Track 4 – Sunder the World to Save It - The Elder Scrolls Musical – Act I

[Intro – Deep war drums begin slowly, strings droning, distant horns swell] [Male Vocal – solemn, cold, commanding tone] We were the first to shape the stone, To bind the stars, to build a throne. Our lines are perfect, forged in flame— You broke the law, you wore our name. [Female Vocal – bitter, fierce, rising intensity] You hoarded sky, you choked the ground, Called us stray for walking 'round. But we were life — we bled, we ran, Not copies of your master plan! [Drums increase tempo. Guitar distortion creeps in beneath strings.] [Valen Black – Rap Verse 1 – theatrical, rhythmic, like striking hammers] Two peoples, same root, split like bone— One stayed, claimed order as throne. Other moved, danced through dirt, Said pain is real, said growth must hurt. Cracks form fast when pride is high, You hold the stars, but we touch sky. Now you march with spiteful grace— But war don't care for blood or race. [Female Vocal – operatic belt, dramatic rising melody] You think your stillness makes you wise? We saw the storms behind your eyes! Your perfect law was just a cage, We broke it down and birthed an age! [Male Vocal – furious, trembling vibrato] You lit the fire, we held the line! You made the cracks, we called them time! Now mountains split and oceans cry, And even stars fall when gods die! [Break – Instrumental Interlude] [War drums thunder, strings in chaos, horns blare] [Electric guitar tremolo builds into power riff] [Bells toll faintly in background – the world is breaking] [Valen Black – Rap Verse 2 – aggressive, faster flow, snapping cadence] This ain’t peace, this a reckoning— Time don’t ask who pulled the string. Land breaks open, towers drown, History ain’t built on crowns. You called them beasts, we called them kin, You held the gate, we kicked it in. Now Mer and Man will pay the toll, For gods who gambled with their soul. [Screamo Rap Segment – Valen Black – pure emotional release] (SCREAMED) No home to hold! No time to mend! Just WAR that rips and rips again! Ash rains down like fallen truth, And all that’s left are bones of proof! [Bridge – Choir FX fade in behind soft ambient strings] [Male + Female vocals alternate in soft whispers, echoed and ghostly] [Male Whisper:] We sang of starlight… [Female Whisper:] We dreamed of flame… [Together:] Now earth remembers… but not our names. [Chorus – All vocals, orchestral climax, militant drums driving forward] We sundered sky, we broke the tide, We tore the stars with wounded pride. The world was young, but hearts were old— We fought for fate, not for control. Now blood runs deep where borders fell— And time forgets what truth won’t tell. [Final Rap Verse – Valen Black – slower, spoken with intensity, fading to silence] The gods fell first, the mortals next… Both thought they knew what came from text. But war don’t write in sacred lines— It carves its truth in broken spines. [Outro – Choir swells once, then silence. One final snare snap.]