User:Kossage/Music in Tyria

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I can accept the dead returning to life, but marrying a musician makes no sense whatsoever.

— Citizen in Ossan Quarter

The Music in Tyria project gathers random lore stuff regarding Tyrian music in one page for reference. The page is still a work in progress and will be updated over time as more lore is uncovered.

Terminology

• Song: A longer, sung piece. Consists of at least one verse which has multiple lines.
• Ditty: A very short, simple song. Consists of just one line instead of a full verse.

Items

Collections

• Lasting Bonds: Where We Come From contains various items related to traditional Olmakhan songs such as "Laughter on the Wind", "The Good We Do In Life", "We Carry Her Loss Together", "We Sing Her Story", and the Olmakhan Songbook is said to have songs about all stages of life. During the collection, various Olmakhan also discuss songs in their dialogue:
  • Efi: Yeah, everyone liked my mother. We used to sing the old songs with our lorekeeper. We watched the races with Marlen. Even Ewyn, who left our village, was always nice to me when we brought him food...
  • Lorekeeper Rhosan: We all feel the loss of Efi's mother, but maybe it was a mistake to give her space to grieve. I'll make sure to reach out... It might comfort Efi to sing the old songs again with me.
  • Dialogue between Ewyn and the Pact Commander:

Ewyn: Efi and her mother used to bring food and sing songs to try to cheer me up. I guess the Olmakhan will need to teach cubs like Efi to defend themselves now that the outside world has found Atholma.

<Character name>: I think her mother would've preferred she go on singing to cheer up others.

• • Dialogue between Marlen and the Pact Commander:

Marlen: Of course I know Efi. She used to come to watch the races with her mother, Nature keep her. The two of them were always laughing and singing...

<Character name>: Do you remember any particular song they liked to sing together?

Marlen: There was that one about hope, which you could tell Efi had worked hard to learn. I hope she comes back sometime to watch the races with me.

• The Minstrel collection contains lots of music related lore in it, and as of late 2018 rewards the crafter with the Musical Minstrel that can be played like the Musical Harp.
• Uzolan's Mechanical Orchestra collection contains some music related lore in it.
• Verdarach rewards the crafter with the Musical Verdarach that can be played as a sousaphone.

Minis

• Mini Svelicht the Fog Raven has the following description: "Dear brothers, when will we sing again? I'm beginning to forget our song."

Story references

Novels

• In Chapter: Deep Places in Edge of Destiny, Caithe sings "Caithe's Song" (see lyrics below) during the activation of an asura gate in a ruined dwarven city to help her, Logan and Rytlock pinpoint a proper location to port into.

Personal story

Racial storyline

• In The Great Hunt story instance, references are made to norn singing.

Hunter: Really? Thanks! And good luck. Maybe one day the skaalds will sing about our victories.

<Character name>: Are you kidding? We'll be immortalized in song before the day is done!

Bartender: You're right. Maybe I'll just knock off early and fetch myself a round for a change. Toss back a few ales, boast a little, maybe sing a few dirty songs...

Ido the Tanner: Drinking, singing, and boasting! I love a good old-fashioned moot. [...] [Eir]'s the living legend who, with her wolf Garm, triumphed over one of Jormag's mightiest lieutenants. And she's a brilliant sculptor! Yes, the skaalds will sing of her for generations.

<Character name>: One day, the skaalds will sing about me as well.

• In A Weapon of Legend, Eir Stegalkin and the Slayer of Issormir discuss songs:

<Character name>: That sounds perfect. Eir Stegalkin, side-by-side with the Slayer of Issormir. The skaalds will sing of this for generations!

Eir Stegalkin: Careful... skaalds also sing of noble hunters dying grisly deaths. But with Wolf's help, we'll give them something better. See you there.

Pact storyline

• In the Liberating Apatia story instance, the Pact Commander discusses songs of legend with Crusader Afanen and spreads Apatia's legend with Trahearne.

Crusader Afanen: Apatia was a fine soldier. I hope her hunt continues in the Mists.

<Character name>: It will. And we will continue to sing of her legend here.

Trahearne: Hear me, Hoelbrak. I sing of Apatia, and the legend she forged. She was many things: a Lionguard, a soldier, a hero, a friend.

