World of Warcraft's OLDEST SECRET (Ruins of Northeron)

[@FullMotionVideos]

It appears I was incorrect: there's no invisible wall blocking this area in Classic, so go explore it if the mood strikes you! I remember one being in Vanilla, but perhaps I just mis-remembered... or #NoChanges wasn't across the board lol

[@duncmanxxx]

I was coming to write this comment. I decided to walk the coast on my warrior in classic and got to the hinterlands early and unlocked the FP there

[@jouaienttoi]

Blizzard doesn't care about these empty areas, so there would be no reason for them to put in the extra work to remove an invisible wall. There never was an invisible wall there until Cataclysm, you can test it on both Classic and Private Servers.

[@TaldrenMGMoonGuard]

I have to go there now in classic! This will be fun!

[@KevinArcade87]

I certainly spend many hours there in Vanilla. You would alwats find me in odd places around the world! In Classic I did find some new secret area's that I never been to and I was really surprised how they managed to elude me all those years! 😆

[@hirumaredx]

These videos are great! Dont stop stoppin

[@FullMotionVideos]

Hey, thanks! Appreciate the kind words, and I love what you do too :)

[@Hazmatguy117]

What a compliment! You guys plus mad season and platinum wow have all my attention. Thanks for the hard work over the years.

[@TheTheschuhschuh]

Don't stop stoppin? Read that again

[@DonTinker]

@@Hazmatguy117 I hope Mad Season decides to return, I love his narrations

[@ptbempire]

Agreed man very entertaining content

[@monkeysk8er33]

I was so enthralled with this secret location when I found it in Vanilla. It was so mysterious, and I made this my guild's meeting area, and pretended it was our guild housing. We would even roleplay here. It was one of my mos cherished memories in all of gaming. Part of me hopes they never touch it, part of me hopes they turn this area into a secret, super lore important minizone. We are the very least need a sentence or two explaining what this place is and why no one ever seems to go here. Even abandoned locations in WoW get lore.

[@charlylmaoo5953]

I think the general consensus is that these elven ruins are meant to be a placeholder for Quel’thalas as a whole before the much better assets were implemented. My guess is as good as anyones though

[@Tyrin_Wolfinzar]

Interestingly enough, if you turn and face southeast from the tower, fly up you will see the unfinished/uninstanced portion of Stratholme, complete with an untextured "Naxxaramas" floating above the city. Sadly, you can't enter it as an invisible wall prevents you from traversing the cliffside and forces you back down.

[@Dremag_Gaming]

Yep. But if you want a closer look. You can use either a Shaman (farsight) or Hunter (eagle-eye, chain micro). Itll take some time, you but can move the spell target circle close to it. Of what some might not know is why it's there. Like Molten Core and Blackwing, this raid was to be accessed via the dungeon and is the reason a raid portal is still there. But I guess they changed their mind and move Naxx outside the city.

[@Knight-of-Sarcasm]

I used to get TO this place through Strat. There was a shimmy method of slipping through the dungeon portal where you ended up not in the dungeon but in the non-populated version. Just walk through and you can see the unfnished Naxx graphics in the back, and then work your way down to the beach. There was no purple wall though. This wasn't that long ago; I believe it was 2020 when I did this. I tried to get to the coast to swim, but hit an invisible wall where it wouldn't let me go forward TO go to the beach. Tomorrow or Saturday when I try Metzen again, I'll try again. It was my favorite Easter egg in the entire game. So peaceful back then.

[@Tharrilicious]

u can still get to the unfinished naxxramas. just go in and out the instance until u cant reset it anymore, then go inside, use blink of the mage and then run to it. its very easy

[@lychenthrope]

They were in vanilla. I assume it was because they originally planned to add quel'thalas and high elves in vanilla but they didnt have worldspace left over and that was the remnants. the reason eversong is in outland's worldmap is because they didnt have big enough servers for the area. it didnt have the barrier until recently, so im not entirely sure why its there.

[@Rallyhn]

You can also access this via nu-instanced stratholme. Back in Vanilla's beta/testing, this was a staging point to reach the original Dragon Isles without much effort

[@TaldrenMGMoonGuard]

True and how my guild used to go there to rp

[@deyedrah]

I had to go check this out as soon as I saw this. Interestingly, if you continue on the path along the coast, you can see the continent still ending at the Eastern Plaguelands, since the Ghostlands and Eversong are technically loaded from a different part of the game.

