This explains something that puzzled me in the Wrath era. One day, taking a ship from Auberdine to Azuremyst, I noticed that for a moment before joining the Azuremyst chat channel, I was in the Twisting Nether chat channel.

I suspect thus that Azuremyst is located in the Twisting Nether, somewhere around Outland, and my characters was briefly outside its borders while sailing in. The invisible wall around the archipelago prevent players from venturing beyond into the void and seeing that for themselves. If the ghost ship theory is true and every moving ship has a stationary ghost ship on another continent corresponding to it, I could have been on a ghost ship floating in the Twisting Nether for that split second...

While we're on the subject of falling through the world, I remember seeing a blue void under Dun Morogh after falling out of the unimplemented tunnel in the Wetlands farm area. (They closed that one with bars in Cataclysm.) And a certain spot in old Stormwind that made you fall onto a flat green area under the city. Good times...

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