I found myself a very creepy thing in wow. The other day I was wondering about the old classic zandalari tribe rep in the retail version of wow. I read that their headquarters was in an island near the Gurubashi arena, so I went there. To my surprise everyone was turned into stone, now, the creepy thing is that since an old update in wow, when you get near an NPC they’ll turn their head towards you, so if you go near the stone trolls, they’ll look at you in a very creepy way...
So I found your comment and went straight to the island off the coast of Stranglethorn to Yojamba Isle, I can confirm that they are turned into stone and that their heads look at you when you're close enough. I think I found out WHY they were all frozen though, there's an elite mob in the middle of the Isle named Crystal Spine Matriarch, and some if not all races of basilisks can turn people to stone in the Warcraft Universe, so it seems that they were all frozen by a basilisk matriarch but if you look a little closer around the basilisk you can see trolls with axes, staves and a dagger, as if they were attempting to kill it before it froze them all. Though the trolls around the Isle (excluding the trolls around the basilisk) seem to just be minding their business as if they weren't aware of what was going on. Edit: Grammar
The same is true for the house of the jade witch in pandaria, jade forest. There is the statue of her husband in her backyard and if you go near it, it will tilt its head in your direction. Creepy
@@jsc1jake512 There's actually a quest in Stormwind where you must go to the island kill the Crystal Spine Matriarch and you will get selfie toy upgrade or something like that.I did it like a week ago
Those stone people are probably just real troll character assets with a stone texture made non-targatable. So they probably got the head turn feature from sl. Creepy though.
@@Prottype Or... Bear with me here, player characters are really fast. Ever done those escort quests where the npc is walking so slow you have to tap forward the whole time
@@CharterForGaming I'm just imagining every single WoW player (Champion of Azeroth) just running like Usain Bolt for non stop periods of time and clearing these huge distances in like 30 minutes
Well we are elite soldiers of our faction with access to the best equipment, horses and flying animals. We are basically the wow version of us marines with access to military grade travel equipment.
Just imagine this: You’re sleeping “soundly” and then you see a worgen and mechagnome hop onto the bed beside you and start ERPing. At that point, you might as well send yourself off into the Maw
Fun fact about the eyes of Darkshire: A rare mob with the name Lightning Paw can spawn in any of the bushes with those eyes. This mob has a uniqe fox model, beeing translusent and also having lighting in it's fur. Hunters can tame it, and it's one of the best looking hunter pets, so maybe check it out
What I loved about original Legend of Stalvan quest was exactly the thing they changd it in Cataclysm, it made you travel across Eastern Kingdom, connecting pieces of the whole story like a detective and confronting Stalvan at the end. It really sucks they changed it.
Tilloa is an anagram for Lolita, Stalvan seems to be inspired by the story of the protagonist in the novel 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov, both characters share a lot of things, and the stories share a lot of elements and descriptions and even minor details, both are very creepy especially because both men believe they are not doing anything wrong or immoral
It's also just a standard case of a vengeful man who thinks kindness = love. It's tragically common irl, to the point where many, many women have to take so many precautions and spend months being vigilant because of just how common it is for men to get angry at them for "leading them on"
@@ottlika I don't doubt it. My point is that scenarios like that are a very real danger to a lot of people and not necessarily based on something fictional
@@darkwhispersstories47 I think it's fair to say that, tbh. When you see all the monsters and space stuff... You know it's fake and not real or possible at all. You can completely detach from it because it's just not possible to ever happen in real life. But, stories such as Stalvan have really happened in real life. Elliot Rogers is the big one that comes to mind, but there's a lot of others. Just knowing that something is real and being able to attach real feelings to it, makes it infinitely more creepy than some imaginary space creature.
If you go into the old throne room in under city and turn all music off and turn the ambient sounds all the way up, you can hear crowds cheering for arthas' return and you can hear his exchange with his father before he killed him
If you look closely, you can also see the rose petals that fell around Arthas, and a streak of blood on the ground near the throne where the crown landed
The thing to remember about Scholomance is that before things took a dark turn the Barov estate was considered a happy place, where the Barov's would host grand parties and be hospitable hosts. Perhaps the Hearthstone expansion is referencing that happy time.
Hearthstone is also just sort of like that a lot-- Karazhan is a fun party tower, and even Icecrown is pretty lighthearted, with Arthas getting easily distracted by how cute various cards are.
If I recall correctly, Hearthstone is supposed to be an alternate timeline where everything is more light hearted. Gadgetzan isn't a bustling port city in WoW either, for instance.
I just want to add a detail to the Orgrimmar horrific visions. The horrific version of your character can spawn at different locations. I found myself in the first hut right to the main gate lying dead on the floor.
I messaged you this idea last year and you said it would be a good idea if you remembered. Don’t know if you remembered my suggestion or just thought of this yourself but I’m so glad to see this being reforged. The original is one of my favorite videos from you.
Horrific visions was extremely creepy, specially the Stormwind Wings, All heroes Broken fighting until they die for exhausting, People Hanged out. The worst part is it really felt that those visions are inevitable. I will love an in deep look on Horrific Visions.
Theres a girl crying in trade district over a dead dog named "Pepper". No dialogue and no interactions, except for that your character can pet the dead dog... I did it once, hoping the dog would perhaps get up and the girl would run away, but nope. Even after petting it several times, still dead. :(
@@YourIQDoesntMeanShitToMe Ironically, I find incels or nice guys more scary than yanderes lol. But they're the same thing with Stalvan I think - thinking kindness = love + killing when met with rejection.
You should've induced the fact that road leading up to the Dark Portal, also known as Path of Glory, is entirely made up of Draenei bones. If you zoom in, you can even see it.
In classic, I thought night elves collecting heads was creepy. When Tyrande kills Nathanos I hope she collects his head and personally delivers it to Sylvanus in the Maw.
I'm pretty sure that in lore when Medivh was alive he used to host a lot of parties... I think it was to keep his mind occupied from Sargeras invading his consciousness.
