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Glorfindel and the Balrog

“Many are the songs that have been sung of the duel of Glorfindel with the Balrog upon a pinnacle of rock in that high place... “

The Silmarillion, Chapter 23 : of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin, 1977, J.R.R Tolkien,

Glorfindel is one of my favorites Elves from Tolkien's books and I really wanted to drawing and paint his last fight when everything is lost.

Gondolin, the last Elven sanctuary of Beleriand is no more. Its people are dead or trying to espace by the mountains with despair and fear, as Morgoth's forces hunt them down.

And then came Glorfindel, an Elf chieftain, who is certainly weakened by the Siege and perhaps knowing that this fight againts the Balrog will bring their both end, but he will give a chance to his people and friends to escape to safety.

Glorfindel is I think, one of the greastest, selfless and bravest hero of Middle-Earth. Not just during that fight (which that will allowed to Eärendil to live and bring back hope on Middle-Earth) but also during the events of The Lord of the Rings... to help once more the Free People in their darkest hours.

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Becoming One with Life

" Wilderness wild and perilous be, deep in the heart of danger Wilderness wild and perilous be, filling your heart with fire

Mountains rise in the distance. Stalwart as the stars fall, fading forever.

Roads ever weaving. Soul ever seeking the hunter's mark "

Everytime I listen or think about the main theme of Monster Hunter 3, To One with Life, I can't help but feel a deep warm feeling in my hear that remind me what I love about Monster Hunter.

From Moga's seacoast to the Misty Peeks of Yukumo, there is a story that it's written. Not just about just fighting powerful Monsters or Elder Dragons such as Ceadeus, Amatsu or Alatreon.

It's about journeys and meeting and making bond with other peoples. Discovering new cultures and countries. About friendship and understanning. Of being amaze by the richess of Nature.

About how all lives, Humans as Monsters are connected a world full danger and beauty.

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Lyrics : The Hunter's Mark; Erutan [link]

To One with Life (MH3 and MH3U theme) [link]

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Awakening the Dragon : Malleus Draconia Overblot Theme

It's been now one year since Diasomnia Arc, “Ruler of the Abyss“ began...

There so many things, too many topics that I wish to talk and write about. About the tribute to Eyvind Earle's art in the esthetics and ambiance of Briar Valley. About the connections between the Arc narrative and its inspirations. About Night Faeries folk and Silver Owl Knights. About Silver, Malleus, Lilia and all the others characters... For tonight I will write down about Malleus Draconia's Overblot Theme.

When the Diasomnia Arc pre-trailer was released, some notes of Overblot Malleus's theme can be heard. The complet musictrack had been finaly revealed during the first fight against Malleus. Even with the few notes in the pre-trailer, this music really give goosebumps. It is dark, eerie, dangerous and yet graceful and noble.

Diasomnia’s Chapter is an intense turmoil of emotions and, after all that happened in the Main Story so far, I realized that Malleus Overblot's theme not just represent the Arc's climax like it had being the case for the six previous Chapter. Not just only about an epic battle music, but also about a character.

[Beware : the following post content some spoilers for Chapter 7 : Ruler of the Abyss]

Featuring song and music

There is something about Malleus and music.

In his personal data, it's say that his “talent“ is stringed instruments's practice (ref. Twisted Wonderland : Magical Archives and in game data). According to his close relatives, such as Sebek during “Harveston's Kelkkarotu“ event, Malleus appear to be a really talented musician. And yet that aspect of Malleus wasn't fully explored in the Main, Events and Personals Stories. That was just a fun fact about Malleus's hobbies outside school or his daily royal duties.

Then came the performance of Malleus longside Idia and Azul during the Symphorium in the Halloween event Glorious Mascarade : Crimson Flowers and Bell of Salvation.

It's could be logical since Diasomnia Arc and Mascrade's events released their preview trailers around the same time. But nothing could make us suspected how much deep of that aspect of Malleus's character design is important. Not just as for characterization but also a tribute from Sleeping Beauty.

But to go with Chapter 7 and the Overblot's theme, let's return to the Symphorium, during its preparation as presented in Malleus's Mascaquerade Dress Personal Story [link]. Glorious Mascarade's iconic song Let My Wish Resound ( Twst wiki's traduction [link] ), is the gift of Night Raven College's students to the invitation for Night Bell College's Symphonium and its three main singer featuring Azul Ashengrotto, Idia Shroud and of course Malleus Draconia. In Malleus's Personnal Story, the trio are gather in Diasomnia Lounge for practicing. Both Idia and Azul (and even Lilia), are amaze about Malleus's singing skills. Not just because of his tense practicing, even outside his royal education as confirm Lilia to Idia. If Let My Wish Resound had a special signification for Malleus and his character (his desire and fear about connect with the Outside World and meeting other peoples), the fact that such song, and by extension the music, resound deep within Malleus.

