Shen'dar Highlands

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Warcraft artwork relating to Highborne, high elves / quel'dorei, used as historical context for Shen'dar Highlands
Warcraft artwork associated with Highborne, high elves / quel'dorei. Shown for historical context; it is not a depiction of Shen'dar Highlands.Image: © Blizzard Entertainment

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The highlands around Shen’dar Village belong to the Skyborne island anchored in Skywall. The new settlement was not spared ordinary strife. The highlands illustrate the crisis inside the Skyborne homeland: a society sustained by elemental gifts must decide how to protect those gifts when local thieves, political tension and religious extremists exploit uncertainty.

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The highlands around Shen’dar Village belong to the Skyborne island anchored in Skywall. The inhabitants are descended from a people whose story began with resistance and exile from the Highborne world of Eldre’Thalas.

The new settlement was not spared ordinary strife. In the beta’s early account, bandits seize windstones, hippogryphs trouble nearby travelers, and the Windshapers’ relationship with the High Order is strained.

The highlands illustrate the crisis inside the Skyborne homeland: a society sustained by elemental gifts must decide how to protect those gifts when local thieves, political tension and religious extremists exploit uncertainty.

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