Folk music in the world of Argentum in Aqua, a tongue-in-cheek summary

So this was originally a Twitter thread, based on a Tumblr post about folk songs of the real world, but I liked it too much not to put it up here as well. It’s heavily focused on Sacaask stuff (unsurprisingly, given that’s where ARGENTUM is set) but there’s also a wee bit of flavour from some of the other nations as well.

Sacaask:
Oh Woe Is Me, My True Love Has Died On A Mountain/Under A Mountain/In Proximity To A Mountain/At Sea
Screw You All, We Have Knives
Screw You All, We Have Spears
Screw You All, We Have Fangs
We Won, Let’s Get Drunk
We Lost, Let’s Get Drunk
I Love You, Here’s A Knife
Our Mountains Are Better Than Your Mountains
Our Soldiers Are Better Than Your Soldiers (Because Of The Mountains)
I Miss My Mountains
Oh Woe Is Me, I Am Dying Far Away From My Mountains/On Top Of A Mountain/In Proximity To A Mountain
I Hate You, Here’s A Knife

Efirasi:
War Is Awful But Also Oddly Poetic
My True Love Is Beautiful (And Dead, Because War)
Our Land Is Beautiful (And Covered In Dead People, Because War)
A Long And Untranslateable Rude Joke About Horses (Which Is Probably Also About War)
Sand Dunes Are Really Neat, Guys

Adakari/Adakan:
My City’s Better Than Your City (Fight Me)
Some Allegorical People Are Getting Married, Let’s Get Smashed
Here’s Why You’re Wrong About Imperialism (In Verse)
Oh Wow, Did I Mention How Gorgeous My True Love Is? Because Seriously.
Running Away To Sea Sucks

Masik-Tal:
Running Away To Sea Is AWESOME
Getting Drunk Is AWESOME
Fighting People Is AWESOME
Let’s Get So Hammered We Forget Everyone’s Dead
Our Mountains Are Beautiful And We Don’t Care About Yours
Oh Woe Is Me, My True Love Has Died Of Pirates/Mountains/War/Bears

Kasawit:
What Do You Mean It’s Not Allegorical?
Our Mountains Are Better Than Your Mountains (So Are Our Trees)
Screw You All, We Have Knives
Oh Woe Is Me, My True Love Is Across A Totally Not Allegorical River
Screw You All, We Have Ships
I Screwed Up: A Warning (In Verse)

A note! Keen-eyed readers will notice there’s some overlap with Sacaask and Kasawit songs. That is Very Intentional and has Reasons (not spoilery: they have common ancestry close enough that they share a lot of religious and cultural touchstones, which is no small part of why they have such a good relationship).
(And another note – those’re the adjective forms of the country/culture names: Sacaan/The Free City of Sacaan, Efir, Adakar/The Adakari Empire, Masik, and Kasawe/The Kasawit Nations/The Kasawit Confederacy).

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