<Character name>: Let the bards sing and the skaalds proclaim her glorious name forever. Join me now, until the Shiverpeaks themselves ring with the sound: Apatia!

Living World Season 1

• In the Scarlet's Playhouse story instance of the Clockwork Chaos release Marcello DiGiacomo reveals that there's a Minstrel's Guild in Tyria, and Scarlet Briar forced the captured Hobo-Tron to play Scarlet's Theme over and over again.

Scarlet Briar: Not bad for a drone.

Marcello DiGiacomo: The Minstrel's Guild will hear about this!

• During Escape from Lion's Arch, Crusader Aurus Fuseblight mentions norn mourning ballads.

Crusader Aurus Fuseblight: Someone sings in the camp at night. Apparently it's a norn mourning ballad. Saddest thing I ever heard.

Regions

Ascalon

Diessa Plateau

• Moorwatch Tower, The Blasted Moors
  • Roj the Rowdy Butcher sings "The Alluring Song of Meat" (see lyrics below).
• Ruins of Oldgate
  • Rhell Crankmane sings "Rhell Crankmane's Ditty" (see lyrics below) during the Defend Rhell Crankmane while he sets up his ghost control machines event.
• Town of Nolan
  • Anya Fairmind hums a sweet tune, "Anya's Song", while tending to her hidden strawberry garden.
  • Local cubs think the singing is coming from a ghost and that's why they can't find Anya anywhere:

Cub (1): Where's Anya gone? She's always disappearing.

Cub (2): I bet the singing scared her so bad she ran back to the fahrar.

Fields of Ruin

• Stronghold of Ebonhawke
  • A playable Pipe Organ can be found in southern Ebonhawke behind nobles on a balcony near the vista. Playing a specific tune with it opens a room with a chest.
• Deathblade's Watch, Mithric Cliffs
  • Marghel Talekeeper explains how singing charr military cadences with a fellow warband member helped lift their spirits during a dangerous patrol.

Marghel Talekeeper: We kept each other awake by telling jokes and singing cadences. [...] My only problems were tail cramps and losing my voice from singing. Best night patrol ever.

Fireheart Rise

• Coalpit Watchpost, Keeper's Sanctum
  • An Ash Legion Spy reveals an intriguing skillset for imitating a certain charr's singing.

Ash Legion Spy: Well, I can do Rytlock singing the "Meatoberfest" song.

• Noxious Castrum, Sloven Pitch
  • Flame Legion shamans perform a chant as part of the spell in their ritual.

Plains of Ashford

• Village of Smokestead
  • Iron Legion warbands sing various charr military cadences (see lyrics below) while on patrol in the village.
• Sharptail Encampment, Victor's Presidium
  • Ash Legion's Sharp Warband sings "Sharp Warband is at Your Door" military cadence (see lyrics below) during their stay in the encampment.

Crystal Desert

Crystal Oasis

• Grand Sahil Casino, Free City of Amnoon
  • A trio named Jamnoon, who consist of a drummer and two basists, play pretty sweet heavy metal tunes to an excited audience. According to developers, this hit tune is called "Vlast from the Past".

Domain of Vabbi

• House Ventura Dormitory, Vehtendi Academy
  • A band of three students plays soothing tunes with a drum, flute and lute.

Kryta

Bloodtide Coast

• Moriarity's Hold
  • Captain Penzan sings "Captain Penzan's Song" (see lyrics below) after he's returned from a treasure hunt.

Divinity's Reach

• Uzolan's Mechanical Orchestra, Plaza of Kormir
  • Uzolan's Mechanical Orchestra is a one-man band designed by Uzolan that can play a couple of tunes.
• Ossan Quarter
  • A conversation between two women near Turai Tavern points towards prejudice against bards.

Citizen (1): My sister's getting married again.

Citizen (2): Stranger things have happened. Like necromancy.

Citizen (1): She's marrying a bard, the guy with the pan flute who plays drinking songs.

Citizen (2): I can accept the dead returning to life, but marrying a musician makes no sense whatsoever.

Gendarran Fields

• Bad Omen Beach, Lionbridge Expanse
  • Two pirates sing "Dead Man's Chest" (see lyrics below).
• Molenheide, Shiverspur Front
  • A Lionguard on guard duty sings and whistles the "These Roads are My Roads" song (see lyrics below) in the tunnels of Molenheide near Junction Haven.

