The Call of the Flame, Chapter 15 & 16
Project Overview
Not long after the Tribe of Gods shaped the world and enkindled the stars, the many races were led to name their lands. The plains of Human Wynland, the dunes of Dwarven Kanduk, the mountains of Orcan Workingar. And the three Gods--as unique in morality as their own elements, bestow their unique elemental magic to the few they deem worthy. Rhuadu—Chieftan of Gods, grants the gift of fire and strength, Duinna—Nature’s Guardian, the power of enchantment and alchemy, and Koannus—the Deep God, grants power over sea and soul.
Three there were. Now only two remain to grant their power.
The story centers on a girl named Bri, a barmaid and now, Chosen One, who carries Rhuadu's gift of fire after he was slain by her own father. With the companions she met along the road, she has to prepare herself and her country for the coming of Neradial, the Chosen One of the Deep God.
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(Warning: mild language, smoking and alcohol use, battle sequences. TV-14)
Rates:
As of now: compensation for recordings are at $0.25 per script line (essentially a half sentence of 5-8 words) plus $10 flat rate. Rounded off to the highest. Despite that, no role--even if it's 1 line, would be compensated less than $11.
For example Bri, who speaks 169 times in Chapters 1 & 2 together (313 script lines), is $53. A reoccurring role like Ultovin would make $19 for his appearance in Chapters 1 & 2.
We will have a Patreon page, and the podcast will be open for sponsors. If/when it gains some traction, all rates will be put into review. But until then I’m going in under the assumption it’ll fall completely on me for funding, which I’m totally prepared for. Still, I want to be fair, but at this time this is the only rate I can promise—it’s also the rate for which I’ve paid voice actors before for other projects.
Above all, I want to work with people who love voice acting for the fun of it. I love working on this stuff and hope to collaborate with people who love it too.
How to Audition:
- Send them to us here, or at [redacted]. Subject: Audition for (character name) from (username). Send them as either an attachment or a link, but preferably an attachment.
- Make sure to minimize noises or bumps while recording. Only your voice should be apparent. If you like to filter or remove vocal tics, be sure to include the unfiltered version as well.
- Record in .WAV.
- Save as: cotf_username_audition (ex. CotF_Taruk_RubbishMan_audition.wav).
- We will critique if requested. We also accept redos.
- If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to e-mail us at [redacted].
Since this is an Audio Drama, all of the show's emotion and humor must be conveyed through the character's voices, so be sure to show off your emotional range.
Note: We value acting ability over a voice that matches a character, so don't let your vocal pitch deter you from auditioning.
We welcome auditioning for multiple roles as long as you can make each of them a bit different!
We look forward to working with you guys! Also happy to answer any and all questions in comments or as a PM. Or even directly sent to my email.
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The daughter of Empress Neradial, the antagonist of The Call of the Flame. Afflicted by a sickness that's grown in her teen years, a sickness beyond the physical world. A curse. She's a gentle soul at heart, who's soft exterior is carefully being toughened by the draconian principles and morality of her conquering mother, who would give the world to her... possibly literally.
VOICE: Elvan accent (examples here). Youthful, not naive but gentle, proud but not arrogant. In her current cursed state she is a little frightened, scared, yet clinging to her humanity with both hands
NOTE: This is a singing and performance-based role. Must be okay with yelling and shouting.
(From Shadows of My Mind [Paraphrased]) I torture myself and I don’t know how to stop it…I try so hard to think positively and for the most part, I do, I am; but, keeping myself that way is the hardest thing in the world. It creeps upon me out from the shadows of my mind. I hate to sound dramatic but it’s true. Whatever I have going on deep inside myself, I do my best to ignore and most days, everything is good but when it strikes, when this sudden rush of hateful energy comes by, it’s like a wave of darkness on my soul.
(My Jolly Sailor Bold) "His hair it hangs in ringlets, his eyes as black as coal
My happiness attend him wherever he may go
From Tower Hill to Blackwall, I'll wander, weep and moan
All for my jolly sailor, until he sails home
My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold"
The Moon King of an icy realm to the North, a unique Kingdom founded by a broken people, united under a powerful Sorseer in times long past, and ruled by magic-wielding folk ever since. Strength is not enough, but power of the arcane as well. Hakkon is a powerful Sorseer and warrior, but a terrible husband and worse father. And at this wedding, it will come at full display.
