By Marcy Nabors shadolith Bandcamp shadolith SoundCloud shadolith Tumblr Shadolith Twitter and Solatrus solatrus Bandcamp solatrus SoundCloud Solatrus Twitter.
Cover art by Toe.
Released 11/24/2012.
Duration: 2:40.

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Artist commentary:

Solatrus:

Skaiaward has had a pretty strange development. I was the original artist attached to it, but had to drop out of the SburbOST project to focus on everything else that was going on. Eventually, Cadrien (mD) attempted something for it, but struggled due to his lack of compositional experience. Nonetheless, the pentatonic idea he went with (similarly to the canon Skies of Skaia) was the base that Marcy and I ultimately used in our reinterpretation... after I managed to get myself involved with the project again.

Our opinion is that this piece is a more accurate representation of Skaia compared to Skies of Skaia. The focus is on the bittersweet concept that Skaia is both a creator and destroyer of life.

Toe:

You gotta admit, Skaia is beautiful.
I tried to portray its surrounding as enchantingly unique as I possibly could by using awkward vibrant colors. Hopefully it looks nice.