In September 2024, I completed the soundtrack to an immersive online Dungeons and Dragons adventure created by Snowy’s Maps.
The soundtrack explores the fantasy setting of Da’Sabar, with its twisted characters and dark storyline. I composed and produced all three tracks on Logic Pro, using a range of orchestral instruments and ambient synthesisers.
In the heart of Totera, the University of Kitoro stands. It is primarily a mage academy focused on the supernatural, with obscure magical practices and absurd ideologies – a squishy spellcaster in melee, whoever heard of these radical ideas?!
However, the origins of the University lay outside the city’s walls, with the first professors banished for what they claimed to be ‘progressive ideas’, which included fighting to the death, using undead rather than than bound sorcerous servants to clean the halls, and employ non-magical professors into magically-inclined positions.
In fact, these original ‘ruins’ still stand 300 years later, laying perfectly abandoned after all students and staff were forced to evacuate after one of the professors, a half-elf by the name Azkareth, supposedly went crazy, sacrificing his lover, also a colleague, to a powerful demon and letting it loose on the grounds of the University’s old church, Da’Sabar. Weirdly, Da’Sabar remains intact and perfectly preserved, as if nothing had ever happened, while other buildings have turned to ruin.
That is, until recently. The bells of Da’Sabar ring once again – calling out, perhaps welcoming Azkareth’s return.
It has been a really valuable project that has brought me a lot of enjoyment, so I am especially grateful to the amazing Snowy. Her Patreon page can be found here: Snowy’s Maps | FoundryVTT Ready Battlemaps and Oneshots for DnD 5e and PF2e | Patreon
Some artwork © 2015 Dean Spencer, used with permission. All rights reserved.