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Song #1: "The Discovery of Denilou (Theme of Denilou)", composed and performed by Ralrok
Format: MP3, Length: 6:15, Original Title: "Realm Island" from the album "The Iron Realm".
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The Island of Denilou (Thergerim: denilou, "sacred land"), also called the "Iron Realm" is an isle in the midst of the Adanian Sea far to the southeast of the mainland of the Sarvonian Continent. Once an uninhabitated island it was discovered in 1317 b.S. by Brok Strongarm, a dwarf of the Mitharims who set out to reach the famous Ylaoth Khirril'drumm, the Isle of the Glimmering Stones, as described in dwarven myth. The isle indeed offered many riches, especially gold and diamond mines were dug. The dwarves who settled there founded a great underground city called Toll Brok'Baroll, which is one of the greatest dwarven cities ever built. Since the year 292 b.S. refugees from the Sarvonian Wars, in fact members of all civilized races of the continent (humans, elves, dwarves and halflings), landed on Denilou as well. After several skirmishes during hundreds of years of co-existence with the native dwarves, the four races of Denilou eventually managed to co-operate peacefully. [More...]
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Song #2: "Theme of the Narfost Plains", composed and performed by Ralrok
Format: MP3, Length: 3:20, Original Title: "Strawquay" from the album "Elsidox: Volume One".
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The Narfost Plain is a wide empty grass land, half arid, with low population and abundant wildlife. The dominant plant is the alth‘ho grass, the most the prominent animals the aj‘nuvic and its smaller relative, the aka‘pi, the most feared however is the oracua, a feline predator. Another famous animal found at etn Narfost Plain is the jumping ellez‘ga, which is able, as its name says, to jump high out of the alth‘ho grass to have a view over its surroundings. The most hated however, is the tra‘mat or mercarto fly, a carnivourous flying beetles, sucking blood from other animals. The Narfost Plain is the Shendar's northernmost hunting and meeting place and the only settlement, Meh'met, is of Shendar origin as well. [More...]
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Song #3: "Theme of Cyhalloi", composed and performed by Ralrok
Format: MP3, Length: 7:38, Original Title: "Tongard, Land of the Norse" from the album "Elsidox: Volume One".
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Cyhalloi is the northernmost continent of the world of Caelereth, a vast land of ice, an immense tundra, inhabitated mainly by humans and ice elves, located far to the north. It is a dark land, but also a land of many, many mysteries...
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Song #4: "The Scattersand Shoals", composed and performed by Ralrok
Format: MP3, Length: 4:19, Original Title: "Buccaneer's Unity" from the album "Elsidox: Volume One". Piece was especially remixed for Santharian use.
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The Scattersand Shoals are a small archipelago southwest of the Sarvonian continent. They are considered a strategical position since the rise of the Stratanian kingdom, but were only a few times occupied by military units from major powers. They are feared for their treacherous reefs and undeep shallows around the whole group of islands. The Scattersand Shoals also have always been a long time favourite haven for all kinds of refugees to hide from their respective enemies, be they law, life or lover. [More...]
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Song #5: "Theme of Nepris", composed and performed by Vladeptus
Format: MP3, Length: 2:34, Original Title: "Hero''s Rest" from the album "What the Dragon Heard", Track #18.
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The village of Nepris is a small fishing village of about 200 people. The fishermen there harvest several species of fish, seaweed and shellfish that they trade or sell to the local dwarves or traders from the Mithral Route. [More...]
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Song #6: "Through the Mists of Wetholm", composed and performed by Ralrok
Format: MP3, Length: 3:51, Original Title: "Calm before the Storm".
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Wetholm or the Glumboroughs, as the hobbits call it, are perpetually grey, misty, and redolent with the scent of various molds and miasmas. Mushrooms and fungi of all sorts abound here, as do willows, mosses and water-loving plants like the pondpad, the lemertia and others. Dark-barked trees rise here and there out of tussocks of yellow-grey reeds and grasses, interspersed with patches of lush moss and equally-thriving waterweeds. What appears to be even ground may in fact be a peaty bog, a clay silt quicksand, or the heavily-overgrown surface of a shallow pond. [More...]
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Song #7: "Theme of Deepgorge Mine", composed and performed by Ralrok
Format: MP3, Length: 6:16, Original Title: "Into the Depths", original Santharian work.
