Prison

Tol Dagor, the prison island of Kul Tiras.

A prison is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied their freedoms. They are commonly used for people charged with crimes and are usually guarded by jailors and wardens. Some prisons, such as the Violet Hold in Dalaran, use anti-teleportation protections^[1] and enchanted cells^[2] to hold their dangerous criminals and completely dampen their magic.^[3]^[4]

A cage is an enclosure often made of mesh, bars, or wires, used to confine, contain, or protect something or someone, especially prisoners, slaves and animals. The demonic jailers carry small fel cages, which they use to capture both the soul and body of their enemy, which they send to the Twisting Nether to subject their victims to horrific torture and interrogation.^[5]

Background

Mardum is a prison world created by Sargeras, long before his fall as the Dark Titan, where he held all the demons he killed across the Great Dark Beyond.^[6]

The Elemental Plane is the prison plane constructed by the titan-forged Keepers to imprison the elementals of Azeroth.^[7]

Netherlight Temple was originally a prison built by the draenei during their exile in order to contain and study the Void god known as Saraka the Lighteater.^[8]

The Drust created prisons for later use of souls in their dark rituals, suffering within Thros, the Blighted Lands, and become a twisted version of what it once had been.^[9]

Following the Second War, the Alliance of Lordaeron built and established internment camps for orcs of the Old Horde.^[10]

The Undercity was originally a dungeon intended for prisoners and the poorest. Orgrim Doomhammer was briefly imprisoned here as well.^[11]

The Phantasm Zone was crafted by the Kirin Tor to imprison Magnus Manastorm, who had the impossibly rare problem of being more dangerous dead than alive.^[12]

The Argus Campaign ended with Sargeras' imprisonment in the Seat of the Pantheon and Illidan Stormrage serving as his jailor.^[13]

Known prisons

Several inmates within the Stormwind Stockade.

In the RPG

This section contains information from the Warcraft RPG which is considered non-canon.

After the Titans triumphed over the Old Gods, they constructed a prison plane in the Twisting Nether to hold their immortal enemies. This world is the Elemental Plane, and it still holds the elementals and their dark masters.^[14]

In night elven society, imprisonment is the most common punishment, with terms of life in prison underground being some of the worst.^[15]

The Stormwind Stockade keeps the everyday criminals, while the city's Vault houses those who have no right to live, but they don't have the means to kill easily — demons, ogre mages, and other nightmares.^[16]

Dalaranian and Stormwindian wizards oversee the magic prison of Tol Barad, which include enemy mages, demons, warlocks and undead as prisoners. They do not allow anyone near the island and keep the prison's existence secret.^[17]

Crime is almost nonexistent in dwarven lands, as dwarves know that they must stick together against their myriad enemies. Murder and treason are capital offenses, while lesser crimes result in exile or prison.^[18]

The Fearsome Yacht is a goblin prison ship of the highest caliber. It is used to transport dangerous prisoners from one location to another and, occasionally, as a permanent jail (housing prisoners on a ship reduces the possibility of escape).^[19]

Rumors tell that beneath the Black Citadel sprawls a great prison; trapped within are heroes from previous wars, languishing in unknown solitude.^[20]

Booty Bay has a prison that can drain one's will to live.^[21]