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Illidan: Black Temple Prelude

Illidan Stormrage speaking in the lead-up to the Black Temple.

Art: Black Temple loading screen · Blizzard Entertainment. Black Temple, Illidan's seat

0:00 / 11.5s

Download MP3MP3 ~192k · 271 KB iPhone ringtone (.m4r)iPhone ringtone .m4r · 11.5s OGG / DiscordOGG Vorbis · 49 KB

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

Where you hear it

btprlude_illidan01.ogg is the first of three prelude recordings for Illidan Stormrage in the Black Temple, the Burning Crusade raid added in patch 2.1. These preludes are set apart from the encounter's combat lines, which use a separate 'black_illidan' naming. Illidan rules Outland from the temple, with Akama and the Ashtongue Deathsworn helping raiders reach him. His voice is intense and proud, with the bitterness of ten thousand years of imprisonment. The recording lasts just over eleven seconds.

TriggerThe first of three Black Temple prelude recordings for Illidan Stormrage.

In the game client

Client path	`sound/creature/illidan/btprlude_illidan01.ogg`
FileDataID	552494
Expansion	TBC
Game versions	Retail
Duration	11.5s
Sample rate	22,050 Hz
Channels	Mono
Loudness	-14.7 LUFS
MP3 size	271 KB
M4R size	149 KB
OGG size	49 KB

Other illidan sounds in the client

Illidan prelude 03sound/creature/illidan/btprlude_illidan03.oggFDID 552481
Illidan prelude 02sound/creature/illidan/btprlude_illidan02.oggFDID 552490
Illidan wing flap 3sound/creature/illidan/illidanwingflap3.oggFDID 552480
Illidan 18sound/creature/illidan/black_illidan_18.oggFDID 552482
Illidan wound critical 02sound/creature/illidan/black_illidan_woundcrit02.oggFDID 552483
Illidan 19sound/creature/illidan/black_illidan_19.oggFDID 552484
Illidan wound 01sound/creature/illidan/black_illidan_wound01.oggFDID 552485
Illidan 05sound/creature/illidan/black_illidan_05.oggFDID 552486

Use it as

Ringtone

At 11.5 seconds, Illidan: Black Temple Prelude is longer than a ring cycle, so start the ringtone at its strongest passage and cut it to about 20 seconds.

Notification sound

Over a text, an eleven-second speech is unmistakable, though at 11.5 seconds it is best saved for the alerts that matter.

Discord soundboard

The full Illidan: Black Temple Prelude clip runs 11.5 seconds, past a 5.2-second soundboard slot, so cut the most recognisable part.

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

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.