 Hello, everyone, and welcome back to enter the ether of the podcast all about the upcoming third person mobile ethereal clash of souls. I'm your host, the one and only a man goes joining me, as always, is the leader of the tin foil task force is jelly knees. How you doing, jelly? I'm good, man, goose. Happy to be here, man. Nice pose. This week, we have a special guest with us. We have the voice actress for Noxus, Sarah Dunham. Welcome, Sarah. Hello, thank you. Pleasure to be on the show. Thank you for having me. So, Sarah, why don't you tell us a little bit about what you do and who you voice and all that stuff, which we already know. I don't know why I said that. Yeah. OK, my name is Sarah Dunham. I am a voice actor and I've been working as a freelance voice actor for around about six years or so, give or take. And I always experience right on. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, experience, yes, but like nothing huge per se, except for maybe this game. Hopefully that'll change, yeah. Yeah, so I voice Noxus, powerful seer of light, yeah. OK, right on. So we're going to go ahead and talk about the new information that has been coming out from material and then we'll get into talking to Sarah all about voice acting. So the new information first, there was the big update that we always get on Fridays, but they've also been releasing a bit of the lore on Instagram. So if you're not following the ethereal Instagram, you can go there and get some of the Malaya lore with a few images tossed in there for good measure. I know a lot of people really are looking forward to the lore. There is a ton of lore for each character. I think you lore hounds are going to be very happy with that. But the update itself, I'm going to go ahead. Some of you have seen it. Jell, you want to explain it and then I'll show the video. All right, so the update is about day and night and weather on top of it as well. So the ethereal is going to have a day night cycle and there'll be there'll be four times of day, usually. It'll be day, dusk, night and dawn. And each one will have their own look to it of the map that they'll have various effects that we see in the video. Mangoes is about to show. And then they also talked about weather effects. So there's going to be things like snow, rain, some rare events that are going to be involved, which we kind of think we know some of them, but we're not 100 percent certain on. But each thing is going to affect the map, how it looks and potentially some items as well. We'll get certain bonuses during certain times of day or certain rare events. I think all right. And yeah, pretty quick, we can jump into the video. Yeah, you guys may have already seen it, but we we got the video with sound. So we got the ambient sound effects in the background now. So we'll go ahead and play that for you now. A lot of a lot of stuff going on there. Looked like we were following Marina. She had a bit of a saucy strut there. We were told that's not her her actual move speed. That's just they were just showing off the map without, you know, flying through it. So we've already talked about it quite a bit. Sarah, what was your impressions? Have you seen any of the map like this? Or did you know anything about the the weather or anything like that? I didn't know anything about the weather. That's a really, really cool addition. Coming from playing like a lot of survival type games where, you know, it's the your survival situation depends on the weather. It's probably not going to be that in depth. But even so, it's it's pretty cool. Yeah, especially if you say that some items might be interacting with some of the weather changes, that's really awesome. Yeah. And that's that's a good point too. That's one of the things that they were talking about is the I don't think the myths themselves will be all that affected by the just regular cycles, the day night cycle, but there will be items that do gain bonuses. And I don't think the weather is going to certain weather won't affect much, but the rare events will jelly those rare events. What do you think of those? I think they're incredible. We talked about it, like I said, a little bit the day of in the discord. So if you're not in the discord, join there. We talk about all this stuff a lot when it comes out. But we I mean, we figured out that it's probably there's a lunar eclipse, a solar eclipse, a blood moon or some kind of acid rain is a rare event. Some kind of super heat wave. I mean, like there's so many things that it could happen throughout the game. That's just a rare event. And it's I was talking to Kai about it and he said that each there is not a guaranteed chance to get a rare event in each game. You may go 10 games without seeing a rare event. And then suddenly it's a lunar eclipse that happens on the map. So it's going to be something very, very unique and rare. And if by chance you got two rare events in your game, then