just stuff I've been into: medieval fantasy
This is the first thing I've really missed cohost for: I just get in genre moods where I'm into a thing for like a week and I wanna listen to music and imagine playing a ttrpg in it and inhabiting it somehow! This is a self-interested thought that is of no interest to anyone else, so it feels not even worth blogging, but gosh darn if I didn't get that validation of like 4 likes when I posted about such things on cohost.
Well, today I was reminded AC Valhalla exists after some people were talking about it in a discord. I've had it installed on my computer and a save 20 hours in for years now. Some day I'll knock out those other 200 hours for sure. I've been in a kind of medieval, low fantasy, not high fantasy mood lately. Reading Sailing to Sarantium and Curse of Chalion, playing AC Valhalla. I've been having feelings about the sort of, spirituality and reckoning with existence that I like a lot about medieval fiction like this.
Despite being an ex-catholic atheist, I can still get very moved by these stories of people like, reconciling with the suffering and beauty of life as understood through the works of a paternal god figure who is hard to live in the legacy and expectations of. I posted about coming around to wanting to play a cleric (or paladin) lately and yeah, I still would. Not interested in like, being a preachy zealot, but very interested in being a tired warrior of a god who has asked too much of you. That kind of thing. I don't know if I have any ttrpgs in my future where this is going to be an option, so oh well.
Now, AC Valhalla is not about this as far as I can tell, but, nevertheless. Medieval vibes.
Despite being kiiiinda on the side of ahistoric vikingcore which I have a lot of beef with, AC Valhalla music mostly has some pretty good medieval vibes with some of this. It has that medieval sawing string instrument sound I like.
I joined a Wolves Upon the Coast West Marches server so I actually am much closer to having the genre mood ttrpg times than I ever usually am! But alas I have not played in any sessions yet.