u/-Bloodbird

Hello,

I'd like to introduce Arcis, a new cinematic ambient project. In Numen, our goal was to create the perfect soundtrack for introspection and self-reflection. It is a journey to the darkest dungeons of the mind, where we try to find the source of our true selves.

Arcis is a collaboration between photographer Marco Doll and musician Miguel Amarok (me). My music used his nature photography as main inspiration, and I used a mix of field recordings, acoustic instruments, hardware synthesisers, and plugins in order to create a soundscape of contrasts: old and new; natural and artificial; concrete and abstract; dark and bright.

I hope you will enjoy it. I'll be happy to answer any questions about the record.

Liminal Lands: The Empty Throne is the reconstructed soundtrack to a lost-to-time role-playing game that combined fantasy, horror, and survival elements. Believed to have been the first part of a trilogy developed in the late 90s/early 2000s, none of the three games were ever commercially released for unknown reasons, and no finished copy has ever surfaced. Incomplete fragments of half-built areas, dialogue, and audio have been gradually recovered over the last two decades.

The album presented here is a collaborative reconstruction based on the available material, undertaken by the artists The Ashen Codex, Gloamwalker, and Swordcerer, each of whom focused their work on one part of the lost trilogy. The Empty Throne, the first installment, is set in an unnamed fantasy world whose inhabitants have been transformed into monsters and abominations as the result of a curse brought forth by a mysterious cult.

The player character must fight their way across a series of increasingly oppressive locations as they slowly uncover the dark schemes that led to the current state of the world. While an official ending has not been found, it is believed to have involved finding the heir of a lost royal line and reinstating them on the throne to break the curse.

Arcis - Numen