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Hmm. Maybe 'Solstice Refrain'?

There's a 'refrain' in the version of the art we didn't take but we didn't take it, and this has the same flow as Solstice Requiem without being quite as overdone.
 
Here are some some suggestions apologies if there are dups of any proposed

(Stillness of the Solstice Night)
Stillness of the Longest Night
Solstice Proclamation
Rest of the Longest Night
Fermata of Winters Night
Fermata of Winters End
Nights Fermata of Winter
Fermata of the Solstice
Zenith of the Winter Solstice

(Snowblossom Shattering)
Snowblossom Bloom
Snowblossom Crescendo
Crescendo of the Snowblossoms
 
I may have missed it but there doesn't seem to be much discussion in the way of something along the lines of lullaby. Like Winter Solstice Lullaby. Or maybe like Harsh Winter Lullaby. Or maybe using something like Shush. Like Shushing of Solstice Night.

Hmm actually if we did something with lullaby you could then do Snowblossom Awakening or similar maybe something like Snowblossome Reveille or Rousing Snowblossom. I think it gets the whole one year going to sleep and another awakening with that. So we get something like:
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Year's End Aria
Winter Solstice Lullaby
Snowblossom Reveille
 
I think simplicity in names is a good thing, so 'Solstice Lullaby' would, I think, be better for the removal of Winter. The original name doesn't feel the need to mention that it's specifically the Winter Solstice, and I don't think we should either.

That and Snowblossom Reveille would be solid, though.
 
I do kind of like "Solstice Refrain" since it has the nice double meaning - both "musical chorus" (noun) and "hold back, suppress" (verb).
 
A question: What exactly is it that Unity of Blades does? All I've been able to find is a statement by Yrsillar that it has a longer reach than Palace of One because it's compatible with some other ascended laws, but not the details of how it functions.
 
Karthak Urzak said:
A question: What exactly is it that Unity of Blades does? All I've been able to find is a statement by Yrsillar that it has a longer reach than Palace of One because it's compatible with some other ascended laws, but not the details of how it functions.
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Like many things with the great spirits, there are no firm answers. That being said, here is a quote from Uncle Skelly about Unity of Blades.

yrsillar said:
Though hunter and hunted died, fangs and blades buried in each others throats, the hunt did not end, for it is never so easy. The Hunter had birthed the seeds that would become the Unity of Blades, the reinforcement of the oldest story of all.

"What story is that Elder," Ling Qi spoke calmly, tilting her chin up, not disrespectful but direct. It took all of her effort to remain seren among the cries and the fires, the phantom shadows killing and dying in the lurid light. Her teeth itched, and the taste on her tongue made her want to retch.

We are us, blades out forever against they who are not. The tale whispered by the nameless at the birth of time, the first story, the first division. Feebleminded and without imagination the Xi were, to simply repeat their elders' tale and call it their own, accomplishing no more than forging our chains ever heavier. But, clever junior, no more interruption.
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So, the Xi great spirit, Unity of Blades, seems to have reinforced and repeated the first tale of creation. Unity of those who are the same, violence against those who are not.
 
Hmm we could just keep it simple. Adagio of the Solstice Night, since it's a slower, calmer piece, and Snowblossom Symphony, since it's Ling Qi's magnup opus.
 
I don't really mind Snowblossom Shattering at all. At first I was meh about it because "Snowblossom" doesn't sound nearly as fierce as the finisher requires. However, there's a juxtaposition there that really grew on me. I really do think we could leave that one as is.

Year's End Aria...doesn't provoke a particularly powerful image in my mind nor does it roll off the tongue. Begins with too many vowels i guess. Idk.


Last Song of Winter Solstice

Years End Aria---> Symphony of Winter's Eve
 
trent8688 said:
Fermata of Winters Night
Fermata of Winters End
Nights Fermata of Winter
Fermata of the Solstice
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Fermata is a technical thing you do inside a music piece, not an actual type of piece itself. And it implies stasis, which is the opposite of what we want.

