Razia's Shadow: A Musical

""The unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore you from any scope.""

- 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:
"She requires riches, recherche, riding with rodomontading roues
 * 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:

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.
 * Angry Mob Song Parts of The Exit
 * Bald of Evil Well, evil in a way, in the case of Ahrima.
 * Big No BROTHER NOOOOOOOOOOO
 * Bittersweet Ending
 * Break the Cutie It's Sangara's part in The Exit.
 * Cain and Abel Especially when you consider
 * Concept Album
 * Dark Is Evil Most of the darkness.
 * Dark Is Not Evil Adakias and the Bawaba Brothers being the sole exception we see.
 * Dark Reprise The End and the Beginning reprises the tunes in The Exit and It’s True Love towards the end.
 * Darkskinned Blonde Anhura, at least in appearance (if we count white as blonde).
 * Distressed Damsel Anhura, once she comes down with the illness.
 * Everything's Better With Princesses Adakias happens to fall in love with the princess of the light.
 * Exactly What It Says On the Tin Most of the song titles, such as It's True Love, and Doctor, Doctor.
 * Face Heel Turn pulls this pretty early on due to the influence of the Barayas the Spider.
 * "Falling in Love" Montage Well, more of Falling in Love Songs with The Missing Piece and It’s True Love.
 * Family Values Villain Let it be said, Pallis does care for his brother to some extent.
 * Fate Drives Us Together Fate and prophecy is a main point, including romantically.
 * Fourth Date Marriage
 * Greed Part of King Malka's problem with his daughter's marriage to Adakias.
 * Grief Song Toward the end of
 * Heel Face Turn towards the end,
 * Heel Realization Toba the Tura.
 * Hey, It's That Voice! Various characters.
 * "I Am" Song Sort of, in Life is Looking Up
 * I Have You Now, My Pretty Doctor Dumaya, and his price for
 * Incurable Cough of Death Not a cough specifically, but
 * "I Want" Song Life is Looking Up and The Exit, which does double duty as a "Somewhere" Song.
 * Light Is Not Good Not /EVIL/, per se, but Anhura's father, King Malka is certainly greedy.
 * Love At First Sight Adakias and Anhura.
 * Mind Screw Gargul the Oracle looks pretty freaky.
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate Doctor Dumaya.
 * My God What Have I Done Done: Twice, once in Toba the Tura, once in The End and the Beginning.
 * My Sister Is Off-Limits: Well, brother. And Pallis is not pleased . ..
 * Mysterious Past: To Anhura, until she discovers Adakias' lineage.
 * Non-Appearing Title: Many of them.
 * Prophecies Rhyme All the Time: Justified, as it's in song form.
 * "Somewhere" Song: The Exit.
 * Talking Animal: Well, Talking Spider.
 * 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 . . . "
 * The Musical
 * The Power of Love: Very strong theme, See page quote. Also, it
 * Time Skip: The entire point of the appropriately named A Hundred-Year, Minute-Long Intermission.
 * Villain Song: The Spider and the Lamps, touches of one in Meet the King, Doctor, Doctor, to a point in The End and the Beginning.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: The entire point of Toba the Tura, touched upon in The Oracle.
 * Your Days Are Numbered: Sort of implied in Holy the Sea, for "Watch out for the wicked ones who call themselves beloved ones," indeed.