Twilight Highlands

The **Twilight Highlands** (formerly just the **Highlands**) are found in northeastern Khaz Modan, east of the Wetlands. It is the location of the ancient dwarven fortress, Grim Batol, and also houses a majority of Twilight's Hammer settlements, working with Deathwing and his black dragonflight. There is a small red dragonflight presence. The story of the twilight dragonflight unfolds in this zone.

The famous region of Northeron was once the northern part of the Highlands.

## History

**Desciption from the official site:**

*Azeroth's inhabitants endure a lifetime of struggle and conflict. They're subject to violence from neighboring enemies and rampaging beasts at an early age, and must learn to take up arms to defend themselves against predators. Regularly forced to cope with the deaths of friends, family, and members of their tribes, clans, cities, and guilds, these scarred survivors become stronger by reinforcing their walls, banding together with new allies, and raising sharp, careful, resilient children. They adapt. They change.*
Few places on Azeroth exemplify this ever-changing dynamic more than the *Twilight Highlands* of the Eastern Kingdoms.

The highlands have undergone constant upheaval throughout their history, with races and factions thriving, collapsing, and changing seemingly without pause. The fortress-city of Grim Batol has played host to no fewer than three potent factions: the Wildhammer dwarves, who abandoned their home after a Dark Iron curse left it uninhabitable; the red dragonflight, which was forced to fight for the Horde in the captivity of the Dragonmaw orcs during the Second War; and, of course, the Dragonmaw themselves, who were driven from Grim Batol when the red dragonflight was finally freed from their grasp.

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The Dragonmaw now cling to the edges of the highlands. They're no less wild and difficult to deal with than when they ruled Grim Batol, but their knowledge of dragons and warfare is of unquestionable importance, especially amidst the chaos of the Cataclysm. The Wildhammer dwarves dwell in forested outposts among the highlands' mountains; though long friendly with the Alliance, they have only now begun to consider casting their lot in with Stormwind and Ironforge thanks to the entreaties of their cousins, the Bronzebeard clan. Even the mighty red dragonflight has suffered greatly in recent months: its members have been decimated by a frenzied, newly aggressive black dragonflight attacking relentlessly from the petrified Obsidian Forest.

Amidst this upheaval, a new power has come to possess the highlands.

Though the environment has been given many names throughout its history, it's only been dubbed "Twilight" thanks to the dominance of its current masters. The fanatical Twilight's Hammer cultists appreciate the name, but there are more functional features to the swath of land they've chosen as their headquarters. It's rimmed by massive mountain peaks that scrape at the sky like fingernails, making invasion by land nearly impossible, and the highlands' black-glass beaches ensure that marine assaults are fraught with terror; ships docking on the peninsula risk running aground.

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More important to the cult, however, is the promise of worldly extinction and change that permeates the land. In the dimness of the highlands, shadows are deeper. The sun and the rest of Azeroth seem distant. The elements themselves are more pronounced: fires burn hotter; rain forces its way into the ground; and the heaves and shudders of the land call to mind some colossal being stirring beneath the earth. This doesn't frighten the members of the Twilight's Hammer; it lulls them to sleep.

Their dark work is done here in a manner that could never have been realized in Silithus. The devoted of the Twilight's Hammer train in the halls of mighty fortresses, not tiny compounds and outposts. They summon dangerous, mercurial elementals who loathe each other to the point of outright war but still pause their feuds momentarily to work towards the destruction of the other races. Outside the highlands, the cult is fractious and divided. Here, it is guided on its mission of destruction by some of the cruelest and bloodiest names in history, yet the names associated with this cabal belie the true extent of its leadership.

These dark whisperers chose the highlands as their base of operations for a reason. They can feel the presence of the Old Gods in the air and see their victory in the darkness. The shifting landscape, battling factions, and wicked elements embody the cult's vision of what its world will become as it is finally purged of life and order. The rest of Azeroth will follow the Twilight Highlands into oblivion, one way or another. According to Artesh, the Twilight's Hammer built their stronghold in the Highlands because of strong elemental powers in the area.

Aside from that, the native creatures in the highlands are gryphons, owls, sabreworgs, and deer. Notable creatures include the massive spirit wolf Karoma herself, and the huge lion Sambas.

### Legion

Legion **This section concerns content related to *Legion*.**
According to Stormcaller Mylra, as of the Burning Legion's latest invasion the Twilight Highlands were overrun, and the Wildhammer clan had been scattered.

### Battle for Azeroth

Battle for Azeroth **This section concerns content related to *Battle for Azeroth*.**
An agent of the red dragonflight, Eryna, revealed that the troggs dug too deep and disturbed a previously-unknown massive cache of twilight dragon eggs below Grim Batol. Eryna claimed she could sense thousands of heartbeats below the ruined city, but had no idea how many were truly down there, or where other caches might exist.

In the Vermillion Redoubt, Void-Twisted twilight dragonkin surrounded Alexstrasza, though a champion and Kalecgos arrived and helped subdue the invaders. A twilight dragon Vexiona was confronted in front of Grim Batol who before fleeing stated "Your pathetic dragonflights will fall. If you will not serve the master, then I will find one who will".

