Who is Veytharion & NEW Announcer on Astra Malorum DLC 1 Shadowsmith BO7 Zombies Ashes of the Damned
In Ashes of the Dams, we have a new demonic announcer solely needed after all of the years of the Forsaken as the announcer, which didn’t exactly make that much sense, especially come Modern Warfare zombies. But just who exactly is this new demonic announcer? What is their story? And how will this progress in future maps? All of that and more will be unveiled in today’s video, as we even have some DLC 1 Astromalum teasers for the main threat. So, hit like and subscribe and leave a comment below on your thoughts. And let’s dive into the story of this fascinating new character. Max, double points. Insta kill. A hero. This is what they called you. But that’s not true, is it? I envy you, mortal. Death is the only freedom here. A weaver of the fabric of this place from the memories it contains. I have always been here. I am a shadow smith. Prior to the launch of the game, there was some confusion from fans about just who was the announcer of this game. By the time the beta released, we had already seen the warden in the map’s intro cutscene. And so the assumption was that he was going to be the announcer too, especially because you see him on the game over screen, of which in past games, this would be typically where you would hear the demonic announcer laugh and taunt you, such as Samantha Maxis back in the day. I’ll play a clip of that now. In the map, however, the voice was quite different, closer to the Forsaken’s growl than the warden’s southern draw. But even then, it wasn’t Zikov. We even speculated he could have been Mephosophilles. That was until the game launched. With the full release of Black Ops 7, we learned that the warden was indeed not listed in the subtitles as the announcer with it instead just being attributed to announcer. Not uncommon, but in the map itself, we would indeed learn more about who exactly this was. As we progress through the main quest, we free a mysterious dark ether entity from a tightly sealed prison. And I will have a video out soon covering just who that entity is. This entity informs us that the warden has stolen a part of the character’s souls, their vital essence. And through this, he has power, dominion over them. However, Requum and our new original four and the only ones to have been ens snared by the warden. The warden in service to his shadowy motivations we still have yet to learn of has acquired the aid of incredibly powerful beings of the dark ether. These are not simply immortals that to a human may be seen as a god such as Sarrais, Cortex, Bellacar, and the rest. No, these beings are far older. In fact, they have always been apparently, which has crazy implications because we haven’t really ever heard such verbiage or similar verbiage used in a while. It’s only really been alluded to with, for example, the construct always watching over the dark ether and its inhabitants or even the keepers being described as Monty as always being there. Much like our good selves in the ether, these beings who have always been here in the dark ether are apparently known as the shadowmiths. characters first teased at the ending of Modern Warfare’s zombies and responsible for pulling Ava Jansen through the mirror with the warden interestingly appearing just before. These beings do not aid the warden willingly, mind you, but have been ens snared by him too. We can’t be certain exactly how the warden has managed to enslave these ancient beings, but seemingly through a different power than him taking the essence of the characters. Because as we learn from the entity in the main quest, our job is to restore the shadow smmiths by defeating them and thereby removing the warden’s bonds. Regardless, much like the player characters, the shadow smith would find it physically impossible to fight the warden due to his control in the exact same way that our characters would. This is where we come to the demonic announcer of the map, Varion. But before I jump into that, with Black Ops 7 recently releasing, I’m sure you need all the help in unlocking camos and levels. And that’s where the perfect service I have to share with you comes in. Stay tuned. Real talk, I was drowning in FOMO watching my squad flex ark light, singularity, etc. camos and high prestige ranks in Black Ops 7 whilst I was stuck grinding like it was my second job. Between my personal life, hobbies, and long hours scripting and editing content, I almost have zero hours to spare. Not enough time for repeating the same camo challenges over and over, getting smashed in sweaty lobbies full of cheaters and toxic teammates or the tediousness of zombies grinding. 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Links in the description. Click it, level up, and get back to enjoying Black Ops 7. Let’s go. And a huge thank you to them for sponsoring this video. I hope it helps you out a ton like it has done for myself. Diving back in, Varion, a shadow smith of ancient origin. He, as with the rest of his kind, have existed seemingly forever and have unparalleled abilities in the manipulation of the dark ether realm. He himself explains that he considers himself a weaver of its fabric and that the metaphorical threads of this fabric are memories. This is a revelation in of itself. As we have long speculated about the dark ether’s relation to memories, though, as I’ve mentioned in recent videos, this seems to have been a plot point that was dropped in favor of a more generic occult ideas of demons as we saw in Vanguard. I always thought this was a shame, as the idea of memories and dreams are far more in line with some of the cosmic horror themes that became iconic in the Ether story line, especially in fan favorites like Shadows of Evil. And so to see it abandoned in favor of something a lot more standard was a shame. Aside from I guess Ava Johnson’s hallucinations in Modern Warfare zombies. I received some comments in recent videos