Bonus Episode #57 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. The fall through shadow has only just begun. Kaelen, Torren, and their unlikely new ally Brenn plummet through a starlight portal into the Sunken Realms, islands trapped in eternal twilight, casualties of Zyra's earliest experiments with corrupted bindings. Here, among crystallized tears and frozen moments of catastrophe, they must confront the graveyard of noble intentions gone terribly wrong.
In this third installment of our four-part radio drama, our heroes walk through a museum of failures that reveals the exact moment when reform became tyranny. They encounter Nethys, a woman caught between all realities, who shows them the mechanics of the life-binding ritual and the terrible price required to break it. They discover Zyra's hidden research vault, where decades of meticulous planning toward absolute control lie preserved in cold precision. And they face Auren, not as the enemy they feared, but as a sister still fighting against the chains slowly consuming her will.
The path to the Shadowed Core grows clearer with each revelation, but so does the understanding that saving those they love will demand sacrifices none of them are prepared to make. The Choice-Point, that crucial moment when resistance becomes impossible, draws ever closer for everyone involved.
Content Note: This fantasy adventure contains themes of betrayal, magical violence, and family conflict.
Email the show at bgmaniapodcast@gmail.com with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff, & Mike.
EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS
- Twilight from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess [Toru Minegishi, 2006]
- The House from What Remains of Edith Finch [Jeff Russo, 2017]
- Flooded Suspense from Dishonored [Daniel Licht, 2012]
- The Point Where Light Vanishes from Senua's Saga: Hellblade II [David García Díaz, 2024]
- Whispers of the Forgotten Machines from System Shock [Jonathan Peros, 2023]
- Timelines from Life is Strange [Jonathan Morali, 2015]
- Kaine -Salvation- from Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139 [Keiichi Okabe feat. Emi Evans, 2021]
- The Price of Freedom from Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion [Takeharu Ishimoto, 2022]
- No Turning Back from A Plague Tale: Requiem [Olivier Deriviere, 2022]
- Dream Already Seen from Returnal [Bobby Krlic, 2021]
VOICE CAST
- Narrator - Bryan Clutter
- Kaelen - Bryan Clutter
- Torren - Kyle Vaughn
- Brenn - Kyle Vaughn
- Zyra - Bryan Clutter
- Theren - Brian Booth
- Nethys - Brian Booth
- Auren - Brian Booth
- Varn - Bryan Clutter
- Sera - Lindsey Vaughn
- Elyndra - Lindsey Vaughn
LINKS
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