Kessex Hills

• Fort Salma
  • Before the mordrem trashed the fort, Lyasa used to sing the "Chicken Song" (see lyrics below).

Lion's Arch

• Crow's Nest Tavern (Captain's Council), Western Ward
  • A boy band trio occasionally comes on stage to perform small band arrangements of "Lion's Arch Reborn" and "Bash the Dragon" themes.
• Moorookoo Village, Sanctum Harbor
  • Peneloopee and Bloomanoo sing "Peneloopee's Song" (see lyrics below) as a lullaby to their tadpoles.

Heart of Maguuma

Auric Basin

• Fahautl Grounds, The Falls
  • Zyanya (Auric Basin) plays lute for Tonuac.
  • Nelisqua, overlooking the falls from a ledge, can be persuaded to play certain chords, after which you are equipped with a lute with which you can jam with him while he plays the given chords.

Verdant Brink

• Noble Ledges
  • After the crash site has been secured, a band of three performs a small band arrangement of the "Lion's Arch Reborn" theme near the nobles waypoint.
• Thistlevine Ravine
  • Scout Acan plays sweet lute tunes for several minutes at his watchpost.

Maguuma Jungle

Caledon Forest

• Soggorsort, Quetzal Bay
  • A playable Pipe Organ can be found in the village. Playing the Overture, aka the Tyrian theme, from the soundtrack opens a giant oyster to reveal a chest. It rewards the musician by playing an instrumental, organ version of the theme.
  • Eegyoo hums the Tyrian theme near the organ.

The Grove

• The Soul of the Pale Tree, Omphalos Chamber
  • The music that plays in the chamber is "Pale Tree Chamber", an instrumental arrangement of "Fear Not This Night" which is also called "Song of the Pale Tree" in The Minstrel III: The Bard collection. Lorewise "Fear Not This Night" is meant to represent the Pale Tree singing words of encouragement and hope to her children, the sylvari, so its lyrics can be considered canon. Snippets of the theme's arrangement, called "Pale Tree Elevator", can be heard when approaching the elevator to the Omphalos Chamber from below.

Twilight Arbor

• In the since scrapped Fyonna's Path, Morrigu and Fyonna mention music.

Morrigu: I will sing of your bravery to the Pale Tree.

Fyonna: But my children sing to me. Listen.

Fyonna: They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family. As their mother, I have to grant them their wish.

Sparkfly Fen

• Braggi's Stead, Floodwater Causeway
  • The norn Frakki and the hylek Watl have various conversations about music and even sing "Frakki's Ditty" (see lyrics below). Interestingly the ditty includes the norn making "guitar twang" sounds, implying that acoustic guitars exist alongside lutes in Tyria.

Watl: Teach me to be a skaald like you.

Frakki: Buzz off, fly breath. I sing solo.

Watl: I don't get it. You sing to Bear, Raven, Wolf and Snow Leopard. What about Frog?

Frakki: Frog? The only useful thing Frog can teach us is how to catch flies.

Maguuma Wastes

Dry Top

• Zephyrites Music Box can be found from a random buried locked chest during sand storm when The Minstrel III: The Bard collection is active. The music box plays verses from the "Song of the Zephyrites" (see lyrics below).

Ruins of Orr

Cursed Shore

• Meddler's Summit, Compass Plaza
  • Maklain the Minstrel plays and sings (badly) the Tyrian theme (with la la lyrics) much to the annoyance (or amusement in the case of one asura who's literally rolling on the floor laughing) of nearby Pact soldiers.
  • Talking to Maklain with The Minstrel III: The Bard collection active makes him teach The Minstrel's Song which can be performed as an ode to various locations and people. The odes are: Ode to Mai Trin (in Mai Trin Boss fractal), Ode to the High Wizard (in The Narthex), Ode to Ascalon (in Human's Lament), Ode to the Shiny (in the Ruins of the Unseen), Ode to Morgan (at the top of Morgan's Spiral), Ode to Ironhammer (in King Jalis's Refuge).
  • Dialogue between Maklain and a norn raider:

Raider (female norn): Ah, quit your caterwauling. I've heard drunken moot halls that sounded better.

Maklain the Minstrel: You rude cow. My singing is in demand at all of the finest venues!

Raider (female norn): Minstrel, you're loud enough to wake the dead and that's the last thing we need around here.

