https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjlZx20wuU8
Thuum isn’t as villainous as Volibear, but they have similar themes of primal strength, connection the land, mistrust of civilization, and unbridled bloodlust. Thuum wants to control his, whereas Volibear kind of relishes in it all and believes only the strong survive. Thuum would agree that only the strong survive, but that’s why he’s always encouraging everyone to be their best, and offering a hand up to those who need it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWGab3vJHQ
Heed, it’s like calling the rain
It’s like bearing in pain
Like embracing life and decaying in death
Heed, it’s like calling the rain
It’s like the caress of a mother
Like life to go withered, a perennial pneuma
I will not forget what I arose from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QCema7g9oM
Ooooh,
Tooth is fang, twisting under skin
Ooooh,
Foul tongue, black breath
Change,
Snap inside, the Beast about complete
Change,
Soon infects the rest.
Thuum, all his life, has wrestled with a great darkness within. It was only during recent events that he realized what it was. When N’zoth arose, Thuum went mad. Madder than most. He fled to Northrend so that he would not hurt anyone. There, mountains and glaciers - and undead - felt his fury.
When Sylvanas shattered the veil, Thuum got to the Shadowlands as quick as he could. Though N’zoth was dead, the young shaman would do anything to hide from the Void and its whispers…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhop5VuLDIQ
And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bstrds lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
Rise again, rise again; though your heart it be broken
And life about to end
No matter what you’ve lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
Because all of my characters need a Stan Rogers song. Like the Mary Ellen Carter and the crew who dragged her up from the bottom of the sea, Thuum has no quit in him. Also he was originally going to be a Kul Tiran and I was literally going to put this story as something that happened in his backstory.