[@nescionetizen295]

Yup Ghostlands, Eversong and Qual thanas are actually right beside Stranglethorn vale. North on the map and North virtually but down South in reality.

[@The_Tea_Brewer]

The barrier seen around the tower is recent, as it is within the last two or three expansions. That was often used in WoD and Legion for void-based theme

[@TaldrenMGMoonGuard]

Yes that purple barrier is new. My guild would rp here as high elves. Last time I visited was during Legion so not sure when it changed. I'm hoping Blizz finally does something cool with this area because it's pretty well fleshed out even has a Quel'Thalas channel except there's no fish to catch if you try to fish in the ocean. Well, at least there still wasn't back in Legion lol

[@hejhejsson2769]

@@TaldrenMGMoonGuard Apparently the void themed barrier was added with the void elves, speculations on reddit was that it was supposed to be the zone where void elves spawned.

[@Chicken-x6q6d]

Indeed, it was not there when I first discovered the area in old BC.

[@ShadowZeroFlame]

@@hejhejsson2769 that aura is probably middle of Shadowlands or Dragonflight addition. It wasn't there in the entirety of BFA.

[@TheJamrockJay]

So that purple barrier is newer. Which makes sense if you browse around the map files, it's labeled void elf.

[@Chicken-x6q6d]

I remember discovering this area in 2007 with my shaman and her waterwalking ability, I walked all the way around both continents keeping close enough to the coasts to avoid fatigue looking for interesting stuff which might be hidden away, I was pleased when I found this tower and that cabin between the wetlandws and westfall, plus that little southseas island on kalimdor. She was great for doing stuff like that, the waterwalking coupled with far sight meant I could look just about anywhere, I used to check out hyjal all the way from darnassus. Unfortunately, far sight cannot seem to do this any more and cancels back after just a few long chain casts, I noticed this in the cataclysm expansion and assumed it was due to how the game was redesigned with instanced zones. Edit: As an interesting side note and since you mentioned quel'thalas, you could actually get to a zone called just that back when you could wall walk in game, if you used the wall walking trick on the front on stratholme by the instance portals. That worked in vanilla and early bc but I assume this is long gone in the retail version, wrath classic I'm not sure.

[@NealioSir]

The canonical description of these ruins is the same as all old elven ruins scattered around Azeroth. They are remnants of the original elven kingdom built before the Sundering.

[@druidgames9201]

I don't remember that barrier ever being there when I went there myself.

[@Val_ayh]

Me neither.

[@FullMotionVideos]

It's definitely there now if you go during pre-BFA times, and it was there back in Vanilla as far as I remember. Strange! Maybe it's been in and out over the years?

[@devilskiss8421]

@@FullMotionVideos they place it in cata

[@YatsuraHeadOn]

me neither

[@thenerdbeast7375]

You know what is also North of Lordaeron? Northrend, which is where the proto-drakes are from and the Dragon Isles, which is the settled homeland of the Dragons. Deathwing wasn't lying lol.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

There was no invisible walls at all in Vanilla. I found that place all the way back in early 2005 by just swimming along the coast. The weird force feild is new. Must be a Shadowlands addition.

[@3DTyrant]

The invisible wall was added in Cata if I'm not mistaken, I could very well be wrong though, but it wasn't there from Vanilla-Wrath.

[@Wol_Divinia]

@@3DTyrant It wasn't there in Legion too.

[@gzman745]

Sure as hell weren't a barrier there in Wotlk when i was exploring with my druid aquatic form.

[@FullMotionVideos]

I think it's been up and down over the years, which is strange! I remember it being there when I first played, circa TBA, but I could be misremembering it! :(

[@nestiboy]

For as old as they are, there are many here that i didn't know about! It's amazing how this game keeps delivering after so many years...

[@FullMotionVideos]

Seriously! Rediscovering a lot of the game's old hidden secrets was some of the most fun I had when Classic came out!

[@SenpaiTheExplorer]

Quelthalas is one of the best places in the game, especially since the random skybox change. that skybox change happened around the time they implemented the horrific visions in bfa. its assumed it was just a weird accidental change. before that it was a basic skybox which you can still see that version in classic right now. wonderful video i subbed :)

[@shugotenchi]

In Vanilla you could get the skybox here to go completely red by backing up as far into the mountain as you could. It seemed to think you were in un-instanced Stratholme and picked up the BGM and skybox from that.

[@steveaguay]

It's criminal how low views these very videos have. It's an absolute delight to see the little details of the world.