In Chapter 7, that particular bond between Malleus and music/song is once again up under the lightspot, and even become an major element of the narrative. Just after he took his Overblot's form and cast [Fea of Maleficent] on everyone, Malleus start to humming a lullaby. The medley is the one of Once upon a Dream, Sleeping Beauty's famous and iconic song. There is many things that need to be discussed about that familiar medley and Malleus's story and personal journey and I will in the futur write a proper and complet review about. For now, we can notice that reference make not only as a tribute to the original animated pictures movie but also to Malleus's paradoxe as a character in that very sequence, and, even if it is more subtle, in the rest of the story. Indeed he is now a Dark Fea Lord, becoming in a way Maleficient just like Riddle with the Queen of Heart or Vil with the Beautiful Queen. And yet there is that lullaby medley, that medley which took after Princess Aurora's song. Malleus is depicted as both Light and Darkness, an impression that can be found in his Overblot theme.

The Choir and the Cello, picturing a story

There is two main musical elements in Overblot Malleus' track. The Choir and the Cello.

If is true that in the previous Overblot’s theme, a kinda choir is used in the medley, but its seems to have for fonction to put some extra more tension in the music like we can see in many soundtrack from cinema or video-game, but in the others Overbolt's theme, the choirs doesn't lead the medley. The instrumental instruments does.

But that was before Vil's Overblot and Mascarade Event’s theme, where the chorus and choir became the main leading of the music. In a kinda latin language with Dies Irea's leitmotif, choir become the medley's core and identity.

In popular culture, the choir is generally used as reference to Medieval Age’s music and its esthetics, real or dreamed . From Historical productions such as in Kingdom of Heaven (a Historical Movie setting during the early years of the Crusades) to Fantasy realms Lord of the Rings’s trilogy, we can tell that kinda of music had a special power to increase emotions and ambiance in a song.

In Overblot Malleus's theme, the choir became an extension of the Dragon-Fea’s power and personality. Giving to his character so much strength and presence, just like with Davy Jones's organ and it make a tribute to Sleeping Beauty’s soundtrack. One of the particularity of this Classic Disney Animation Picture, it's one of the very few movie from Disney's Silver Age, than doesn't have song like we see it in Cinderella or in Alice in Wonderland. As explained by cinema historian, Charles Solomo, in the documentary Picture Perfect: The Making of Sleeping Beauty [link], those kind of “Broadway like song“ doesn't fit to that world made of the gorgeous detailed background designed by Eyvind Earl or the music score inspired by Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Ballet. Only songs in the movie are Once upon a Dream and choirs. Theses ones can be found in several track in the score. One of them, “Aurora's Return/Maleficent's Evil Spell“, is in my opinion, one of most powerful and representative of that directive for Sleeping Beauty's music. At one point of track a eerie and dark voice can be heard and as its materialize Maleficent's presence when Aurora is hypnotize by the curse.

Those choir segments supporting the narrative and characterizing each protagonists. Just like it's happen with Malleus's Overblot theme !

In Malleus's Overblot theme, alongside the choir, the second main leading instrument is the cello. The using of that particular string instruments in the track make a easter egg to both Malleus’s personal talents as to Diasomnia Dorm's music theme.

Cello, as other stringed instruments, are very often used in movie, video-game or musical composition because of a rich palette of tones and sounds that those musicals instruments can create and so increase emotions. Notes created by cellos are know to be rich and deep, and how depending how it played, it can express joy and light ambiance as epic, nostalgic world, mysteries or tension and terror.

The slight presence electric guitar (recurring in the Overblot music track) give an extra sensation of danger and tension in the medley, but without shadowing the leading of the chorus and the cello. It sound like lightings bolts, and each time the electric guitar is heard it increase choir's powers in the narrative of the medley with attacking notes. Giving the feeling that we are caught into a storm.

Conjuring the Dragon

As we start listening Malleus Overblot's theme, we fall into some dark or gothic fey world, more that Diasomnia Dorm's. Despite the presence of a electric guitar sound, the music had the same feels as Maleficent's themes from Sleeping Beauty. In fact the very first notes are very similars or at least sharing the same tones than some of Maleficent's leitmotif in “Aurora's Return/Maleficent's Evil Spell“ or in her music entrance.

