Hello icon :3 honored that you listened! I hadn't noticed that contrast between the winds/vocals and strings, but that's totally true! It's meant to be a neutral-ish track: the player is already dead, but their story hasn't been told yet. So there's meant to be a contrast between bleakness and hopefulness. (I layered a zither, piano, and harp harmonics for the plucked chords!)
Thank you for listening, and for the feedback!