If you want a real answer, the first handful of dialogues were from the Vanilla Naxxramas Kel'thuzad encounter wayyy back in 2004, whereas the rest of the dialogue is from the actual Wotlk expansion from 2008. Another thing: The Lich King's voice actor, Michael McConnohie, is also the voice of Kel'thuzad, perhaps a reason why he didn't voice The Lich King initially, *and* a confirmed reason why Kel'thuzad's voice was changed when Naxx was moved to Northrend in the WotLK expansion.
Mcconnohie didn't voice Kel'thuzad in WotLK because blizzard "didn't want to confuse people." Mcconnohie is so talented that he could easily do all three and it would be fine. i'd be more concerned with people confusing Kel'thuzad and Uther.
@@LichlordKazam Actually, the exact opposite. Revealed in the Rise of Arthas novel, Ner'Zhul was completely out of the picture, as Arthas "stabbed" his soul, as well as that of his humanity. In other words, it was all Arthas during wrath.
I actually do a damn good impersonation of his voice from Wrath of the Lich King. Only just *slightly* off... maybe if I had those same special effects it wouldn't be noticeable at all. Doing it for too long hurts my throat though lol.
Step 1: Get Audacity Step 2: Record your voice Step 3: Duplicate the voice track Step 4: Add reverb to the duplicate track, reverse it add reverb again, reverse back, lower its volume Step 4: Play back and enjoy
+Shinigami Sama I wish people know that the one talking is ner'zhul not arthas, cuz arthas is only the puppet and in a vid he says he was once a shaman and arthas was not a shaman
+Dark Poisoneer Nope. They melded into one being and IIRC arthas kills nerzhul and his last remnants of humanity inside his head when he pops the helmet on.
I can't help but think about how the world would be if Arthas actually won. The world would be so icy and dark and undead would take over every corner of Azeroth and it gives me chills just thinking about it. Yet so fuckin epic. Great video.
shouldve let him win, then make an entirely undead expansion. That way, we would have undead versions of every race. In dark souls fashion you become the few undead that can aide in the extermination of the scourge. Only paladin and shamans can truly eradicate the blight and the darkness. The few remaining dragon aspects aid you on your journey to northrend to defeat Arthas at the top of the citadel. With a raid group, the adventurers wield forces of light and dark to stop The Lich King.
I can't help but listen to this while i'm playing vanilla wow because when i do, it feels like Arthas is talking ingame to the whole world and it gives me chills.
Back in the day i did a lot of game modding. This one time i extracted this audio package from WoW in order to use with a custom Lich King sprite/asset in Warcraft 3. Point was to turn Death Knight Arthas into Lich King Arthas. It was pretty neat.
"Mercy is for the weak." Reminds me of a saying that I have. I'm probably not the first person to think of it. I may have picked it up subconsciously from a book or something. But, I always say, "Mercy is for the merciful."
I love the story and the epicness around the Lich King and especially Arthas when he gets Frostmourne and becomes the Lich King. After all we didn't defeat the Lich King. The light interrupted him when he was about to own us, if you remember. The story about the Lich King and Arthas is over. As a former death knight of the Lich King, I got stucked in the story and will still be in Northrend and practice the unholy things. And soon the Lich King and me will meet again.
wotlk last great expansion - I remember how cool it was when I 1st discovered that this main boss dude shows up to taunt you in quests and dungeons, this was a new thing in wow and it was a cool way to build him up for people who never played warcraft games
The reason for the LK not really killing us was believable. It wasn't plot armor that protected the adventurer but he was waiting for us to become the ultimate fighting force. When he was done playing around, he cast "Fury of Frostmourne" and we all die.
after learning more and more about the lore and how there were a few Lich Kings his voice changing makes more sense now. The Arthas version will always be the best.
I started WoW late overall; once Cataclysm started so I never heard the old versions. These are quite neat though I love the deep, echoing one that is the most recent.
the spirit of lich king is Ner'zhul forever it took over arthas's mind and just used him like a puppet when he died and tirions brother or w/e put it on surpressed the spirit with sheer will power and incased himself in ice.
After the merger, the Lich King sat dormant for several years while storms raged across Northrend and his minions constructed Icecrown Citadel around the Frozen Throne. While the Lich King dreamt, the various personas in his mind - the death knight Arthas Menethil, the orc shaman Ner'zhul, and Matthias Lehner, the personification of the remnants Arthas' humanity - fought for influence and control over the entity. It is noticeable that if arranged accordingly, Matthias Lehner is an anagram of Arthas Menethil. Matthias tried to reason with Arthas, but Arthas killed him by running him through with Frostmourne. Ner'zhul was delighted by this, declaring that he and Arthas were now free to merge into a single glorious being. Arthas rejected this offer, stating that once he had the power of the Lich King, no one would tell him what to do again. He impaled the stunned Ner'zhul with Frostmourne, becoming the dominant personality of the Lich King and ending the dream.[4]
@Colimaisnada Also CM Crygil also stated, "He didn't actually erase the persona of Ner'zhul. In point of fact, these two beings merged to make up what was collectively known as "The Lich King", on the official World of Warcraft forums.
