[FST] Assassins Creed - Holy War
So I'm back after a very long hiatus...bearing gifts of music. A fanmiz to be precise, for the Assassins Creed series. Because it is super-awesome and I love it.
Holy War
Templars & Assassins
{An AC Fanmix}
Psalm 23 // E Nomine
{It begins with a Crusade. The beginning of a Holy War that will span the continents and centuries.}
Der Herr ist mein Hirte,
Mir wird nichts mangeln.
Erweidet mich auf einen gruenen Aue.
Und fuehret mich zum frischen Wasser.
Er erquicket meine Seele.
Er fuehret mich auf rechter Strasse,
Um seines Namens Willen.
Lullaby // Loreena McKennitt
{The Templars take control of the Holy Land, wrecking lives in a path to their peace.}
O who can stand? O who hath caused this?
O who can answer at the throne of God?
The Kings and Nobles of the Land have done it!
Hear it not, Heaven, thy Ministers have done it!
Augen Auf // Oomph!
{But they do not go unchallenged. The Assassins begin their violent search for the Truth.}
Und ich höre deinen Atem,
und ich rieche deine Angst!
Ich kann' nicht mehr länger warten,
denn ich weiß, was du verlangst!
[And I hear your breath
And I smell your fear
I can't wait any longer
Because I know what you demand]
Holy War // Abney Park
{As time marches the world into the modern age, the story never changes. Only the details.}
Holy war, deliver me, rest my fear, I can not see.
My eyes are blind, my bodies lame, my families gone, in my god's name, Holy Wars.
Opening // Breath of Fire V
{With modernity comes stronger weapons and wider devestation, and perhaps some answers too.}
[Instrumental]
Europa // Globus
{The battleground is vast as the two sides fight for their ideals.}
Of new crusades, religious wars
Insurgents imported to our shores
The western world, gripped in fear
The mother of all battles here
Heaven help in all our battles
Heaven see love, heaven help us
The Hand that Feeds // Nine Inch Nails
{The Assassins welcome all who accept that nothing is true and everything is permitted. Look beneath what you're told.}
Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?
What if this whole crusade's
A charade
And behind it all there's a price to be paid?
In the Pretend World // Scarling
{The Templar ideal: a world without choice. A world of peace, no matter the cost.}
In the pretend world
We gaze into empty eyes
We have to amuse ourselves
With adultery tales and white lies
But in the real world
Where fools tormented for sport
We just stitch up our mouths
So we cant admit or retort
You see I cannot say this
Please don't ask me why
In the real world
We cant deny
7 o'clock news/Silent Night // Simon & Garfunkel
{It's a Holy War, but unless you pay attention, you might forget it's still a war.}
[In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York,
Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single
weapon working against the U.S.]
Rise // Origa
{But the Assassins will never forget. They will stand and fight.}
Save your fears, take your place,
Save them for the judgement day.
Fast and free, follow me,
Time to make the sacrifice,
We rise or fall.
I'm a soldier, born to stand.
In this waking hell I am
witnessing more than I can compute.
Pray myself we don't forget
Lies, betrayed and the oppressed.
Please give me the strength to be the truth.
All is violent, all is bright // God is an Astronaut
{There is no good or evil side. Only violence and faith in what is right.}
[Instrumental]
Karsey Street // Poison the Well
{Neither side is innocent. Whatever it takes.}
I've seen horrors
Horrors that you have seen
But you have no right to call me a murderer
You have a right to kill me
I have a right to do that
But you have no right to judge me
Worth Dying For // Rise Against
{This is the most important thing in the world.}
Send me off on the morning breeze so far away from here
Feel me rise in the strength I've found inside the warm embracing air
I'm moving slow
Like a glacier melting watch me dissipate
I searched for love in an empty world but all I found was hate
Now in the
White flames of burning flags we
found a world worth dying for, yeah
We've been battered so hard that we don't
feel anymore
Let the Flames Begin // Paramore
{Slowly, the Assassins are losing. But it's not over yet.}
This is, how we'll dance when,
when they try to take us down,
This is what we'll be, O glory.
Somewhere weakness is our strength,
And i'll die searching for it,
I can't let myself regret, such selfishness,
My pain I know the trouble caused, no matter how long,
I believe that there's hope.
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[SS]
I hope you all enjoy the mix~ While I was playing AC I and II one of the things I found most interesting was that no matter the time period, there were still Templars, still Assassins and, despite the slightly different motivations for beginning the battles, it was essentially the same struggle over the centuries. Even the Dan Brown-esque modern period was interesting in that respect...
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My other fanmixes:
(Feel free to request reuploads)
- Gentleman Bastard (Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch)
- All Else, Truth (Red Seas under Red Skies - Scott Lynch)
- Eulogy (Nation - Terry Pratchett)
- The Sound of the World Collapsing ( MPD Psycho - Eiji Otsuka)