[Tethers/heretical] Music Tethers worldwide...

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Originally Posted by Acolyte

Ringing Rocks Park in Pennsylvania is a definite must (possibly shared with Stone, or perhaps they had a little scuffle over it). In my head, it's always been a Tether to Stone whose musically-inclined Seneschal would have been a contender with Israfel for Angel of Music had he not been already Word-Bound to the Tether. Makes you wonder--music does work startlingly well at unifying people, but under the control of now-Malakite David for centuries, how much different would Music be today?

I'd call it a shared Tether in this campaign; David probably does have a few angels interested in music's unifying power. It's easy to imagine an Angel of Work Songs with attunements from both David and Israfel, for instance... :-)

Originally Posted by Acolyte

A bizarre Tether could involve the band that played on as the Titanic sank. I thought that was a myth, but the internet seems to suggest it actually happened, and apparently the bandleader's body was recovered and is buried in England (which would make a more sensible Tether locus than someplace on the bottom of the ocean). Alternatively, the story could be recast as a result of the actions of an angelic Servitor of Music (but I dislike that; I prefer the stories of greatest heroism and villainy from human history to still have been acted out by humans in the IN universe).

The Hartley grave is probably a minor-to-average Music Tether, depending on how well known the site has become. Since the Titanic wreckage itself links to a Demon Prince of the Seas in my campaign, that avoids the awkward situation of two opposing Tethers on the same site.

Originally Posted by Acolyte

A more modern-day Tether could center on famous musicals--enough people have watched "The Sound of Music" to make a Tether on some random Austrian hillslope (or, more oddly, wherever they actually filmed that scene).

Assuming the movie was shot on location, I'd vote for the actual hillside where Julie Andrews performed...average but on the decline, since the scene has been parodied enough for Nybbas and Kobal to influence people's thinking.

Speaking of Music Tethers in Europe, though, I believe that Troldhaugen (the home of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg) qualifies as a weak one.

Originally Posted by Acolyte

Broadway might host a Music Tether, but it's probably atrophying with the fall of the musical as the height of mass media (perhaps Nybbas was willing to sacrifice the musical from his arsenal to damage Israfel's influence on other parts of his Word). Maybe there's a Tether on the oldest surviving reel of "The Wizard of Oz" or somesuch, locked away in a basement in DC, NYC, or (more heretically) LA (!).

Broadway's Music Tether is probably weak but mobile, tied to the location of the musical with the best reviews. The storage place of the Wizard of Oz reel is a cool suggestion, though; I just might use it.