The environmental storytelling in Tanaris makes it one of my favorite zones in WoW, such atmosphere accomplished merely with some tracks and a few corpses. You really feel for the unknown individuals who were ultimately claimed by the unforgiving sands.
Respect for finding some new things to add to the list of creepy wow stuff, theres been many vids made about this in the past which all kind of included the same set of things, the crypts, the elwynn demon bois, etc but there are some rly neat new things on here I've never seen before
another thing i personally find creepy is Whisper Gulch in Howling Fjord. it’s full of crazy, aggressive dwarves from the Explorers League, and occasionally Yogg-Saron will whisper creepy things to you
I ... like how Hiru says "It's a lot darker than it probably was meant to be." As if the Undead in WoW aren't pretty damn dark in general, regardless of how you want to twist it.
The children outside of the Culling of Stratholme are the only frozen npc that blink. not the creepiest thing but considering all the adults are completely frozen it stands out a bit that the kids blink. Also their eyes remain open (underneath) while blinking which causes their eyelids to look slightly odd as it layers over their open eyes.
Theres a girl crying in trade district over a dead dog named "Pepper". No dialogue and no interactions, except for that your character can pet the dead dog... I did it once, thinking the dog would perhaps get up and the girl would run away like the rest of the civilians you freed, but nope. Even after petting it several times, dead dog and crying girl inevitably stay as they are :(
my favorite thing about your channel is that you show me things i truly never knew about this game, and i've been playing for 12 years. This excitement for new info feels awesome, thank you for the excellent videos.
Horrific Vision Stormwind is one of the best places to explore. One of the fabric stores in the trade disctrict at the canals has the lady that runs the store dead on the ground with her mouth stiched shut. There are a lot of small details like this sprinkled throughout all of the zones, you just have to look inside the buildings. The more you look, the more weird things you find.
it's the little things like this that keeps me playing WoW, been a part of the game since 6 months Pre-TBC, seen a lot of ups and downs over the years.
@@UltimateGamerCC yeah that's awesome, I was just super happy Kul Tiras finally made an appearance, I've been waiting since vanilla to see it added, you can imagine my disappointment starting wow for the 1st time and Kul Tiras was no where to be seen!
@@prehistoricplayer1132 yeah, i dont think that was originally planned, after all Warcraft 2 was more developed as a whole, but i dont think they ever planned to use Warcraft 2 as the basis for an expansion, Warcraft 3 is where it really became a unique entity and they mostly focused on that.
@@UltimateGamerCC I was reading some facts on Original wows development and it turns out Kul Tiras was Planned early on to be In the game as it showed up in quite a few early maps of wow. I also remember reading that they were going to add a ship that brought players to Kul Tiras from Menethil Harbor. However as we all know now that wouldn't be added for 15 years
Interestingly enough, the wikipedia info you linked during the Erinys section says that one of them referred to by Virgil was Megaera, the 'jealous rage': puts that boss in Throne of Thunder in a new light.
#9 is a reference to HP Lovecraft where the deep ones workship fish and frog gods and look like amphibians in an island. I don't remember the specific book where it comes from but I know it's HP Lovecraft
so is the cat in the Stormwind Horrific Vision, i think. Cats were very prevalent in a lot of Lovecraft’s writing, and could often easily access other worlds and realities
I can’t believe you didn’t mention ONCE the fact that The Sludge Field is a concentration camp copied by the terrifying WWI german ones and the diary follows the exactly climax Primo Levi’s book has.
for the eyes in duskwood, there is actually a spirit beast that spawns in those bushes and is stealthed, so you must use flare or otherwise detect him. his name is lightning paw
Hope Hiru read this comment, I got some fillings for list. Stormwind vision - one of these videos I saw about group of kids in goldshire who does some ritual everyday 7pm. They always move as pentagon shape. My friend said those are the children in Cathedral district in vision. Celebrating a sacrifice I think. Explosive sheeps - as you mentioned about those sheep's in Warcraft, we discovered who's behind it in wow legion. Arcane mage hidden skin quest senario we found who's been doing this. And we help sheep to avenge it. Glowing eyes - this is also my friend showed me. These eyes refering to a hidden hunter pet in game. A fox pet.
Nice video. I would have the Karazahn Crypts (Upside Down Sinners) as number one or two, not as intriguing as the Stalvan tale but that flooded chamber is creepy as hell!
A kind of creepy thing is in exiles reach. You need to do a class quest for shamans (if you are a shaman) to talk to a ghost wolf. He will tell you his pack has been captured but first you need to burn a plant on the island. Once your burn the plants. After this you will see tons of human ghosts surrounding the camp. Their heads will always follow you. You can also find them near the other ghost wolfs. It is kind of unsettling and creepy.
@@mushroomtip11 It's a trick many youtubers use to create engagement. You see the more people comment on a video, the more it rises in trending, and there is therefore a greater chance it will be recommended to more people. One of the best ways to make people comment is to mispronounce names and other things. Especially when talking about subjects from a fandom such as WoW. I've noticed it with others too, one example is Bellular. Also notice how Hiruma mentions how his old video don't really hold up to his standard, at the end of this video, which will most likely get a whole bunch of people to go watch that one to compare, and then comment on that video that it wasn't so bad after all. The same thing happened a couple of months ago with straw polls here on UA-cam. Someone discovered that the polls, if they were engaging, really made the channels rise in views. So the polls would often be about a very loaded subject, or ask the viewers to vote for some character, but intentionally leave out obvious choices so that angry fans would comment like crazy about how the maker of the poll had forgotten to include this or that character. It's all marketing.
