Ok so crazy thought crossed my mind, we’re talking Scholomance Time-Travel crazy.
We know at this point that the cosmological system as we know it, 6 forces and 6 elements, was something that was established by the First Ones. They shaped reality and the cosmos and put the primary 6 forces in place.
This brings us to Murmur, a “sound elemental”. WoW’s no stranger to wacky elementals, ESPECIALLY since the Cosmology Charts have rolled around, but the weird thing about Murmur is that he is the only sound elemental that we’ve seen.
What’s even weirder about Murmur is his power - he is so powerful that he requires immense power to summon, and even then, his power grows over time as he fully enters his new environment, we see this in Auchindoun.
What happens when his power grows?
Worlds shatter and the pieces scatter at its whim. - Murmur’s Dungeon Journal entry.
So he’s powerful, big deal. What does this have to do with the First Ones, right?
“In the beginning”…“So far away”…such phrases cannot begin to describe this elemental’s origin. - Murmur’s Dungeon Journal entry.
We have an immensely powerful elemental whose classification defies our understanding of the Cosmology Chart and whose existence is said to predate the beginning of all as we know it.
Murmur is a cosmic threat who predates the First Ones establishment of reality.
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he aint all that since he died to execute spam cause of his low health
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Murmur is a great example of the kind of worldbuilding that works really, really well as long as you don’t dig too deep into it.
Like Murmur as he exists right now is rad, but if they said “the next expansion after the worldsoul Saga we’ll visit the primordial plane of sound and fight the soundlords” he’d instantly become terrible. He must be left exactly as he is.
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Definitely. The few bits of lore we have about him are just great. It makes me want to see more.
A sort of primordial force, perhaps even beyond time and space. Almost like a concept of physics- or science itself - slapping people in the face with its own consciousness. More charming than AI, because it is natural. Or seems so.
I don’t know about that.
I guess most people didn’t like delving into the nuts and bolts of the fantasy, but I don’t mind it as a concept.
Giving him unwarranted focus would be bad. Making us find out things like… that Murmur is Anduin’s real mommy… would make Murmur lore worse.
A whole expac would be stretching Murmur thin. But I could see him involved in a Patch cycle. Or as a Raid Boss - maybe even the last Raid boss of a middle tier.
Heck, a Raid Boss would be an upgrade from a dungeon boss in an old expac, or a “toy-granting event” in a different old expac.
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They say that 
Murmurs are not serious, 'eh?
Murmur as a piece of lore comes from a time when there was no real established ‘cosmology’ of how Warcraft’s universe works fundamentally.
He’s one of those characters Blizz throws in because they thought the idea sounded cool and that’s really about it.
He isn’t the only example, plenty of random concepts were thrown into Warcraft’s universe around this time varying from all kinds of weird or interesting.
Over the course of the expansions however, WoW’s writing team has taken it upon themselves to fully flesh out the universe and how all the fundamental forces/magics actually work. Instead of being incredibly vague with how all of these things actually work, they placed down actual rules on all of it.
And characters like Murmur don’t fit into these newly established rules, so they are often left abandoned or retconned into something that would fit.
I doubt Blizz will ever touch upon Murmur again beyond his extremely minor cameo in WoD as a rare, which is unfortunate.
But also, somewhat fortunate in that there would be no need to ever explain him through the new cosmology system, leaving him as an enigma.