Elwynn Forest

Region: Eastern Kingdoms

Level Range: 1-10

Control: Alliance (Kingdom of Stormwind)

Overview

Elwynn Forest is the green heartland of Stormwind, and the first place every human adventurer sees. It is farmland, orchards, vineyards, a few mines and a lot of angry boars. The kingdom keeps a close watch on it. Stormwind Army soldiers walk the roads, and Marshal Dughan in Goldshire is the man who hands out the bounties. [Game · Zone: Elwynn Forest] [Game · NPC: Marshal Dughan]

Peaceful, right? Not quite. The Second War ended, but the kingdom is still short on troops. The guards themselves admit they have none to spare, and so the forest leans on whoever walks in with a sword.

Northshire

The valley around Northshire Abbey is where new humans begin. The Abbey is the home of the Church of the Light, and the guards ask newcomers to clear kobolds from the woods north of it, then follow them to the mine at Echo Ridge. [Game · Quest: Kobold Camp Cleanup] [Game · Quest: Investigate Echo Ridge]

Deputy Willem warns that a new band of thieves has started hanging around the Abbey. They call themselves the Defias Brotherhood. In Northshire they wear burlap masks. [Game · Quest: Brotherhood of Thieves]

Goldshire and the Road

Goldshire is the main town of the forest, with the Lion's Pride Inn at its center. It sits on the road between Stormwind, Westfall, Redridge and Duskwood, so every traveler passes through. Marshal Dughan posts the bounties here, and one is for a huge gnoll named Hogger, who prowls the woods in the southwest. [Game · Quest: Wanted: "Hogger"]

Out west, the Westbrook Garrison guards the border. Its soldiers report more gnoll and thief activity every season. Stormwind answers that it has no men to send. [Game · Quest: Westbrook Garrison Needs Help!]

Mines, Farms and Camps

• Fargodeep Mine and Jasperlode Mine. Both are overrun with kobolds. [Game · Quest: The Fargodeep Mine] [Game · Quest: The Jasperlode Mine]
• Eastvale Logging Camp. Wild animals grow more aggressive the farther you get from Goldshire, and the loggers suffer for it. [Game · Quest: Protect the Frontier]
• The Maclure Vineyards and the Stonefield Farm. Two farming families who are bitter enemies. (Their children are in love. It goes about as well as you expect.) [Game · Quest: Young Lovers]
• The Brackwell Pumpkin Patch. A hideout for a figure called The Collector, who takes gold shipments from the kingdom's mines. [Game · Quest: The Collector] [Game · Quest: Manhunt]
• Jerod's Landing. The Defias took over this dock and now use it to smuggle goods from Redridge to Westfall. [Game · Quest: Snatch and Grab]
• Tower of Azora. The home of Theocritus, High Mage of the tower. [Game · Quest: Theocritus' Retrieval]

The Defias in Elwynn

In the north they wear burlap. In Elwynn proper they wear linen, which tailors in the forest will happily buy from you. [Game · Quest: Red Linen Goods] SI:7 and Mathias Shaw are watching them closely. [Game · Quest: Snatch and Grab]

To the East

Murlocs are working their way up the streams in eastern Elwynn, scaring away the fish and attacking farmers. The soldiers posted there cannot hold them back. [Game · Quest: A Fishy Peril] [Game · Quest: Deliver Thomas' Report]

Did You Know?

The farmers of Elwynn have a prize-winning pig named Princess, and a neighbor who wants her gone. She is HUGE, and apparently she got that way by sneaking over and eating his vegetables. [Game · Quest: Princess Must Die!] Not every quest in the forest is about the fate of the kingdom.

Playing in Elwynn

• Your human can come from here without a long story. Farm, vineyard, inn, abbey, mine, or a family that fled to Stormwind in the Second War.
• Keep the kobolds, gnolls, murlocs and boars. They are part of the place.
• Do not make Goldshire a city. It is a town on a road.
• Do not make the Defias a joke here. They are a real threat to ordinary people. Please keep that in mind.

More to come soon.