[@Shadamehr100]

You could reach it in BC, in the hills around Stratholme you could actually get behind the Strath facade then head north on your mount

[@Jucimon]

I'm pretty sure that this magical purple field is a recente thing. Maybe they put some secret thing in this area for one of those secret finds collectables.

[@FullMotionVideos]

I've also heard rumors that this is one of the areas they let new environmental designers play with while learning their development tools, so maybe that was an addition from one of those tests? Who knows! Don't quote me on that, I am only vaguely remembering something I read ages ago

[@MaceMcFly]

I remember an alternate way into the zone if you bug loading into the culling of stathholme dungeon it loads you into an old build of the instance, near the end of the dungeon you can see a big untexured naxxramas and you are allowed to go through the portal at the back it clips you out into the zone and you are free to run around

[@pandaayi6394]

I actually remember having a guild meeting there (during WotLK I think. Yeah, must be. We used the DK's ability to freeze the water to ride on our groundmounts and reach it faster, so it can't have happened during BC where DKs weren't a class yet. Flying wasn't possible back then, at least not in the old zones. I can't remember that purple barrier though.

[@gorrumKnight]

I swam there back during vanilla because I wanted to see what was outside of the normal zones. Definitely no wall back then. I only ever tried because I got introduced to reaching the IF airfield and Old Ironforge. And the mad scientist island off Theramore (forget the name).

[@timberIII]

Shaman had water walking

[@pandaayi6394]

@@timberIII I know but we used DKs for that. Their ability Path of Frost makes it easier, because it works for the whole group. A shaman would have to buff each person first.

[@jouaienttoi]

I never heard this place being referred to as "Northeron" and have been part of the WoW Secrets community for many years. It is called Quel'Thalas in game because it was likely where Blizzard was planning to add Quel'Thalas, but decided against it. That area of the map also houses part of outside Stratholme. Also like many people have point out, there were never invisible walls there. You can test it on both Classic and Private Servers.

[@TyrannosavageRekt]

It was definitely speculated to be Northeron a lot, back in the pre-Cataclysm days, even though it didn't really fit the location. Dun Kithas was supposed to be the capital of Northeron, and it was just a little south of Quel'Thalas. Apparently though, this area was actually supposed to be the location of the Dragon Isles raid that was originally planned.

[@godlygamer911]

You definitely have not been a part of it for long enough, because yes it is.

[@mattwo7]

Northeron was actually In images of the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, there's an aviary (gryphon roost) that is notably missing from these ruins lol. Really though, the fact it's more NElfish than Dwarvish makes me question why people thought it was Northeron. Northeron was home to some members of the Wildhammer clan, not NElves.

[@Lebeefio]

Love the mystrry surrounding this place. Your voice and script just make it all that much better. Thanks again for the amazing dedication and content, will definitely be visiting here myself haha.

[@FullMotionVideos]

Thank you so much for the feedback! It feels rad that people appreciate the content, I do my best to make sure every video is at least good haha So it's good to hear that you like them :)

[@BigFredMachine]

There's no invisible wall in classic, you can simply swim there.

[@FullMotionVideos]

My mistake! I remember an invisible wall in Vanilla, should have gone and checked in Classic though. Thanks for the correction! :)

[@darksakurattv]

In later releases, the way I get there is to do an exploit that sends me into a non-instanced version of Stratholme. There are a LOT of unused assets behind the town, and you can follow the area straight on to that lovely little Elven retreat.

[@gcole1772]

It’s weird I never see anything about the hidden old old ZG you can access through a window within karazhan.

[@tsulong]

Way back when., I think it must have been wotlk? near the end of the expac, they did something to how priest levitate worked, and I could use it to walk horizontally along cliff faces that you normally couldn't walk on. I remember using it to travel to this area, and also some other off-limits spots too, like underneath all of orgrimmar 😅

[@angrynoodles4293]

You should have so much more subs dude, this is amazing work.

[@pygmygoatofdoom]

Unfortunately it looks like that as of 9.1.5 the invisible wall has been put back up for good, no matter what phase or timewalker you're in :(

[@FullMotionVideos]

Ah, that's unfortunate! :( At least we have this to document the area. Maybe someday the wall will come back down again

[@Padsquad2010]

I was able to work around the invisible wall about a month ago. It’s still there, but there’s a spot where you can poke through on a flying mount

[@Schluviel]

I feel like the Northeron Stuff was made because of Warcraft 3. Don't forget the Kaldorei and Blood Elves met in northern Lordaeron while Kael'Thas was on Duty for the Alliance still, and Maiev, Malfurion + Tyrande were chasing Illidan

[@buddhamonkey]

I got there by accident a long time ago trying to swim from the Hinterlands to The Ghostlands. Ended up swimming "through" Ghostlands and would up at the tower.