The musictrack is divise in five segments. First, it start with a very aery voice sound, as we can found in mysterious or dark music track and then the storms began, leading by the choir. With the cello and the electric guitar, its give at that moment (and is reinforce in game by the image of Malleus in his Overblot form), that we are facing some kind of powerful Lord or a Dark Dragon. Malleus had a very complex personality and as far we know, at his core, ins't a evil character. But he is a Dragon-Fea and he had dark powers. If someone put in danger the persons he will care about (friends, family...), he will riposte with all his might and once of thoses times where Malleus's powers are show as dangerous and dark because its are beyond mortal understanding and standard, not as evil. It's true that consequences of some Malleus's actions are terrifying because of his non-human nature and can show him as the Dragon, the most dangerous foe of tales and legends, as the storm parts of the Overblot music despict it.

And at the middle of the music track, just between the two storms part, for a brief moment a calm, noble music segment is played. Its the same medley than the rest of the track but the tone is completely different as tone and ambience from what had been previously heard, even if there is still a certain tension in it. In fact Malleus Overblot's theme where there is a such calm. Yes it's true that in Leona Overblot's theme there is a kinda of “pause“ in the music but the same amount of epic tension. It's sound like if the character taking a short break, checking if everyone is is okay before return to battle. In Malleus's if we got same general medley but the music tale an other aspect of that character, of that Dragon, at the opposite of the Dark Dragon previously depicted. In that segment, the cello leading the music instead of the choir which became calm like lamentation, giving a powerful, melancholic and noble ambiance to the music before the storm restart and end once again on the eerie voice and notes.

That melancholic noble music caught in the storm show all the balance between light and dark that Malleus carries with him during his personal journey. Give him an aura of nobility and danger as we can found it in the Malzeno's theme or Elder Dragons ( Amatsu, Alatreon or Shagaru Magala) from Monster Hunter for exemple.

Right at the beginning and at the end of the track we got some slight but clear notes of piano. Like cello, that chordophone instrument (musical instrument that use both stringed and percussion (ref, Britanica)), can create intense and emotional ambience. It's true that I wished to heard some organ note in that music track, which could fit to the medieval gothic leitmotif of Diasmonia Dorm but I think it would change the characterization of Malleus in the music track. Organs are, in popular cultures and soundtracks very very bond to the figure of the Evil Lords such as Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time or Dracula in his many adaptations from movies to video-games or it played by shady antagonists like Davy Jones or Erik, the Phantom of the Opera. Even there it's cannon that Malleus know to play organs (Endless Halloween event), it's a piano. To listen those cold and sad notes, featuring a eerie voice, as opening and ending of Malleus Overblot's music theme, give us the ton of the music but also of the character it depicts. In plus to reinforce the feeling of melancholy, its contrast with the storms that reign in most of the track. Like the calm noble leitmotif, the piano show the “softer“, tragic and lonely side of Malleus beyond his dangerous and scaring first apparence and nature as a Dragon and a Dark Fea.

As I was writing that post, I discover that during the battle between the Knight of Dawn and Maleonora, Malleus's Mother, the Overblot can be heard and that discovery make more deeper to Malleus. Making it more personal to Malleus than it's already etablished in the music itself. Far more than I originally suspected.

During the last showdown between the Knight and Maleonora ant their tragic ending, the use of the Overblot's theme don't make that scene feels like one of Maleficient in the original picture or only reflecting the way the Humans sees Maleonora. As a dark witch, a monster.

The Overblot's theme show her as royal princess, a Crown-Heir and a mother that will do everything in her power to protect her people, the persons she love and her child. Between him and his mother there is big similarities, and not just physical. Malleus had indeed inherited some of Maleonora's traits, but in his heart and his general personality, Malleus is more close to his father Lord Revan, as it's confirmed by Lilia.

"Just like his father, he is a kind person who ins't able to be ruthless“ "(Episode 7 Ruler of the Abbys Part 6, chapter 99)

At the end, that Overblot's theme not just a dungeon's final boss theme or a musical representation of the Arc's aesthetic.

Even more than Diasomnia bgm, this is Malleus Draconia's Theme. Not just his Overblot. His theme, as character, like we discover in both Diasomnia's trailer and Twisted Wonderland's Story. That music score give us more clues about who Malleus really is.

That music can be seen as the refection of Malleus's complex personality. Noble and benevolent, fierce and powerful ..

Both the Greatest Foe than the Devoted Protector.

Thank you for reading this review/analysis about Malleus. I hope you enjoyed it :-)

Lucy Floyen

Musictrack link : [Twisted Wonderland BGM - Overblot Malleus] (Soundcloud)

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A promise...

