--- title: The Mortal Testament: Celestial of Fate description: Late one night I let AI write the soundtrack to my soul. The result? Four hypnotic, futurist tracks chanting “I am the Celestial of Fate”. Ethereal vocals, dystopian beats, and mythic destiny collide in this mind-expanding soundsscape. canonical_url: https://articles.swhammond.com/?id=315:the-mortal-testament-celestial-of-fate&view=article&catid=26 language: en-GB date: 2026-05-02T21:19:41Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://articles.swhammond.com/?id=315:the-mortal-testament-celestial-of-fate&view=article&catid=26. markdown-tokens: 1044 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://articles.swhammond.com/?id=315:the-mortal-testament-celestial-of-fate&view=article&catid=26. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ## **The Mortal Testament: Celestial In Motion** *Or: How I accidentally summoned the perfect soundtrack to my own book while messing around with AI at 2 a.m.* One random night I was deep in the AI rabbit hole, doing what any self-respecting author does when they should be writing: tinkering with music generators. I was playing with ElevenLabs (back when their music feature had just dropped and still felt like black magic) and using Grok to help me craft the perfect prompt. I started with a very specific vision — a fusion of Run The Jewels’ aggressive, punchy energy and something ethereal, cosmic, and slightly haunting. I gave Grok every detail: 150 BPM in C# major, heavy driving drums, dystopian synth pads, industrial hi-hats, angelic female vocals repeating the phrase *“I am the Celestial of Fate,”* and a whole lot of trancey, hypnotic build-ups. Grok spit back a prompt so beautifully unhinged that I just copied and pasted it straight into ElevenLabs. What came out actually made me sit up straight. These tracks were some of the very first generations from ElevenLabs’ music tool — raw, weird, and strangely alive. I’ve since done a little mixing and mastering to smooth out the rough edges, but the soul of those original late-night experiments is still right there. I still listen to them all the time. They just… hit different. So instead of letting them sit on my hard drive like digital ghosts, I decided to give them a home inside *The Mortal Testament*. One of the main characters, Josh, has a music background, so these became his “lost demos.” It felt right. No grand plan. Just vibes. Eventually I want to turn these into proper AI-generated music videos to feature on the site — full visual trips to match the sound. Until then, I’m just happy to finally share them. I hope they hit you the same way they hit me: equal parts futuristic, ancient, and strangely seductive. --- ### **The Original Prompt** (for the nerds in the back): > Generate a hyper-modern electronica hip-hop track blending aggressive, punchy beats with ethereal trance elements, at 150 BPM in C# major, lasting about 3:30. Feature heavy, driving drums with punchy kicks, sharp snares, and industrial hi-hats for high-energy propulsion, layered over dystopian synth pads, electronic warps, subtle sample glitches, and added ambient swells for a sense of inevitable fate. The only lyrics are the repeated phrase 'I am the Celestial of Fate,' sung by angelic, ethereal female vocals in siren-like harmonies, echoing and building with ad-libs for hypnotic immersion and subtle sexual desire, nodding to Ananke's mythic compulsion. Start with a minimal intro of vocal layers and rising synth swells, then drop into verses of instrumental intensity with funky basslines, rock-infused riffs, and evolving harmonic echoes. Pre-chorus escalates the mantra with trance-like repetition and swelling pads; chorus explodes with the full vocal hook amid maximal layers for frantic energy. Include a bridge of spoken-word cosmic whispers on destiny and empowerment, fading out with echoing vocals and ambient synths. Keep it empowering, afrofuturist, and clean-mixed for vibe-heavy, mind-expanding listening. --- Hit play. Let the Celestial do her thing.