The Black Morass

Details

LevelLevel 25-30

Subzones1

Quests4

ExpansionThe Burning Crusade

Game mapOpening of the Dark Portal

In-game mapThe Black Morass (map in Caverns of Time)

Part ofCaverns of Time, Tanaris

Counts are what the current game build's data holds for this zone.

WoW Forever: what our data shows

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

Map

The game data gives The Black Morass no map of its own. Shown here: the in-game map of Tanaris, the map the game files its The Black Morass maps under. The game data gives no position for it on this map, so nothing is marked.

About The Black Morass

The Black Morass is an area of the Opening of the Dark Portal game map, from The Burning Crusade. In game it is drawn on The Black Morass map, which sits inside Caverns of Time. No other named area shares that game map.

Group finder

Opening of the Dark Portal (Normal)

Group finder

Opening of the Dark Portal (Heroic)

Named areas inside The Black Morass 1 area

• The Dark Portal

Quest Briefings in The Black Morass

The opening lines of the 4 quests the game places in The Black Morass, in the quest giver’s own words.

• The Black MorassThe Infinite Dragonflight have abandoned all pretense of subtlety. They plot to destroy the Guardian, Medivh, and prevent the Dark Portal from ever opening.
• The Opening of the Dark PortalBeyond this timeway the Guardian, Medivh, feverishly works to open the Dark Portal. Scattered across the morass, rifts will materialize.
• WANTED: Aeonus's HourglassI swear that some of my customers are crazy. There are possessions that you go after, and there are ones that you dare not even think of!
• WANTED: Rift LordsMah'duun knows where you must go. Mah'duun knows that you must kill rift lords. But, Mah'duun does not know exactly when.

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