Warcraft
III: Reign of Chaos
As the aftershocks from the Well of
Eternity's implosion rattled the bones of the world, the seas rushed in to fill
the gaping wound left in the earth. Nearly eighty percent of Kalimdor's
landmass had been blasted apart, leaving only a handful of separate continents
surrounding the new, raging sea. At the center of the new sea, where the Well
of Eternity once stood, was a tumultuous storm of tidal fury and chaotic
energies. This terrible scar, known as the Maelstrom, would never cease its
furious spinning. It would remain a constant reminder of the terrible
catastrophe... and the Utopian era that had been lost forever.
At the center of the Maelstrom is a
location known as the Eye. The empires of the makrura and the naga lie beneath
it.
In Warcraft III, when Thrall's fleet
crashed, they made an emergency landing on an island near the Maelstrom where
they found a group of trolls fighting desperately against human colonists and
murloc invaders. The island was destroyed (though not by the Maelstrom), with
Thrall barely escaping.
It is implied that the Maelstrom is slowly
drawing the Broken Isles towards itself, and will ultimately destroy them for
good.
World
of Warcraft
The Maelstrom is a large storm in the
center of the world map, where it sits between Kalimdor and the Eastern
Kingdoms. Ship and zeppelin routes go out of their way to avoid the Maelstrom,
for fairly obvious reasons. You must pass through the Maelstrom to get to
Deepholm via a quest given from the Earthen Ring in your faction's home city.
Cataclysm
In World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Deathwing
re-enters Azeroth from Deepholm via the Maelstrom. The Maelstrom is a
sanctuary, where PvP combat is disabled. The zone can be reached through the
breadcrumb quests leading to Deepholm from Stormwind and Orgrimmar. Thrall and
Aggra are also present here (now affiliated with the Earthen Ring). Thrall is
trying to maintain the rift, while Aggra provides transportation down into
Deepholm.
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