The remote plains of Desolace were once home to a unique breed of horse too proud and wild to countenance riders. After having brutally murdered their father, the half-horse creatures quickly proliferated and spread out across Kalimdor, driving the tauren of Desolace from their homes and igniting a long and dark period of war between the two races that would come to last for many centuries. From this forbidden and unnatural union, the centaur were born. Theradras requited Zaetar's affection, and the two became mates.

Zaetar, son of the forestlord Cenarius, traveled to Desolace to investigate, but though he had decided to imprison Theradras, he instead fell in love with her. The sudden monumental loss of life sent ripples throughout all of Azeroth and even the Emerald Dream. The tauren would later name this now barren land 'Desolace'. The newly awakened Theradras reached out to the verdant surroundings for sustenance and consumed their energies in order to regenerate her weakened form. After decades of attempting to rouse her from her slumber, the shaman eventually succeeded, but to their horror they realized that what they had awakened was not the benevolent Earth Mother, but the enormous earth elemental Princess Theradras, daughter of Therazane the Stonemother. Drawn by faint elemental whisperings, the tauren became convinced that somewhere beneath the meadows, the Earth Mother herself dwelled. The sacred Centaur grounds of Maraudon are the only instance in the area.ДЎ,100 years before the Dark Portal, Desolace, then known as Mashan'she ('Loom of the Earth Mother' in Taur-ahe) was a fertile grassland frequented by the shaman of the nomadic tauren tribes. With the Burning Blade to the north in Thunder Axe Fortress, satyrs in the northeastern ruins, and naga on the northwest coast, Desolace remains a harsh environment even with the Cenarion Circle's best efforts.

The Magram, Kolkar and Gelkis tribes of centaur continue to fight, whilst the demonic Burning Legion gathers in Mannoroc Coven. Despite this, conflict continues to rage between various factions, including the Horde and Alliance. The homeland of the barbarous centaur, Desolace was once nothing but a massive grey desert, filled with dead trees and skulls of dead kodo, along with warring centaur tribes and the malevolent, demon-worshipping Burning Blade clan.ДЄfter the Cataclysm, the area has become far more fertile, with grass, trees, and increased settlement by the Horde, Alliance, and Cenarion Circle.

DesolaceДesolace, originally known as Mashan'she, is a large, arid region on the western coast of Kalimdor, nestled between the Stonetalon Mountains in the north and the jungles of Feralas in the south. For how Desolace was prior to Cataclysm, see Desolace (Classic).

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