it's going to be two different ones instead of the same one twice. And that's going to add a lot to the skill ceiling as far as people being knowing how to take advantage of the certain weather events. I think that the blogs say that you'll know if you're going to get certain weather in the game. I think it's a how you would know. It seems like with some of the wording, it felt like you might have an opportunity to figure it out in some way, but it didn't quite go into depth about what that was. Yeah, really cool stuff. I can't wait to see it. And it looked amazing. Like we've seen pictures of the map. This is the first time we've seen anybody just straight walking around on the map. And there was a lot of just really incredible stuff there and just the different changes that you could see. I think my favorite portion of it all was at dawn where there were mist kind of like coming off the ground and it was like the lighting from the torches and that mist was. Yeah, it was good. Exactly. Incredible. Like that. And I agree with you. That's probably my favorite out of all the things they showed is just that scene because it captures the element of that time of day perfectly. Like it's just like street lamps putting off light and the distance. Like it just did such a good job of capturing that whole essence. Yeah. All right. That's about all I had to say on that. You guys, you guys good. You want to move into talking to Sarah about voice acting. I guess since that's why she's here. We talked about survival games. Well, that would be a very long topic conversation. All right. So Sarah, first question. So how did you become interested in voice acting to begin with? Well, I mean, I've always been interested in acting. Right. Since I was a kid, really all types of dramatic arts. Like I've never done on-screen acting, but it is interesting to me. Like theater stuff. Also, even just all sorts of ways of using my voice to express often fictional characters. Like my main interest is fiction. So it's about expressing art through your voice and your mind, you know, your creativity, what you can create and how you can bring those creations that sometimes you make or other people make to life with with your voice and your, your expression. And one day I just decided, you know, these people are doing it. So what if I can do it too? So I just gave it a shot and got myself a Blue Yeti microphone and just started auditioning for everything that I could find on like casting call club and all the, all the indie stuff they had out there back in the day. And just went from there really. So it's less about doing like an impression of something and more about creating your own voice for a character? I mean, I do like doing certain impressions. Like I was talking about Laura Post the other day. But for me, mostly it's about creating and giving life to something and really expressing that as a sort of combination through artwork, voice work and animation, I suppose. Yeah, you really brought it with Noxus. I am on record is saying that her voice lines are probably my favorite out of all of the voice lines is the delivery of them. Maybe not the wording, but the delivery of them is absolutely amazing. You like, you did a great job with Noxus. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, since we were talking about like some of the other things that you've done, where else can we hear some of your work, your work, Sarah? Well, it's not like a huge, like I said, I've not done like massive things. I'm not in a union or anything like that. But I've done a few audio books. That's on audible. There's the black rose volumes one, two and three, which I've always narrated for an author called Kristen Bone, I believe her name is. And a few various other titles on there. And I've also got a website which shows a few of my examples, Sarah Dunham vo.com. That shows quite a few of my stuff as samples and also links to various other places you can you can hear me. What type of books are those if you don't mind me asking? Okay. I tend to get stereotyped typecast into these sort of really depressing stories like dark because I've got that kind of deep and rich voice. So they really go for that. They really pick on that. Not as a bad thing as they pick on, but you know, I always tend to get cast as those types of voices, especially in narration. That kind of leads into the next question, which is, is there any commonality in the voices that you do? Yes. Yes, there always is. They're always powerful women, commanding women, sometimes seductive, sometimes light, you know, bright, boomy like Noxus or a paladin or cleric or something. Sometimes mysterious or sometimes just pure evil, which I've done. There as well. But they're always, always powerful women. I don't think I've ever voiced, except on maybe a rare occasion, like a submissive type of woman, always very commanding strong women. That's awesome. Now, do you