No, Ner'Zhul basically just possesses anyone who puts on the crown or comes into contact with it and becomes "reborn" in their flesh. Anyone who puts on the crown of the Lich King or touches Frostmourne. I could be wrong about the latter though. If you touch Frostmourne, I think it pretty much just eats your face.
@DDProducti0n Here Q. Will Ner'zhul appear at any point in 3.3 or the near future? A. Well, he is a chunk of the Lich King now. But if you mean will he appear as an orc, we're not ready to tell his story just yet. We have a lot of stories left to tell, but his is a good one. ^ this is from the wow developers chat on twitter well AFTER that book got released. Ner'zhul is not dead nor is he consumed, he is still alive.
Yeah it sounded odd at the beginning that they changed it but it makes sense knowing that this was during the time when the struggle took place between Arthas and the other personalities inside the LK.
@TheVendettaBoi Q. Will Ner'zhul appear at any point in 3.3 or the near future? A. Well, he is a chunk of the Lich King now. But if you mean will he appear as an orc, we're not ready to tell his story just yet. We have a lot of stories left to tell, but his is a good one. This is from the WoW developers themselves. Also go to the wow general forums and type in ''Why was arthas evil?'', go to the thread and ull see a blizz poster say he has NOT been killed.
In Old Naxx, the Lich King's voice sounded broken and split because back then the different personalities that composed the entity of the Lich King were still vying for who would become the dominant one. If I'm not mistaken, at the end of the Arthas novel, the personality of Death Knight Arthas subdues both his own humanity and the personality of Ner'Zhul, becoming the dominant personna of the Lich King entity, and amalgaming the knowledge and memories of Ner'Zhul.
Blizzard should have done that... give us the choice to either be raised by the Lich King or fight alongside Fordring, imagine that? Half of your raid chooses to continue with Fordring while you fight alongside the Arthas in an epic battle, friends become enemies....
While he dreamed, Arthas banished his humanity and suppressed Ner'zhul's spirit, allowing him to become the dominant personality of the Lich King. WoW wiki.
Kil'jaeden recognized that Ner'zhul did not have the will or the brazen audacity to follow through with his plan of forging the orcs into a bloodthirsty horde. Ner'zhul, realizing that his pact with Kil'jaeden would only lead to his race's annihilation, refused to help the demon any further. Enraged by the shaman's defiance, Kil'jaeden swore to take vengeance upon Ner'zhul, and corrupt the orcs despite him. Kil'jaeden found a new, eager apprentice Gul'dan
I think Metzen or some1 else working for Blizzard said that they change The Lich Kings voice so often cus Nerzhul is just taking over more and more of Arthas body.
does anyone know any method or tool program or stuff like that ... even tutorial in which i can make my voice similar with LKs voice? Thnx :D ^-^ in advance.
![Alliance - Apocalypse Tomorrow [Lich King Voice - Epic Powerful Dramatic]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wbOcKInn1kM/mqdefault.jpg)
0:00 - 0:40 : Eh, alright I guess.
0:42 - onward : Oh... oh shit...
Arthas was still arthas
0:42 completely possessed by Ner'zhul the palefaced orc.
If you want a real answer, the first handful of dialogues were from the Vanilla Naxxramas Kel'thuzad encounter wayyy back in 2004, whereas the rest of the dialogue is from the actual Wotlk expansion from 2008.
Another thing: The Lich King's voice actor, Michael McConnohie, is also the voice of Kel'thuzad, perhaps a reason why he didn't voice The Lich King initially, *and* a confirmed reason why Kel'thuzad's voice was changed when Naxx was moved to Northrend in the WotLK expansion.
Mcconnohie didn't voice Kel'thuzad in WotLK because blizzard "didn't want to confuse people."
Mcconnohie is so talented that he could easily do all three and it would be fine. i'd be more concerned with people confusing Kel'thuzad and Uther.
@@LichlordKazam Actually, the exact opposite. Revealed in the Rise of Arthas novel, Ner'Zhul was completely out of the picture, as Arthas "stabbed" his soul, as well as that of his humanity. In other words, it was all Arthas during wrath.
