Season 1, Episode 7: The Maestro, the Orphan Queen, and the Guardian (Part 1)
When a foreign orphan becomes queen of the vast Persian empire, she realizes the only thing more difficult than winning the throne...is stewarding it.
Text: Esther 2:1-4:16
Players:
Yahweh
Esther
Mordecai
Xerxes
Haman
What's Spooky:
Human trafficking
Non-consensual sex
Planned genocide
Music Credits:
Winds of Change, by Four Trees
Outsider, by Alistair Sung
Epoch, by Blake Ewing
Snow, by Alistair Sung
Long Distance, by Luke Atencio
Plains, by Alistair Sung
A Story of Survival, by Max II
Unite and Overcome, by Alistair Sung
Dead Hour, by Alistair Sung
The Ghost, by Luke Atencio
Spooked, by jshirts
Swarm of Flies, by Third Age
Rape for Profit, by Tony Anderson
Fragments of Time, by Bradford Nyght
Anomali, by Jordan Critz
Fine Toothed Chrome, by Sam Barsh
Editing:
Many thanks to JL Gerhardt for invaluable editing assistance.
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