Reader Jahldhor from Demon Soul sends in this shot of a place you may not of known existed in Azeroth -- Quel'thalas. Lore tells us that Quel'thalas is a forested region north of Lordaeron, and in World of Warcraft, the area considered Quel'thalas is more commonly known by the zone names of Ghostlands and Eversong Woods. But the screenshot above obviously isn't from either Ghostlands or Eversong -- it's Quel'thalas. And you can check out this odd bit of Azeroth, too, if instead of going through the portal in Eastern Plaguelands into Ghostlands you take the long way and swim, which will take you into a completely different Quel'thalas, with some vaguely elven ruins and a small dock.
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Aug 28th 2007 at 10:00AM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
robodex Aug 28th 2007 10:15AM
I went there pre-TBC, right when 2.0 hit. We thought we'd be able to swim into the TBC areas, not knowing they were instanced :(
I can't remember exactly where we started swimming but for about 20 minutes all it is is repeating terrain over and over again, then eventually you hit this. It shows you on the map as halfway through ghostlands.
Queuetip Aug 28th 2007 10:44AM
I swam up there a long time ago. Nothing but a steep cliff and water everywhere. Even when you looked on the map and you were in the dead center of Quel'Thalas.
YPEELS40 Aug 28th 2007 11:35AM
You can actually walljump at the far east of the island and go onto the land of this place.. Its flat nothingness. You can also go in back of stratholme.
mdm-adph Aug 28th 2007 12:30PM
I tried to swim to Quel'Thalas a LONG time ago, and all I remember is that it would keep kicking me off as I got near.
Riptidez Aug 28th 2007 12:53PM
This is why we can't have flying mounts in azeroth
slayerboy Aug 28th 2007 12:59PM
When I had an dwarf hunter I tried swimming to Eversong not realizing that it was instanced either. I swam for about an hour from Wetlands heading north and when I died (because I hit the NumLock key so I could get ready for work) I found myself in Westfall! LOL WTF
Queuetip Aug 28th 2007 3:28PM
Yes, Westfall seems to be the place they dump you out at when trying to test the boundaries of the world. I died trying to get to the penninsula west of Hillsbrad (Greymane i think). Ended up in Westfall.
YPEELS40 Aug 28th 2007 4:05PM
Alliance spirits that cant find the nearest graveyard go to Westfall and horde go to Barrens. One time i died in a bug cave in silithus (hive zora or something i forget) and my spirit was in westfall.
Scruffy Aug 28th 2007 4:10PM
With my first character, I went the other way. You know... "Oooh, Westfall! OCEAN! Gosh, I wonder how far I can swim..."
Made it to Menethil when the Murlocs got me. Another time was from Dark Shore to Azshara. Again, Murloc'd and after ressing, elite giants. That's when I hearthed.
yoda22281 Aug 28th 2007 7:13PM
Wasn't there a bug at some point where if you died in a BG in certain places you would rez in Westfall? I vaguely remember something like that.
Caze Aug 30th 2007 6:47AM
I once reset Stratholme while farming it, headed in the service entrance and I got the "been in there too many times" error. But it still let me in. The next gate was a blank brownish colour. Stupidly, I ran through it and after falling through the ground long enough, I ended up in the zone of Quel'thalas.. Couldn't see a thing though :p
Nerfdruids Aug 29th 2007 7:53PM
I was able to go to here by traveling along the water edge north east of Undercity, it took me forever.
I went right around (it took about an hour and a bit (I think)) and ended up in The Hinterlands.
Here is a picture of the world map so you can get an idea of how far I swam (thank god I'm a Druid, eh?).
http://wow.gameamp.com/modules/game_map/game_map_images/182_full.jpg