@@jorge15266 my question is why did they change voice actors in the trial of the grand champion? His voice always seemed off like more robotic.
If I had his voice I'd never shut up holyshit
I actually do a damn good impersonation of his voice from Wrath of the Lich King. Only just *slightly* off... maybe if I had those same special effects it wouldn't be noticeable at all. Doing it for too long hurts my throat though lol.
Step 1: Get Audacity
Step 2: Record your voice
Step 3: Duplicate the voice track
Step 4: Add reverb to the duplicate track, reverse it add reverb again, reverse back, lower its volume
Step 4: Play back and enjoy
I should look into Audacity lol
I tried making my own impression, and man, you got it spot on!
If I had a voice like that I'll be thrilled
I loved Northrend it was truly dangerous to explore and Arthas was always there taunting you, and you had the feel of being watched.
R6r6r6r ryryk
His voice gives me chills oh my god .
yeah...
Grace Perez heh. Chills.
WAS THAT A FUCKING PUN
Perhaps theres a voice you recognize with/in it
@@ashenone1996 indeed the echo of the voice of the Lich King is actually Zovaal/The Jailer who is speaking through him...
This has to be the most memorable voice in the game.
My favorite "Let them come, Frostmourne hungers"
We had an army at his gates and he didn't care. That's badass :D
Arthas' dead made me die a little too.
Shinigami Sama I know
+Shinigami Sama Same here.
+Shinigami Sama I wish people know that the one talking is ner'zhul not arthas, cuz arthas is only the puppet and in a vid he says he was once a shaman and arthas was not a shaman
+Dark Poisoneer
Nope. They melded into one being and IIRC arthas kills nerzhul and his last remnants of humanity inside his head when he pops the helmet on.
I realized that recently my bad
legendary voice.
If I had the lich king's voice. I'd be so damn intimidating. Cool Voice
I can partially imitate the deep voice.
The first time I encountered the Lich, I didn't know my volume was really loud and his voice literally shook my speakers
If I had the lich king's voice. I'd never shut up, this is awesome
With a voice like that it's no wonder so many people joined him willingly.
4:37 *END IT* Don't know why I love that quote.
The Scourge was truly the most tangible threat I've ever felt in a WoW expansion.
lich king's ASMR...
The greatest villain voice in the history of just about anything.
Good voice starts at 0:43
The original voice is horrendous, don't know how it got past development.
Raptus 2006. Things weren’t as badass sounding.
All his quotes from 00:45 to the end give me chills.. His voice is magnificent
That voice
"There is no light only darkness" Sauron :)
Best "bad boy " ever
I like him to evil, to bad and to stronght.
I can't help but think about how the world would be if Arthas actually won. The world would be so icy and dark and undead would take over every corner of Azeroth and it gives me chills just thinking about it. Yet so fuckin epic. Great video.
shouldve let him win, then make an entirely undead expansion. That way, we would have undead versions of every race. In dark souls fashion you become the few undead that can aide in the extermination of the scourge. Only paladin and shamans can truly eradicate the blight and the darkness. The few remaining dragon aspects aid you on your journey to northrend to defeat Arthas at the top of the citadel. With a raid group, the adventurers wield forces of light and dark to stop The Lich King.
@@pzykostv thanks for reminding me of this video. Bout to watch it again
Arthas the Lich King best character in Warcraft shame on blizz he is killed i so much want join him .
+Ka ma its not Arthas the Lich King its just Lich King mate
i always wanted to join and serve him
i think he means Arthas being the dominant personality
Šime Jugović he means to say Arthas as the lich king, not Bolvar.
10:26 APOCALYPSE!
I can't help but listen to this while i'm playing vanilla wow because when i do, it feels like Arthas is talking ingame to the whole world and it gives me chills.
Welcome Insects! Welcome to my World!
Unicomplex Ragnaros: ONLY I CALL MORTALS INSECTS
Anybody except me is still listening to this in 2017 ?!
In conclusion , everything Arthas says is epic
Back in the day i did a lot of game modding. This one time i extracted this audio package from WoW in order to use with a custom Lich King sprite/asset in Warcraft 3. Point was to turn Death Knight Arthas into Lich King Arthas. It was pretty neat.
3:15
The Lich king, is a combination of Ner'zhul and Arthas voice i just noticed ;o
i cant hear arthas voice lol
The best villain in warcraft history.
Everything he says is just so FUCKING BADASS!!! Best Warcraft villain EVER!!
I love his voice!
"Mercy is for the weak." Reminds me of a saying that I have. I'm probably not the first person to think of it. I may have picked it up subconsciously from a book or something. But, I always say, "Mercy is for the merciful."
god just how do you just not love the lich king he is the best character they put all their creativity and writing into him
0:42 - onward OMFG 🌟___🌟I'm speechless.
