Shattrath: The Forgotten City

The Hope of revitalizing a once epic city.

By: Heather R. Brinkman

The History of Shattrath“Dwelling of Light”

• The Burning Crusades

• Once the capital city of Draenor

• Sha’tar• Refugies• Aldor and Scryer

Location

Species

• Blood Elves

• Draenie

Factions

So Why is Shattrath Important?

• First city for both horde and alliance• Attempt to force factions to work together• Blending of factions within Aldor and Scryer

The four criterion that Shattrath exemplifies

• #1: to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius;• #2: to exhibit an important interchange of human values,

over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design;

• #3: to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared;

• #5: to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history;

Current Uses

• Children’s week

• Way point

Ethnographic

• “Not very often. Mostly for transmog gear/turn in tokens for old raid gear.”

• “Using it as a waypoint to get to old raid content.”

• “Passing through to collect pets.”

• “Passing thru to go kick dirt in Illidian's face.”

Survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/analyze/Vf0b073_2BRmMzz7m_2FNpdhI5AvwSicLogFxNRw_2B1XhXpM_3D

• “The race specific factions that were not aligned with the expansions story of playable races was odd. Blood elves that alliance could befriend and draenei the horde coin join.”

• “The duel faction idea between the Aldor and Scryers was interesting.”

Access for Players

– Portal from “vanilla”

– Portals from major cities

– Mage port

– Lock summon

Access for general public

• Buying the game

• Accessing information through websites

Why revitalized

• First city that factions could come together that disallowed fighting.

• First to find area to find a common ground even if language difficulties.

Maintained

• Blizzard maintains site– Weekly restarts – Weekly maintenance

• Disallow violence

Conclusion

Shattrath is a beautiful and was an unique city in that it was the first of its kind to disallow

fighting and help to improve tensions between horde and alliance.