"The Earle of Stroheim's Symphony"

Wolfgang Krauser (a.k.a. the Earle of Stroheim) is a fictional character. The character was a powerful man who had been raised as eastern European nobility and trained to compete and fight heartlessly from the time he was a child. He showed no emotion and because of his superior abilities he became bored with doing the only thing he had ever really been trained to do.

Even though Krauser repressed his emotions, he allowed himself to feel sadness and sentimentality on one day, the anniversary of the day he killed his own father. On that day, or any day that was momentous, he plays an unknown piece on the giant organ that rested in his castle. The piece is full of foreboding and an eerie underlying theme, but also of ferocity, aggression, and longing.

One night Krauser dreams of his father, but just as his father is about to speak, he wakes up. After he is awake he plays the piece again, feeling that, "today will be .... unique." Later that day Krauser is defeated and killed in battle.

"Day of Reckoning" is based on the organ piece that Krauser played.