In my mind, this is being sung by an old woman sitting on a chair, with little kids sitting around her on the floor, learning how to be cautious and identify a snow beast as they sing the words back with her lol

@doredam8919

2 жыл бұрын

While this song is from the album Oathbound, I think it's from Oathbreakers where Tarma sings to Kethry about this snow beast in one of the rare occasions she still wants to sing, right after getting the news about Idra

@shaunablack8512

2 жыл бұрын

Songs were originally meant to teach that's that's how it happened now we sing for little s*** but they those words the songs they were originally meant to teach

@shaunablack8512

2 жыл бұрын

We learn from the past over June to repeat it these songs were meant to teach if we do not learn we die

@meyatetana2973

Жыл бұрын

Won't you invite me in, I am cold and near death. >:D

@Makkaru112

Жыл бұрын

And honouring what the elders have lived through so I take it she lived through this story

Isn't the moral of the story that, before inviting creepy old people into your home you should check with your parents?

@heskan

4 жыл бұрын

nah its to always do an x-ray on new people

@THEFIRST39

3 жыл бұрын

It’s both: but “things aren’t always what they seem.” and “Always look beneath the skin.” sound cooler.

@LexitaMai

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@jnharton

2 жыл бұрын

The moral is that you shouldn't blindly believe what is presented at face value, but look past the surface for the truth. Just because someone seems nice enough and what they want from you sees reasonable doesn't mean they aren't deceiving and have no ulterior motives.

Moral of the story: always perform an x ray on new people you meet

@killuazoldyck7442

11 ай бұрын

Okay, that made me laugh 😂😂 Thanks

Melodic and creepy at the same time. Awesome.

My favorite lullaby. It's helped me sleep night after night. Thank you for that.

"Mama told me not to talk to strangers", could have prevented all of this.

@shaunablack8512

2 жыл бұрын

Can I get an amen totally agree

@lordbuss

Жыл бұрын

Which is exactly the point of the story.

@meyatetana2973

Жыл бұрын

Would not have saved them. They were already dead moment the stranger got close.

@jnharton

Жыл бұрын

@@meyatetana2973 Perhaps, but had they even remotely suspected something was wrong... Well, then they might have been able to warn the others of the danger. -- Generally there is safety in numbers, especially when dealing with dangerous animals (or people).

@kyleedwards6026

Жыл бұрын

@@jnharton yeah but according to the song, they were far from camp, well isolated, if they'd have said no, they would have died right there

Definitely going to use it as a story in Icewind Dale campaign

@johnmandrage3248

3 жыл бұрын

Always pictured this monster being a Hag.

@THEFIRST39

3 жыл бұрын

Just bought that campaign; now I can’t wait to play it!!!

@THEFIRST39

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnmandrage3248 or a changeling, or a Wendigo, or a demon of some kind, not to mention any of the other crazy nightmarish crap they have in D&D

@addygil5000

2 жыл бұрын

I'm playing a performer in Icewind, and I am absolutely going to do this as well.

@nedhunter4444

2 жыл бұрын

@@THEFIRST39 In the original story I think it actually was a demon. Hindsight (which I think is from the same album), is the same story from a different perspective, and the narrator calls the snowbeast a demon. I should really finish reading the series of books this was based on. I've only read book 1 and the first couple chapters of book 2.

Some lessons are that some things are NEVER what they seem. Use caution when meeting new people

@meyatetana2973

Жыл бұрын

Even monsters want love though, not all are bad.

@Murloc017

Жыл бұрын

@@meyatetana2973 They are. Your nature knows that they are not to be trusted, to reject it is to reject all rationality. No sheep that trusted wolves is alive today.

@sorexA1-v3h

5 ай бұрын

@@meyatetana2973 but this one was...

Certified hood classic

This book is awesome!! I love Mercedes Lackey! 🥰😍🤩

Never waste your pity on the snow

@asktokeatzen3689

7 ай бұрын

Always keep your caution, for all you think you know...

@CuteBoy-vh5zt

Ай бұрын

For as the world is beautiful, likewise is it cruel...