prefer to voice like commanding strong women or would you like to like reach out and branch out into other sort of roles? I like the crazy ones like Jinx. I like to, I really, I really love to voice those characters because I feel like it, it stretches, it goes from the dark and nasty to something really fucking. Oh, excuse me. You could, you could, you could scratch that one out. Oh no. Fuck shit as hell. Damn. You can do whatever you want. Okay. Like shit. Okay. Yeah. That's really awesome. What are they saying? Yeah. Crazy characters. That's because I'm always doing the dark and nasty stuff. Crazy characters just feels like it goes from a completely calm and nasty place to something insane and crazy like Jinx. I can't get quite as high pitch as that, but I can get close. And it's so much fun to do. Right one. That's awesome. So for Noxus specifically, is there any like parts of your own personality that you kind of put into Noxus's performance or what, what does that feel like for you to perform as Noxus? I feel like, hmm, I feel like no matter what character you're doing, you're always injecting some kind of your own self into it. Like there's always some kind of you, even if it's only a tiny little piece, there's always some kind of you that's brought into the character. It has to be really in order for you to project yourself into it otherwise it's not believable. So yeah, yeah, there's always something of my own personality that I will inject into any character I voice. And with Noxus, I think probably the more playful lines like, oh, I do adore citrus drinks. And she's like, I just imagine sipping this really nice mojito. Oh, yes. That's rather tasty. Is that just chugging it down? I mean, I could just, yeah. Yeah, this is good shit. Mejito Noxus confirmed. We just need a Mejito Noxus's hand as she floats around, you know. Yep. There we go. I've been doing these mixed drinks based on myths. I was working on Malware, but I would have to make a Mejito for her. Yeah. That would be awesome. VA approved. Yes. Noxus Mojito. So out of all the voice, is that your favorite or? Actually, no, my favorite is the actually her intro line. The light reveals all. I feel like that one is it really says everything about her character and just that one sentence. Like she can basically illuminate all of the darkness and pierce through the deepest depths of darkness and reveal what's hidden. You know, I just feel like that one line on its own is so powerful and such a great introduction to the character. It's just fantastic. How would you classify Noxus? Because I was looking through your website. You classify a lot of like the voices that you do sort of like, you know, motherly ears or whatever. Like the feel I get from Noxus is that she's powerful, yet also sort of warm and protective at the same time. I don't know. How would you classify your Noxus voice? I would say if I would go on a deeper level, I would see her as like, I don't know if you've played any it's like classic RPGs and you have the, the stereotypical priestess of the light and she's like this warm, almost motherly, sometimes sisterly figure that sees all or, you know, sees a lot at least. And she's just got this bright, warm glow about her and she makes you feel at home. But also if you get on her bad side or if you, you know, you misstep, then she'll be there to correct you and perhaps even judge you with the powers of light. Yeah. It's, yeah, that's the kind of vision I have for her. That's rad. Did you choose Noxus or was she presented to you or like and her voice style, what, to walk us through that process of how you settled on the voice for Noxus and how she was presented to you? I auditioned for Noxus and I just went with the, the guidelines of, I think the guidelines were something similar to Kale from League of Legends, like an angel or something like an angel from Diablo, you know, powerful, powerful commanding female voice of the light, basically. So she's like, and I just, I went with that as a description and just use that as reference and set my audition in. Right on. You already mentioned quite a few games. So are you consider yourself a gamer? Do you play a lot of games? Yep. I play a lot of games. Most of my time is either gaming or reading, or mostly gaming and like series. I sometimes binge watch series unashamedly on Netflix. Yeah, gaming wise. I am a massive RPG fan. So I have literally hundreds of games in Steam, many hundreds I haven't touched, but. Sign of a true gamer right there, more games that you haven't touched than you have on Steam. Yes. I think last I checked, I had 300 something, but I think that's probably gone up to 400 something. Wow. Yeah, you got me beat. I mean, yeah, I've got so many that I'm like, I didn't even know I had this game. Like you go through your Steam catalog. I know you, that's the thing as a gamer, you love games so much, but as an adult, you just don't have the time to