Anti-double post edit: This is gonna be our main attack technique, so maybe something like the Last Lullaby? Final Lullaby?
 
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I feel like "Lullaby" is too... gentle-sounding for our main offensive tech. Like, "lullaby" is what I will sing to my baby niece.

In this art, LQ literally is either literally freezing her enemies to death or at the very least, giving them crippling frost bite they will have nightmares about...It was enough to make Liang He rethink his life choices lol.

Snowblossom Shattering has a nice, appropriate juxtaposition to it in that it almost makes you think of flowers--or life-- being shattered. And that is what the tech does, it takes life away. It's just as lethal as a finisher for our successor should be. This whole art is about the juxtaposition of Winter and the slow, coming of the next season (not that I think spring should ever have an aesthetic place here! never think that). We'll be pulling off the same sort of thing Sun Liling does with her terrifying sunflowers she summons. Flowers are supposed to be pretty. And ours will be! But when our enemies see them? They're gonna be scared AF.

But Lullaby? That makes me imagine what Qingge probably sings to Biyu before bedtime or something...
 
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Cold Experience Requiem?

I doodled this on my phone in bed when I should be asleep lmao
 
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Lena27 said:
I feel like "Lullaby" is too... gentle-sounding for our main offensive tech. Like, "lullaby" is what I will sing to my baby niece.

In this art, LQ literally is either literally freezing her enemies to death or at the very least, giving them crippling frost bite they will have nightmares about...It was enough to make Liang He rethink his life choices lol.

Snowblossom Shattering has a nice, appropriate juxtaposition to it in that it almost makes you think of flowers--or life-- being shattered. And that is what the tech does, it takes life away. It's just as lethal as a finisher for our successor should be. This whole art is about the juxtaposition of Winter and the slow, coming of the next season (not that I think spring should ever have an aesthetic place here! never think that). We'll be pulling off the same sort of thing Sun Liling does with her terrifying sunflowers she summons. Flowers are supposed to be pretty. And ours will be! But when our enemies see them? They're gonna be scared AF.

But Lullaby? That makes me imagine what Qingge probably sings to Biyu before bedtime or something...
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The reason I bring up Lullaby is because it is thematically workable but also somewhat ironic. The art is about putting things to rest, about the year coming to an end, and we are here getting things ready for sleep and to awake to the new. Thus we bring them to sleep before awakening the snowblossoms to take there place. It also plays a bit with the idea of a serenade, serenades apparently being typically light and calm pieces of music and so are lullaby's technically. It would be the lullaby for a year, the lullaby of our enemies, not the End (requiem) but putting one thing to sleep for a new thing to awaken.
 
ApeofLight said:
The reason I bring up Lullaby is because it is thematically workable but also somewhat ironic. The art is about putting things to rest, about the year coming to an end, and we are here getting things ready for sleep and to awake to the new. Thus we bring them to sleep before awakening the snowblossoms to take there place. It also plays a bit with the idea of a serenade, serenades apparently being typically light and calm pieces of music and so are lullaby's technically. It would be the lullaby for a year, the lullaby of our enemies, not the End (requiem) but putting one thing to sleep for a new thing to awaken.
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Then use "Serenade."
Lullaby just evokes the wrong image or tone.

Winter's Last Serenade

Actually I think I know what I like better: Winter's Last Symphony
 
Frosty Wind.

(Jooooo joooooo)

It summons a construct that looks a lot like Zeqing, that goes around and sings silence at people so they go to sleep, and are readied for spring.
 
Skitzyfrenic said:
Frosty Wind.

(Jooooo joooooo)

It summons a construct that looks a lot like Zeqing, that goes around and sings silence at people so they go to sleep, and are readied for spring.
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That got me thinking about a kind looking motherly figure/spectre 'taking people in' during cold winter storms, making the cold go away by freezing the nerves, turning the winds into sweet lullabies and tucking them in under a comfy blanket of snow so they may sleep and dream forevermore.
 
I mean, that sounds exactly like Zeqing, except she's a motherly guardian instead of a seductive temptress.
 
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