The legend of Stalvan, along with the quests chains in Duskwood, are one of the best writing of quest chains in Vanilla WoW. Especially when you play this zone and take time to read the quest chain... 15 years ago. I remember it took me 3 full days to quest-travel-read the quests, and to finally become my personal favourite zone... Then, I mained Horde, and couldn’t get back to this quest... although the rewriting of Silverpine forest quest chain after the Cataclysm was the cherry on the cake in storytelling
god, the story of stalvan mistmantle never fails to make my skin crawl. as a girl and a minor myself, it just brings up all the fears i have of adults looking at me like... that... or ending up being groomed by someone and not even noticing. it's such a real fear, so... just so paralyzing that one day i might have a stalvan. one day some adult man could potentially decide that I'm the most beautiful thing he's ever seen and when i tell him no... he just might get mad like stalvan and do something horrifying to me or people i love. the world is a horrifying place and this questline captured exactly that so perfectly. the voice you read it in just makes it creepier. blizz wrote that story and those quests so well, i just wish i didn't have to get on my classic toons to experience it for myself.
Is this the reason you mentioned on twitter about you hate your older videos? Won't lie, watched the other one again after this and still think it's of great quality! Don't hate where you've come from my friend, it only made you better :D
Apparently the thing about those bushes with eyes in them in duskwood is where a spirit beast fox spawns that hunters can tame. It is also apparently stealthed so most people won't see it.
I never realized the Tanaris lay out. As an alliance, I'm pretty much there just for ZF and Cooking quest. It's actually a really nifte design chioce. I like the commitment!
Awww, you missed one Easter Egg of the Karazhan Crypt. While not exactly in the "creepy" motif of the video, there's one part of it called "The Upside Down Sinners" which is a nod to the John Carpenter Film "Big Trouble in Little China" where one part of the film found the protagonists in an area called "Hell of the Upside Sinners". That's not the only Big Trouble in Little China Easter Egg in game either. The trinket "Six Demon Bag" is another direct nod to the movie since it's directly mentioned by another main character by having "Wind, Fire, All that kind of thing!", which is the flavor text on that trinket. The designers certainly liked that movie. As they should, it's a classic!
i was saying that when he went over that part of the video! it is one of my favorite hunter tames besides some of the now unattainable ones like the werewolf guy or the ghost wolf with the sword stuck in its head
Croakoan I think is a reference to "crotoan" which is an urban legend about a very early settlement here in the colonies. Dark stuff if you look into it
Started watching again while I play WoW SoM and I just started the Stalvan quest chain. I was thinking “man this name sounds so familiar” BOOM! Hiring talked about it and now I get to see it through😄also keep up the great content. I go back and watch old vids often
I feel like he might have mispronounced "Eastvale" on purpose this time because the first time around he butchered it completely. So it might have been a nod or he just can't read the word "Eastvale".
Stalvan, Eastvale, Giles, uncouth... there were a few that threw me. Honestly it bothered me but I give him a pass since he’s doing all this research for these vids that as long as we know who he’s talking and where I try to ignore it.
In an unrelated creepy fact. I noticed that when I was leveling at the start of the month with my alt, a large crowd of Spiders just spawn and died after a while at almost midnight. I felt really creepy because that happened twice in unrelated places and one day after the another.
The quests in Classic felt like it's a living (or unliving) world. Things are connected by story and travel. With new expansions that isn't doable since most of the zones are highly disconnected from the parts of the World we love (EK and Kalimdor). Yet sometimes like in Val'shara with the Gilneans they try to connect it again. Sadly the times of fresh world exploration in WoW are long gone... i wish they could learn from other games that exploration and gaps while leveling are a great choice. (refering to Genshin Impact) WoD was great because the zones were huge and had a lot to them with many open fields to explore.
Agree mate! Really enjoyed playing Genshin Impact so far, just exploring, getting distracted by side activities and so on. There is a lot to do even without progressing the story, and it still feels meaningful and not like just a grind. Imo WoW zones should be a bit more spaced out and not every single inch of them should be covered in quests, hostile mobs and theme parky details. Yes BFA zones were neat and beautiful, but after doing them once you've seen every corner and there isn't much more to see, where as in Vanilla big parts of the zones are left untouched and free for the player to explore on their own. Also the travelling from place to place and random (sometimes very simple) side stories you uncover along the way add depth and scale to the world. Massive lore heavy linear questlines and expansions having a huge overarching theme and story kind of make me care less for the world, because it's like a roller coaster ride that you get thrilled about only once. I've gotten tired of every expansion and their zones so far, but EK and Kalimdor never seem lose their charm for me..!
If you head to Arom's Stand in Drustvar, there will be a statue. Walking up and past the statue will cause the statue to turn its head and stare at you before resetting the position. Very creepy and would suggest giving it a look!
One thing that you forgot in the vision of stormwind is the demonic children from Goldshire, they stand with the orphans of stormwind over the corpse of the orphanage matron.
When I did the quest with the buried humans in the sludge fields, there was no helpful popup text to show you your two options. Since right click is the typical interact button in WoW, I ended up smashing in all their heads assuming it was just how the quest was supposed to go. Morbid, but it's a Forsaken quest hub after all. Then at the end of the quest I found out that I'd had the option to dig them out... I still have the shovel it gave me as a reminder of what I did 😩 Edit: oh yeah, and shout out to the horror reference! there's a movie called Motel Hell from the 80's that involves a twisted family planting victims up to their necks in the ground to "grow" them for harvest :) worth a watch!
My speculation on the Erinys, is that it is the ring that turn anyone into the creature (Erinys), one evidence is the lore on the quest item when you pick it up. "Deep gash marks indicate that whatever once wore this ring tried in vain to remove it." The name of the item is "Ring of Promises" while the toy is "Ring of broken promises". Chester probably lure in people with the ring, kidnapped them to the cave and force the ring on them using that weird device found in there. He probably also use the device to make the rings, note, Chester use a dk human model meaning he is already an undead.
Really.. REALLY good video. I Love it. The only gripe I have is the butchering of some of the locations or character names, but that's a needle in a haystack. Can't wait for more.