see this game. Yeah, you'll see this game and it'll be like, Oh wow, that's amazing. I want to play that. That looks great. And then you just don't touch it for like a year or two years or something. Especially on the sales. You're like, it's $5. I can pick it up now, play it whenever I have time, and then you never have time. Exactly. That's exactly how it is. Yeah, it's there. Yeah. But yeah, I love RPGs. Like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Classic's Plainscape Torment. Massive Final Fantasy fan as well, but mostly from like seven onwards, because I didn't really play the ones pre-play station. And I was actually joking with a friend on the subject of voice acting. I was joking with a friend of mine. I think it was yesterday or the day before about how I'd be able to die happy if I could land the voice of Edea or Ultimecia in the Final Fantasy 8 remake. I thought that would be freaking amazing. If I could just get that, I would be happy. I'd be super happy. Best of luck to you. I hope you do get it. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you. We'll see how it goes. If I can somehow see or get a chance to get a hold of the audition casting call thing, I'll definitely give it a go. Right on. Do you play any tabletop games? Yeah. Most recently, Pathfinder. Nerd. Yeah, I know. I'm just kidding. It's because I want to play, but I can't. I can't find a group. It's so hard to find a good group. The group that I'm playing with, we consistently miss week upon week, just because of a school. We know like uni and work and all sorts of other things getting in the way. So it's just the bane of being an adult. It's just too much responsibility. Unfortunately. We're all just children trapped in adult bodies. And it sucks. I think so. Yeah. I think the majority of us really are especially gamers. Yep. We just want to sit at home and play video games, but that whole work thing usually gets in the way. We can't. It's not possible. Damn, your responsibility. Exactly. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. So I mean, speaking of, you know, exactly. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. So I mean, speaking of the game, a theory, is there anybody that you've seen so far that you are drawn to and would want to play? Is that Noxus? Is that somebody else? What is that? Who is that for you? Probably Noxus. I feel like not only is she a good match to my voice, but she's also a very good match to how I would play a game. I usually like, actually Lux is a good example, League of Legends, Syndra as well. I love playing those types of characters. So Noxus is a great fit for me. It seems like a lot of people, like a lot of the people that we've talked to from UG, whenever you ask them who they want to play, it's always Noxus. Not always, but. Oh really? For the most part, yeah. So do you have any advice for people that are interested in voice acting, like any sort of resources or exercises they could do, anything like that? In terms of personal advice, for a start, if voice acting is something that you really want to get into and you feel like you've got the chops for it, you can give it a go. You really like it. I think first things first, you have to like it. Don't just do it because you've got nothing else to do, you know, because there have been a lot of people that have just like gone on a casting call club or something like that. You've got nothing else to do because of COVID, and they'll do it. And then like two weeks later, they don't want to do it. I mean, that's fine, you know, finding yourself, that's all well and good. But I'd say if you really want to get into voice acting, enjoy it first. And then after that, voice care, you must at all, it doesn't matter what the director says, you have to take care of your voice, moisturize your throat, you know, drink plenty of water, honey, honey, lemon, hot tea. Milk is actually on the contrary, I love milk, but milk is really bad for voice acting. Oh, really? Yeah, it does something, it makes you build up, something to do with the enzymes in the milk, it makes you build mucus. So if you have like a glass of milk before you'll be going throughout the entire session, and it's just not worth it. I'm going to start having a glass of milk before we record every week. You're going to start doing that? I'm going to start on that. It'll lower his voice just slightly, and then, yeah, we'll just... Yeah, excuse me, pausing every like five seconds. Excuse me. But yes, don't take risks. So no matter what the director says, like, I've heard horror stories from voice actors in Far Cry, I think, where they've screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed, and the directors have told them to keep going at different takes, screaming and screaming and screaming, and they've permanently damaged their voice because the director didn't tell them to stop. You know, they were expected to keep going. At