Jicarilla is back with her second song, "Ash & Ice".
In this song, Jicarilla speak hauntingly of a past flame that left deep scares within her and fed shadows buried deep within. It talks of a fragile yet obsessive passion that seemed magical but was doomed to burn cold. Through betrayal, unkept promises, and lingering ghosts, she turns to her storms as both a shield and expression of her pain. It's a portrait of how love, once shattered, becomes part of someone's darkness, and in Jicarilla's case how it helped shape the magic she wields and the walls she keeps.
For the video, as before, I used a combination of ChatGPT (for reference images), Dzine (for lipsync videos), and Davinci Resolve (for video assembly).
For the song, I used Suno, where I created a Persona using the voice from the original Jicarilla song created by Blaze. I used the persona as the voice reference and then gave a variety of stylistic instructions to Suno as I attempted to get a mix of Amy Winehouse and Lana Del Rey in terms of the vocals and track.
The backstory is something I made up (and is hopefully open-ended enough to fit official lore eventually!). Jicarilla's lore (below) is very short, but describes Jicarilla's hunger for forbidden knowledge and descent into darkness as she accepts a seat at Portia Nyr's table. I wanted to explore what potential triggers might've led Jicarilla to so easily accept a darkness that eventually sees her unleashing brutal storms in the Wild Northeast, and decided an old "flame" (which obviously contrasts with her being a prodigy of water magic) would have contributed.
I built love out of Ash and Ice
Held it close like a spell gone right
But cold don't care and fire lies
So I burn alone in the blackest sky
"Cold don't care" is a reference to herself of course, while "fire lies" is a reference to the one who broke her trust (perhaps an adept of Fire magic?).
For the video, I was going for a haunting feel that doesn't completely reveal Jicarilla until the end. As for Jicarilla herself I used several different reference images which are all stylized and don't look exactly like the photorealistic version from the first video, though are hopefully close enough for people to believe it's the same character.
Looking forward to hearing what people think of Jicarilla's second song!