Fun Fact (sorta): Several of the named NPCs during the Sludge fields questline are from pre-Cata Hillsbrad Fields. As a Horde Character you killed most of them as part of a quest chain. Farmer's Ray, Getz, and Kalaba are all killed as part of the quest, as well as Clerk Horrace Whitesteed who has the journal you find for the backstory.
As a nice little bonus with the Legend of Stalvan Questline; Around the same level as you get the Legend of Stalvan Questline you can get the quest A Noble Brew in Stormwind, which has you pick two flowers, one in Duskwood called the Tear of Tillao at the manor where you also kill Stalvan.
there was a half buried shield at that camp in Tanaris which has arrows stuck in it. Most likely they were attacked, possibly 2 times, defending the first attack off but not the 2nd.
First one with Theresa could also be an Easter Egg/Reference to Fable, where your sister (Theresa) is a powerful hero and blindfolded after Twinblade cut her eyes out
they weren't travelling, the teamster who has their luggage headed for Auction in SW mentions that the murders took place at the summer cottage in Elynn (and their graves are outside of it), and that it took weeks to clean the all the blood up from the premises to get it ready for sale.
@@PJSM94 Her name is Theresa, his name is Gerald. Gerald in the book was kind of sadistic like the NPC counterpart. If u think this makes less sense than the example given in the video then I give up :)
Idk if anyone else have commented on this, but #1 is most likely inspired by the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The name Tilloa being an amalgam of Lolita. The novel is about a college professor, Humbert Humbert, who falls in love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter whom he eventually kidnaps. So pretty much the same theme of an older scholarly man falling in love with a child.
I found myself a very creepy thing in wow. The other day I was wondering about the old classic zandalari tribe rep in the retail version of wow. I read that their headquarters was in an island near the Gurubashi arena, so I went there. To my surprise everyone was turned into stone, now, the creepy thing is that since an old update in wow, when you get near an NPC they’ll turn their head towards you, so if you go near the stone trolls, they’ll look at you in a very creepy way...
So I found your comment and went straight to the island off the coast of Stranglethorn to Yojamba Isle, I can confirm that they are turned into stone and that their heads look at you when you're close enough.
I think I found out WHY they were all frozen though, there's an elite mob in the middle of the Isle named Crystal Spine Matriarch, and some if not all races of basilisks can turn people to stone in the Warcraft Universe, so it seems that they were all frozen by a basilisk matriarch but if you look a little closer around the basilisk you can see trolls with axes, staves and a dagger, as if they were attempting to kill it before it froze them all. Though the trolls around the Isle (excluding the trolls around the basilisk) seem to just be minding their business as if they weren't aware of what was going on.
Edit: Grammar
The same is true for the house of the jade witch in pandaria, jade forest. There is the statue of her husband in her backyard and if you go near it, it will tilt its head in your direction. Creepy
@@jsc1jake512 There's actually a quest in Stormwind where you must go to the island kill the Crystal Spine Matriarch and you will get selfie toy upgrade or something like that.I did it like a week ago
The part where they turn their heads is a feature added in shadowlands
Those stone people are probably just real troll character assets with a stone texture made non-targatable. So they probably got the head turn feature from sl. Creepy though.
imagine dying in a desert the size of a shopping mall right next to an ocean
World scaling for us doesn’t represent lore scaling. We would never reach anywhere otherwise 😉
@@Prottype Or... Bear with me here, player characters are really fast. Ever done those escort quests where the npc is walking so slow you have to tap forward the whole time
@@CharterForGaming I'm just imagining every single WoW player (Champion of Azeroth) just running like Usain Bolt for non stop periods of time and clearing these huge distances in like 30 minutes
Well we are elite soldiers of our faction with access to the best equipment, horses and flying animals. We are basically the wow version of us marines with access to military grade travel equipment.
They should really rework some zones...
Stalvan's mistmantle's real problem wasn't the first war, it was that he had to take residence at goldshire's inn, that would drive anyone insane.
Just imagine this: You’re sleeping “soundly” and then you see a worgen and mechagnome hop onto the bed beside you and start ERPing. At that point, you might as well send yourself off into the Maw
Especially if all the moonguard weirdos are there
pro tip for the "do the right thing" quest, if you unbury them and then smash their heads in, you get double progress.
Morally grey
2 rights make a double right
Nice
@matt makes a u, three rights makes a square.
@matt 2 right turns at perfectly right angles produces a u turn, three makes it turn back
My favorite creepy thing in wow is how gunther arcanus and lillian voss always manage to make an appearance in hirus videos. Creepy.
I haven’t finished it yet but if this is true I won’t be surprised lol
Fun fact about the eyes of Darkshire: A rare mob with the name Lightning Paw can spawn in any of the bushes with those eyes. This mob has a uniqe fox model, beeing translusent and also having lighting in it's fur. Hunters can tame it, and it's one of the best looking hunter pets, so maybe check it out
Not every Bush with eyes. Lightning oss has like 6 or 7 spawnpoints around the graveyard to the very legg og Duskwood.
it is a spirit beast so gotta be a beast mastery hunter to get him
Eyes dont have to do with the fox. Eyes are there since vanilla, fox added way later.
@@MrPeaceFroggy the eyes dont have anything to do with the fox, but the fox has everything to do with the eyes
What I loved about original Legend of Stalvan quest was exactly the thing they changd it in Cataclysm, it made you travel across Eastern Kingdom, connecting pieces of the whole story like a detective and confronting Stalvan at the end. It really sucks they changed it.
Tilloa is an anagram for Lolita, Stalvan seems to be inspired by the story of the protagonist in the novel 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov, both characters share a lot of things, and the stories share a lot of elements and descriptions and even minor details, both are very creepy especially because both men believe they are not doing anything wrong or immoral
It's also just a standard case of a vengeful man who thinks kindness = love. It's tragically common irl, to the point where many, many women have to take so many precautions and spend months being vigilant because of just how common it is for men to get angry at them for "leading them on"
@@Wyrmshield yeah that's exactly the theme in Nabokov's novel, abuse of security and threat of fear
@@ottlika I don't doubt it. My point is that scenarios like that are a very real danger to a lot of people and not necessarily based on something fictional
@@Wyrmshield yeah that's sadly true
@@Wyrmshield r/niceguy logic.... taking manners for affection.....