least those are the horror stories I've heard, and I know for a fact there are voice actors that have blown their voices out because of games like that. Just take care of your voice. Be aware of what you're doing. If it hurts your throat, stop. If you're tired, stop. And after that, be confident. Be yourself. Have fun. And resources. Gravy for the Brain is the first one I would think of because that has almost everything you can think of there, like resources, rates, tips, guides, all sorts. I think it's just gravyforthebrain.com. It's really good. And Casting Call Club, which is risen from the depths of being a complete fan base. Like, you know, I think it was a completely free medium at one point with nothing attached to it. It was just people posting on a forum. But now it's huge. They've got their own branding. They've got their own theme. They've got all sorts. Casting Call Club is really good. Yeah. I'll put those links down there. Okay. Awesome. If there was any other myth in ethereal that you would be given the opportunity to voice, who would it be? There's one I want to say, but I can't because I don't think she's been talked about. So I'm not going to say it. Other than that, I think it would probably have to be because I auditioned for her before Noxus. But I didn't get it. It was pretty sad, but I'm still happy I got Noxus. Yeah, I was going to say, I had talked to Tri-Color Star a long time ago, and he had said something about originally they were going to use you for Leah and another voice actress for Noxus, and then they switched you guys up. Oh, really? I didn't know that. That's pretty cool because the current voice actress for Leah is really good. So I'm glad they selected her. But wow, okay. That's cool to know. That's going to go hunter down. I could have had Leah if it wasn't for you. You bitch. No. Maybe stirring up all the drama. And you know, I heard that's not what happened. Yeah, but yeah. So she would have been a great choice for me just because of the whole, again, she's like a strong, commanding, like druid, mother type figure. Yeah. I think that's about it for the questions we had and that's about it for the, for me fomenting discord amongst the voice actors of ethereal. So the new section we have here, where we go in and we talk about some of the, the fan myths. I'm going to abbreviate this a little bit. I think we went a little too long with this the last time we did it, but we're just going to go through this one is from sleepy ocean. Is that right? Yep, jelly. Yeah, sleepy ocean posted this yesterday, I believe for us. So being Saturday. So Altmar, the seeking scribe, if you want to look more into what his ideas were for this myth, just join the discord and you can find it there in the unofficial myth talk. So not going to talk about his lure, but his stats, we do have his base HP, which the stats don't matter much, but they do tie into the rest of this hero's kit. So you got the base HP and the base mana, which is 550 HP and. Oh, he has a range. Starting 550 and then base man is starting at 295. So his kit, so his passive void filled site. After hitting three abilities consecutively on the same target, he gains an AP shield with a 4% of his max health and 30% bonus AP that lasts for seconds and this will stack up if the shield isn't broken. Then the most interesting thing about this kid is his right click, which as we know in ethereal, all the right clicks are going to be some sort of risk reward type thing. And this right click is called shield strength hides decadence. And it's a stance switch. So the right click switches you into a stance, but the. And what the stance does is it costs 3% of your max health per second to be in this stance, but it also modifies all of your abilities with the exception of your ultimate. And then his abilities anima siphon the commands forward a cloud of dark magic dealing damage to all targets caught in his cone. But with the S if he's in the shield stance, it sends out a cloud, which after a half second will solidify into a platform with very high walls on each of its sides. So it kind of traps people in, but you have to be in that stance with that that deals damage to you. And then just real quickly phasing projectiles. It just summons three projectiles that he can aim. They fire off independently, but you can track somebody with your cursor to actually aim the spikes. But if it's in the other stance, they they the spikes appear and then fire upwards, which would be nice to hit some some some flying sky slayers there and the third ability oppressing light. Caging light can only be cast in combat cast a light central on an enemy myth. The schedule will create a bind between you and your link that will strengthen over two seconds. If after two seconds, the bind is still in range. A scroll is formed between you and your bind and all enemy targets in a straight line between you and your bind are pulled. So this is