| Song Name | Writer | Era | Mood | Themes | Description |
Among the Dappled Leaves | Arcas | Past | Wistful | Beauty | An old song that paints the picture of a beautiful glade inhabited by nymphs deep within the Old Woods. |
For What is Right | Arcas | Past | Triumphant | War | A call to arms to 'fight for what is right'. The song is extremely vague, using feelings to stir up listeners, rather than recounting any events. It is now mostly used as a marching song; but it used to enjoy some popularity in settlements during the war. |
After the War | Calliope | Past | Wistful | Love; War | A song wishing for an end to the war so that the singer can live their life with their love. It details all of the things that they can finally do together after it is over, and paints a happy picture of a peaceful future. |
Fatal Attraction | Calliope | Past | Lamentful | Tragedy; Love | A young Nereid falls in love with a mortal, who she charms into falling in love with her. She tries to take them to her home but, not realising that mortals need air to breath, she accidentally drowns them. |
For Those I Loved | Calliope | Past | Wistful; Light Hearted | Love; Memory | A song remembering and celebrating past loves for sweet memories and how they have helped the singer grow. |
Just a Moment | Calliope | Past | Light Hearted | Love; War | A song sung from the perspective of somone trying to convince their lover to put down their work to spend time with them instead. References to the war ("They'll still be fighting tomorrow", "Our time could be short, so spend it with me") imply the lover's connection to the war and betray the song's age. |
On Homeward Wings | Calliope | Past | Melancholy; Wistful | Memory | A song about a siren shipwrecked on a small island just off the coast. Unable to swim because of the harsh waters, the song details her attempts to remember happy memories in order to be able to fly to safety. |
Stay With Me | Calliope | Past | Wistful | Love; War; Peace | A song sung from the perspective of a someone trying to convince thier lover to stop fighting and no longer take part in the war. It is not clear at the end of the song what the lover has decided to do. |
The Trials and Tribulations of Philander Baros, Seventh of his Name | Calliope | Past | Light Hearted | Comedy | A young boy is prophesied to become a great hero. He spends the next ten years trying to live up to this prophecy, barely keeping himself alive. The song follows his misadventures until it transpires that the prophecy was about someone else. |
Unfortunately, I Can't | Calliope | Past | Light Hearted | Comedy; Love | A woman is invited to a festival by a man she does not like; the song details her excuses to not go with him, getting more and more ridiculous with every verse. |
Upon the Waves | Calliope | Past | Lamentful; Wistful | Loss | An old Siren mourning song that describes flowers floating in the waves, bringing thoughts, feelings and questions to loved ones who have passed away. |
Stay Mine | Dorcas, Daughter of Diantha | Past | Light-Hearted (Well, Sort Of) | Love | A sweet-sounding love song that is rather sinister if you listen to the lyrics too closely. Obsessive undertones flow throughout this song that is filled with veiled threats for their lover if they were ever to spurn them. |
Your Eyes Like Diamonds | Dorcas, Daughter of Diantha | Past | | Revenge; Love | Verse after verse of insults, hidden within the structure of a love song. Was, in the past, a popular way of embarassing and kicking-to-the-curb lovers who had wronged you. |
A Weathered Beauty, Fallen | Euclid the Lesser | Past | Lamentful | Creation; Loss | A song desribing the creation of a perfect marble statue; and then its invevitable fate at the hands of the weather and time. |
The Greatest Bard | Euclid the Lesser | Past | Triumphant | Revenge | A song of revenge, detailing the plans of the bard to murder his enemies and use their deaths to create beautiful and celebrated songs. Considered the greatest work of Euclid the Lesser, the song was used as evidence in his eventual trial and sentencing (which led to his execution) when it came to light that he really had been planning to kill a number of local rivals and critics. |
Return Me to the Sea | Ianthe | Past | Lamentful; Wistful | Death; Loss | A Siren mourning song sung from the perspective of a Siren on their death bead, longing to return to the sea in their final moments. |
