#morke

The beginning:

A fairy is born in a swamp from a water lily that doesn't even have a flower in bloom. The fairy spends some time in the swamp. Having heard stories from other fairies, she likes the idea to be like them - find a companion whom she will help and support. The gloomy, angry and incredibly silent knight enters the swamp. He returns to the kingdom when the cheerful fairy chooses him from all the passers-by as a companion. The knight is completely stoic. He doesn't care until they come to town. The king wants to destroy all magic and all creatures who have magic. An evil wizard has appeared on the continent and is terrorizing all the kingdoms in the area. The gloomy knight is sent to deal with this evil wizard. The fairy joins his lonely journey.

I really tried to make him not look like the Chief Of War, but the hair makes it obvious, doesn't it? 😭😭😭

Synopsis:

Throughout the imaginary season 1 (it’s easier for me to immediately break the plot into seasons, hehe) viewer/reader learn about the outside world. The fairy reveals herself as a naive, shy, but very positive fairy. She infects the knight with her chatter and he takes a liking to her (as a friend, obviously). However, having arrived at the castle of the evil wizard, the knight dies.

Everything starts from the very beginning. At the season 2, the fairy is again sitting in her swamp, when suddenly Prince appears there. Now he becomes the main character. He decided to go himself and defeat the evil wizard to prove to his father and everyone else that he is worthy to be a knight. The Prince and the fairy go through exactly the same path and find themselves in exactly the same situations, but now the focus is on the Prince instead of the Fairy. Unlike the gloomy knight, Prince, by the end of the season, does not warm up to the fairy, but on the contrary finds her suspicious. It seems to him that she is hiding too much. Especially when he finds out that before she was companion of the gloomy knight and, even before him, of the arab, without a leg and in deep prostration. He doesn't move or speak. The only reason he's still alive is because the fairy gave the man to another fairy to take care of. This greatly alarms the Prince and he drives the fairy away and goes to fight the evil wizard all alone. Obviously, he dies.

Plot twist:

The evil wizard is the fairy's first companion. He picked her up in the swamp and they traveled together. The wizard wanted to have incredible power, so he turned onto a evil road. He conducted experiments on the fairy, but she found the strength to leave him. She had nowhere to return, so she flew back to her swamp. She returns there every time she fails to find a companion. So, the Fairy has 4 companions and only the gloomy knight manages to become her friend.

There could be a sad ending here, but I'm too sad, so I'll spoil that the fairy's magical powers are equal to the evil wizard, so when the Prince drives her away, the fairy stumbles upon the corpse of her friend and brings him back to life. The evil wizard is defeated, the knight is alive, everyone is happy. Except for the royal family. Everyone of them dead 😨

Minor characters +new main character for season 2:

Murshad, Magnolia & Luis Blinde (yay they are not nameless 😃😃😃)

Bonus: 😋

Fun Fact:

Luis's name comes from the Danish word: «Lys -> Light»

And Morke's name comes from the Danish word: «Mørk -> Dark».

To be honest, I just noticed that Akande's name is also Danish... Why do I like this language so much? 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Akande's «Åkande -> Water Lily»

Akande has scars all over her body, which she tied up with blades of grass. The scars were left over from the experiments that the evil wizard conducted on her. They have been healed for a long time and usually do not interfere with her.

Yes, I love grumpy old men and what will you do to me? I'm 18 already, he-he 😈😈😈

Morke | We Are The River | 5th March, 2021

American Atmospheric Black Metal

Hello guys.

Something exciting happened, it seems some people are trying to fan-remaster the Perpetual Desolation Live.

First of them,  is an audio-remaster of the whole concert. To me it sounds a little better, but I have no audio equipment to judge it actually. Here it is:

>> Perpetual Desolation Live (Remastered Audio)

Second, now this one got me very excited! It is a video remaster with AI technology of one of the songs, and it is really good!! I’m trying to find the person who did it to see if he has the whole concert. It would be incredible. This is the best quality the Perpetual Desolation Live ever has. Much better than the DVD and obviously than the VHS! Check it out:

>> TSoTB - Partial Insanity (Remastered with AI)

Now, for other news, about Arild and Stig, after leaving Savn, now they each have a gothic metal band in the making.  Stig Johansen, with singer Susanne Dahle have created Morke, as I already said on my last post. They’re making their first album and the last update was 3 months ago with a video of a song that actually sounds very cool! I loved to see him growling, remember, he was the drummer in TSoTB!

>> Morke - Hel

As for Arild, he joined with singer  Nelly Khosrovyan to create the band RAINAREA, and they just made their first video, it sounds good, I really like the electric piano sound.

>> RAINAREA - Climbing the Mountains

Now, Pete Johansen has always been the most prolific of them, and I have already posted news about him here during the last years. Along with his solo albums, the bands he has worked with are too many, so please just check his page on Metal Archives. What I want to talk here is first about Art of Departure, the solo project of Tristania’s drummer Tarald Lie Jr. along with Pete(!) as you can see on this instagram post. They haven’t posted any songs yet, but to me this sounds very promising! Another news, according to this website (in portuguese), the Brazilian band ILUMINATO has announced that their next album (which will be their second) will have Pete violins, in the entire album! Now, as their official website is down, as it appears to be their facebook, there’s no way to tell if this will go forward, but it would be really cool to have a new gotic metal album with Pete in all songs. Here’s one live song from ILUMINATO’s first album. Sounds good!

>> ILUMINATO - Betrayed Soul