## Geography

### Map and subregions

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* Black Drake Roost
* Bloodgulch
* The Boneyard
	+ Crucible of Carnage
* The Circle of Life
* Crushblow
* The Devouring Breach
	+ Firebeard Cemetery
	+ Firebeard's Patrol
	+ Gorshak War Camp
* Dragonmaw Pass
* Dragonmaw Port
* Dunwald Hovel
* Dunwald Ruins
	+ Dunwald Holdout
		- Peon Hideout
	+ Dunwald Market Row
	+ Dunwald Town Square
* The Forbidding Sea
* Glopgut's Hollow
* Grim Batol
* The Gullet
* Highbank
* Highland Forest
* Humboldt Conflagration
* Kirthaven
* The Krazzworks
* The Maw of Madness
	+ Iso'rath
* Obsidian Breakers
* Obsidian Forest
* Obsidian Lair
* Remains of the Fleet
* Ring of the Elements
* Ruins of Drakgor
* Slithering Cove
* Thundermar
	+ Thundermar Ruins
* Thunderstrike Mountain
* The Twilight Breach
* The Twilight Citadel
	+ Altar of Ascension
	+ Altar of Twilight
	+ The Bastion of Twilight
	+ Cannon's Inferno
	+ Elementium Depths
	+ Loch Verrall
* The Twilight Gate
	+ Den of the Disciples
* Twilight Shore
* Vermillion Redoubt
* Verrall River
* Verrall Delta
* Victor's Point

Undisplayed locations* Dragonmaw Gates

Removed locations* Husk of Sor'getha

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WorldMap-HoATwilightHighlandsDragon.jpgMap of the Twilight Highlands in a 8.2 Heart of Azeroth scenario.

### Instances

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 Instance portal Bastion of Twilight | 85+

### Travel hubs

#### Flight paths

 Flight paths from The Gullet

* Bloodgulch, Twilight Highlands
* Crushblow, Twilight Highlands
* Vermillion Redoubt, Twilight Highlands

 Flight paths from Vermillion Redoubt

* The Gullet, Twilight Highlands
* Hammerfall, Arathi Highlands
* Alliance Thundermar Ruins, Twilight Highlands

 Flight paths from Crushblow

* The Gullet, Twilight Highlands
* Bloodgulch, Twilight Highlands

 Flight paths from Bloodgulch

* The Gullet, Twilight Highlands
* Crushblow, Twilight Highlands
* The Krazzworks, Twilight Highlands

 Flight paths from The Krazzworks

* Bloodgulch, Twilight Highlands

### Portals

The portals to and from Twilight Highlands unlock after players complete a short quest chain after reaching the Twilight Highlands, concluding with The Way is Open for the Alliance in Highbank and Traitor's Bait for the Horde in Orgrimmar.

## Notable characters

Main article: Twilight Highlands NPCs
* File:IconSmall Alexstrasza.gif Alexstrasza the Life-Binder
* File:IconSmall Cho'gall.gif Cho'gall the Ogre Magi
* File:IconSmall Deathwing.gif Deathwing the Destroyer
* File:IconSmall Garona.gif Garona Halforcen
* File:IconSmall Goblin Male.gif Gurgthock
* Mor'ghor
* Warlord Zaela
* File:IconSmall Kurdran.gif Kurdran Wildhammer

## Resources

* Herbalism
	+ Cinderbloom
	+ Twilight Jasmine
* Mining
	+ Elementium Ore
	+ Pyrite Ore

## Wild creatures

* Stags
* Worgs
* Owls
* Gryphons
* Water elementals
* Bound elementals

## Factions

* Black dragonflight
* Twilight's Hammer
* Wildhammer clan
* Dragonmaw clan

## Notes

* The Dragonmaw raised Ragewing the Untamed in the highlands, seemingly explaining where the brood came from during the Siege of Orgrimmar.
* When concepted, the Twilight Highlands were originally meant to be where Deathwing went after emerging from the Deathwing Scar, going through the Scar of the Worldbreaker and then ending up bisecting Grim Batol's mountain. The only remnant of that is the Scarred Terrace in the Grim Batol dungeon, where something humongous cut half of the city down, exposing red-hot stone.

## Gallery

TwilightHighlands official2.jpgThe Vermillion Redoubt.Grim Batol.jpgThe entrance to Grim Batol.TwilightHighlands official1.jpgRemains of the Fleet.TwilightHighlands official4.jpgThe Black Breach.Cataclysm Twilight Highlands.jpgKirthaven.Twilight Highlands Spire.jpgThe Twilight Citadel.Twilight Highlands Spire2.jpgThe Twilight Citadel.Twighlight highlands before cata.jpgThe Dragonmaw Gates closed before the release of *Cataclysm*.TwilightHighlands.jpgBlizzCon 2009 concept map, with Deathwing's scar.Twilight Highlands Map Art of Cataclysm.jpgConcept map of the Twilight Highlands.
## Videos

Introduction quests, first quest hub and an appearance by Deathwing:

## Patch changes

* Legion **Patch 7.3.5 (2018-01-16):** Level scaling implemented, previous zone level: 84 - 85.
* Cataclysm **Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23):** Added.

## References

 1. ↑ *World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 3*, pg. 199
2. ↑ http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm/features/twilighthighlands.html
3. ↑ Muddied Waters
4. ↑ A Ring Unbroken
5. ↑ Battered Twilight Scale (quest)
6. ↑ In the Shadow of Crimson Wings
7. ↑ Investigating the Highlands
8. ↑ In the Shadow of Crimson Wings
9. ↑ Ragewing the Untamed dungeon journal

## External links

* Wowhead
* WoWDB

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