with people unaware of these ideas. So I’ll briefly cover them now. But if this is something you think deserves a full video, leave a comment below. Let’s jump into this intel. I have seen many things in my travels. For all its horror, there is beauty in this deep dark ether. The crystals, they take our memories. They make us forget who we were. But our memories do not fade. They are taken from us and form something new, something magical. Orbs. I have seen many in my time here. So many memories. So many stories to tell. Memories of a Russian scientist, of an American spy. There is one orb. It is different, special. It is like me. It can cross between worlds. It is filled with the laughter of a child. I may never learn who the child is or or what happened to them, but their memories are powerful. In isolation, this was interesting in of itself. But adding to the fact that the orbs are stated elsewhere in Cold War to be made up of primordial ethereum, we suddenly have an incredibly interesting picture. Primordial ethereum is almost certainly related, if not the same thing as prima materia. Therefore, these ether orbs we sometimes encounter are made of proto matter. The literal building blocks of the dark ether and everything else for that matter. And that proto is made from, you guessed it, memories. If we keep in mind the idea of the dark ether being literally made of memories, then suddenly we get a true grasp on just how powerful the shadow smiths are. If they are beings that weave memories in order to control the dark ether, like a master tailor pulling one thread to change the entire shape of a garment, then what they are actually doing is controlling a vast structure of prima material, shaping it to their will and doing so through the use of memory, which begs the question, could they even be responsible for the sensial artifacts considering it allows humans to wield the same power? But not only this, Tre have given us one additional revelation on this topic of memories, souls, essence, and the dark ether. The true name of whatever this thing, this force is, Spiritus. I’ll play the quote now. What’s this? I can taste your fear. A lost temple deep in the jungle. Something ancient slers there. Did your stumbling heat? Is that what I tasted on your spirit? Varion in the Dempsey side quest refers to sensing Dempsey’s trauma that he relives in the side quest when the shadow smith had absorbed Dempsey’s spiritus. This is simply the Latin word for breath. However, it is a term steeped in religious history. The word spirit today in English is associated almost entirely with ghosts and the like. But the word is actually the root of the word to respire, to breathe. We hear this in the iconic song I Live from Black Ops 3’s campaign and Shadows of Evil. Meaning, I live, therefore I breathe. I live. I breathe. I exist. What’s the point here? In religions all across the world, spirit and breath were always the exact same thing. In the Bible, as just one example, humans become conscious because God breathes life into them. The word breathe and spirit are interchangeable. For our new story line, this means to have to wonder just what breathed the soul into humans. We always assumed it was entirely a concept from the ether with souls just being ethereal energy. But the idea always felt a little halfbaked. Now, thanks to Varion’s insight, it seems like Treyarch might have taken the time to develop just what a soul is a little more. Think about it. In the ether story line, Monty taking the swords of our characters ensures they cannot fight against him. And another side effect is that their memory start to bleed between worlds and become confused. Now we see our characters lose their spiritist and as a result they have also lost their memories. With any luck, Treyarch will keep developing this. So then back to Varion in the map, both through the Dempsey side quest and through the boss fight, we can get the sense that everything he is doing is under duress. He genuinely does not want to be harming us, but based on his quotes, he seems like he’s just as genuine in his hopelessness. In the boss fight, he claims that he envys us as we will die, something he cannot do. That doesn’t sound like something that being happy in his duty would say. In fact, if we just consider what the Dempsey side quest actually is, he goes out of his way to compliment Dempsey’s resilience at the end of it, saying that while he knows Dempsey isn’t proud of his past, it’s what makes him a survivor. Dempsey, of course, retorts in his usual way, saying he doesn’t need a demon to tell him what he already knows. But at this point, Dempsey isn’t aware of just who he is talking to. In spite of aon’s attacks against the characters, his true nature shines through, one that earnestly wants to free them from the warden’s control and in exchange be freed himself. So why then is it that freeing them allows for the character’s essence to be restored? Well, as we’ve mentioned already, they are under control of the warden. We actually see the same white eyes as the warden has and similar to that of our characters on Varion, marking them all out as having been touched by the warden’s influence. By defeating them, it somehow allows for the warden’s control, perhaps briefly, to be broken, which in turn allows them to escape from where they are held. As we discussed, Varion clearly doesn’t want to be doing what he is doing. He just views the warden’s power as invincible. If it can defeat him, perhaps he believes nothing can stand against it. This is only head cannon, but I suspect that by us mortals defeating him, it snaps him out of the despair long enough for his true power to be accessed, allowing him to break free of the bonds placed by the warden, and he returns to his karma demeanor in a sitting position with neutral hand gestures like that of a monk. As to why Dempsey and Maya, the characters souls who first get restored on this map, I’m not exactly sure. I