Echo Isles and Darkspear Isle, Same Thing?

The question as stated above: Is the Echo Isles/Now named Darkspear Isle in game the same one as seen in the RTS? I’ve always been a bit confused since it wasn’t called Darkspear Isle in-game until Cata. The whole chain is just referred to as the Echo Isles on maps and(afaik) by npc’s.

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Darkspear Isle is the center island of the Echo Isles, as well as the largest. The Darkspear Islands (not great differentiation, I know) were their former home seen in Warcraft III. Vol’jin returned there in his short story - The Judgment - to evacuate the trolls that didn’t leave during Warcraft III.

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We should go there for the heritage armor quest. Do some shadow hunter stuff. How many years did the Darkspear live there?

Edit: Apparently they settled there sometime AFTER the Dark Portal opened… which is disappointing. Blizzard crams everything, every bit of history, into this ridiculously small time frame.

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