#a fortress called home

[piles-of-numbers]

hey I played In Stars and Time and it changed my brain chemistry

May I present to the isat tag this song: House of Lies by Seven Spires

It’s so Siffrin. Longing for a home but not knowing what it is, forgiving yourself for what you have wanted, and look at this first verse:

I know a place where dreams have died

Buried beneath a house of lies

Here in the darkness, we survive

Chanting the lessons learned in life

It’s like The House and how Sif is able to survive all these loops by doing the same things over and over again

And part of the main part is the line

Home’s where you grow

You don’t feel alone

How does it feel?

Well how should I know?

And Sif doesn’t know their childhood or where they are from.

And the singer progresses to talking about how maybe they will find home one day and it will be okay and I just.

It’s good. Listen to it.

[softness-and-shattering]

This song is gothic and haunting and beautiful and do raw and somehow so hopeful. I nerd people to be more feral about Seven Spires with me. Take that as an assignment. Its wild that theyre not better known theyre just masterful. Im working my way through the new album, this isnt even one of the singles. Haunting.

[squidjetsassafras]

Brought to you by today's hyperfocus, my first time properly working in A3, and my excitement about Seven Spires' upcoming album:

[Image description: photo of a pencil sketch in landscape. Its a waist-up portrait of a woman with enormously swirly long hair tossing in the wind, holding up her arms in some kind of triumph or command, her hands dramatically posed like a conductor or musician. Her face is upturned, mouth open in speech or scream or song, face painted in white with black accents around her mouth and chin, plus dramatic winged eyeliner. Shes wearing a coat lined with buttons over a patterned vest and a cravat-style neck tie fancy situation. The coat also has a stiff collar, shoulder pads and large decorative sleeve cuffs. The overall effect is spooky, pirate-y, dark academia, powerful scary woman possibly summoning a storm, or demons, or perhaps commanding an army in a storm, like she might be the last thing yoi ever see.]

Based heavily on the band's aesthetics and lore and music videos. Im thinking this piece is either named "I, The Architect", or "Fear Me. Love Me.", both lyrics from a recent single off their new album coming out next month:

[metamorphic-stranger]

I think Adrienne's delivery of "forgiving and accepting all we've yearned for" in House of Lies is one of my favorite vocal moments in any song ever. So pure, so clean, it cuts right to my core.

And then to follow it up with just one word: "Home". In that weary and relenting tone, that generates images in my mind of shivering in the cold scared and alone after such a long time. Heartbreaking in the best of ways.

[slrmagazine]

SEVEN SPIRES Shares New Single "Portrait of Us" and Music Video

SEVEN SPIRES Shares New Single "Portrait of Us" and Music Video. #sevenspires @SevenSpiresBand

SEVEN SPIRES shares “Portrait of Us,” the fourth single from their new studio album ‘A Fortress Called Home‘ out today via Frontiers Music Srl. The track is accompanied by a new music video which is available below. The band shared this about the track: “A parade through some of our early influences, it’s arrogant, it’s playful, it might not know its place, it’s an irritating little brat of a…

[replicantapologist]

Also... It feels like they finally balanced Emerald Seas' tightness and the epicness of Gods of Debauchery. Very mature album overall.

Compare this with Solveig (and even then you could tell they were something special) and it's such a joy to see the evolution!

[theworkshopmann]

Hailstorm Home Call

Type: Cosmetic/Misc

Class: Medic

Paintable: Yes

Accepted in game: No

This cosmetic set was made by Steam users MCL15 and Vitreousglassy. Posted on November 13th 2023, you can vote for this here!

[gudriva]

Hey!! Good evening, people!

I've been working tirelessly on.. This! I really like the result and I will even say more: These two ARE THE BEST OF FRIENDS!! If I had more drawings with them, I would have made edit in TikTok with them!

I tried very hard to get closer to the style @partycoffin, and I think that to some extent I did it!

I've been working really hard on this drawing and I hope it will get at least 10 notes!

[gwah--ren]

elethea surviving the death of the archdemon raises a lot of questions from weisshaupt. questions she is able to dodge by offering them an outpost in gwaren in the form of an old fort along the coast

[themetalgodsmeltdownposts]

Seven Spires interview for The Metal Gods Meltdown By Seb Di Gatto

[caracello]

imigjt die when i finally get to eternal and i see the fortress of doom im not prepared for it

[dichromaticdyke]

it’s only been out for 15 minutes but When Gods Fear To Speak might be the album of the year

[softness-and-shattering]

From Gods - "I will never go home/I burned that bridge long ago/drained now full of hate I go on fueled by the only truth I know"

And then Fortress has mulriple songs about home abd feeling comfortable. Idk which songs which yet. Anyway thats growth.

[torgawl]

i'm so obsessed with wriothesley's concept. his constellation being cerberus, the fortress having the 3 headed dog insignia and also being the literal representation of the underworld is just so cool. the fact they mixed catholic influences too with the whole noah's arc plot is kind of crazy. he's just that guy!!!

[lirotation]

Mortal Astarion X F! Human Tav. Ummm, angst.👀

For decades, this manor offered him a place to call home in the truest sense. 

The hallway was a sacred gallery, adorned with paintings that were not mere canvases, but tangible echoes of their life together. Each brushstroke, lovingly rendered by her hand, captured the essence of cherished memories.

Whenever he opened the door at the end of the hallway, he was greeted by the radiant smile of his beloved, and the hearth beckoned him to surrender to its comforting embrace. Yet, it was the vast window next to it that held the greatest significance. The tender caress of sunlight danced across his skin as he lost himself in the pages of a book beside her. It was here, bathed in the golden rays, that he could truly revel in the miracle she had bestowed upon him – the cure to his vampiric curse, a gift of life, a reminder of the depths of her love and the power it held to transcend even the most insurmountable of boundaries.

Here at home, he had found everything his heart desired.

But nothing is ever truly perfect. Life simply doesn't work that way.  Even the mightiest of fortresses cannot withstand the relentless march of time.

He thought he was ready for it, but not like this.

Never like this.

_________

The poem cited is "When You Are Old" BY W.B. Yeats. One of my favorites.❤️

Alright, thanks for reading the second installment of my "this did not really happen to my couple". After delving into the mortality of my Tav, Amaara, I found myself confronting a fear more profound than death itself – the fear of morbidity, of life's vibrancy fading before its inevitable end. So I decided to yank my CP around this theme. Self-indulgence at its finest.😊

[slrmagazine]

SEVEN SPIRES Announces New Album "A Fortress Called Home" Out June 21, 2024 via Frontiers Music

SEVEN SPIRES Announces New Album "A Fortress Called Home" Out June 21, 2024 via Frontiers Music. #sevenspires @SevenSpiresBand

SEVEN SPIRES is pleased to announce their new studio album ‘A Fortress Called Home‘ to be released June 21st via Frontiers Music. To celebrate the announcement, the band has shared a music video for the first single, “Almosttown.” Bassist Peter de Reyna on ‘A Fortress Called Home‘: “This album will build you up and tear you down in true SEVEN SPIRES fashion. I couldn’t be prouder of the life…