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The End and the Beginning
Razia’s Shadow is a musical written by Forgive Durden. Released in 2008, it contains not only the lead singer of the band, Thomas Dutton, but the vocal talents of such artists as Brendon Urie of Panic At The Disco, Greta Salpeter of The Hush Sound, and Lizzie Huffman of Man in the Blue Van, to name a few.There are two acts in the album, separated by a short intermission. The story begins with the creation of the world by O the Scientist and the betrayal of his most talented cherub that plunges half of the land into eternal night. A century later, we meet Adakias, the prince of the dark, who wants nothing more than to leave his arid home and venture into the light.
Tracklist:
Genesis
The Missing Piece
Life is Looking Up
The Spider and the Lamps
Toba the Tura
The Oracle
A Hundred-Year, Minute-Long Intermission
The Exit
It’s True Love
Meet the King
Holy the Sea
Doctor, Doctor
The End and the Beginning
Razia’s Shadow contains examples of:
Adipose Rex Anhura's father, going by the art for him, is this.
Added Alliterative Appeal Going by character names, three main characters are Ahrima, Adakias, and Anhura; there is also Toba the Tura, Doctor Dumaya, and the brothers Baba and Baruka Bawaba.
Not to mention these lines from the last track, The End and the Beginning:
She requires riches, recherche, riding with rodomontading roues
Casanovas have charmed with chiffons, so chichi.
Chased her with their conceited coteries
She's been propositioned, propounded, by every pompous prince,
Given panniers of Peleus pears and plums polished
I've been seduced with shimmering, sparkling, stones,
Squired by suitors to sizable chateaus
All Girls Want Bad Boys Well, more like, Girl Wants Nice Boy Who Happens To Come From the Wrong Side of the Mountain.
Bittersweet Ending In the end, Adakias is dead and the future of the world is left unclear, such as whether Anhura has to stay with the Doctor, if she stays with Pallis, if she actually helps to fix up the world, etc. Still,the two halves of the world are together again and will live in peace and harmony.
I Have You Now, My Pretty Doctor Dumaya, and his price for healing Anhura from the sickness of the dark.
Incurable Cough of Death Not a cough specifically, but Adakias' presence around Anhura causes her to become deathly ill due to her exposure to his darkness.
The Chosen One: Well, the chosen pair in Adakias and Anhura.
The Dark Side: The world is divided in half with this as one side and the light as the other.
The End of the Beginning: Nearly verbatim the last song on the album, The End and the Beginning; also, in Genesis, "This is the beginning and the end, the rise and the fall . . . "
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