So one of the creepiest things in WoW is the story of a "Nice guy", that really is something
In a world of titanic walking forged weapons Japanese tentacles space goat travelers
And GoldShire being a basic thing..ya that is creepy xD
No its actually so little quality game content that you watch youtubers
Charlotte The Twisted Demoness what do u mean by the Goldshire thing
@@Mr_Spaghetti roleplayers in Goldshire
Especially Argent Dawn
@@darkwhispersstories47 I think it's fair to say that, tbh. When you see all the monsters and space stuff... You know it's fake and not real or possible at all. You can completely detach from it because it's just not possible to ever happen in real life. But, stories such as Stalvan have really happened in real life. Elliot Rogers is the big one that comes to mind, but there's a lot of others.
Just knowing that something is real and being able to attach real feelings to it, makes it infinitely more creepy than some imaginary space creature.
If you go into the old throne room in under city and turn all music off and turn the ambient sounds all the way up, you can hear crowds cheering for arthas' return and you can hear his exchange with his father before he killed him
If you look closely, you can also see the rose petals that fell around Arthas, and a streak of blood on the ground near the throne where the crown landed
The thing to remember about Scholomance is that before things took a dark turn the Barov estate was considered a happy place, where the Barov's would host grand parties and be hospitable hosts. Perhaps the Hearthstone expansion is referencing that happy time.
Hearthstone is also just sort of like that a lot-- Karazhan is a fun party tower, and even Icecrown is pretty lighthearted, with Arthas getting easily distracted by how cute various cards are.
Likely that is the case considering we get a still living version of Kel'thuzad and Ras Frostwhisper.
If I recall correctly, Hearthstone is supposed to be an alternate timeline where everything is more light hearted. Gadgetzan isn't a bustling port city in WoW either, for instance.
@@harlequinade2709 Judging from the books it's meant to be a huge city. It just wasn't implemented in game for reasons.
If that was the case we wouldn't be seeing things like Rattlegore.
I just want to add a detail to the Orgrimmar horrific visions. The horrific version of your character can spawn at different locations. I found myself in the first hut right to the main gate lying dead on the floor.
I messaged you this idea last year and you said it would be a good idea if you remembered. Don’t know if you remembered my suggestion or just thought of this yourself but I’m so glad to see this being reforged. The original is one of my favorite videos from you.
he said he writes all good ideas from viewers in a notepad in a stream
That was 6 years ago?!?!? Damn time flies
It's official. Lion's Pride inn turned Stalvan into a pervert. :D
looool
''She is on the cusp of womanhood now'' < Creepiest part of the story
Lions’s Pride inn? Don’t you mean Y’shaarj’s eight head?
He was on Moonguard lol
Such a Proud Lion! 👀
I was just sitting here listen to the Stalvin and Tilloa moment. I thought I was listening to some fan fiction for a moment.
Horrific visions was extremely creepy, specially the Stormwind Wings, All heroes Broken fighting until they die for exhausting, People Hanged out.
The worst part is it really felt that those visions are inevitable.
I will love an in deep look on Horrific Visions.
How can we get to the horrific visions? I just got back on wow.
@@velvetstorm4563 do the bfa entry quests then do abit in azusra till magi comes then do his quests to start it
Very interesting implications about Anduin!
Theres a girl crying in trade district over a dead dog named "Pepper".
No dialogue and no interactions, except for that your character can pet the dead dog...
I did it once, hoping the dog would perhaps get up and the girl would run away, but nope. Even after petting it several times, still dead. :(
@@thedootlord okay, thank you
Stalvan Mistmantle: Blizzard's OG Incel Lunatic
I like to call these people Yanderes. I find it a more appropriate description instead of Incel or Simp at times.
@@YourIQDoesntMeanShitToMe Ironically, I find incels or nice guys more scary than yanderes lol.
But they're the same thing with Stalvan I think - thinking kindness = love + killing when met with rejection.
You should've induced the fact that road leading up to the Dark Portal, also known as Path of Glory, is entirely made up of Draenei bones. If you zoom in, you can even see it.
In classic, I thought night elves collecting heads was creepy. When Tyrande kills Nathanos I hope she collects his head and personally delivers it to Sylvanus in the Maw.
That will be awkward when Nathanos is in the Maw, his body whole, and Tyrande shows him his own head
@@Wyrmshield nathanos, holding his head in his hands: damn i'm hot
this aged like fine wine
13:08 Hearthstone likes to do that, They did the same with Karazhan where they turned it into some fun disco party with your host Medivh.
You mean Karazhan isn't a sweet disco party normally? Medivh loves it in there!
I'm pretty sure that in lore when Medivh was alive he used to host a lot of parties... I think it was to keep his mind occupied from Sargeras invading his consciousness.
The environmental storytelling in Tanaris makes it one of my favorite zones in WoW, such atmosphere accomplished merely with some tracks and a few corpses. You really feel for the unknown individuals who were ultimately claimed by the unforgiving sands.
I never knew the Horrific Visions had that much details hidden within.
because they are mundane chores people want to get over quickly.
The uuna secret questline sends you too a location called “the dark place” it’s a pretty scary place and it fits in on this video
I've always loved the little touches they put throughout the game like these. It adds so much to the rpg aspect and they really nailed it.
I found the pronunciation of Eastvale deeply amusing.
Respect for finding some new things to add to the list of creepy wow stuff, theres been many vids made about this in the past which all kind of included the same set of things, the crypts, the elwynn demon bois, etc but there are some rly neat new things on here I've never seen before
I found something creepy myself. There is a baby just chilling in a tree in the harpy area in Exiles reach.