Beware the Rabbit | Iosephos Alexandrus | Past | Light Hearted | Children's Song | A children's song about a orc who kept taking his dinner to the top of a hill and a rabbit who kept stealing it. |
Excavate a Donkey | Iosephos Alexandrus | Past | Light Hearted | Comedy; Children's Song | A strange nonsense song about 4 beetles that ride chickens and have a baby donkey. |
Grave of Destruction | Iosephos Alexandrus | Past | Wistful | Adventure; Loss | A song about a brave halfling who traveled to a far away land whilst maintaining an oath to not kill. He is one of only two survivors in a story that sees the rest of his companions lose their lives, souls, or morality. |
Where the Ghosts Live | Iosephos Alexandrus | Past | Light Hearted | Comedy | A song of a man who got drunk in a pub and, when walking home, got chased by a ghost that turned out to be his shadow. The song ends with him finding a real ghost on his return home. |
Of Cloven Might | Jazz Vaca | Past | Light-Hearted; Triumphant | | A complex Minotaur song which is fairly incomprehensible to outsiders. The song is mostly allegories, slang, and traditional sayings that don't actually mean very much when put all together. |
A Final Place to Rest | Orestes | Past | Wistful; Hopeful | Death; Loss | A Siren mourning song that sings of hope for deceased loved ones; that they find peace and a final resting place in the lost Siren city. |
Of Storms and Hearts | Timotheus | Past | Lamentful | Love; Loss | A song of a sailor caught on a ship in a harrowing storm lamenting that, should he die, he will never see his love again. |
The Price of Love | Timotheus | Past | Joyful | Love; | A thief sneaks into a settlement under the cover of night, but finds himself enraptured by a woman there. Rather than steal from the settlement, he ends up wooing and spending the night with the woman. Waking up in the morning, he decides to leave his life of crime behind and stay with her. |
Carry On Josephina | Unknown | Past | Light hearted | Comedy | A drinking song about the strings of a harp snapping, but the bard singing on. Sang in the round. |
On Alexandria's Shores | Unknown | Past | Light hearted | Comedy | An old sea shanty describing the inclement weather and noting that it will pass. Extremely rude and filled with thinly-veiled innuendo. |
The Song of Sky and Sea | Kyrah | Present | | | A song describing the major constellations of Thylea: the Gygan, the Prisoner, the Heart, the Warrior, the Centaur, the Ant, the Twins, the Trickster, the Queen, and the Bard. |
A Coin Paid Forward | Myia of Estoria | Present | Light hearted | Children's Song | Two children are sent to market to buy food. Along the way they lose or give away all of the money they have been given and are unable to buy anything. On their return home they find that all the people they have helped, and the situations they caused when losing their money, have resulted in good things for their family. |
Won't You Be Mine? | Myia of Estoria | Present | Light hearted | Love | A human man falls for a Dryad, but she rebuffs him. The song is sung from the perspective of the man as he attempts to woo her and change her mind. |
Ravenswood Bluff | The Pandemonium Players | Present | Lamentful | Tragedy | A song about a disguised demon that is terrorising a village and killing people. Knowing that the demon is one of them, the villagers begin killing each other in a misguided attempt to stop them. This is unsuccessful, and in the end the whole village is slain by either the demon, or their fellow villagers. |
A Journey of 145 Leagues | Those Who Declare | Present | Happy | Adventure; Comedy | A song of two brothers who declare their willingness to take a journey of 290 leagues in 2 parts in order to find someone. |
A Drink or Three | Unknown | Present | Light hearted | Comedy | A song sung from the perspective of a someone trying to remove a curse that causes them to sing everything. Within the first two verses it becomes apparent that the only way to remove the curse is for the singer to drink a drink bought for them by someone else. The song has many verses that follow this, often varying regionally. It is traditional to stop the song only when bought a drink - as such many musicians find themselves having to improvise new verses from time to time, despite the length of the pre-written material. |
