First visited: 11 November 2026, at level 21
Places within: The Merchant Coast, Northwatch Hold, Southern Barrens, Bramblescar, Southern Gold Road, Agama'gor, Camp Taurajo
From the lore
The dust here was not always dust. This land was forest once, tended by the night elves, and several of their large cities stood here. After the Great Sundering, war and disaster turned the green valley into a sun-scorched plain. It is hot and mostly flat, with scattered hills and a few oases where the water gathers.
For countless generations the tauren roamed these plains, following the kodo and the thunder lizards. Centaur hunted them for sport. The tauren fought back when they had to, but they had no love of war and would rather strike their tents and move on. A year of peace was always followed by a year of war. Then Thrall's orcs and the Darkspear trolls came ashore and marched beside the Bloodhoof tauren against the centaur.
Now the Horde holds most of it. Orc farms and watchtowers dot the grass, and the Gold Road runs through the land from north to south. Quilboar and centaur raid from every side, and Burning Blade cultists work in the north.
Source: warcraft.wiki.gg, CC BY-SA 4.0, as retold in the Spoken addon.
Places I found here
The Merchant Coast. The Merchant Coast takes its name from the trade that passes along it, all of it through the thrifty hands of the goblins of Ratchet. (source)
Bramblescar. A tribe of Razormane quilboar has its lair at Bramblescar. Across the road at Agama'gor the Bristleback tribe holds a settlement, and the two tribes are at war. (source)
Southern Gold Road. Trade caravans give the Southern Gold Road its name. It runs from the Great Lift at the southern end of the Barrens to the bridge joining the northern and southern halves of the land. (source)
Agama'gor. The Bristleback quilboar hold a large settlement here, north of the road that runs west from Camp Taurajo. They dig blood shards out of the ground and carry them into battle as totems of strength and magic. (source)
Camp Taurajo. Tauren keep an outpost here in the Barrens, near the mountain pass that leads into Mulgore. It has an inn for travelers coming out of the tauren homeland. (source)