One above the witch houses in Drustvar too
Knowing blizzard, these babies will come back in 10 years as void empowered monstrosities that we have to kill to save the multiverse
Man back 2005 when I first started playing WoW, Darkshire was pretty creepy, mostly because I had no clue what I was doing! Good times
another thing i personally find creepy is Whisper Gulch in Howling Fjord. it’s full of crazy, aggressive dwarves from the Explorers League, and occasionally Yogg-Saron will whisper creepy things to you
oh and THAT quest chain in Drustvar. it actually freaked me out
I ... like how Hiru says "It's a lot darker than it probably was meant to be."
As if the Undead in WoW aren't pretty damn dark in general, regardless of how you want to twist it.
The children outside of the Culling of Stratholme are the only frozen npc that blink. not the creepiest thing but considering all the adults are completely frozen it stands out a bit that the kids blink. Also their eyes remain open (underneath) while blinking which causes their eyelids to look slightly odd as it layers over their open eyes.
that's creepier than an island of frogs..
Theres a girl crying in trade district over a dead dog named "Pepper".
No dialogue and no interactions, except for that your character can pet the dead dog...
I did it once, thinking the dog would perhaps get up and the girl would run away like the rest of the civilians you freed, but nope. Even after petting it several times, dead dog and crying girl inevitably stay as they are :(
pet it x100
@Someguy136 - Dogs have basically evolved to be subservient to humans. Some humans like that.
my favorite thing about your channel is that you show me things i truly never knew about this game, and i've been playing for 12 years. This excitement for new info feels awesome, thank you for the excellent videos.
Horrific Vision Stormwind is one of the best places to explore. One of the fabric stores in the trade disctrict at the canals has the lady that runs the store dead on the ground with her mouth stiched shut. There are a lot of small details like this sprinkled throughout all of the zones, you just have to look inside the buildings. The more you look, the more weird things you find.
it's the little things like this that keeps me playing WoW, been a part of the game since 6 months Pre-TBC, seen a lot of ups and downs over the years.
Same here man, I've been playing wow since launch and enjoyed Warcraft 1-3 when they released, The rich stories keep me coming back for more!
@@prehistoricplayer1132 i will say one thing positive about BFA, we got Drustvar because of it.
@@UltimateGamerCC yeah that's awesome, I was just super happy Kul Tiras finally made an appearance, I've been waiting since vanilla to see it added, you can imagine my disappointment starting wow for the 1st time and Kul Tiras was no where to be seen!
@@prehistoricplayer1132 yeah, i dont think that was originally planned, after all Warcraft 2 was more developed as a whole, but i dont think they ever planned to use Warcraft 2 as the basis for an expansion, Warcraft 3 is where it really became a unique entity and they mostly focused on that.
@@UltimateGamerCC I was reading some facts on Original wows development and it turns out Kul Tiras was Planned early on to be In the game as it showed up in quite a few early maps of wow. I also remember reading that they were going to add a ship that brought players to Kul Tiras from Menethil Harbor. However as we all know now that wouldn't be added for 15 years
BFA is a terrible expansion, but the Stormwind Horrific Vision scenario is gold. There's so much love put into that place.
Interestingly enough, the wikipedia info you linked during the Erinys section says that one of them referred to by Virgil was Megaera, the 'jealous rage': puts that boss in Throne of Thunder in a new light.
Happy Halloween! *laughs in headless horseman*
#9 is a reference to HP Lovecraft where the deep ones workship fish and frog gods and look like amphibians in an island. I don't remember the specific book where it comes from but I know it's HP Lovecraft
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
so is the cat in the Stormwind Horrific Vision, i think. Cats were very prevalent in a lot of Lovecraft’s writing, and could often easily access other worlds and realities
I can’t believe you didn’t mention ONCE the fact that The Sludge Field is a concentration camp copied by the terrifying WWI german ones and the diary follows the exactly climax Primo Levi’s book has.
Thank you ! I just realized this. Cant believe it wasn't mentionned.
for the eyes in duskwood, there is actually a spirit beast that spawns in those bushes and is stealthed, so you must use flare or otherwise detect him. his name is lightning paw
Hope Hiru read this comment, I got some fillings for list.
Stormwind vision -
one of these videos I saw about group of kids in goldshire who does some ritual everyday 7pm. They always move as pentagon shape.
My friend said those are the children in Cathedral district in vision. Celebrating a sacrifice I think.
Explosive sheeps - as you mentioned about those sheep's in Warcraft, we discovered who's behind it in wow legion. Arcane mage hidden skin quest senario we found who's been doing this. And we help sheep to avenge it.
Glowing eyes - this is also my friend showed me. These eyes refering to a hidden hunter pet in game. A fox pet.
Nice video. I would have the Karazahn Crypts (Upside Down Sinners) as number one or two, not as intriguing as the Stalvan tale but that flooded chamber is creepy as hell!
A kind of creepy thing is in exiles reach. You need to do a class quest for shamans (if you are a shaman) to talk to a ghost wolf. He will tell you his pack has been captured but first you need to burn a plant on the island. Once your burn the plants. After this you will see tons of human ghosts surrounding the camp. Their heads will always follow you. You can also find them near the other ghost wolfs. It is kind of unsettling and creepy.
Tanaris one really reminds me of Dyatlov Pass incident. Too many similarities.
Yo I had that same thought haha 😂
"ESTAVELL LODGING CAMP"
im not gonna like, i got a little upset when i heard him pronounce EASTvale LOGging, "ESTAvell LODGing" the way he did....
@@mushroomtip11 It's a trick many youtubers use to create engagement. You see the more people comment on a video, the more it rises in trending, and there is therefore a greater chance it will be recommended to more people. One of the best ways to make people comment is to mispronounce names and other things. Especially when talking about subjects from a fandom such as WoW. I've noticed it with others too, one example is Bellular.
Also notice how Hiruma mentions how his old video don't really hold up to his standard, at the end of this video, which will most likely get a whole bunch of people to go watch that one to compare, and then comment on that video that it wasn't so bad after all.