[@austinwilburn1772]

Wow for a small channel you have a really high quality. I hope you make it big, you clearly have the talent for it.

[@Eventwow]

I remember being there in vanilla. There was no force field back then.

[@TrafalgarWaterDLaw-dl5cm]

Lorewise the structures also make sense since High elves were just futher mutated Nightelves due to arcane overuse. So it is reasonable that after they were banished first settlers still used their familiarized architecture that evolved as they settled and developed a own culture over the years.

[@markschumacher3157]

love these secret videos to fall asleep to. The Elwin Forrest video is so comforting. Thanks

[@ironwox]

That big elven tower was a part of competition, find the hidden wonders way back

[@chrisrad2521]

Hey man! love your content..keep the good stuff comin.

[@mattwo7]

3:43 No, I don't think so. In WC3 NElves had their own buildings but HElves/BElves used human buildings.

[@oluftheexplorer9476]

I've only ever been there by glitching through Stratholme. The "force field" wasn't there before WoD, and it is just the same effect seen used by Ner'zhul when he's summoning the dark star

[@jkm6060]

The highelfes/bloodelfes had to go because they where the reason sageras found azeroth, because of the magical energy. But they cant stop it, so they created a barrier to hide the magic usage. Si if this is the earliest setup of Quel'thalas, this barrier must be the magic shild.

[@portograal6106]

I remember coming here and it was the only location which would read. Quel'Thalas as you enter the Island, wed spend loads of time here. My most familiar secret location.

[@JordanAndTrazyn]

This is great! Thank you!

[@FullMotionVideos]

Hey, thank you! :)

[@TheJacob232]

i didnt even know this was a thing.....and i prided myself in out of bounds exploration

[@jamesarmendariz1479]

Good , high quality wow video that's not a copy of something. I'm amazed, good work man

[@Iowsbub]

Another great video! Love your content, keep it up!

[@FullMotionVideos]

Thank you so much, the kind words are very appreciated :)

[@RicardoOliveira-pl9tv]

love you vids man

[@FullMotionVideos]

Thanks dude!

[@jimvaizidis821]

This reminds me when i managed to enter Gilneas in during Lich King! You can climb up to the stone wall that blocks you,and you reach a part when an invisible wall stops you,so as a mage i accidentally blinked inside! It was an empty place with some trees ahaha,the game area was changed to gilneas when i entered!

[@cujoedaman]

There were hints and rumors it would be a launching point to get to the Dragon Isles. Would make sense from a geological perspective, it's the closest place that isn't 100% Horde controlled like Quel'thalas. Sadly, it wasn't meant to be. Also rumors that the third unused dock in Teldressil would have been used to take us to The Broken Isles before it was burned.

[@ShiroNikku]

Don't know about a barrier but I do know if you swim around from hinterlands and go past eastern plaguelands and just keep going and I mean like 20 mins. A small elven island exist. And if you keep swimming around you will reach the murloc beach in tirisfal glades

[@schm1596]

Northeron is one of the exploits that interests me the most

[@ElDiarioDeKarlana]

nice content bro i

[@FullMotionVideos]

Thank you!! :)

[@TheEndrass]

You could enter this Area since BC, i explored it 12 or 13 years ago roughly on the same date i visited the catacombs of kharazan

[@Drakano77]

Interesting is that this area can't be entered in the past version of Tirisfall. Not even Eagle Eye and such do work there. It always gets reseted when trying to at least see the area this way. I tried it after in the current (BfA) version and I could get there without any problems at all. Even more confusion, why can't i leave the way i entered? I'm blocked by an invisible wall, if i want to leave. Nevermind, the Void Elf ability made it possible xD

[@Sanguivore]

Hey, Full Motion Videos, what addon are you using to add that circular castbar around your cursor? :O That's real nice!

[@ladygagagagax4]

Used Demonic Gateway on my warlock to get there! :) pretty cool

[@boobah7815]

That’s where Illidan was kept for ten thousand years when a frost mage froze him there

[@hueym2196]

No luck getting there without flying in retail. There is a wall and it goes into vatige.

[@thestalwartinefromstalwart4126]

I suspect that this is gonna be used in the current saga somehow, since that kind of looks like a void type of sky.

