Y’all ever looked at some of those material spell
components? They’re weird. Of course, all of the components for Fjord’s spells are things you can’t just
find in the woods, so I had to tweak
it a bit. Also, fun fact: sailors – particularly merchant sailors like Fjord – were really good at handicrafts! Macrame
and knot tying are no-brainers, obviously, but sailors were also generally good
at sewing to repair their clothes, as well as carving/engraving for crafts like
scrimshaw!
If memory serves, what happened was that someone took a video of a Ukrainian military band playing some other song and dubbed a realistic-sounding version of A Cruel Angel’s Thesis over it. This proceeded to be everywhere on the internet, enough so that the band that put on the original performance caught wind of it, and decided to capitalize on its popularity by actually performing the song. This video is the latter version.