The same thing happened a couple of months ago with straw polls here on UA-cam. Someone discovered that the polls, if they were engaging, really made the channels rise in views. So the polls would often be about a very loaded subject, or ask the viewers to vote for some character, but intentionally leave out obvious choices so that angry fans would comment like crazy about how the maker of the poll had forgotten to include this or that character. It's all marketing.
The legend of Stalvan, along with the quests chains in Duskwood, are one of the best writing of quest chains in Vanilla WoW. Especially when you play this zone and take time to read the quest chain... 15 years ago.
I remember it took me 3 full days to quest-travel-read the quests, and to finally become my personal favourite zone...
Then, I mained Horde, and couldn’t get back to this quest... although the rewriting of Silverpine forest quest chain after the Cataclysm was the cherry on the cake in storytelling
Do more of these updated lists! This was great! I'm going to look into the darkmoon faire one asap, since it's going on this week!
god, the story of stalvan mistmantle never fails to make my skin crawl. as a girl and a minor myself, it just brings up all the fears i have of adults looking at me like... that... or ending up being groomed by someone and not even noticing. it's such a real fear, so... just so paralyzing that one day i might have a stalvan. one day some adult man could potentially decide that I'm the most beautiful thing he's ever seen and when i tell him no... he just might get mad like stalvan and do something horrifying to me or people i love. the world is a horrifying place and this questline captured exactly that so perfectly. the voice you read it in just makes it creepier. blizz wrote that story and those quests so well, i just wish i didn't have to get on my classic toons to experience it for myself.
It's a one in a million chance don't get too worked over it. Our modern western world is the safest women have been in history.
RIGHT I CANT BELIEVE THEY MADE A QUESTLINE THATS SO REAL!! Be safe man, and never be afraid to speak out
Is this the reason you mentioned on twitter about you hate your older videos?
Won't lie, watched the other one again after this and still think it's of great quality! Don't hate where you've come from my friend, it only made you better :D
"The most beautiful female npcs at the time" don't worry hiru, we all know you love vulpera
Lol ikr i was thinking what he ment at the time
Apparently the thing about those bushes with eyes in them in duskwood is where a spirit beast fox spawns that hunters can tame. It is also apparently stealthed so most people won't see it.
i remember watching the first video and it has become a strong memory for me, almost nostalgic, love that you decided to update it :)
I never realized the Tanaris lay out. As an alliance, I'm pretty much there just for ZF and Cooking quest. It's actually a really nifte design chioce. I like the commitment!
Awww, you missed one Easter Egg of the Karazhan Crypt. While not exactly in the "creepy" motif of the video, there's one part of it called "The Upside Down Sinners" which is a nod to the John Carpenter Film "Big Trouble in Little China" where one part of the film found the protagonists in an area called "Hell of the Upside Sinners". That's not the only Big Trouble in Little China Easter Egg in game either. The trinket "Six Demon Bag" is another direct nod to the movie since it's directly mentioned by another main character by having "Wind, Fire, All that kind of thing!", which is the flavor text on that trinket.
The designers certainly liked that movie. As they should, it's a classic!
The eyes in the bushes in duskwood used to be nothing but now they are a spot where the hunter pet lightning paw spawns. Great vid as usual.
There's the Spirit Beast in Dark Shire, Lightning Paw that's hidden amongst the glowing eyes.
i was saying that when he went over that part of the video! it is one of my favorite hunter tames besides some of the now unattainable ones like the werewolf guy or the ghost wolf with the sword stuck in its head
@@haunter6947 there was a werewolf tame?!? That’s awesome. Did it stay like that if you tamed it before they patched it?
@@JustADucky i think so, but it got nerfed hard, still a cool tame tho
Not "uncoth" it's pronounced "un-cooth"
I absolutely love things like this. Exploring in wow is more fun than anything else for me
Croakoan I think is a reference to "crotoan" which is an urban legend about a very early settlement here in the colonies. Dark stuff if you look into it
Reforged means making things worse, this is even better!
Started watching again while I play WoW SoM and I just started the Stalvan quest chain. I was thinking “man this name sounds so familiar” BOOM! Hiring talked about it and now I get to see it through😄also keep up the great content. I go back and watch old vids often
Scariest part of the video is how Stalvan and Eastvale are pronounced.
I feel like he might have mispronounced "Eastvale" on purpose this time because the first time around he butchered it completely. So it might have been a nod or he just can't read the word "Eastvale".
Or Theresa too
Ester vale lodging camp xD
Stalvan, Eastvale, Giles, uncouth... there were a few that threw me. Honestly it bothered me but I give him a pass since he’s doing all this research for these vids that as long as we know who he’s talking and where I try to ignore it.
@Someguy136 - And, of course, Eastvale Logging Camp, Stalvan Mistmantle, etc., are all part of "the outside world".
In an unrelated creepy fact. I noticed that when I was leveling at the start of the month with my alt, a large crowd of Spiders just spawn and died after a while at almost midnight. I felt really creepy because that happened twice in unrelated places and one day after the another.
If you have Mylune as companion (Druid class hall) random critters will follow you around Legion zones. Maybe that's what you saw?
@@cabrondemente1 Nope I was leveling a Shaman first time happened at IronForge and second time at Outlands
It might've been due to someone using the Haunting Memento on you.
The quests in Classic felt like it's a living (or unliving) world. Things are connected by story and travel.
With new expansions that isn't doable since most of the zones are highly disconnected from the parts of the World we love (EK and Kalimdor). Yet sometimes like in Val'shara with the Gilneans they try to connect it again.
Sadly the times of fresh world exploration in WoW are long gone... i wish they could learn from other games that exploration and gaps while leveling are a great choice. (refering to Genshin Impact)
WoD was great because the zones were huge and had a lot to them with many open fields to explore.
