Moonglade

The Moonglade (also spelled Moongladesand Moon Glade) is a vale in Northern Kalimdor that serves as a haven for druids, and is also the home of the Cenarion Circle. Here, tauren and night elves coexist peacefully, united by their reverence for the spirit of nature. Conflict between the races in Moonglade is not tolerated by the Moonglade Wardens stationed throughout the main town of Nighthaven, who will respond to any violence initiated against individuals with a favorable reputation with the Circle.

Moonglade's reflection within the Emerald Dream is the most sacred place in the entire realm. The Rift of Aln is located here in Lake Elune'ara's place.

The demigod Omen sleeps at the depths of the central lake, awakening every year around the time of the Lunar Festival, after which he is routinely put to rest. The Lunar Festival itself is also based in Nighthaven. The Moonkin Festival also occurs in the area.

## History

Around the time of the War of the Ancients, Cenarius dwelled within the sacred Moonglade. As the war on Kalimdor progressed and the Legion's numbers swelled, Malfurion Stormrage realized that the night elves could not prevail alone. He convinced Tyrande Whisperwind and his brother Illidan to accompany him to the tranquil Moonglade. They beseeched Cenarius for aid. Following the Great Sundering, the keepers of the grove and dryads emerged from the secluded Moonglade and ventured into the world. Moonglade was considered sacred for night elf druids, with kaldorei society devoting itself more to nature worship and protection. Cenarius himself has remained here.

During the War of the Satyr, Malfurion Stormrage called several druids to here to establish a new druid organization called the Cenarion Circle in order to fight the Druids of the Scythe.

During the Third War, a Scourge force led by Tichondrius laid waste to the woods near the Stormrage Barrow Dens trying to get to Malfurion's body. Arriving near the Moonglade Isle, Tyrande Whisperwind, her Sentinels and several dryads fought against a Horde base and the isle guardians and retrieved the Horn of Cenarius which she used to wake Malfurion from his slumber. Despite the Scourge presence, the land of the Moonglade was not shown to have been befouled.

Years after the Third War, Moonglade was opened to all druid races. Keeper Remulos became Moonglade's new guardian.

More recently, the peace in Moonglade itself has become threatened as bizarre creatures from the Emerald Nightmare have found a way into a wing of the Stormrage Barrow Dens.

During the War Against the Nightmare, the Moonglade was wholly shrouded in dark mist, giving it more the appearance of a graveyard. For a brief time, Hamuul Runetotem taught Lucan Foxblood how to control his unique abilities here.

Shortly before the Cataclysm, after Magatha Grimtotem usurped the tauren leadership, the tauren of the druidic stronghold Moonglade began their rebellion, and false rumors reached her that Baine had taken refuge there. Elerethe Renferal and Hamuul Runetotem, two high-ranking Cenarion Circle leaders, were unable to convene their druidic meeting in Moonglade, regarding re-opening trade links between the Alliance and the Horde, due to a wary Remulos, who apparently insisted that they meet initially in Ashenvale due to the potentially explosive nature of their political affairs, but he was willing to allow a second meeting in the Moonglade should their Ashenvale meeting prove successful.