CreatureClassicRetailClassicForever

C'Thun: Your Courage Will Fail

C'Thun whisper about your courage, as named in the client files.

Art: Temple of Ahn'Qiraj loading screen · Blizzard Entertainment. Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, C'Thun's prison

0:00 / 3.2s

Download MP3MP3 ~173k · 67 KB iPhone ringtone (.m4r)iPhone ringtone .m4r · 3.2s OGG / DiscordDiscord soundboard .ogg · fits ≤5.2s

How to install it on a phone, Discord, Windows or a stream

Where you hear it

cthunyourcourage.ogg is one of the whispers of C'Thun, the Old God imprisoned beneath the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. The line shown is the whisper as named in the client files; the copy on the current retail CDN is blanked, so this file was taken from the Classic Era client, where the same FileDataID is intact.

TriggerOne of the Old God C'Thun's whispers, sent to players in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.

Your courage will fail.

In the game client

Client path	`sound/creature/cthun/cthunyourcourage.ogg`
FileDataID	546626
Expansion	Classic
Game versions	Retail, Classic, Forever
Duration	3.2s
Sample rate	22,050 Hz
Channels	Mono
MP3 size	67 KB
M4R size	34 KB
OGG size	27 KB

Use it as

Notification sound

Plays once per alert, 3.2s from start to finish.

Discord soundboard

At 3.2s it fits the 5.2-second soundboard cap.

iPhone

Tap iPhone ringtone (.m4r) above and choose Download.
Open the Files app, go to Downloads and open the file.
Tap Share, then Use as Ringtone (iOS 26).
Pick it in Settings, Sounds & Haptics, Ringtone or Text Tone.

Full iPhone steps, including older iOS

Android

Tap Download MP3 above.
Open Settings, Sound & vibration, then Phone ringtone or Default notification sound.
Tap My sounds, then +, and pick the MP3 from Downloads.

Full Android steps, Pixel and Samsung

Discord

Download the OGG or MP3 above.
Open Server Settings, Soundboard, Upload Sound, and pick the file.
Name it and choose an emoji. You need the Manage Expressions permission.

Discord takes clips up to 5.2 seconds and 512 KB; this one fits.

Windows

Windows sound schemes only take WAV files, so convert the MP3 to WAV first (Audacity or any audio converter does it in one export).
Open Settings, System, Sound, More sound settings, then the Sounds tab.
Pick an event such as Notification, click Browse, choose the WAV, then Apply.

OBS alert

Download the MP3 above.
In your alert tool (Streamlabs or StreamElements) set it as the alert sound file.
Or in OBS add a Media Source with the MP3, untick Loop, and fire it with a hotkey.

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