Symbols of Power
Month of Resting, Year 10, Era of Rust
About the Music
There are two kinds of musical inspiration at play in my writing. The first one is the usual one.Inspiring Music
What a good song! It makes me want to write about an old sailor and his personality!We could divide this one in two ways...
Specific songs that have inspired plots, characters or concepts
The rap battles used in Hamilton to represent the cabinet meetings inspired the use of payadas (Sung Duels) in the Kingdom of Merthiorn as the traditional way to solve minor conflicts.
This song by the most excellent band called D (Which songs narrate their own fantasy story!) was the inspiration for the character Kalimax, part of the Karte military.
A term used in this song turned into the informal name that some societarians use to describe the Hirschmall
This song is simply inspiring, nothing else to comment about it.
2023 edit: Well! Now Rosscot Camp has been written inspired by this song. See if you get the references in Rosscot's name!
2023 edit: Well! Now Rosscot Camp has been written inspired by this song. See if you get the references in Rosscot's name!
This song sounds like something you could listen to at a gathering of the Horror Circle (And also, hey, my sister composed it!)
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This incredibly alluring song inspired its namesake House of Pleasures, its owner, and several of its patrons. How productive! NSFW
Woodkid's Winchester, among many creations of Paul Dresher ispired the profession of the auralist.
Personal playlist to write about epic things
Whilst this playlist is not the one I usually use for writing (as it has too many distracting songs with cool lyrics), it is without a doubt the one that makes me want to write the most, whenever I listen to it.
Blind Guardian and Celtica Pipes Rock!, are two bands that particularly generate that effect in me.
Blind Guardian and Celtica Pipes Rock!, are two bands that particularly generate that effect in me.
Playlists to just sit down and write
My personal working playlist, a somewhat random mix of videogame music and progressive rock (I guess?) with some non-distracting random cool themes.
Songs with lyrics that didn't say what the author heard
What the hell are the "Alocardenas"? Mexico surely has super interesting names for its places.
This song about the history of Mexico City is at times difficult to follow, but the confusion ended up creating some cool names for the gods of Autonomism.
The character of Nancy as well as her tavern the "Horror Café" were inspired by this song. Except the song is about a harbour café.
All of the text and art of Symbols of Power, including the CSS theme, have been created by David Cutuli (Naelin) unless otherwise specified.
The ttrpg mini models and faction shields have been created using HeroForge and Azgaar Armoria respectively and edited by Naelin.
The art and content attributed to the pseudonyms of Welkinal, Danae or Veld has been created by David Cutuli (Naelin).
SoP theme song composed and interpreted by Lu Cutuli. | SoP logo and Out of Universe logo created by TJ Trewin. | Open paper texture by Markus Spiske.
Huge thanks to TJ Trewin for his help with SoP's css theme design.