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This is the song I found while I was cleaning yesterday and have listened to at least thirty times today:
The thing is, there's a set of lyrics that go:
schoolpsychnerd ran based on a setting I came up with where the main premise was that after a thousand years of rule by the vampiric Nobility, the humans rose up in a rebellion called the Dawn War and threw down the vampires. And because of a millennium of literally bloodsucking, inhuman aristocratic rule, the very concept of birthright and bloodline granting privileges was irrevocably corrupted such that all the nations built after the rebellion were democracies. Accusing someone of aristocratic leanings was tantamount to accusing them of being a vampire-Dominated sleeper agent.
We were very careful in-game to always remember that the word "Noble" itself meant "vampire."
The whole thing was a great counterpoint to the usual chosen one/born-to-power hero narratives in a lot of fantasy. I've always wanted to go back to that setting but haven't had the chance, and now I'm really busy. But maybe someday.
The thing is, there's a set of lyrics that go:
From the old world's demiseBut which I cannot help but hear as
See our empire rise
From the old world's demiseAnd it's reminding me of the Flight of the Phoenix game that
See our vampire eyes
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We were very careful in-game to always remember that the word "Noble" itself meant "vampire."
The whole thing was a great counterpoint to the usual chosen one/born-to-power hero narratives in a lot of fantasy. I've always wanted to go back to that setting but haven't had the chance, and now I'm really busy. But maybe someday.
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(I actually used a bit of that for my character's backstory--he committed a bunch of war crimes during the rebellion under the rationale that due to vampiric mind control, anyone who'd ever been alone with a vampire could never entirely be trusted again)