do you guys like where the dragon isles are placed on the map?
it feels weird to me with its proximity to northrend and lordaeron. i expected it to be either to the right of pandaria or maybe near kalimdor, southwest probably.
idk why any of this matters to me lol
Based on like ‘OLDER’ material aka old maps etc the Dragon Isles are roughly where they should be.
Yeah I feel like it should have been south at the very least.
The whole map looks like that joke map someone drew years ago. Except it looks exactly like it.
You’d think someone would have noticed the huge landmass directly between Lordaeron and Northrend.
Well, that’s ignoring the fact that it was magically cloaked for the last 10K years, until recently. Kind of like no seafaring race noticed Pandaria and reported back until the magical mists fell and revealed both isles.
this is where it was rumored to be so at least they stayed canonical to classic and that’s nice. But I also would have liked it to be off the east coast of Pandarian because that would also make sense since Pandaria was also shrouded like Dragon Isles were.
Yeah but Pandaria and the Dragon Isles were clouded in mists by different things. One was from a Titan device (Tyrhold) and the other was from a fragment of an Old God (Sha of pride).
Beyond it being weird that the icy areas are south, nah.
Do you have a source for that?
I think its about where it was supposed to be with the scrapped iteration of it way back. That said, holy GOD do we need a new, updated World Map at the very least! It looks ridiculous, and gives zero real reference to where anything actually is in relation to anything else! Not to mention scale of it all.
Nice to know that I live in your head rent free.
But I will humour you and supply evidence. Since you always fail to do that.
For the Dragon Isles, refer to the launch / announcement cinematic. For Pandaria, The Sha of Pride dungeon journal entry says he created the mists. Shaohao also supports this since he failed to conquer Pride.
The seventh sha, the Sha of Pride, was the final burden to which Emperor Shaohao clung, shrouding the land in mist and biding its time for millennia. - https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Sha_of_Pride You know, this makes the Sha of Pride the titular character for MoP in a roundabout way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZtedjN1JXY - Dragonflight Announcement Trailer.
Sarm I didn’t know Denona was your girlfriend, my bad.
… What?
I just happened to have devoted an embarrassing amount of brain storage to World of Warcraft trivia and thought I’d help out by posting a link. That’s all.
Their placement isn’t an issue, their size is (and the size of Broken Isles/Kul Tiras/Zandalar). They should really scale down all these islands on the world map to the size they are on Chronicle’s map instead. The in-game map feels too cramped.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/4/4e/Chron3_map_of_Azeroth_after_the_Cataclysm.jpg
Though this is weird yeah. I would have swapped Azure Span and Waking Shores’ placement.
Also I think if you swim out it says the Great Sea when based on its placement it should be the North Sea. That’s what you get if you swim north of Silvermoon and east of Grizzly Hills, ie where the Dragon Isles are.
Ren is upset that I tend to ask for sources to certain aspects of their ‘theories’. So they act like a child and throw a tantrum nearly every time.
Even beyond geography, just makes more sense if it’s meant to be where mortals enter the isles from. Lmao its the furthest point from the supercontinent p much all the mortal civilizations lived on.