An odd balance is needed for the Moon King, between a Vikingr King, and a jaded Sorcerer.
Voice: The Moon King should have a distinctly Icelandic or Scandinavian type of accent. He's always a little drunk, and brutish, like the embodiment of the mythological Thor. He uses fear and power (sometimes literal magic power) to corral his people and often his own family.
NOTE: Lines will have themes of adultery and child abuse.
[A Game of Thrones] The gods be damned. It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown? It was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe...and mine again, as she was meant to be. I ask you, what good is it to wear a crown? The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.
[The Hobbit] I will not parley, as I have said, with armed men at my gate. Nor at all with the people of the Elvan Queen, whom I remember with small kindness. In this debate, they have no place. Begone now! Ere our arrows fly!
[Dr. Faustus] Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits. It's magic, magic that hath ravished me.
The second son of King Haakon, and the disappointment child. While the first is groomed for rule, Eirik overcompensates by acting more like his father than his elder brother--who saw the man for what he was. So Eirik grew a haughty warrior and adulterer, but following the death of the heir, he now must represent the future of Lokengard. His attitudes have not improved or changed much, still acting as the caricature of his father, and not the improvement the realm needs.
VOICE: He's big and boisterous, strapping but not a fool. He's aware of his reputation and tries to parlay it as intimidation and courtship when needed. He's capable of some vulnerability, even though, to him, it's unbecoming of manhood.
NOTE: May involve yelling and shouting.
(King Lear [Paraphrased)] I never cared about the throne of Margul. And living away from it, (laughs) I felt no need to keep up appearances. As is common In men when they’re away from home, away from the disapproving eyes of their mother and father. But tell my pious brother and snake of a sister that I can be dignified, act Kingly, and flex my wealth of power when I ascend to my throne in Lokengard.
(In a Lonely Place [Paraphrased]) I've been looking for someone a long time... I didn't know his name or where he lived. I'd never seen him before. A man was killed, and because of that, I found what I was looking for. Now I know your name, where you live, and how you look.
The third son of Haakon. As far as heirs go, the first is usually groomed to be the successor King, the second a great Commander, the third a more intellectual path. Runar is that one. Traveling abroad and living among the people of his realm and becoming a learned people person. Gaining qualities becoming of a ruler that Haakon would never approve of. But because of that he is more clever and less foolhardy than any of his siblings.
VOICE: He carries himself like a Prince in a line of Vikings, but is more charming and witty than most would think. Though accented he's not the sort of person you would imagine grew up in a mead hall. He's not weak by any means, he just holds a more emotional strength and the weight of his perception: about the failings of his father and siblings and the decline of his country weigh heavy on his voice and demeanor.
(Midnight Tales) The assumption is the foundation stone of our society, perhaps all societies the world over. The notion of inequity, my friends. For from inequity derives the concept of value, whether measured by money or the countless other means of gauging human worth. Simply put, there resides in all of us the un-challenged belief that the poor and the starving are in some way deserving of their fate. In other words, there will always be poor people. A truism to grant structure to the continual task of comparison, the establishment through observation of not our mutual similarities, but our essential differences.
(The Thin Man) The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the lookout for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.
The daughter of Haakon under his first wife, the eldest of the three siblings we see. Not a Commander of men like Eirik, not a scholar like Runar, she has put much of her focus into the arcane arts and being a more powerful Sorseer than her father, and extending her ambitions towards politics beyond her realm.
VOICE: The most regal of the three siblings, not likely to get her hands dirty. But what she lacks in military strategy and sweet public relations she makes up for in cold command and gravitas, boasting threats with spells that she could absolutely back up.
(Prince of Thorns [Paraphrased]) There's a reason I'm going to win. I cut my teeth on the wooden soldiers in my father's war-room. Because I understand the game. A knife is a scary thing right enough, held to your throat, sharp and cool. The fire too, and the rack. And an old ghost on the lichway. All of them might give you pause. Until you realize what they are. They're just ways to lose the game. You lose the game, and what have you lost? You've lost the game.
(Amidst a party celebration, very disruptive) "You there! In the cloak! Take down your hood, and reveal yourself! I know what you are, now show the others!"