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Located at the east coast of the Manthrian province, a bit inland about 50 strals north of the Mashdai River, Deepgorge is a dreaded and shunned labyrinth of many natural and a few additionally constructed tunnels. Formerly a place where mainly fyrite was mined in the deepest levels, mining activity was abandoned several centuries ago already and the tunnels are now said to serve as hideout for outcast people, to harbour criminals or even hordes of monsters. It is also rumoured that the legendary mohsys race, human torsos with legs of spiders, lives deep, deep down at the bottom of the mines, but few dare to venture into this abyss.
Deepgorge received its name for the impressive sight of its gigantic underground gorges and chasms it has to offer, which make a decent into the depths a risky undertaking, especially as many parts of the former infrastructure have crumbled to dust by now. Deepgorge has many hidden entrances, tucked in the hills up until the Propsper Mountains in the north, but also smaller outlets far to the east near the sea coast. Several lower levels are also said to actually be filled completely with water from the Adanian Sea during the flood.
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Song #8: "A Day at Keep Mistrash", composed and performed by Gean Firefeet
Format: MP3, Length: 6:05, original Santharian work.
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Keep Mistrash is a fortified castle, positioned low on the western slopes of the Mithral Mountains in the Santharian province of Manthria. It is the seat of the Markgravens of the Mithral Marches and houses nearly one hundred people in the winter months. The Keep itself is an imposing ten stories high at its tallest tower, and from a distance looks as if it is carved out of the rock of the mountain.
Song #9: "Theme of Quel'tra'loh", composed and performed by Ralrok
Format: MP3, Length: 5:29, Original Title: "Isle of Ruins", original Santharian work.
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Quel’tra’loh is an island realm founded upon magic, weste of the Sarvonian mainland. The capital of Quel'tra'loh is called Corloth, and since this is its most famous city, the people are called Corlothans. Corlothans are a proud people, and one of the few for whom magic is an everyday thing and not mainly imagined as stories are told around warm fires. The leader of the city, the Skylord (or Skylady) has always been one of the most powerful wizards of this small kingdom. All of the businesses use magic in one form or another. Blacksmiths make use of runes and potions to imbue their weapons with beneficial characteristics. Farmers use magic to create crops that will grow faster and have better results. Architects reinforce their buildings with small spells, and can protect them against weather. Merchants use gates formed by rock arches enchanted with extremely powerful spells to travel long distances in short amounts of time. The people of Quel'tra'loh are most famous for the legendary flying ships powerful mages of ancient times had used, however, this knowledge has been lost during the millenia.
Song #10: "Theme of Parthanul", composed and performed by Ralrok
Format: MP3, Length: 4:38, original Santharian work.
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Parthanul is a small village that gets its name by corruption from the Thergerim "Pratheron" (Pratheron, reunion/meeting) and "Anul" (Anul, water), literally meaning "meeting of waters", doubtless referring to the Mashdai River that meets the Adanian Seacost, where the village is located. With barely one hundred inhabitants (of Avennorian origin) the village has strong dwarven influence (hence the name) due to the active trade with dwarves in a nearby settlement to the north. Living mainly on the sea catch and trading everything else the people need for a living, Parthanul is a typical Manthrian fishing village. [More...]
Song #11: "A View from Griffin's Marl", composed and performed by Gean Firefeet
Format: MP3, Length: 4:32, original Santharian work.
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Griffin's Marl is a huge, majestic mountain in the southern part of the Santharian province of Manthria, harbouring castle Thunderclaim on its back. From the castle you have a wonderful over the Tolonion Heath to the North, the Yanthian Gulf to the East with the proud town of Klinsor and in the South your eyes wander over the sheer endless Sharadon Forests, home of the Maeverhim elves...
Song #12: "Theme of Lynlith", composed and performed by Gean Firefeet
Format: MP3, Length: 2:12, original Santharian work.
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Located just below the whaling town of Klinsor, Lynlith and Vicrem frame the Mead of Lynlith. They are known as wool towns: Lynlith raises and shears the rough-haired goats and sheep, while Vicrem cleans, cards, and spins the resultant fleeces. This piece of flute music is dedicated to the shepherds at the Mead of Lynlith who oversee the vast fields with their grazing animals and to the weavers of the nearby Vicrem, who make the finest clothes out of the fleeces of the sheep of Lynlith.
Song #13: "Sailing to Zandiria", lyrics written and sung by Bard Judith.
Format: MP3, Length: 3:17. Original Santharian Work.
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This song is one of a cycle which Bard Judith has composed and plans to perform before the Masters in Bardavos to earn her third bard's ring. It is dedicated to her friend and compeer in music, the bard Gean Firefeet. The subject, while ostensibly about one of the treacherously lovely islands in the Scattersand Shoal archipelago, 'Zandiria', also alludes to the journey we all must take at the end of our lives.