Shadowmoon Valley

Shadowmoon Valley is found in southeastern Outland, east of Terokkar Forest. It is the location of the Black Temple (where resides), and also houses a dwarven settlement named after (and led by), as well as the prison where Illidan's former jailor, , is held captive. It is one of the darkest, bleakest and most fel-affected regions in the Warcraft-universe. The sky is always black and ghastly yellow, lightened up by the never-ceasing rain of infernals.

History
In addition to being the location of 's Black Temple, the region gave name to 's Shadowmoon Clan, who once had their holdings there. Prior to destruction of Draenor, the north shore of the region was known as the Skeletal Coast.

Worldofwarcraft.com says the following about the Shadowmoon Valley:


 * This valley is a grim spectacle of demonic magic run amok. Day and night, molten fel energy erupts from the land and lights the sky with bilious green flame. To the east lies the Black Temple, Illidan Stormrage's seat of power. With the Dark Portal reopened, Illidan and his allies struggle to hold off Legion reinforcements and keep all other Outland portals closed.

Geography
Shadowmoon Valley is a barren wasteland of rock and ash, with little vegetation. The Hand of Gul'dan volcano dominates the center, from which green lava erupts.

The Alliance and Horde each have a settlement here, as do the Aldor and Scryers.

The valley contains one raid instance (the Black Temple) and several elite areas.

Maps and subregions




Elite areas

 * Eclipsion Fields
 * Crimson Watch
 * The Path of Conquest
 * Ata'mal Terrace
 * Invasion Point: Cataclysm

Travel hubs

 * Wildhammer Stronghold
 * Shadowmoon Village
 * Altar of Sha'tar
 * Sanctum of the Stars

Notable characters

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Resources
Herbs
 * Felweed
 * Nightmare Vine
 * Dreaming Glory
 * Terocone
 * Mana Thistle

Leather
 * Crystal Infused Leather
 * Fel Scales
 * Knothide Leather
 * Knothide Leather Scraps

Metals
 * Fel Iron Ore
 * Adamantite Ore (both normal and rich veins )
 * Khorium Ore
 * Nethercite Ore
 * Eternium Ore (found when mining the other metals' nodes above, even Nethercite )

Cloth
 * Netherweave Cloth

Dig sites
 * Illidari Point (Trade archaeology draenei artifactfragment.png draenei)
 * Eclipse Point (Trade archaeology draenei artifactfragment.png draenei)
 * Coilskar Point (Trade archaeology draenei artifactfragment.png draenei)
 * Warden's Cage (Trade archaeology orc artifactfragment.png orc)
 * Ruins of Baa'ri (Trade archaeology draenei artifactfragment.png draenei)
 * Dragonmaw Fortress (Trade archaeology orc artifactfragment.png orc)

Other
 * Felmist &rarr; Mote of Shadow - Can only be harvested by Engineers with a Zapthrottle Mote Extractor.