So until the third war most humans didnt know about the night elves. But the twilight grove has potentially stood since longer then the humans have been around. Did no Stormwind human ever explore the place/notice the moonwell sitting smack dab in the middle? Or is that a recent construction and until recently was just a giant tree in the middle of Duskwood/Brightwood?
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I just assume the land is so large and the forest so thick that the Humans never found it. Remember Duskwood was once considered part of Elywynn Forest, Elwynn forest is huge and the extent of settlement is small hamlets and towns.
I think it’s totally believable that the Medieval humans never fully explored the lands they had.
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My issue with that is people have flying grphons so they should be able to see up from up in the air. Of course the next question is when did humans start to use gryphons to fly?
Wasn’t it guarded by Green Dragons? Maybe they never really understood what was in it, just that it was a secluded place they didn’t go.
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Wasn’t it guarded by a bloody huge green dragon until very recently? Dragon magic shenanigans may have kept it hidden.
Or, failing that, just eat whoever finds it.
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Presumably you cant fly Gryphons safely in a forest so it would have appeared as just a large tree from the air.
To the people saying green dragons were there I’m not sure if that’s true. I thought they only appeared there in Vanilla but I could be wrong.
It’s a creepy grove in an already creepy forest I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone just stayed away from it and over time a myth built up over it. Especially if people started disappearing as they’re prone to do in Duskwood.
It was definitely there before Duskwood became Duskwood though, that only happened like 30 or so years ago in universe.
Pure speculation: It could simply be that the Night Elves abandoned Twilight Grove and Seradane after the Saronite was cleaned up from the areas. Additionally, unlike Bough Shadow in Ashenvale and Dream Bough if Feralas, the Green Dragonflight is not actually found around the Great Trees on the Eastern Kingdoms, with the exception of when the corrupted Dragons of Nightmare came through the portals.
The Night Elves planted the Great Trees some 5,500 years after the Sundering, but the Humans only showed up in the area to found Stormwind some 3,300 year after the planting of the Great Trees.
The Humans could very well have stumbled upon Twilight Grove abandoned and simply had no idea who had built it or the Moonwell there, but obviously found it to be a comforting and sacred place, and as such the Humans might have just left it alone, as untouched as they found it.
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If I had to guess, I’d say that when Duskwood was Brightwood, that the Twilight Grove wasn’t entirely remarkable compared to the rest of the forest. I’m not sure the Moonwell would’ve been there. To humans they probably would’ve just looked like ruins, like any number of other ruins around the Eastern Kingdoms.
Right yeah I forgot about that. I dunno then. Probably the dragons doing like others said then. Having nobody return because they got eaten is a pretty good deterrent.
It was probably hidden in the forests. Forests that aren’t upkept husbanded by a civilization (like Elwynn “forest”) tends to grow more wild. So wild its hard to see things even while flying over them.
There’s still a few forests in North America and eastern Russia that no human has explored, while most “medieval” forests in Europe have centuries if not millenia of human influence.
I assumed the dragons kept people out.
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Duskwood/Brightwood is also known for giant black wolves. It’s most likely the really curious ones became food for the wild things living there and never actually made it to the grove.
Presumably most of the wildlife were actually quite peaceful/not as aggressive as they are now. Brightwood was consider a “peaceful” place.
Peaceful being a relative term. And they’re still wild animals who will attack anything they perceive as a threat. But that’s my personal opinion on it 
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