Suramar City Suramar City ( ie " The City of Night " ) is the capital city of Suramar and serves as the focal point of end - game adventuring in " " . It was built by the night elves long before the sundering and was generally considered their second most important city behind Zin - Azshari , the empire ' s capital at the time of the First Legion Invasion . This is where the Nightborne rule ; there are catacombs beneath it and noble houses throughout . The City is found in the southern part of Suramar , lying to east of Doomfront . Overview . The city was believed destroyed by the Great Sundering , with parts now largely sunken and fractured . The ruin s are a sad reminder of ancient kaldorei folly . In the center of the ruins , the stumps of two great aspen trees stand side by side . In ancient times , a great garden stood at the center , and at the center of this garden stood the fabled Boughs of Azshara . Now , these petrified stumps are all that remain . The ruins of the Temple of Elune are now known as the Tomb of Sargeras . In the time of Queen Azshara , the religious community of Suramar was a complicated structure intimately intertwined with the arcane community and involving nearly everyone in the city . The great arcane academies of Suramar once trained entire generations of mages . A portion of the city , the temple district , was located near the Well of Eternity and apparently shared it with the city of Zin - Azshari . It was the location of the Eternal Palace where Queen Azshara lived . This portion of the city was battled over during the final stages of the war . Izal - Shurah and Arauk - Nashal were also here . In Legion . Upon arriving in the Broken Isles , adventurers find that a great portion of the city was , in fact , protected by the Sundering , contrary to popular belief . The ancient night elven magi used a protective spell to do this , funneling energy from a font of arcane power . This shield has remained in place for 10 , 000 years , for the surviving denizens of the city believed the war lost and the world overrun with demons . Over the passage of so many years , the elves became dependent upon this source , and it has since grown corrupted . The Nightwell now surrounds the city in perpetual darkness . Speculation . The ruins of Suramar in The Frozen Throne used the " sunken ruins " tileset . It is never explained why the kaldorei city of Suramar has the statuary and motifs of a seaside civilization when the city was several thousand miles inland . Moreover , the distance between Suramar and Zin - Azshari ( in the War of the Ancients novels ) was implied at being between a third to a half the distance from the Well of Eternity to Mount Hyjal , while the maps in the Frozen Throne show the Broken Isles to be close to the Maelstrom , and on the opposite side . According to the RPG at least a portion of Suramar was located close to the Well of Eternity at the time of the War of the Ancients . Azshara ' s palace , the Eternal Palace was implied to be located between the two cities of Zin - Azshari and Suramar . Perhaps part of the problem could be explained by the tectonic upheaval caused by the Well ' s implosion . It is implied in " Lands of Mystery " that the Broken Isles are being pulled towards the Maelstrom .