

Soon, the storm will prove too much and the islands will sink back into the sea. The Maelstrom's proximity makes the Broken Isles unstable.

The Maelstrom's magical storms lash the Broken Isles, making for near constant winds and rainfall and, occasionally, something stranger. The Maelstrom is just northwest of the Broken Isles. Also, a few goblin merchants have managed to carve out some spaces for themselves with the help of hired mercenaries. Other threats are abundant as well: giant turtles, hydras, wendigo and a host of other dangers occupy the areas the naga are not. The Death Hiss tribe of naga dominates the region, led by Tide Priest Harash. The Broken Isles are an unpleasant and dangerous place. For having been underwater for the better part of ten millennia, they look pretty good. Other Kaldorei ruins, remnants of their culture from 10,000 years ago, stand on the other islands. Gul'dan was searching for the tomb of the fallen Titan Sargeras, and indeed he found it: The ancient Kaldorei structure stands on the largest isle. They were underwater until a scant few decades ago, when the orc warlock Gul'dan raised them from the ocean floor.

The Broken Isles include about four large (relatively speaking) islands and about three small islands. The Tomb of Sargeras has been reopened and demons have began to pour into the isles.ĭungeons Main article: Instances by continent

The Broken Isles are a new continent introduced in World of Warcraft: Legion and are the main setting of the expansion. She thus placed his body in a titan facility underneath the sunken Temple of Elune, which would eventually become known as the Tomb of Sargeras. Īegwynn, the Guardian of Tirisfal, came to the island of Thal'dranath seeking a safe place to entomb the corpse of the avatar of Sargeras, knowing it still held power. The Sundering blasted a part of Suramar underwater, though the majority of the city was saved by the future nightborne thanks to a magical shield that shielded the city. Tyrande, Malfurion and his brother Illidan Stormrage also grew up there, along with Jarod Shadowsong, Captain of Suramar's Guard, and Maiev Shadowsong, a high-ranking priestess of the Sisterhood of Elune, also centered in Suramar.ĭuring the War of the Ancients, the Highborne night elves of Suramar, led by Elisande, used the Pillars of Creation to seal a gateway the Legion prepared to open in an attempt to overwhelm the Kaldorei Resistance on two fronts, but with the exception of the Eye of Aman'Thul (which they used to create the Nightwell within Suramar City) apparently scattered most of them throughout the other regions of the Broken Isles, just before the Great Sundering. It was here that the ancient forest of Val'sharah, home of Cenarius, and birthplace of druidism and its first mortal druid Malfurion Stormrage, was located, as well as the city of Suramar, where Tyrande Whisperwind was born. The Felstorm erupts from the Tomb, and the third invasion of the Burning Legion commences.īefore the Great Sundering, the region that would become the Broken Isles was a part of the Kaldorei Empire on Ancient Kalimdor.