kind of a point and click pull, but you have to keep them in range for it to happen. But if you're in the other stance, you can target an ally with this. And then after three seconds, you create an area of light magic that heals all friendly targets for 75% of all damage taken by you during that time. So that's a pretty cool little thing you could do. And his ultimate witness your doom. This is a really cool ultimate. He infuses his power into an enemy myth. He goes untargetable for two seconds. And the myth is then filled with horrifying eyes fearing all other enemy units around it. So you go into an enemy, they get this aura around them that fears all of their friends around them. And then after leaving his host, you take 40% of their of the affected targets total AP for himself for five seconds. So anybody that was affected, he gets their attack power. So he would come out of this all just if he got plenty of people just super really overpowered just crushing people down. That's pretty cool. So that was just a brief overview of his abilities. Like I said, you can go into it. I think the coolest part of this particular kit is the right click being a stance switch that. I think that would really separate, you know, good players for bad players knowing when they can sacrifice that HP to get this, these bonus effects or different effects off of their abilities and when to use that. So jelly, what did you think of this? I think it's incredible. I agree with you. I think the right click is the coolest part and it would really separate the good players from the bad being able to quickly go in cast the ability and come out of it with taking as little damage as possible would be really cool. I also kind of love the like paladin-esque death paladin vibes we're getting from this character that that I just love that kind of thematic about characters in general. So I love seeing that here. But yeah, really cool overall. Serge, have any thoughts? Yeah, pretty much everything that you guys have said that was that was really awesome. Very, very unique kind of play style that probably, as you said, as opposed from separating the good from the bad, I feel like that would separate the good from the overpowered people, like the people with the crazy reflexes that are just like, what, what just happened? I can see that being really, really damaging. I especially like that ultimate being able to like, you're everybody or like, infest an enemy that would be really fun, I think. It's like a combination of Mordekaiser and Fiddlesticks or something like that. Yeah, had the exact same thought. I'm glad you said that, Sarah. I'm sorry. All right. And I think that's it. Do you guys have anything else to say about the myth? Thank you, Sleepy Ocean, for submitting that myth. All right. Cool beans. Let's get into plugs. Sarah, do you want to plug anything? Do you have anything going to one? Right now, there's a lot of stuff that's like, there's a lot of commercial stuff that's going on. Nothing really of at least a few jimbo that I can talk about. And so, no, I don't think so. Is there any way we can go to like, give you a thumbs up on your voice acting to let everybody know that we take care of them? Oh, thank you for saying it now. There is YouTube, but I don't really have many followers. There's a place where I can dump my voice stuff that's been uploaded to YouTube. Otherwise, I have a Twitter, which I sometimes use to reach out to people. It doesn't have very many followers again, but yeah, I use it occasionally. Twitter. What is my Twitter? I have to check. You can send it to me later. Okay. All right. I'll do that. I'll have everything down there. You guys know. You guys know the deal. Okay. Jelly, what you got going on? More YouTube videos. I mean, I've got some pretty big theory stuff coming out this week. We're only doing three videos instead of five. I decided to give myself a break instead of trying to crank a video out every day. Go burn yourself out, bro. A little bit, but yeah, more YouTube videos, live streams. From now on, I'm going to start live streaming the blog posts as they get put up. So if you guys are wanting to talk with other people about it, we'll come over to my channel. We'll live stream the blog post. Talk about it. Try and discover any secrets that might be hidden in there, but you know, that's, that's about it for me. What about you, man, goose? Not much going on. Just tick talk a little bit. Just did another cocktail video. I'm going to be doing that. The malware cocktail pretty soon. And apparently a mojito for Noxus. I'm interested to see what a malware cocktail cocktail would be like. I've got some weird ideas for it. I've got some weird ideas for it. We'll see if they work out. All right, guys, that is going to be it for this week. Thank you very much, Sarah, for joining us. Jelly, thanks for coming out as always. But I hope you all join us as we enter the ether. Man, goose.