Unforgotten Places – Ashenvale, part II

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In Ashenvale, part II we will go through the eastern parts of this area. Starting from Raynewood Retreat and all the way to Forest Song and beyond.

Raynewood Retreat

Raynewood Retreat is an Alliance controlled outpost, built originally by the Night Elves. It is there to protected Ashenvale from the corruption that flows in Felwood to the north. The area surrounding the retreat is populated with Laughing Sisters who are protecting Keeper Ordanus. Keeper Ordanus is one of the sons of the Forest God Cenarius. Both the Keeper and the Laughing Sisters are wanted by the Horde and adventourers regulary try to raid the Raynewood Retreat. Evidently the hair of a Laughing Sister is used by the Horde to create robes for their mages.

Silverwing Grove

Silverwing Grove and the Silverwing Outpost are located in the south of Ashenvale, close to the entrance to the Barrens. This is the location of the Alliance entrance to the Warsong Gulch battlegrounds where the Silverwing Sentinels battle the Warsong Outriders that want to turn Ashenvale to a wast logging camp.

Splintertree Post

The Splintertree Post is the main Horde encampment in Ashenvale, located between the Raynewood Retreat and Forest Song. The camp is mostly populated by Tauren and Orcish guards and scouts. This place can give travellers some trouble when they travel to Forest Song for the first time, before they get the flight path there. This place is also one of the more frequent targets for Alliance retaliation raids even though not as popular as Crossroads in the Barrens.

 Warsong Labor Camps

In the southern Ashenvale, east of the entrance to the Barrens, are the Warsong Labor Camps. This is where the Horde has harvested trees since Grom Hellscreams time, it was he who first established this camp. Today there are logging camps almost all the way to the Southfury River.
Demon Fall Canyon

Even further to the east from the Warsong Logging camp, and to the south of Forest Song is a demon infested area. It was here that the demon lord Mannoroth battled with the two orcs Grom Hellscream and Thrall. A memorial stone was erected in the memory of Grom, who died while striking the final blow on the demon.

Forest SongForest Song is the eastern camp for the Alliance in Ashenvale and it is located almost at the border to Azshara. It is recomended that during your first visit to Forest Song to also visit the camp and flight master in Azshara as it is directly on the other side of the border.
Forest Song is the residence of one of the ancients, Gnarl. Other residents are Night Elfs and a team of Draenei architects who are building a new town for them. The leader of the Draenei seems to be Architect Nemos. The location between Satynaar and Bough Shadow gives visiting adventourers little peace.

Bough Shadow - Portal to the Emerald Dream

One of the portals to the Emerald Dream is located close to Forest Song in a place called Bough Shadow. The area is crawling with dragonkin and inexperienced adventourers are quite often never heard of again if they decide to travel here.
From time to time one of the Dragons of Nightmare, also known as the Emerald Dragons, will visit this place.

 

So, this was all of Ashenvale. There are places in the area that were not covered in this article, but most likely you will stumble across some of them during your own travels.