Character Leitmotifs

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One last resort bump.

Helvagen (The Road/Way to Hel) - A slow chant sung in old Norse. It's very subdued, but the listening to the low drum line, I can't help but think of a heartbeat. It sounds like a funeral dirge… or a slow march.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PvZGVPiJU

>>49225917
Love that background pic, too.

Speaking of Fable, what about the Bower Lake theme from Fable 2? Good for an old wise/wyrd character.

https://youtu.be/yIEubO6mjGw

Gehrman's theme and Abyss Watchers Theme are both incredible for this sort of thing, too.

Honestly, it's easy to just build a character off leitmotifs alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkLedEX6Qc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmRUGqcsWOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nLHpSLTxo&list=PLTAzZ-r3nUJHM_G89d8rEB79W9rtevSK7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V-KU3U_ElI&index=5&list=PLTAzZ-r3nUJHM_G89d8rEB79W9rtevSK7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B1YDPE20Ss

>>49227181
Then there's Gascoigne's theme, good for a boss fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA614N3IHD4

This is slightly off-tangent, but I always think of the "In the Hall of the Mountain King" when I play anything stereotypical Dwarf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLp_Hh6DKWc

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Generally when I'm making a character, I actually play a piece of music on loop while I write their background that puts me in the headspace for that kind of story. Most recent one was a kind of modern cowboy in a Hunter game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9Uz_YMHnc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci5WKtIeoeg

Dark Souls 2 is underrated, love that OST.

https://youtu.be/D8ShsHeYkeI

Majula has a great 'fading afternoon' feel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0JbW8Xfgvw

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Leitmotif thread?? Fuck yes

This is the main theme of my necromancer. The most tragic of tragic characters. He died in the wilderness at the age of 16, exiled from his family being unable to compete with his three brothers to be heir. Now he travels as a skeleton blindly serving a dead god who resurrected him as a pawn in his own scheme. I pretty much wrote his story while listening to this on loop and the macabre edginess just flowed from the quill.

Tatiana's Lament
https://youtu.be/gXrbFG2HaDc

I have two characters with their own theme music.

The first is a Bloodrager who's obsessed with knighthood and heroism. She's a weird mix of one of the greatest warriors in the world (which is the whole basis of the campaign) and a (wo)man-child. I chose this theme because she started off as r63 Zack Fair:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYu_AUBO698

The second is a half elf arcanist who grew up working in a magic shop, and decided he wanted to do more with his life than sit in a shop working the register. He went to magic college and got his magic degree in necromancy, and is now just starting to experience the world beyond his hometown.
Chose this because it's pretty light-hearted and adventurey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drdQExvXuJo