Great Sea



The Great Sea makes up the deep waters between the continents of Azeroth. Every single sea in the world connects to it. This stretch of sea is so vast you will die of fatigue before you can swim any significant distance. Some say that somewhere within the Great Sea are lost islands still to be explored, and mysterious places such as the Maelstrom, the Broken Isles, and the Undermine await travelers in the future.

When the Horde ravaged the Kingdom of Azeroth and killed its advocate, King Llane, Anduin Lothar rallied his countrymen and charted their retreat across the Great Sea — and onto the shores of Lordaeron.

The Great Sea did not exist prior to the Great Sundering. After the Well of Eternity was destroyed and Kalimdor was split asunder, the waters that filled in the void became known as the Great Sea.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
The Great Sea will be visited during the third expansion.

The goblins of the Bilgewater Cartel have been forced to escape the isle of Kezan because of the upheaval caused by Deathwing's emergence from the Elemental Plane that eventually caused Mount Kajaro to erupt and eventually were shipwrecked on the Lost Isles after getting caught in an Alliance-Horde crossfire.

Adventurers have also visited Vashj'ir, located deep underneath the Great Sea and is the location of the gateway to Abyssal Maw, the elemental plane of water.

Regions

 * Maelstrom
 * Kezan (1 – 5)
 * The Lost Isles (6 – 15)
 * Vashj'ir (78 – 82)