Sevagoth’s Lullaby VS Sleeping In The Cold Below

Call of the Tempestarii was a weird update, because it was both kinda big and kinda small. While yes, it did come with Corpus Railjack missions and a new Warframe, it also game with a really good but also really short quest. The update also shipped with probably one of the best sea shanties to ever bless our ears, the track known as Sleeping In The Cold Below. Call of the Tempestarii was well-received, but everyone mostly only remembers it for the awesome music that came with it. Okay, sure, Sevagoth was cool but people only ever build him so they can subsume him and use Gloom on everyone else.

In fact, people kinda forgot about Call of the Tempestarii to the point that, when they released a deluxe skin for Sevagoth, the developers released a bunch of week-long alerts that practically gave Sevagoth away, because no one really owned him. And you kinda need to own a Warframe if you want to use a deluxe skin on them. However, alongside this deluxe skin, DE also released a fucking awesome remix of Sleeping In The Cold Below, called Sevagoth’s Lullaby.

Now, despite kinda being a remix of Sleeping In The Cold Below, Sevagoth’s Lullaby is shorter and is an instrumental. But at the same time, I also feel like it’s almost… an antithesis of Sleeping In The Cold Below. It’s not a remix, it’s the same song but from a different angle.

Sleeping In The Cold Below is pretty simple. It’s sung from the point of view of a Corpus ship worker, a crew all working together to make money and survive. Like a lot of sea shanties, you kinda start off with one singer, but more join in as you go along. When you play the Call of the Tempestarii quest though, Sleeping In The Cold Below is actually kinda sung from the technically-a-bad-guy of the story. Vala Glarios used to be one of those lowly Corpus workers when a Voidstorm destroyed Lucretia Platform, where Vala was working. She went nuts as she drifted through space and thought that the cold, dead, gaping maws of her sisters were singing along with her.

On the flip side, Sevagoth’s Lullaby is a rendition designed with the pirate lord Sevagoth Glaukus skin in mind. Being a Warframe, Sevagoth can’t actually talk, and because of that, there’s no lyrics to Sevagoth’s Lullaby. However, if you want to, you can still kinda fit the lyrics from Sleeping In The Cold Below into the song, even though it only seems to contain the first, second and last verses. At the same time, he’s still a pirate and he’s still responsible for the death of a lot of people. Whether he intentionally caused the destruction of Lucretia Platform or not, it’s never really known, but, honestly, I don’t think Sevagoth is completely in the right here. At the very least, Sevagoth Glaukus is, lore-wise, an actual pirate, and he was in a fight with another pirate, Hydroid Rakkam (Hydroid’s deluxe skin). And we all know that being a pirate isn’t the safest, cleanest occupation around.

Still, I like to think that Sevagoth’s Lullaby is a male version of Sleeping In The Cold Below. Rather than sisters, below below, it’s brothers, above above. Either way, both songs are amazing sea shanties, and I sing along all the time, whether it’s on a Railjack, in an actual boat in Sea of Thieves or, well, in my car. Because I don’t own a boat in real life.