[@TownPortals]

This is the Sepulcher. Definitely.

[@pokeylope6108]

This Zone was originally going to be the dragon Isles and that Coast was just a chunk of the zone but that got scrapped because classic wow was supposed to have Outland and dragon Isles included in the base game as a patch I have a feeling they will be using this Zone for Dragon flight patch which would be wholesome

[@witchlynproductions753]

That was definitely not supposed to be the dragon isles. Its not an island first of all, and second the dragon isles was never considered a small area.

[@pokeylope6108]

@@witchlynproductions753 go look at the old classic beta world map plan. The coast is part of the zone "Dragon Isles" and the island portions were off that coast.

[@pokeylope6108]

@@witchlynproductions753 as you can see from the alpha map of the game made by blizz devs, had that costal area as part of the "Dragon Isles" zone, which was also meant to be a raid zone. This was the first and only mentions of dragon isles before BfA/SL and Now DragonFlight.

[@pokeylope6108]

@@witchlynproductions753 KZbin Dumb censorship algorithm will not let me comment a link but go to Beta archives or just look at wow Alpha world map concept and you will find one of the blizzard that ones that was the only map to ever show the dragon Isles and like in the previous statement as you can see the coast is part of the zone that is called the dragon Isles the dragon Isles is the Zone name but doesn't mean that a chunk of his own can't be a coast and it was also meant to be a raid wide Zone and got scrapped also an original wow outlands was supposed to be a thing too and became an expansion

[@pokeylope6108]

@@witchlynproductions753 I've been playing Wow since 2004 trust me when I tell you I know all the little tidbits about the game and all the little extra lower pieces behind its creation I love the lore and the world and it was and still is a huge part of my life I know what I'm talking about with this and my basis for my argument is the map that I told you about that comes from blizzard not the fact that I've been playing wow I'm just saying that so you realize I'm not just some Rando who started playing during Warlords or Legion

[@litterbox2010]

I always considered this their landing point.

[@wolfewatson]

Great videos man, keep it up. Make the subscribe and like segment earlier not at the end, should do better😊

[@stanislavjohnson3605]

everytime I see kaldorei ruins, I assume it is ruin after sundering, only thing that kinda doesn't match up here is the dock, unfortunately

[@emanon2794]

"perhaps" this video loves this word.

[@ellescer]

you can actually get there in classic just swim along the coast, there is no invisible wall

[@Flarisic]

bro i feel like hayven games made this exact video

[@iriviking774]

I think the tower looks a lot Like the tower from classic wow cinematic. With the mage casting from a tower

[@Azmina_the_warlock]

I can't like the video as it's hit the holy number 🤘🏻 So here's a comment like 👍🏻

[@Talbaz]

Got here on my mage years ago by swimming around the coast

[@valhallaLord]

it’s funny how i my character died while on the way to kalimdor, which caused him to get thrown into oblivion & i got revived at this spot. i couldn’t move or use any item, so i logged out & used on of my other chars, to write a ticket. the gm asked me how i got there & that i shouldn’t play around & do some stupid things, since i shouldn’t visit these places. next time he wouldn’t free my character from this place 😂 still very weird to this day for me, but yes 🙌

[@AlphaWolf62493]

So I fact, check this video follow the instructions, determined the exact location made it to said location, and there was nothing there the closest thing to what he mentions in this video that can be found as some is some blood elf structures located in the ghost lands, which are a part of the area in question

[@CFkatehudson]

did you travel through odd angles like lovecraft spoke of

[@richardmullins4894]

Hirumaredx brought me here :)

[@FullMotionVideos]

He's a dope dude, thanks for checking my videos out :)

[@theVelvetAlley]

Just tried to get there and it appears the invisible wall is back. Playing retail.

[@danielz.9817]

happy

[@audiofun1]

Look! Hiru found your content, others will follow

[@danisthegreat2003]

Nope i had gone there in 2019 no wall wather walking

[@jerrybeansman1040]

Northeron is the in universe name for the twilight highlands dude

[@FullMotionVideos]

It is now! Co-opted that, but this is what used to be "Northeron" before the Twilight Highlands were even a thing.

[@rachelheav857]

this is GMs island where all thee GMs used to hang out...... it used to be a bannable offence to go here, as you have to exploit to get here

[@bubbadumps3747]

Seems like the spot where what would become the highelves landed

[@shadowforge]

You get sent here during a Legion quest I just can't remember if its for an artifact weapon or not.