mean, Dempsey makes sense given the Dempsey side quest and the fact that the entity Varion interacted with him, but I’m not so sure. And it begs the question in the future DLCs, will they always be two souls getting rescued or will some maps be one, some three? We’ll have to see how it all plays out. As the dark ether is memory, and he weaves that memory, he can give that which was taken back to Mayer and Dempsey as if it was his and his fellow shadow smith’s power that the warden misappropriated in the first place to steal the souls. But again, why you choose to give their souls back and not the rest is uncertain. Again, it makes total sense with Dempsey, especially considering the fact that Dempsey’s origins are from Liberty Falls. And of course, part of the map is Liberty Falls with the Janis Towers. Dempsey also knows of the Vandons in his quotes, which could imply that Vanon farm might have even been from Liberty Falls. But as far as we’re aware, I don’t know if there’s any location on the map that is pulled from anything to do with Maya’s history. Anyways, Varion leaves in the ending cutscene, but claims we will see him again when fate demands. After we load back into the map, the demonic announcer has changed since he is gone and a new one takes his place. A play now. This is a fantastic bit of continuity from Treyarch. The kind that hasn’t really been present since Black Ops 3 where loading back into the map after the main quest was forced. There we had such great moments like the restored morg city, the destroyed earth in Eisendra, the blood vials appearing on the characters in setsima and so on. Monty speaking to the characters after the garage krovy quest and so on. Here they resurrect this trend. The new demonic announcer is a totally different voice female and sounds crazed. There is no possible way to mistake one for the other and so it is definitely a different character. Moreover, it’s also clearly not the entity. It seems incredibly likely that as a result of killing Varion, the shadowsmith responsible for governing this section of the dark ether, the next most powerful has subsumed that territory into her own and that she is the next enslaved shadowmith we will have to free in Astra Malorum DLC 1. What a great way to tease the map. Perhaps she will similarly be polite and cordial in her true form. But I’m considering that Treyarch may endeavor to make each shadow smith as different as our original four characters. And so we may be in for a surprise. We could be getting good ones. We could be getting bad ones. I would like to get a mixture of different personality types and emotions and also motivations for why they’ve even been enslaved by the shadowsmith. Maybe some are willingly helping and haven’t just been enslaved. If Aarion also teased returning at some point in the future, it does have me wondering if we defeat them all throughout the DLC. At the end, they all come together and maybe help us in a boss fight against the warden. That would be absolutely epic. Or even against the entity if she turns out to be bad all along. Perhaps this is looking too deep into it. But I am inclined to wonder. It does seem a little too convenient that the warden just happens to be looking away long enough to allow us to free a shadowmith, one of his most important assets. We don’t even know what the warden wants yet, let alone what the shadowsmith wants. And yet, we are willingly just accepting that he let us free one. If it’s truly the case that the shadow smith have dominion over Spiritus, the very building blocks of everything it seems, then we have to ask just how on earth did the warden, someone who is increasingly appearing to have once been a mortal man, best them. This might not be an uncommon thing either. After all, Zikov may well have done the same. But then we need to ask the same question. How can they be this powerful if they are so easily defeated? Adding more fuel to this conspiracy, the shadow smith’s eyes are still marking them as influenced by the warden as they don’t change. Mayo and Dempsey are totally restored to their old selves. So, shouldn’t we expect Varion to be as well? They no longer have the white eyes. It really seems to me that we are simply trading one immortal overlord for four. They may want different things, but they are all cut from the same cloth ultimately. The cloth that is the dark ether. All very very interesting prospects for what Varion may pose in the future. Will he continue to be an ally or will he turn back to threat or maybe somewhere more ambiguous in between. As to what the future shadow smiths are going to be like, I cannot wait. Varion is so different in his boss mutated corrupted form compared to his humanoid form. And I suspect that all of the shadow smiths are going to take absolutely completely different forms and we’re going to fight some really crazy entities and out there. But what do you guys think? Do you like the idea of a new demonic announcer every map? That’s crazy that Treyarch would go through so much effort to record all of the announcer quotes for potentially six different maps if it is to be believed that there’s going to be five DLCs according to the rumors. Maybe the warden will be the announcer right at the end. Or maybe if the entity ends up being evil, she could even be the announcer on the final map or penultimate map. What do you think about the tease of changing the announcer after the main quest? It has me wondering how they will tease it in future maps considering we will expect it. 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Timestamps:
0:00 BO7 DEMONIC ANNOUNCER(S) – WHO IS VEYTHARION?
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5:53 THE POWER OF THE SHADOWSMITHS DOMINION OVER SOULS
11:10 HOW/WHY VEYTHARION GIVES SOULS BACK
14:34 THE NEW DEMONIC WOMAN ANNOUNCER SHADOWSMITH IN ASTRA MALORUM DLC 1
16:33 The Shadowsmiths relation to The Warden (how is he controlling/so powerful?)
18:59 Patreon & Cameo