Maklain the Minstrel: I wouldn't expect an uneducated swine like her to appreciate my singing prowess.

Siren's Landing

• Abaddon's Reliquary
  • Explorer Hiffa sings "Hiffa's Song" (see lyrics below) while walking towards Dwayna's Reliquary to start the Gather floating artifacts to aid Hiffa in her research event.
• Bloated Beach
  • The Siren Master can be found on a small shipwreck, playing notes and singing various songs of the gods based on the Orrian History Scrolls. When interacted with, he can initiate explorers to the secrets of how to become a Siren of Orr and allows a magical teleportation to the hidden Gallery of Sirens.
• Gallery, Grenth's Reliquary
  • The Siren Master along with several other ghostly sirens can be found practicing dirges of the gods and answering questions about the dirges. The choirs practice the dirges with instruments such as flute, harp and lute.

Straits of Devastation

• Strait of Malediction
  • Explorer Hemm hums "Hemm's Ditty" (see lyrics below) when interacted with after the successful completion of Free the Pact krewe members trapped inside Risen clams.

Shiverpeak Mountains

Snowden Drifts

• Urgulp, Valslake
  • Nearby quaggan gatherers sing the "Swimming" song (see lyrics below).
  • An Irritable Villager sings the song "Fish Are Tasty" (see lyrics below) in one of the quaggan pod houses.

Timberline Falls

• Coddler's Cove, Mellaggan's Grotto
  • The quaggan coddler sings the songs "Little Barracuda" and "Swimming" (see lyrics below) to tadpoles while tending to them.
  • The trophy "Coddler's Song" can be obtained from the chest at the end of the jumping puzzle when The Minstrel III: The Bard collection is active.

Wayfarer Foothills

• Molensk
  • A Dredge Commissar urges a dredge comrade to sing "The Undernationale" song (see lyrics below) to raise the spirits of the workers. Anja Inntill and Aksel Oldrikker sing the "Norn Drinking Song" (see lyrics below) after the Kill the dredge Commissar overseeing the mine event.

Dredge Commissar: Comrade! Raise the spirits of the workers! Sing of our triumph! Sing of our glory!

Anja Inntill: Ha, we win! All right, dredge, listen up! Now you get to hear some real singing!

• Zelechor Hot Springs, The Shadowhorns
  • Burrisson the Blue sings "Burrisson's Ditty" (see lyrics below) while bathing in the springs.

Worldwide

• Male sylvari merchants sometimes say "Treesong go with you." when interacted with. It may be a reference to "Fear Not This Night" aka the Song of the Pale Tree, or it could be metaphorical akin to "may peace be with you."

The Mists

Fractals of the Mists

• In Deepstone Fractal, The Voice mentions singing.

The Voice: Can you hear my song echo through the darkness?

Lyrics

Asura

Hemm's Ditty

(hum) Freedom! I have my freedom. (hum)

Hiffa's Song

La-de-da-de-da

She's the greatest explorer in the land!

Hiffa lee, la dee dee! Hiffa! That's me.

Charr

"The Alluring Song of Meat"

I'm delirious, I'm deserving,

I'm desiring delicious meat.

Doot doot dee-deet. Yeah, meat.

Meat! Uh huh.

Singing about meat. Oh, yeah.

Military Cadences

Iron's Knocking at Your Door

Sound off!

One, two!

Sound off!

Three, four!

Iron's knocking at your door!

Sharp Warband is at Your Door

One, two. One, two.

Sharp warband has come for you!

One, two, three, four.

Sharp warband is at your door!

We Don't Need No God

We don't need no god!

We're the firing squad!

So, if you don't want my flail,

Better shake that mighty tail!

Aw yeah!

We've Got Iron in Our Blood

We've got iron in our blood!

We chew ore like cows chew cud.

If you try to mess with Iron!

We'll drag your body to the pyre!

Rhell Crankmane's Ditty

Oh, the hip bone's connected to the ankle bone.

Dredge

"The Undernationale"

Stand up, all victims of oppression

Grab a hammer or a sledge.

We dig to serve the great collective

For you are nothing if you're not dredge!

Outsiders never will enslave us

We shall make their empires fall.

Our people will always rise triumphant

And Tyria will hear our victory call!

So rise up, my comrades

Because the struggle carries on.

