Keep it moving empire12/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() These songs have been written or adapted by members of our Skirmish Team to be sung during skirmishes and battles as the fearsome enemies of the Empire! See Wintermark Military Concerns for more detail. Wintermark - A Wintermark battle line will have orators, drummers, singers, or pipers gathered around the Banner of each group and they play a large role in keeping morale up.Varushka - Varushkans often sing morale-boosting Marching songs, and can be accompanied on the battlefield by drums but typically forget about any kind of structured music once the fighting starts. ![]() Urizen - gongs, bells and drums are sometimes used to provide a steady repeating rhythm which keeps the group of Sentinels moving forwards, gongs are also used to signal to other nations when Urizen reinforcements are close at hand.At night or in dim forests, bullroarers or 'twirlies'/'whirlers' are sometimes used to scare and disorient their enemies. Navarr - in order to distract foes from potential flanking ambushes, the Navarr may shout and chant, and use small horns and drums to create unstructured noise.When marching to the battlefield, drinking songs may also help to keep spirits up! The Marches - in a similar fashion to Rough Music, Marchers will shout, chant, bang shields, staves or anything else to create noise before a battle.The League also make use of high or snare drums to build morale before a battle. The League - League soldiers love to taunt their enemies and often chant simple rhyming jeers at opposing soldiers.Some units tie tiny bells to their shields or armour which ring during the fighting and if they fall in battle, the priests collect the bells and add them to the group's standard. When marching Highguard soldiers either sing or follow a rhythmical bell rung by a priest. Highguard - Highguard has a tradition of battle choirs, or unstructured bugles/trumpets/horns at the charge.Individual units are often accompanied by a troubadour, who maintains the morale of the soldiers through story and song, and who is also responsible for immortalising their deeds at the battle's end. Dawn - a Dawnish shield wall may be accompanied by formal fanfare, or pipe and drum.They build up courage by typically starting in a very slow beat that gets faster and faster until it dissolves into chaos, then starting again. Brass Coast - favour wild shouting and shrieking, along with taunts and challenges or structured 'marching music' on pipes/recorders with light drumming.Styles vary from nation to nation and group to group, however here are some overall tendencies: ![]() Most of the Imperial nations will use music or noise to inspire courage on the battlefield, or to terrify their enemies. However it would be great to hear a different sound in each camp and the pages for each nation (below) will help you to adapt your existing repertoire to a national style, and learn new material. Generic folk is sung throughout the Empire and no music is 'wrong' to sing or play unless it has OOC references.
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