The Dragonblight

The Great Dragonblight is a graveyard of Dragons, located in Northrend. The entrance to the Nerubian kingdom of Azjol-Nerub can be found in the west, while the mysterious Wyrmrest Temple resides in the south. The Magnataur village of Bloodmar lies here also, as well as the ruined Taunka capital of Icemist Village, and the nerubian conclave of Sundered Monolith.

The bones are zealously guarded by Malygos and his Blue Dragonflight, but the rise of the Lich King and the Scourge allowed the undead to claim many sets of bones from the graveyard and use them to create Frost Wyrms for the Scourge forces. The Dragonblight was also the home of the first humans to fall victim to the plague.

Once this region was a thriving land, the most fertile in Northrend after the Sholazar Basin. That was long ago. Now it is a vast wasteland where even the snow and ice seem drained. Most of the Dragonblight is a single enormous valley. And it’s filled with bodies of dragons. Ailing and old dragons, from every dragonflight, from all over the world, come here to die. The ground is littered with dragons of all colors. Black and red and green and blue and bronze, they all lie here together, all their differences set aside in death. The mightiest creatures in the world, laid low by age and illness and attack. The land has never recovered, and never will. It weeps for its lost children, and remains barren in their memory. In effect, there are no particularly noteworthy happenings in the Dragonblight’s past, save the deaths of many dragons and the first use of the Plague to wipe out the native Humans.

Here dense forests surround a vast Arctic wasteland littered with the massive, gleaming bones of perished dragons. In the center of this frozen expanse lies Wyrmrest Temple, a structure believed to be built by the world-shaping titans shortly after Azeroth’s creation. Many legends hold that the five great Dragon Aspects were blessed within this fortress and given their charge to watch over the budding world. Perhaps it is for this reason that dragons nearing the end of their lives come to the Dragonblight to enrich the land with their passing.

Surrounding Wyrmrest Temple are five majestic dragon shrines: red, bronze, green, blue, and black, each blessed with the powers of its respective flight. In recent times the undead Scourge has laid siege to these shrines in an effort to further its attempts at raising terrifying new variations of undead dragons to serve the Lich King.

In an attempt to arrest these invasions, the red Dragon Aspect, Alexstrasza, has begun recruiting heroes to aid in the fight against the Scourge, even as the taunka and tuskarr wage their own desperate battles against the undead. The one-time Scarlet Crusade, now the Scarlet Onslaught, has arrived as well in the hopes of claiming victory in their ongoing campaign against the Lich King and his minions.

Both the Alliance and the Horde have begun establishing a presence in the Dragonblight, taking a particular interest in the barred entrance to Icecrown, Angrathar the Wrath Gate. There both factions have begun gearing up for the siege that will inevitably lead into the lair of the Lich King himself.

The immediate dangers of the Dragonblight are posed not only by the Lich King, however, but also by the blue dragonflight. Determined to manipulate all existing magic to serve his own purposes, the blue Dragon Aspect, Malygos, has ordered his flight to maneuver colossal machines into key positions over magical ley line clusters. Many believe that these dire constructs are intended to realign the paths of magical energy that course beneath the earth. If successful, Malygos’s tampering could result in an ecological and magical catastrophe that would threaten not only the stability of Northrend, but ultimately the equilibrium of the entire world.

Of the living, the most common creatures here are nerubians. The entrance to Azjol-Nerub sits near the north edge of the Dragonblight, just below Crystalsong Forest; and before the Scourge came the spider-men wandered freely through this region, moving among the dragon corpses without a care. Now those who survived the War of the Spider find refuge up here, using dragon bones for cover from Scourge patrols. They hatch plans to reclaim their kingdom but lack the numbers or the strength to succeed. Tauren live here as well, though only in one place. A pack of Icemist tauren settled on the west edge of the Dragonblight, on the shore of Lake Wintergrasp. They don’t venture into the blight proper very often, preferring the clean cold of the lake to this bitter air of doom and death. Scourge creatures wander through here all the time, looking for ways to use the dragon remains, or searching for any artifacts the dragons left behind. Since they can’t pass through Crystalsong Forest, the Dragonblight also provides the only route to the east of Northrend, other than scaling the Storm Peaks. Most of the Scourge creatures lurk near the northwest corner, close to Icecrown Glacier. Some blue dragons live here as well. They tend their fallen kin and pay their respects. The dragons live in Wyrmrest Temple, down toward the southern shore. They communicate regularly with their kin in Coldarra. It was also home to several Humans native to the land, who had build their villages there. They where eventually turned into Undead soldiers of the Scourge.

