For years, the wild witches have been living in exile after their betrayal by Belos. They’ve weathered raids, poverty, purges, and capturings. Any travellers who stopped by they would tell their story to through this hymn; its brevity is for the transient nature of their encounters, lest they speak to a spy or get raided during their muse.

But as time passed, the witches’ numbers dwindled, so much that their existence has passed into legend.

Well, except for the Owl Lady. Today a Lone Ranger, she openly declared her status and made herself at home in one of the most populous cities in the Boiling Isles, and during my stay in the Demon Realm I had the pleasure of meeting her. I asked about any songs native to the Isles, and soon after I learned about this one.

She wasn’t quite the singer, but she described how the witches would bring out their instruments, their zitharps and their living violins, and play in a big band. She also remembered the lyrics, which I have recorded below:

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So I set out and with the “magic” I learned from Earth, put together an arrangement, and for the first time in its history recorded it for human listeners…

I would go further into the instrumentation and arrangement, but I’m saving that blurb for a much larger track that details the whole of the Boiling Isles. While this is purely orchestral, the next one will be a hybrid with electronic, and will feature sections from this pieces as well, so stay tuned!

- Dtr. Guo

Key: bfl min

BPM: 100 (200 half-time)

Genre: Folk/Orchestral

Download full master here: https://www.toneden.io/offi-dtrguo-cial/post/dtr-guo-the-wild-witches-ballad

Instrument libraries from BBC Orchestra, Spitfire LABS, Bigcat, and Versilian Studios (Zither).

Shaker samples from Cymatics.

Mixed and mastered in FL Studio.