lineage, likely one reaching back to the Pre-Tidal epochs, when the Adretian peoples were contained within their mountain homelands, squabbling as scattered tribes. The Gideshu family name appears several times in various historical Authority records, though never in a rank higher than First Lieutenant.
Authority records indicate that August Gideshu served aboard the Central Authority Sailing-Ship (or CASS) 'Zephyr', under Captain Hector Corbet. Little else is known about this ship's crew or specifications, aside from the fact that it served in the Eastern Luminant, and experienced several clashes involving the Etrean Navy, in which they emerged victorious. Gideshu himself is noted as having distinguished himself in one battle by bolstering crew morale during an Etrean boarding - possibly by starting to sing the eponymous march, suggesting his fellow crew were familiar with his penmanship. -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - A Darkness Beneath (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2023-10-27 | "For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life."
( - William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act III, Scene I) -----
i used Disguise Self on Astarion, turning him into a gnome so he could fit him through a crevice in the Selunite temple. the game disagreed.
(man it's been a while since i uploaded a gaming video huh)Naktigonis - Blood And Thunder (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2023-08-25 | "We climb higher. The reflected light off the sea still silvers the sky to our south. There are cheerily coloured beehives, ranged in rows in fields set back from the road. Wild-flower meadows, small vineyards.
We cross a wide pass between high peaks. Beech and pine have thickened in the lower ground, and I can smell resin in the cooler air. A sense of mountain communities and forest wilderness grows. The extent of the woods here makes a nonsense of human frontier lines. Beeches march over borders."
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - Kyrie (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2023-01-11 | "While the statue is the raw material of nightmares, there is something soothing about the idea that even a beast like this might be harnessed; that there is the chance of such an ally, for those who crack the code of offerings and prayer. Whether it is actually listening, it is impossible to tell. The thought that it even might, however, is something to hold onto in the dark."
"The man who is traveling and does not yet know the city awaiting him along his route wonders what the palace will be like, the barracks, the mill, the theater, the bazaar. In every city of the empire every building is different and set in a different order: but as soon as the stranger arrives at the unknown city [...], he immediately distinguishes which are the princes’ palaces, the high priests’ temples, the tavern, the prison, the slum. This – some say – confirms the hypothesis that each man bears in his mind a city made only of differences, a city without figures and without form, and the individual cities fill it up.
This is not true of Zoe. [...] The traveler roams all around and has nothing but doubts: he is unable to distinguish the features of the city, the features he keeps distinct in his mind also mingle. He infers this: if existence in all its moments is all of itself, Zoe is the place of indivisible existence. But why, then, does the city exist? What line separates the inside from the outside, the rumble of wheels from the howl of wolves?"
( - Italo Calvino, 'Invisible Cities') -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - Whisperwind (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2023-01-03 | "Impatient winds hound your vessel. Beneath their moan, you can hear whispered voices. They call to you, inviting you to leave your engine and join their revels in the vaults of the sky [...]."
( - Sunless Skies, 'The Whisperwinds' interaction) -----
"A simple rite. Open windows; shivered words; a wind, welcomed in. Is it a comfort, to know you are not alone? To be watched by one of the capricious gods of the turning sky? Their attention can draw other, unwelcome things."
( - Sunless Skies, 'The Thing in the Mist' interaction)
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - INSOMNIA (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2023-01-02 | PSA: This video contains flashing imagery, fast-moving visuals that may induce motion sickness, and sounds which some viewers may find disturbing. You have been advised.
The audio featured in this video is different than its in-game counterpart due to ROBLOX Terms of Service restrictions on distorted audio and screams. -----
"yet now! the sun fades out as thousand-voiced the lamb does howl back at the wolf, unhinging far its maw, and lunging for the neck - the blood-starved beast is eaten, and the hunter now is prey.
the field-mouse at the falcon ruby-eyed shall leap and tear apart with claws its feathers and its wings,
the stray gazelle, wild-eyed and fanged, shall hunt its fear-elected king - the dread-maned lion, - in a petty feast;
the rabbit now shall turn to beast, blood-starved, with fire in its eyes, it stalks the fox, in wait of time to strike."