Dungeons

Name Level Encounters Description
Azjol-Nerub 72-74

5 Players

Azjol-Nerub, also known as the Spider Kingdom, is the vast underground empire of the arachnid Nerubians.
Ahn’Kahet 73-75

5 Players

This dungeon is a huge underground city serving as the home of the remainders of the once magnificent Nerubian Empire.
The Obsidian Sanctum 80

10/25 Players

The Obsidian Sanctum is the Black Dragonflight area of the Chamber of Aspects. It will hold one raid boss, Sartharion the Onyx Guardian, and his lieutenants Shadron, Tenebron and Vesperon.
Naxxramas 80

10/25 Players

  • Patchwerk
  • Grobbulus
  • Gluth
  • Thaddius
  • Noth the Plaguebringer
  • Heigan the Unclean
  • Loatheb
  • Anub’Rekhan
  • Grand Widow Faerlina
  • Maexxna
  • Instructor Razuvious
  • Gothik the Harvester
  • The Four Horsemen
  • Sapphiron
  • Kel’thuzad
Naxxramas is an entry-level raid instance floating above the Dragonblight, and is available in both 10-man and 25-man versions. It has the shape of a necropolis and has the questionable honor to serve as the seat of one of the Lich King’s most powerful officers, the dreaded lich Kel’Thuzad.

Towns

A/H Name Description
Stars’ Rest () Stars’ Rest is a small alliance settlement located south of Icemist Village
Fordragon Hold () Fordragon Hold is an Alliance fortress at the base of Angrathar the Wrath Gate, the gate to Icecrown Glacier, in the northern regions of the Dragonblight. Highlord Bolvar Fordragon commands the Alliance forces from this fortress.
7th Legion Front The 7th Legion Front is an area south of the Crystal Vice where the 7th Legion are located.
Wintergarde Keep () Wintergarde Keep is the main Alliance base in Dragonblight. The lower half of this tiered city is now taken over by the Scourge and the remainder is besieged by forces operating out of Naxxramas, which hovers in the skies outside of the keep.
Westwind Refugee Camp Westwind Refugee Camp is an area in the Dragonblight where Taunka’le Evacuee’s are sent to during The Fall of Taunka’le Village quest chain.
Agmar’s Hammer () Agmar’s Hammer is the Horde base in the Dragonblight zone of Northrend. It is lead by Overlord Agmar.
Dragon’s Fall Dragon’s Fall is a Horde quest hub located in the Dragonblight. The troll hero Rokhan will be found here.
Kor’kron Vanguard () The Kor’kron Vanguard is a Horde fortress at the base of Angrathar the Wrath Gate, the gate to Icecrown Glacier, in the northern regions of the Dragonblight. It is manned by the Kor’kron, the elite warriors of the Horde. Saurfang the Younger, a Mag’har orc and son of High Overlord Saurfang, is in command of the Vanguard.
Venomspite () Venomspite is a Forsaken settlement in the Dragonblight. It appears that the Forsaken here are continuing plague experiments.
Wyrmrest Temple () Wyrmrest Temple is an ancient Titan city located in The Dragonblight on Northrend. Formerly home to the Storm Giants, it has been taken over by the Wyrmrest Accord. It was the ancient meeting place of the dragonflights.
Moa’ki Harbor () Moa’ki Harbor is a Tuskarr port in south-central The Dragonblight. This village is connected with the Tuskarr ports of Unu’pe in Borean Tundra and Kamagua in Howling Fjord.
Light’s Trust () The Light’s Trust is a small Argent Crusade settlement located south-west of Jintha’kalar, not far from Zul’drak.
Dawn’s Reach The Dawn’s Reach is a small Argent Crusade settlement at the south of Naxxramas.
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