@Muttonhawk

I have a couple suggestions which might fit the feel you're going for, from what you've described.



Termite showed me this one a little while back.

@BBeast Definitely much closer to where I'm aiming. They hint a bit of machinery, but I'll keep them bookmarked for later. I'll give the other stuff around it a listen in time, too. Cheers!

@BBeast @Antarctic Termite

Did any of you mention the Earthsoul Flower in the past? Reference.

@Double Capybara Nope, doesn't look like it.

But damned if that list isn't useful, I already have ideas for what to do with chimes and iron roses. Urtelem might plant earthsouls on themselves in cities so that others can see an urt's mood as easily as an urt can sense theirs. For politeness.

@Double Capybara Teknall gave one to Ilu as a gift. Apart from that, I think I coined the name for it in my hain history timeline. That's about as canonical as it gets as far as I know.

@Muttonhawk Sounds like you want something "Dark Wave", like Nox Arcana, or more on point, Arcana (unrelated to the other group).

Sadly it has been 8-9 years since I listen to those dudes, so I really do not remember the GOOD tracks, but if you want a good selection of their stuff, there is this Civilization Mod called Fall from Heaven 2, it is easy to access its soundtrack, just go asset > sounds.

Sim City 4 also had some "godly" stuff as its regional themes, most of them quirky-melodical, but I think some of them had a dark undertone, like Primordial Dream. Again, so long, I do not remember. youtu.be/PSv37HwwojU?t=2h17m45s

There is also some old Noriko Mitose stuff that definitely did a darker godly tone but after a few youtube purges, there is a gap between 1999 and 2008, as most fans either care about the really old stuff or the more late career stuff, which is still godly, (I mean, goddamn) but not dark at all, and very voice heavy.

Maybe there are some soundtracks I know that fit the bill, but frankly, my mood has been into more whimsical and melodic stuff so I just tend to remember that kind of stuff while others stay in a "probably exists but I cannot pinpoint".

@Kho

Didn't know you had expanded upon the Divinus^ΤΜ brand to include hotels as well.



I think we are all entitled to a share of the profits or else...

@Vec Now there is a place I would not visit even if they paid me, should it in any way reflect the RP.

@Vec Damn, you had to go and reveal it to everyone.

I don't know what you're talking about.

@Double Capybara Cheers, I'll give them a look.

@Double Capybara, a few are planted in the Celestial Citadel, with metal pots to give them colours. This was the aforementioned gift to Ilunabar. Otherwise, I have not made any use of them yet.

@Muttonhawk, I have another one. Slightly different feel, with less ill-at-ease feeling, but still plenty of mystery, and more instrumental, so might be useful for something.

@BBeast That one works as an uplifting track, I reckon. I'll keep it around and check out other stuff by that artist.

So I had a thought: Would Galbarians refer to earth (as in dirt) as galbar? Or would they just refer to it as earth?

@poog the pig I've walked everywhere on God's good galbar, and there ain't no galbar like the galbar of beautiful Vetruvia. Her galbar is as gems to stone, her galbar is bounty and riches, this is the true galbar, the galbar of galbars. Keep galbaring Vetruvian galbar, just keep galbaring.

I hereby declare this day, the 25th of May, our official annual Galbar Day. Keep Galbaring.

Edit: also, just so y'all know, I just came back from scribbling all over another scary big guy. He went down pretty hard, I can attest to that.

@poog the pig I've walked everywhere on God's good galbar, and there ain't no galbar like the galbar of beautiful Vetruvia. Her galbar is as gems to stone, her galbar is bounty and riches, this is the true galbar, the galbar of galbars. Keep galbaring Vetruvian galbar, just keep galbaring.

I hereby declare this day, the 25th of May, our official annual Galbar Day. Keeping Galbaring.

Edit: also, just so y'all know, I just came back from scribbling all over another scary big guy. He went down pretty hard, I can attest to that.

I'll take that as a yes.

So I had a thought: Would Galbarians refer to earth (as in dirt) as galbar? Or would they just refer to it as earth?

There are some languages where name of dirt =/= name of the planet. So yeah... I feel it would be silly to say "Oh, he fell down and ate a spoonful of Galbar".

@poog the pig I've researched it before and as I recall, Earth the planet was in fact named after dirt, but in a roundabout etymological way that probably took many years. It basically stems from a root that meant 'land' or 'ground'.

Dry land was the world plants grew and people lived, farmed and worked on, and I presume the sea was something kind of external to that. For most people the entire world was a vast expanse of earthy ground, plus (unreachable) sky and (uninhabitable, empty) sea. Eventually people figured out that the Dirt is a speck of dust in an infinite void but by then the name had stuck.

That's for Germanic languages and possibly also Latin, anyway. Other languages might not have the connection.

"INSOLENT WORM! You dare disturb I, the indomitable Stonelord Pebble? Let it never be said that the djinni lords of earth are weak, for I will shatter your every bone-"

"Huh? What's an earth djinni? You mean a GALBAR djinni?"

"What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo."

@Cyclone

Galbarian Al-Quaeda hmm....