Western Plaguelands

The Western Plaguelands is a large region that was formerly a province of the Kingdom of Lordaeron. In the aftermath of the Third War, it was largely depopulated of the living due to the expansion of the Scourge, with survivors fleeing en masse from the infested and destroyed kingdom.

It is characterized by a forest sometimes called the Westweald that covers the majority of its territory, though the tracts of woodland are frequently broken up by farmland and settlements.

It is typically broken up into three regions: Westweald, Thondoril and Chillwind. These divisions are largely colloquial, though at times in history were administrative or political. In the case of Chillwind, notions of regional identity among the human populace took hold in the decades preceding the Third War.