One vale
This is one enormous zone running roughly thirty to forty-five, top to bottom, and it was one of the first places conceived for the game — the concept art the rest of the look was built from. Cataclysm cuts it in half at a whirlpool. Northern Stranglethorn one side, the Cape the other.
The story hereAn empire killed itself hereFifteen hundred years agoGurubashi priests summoned Hakkar the Soulflayer and the empire tore itself apart in civil war. The Zandalari came and put him down.The surviving Hakkari fled north and built the Temple of Atal'Hakkar in the Swamp of Sorrows.Everything overgrown in this jungle is that empire's wreckage.Left here
Tari18d
Everybody remembers this zone for the ganking. Ride the coast road south once instead of the inland one and see what it was supposed to be.
The telling
Zone · Eastern Kingdoms