There's another song about a similar incident from the perspective of two survivors who became Oathsworn and tracked the creature down. I remember the line " never waste your pity on the snow"

I always imagined the Snow Beast as something like a very large rabbit or mountain cat. Rabbits aren't usually meat eaters, but they can bite and claw like ... So, I'm thinking of a story of any type of critter shifting into an old woman and being welcomed to the family. Then, when she shows her teeth and claws, the old decrepit dog laying by the fire gets up and shifts into something cute and cuddly but also with tooth and claw. And very fast. Hmm. The family's little baby girl who likes to sleep near the fire, and just happens to be a Changeling who just happens to like this family. Well, my grandkids will like it. snicker

@pandroidgaxie

Жыл бұрын

There's a different story in Winds of Fate with a similar thing. The Tayledras have extra concern for children so they let one inside the Vale. It was a Mage Adept in disguise and it wiped out half the clan.

@chelonianmobile

6 ай бұрын

I was thinking fleshgait, but those weren't a cultural icon at the time the books were written.

ALWAYS look beneath the skin...

Moral of the song: Live your life like it's a fairy tale, believing that everyone who is ugly is automatically good, or pretty is automatically bad, you're going to make a mistake that has dire consequences for all involved

@MegaMementoMori

6 жыл бұрын

No... moral of the story: don't help beggars, they could be deamons that will butcher your whole family.

@PrimordialNightmare

5 жыл бұрын

you could take it by word, and just look at wehats under the skin - wouldn't take too big of a cut.

@stephenskinner7207

5 жыл бұрын

I saw it as more of an anti-immigration message.

@issadwarf3989

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephenskinner7207 This is a song based off of Mercedes Lackey's Valdermar series. If you've ever read any of it, you'll find she is anything but anti-immigration.

@jnharton

Жыл бұрын

It's really about naive assumptions and blind trust.

A song about a Skinwalker, huh.

@centurion7993

Ай бұрын

It seems to be about the kind of vampire that shifts from a human to a vampiric form, so a type of shapeshifter sure

OMG I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like the reference to the Dark Hunter series in your username.

@nekowitch417

4 жыл бұрын

Same here.

This is a good sung! Goot lesson for us monsters, if you wait you can eat a village instead of some skinny brats :P :D Sorry I've always cheered for monsters :P

@NuriannaGypsyArts

Жыл бұрын

My son also. So I will leave you with scritches and the knowledge that you are not alone.

@m4sherman926

7 ай бұрын

The beast is rightfully slain in the song that takes place after this one by two of the children if I remember correctly.

@meyatetana2973

2 ай бұрын

@@m4sherman926 Such is life, all things end

How can you look beneath the skin without a sharp knife?

Moral of the story: The uncanny valley (a strong distrust of anything that looks almost human but there is something WRONG) exists in ALL HUMANS from every culture, every continent, and every generation. This suggests that there was a STRONG evolutionary benefit to this fear. As in anyone without this instinct and their family groups didn't survive to breed. In the deep primal recesses of our brains, there is a vivid memory of real danger. Well, goodnight everyone. Sweet dreams. 🙍‍♀🙍‍♂🧛🙅‍♀

@centurion7993

Ай бұрын

The homo erectus does look a lot like us and we know for sure that they treated anything that entered their territory as potential food, even other hominids and (if I recall right) other homo erectus, and that says nothing of other hominids

@JustARoamer

Ай бұрын

​@@centurion7993it is also known that there were groups of homosapiens that lived with homo erectus and cross breed with them (chances are we out competed to extinction them with a mixture of killing them and breeding with them)

KZread algorithm strikes again

@gc6096

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

Apparently this is children’s music

@shineyluna1268

Жыл бұрын

a b s o l u t l y! (its a wonderful bedtime song!)

@PatienceKiss

Жыл бұрын

Imagine not teaching your children to avoid snow beasts

I see something like a skin walker

Definitely an annis hag lol

@throughthecarnage7673

2 жыл бұрын

Much more like Bheur hag. They always seek to inspire the cruelty and fear in the times of cold winter. What is the best way to do that but to pretend a stranger, then massacre all but few villagers for the remaining ones to struggle for survival and be utterly distrustful to the outsiders? Masterfully executed plan. But... it backfired in the song "Hindsight"

@Haxi_The_Jester

2 жыл бұрын

@@throughthecarnage7673 thank you for the correction it seems I had my hags mixed up lol