(Revenger's Tragedy [Paraphrased]) I was born in wine and lust. As for my brother, the King's second son, whose adoration by the people is less in doubt, and yet perhaps as much a lie as mine. I'll loose all my days upon him.
The Queen, wife of Hakkon, and mother of Eirik and Runar. She was the pride of her house for a long time, a skilled archer and diplomat. The life of a Queen under a controlling and malicious husband has worn her down. She sees much of herself in Sigrun, the daughter to his last wife and is closer to her than either of her own kin. Hoping she will not make the same mistakes.
VOICE: She's got the poise and strength of a warrior and matriarch, but has lost much of her will over the decades. There's a bitterness to her life and it will likely meet a bitter end, she is aware. But perhaps one redeeming act can cement her legacy.
(Julius Caesar [Paraphrased]) Remember how you told me that you loved me, and when we were married, you vowed that we’d be united so completely that we’d be one person? So tell me, your other half, what troubles you, and who was with you tonight? Is there a caveat in our marriage, Brutus, that says I am a less worthy version of yourself? Like a pet, to follow you around and listen to you when it pleases you, And only when it pleases you? If that’s all I am to you, then I am your harlot, not your wife. How can you think that of me, when I am acknowledged by a powerful family name and deeds in war?
Eirik's fiance, the daughter of one of Haakon's allies. She's aware that for this plot she's but a small piece, but even the smallest piece can hold surprises. She's well aware of Eirik's vices, the disrespect for her family with his hedonism even within their walls, and his vices fuel hers as well.
VOICE: Russian accent, to distinguish her folk from that of Haakon and his family. She's young and far too smart for her lot in life, to forge a bond between realms. Taught to be dignified and gentle and pleasant, but hiding in her voice is a resentment for her peers and a will to make her own path.
(The Duchess of Malfi) He and his siblings are like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools; they are rich and overladen with fruit, but none but crows, pies, and caterpillars feed on them.
(Othello [Paraphrased]) What are Men doing when they fool around with other women? Is it sport? I think it is: and does affection cause it? Is it frailty that leads them to offend?
It is: and don’t we have the same passions, vices, and desires just the same as men have? Let them judge, but let them know: our ills, their ills instruct.
A farmer from Gathland who's been drafted into war, for a conflict his family and people truly have no stake in. He's a bit naive, nervous, but the presence of Bri gives him and the other troops optimism.
VOICE: Like all Gaths in the Call of the Flame he has an Irish accent. He's lived a simple rural life so his speech patterns are a bit slower, but not dull. There's hope and wonderment in his outlook, he knows he'll be no great hero, but hopes to catch some of the sunshine reflecting off of Bri and her companions.
NOTE: Role will involve yelling and crying out.
(The Return of the King (2003) [Paraphrased]) My lady. You are fair and brave and have much to live for and many who love you. I know it is too late to turn aside. I know there is not much point now in hope. If I were a Knight of capable of great deeds but I'm not. And I know I can't save Aburen. I just want to help my friends; more than anything I wish I could see them again.
A soldier of fortune from the land of Mohdar. At this point, he knows it's bad for him, he's getting older, his prime is behind him, but it's too late to start a new trade in his life that pays as well. So he travels for mercenary work, even in countries like Bellar. Until the day his legs, arms, or eyes don't work anymore, but until then he can spare a few fingers, his hearing, and some teeth.
VOICE: His voice will canonize the Mohdarian accent in the show, sort of a Middle-East, Persia-inspired realm. He's friendly enough, not really bothered by warfare, it's ground him down and it will grind him down further before the end, possibly to powder. He's accepted things for what they are.
(A Dance with Dragons [Paraphrased]) Death comes for all of us, but we need not rush into his arms. Whatever might befall us on the battlefield, remember, it has happened before, and to better men than you. I am an old man, and I have seen more battles than most of you have years. Nothing is more terrible upon this earth, nothing more glorious, nothing more absurd. You will not be the first. You may drop your sword, your shield, your lance. Others have done the same. Pick it up and go on fighting.
The people of the palace of Aeifor, where Chapter 15 is set. Serfs, guests, guards, and cooks, all play a part in this chapter.
[Guard] Make way for the Moon King of Lokengard!
[Guest] I heard a most troubling rumor about the Princes.
[Serf] Oh yes, right away your excellency.
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