

With the branches in hand, they traveled the world to locations where saronite blooms had sprung to life, including a remote region of the Eastern Kingdoms that would later be known as Duskwood. Felling of AndrassilĤ,500 years before the Dark Portal, Fandral and his followers secretly cut six enchanted branches from the boughs of Nordrassil. To fight against all these threats, the militia of Duskwood, known as the Night Watch, patrolled the main thoroughfare and protected Darkshire, wary of anything moving through the shadows.ĭuskwood on the map of the World of Warcraft Manual. Ogres moving in have brought up even more problems.

On all sides lurk dangerous creatures, from hideous undead to ferocious Nightbane worgen and overgrown spiders. The woods also feature several abandoned farmsteads, as well as the prominent Raven Hill Cemetery, which holds the graves of numerous people who have known tragic fates.ĭuskwood is inhabited by a defiant people who still cling to their holdings in the face of overwhelming adversity. The most prominent geographical feature of the region is an ancient and long-dead volcano crater, which teems with life and features one of the Great Trees with a portal leading into the Emerald Dream. Night Watch, Kingdom of Stormwind, Kingdom of Gilneas, Nightbane pack, Splinter Fist, Green dragonflightĭuskwood, originally called Brightwood, is a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Stormwind located in the southern-central part of Azeroth, south of Elwynn Forest, east of Westfall, west of Deadwind Pass, and north of Stranglethorn Vale.īeneath the everlasting night, which gave Duskwood its current name, the fel magic unleashed by Medivh upon his death has transformed what was once a beautiful part of Elwynn Forest into a land covered in gnarled trees, along with the black fog hanging over the woods.

For the lore of the zone and its status before the Cataclysm, see Duskwood (Classic). For the area from the Warcraft film universe, see Brightwood (film universe).
