Bonus Episode #60 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. The final confrontation has arrived. Kaelen and his companions step through the threshold into the Shadowed Core itself, where reality bends to nightmare logic, and thousands of trapped souls cry out from the spaces between Zyra's commands. Here, in this realm of absolute darkness wrapped in corrupted chains, the one who wants to consume the Loom stands moments away from her ultimate transformation.

In this epic conclusion to The Starbinder's Oath, our heroes must navigate a place where the very air is thick with the consciousness of the bound, where whispers of the lost guide them toward answers they desperately need. Armed with hard-won knowledge about the ritual's mechanics and the flaw hidden in Zyra's design, they face impossible choices about who will pay the price for freedom and what true balance between power and responsibility really means.

The third path, the one that neither tyranny nor rigid tradition ever imagined, awaits discovery in the heart of this cosmic horror. But finding it will require sacrifices that will echo across Aeloria for generations to come, and not everyone who enters the Shadowed Core will emerge unchanged.

Content Note: This fantasy adventure contains themes of sacrifice, magical violence, loss, and the complexity of redemption.

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EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS

1. End Credits -Scary Suite- from Alan Wake II [Petri Alanko, 2023]
2. Guardians & Memories from Spiritfarer [Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis, 2020]
3. We Remember from Halo: Reach [Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori, 2010]
4. To Call Our Own from Horizon Zero Dawn [Joris de Man, 2017]
5. Sojourner's Truth from Virginia [Lyndon Holland, 2016]
6. The Final Battle from Elden Ring [Tsukasa Saitoh, 2022]
7. Awakening from Persona 5 [Shoji Meguro, 2017]
8. Flow -Instrumental- from Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker [Masayoshi Soken, 2021]
9. That's The Way It Is from Red Dead Redemption II [Daniel Lanois feat. Rocco DeLuca, 2018]
10. An End, Once and For All from Mass Effect 3 [Clint Mansell & Sam Hulick, 2012]

VOICE CAST

• Narrator - Bryan Clutter
• Kaelen - Bryan Clutter
• Torren - Kyle Vaughn
• Brenn - Kyle Vaughn
• Varn - Bryan Clutter
• Sera - Lindsey Vaughn
• Auren - Brian Booth
• Zyra - Bryan Clutter
• Lorian - Brian Booth
• Theren - Brian Booth
• All Other Voices/Characters/Misc. - Bryan Clutter

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PODCAST NETWORK

• Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast
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