The mighty moletariat

Unites in deed and song!

So comrades, come rally

For this is the time and place!

The Undernationale

Unites the whole dredge race!

Human

"Captain Penzan's Song"

I am the very model of a modern pirate general,

I've information magical, mathematical and mineral.

I know the Queens of Kryta and can cite matters historical,

From Bloodstones to the dragon spawn in order categorical.

In fact, I write my washing bills in old Canthan cuneiform.

I'll tell you every detail sewn on Caudecus's uniform.

The skills and builds of warfare are essential to my strategy,

You'll say a better pirate general has never sat-a-gee,

For when you know the habits of the Charr and the Elonians

When you can tell at sight a Kurzick from an Ascalonian,

You'll know my martial knowledge, quite extensive and still myriad,

Myriad...myriad...myriad...ah!

Has only been updated for the Interregnum period!

But still in matters magical, mathematical, and mineral,

I am the very model of a modern pirate general!

Chicken Song

Chickens peck, and chickens munch,

Chickens cluck, and chickens crunch,

Chickens flap, and chickens croon,

Chickens on the table soon.

"Dead Man's Chest"

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Drink and the devil had done for the rest

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike

The bosun brained with a marlinspike

And cookey's throat was marked belike

It had been gripped by fingers ten

And there they lay, all good dead men

Like break o'day in a boozing ken

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

These Roads are My Roads

For every rascal, a hero;

for every scoundrel, a soldier;

every battle, a victor,

and that victor's me.

These roads are my roads,

all roads that are Arch roads,

and each day I guard them,

safe roads they'll be.

Norn

"Burrisson's Ditty"

Splish, splash. Four norn in a bath. (hum)

Frakki's Ditty

(guitar twangs) Bear, Wolf, Raven, Snow Leopard. (guitar twangs)

(guitar twangs) Frog!

Norn Drinking Song

We're the sons and daughters of the legends of the past.

We celebrate their legacy by draining every glass.

High atop the Shiverpeaks the mightiest are born.

When the call goes out for heroes, the first in line are norn!

Drain them up! Drain them down! Drain them out to the end!

For tomorrow you may die and you'll never drink again!

Quaggan

Coddler's Songs

Little Barracuda

Gonna swim with the big fish.

You're gonna get your wish.

Ooooooo. Little barracuda.

When you awake, quaggans will be here,

and there'll be a crab cake, just for you...

oooOOOOOoooooOOOoooo...

Swimming

Swimming, swimming, swimming, all summer long.

Swimming, swimming, swimming, it makes your flippers strong.

Fish Are Tasty

Fish are tasty. Fish are fine.

They are best with a glass of (hiccup)!

"Peneloopee's Song"

Shoosh now, shoosh ooo OOO.

The time has come to slee-eep.

Let the water rock you...

To the rhythm of the deep.

Quaggan sings a dream...

Where you're a shiny bubble.

Just a tiny nubble...

Afloat in a briny sea.

OoooOOOoooo oooOOoOoOooooo

Sylvari

Caithe's Song

Oh, come to me, heart of the wyld.

Oh, hear this lost sylvari child,

Away from wood and glade and briar,

Entombed within a world of fire.

Unaffiliated

"Song of the Zephyrites"

• Note: The song is a poetic retelling of the demise of Glint. Its melody is used in the Labyrinthine Cliffs and Sanctum Sprint themes composed by Lena Chappelle.

The summer sun shone bright once more warmed wood and cloth of home.

We honor those who came before and journeyed where they roam.

Alas, alas, we've no more peace, no ally from on high.

We'll make our way to brighter days and into clearer skies.

No more to tame the wind and rain, the skies to swallow whole.

She flies no more in glinting beam and leaves a hollow hole.

Alas, her magic strewn in sand. Alas, her soul undone.

The clouds shed tears upon the land mourning a crystal sun.

No more to tame the wind and rain, the skies to swallow whole.

She flies no more in glinting beam and leaves a hollow hole.

Alas, alas, how time must pass. Ancient magical friend.

So terrible, so dreadful that so treasured should so end.

No more to tame the wind and rain, the skies to swallow whole.

She flies no more in glinting beam and leaves a hollow hole.

Alas, alas, alas, alas,

Alas, and so we go.

We fly on high into the sky

And cry, "Alas, alas..."