Agree mate! Really enjoyed playing Genshin Impact so far, just exploring, getting distracted by side activities and so on. There is a lot to do even without progressing the story, and it still feels meaningful and not like just a grind.
Imo WoW zones should be a bit more spaced out and not every single inch of them should be covered in quests, hostile mobs and theme parky details. Yes BFA zones were neat and beautiful, but after doing them once you've seen every corner and there isn't much more to see, where as in Vanilla big parts of the zones are left untouched and free for the player to explore on their own.
Also the travelling from place to place and random (sometimes very simple) side stories you uncover along the way add depth and scale to the world. Massive lore heavy linear questlines and expansions having a huge overarching theme and story kind of make me care less for the world, because it's like a roller coaster ride that you get thrilled about only once. I've gotten tired of every expansion and their zones so far, but EK and Kalimdor never seem lose their charm for me..!
If you head to Arom's Stand in Drustvar, there will be a statue. Walking up and past the statue will cause the statue to turn its head and stare at you before resetting the position. Very creepy and would suggest giving it a look!
Watching your videos has made me consider coming back to wow again after not playing since about 2009 or 2010.
Shadowlands is a great time to return! Best Expansion in ages
dope video man, keep it coming
One thing that you forgot in the vision of stormwind is the demonic children from Goldshire, they stand with the orphans of stormwind over the corpse of the orphanage matron.
When I did the quest with the buried humans in the sludge fields, there was no helpful popup text to show you your two options. Since right click is the typical interact button in WoW, I ended up smashing in all their heads assuming it was just how the quest was supposed to go. Morbid, but it's a Forsaken quest hub after all. Then at the end of the quest I found out that I'd had the option to dig them out... I still have the shovel it gave me as a reminder of what I did 😩
Edit: oh yeah, and shout out to the horror reference! there's a movie called Motel Hell from the 80's that involves a twisted family planting victims up to their necks in the ground to "grow" them for harvest :) worth a watch!
Orphan's Week, its creepy when you think about it
Holy crap the Theresa Fable reference is so cool. The first Fable is still one of my favorite games of all time.
My speculation on the Erinys, is that it is the ring that turn anyone into the creature (Erinys), one evidence is the lore on the quest item when you pick it up. "Deep gash marks indicate that whatever once wore this ring tried in vain to remove it." The name of the item is "Ring of Promises" while the toy is "Ring of broken promises". Chester probably lure in people with the ring, kidnapped them to the cave and force the ring on them using that weird device found in there. He probably also use the device to make the rings, note, Chester use a dk human model meaning he is already an undead.
Background music is so calm, love it. Good night all who watch at 2 am. Going to rewatch the vid tomorrow again
Pretty sure those karazhan crypts weren't used in any legion artifact quests, there was some other door by the river that was used.
But they were used in the riddle quest for the nightmare horse mount. In the last part you have to go into the old crypts
They were used for the demo hidden quest iirc. I know it was warlock though.
Really.. REALLY good video. I Love it. The only gripe I have is the butchering of some of the locations or character names, but that's a needle in a haystack. Can't wait for more.
The legend of stalvan: Hi Elliot rodger here, its the day of retribution.
Hahahahahahahahaha dear god
The hairless horseman is the creepiest thing in wow
What's the problem if he is hairless?
@@MrPenetroso xD
fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.
fuzzy wuzzy had no hair.
fuzzy wuzzy wasnt very fuzzy, was he?
U mean asmon
Fun Fact (sorta): Several of the named NPCs during the Sludge fields questline are from pre-Cata Hillsbrad Fields. As a Horde Character you killed most of them as part of a quest chain. Farmer's Ray, Getz, and Kalaba are all killed as part of the quest, as well as Clerk Horrace Whitesteed who has the journal you find for the backstory.
As a nice little bonus with the Legend of Stalvan Questline; Around the same level as you get the Legend of Stalvan Questline you can get the quest A Noble Brew in Stormwind, which has you pick two flowers, one in Duskwood called the Tear of Tillao at the manor where you also kill Stalvan.
Top 10 creepy things in wow:
Number 10: lobotomy and human experimentation
Number 9: FROG
That cat eating the guy in the visions is terrifying
there was a half buried shield at that camp in Tanaris which has arrows stuck in it. Most likely they were attacked, possibly 2 times, defending the first attack off but not the 2nd.
First one with Theresa could also be an Easter Egg/Reference to Fable, where your sister (Theresa) is a powerful hero and blindfolded after Twinblade cut her eyes out
they weren't travelling, the teamster who has their luggage headed for Auction in SW mentions that the murders took place at the summer cottage in Elynn (and their graves are outside of it), and that it took weeks to clean the all the blood up from the premises to get it ready for sale.
The Ray-Getz-Kalaba Monstrosity was that "something Terrible" that happened to them.
Even knowing about most of this already Its a real treat to listen to them explored. I Hope you do more of these.
Well edited video, much much better than the last one years ago!
I think the Theresa NPC in Undercity is a reference to Gerald's Game from Stephen King
that makes no sense.
@@PJSM94 Her name is Theresa, his name is Gerald. Gerald in the book was kind of sadistic like the NPC counterpart. If u think this makes less sense than the example given in the video then I give up :)
I could listen to you read stories all day long.
one of the first videos of yours i ever got to watch, got a reboot.
Love your work, keep up the good work m8 ;)
Idk if anyone else have commented on this, but #1 is most likely inspired by the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The name Tilloa being an amalgam of Lolita. The novel is about a college professor, Humbert Humbert, who falls in love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter whom he eventually kidnaps. So pretty much the same theme of an older scholarly man falling in love with a child.
I never get tired of these top 10 wow videos ❤️
Fun fact Hiru for the frog one is the number 4 is considered the number for death. So that may be a hint for that easter egg.
This is some seriousness, Warcraft could really use more of today
This video is so damn good. Bravo.
standing ovation clapping.. great job!
I'd like to see a video of the 10 most strangest, weird,, hilarious "etc"names for weapons, items, NPC for anything really