Think back to C’Thun, and Yogg’Saron in Ulduar. Whenever they spoke to you, they spoke in whispers. Like the eldritch horrors they are, they’re trying to plant thoughts into your head. They whisper in hauntingly calm emotionless voices to you in order to mentally torment you, to mess with your head, and try to make you turn on everyone. It’s how a creature like that should be, messing with the mind is a big part of what makes eldritch horror what it is.
Fast forward to any future showing of Old Gods. Yogg’Saron screams at you now for some reason. Y’Shaarj attempts to do the mental torment, but it doesn’t hit well because he sounds like a generic demon. Part of what made the first two appearances of Old Gods unsettling was the fact that, they didn’t sound like typical deep voiced villains. C’Thun sounded like an emotionless old man whispering in your head, and Yogg’Saron sounded like a normal guy (still emotionless) with a tunnel distortion effect. Y’Shaarj’s deep lightly raspy voice doesn’t hit nearly the same.
Then we get to N’Zoth who somehow sounds even more like a generic demon than Y’Shaarj did. He doesn’t even attempt to whisper to you, he’s just a generic deep raspy voiced villain who sounds like basically every other male antagonist in all of WoW’s history.
A couple of not quite Old God mentions, Il’Gynoth was mediocre as far as voices are concerned, but a lot better than Y’Shaarj and N’Zoth. G’Huun being a discount Old God is an understatement. The only thing Old God about him was maybe his appearance, and his voice just sounded… well… gross.
I disagree STRONGLY on ilgnyoth and nzoth not being spoopy. I will give you ghuun as i seem to be the one person who liked them but ima fight you on the other two. Hearing nzoth laugh as i slaughtered my own faction was one of my favorite bfa moments.
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The Old Gods don’t actually “talk” to you. What you are hearing is your own brain being forced to construct eldritch ancient thoughts in your primitive mortal brain.
Before we where resistent to the very concept of what an Old God was and now we are more familiar with them, giving more weight to the thoughts they are shoving into our brains that they call “communication”.
The main thing is that N’Zoth’s laughter is the same sort of thing you’d hear from a lot of other antagonist characters. That’s the main issue for me is that, when every single villain is some deep voiced character with too many effects, it seems like something hauntingly calm and “Normal” would be a breath of fresh air. Also, to clarify, I like Il’Gnyoth’s voice better than N’Zoth, Y’Shaarj, and post Ulduar Yogg’Saron
Wait, was Yogg Saron’s voice changed from the original?
When did Yogg saron ever whisper
Here’s a theory,they can only whisper and influence you because you have them in you already ,we are actually composites of them.
His voice in Whisper Gulch is quite and mysterious while his Voice when actually in his direct presence is bombastic and loud.
It’s like Yogg-Saron wanted to gloat once everyone was basking in his presence while giving ominous warnings while not physically present.
The God of Death in Whisper Gulch is all “They are coming for you.” “It was your fault.” “There is no escape not in this life nor in the next.” all of which are echoed by the Barrowknoll Cemetery Whispers speaking of the Burning Ones & their coming.
The Barrowknoll Cemetery Whispers also say to embrace your fate and that all will Drown which references the Drowned whom Gloomseeker Yarga mentions as crying louder and louder.
The war between the Burning Ones and the Drowned is coming.
The Light has struck a bargain with the Burning Ones if I had a guess though as to where the Burning Ones are: probably the Twisting Nether. The Drowned are obviously inside the Void.
The Realm of Decay is mentioned in the WoW Chronicle to be the Shadowlands if you remember.
All the Elements have Realms: The Light is the Realm of Air, the Void is the Realm of Water(first claimed by the Light until the Great Clash of Light & Shadow claimed it for the Void), the Twisting Nether is the Realm of Fire, the Gardens of Life are the Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Earth is not named.
As for why they are fighting over the Great Dark Beyond: they fear another faction: the Devourers I would presume who are getting hungrier and bolder.
Onto the other Old Gods’ personalities:
N’Zoth’s reaction to Mortals isn’t to go to bombastic but act all calmly self-assured at all times until he brute-force Mind Controls the entire Raid upon which he is too angry to be calm.
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I’m pretty sure we don’t communicate with Y’Shaarj at all. He dead. The Well of Eternity was a bandaid for Azeroth where Aman’thul ripped him out of the ground an eon ago.
Mostly because theyre dead
My guy let me tell you all about my rant about Maldraxxus depicting the heartless, blood-savage monsters that undead are as a joke. With their sense of “honor”, “rightousness”, “glory in justice” crap like messed up Paladins.
And then let me tell you all about the people who came in with their torches and pitchforks, wanting to live their unrealistic dream of being your friendly neighborhood corpse defiler.