( - Naktigonis, 'our book of modernity') -----
"[...] A humming vibration is all around you, resolving into new tones as you let your perception wander over its octaves. Your eye wanders up towards the snow that covers the peak. Snowflakes float eternally in a stilled wind. Layers of packed snow perch precariously on each other, unsettled by the sound of the vibration. You are staring at the beginning of an avalanche, and you can almost imagine, almost feel all that snow collapsing down the slopes towards you.
But you are safe in a moment that's been stretched, pulled like taffy, soft and warm and enveloping your body."
( - Fallen London, 'A Dream of Stillness: Look' (Upon A Painted Sea) storylet) -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - A Light In The Sky (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-10-31 | "the moon grows brighter, sun grows dim, but night is neither foul nor grim. so lovely, in autùmnal shades, them evening proudly masquerades as dances it a sarabande."
( - Naktigonis, 'the plight of birds') -----
"And the lights, they come swirling, On the walls they land, twirling. Dancing nobly and calm, They might rest on your palm for a while. [...] As they waltz on the walls, They embellish the halls - My, what beautiful sights To my eye bring these lights!"
Je te plumerai la tête, Je te plumerai la tête. Et la tête! Et la tête! Alouette! Alouette!"
( - "Alouette", a French folk/children's song) -----
"The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter [...]. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again.
So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all."
( - St. Bede, "Ecclesiastical History of the English People") -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - The Killing Wind (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-10-11 | "The lightning answers. A colossal knot of violent, violet light stabs through the sky. A sigil of fire! The thunder roars. Your crew wail and shriek. [...] The sigil's meaning is branded into your mind: the erroneous assumption that there will be a tomorrow.
When you blink, you see it. When you sleep you will see it. When you die you will see it."
( - Sunless Skies, 'The Storm That Speaks' interaction) -----
"Tree-branches cast shadows on the walls of the cave. The light here is not violet, but the cold blue of winter mornings. This is why you came from the Surface. You thought you knew, but you did not, could not know. By the time you leave this place, you will forget again."
( - Fallen London, "Woods in winter" storylet) -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - And Let Slip The Hounds Of War (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-06-13 | "To reassert my rule, I sought out unscrupulous men skilled in the application of force. Tight-lipped and terrifying, these mercenaries brought with them a war machine of terrible implication."
( - The Ancestor, 'Ancestor's Memoirs: The Brigand Pounder', from the video game "Darkest Dungeon") -----
"Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful objects so familiar That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter’d with the hands of war; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds [...]."
( - William Shakespeare, 'Julius Caesar', Act III, Scene I) -----
inspired by these: youtube.com/watch?v=I9Nx-57bt4A youtube.com/watch?v=nOFAcWRVJegNaktigonis - The Games Of War (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-02-08 | "There were no words to speak to him of how I felt. Our world was one of blood, and the honour it won; only cowards did not fight. For a prince there was no choice. You warred and won, or warred and died."
( - Madeline Miller, 'The Song of Achilles') -----
"Sound trumpets! let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave."
( - William Shakespeare, 'King Henry VI', Part III, Act II, Scene II) -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - A Sarabande Of Thunder (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | we dance a burning sarabande, the steps of a farruca grand. the air grows frosty, earth grows cold. all follows now an ancient mould - a wounded gasp, a blazing fight within a world of dying light.
( - Naktigonis) -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - The Gideshu March (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | The Gideshu March is a popular marching song of the Central Authority - the iron-fisted guardians of the Central Luminant. Written in the year 1180 by August Gideshu, an Authority officer, the march quickly became popular among the rank and file soldiers, with many regiments choosing the song as their marching tune. Some even consider it to be the Authority's unofficial anthem - though the Authority elites' stance on this is not entirely clear.
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LYRICS
We're masters of the oceans wide, Custodians of relentless tide! For the Authority we fight - Within this dark a blazing light.
Hurrah, hurrah, three cheers for the cause! We truth uphold, and also laws! For the many, the few, the big, the small - We would give our lives for the cause! We would give our lives for the cause!
We're wardens of the valiant dead, From shore to shore our boots will tread! The furthest reaches we shall tame, Bring order, peace, Adretian fame!