Kano has never sounded more intimidating :P
His voice is Porn xD Bad ass Boss. Dethwings voice is also good but nothing can beat Lich Kings voice :D
malthael? just saying
@@СергейЧерешнев-ч5о Well in Diablo 3 Malthael absolutely bro
ALL HALE THE LICH KING ALL HALE THE LICH KING
don't know if this was meant to be an ice pun or not
the lich kings voice is sooooooooo amazing... it creeps me out. i love it.
I love the story and the epicness around the Lich King and especially Arthas when he gets Frostmourne and becomes the Lich King.
After all we didn't defeat the Lich King. The light interrupted him when he was about to own us, if you remember.
The story about the Lich King and Arthas is over. As a former death knight of the Lich King, I got stucked in the story and will still be in Northrend and practice the unholy things. And soon the Lich King and me will meet again.
wotlk last great expansion - I remember how cool it was when I 1st discovered that this main boss dude shows up to taunt you in quests and dungeons, this was a new thing in wow and it was a cool way to build him up for people who never played warcraft games
The reason for the LK not really killing us was believable. It wasn't plot armor that protected the adventurer but he was waiting for us to become the ultimate fighting force. When he was done playing around, he cast "Fury of Frostmourne" and we all die.
The boss fight I will tell my grandchildren about
6:03 "Suffer, in Sex!"
insects
death by snu snu
xDDDDDD
Behold the most badass thing that will ever come from Blizzard.
This should have many views...This is the best voice over of the Lich King ever
And i am the Lich King. LOL!!
no, your not.
"And i am the Lich King. LOL!!"
-The Lich King
Why is arthas getting me so spooked and scared
I feel like i am sarounded by udead and about to die
yes he does it explains that in like the last 20 pages or whatever of the story once he has woken from his dream state after watching his life again
after learning more and more about the lore and how there were a few Lich Kings his voice changing makes more sense now. The Arthas version will always be the best.
In my 23 years on this planet. I have never heard anything anywhere near as sinister as the Lich King’s voice
All shall serve!
Harness your RAGE and FOCUS! ;)
Dr Claw sounds like hes angry at gadget now.
Sounds a bit like a certain puppet master
most epic voice in the whole game , and the lich king is my favoutie bad-guy in the games history , ALL GAMES
BOW BEFORE YOUR MASTER. ah good old Death Knight starting times
I started WoW late overall; once Cataclysm started so I never heard the old versions. These are quite neat though I love the deep, echoing one that is the most recent.
same. i sort of started in bc or wrath but i was playing it during cata where i didn't have the expansion. was fun tho
he misses the phrase "Luke, I'm your father"
the spirit of lich king is Ner'zhul forever it took over arthas's mind and just used him like a puppet when he died and tirions brother or w/e put it on surpressed the spirit with sheer will power and incased himself in ice.
After the merger, the Lich King sat dormant for several years while storms raged across Northrend and his minions constructed Icecrown Citadel around the Frozen Throne. While the Lich King dreamt, the various personas in his mind - the death knight Arthas Menethil, the orc shaman Ner'zhul, and Matthias Lehner, the personification of the remnants Arthas' humanity - fought for influence and control over the entity. It is noticeable that if arranged accordingly, Matthias Lehner is an anagram of Arthas Menethil.
Matthias tried to reason with Arthas, but Arthas killed him by running him through with Frostmourne. Ner'zhul was delighted by this, declaring that he and Arthas were now free to merge into a single glorious being. Arthas rejected this offer, stating that once he had the power of the Lich King, no one would tell him what to do again. He impaled the stunned Ner'zhul with Frostmourne, becoming the dominant personality of the Lich King and ending the dream.[4]
Was Bolvar Fordragon, not Tirion's bro
Story is backwards, Arthas consumed Ner'zhul and Bolvar wasn't Tirion's brother, he was Anduin Wrynn's caretaker while Varian was missing.
i need an audio tool that makes my voice so evil
Yea, the thought that the more you fight the scourge the more it grows in strength. Everyone of your dead is another scourge warrior.
the horde, meddling as always, i suppose a welcome is in order, so welcome, insects, welcome to my world, that quote is my favorite
+Warcrack Same
Anthony Chuter the horde sucks, they did shit with jaina and made me mad, the only members of the Horde I like are from the Ebon Blade
Lol
@Colimaisnada Also
CM Crygil also stated, "He didn't actually erase the persona of Ner'zhul. In point of fact, these two beings merged to make up what was collectively known as "The Lich King", on the official World of Warcraft forums.
