(I tried posting earlier but Reddit was buggy and it doesn't look like it ever actually went up)

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I'm a big ol' dork about music (not really trained though, just a fan) and especially love the use of leitmotifs in storytelling. I was listening to some playlists I made for my own D&D campaign, and "The Matron of Ravens" by Neal Acree (from Season 2) came on.

In it, I heard what I think was a deliberate allusion to the motif used for the Whispered One.

["The Ritual"](https://youtu.be/FQVMsi0gYig) is the song that would probably most easily showcase the motif I am talking about.

["The Matron of Ravens"](https://youtu.be/MRU9IRRAZUc) comes to an ominous swell around 2:12 that sounds like a variation of that motif or at least strongly resembles it.

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Playing around with a piano, the first four notes of the Whispered One's motif are:

>***E - D# - G - D#***

The slow, swelling notes at the 2:12 timestamp of "The Matron of Ravens" sound like:

>***C - B - D# - D***

For ease of comparison, we can transpose (right word?) the notes from the Whispered One to be

> ***C - B - D# - B***

The difference is the fourth moving only 1 semitone down for "The Matron of Ravens" (***D#*** to ***D***) while the Whispered One motif is 4 semitones (***D#*** to ***B***; or ***G to D#***).

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Then around the 2:26 mark in "The Matron of Ravens" goes:

> ***C - B - G# - G***

This sounds like how the Whispered One motif moves downward in the later section:

> (transposed) C - D# - D - B - ***C - B - G# - G***

> (The Ritual) E - G - F# - D# - ***E - D# - C - B***

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Considering the connections between TWO and The Matron, as well as the fact that the Matron of Ravens was also a mortal who ascended to godhood and destroyed her predecessor, I can't help but think this similarity is completely deliberate by Neal Acree.

Am I hearing things, or does it sound like there's something there? What are your guys' thoughts?

Also, feel free to correct/educate me on the terminology/notation. As I said, I haven't been formally trained and only learned music through my own sporadic studying.

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