User:Thricej37/Nightmurk Hills

The Nightmurk Hills are located in the eastern part of Azeroth, east of the Burning Steppes, north of the Redridge Mountains, and south of Loch Modan. It is a gloomy, secluded zone isolated from the rest of Azeroth. While this remote zone used to be a pristine forest untouched by mortal races, it has become a dark shadow of its former beauty. Though the zone was protected from the titanic blast that scorched what is today the Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge by mountains, it did not escape the after effects. Ash and soot began to drift eastward from the volcanic zones, slowly blanketing the hills and forests. Now the entire zone seems to be covered in a shroud. A constant haze of ash hangs in the air, and what little vegetation manages to grow in the feeble light is pale and lifeless. The trees are coated in a film of ash and the handful of ponds are clogged with soot. Few ventured here when the zone was green and vibrant, far fewer found a reason to visit once the ash descended. At least, until the Worgen came.

The isolated and virtually uninhabited zone was a perfect location for the Worgen to hide and begin rebuilding their race. While the landscape is dreary at best, the Worgen couldn't afford be too picky about where they made their home. Here they have flourished and built their mighty capital of Spyre. Aside from a few remaining spiders and crocolisks and a handful of determined Murlocs along the coast the Worgen didn't have much for company until recently. Driven out by the continuous efforts of Humans of Redridge Mountains to the south a few adventurous clans of Gnolls have recently settled in the Nightmurk Hills. Additionally, along the western mountains a few bands of Dark Iron Dwarves have begun popping up. The Worgen stand ready to drive these trespassers out as they fight to keep their new homeland safe.

Getting there

 * Horde:A series of caves known as the Flickering Dark run from Goldshore in the north underneath the Badlands to emerge in the northeast corner of the Nightmurk Hills near the coast.
 * Alliance:From the newly discovered Blackmaw Chasm in the Burning Steppes a series of caves will lead you into the southwest corner of the Nightmurk Hills.

Geography
There are no dungeons of any kind and no battlegrounds in this zone.

Most of the zone is lightly forested rolling hills. A few small ponds and rivers are present. The landscape is grey and dreary from ash. The zone is surrounded to the north, west, and south by mountains. The Forbidding Sea is to the east.

The Flickering Dark, a vast stretch of underground caves that earned their name by the ever-present streams of lava, is a sub-zone of the Nightmurk Hills that links the Worgen to the rest of the world.

Travel Hubs
Spyre

Resources

 * Cloth
 * Linen Cloth
 * Herbs
 * Peacebloom
 * Silverleaf
 * Earthroot
 * Leather
 * Light Leather
 * Ore
 * Copper Vein

Wild creatures

 * Carrion Birds
 * Crocolisks
 * Gnolls
 * Moths
 * Murlocs
 * Spiders
 * Wolves
 * Worgen