Why the new Map makes sense.

[Destinas]

Islands don't float, and the idea that an island would dramatically shift its location via hundreds, if not thousands, of miles is asinine in nature and scope.

Q: Will we be hearing from any of the old or neglected human nations in Cata, specifically Stromgarde, Kul'tiras, and the remnants of Alterac (hey, Deathwing paraded around as an Alterac noble before)?
A: With the revamp of the classic World of Warcraft zones, players will get a chance to see how the fallen nations of Stromgarde and Alterac have fared over the last few years. Kul Tiras, the island nation, will not be visible at the start of Cataclysm – something about tectonic plates shifting it out to sea....

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/1...swers-round-1/
Granted, this is old information now, but it's the best we have about Kul Tiras from Blizzard.

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Thats actually pretty interesting. Seems like it fits a lot better with everything else.

Although it looks kinda choppy because everything else is still missing and/or proportions are kinda off.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Sorta related: do we even know where Kul'Tiras is in light of the new map? Fourteen years since WC3 came out and we still don't know where Jaina's homeland is (must be faraway to have avoided the destruction of the past decade and a half of crises, as if it was powerful enough to defend itself from said crises it'd practically be a superpower rivaling that of the Alliance and Horde and that's not what we have heard).

[Kambyara]

that one looks better

[Gigglepower]

Kinda off topic but Teldrassil was really close to nordrassil in pangea

[Zulkhan]

Kinda off topic but Teldrassil was really close to nordrassil in pangea

Teldrassil didn't exist until WoW.

[Bullerick]

Nice post. The lore of the Broken Isles changed a lot as before it was literally a bunch of islands close to one another that were abandoned with a few left behind demons and some undead orcs from ancient times (Warcraft 3 lore). But now they've sorta made it full of different kingdoms with a ton of lore, which is fine.

[shoc]

Teldrassil didn't exist until WoW.

Technically, after the sundering there was an island called Kalidar off the coast of Darkshore, which is where Fandral planted the seeds to grow Teldrassil.

[Bullerick]

that one looks better

Haha if that's the proper scaling, then the wandering isle has about a football field of (at least 2D (since people with lungs live on it)) space to move around

[Zulkhan]

Technically, after the sundering there was an island called Kalidar off the coast of Darkshore, which is where Fandral planted the seeds to grow Teldrassil.

Sounds fair.

[Kathranis]

Haha if that's the proper scaling, then the wandering isle has about a football field of (at least 2D (since people with lungs live on it)) space to move around

It's bigger than the Timeless Isle...

[Sanguiris]

Nice post, interesting.

Northrend looks almost connected to broken isles.

Like they are part of the same "region"?

Yeah seems the shallow water is circling both continent.

[Kathranis]

Reposting since it got lost in the 100+ page thread:

Since they've all already been seen, for the most part, I thought there'd be no harm in uploading (low resolution) copies of the maps in the book, particularily for those who purchased the physical copy and want to see the maps without the crease.

The Black Empire

p.34-35, "map of Azeroth under the Black Empire's control"

Ordered Azeroth

p.44-45, "map of Azeroth after the fall of the Black Empire"

Aftermath of the Aqir and Troll War

p.76-77, "map of Azeroth after the war between the trolls and the aqir"

The Night Elf Empire

p.96-97, "map of Azeroth at the height of the night elf empire"

The Sundered World

p.108-109, "map of Azeroth after the Sundering"

The Troll Wars

p.128, "map of Amani troll, human, and high elf territories in the Eastern Kingdoms"

City-States of Arathor (Human Kingdoms)

p.143, "map of human territories in the Eastern Kingdoms"

Dwarven and Gnomish Lands

p.157, "map of gnome and dwarf territories in the Eastern Kingdoms"

[Bullerick]

It's bigger than the Timeless Isle...

What do you mean?

[Garkanh]

The Warcraft Chronicle was written and drawn exactly to avoid this kind of mess up:




They need to fix up the new ingame map, it's just bad that the Chronicle isn't out officially and we already get this major mistake.

i just wonder how eversong woods can seem so warm and comfy, when the area is more north than wintersprings, or at line with the southern part of stormpeaks and icecrown.

[Combatbutler]

i just wonder how eversong woods can seem so warm and comfy, when the area is more north than wintersprings, or at line with the southern part of stormpeaks and icecrown.

The elves enchanted the entire forest, otherwise it would be cold up there.

[BobAwesome]

i just wonder how eversong woods can seem so warm and comfy, when the area is more north than wintersprings, or at line with the southern part of stormpeaks and icecrown.

Well, you could go with the Elven Magic answer, or you could look to real world examples of places like the British Isles where due to how the ocean currents work, does not receive nearly enough snow as other places on the same latitudes.

[Zulkhan]

i just wonder how eversong woods can seem so warm and comfy, when the area is more north than wintersprings, or at line with the southern part of stormpeaks and icecrown.

"Magic did it" most probably, the elven lands in general always looked too perfect to be true.