“ May it be an evening star, shines down upon you. May it be when darkness falls, your heart will be true. You walk a lonely road. Oh, how far you are from home.

Mornie utulie (darkness has come). Believe and you will find your way. Mornie alantie (darkness has fallen). A promise lives within you now.“

After all that happened this december during the last part of Chapter 7, I really wanted to paint some Malleus's birthday art with a hope note.

I always love Enya's work for Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring. I think “May it be“ suit well to Malleus about his current personal journey.

It's about departures, of being far away, ... About friendships and all the persons we meet and bond with.

About love and new beginnings... Just as a warm dawn during winter.

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Lyrics : May it be - Enya - Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring

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Evening and Dawn

A small tribute to Silver's journey through the dream world ^^

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Dancing with Hebikera

I recently rewatch and re-read Nausicäa of the Valley of Wind. Like each time, tears came and the last volume of the manga feel both afar and yet echoing to The Boy and the Heron. As each Nausicäa run, I rediscover and fall for the dragon like flying insect, named Hebikera.

Longside Ohmu, Hebikera is my Nausicäa's Corrupted Sea favorite insect. If his short cameo in the movie is both amazing and terrifying (the scene where Asbel and Nausicäa feels into the deep of the Forest) and give me a first strong impression, it's in the manga where I found in love with.

As every beings that live close or inside the Forest Hebikera had this bitter sweet feelings that make us care about. Indeed his is one of the most ferocious protectors of the Forest and his wrath of him and his pack(?) is mercyless.

And yet... aside the fact they are gracefuly beautiful when they fly, each times Nausicäa or the others characters seen them, that means that something is about to change... for ever. That something end to let an other born, even if everything is shadow.

They are one of the Forest best incarnations. Fragile, dangerous, and yet strong, beautiful, protective.

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Smaug the Golden

"The King under the Mountains is dead and where are his kin that dare seek revenge? Girion Lord of Dale is dead, and I have eaten his people like a wolf among sheep, and where are his sons's sons that dare approach me? [...] My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death! "

The Hobbit, chapter 12 : Inside Informations, J.R.R. Tolkien

I can't just beliveed that it's being more than ten years since the releasing of The Hobbit the Desolation of Smaug...

That dragon in both the novel and the movie had a such presence, personality.

I have still a clear memory of when I first reading The Hobbit and after in the theater when Smaug finaly rise from the gold ocean. Until Bilbo enter in the Mountains, Smaug is just an invisible threat. We, as Bilbo, know that the confrontation with this character wouldn't be without any risks. A mortal danger ahead . And yet, some times, we forget the dragon... until he woke up. Smaug the dragon of tales and songs became real.

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Nightcrawler

A Fantasy/Pirate AU tribute to Kurt Wagner ^^

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Between clouds and havens...

Inspired by Naussicäa of the Valley of the Wind's soundtrack, specialy the music track from the movie opening ^^

I made this sketches for Inktober 2023 - Celestial :-)

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Dance of the Forest's Folk

"Bonfires dot the rolling hills Figures dance around and around To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness"

All Souls Night - Loreena Mckennitt

Inktober 31 - Fire

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The Shadows, the Black Dragon and the Star

"But Eärendil came, shinning with white flame, and about Vingilot were gatheret all the great birds of heaven and Thorondor was their captain, and there was battle in the air all the day and through a dark night of doubt. "

The Silmarillion - Chapter 24 : of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath, J.R.R. Tolkien

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Beyond the Thorns's Cage

As long I was drawing Malleus and Morgana, I always wanted to do some illustrations based on the scene of Sophie kissing Hauru in his raven-man form, in Howl's Moving Castle. I have done some drafts, sketches and in the meantime Diasomnia's trailer came with the sequence where Malleus is emprisonner in a cage made of his owns thorns, as blots sumberged him.

I was just finishing the last details when Part 5 was released. With Silver's past and Meleanor's singing the lullaby based on the medley of Once Upon a Dream, the same that Malleus humming...

"Let's be together as I stare at yours eyes. Don't get afraid... even if we wake up from that dream..."

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Eärendil's Light

" But on him mighty doom was laid, till Moon should fade, an orbéd star to pass, and tarry never more on Hither Shores where Mortals are; for ever still a herald on an errand that should never rest to bear his shining lamp afar, the Flammifer of Westernesse.

The Song of Eërendil, Lord of the Rings : the Fellowship of the Ring, “Many Meetings“

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A Cloak of Stars

A young man inspired by Howl's Moving Castle

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Malleus Draconia - Death

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Enter in the Legend of the Inis Eire's Wolves...

