Darkspear islands


 * Were you looking for the Darkspear Isle, the new home of the Darkspear trolls?



The Darkspear islands were the former home of the Darkspear tribe near the Maelstrom in the South Seas. After Hakkar and his priests were defeated the first time, the remnants of the Gurubashi empire split up, and the Darkspear tribe set off to claim their own lands, or possibly reclaim them (hinting that they settled on these islands at a previous point).

An area on one of the islands is called First Home. It was filled with loa.

During Thrall's expedition, he was shipwrecked on one lone island somewhere in the South Seas that was close to the Maelstrom. It was here that he met the Darkspear trolls and saved them from zealous murlocs, thereby enlisting them as members of the Horde. Thrall and his orcs were fleeing from a human internment camp when they crashed into one of the Darkspear islands, near the Maelstrom.

When Thrall got the the islands, he found that he Alliance had set up a small outpost on the island, and Thrall was forced to destroy it in order to help out the Darkspear trolls who had been harassed by the forces. The island also had ogres, wolves, golems, gnolls, and lizards. Thrall found active volcanic vents which he thought may mean trouble in the near future.

Soon after they were captured by murlocs and were taken underground. Under the island was an underground cavern system called the Underworld which served as a prison, mine, and temple for the Underworld Minions and their goddess the Sea Witch. Her minions included murlocs, ghosts, a tome wraith, sludges, skeletons, spiders, golems, and gnolls. Murlocs would kidnap races and take them into the cavern to be sacrificed to their goddess. Thrall fought his way out and the Darkspear's leader, Sen'Jin was killed.

The island was destroyed by the Sea Witch and her murlocs, and began to sink. Thrall was forced to hold off the murloc forces and the sea witch until he could get everyone off the island. The Darkspear refugees had lost their homeland — which had sunk to the bottom of the sea — and they agreed to travel to Kalimdor with Thrall. The alliance between the Darkspear and the Horde thus began.

A part of the Broken Isles?
It is possible that the Darkspear islands was a part of the Broken Isles due to their location. If this is the case, it means the Sea Witch did not succeed in destroying all the islands, as Maiev Shadowsong later stepped upon the Broken Isles in her hunt for Illidan Stormrage.