Hurrah, hurrah, three cheers for the cause! We truth uphold, and also laws! For the many, the few, the big, the small - We would give our lives for the cause!
Hurrah, hurrah, three cheers for the cause! We truth uphold, and also laws! For the many, the few, the big, the small - We would give our lives for the cause! We would give our lives for the cause! -----
For what are space and time but the inventions Of sorrowing men? The soul goes faster than light. Eating the moon alive, it leaves space and time behind.
( - Donald Revell, 'Death') -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - The Sun, Gleaming (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone [...].
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - Masters Of The House (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | An old, semi-scratched record plate rests inside a black leather sleeve, the latter still in solid condition - although the opening flap is a little worn at the folded edge.
There is no visible text on this packaging - neither outside it, nor within it. Instead, at the front of the sleeve, a singular symbol of sorts stands out, etched into the leather in gold. The significance of the symbol - and, indeed, its meaning, - escape you.
Upon closer inspection, the sleeve's flap hides a cut in it - a pouch, it seems. Within it is contained a small piece of paper. It looks as if it was torn from a book of some kind, its appearance weathered, the paper itself now bearing a rich sepia tone.
There is some sort of writing on it, artfully calligraphed onto the insignificant-looking paper scrap:
"Defy the hush-makers. Let the glorious song ring on. We shall sing with the tide, 'til a new Celtor sinks!
- The Masters of the House" -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - Cry Havoc! (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
( - William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act III, Scene I) -----
In time, the path ahead shall end, as it already has to those who walked before us.
Then, none will walk. None will remain. We will have been the last.
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this track is a medley of the first four contours of 'To Sleep, Dreaming', combined with the song's scrapped segments. i put it together to commemorate the launch of Deepwoken.
it's hard to believe it's been two years since the work on the project began. it has been a long and bumpy road, but we're finally here.
a sincere thank you goes out to the Deepwoken team for being the most talented and excellent team of people i've had the pleasure of working with.
and of course, my greatest gratitude goes to Raguza & Arch_Mage, for giving me an opportunity to develop and grow as an artist over these past 2 years. the Deepwoken Original Soundtrack is as much their labour as it is mine - for without their guidance, i would not be where i am today.
dear friends and comrades, i hope to continue working with all of you on future excellence, for as long as we shall! 🥂 -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - Of Chitin, Kith And Kin (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | The other night I had a dream, you came to me or so it seemed On a zeppelin made of crystal, made of glass. Upon a steam calliope you sat and played a song for me, A shanti from a vagrant midnight mass.
Oh, we puffed a pipe of turkish moss and set course for the albatross, A sea of silver prophets on the wing. And through the captain's telescope, you gazed and blew a ring of smoke, And then we bade farewell unto the spring...
IUSTE IUDEX ULTIONIS, DONUM FAC REMISSIONIS ANTE DIEM RATIONIS.
( - a segment from the 'Dies Irae', a Gregorian chant) -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - Peregrine (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
( - Robert Frost, 'The Road Not Taken') -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - Of Smoke And Steel (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | We're workers of Summer Company, That fortress of smoke and steel! For guns we forge and bullets make, Leave fire in our wake - We work for the Summer Company!
The Isle of Summer marks our home - Our fortress of smoke and steel! The bellows roar and anvils ring, We serve no lord or king - Except for the isle that marks our home!
( - Naktigonis, 'The Summer Company Song') -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - In Starstruck Sands (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - To Shores, Distant (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | I had now a host - Some eighteen at most Now followed my orders and tended each post. And with confidence vast I barked, 'anchors aweigh!', And soon my dear ship journeyed out from the bay.
( - Naktigonis, 'Tale of the Storm') -----
My SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/naktigonis/tracks My Twitter: twitter.com/naktigonis My Bandcamp: naktigonis.bandcamp.comNaktigonis - One For All, All For Gun (Deepwoken OST)Naktigonis2022-01-23 | If gunpowder's what you're looking for, We've plenty for all to spare! Enough for all to sell and trade, Or be perhaps unmade - Be careful with what you're looking for!
Don't make the mistake of crossing us - It will be your last, for sure! We're one for all, and all for one, The barrel of a gun - No soul will be ever jostling us!