"Forty years have past since the great war of the human High King Cormac against the Faoladh, a mysterious tribe of wolves shapeshifter. But when a dreadful Prophecy foresee their return and of the Dark Time, two destinies that everything could opposite, are tie together. Uilliam, Heir of the Wolf Blood and Aisling the Shieldmaiden. Understanding their differences and ally their strength, they stand together to search how to save their homeland form the darkness that corrupt it since ages... "

A concept-art for my personal comic project : Faoladh, inspired by irish folklore, history and legends. I was working all the year on the story, characters desgin/background... Now I am currently on the realisation and design of the panels ^^

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“Wolf, wolf

Howls the wolf

For ever and ever and after “

Kílá- Howls the wolf - for Tomm Moore and Ross Steward’s movie Wolfwalker

When I  saw the early concept trailer of Wolfwalker in 2018, I litteraly frozen in front of such beauty ! It was just a trailer, animation, key history tests (most of the scene and concepts of that very very trailer will never be used in the final film but the soul, the very being of the movie, of that gorgeous story about these two girls, theses two worlds,was already there ! The outstanding concepts and landscape (made by digital or watercolor) for the Irish Forest, Kilkenny or the characters. Bruno Coulais’s music, the actions scene where  the screen with a wolf, the Army and Cromwell, Bill Goodfellow avoiding under water the crossbow’s arrows, the giant wolf breaking his chains with Robyn on its back, the deer’s running from the wolf’s perceptive or the final scene of the trailer where in the ancient caven we see Medh, her mother and the wolf’s pack sleeping with the theme of Kells Destroyed !

It was an unxepected  and inspirated surprise ! I knew that when the movie will be in theater, no matter if I had exams, I make the promise to go to see it the day of its release.  Wolfwalker and How to train your Dragon: the Hidden World were the two movie that I waiting the realease the most and that give me that freaking wave of emotions, wonders, crying and inspiration by both the art, the story and the music…. I had big expectations and I wasn’t dispointed and more than that, this goes beyond everything !! 

When I discovred more depeer Irish and Celtic culture, legends and History with The Secret of Kells even if I take a first approach with Brave and mostly with the Rohrimm aesthetic form Lord of the Rings’s movies tirlogy. These two firts septs bonded the Celtic’s aesthetic (music, art, language…) deeply in my heart. So when I saw Kells I wanted to write a story that happen in a Irish medieval like world and it’s Wolfwalker that give me the tips… To write too a story about wolf shapeshifter. I am very found of wolf shapeshifter and werewolves stories such as Le Lai de Bisclavret by Marie de France, Wolf Children Ame and Yuki and Wolf’s Rain as many others… So after see the Wolfwalker’s concept trailer, it was obvious to create a werewolf story in a Irish, Celtic world.  

Sadly… I try a lot, and I mean a lot idears of plot but everytime I had to copy stories that I have seen or that look to much to an others fiction that I made or it’s not as deeper than I expected. I have the key event and characters in my head but it’s very furstating to not handle the basics…

All I can said it’s about it’s the story happen in a medieval Irish like country (that is placed in the same universe than my other original fiction Drakkion Saga ) and the issues is that once Humans and the Wolf-Men, the Faoladh, coexisted peacefully, but since one hundred years a Human clan decided to elimited every single Faoladh while the rumors about that a mysterious book of Powers had been found…. It will be a story about healing the wounds of the past, renew was was broken, about the meeting with the Others, about shadows and darkness…

The main protagonist is Aoin MacTire. (featured on the picture) But despite the fact he is a wolf shapeshifter is not quite a per cent Faoladh. His clan descended of the union of a Faolandh and a Fey…  Blessed by longlife and the capacity to travel trought worlds, him and his people were the Guardians of the bond between Mens, Wolves and Feys. But they have been all extermited by a mysterious foe. Aion and very few others, have been the only survivors. So they splited, alone, packless, purposeless, wandering across the land before vanish. For seventy years, Aion travelled between worlds (Human’s and  Fey’s world) seeking for answers. Why he survived and what is the voice that beg him to stay alive and about the strange dreams that haunt him… 

I am not sure if I will include the Wild Hunt to Aoin’s story or not, because I want to use it as main issue in a other story that is also related to the Fey… But they will certainlty a lot a references and issues about Irish Feys !! 

It’s a still on progress story for a while but I  really want to create, the story of Aoin MacTire, a story based on Irish and Scotish mythology that I love and inspired me so much…

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