Outland (unreleased)

This article is about the unreleased zone from Vanilla. For the continent added in The Burning Crusade, see Outland.

The minimap of the original Outland zone.

The map of the area from The Frozen Throne clearly informed the design.

Outland was originally going to be a level 68-70 zone floating far to the west of Stranglethorn Vale, but which was never never finished or released. It was intended to be a part of the vanilla set of zones. Themed after the Hellfire Peninsula region, this zone would have been entered through the Dark Portal and have contained a "Black Temple" raid. This original Hellfire Peninsula resembled the The Frozen Throne version a lot more, with more mushrooms, etc. This area was even used in some promotional screenshots.

Geography highlights

• The basis for the zone is a recolored copy of Tanaris.
• The Dark Portal, the same size as the one in Blasted Lands, is on a thorn-covered hill in the southeast.
• A ruined human keep area, with a unique ruined cathedral model and the leveled keep model used in Honor Hold.
• A scout tower with bits floating like Shatter Point.
• A ruined orc stronghold area.
• A smaller version of the Pools of Aggonar.
• A draenei village in the Lost One style.
• A yellow mushroom forest, with some of the assets being used for Shadowbreak Ravine.
• Another mushroom forest that was cut down.
• A spiral path up a mountain to a demonic shrine.
• The siege weapons and giant caltrops seen along the Path of Glory.

Gallery

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  A testing area found floating inside of the Deadmines.
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  Screenshot of the earliest work on the Outland zone that was going to be shipped with the original World of Warcraft.
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  The Dark Portal in the unused Hellfire Peninsula map.
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  Trolls on their raptor mounts in the original unused Hellfire Peninsula map.
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  On a pre-TBC wallpaper.
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  On a pre-TBC wallpaper.
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  The zone and raid are noted on the bottom-right corner.
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  Art of the Black Citadel from The Art of World of Warcraft.
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  Contemporary art of a Caverns of Time-based Outland battleground involving siege weapons.