No, Ner'Zhul basically just possesses anyone who puts on the crown or comes into contact with it and becomes "reborn" in their flesh. Anyone who puts on the crown of the Lich King or touches Frostmourne. I could be wrong about the latter though. If you touch Frostmourne, I think it pretty much just eats your face.
The Michael Mchonnohie Lich King was vastly superior to the original Naxx version.
He gave me the choice, what if I wanted to join him. I was, after all, the biggest threat to the scourge!
The first voice is nice. But the deeper atmospheric voice is much more evil.
I could see Benedict cumberbatch doing a perfect impression of the lich king.
@DDProducti0n Here
Q. Will Ner'zhul appear at any point in 3.3 or the near future?
A. Well, he is a chunk of the Lich King now. But if you mean will he appear as an orc, we're not ready to tell his story just yet. We have a lot of stories left to tell, but his is a good one.
^ this is from the wow developers chat on twitter well AFTER that book got released. Ner'zhul is not dead nor is he consumed, he is still alive.
lay down your arms,and surrender your souls! Best quotes ever.
Yeah it sounded odd at the beginning that they changed it but it makes sense knowing that this was during the time when the struggle took place between Arthas and the other personalities inside the LK.
sends shivers down my spine !!
apostle
@powerofdestiny The best part is that they confirm that Naz'Ghul is all but completely gone. It's all Arthas now, he has no "it wasn't me" excuses.
@Lufisyth Ner'zhul and Arthas. And yes it was them both speaking in unison.
Listen to this in the dark scary stuff!
@TheVendettaBoi Q. Will Ner'zhul appear at any point in 3.3 or the near future?
A. Well, he is a chunk of the Lich King now. But if you mean will he appear as an orc, we're not ready to tell his story just yet. We have a lot of stories left to tell, but his is a good one.
This is from the WoW developers themselves. Also go to the wow general forums and type in ''Why was arthas evil?'', go to the thread and ull see a blizz poster say he has NOT been killed.
In Old Naxx, the Lich King's voice sounded broken and split because back then the different personalities that composed the entity of the Lich King were still vying for who would become the dominant one.
If I'm not mistaken, at the end of the Arthas novel, the personality of Death Knight Arthas subdues both his own humanity and the personality of Ner'Zhul, becoming the dominant personna of the Lich King entity, and amalgaming the knowledge and memories of Ner'Zhul.
2020… I’m here still
Blizzard should have done that... give us the choice to either be raised by the Lich King or fight alongside Fordring, imagine that? Half of your raid chooses to continue with Fordring while you fight alongside the Arthas in an epic battle, friends become enemies....
I was hoping to hear his *APOCALYPSE*
For the scourge
10:25
We exist only to serve him
While he dreamed, Arthas banished his humanity and suppressed Ner'zhul's spirit, allowing him to become the dominant personality of the Lich King. WoW wiki.
well it must be..there must ALLWAYS be...*dramatic pause* a lich king
Kil'jaeden recognized that Ner'zhul did not have the will or the brazen audacity to follow through with his plan of forging the orcs into a bloodthirsty horde. Ner'zhul, realizing that his pact with Kil'jaeden would only lead to his race's annihilation, refused to help the demon any further. Enraged by the shaman's defiance, Kil'jaeden swore to take vengeance upon Ner'zhul, and corrupt the orcs despite him. Kil'jaeden found a new, eager apprentice Gul'dan
Félelmetes hangjai vannak.
Bow before your king
I think Metzen or some1 else working for Blizzard said that they change The Lich Kings voice so often cus Nerzhul is just taking over more and more of Arthas body.
Damn, I’d voluntarily serve in his undead army.
The Lich King was the biggest faceroll in the game. I mean the best character with very good charisma, and unique voice.
Lol? I'm sorry you raided him at 30% I downed him before the nerf. this boss was so hard they had to buff everyone by 30% think again before you talk
You downed him before the nerf? Sry to tell you otherwise, but the worlds first kill happened after the Nerf. (talking about Heroic Mode)
Angelo no one downed him before the nerf in retail
I love his voice
I play this loud in the woods at night lol
does anyone know any method or tool program or stuff like that ... even tutorial in which i can make my voice similar with LKs voice? Thnx :D ^-^ in advance.
*Spoilers*
In the new book about Arthas, it does in fact seem that Arthas 'slays' ner'zhul's soul.
@Kristapillar His souls gone, but all the evil deeds he did were on Arthas' shoulders. He was not under Ner'zhuls power anymore.
No worries we will do that again once Sylvanas goes on her crazy task. I.e death to the living and long live forsaken.