As the aftershocks from the Well's implosion rattled the bones of the world, the seas rushed in to fill the gaping wound left in the earth. Nearly eighty percent of Kalimdor's landmass had been blasted apart, leaving only a handful of separate continents surrounding the new, raging sea. At the center of the new sea, where the Well of Eternity once stood, was a tumultuous storm of tidal fury and chaotic energies. This terrible scar, known as the Maelstrom, would never cease its furious spinning. It would remain a constant reminder of the terrible catastrophe... and the utopian era that had been lost forever.
Somehow, against all odds, Queen Azshara and her Highborne elite managed to survive the ordeal. Tortured and twisted by the powers they had released, Azshara and her followers were dragged down beneath the raging sea by the Well's implosion. Cursed - transformed - they took on new shapes and became the hateful serpentine naga. Azshara herself expanded with hate and rage, becoming a massive monstrosity, reflecting the wickedness and malice that had always hidden within her core.
There, at the bottom of the Maelstrom, the naga built for themselves a new city, Nazjatar, from which they would rebuild their power. It would take over ten thousand years before the naga would reveal their existence to the surface world.
Based on this information the naga city of Nazjatar lies under just underneath the maelstrom. There is potential that this could be explored in a future expansion. Here my reasoning to that.
Back in the alpha of world of warcraft they used to use dark portal geometry to signify the location of a dungeon when building the original world. You can see an example of this in the picture below with a dark portal signifying Scholomance.
Well as it so turns out during the alpha there was one particular portal that got removed with no dungeon in place of it, this portal was located in Azshara as seen below.
Now theres another thing we need to look at check out designer island in the alpha of world of warcraft.
and now lets see what it looked like when wow was released.
See the one big difference? This dungeon known as the "Naga Temple" has been on designer island since the release of world of warcraft. Heres some art as well as an ingame render.
Personally I believe this is either suppose to be an entrance to the naga city or it could be the capital of the city itself. It is a particularly interesting piece of geometry, but it never made it in the game.
If this did come in an expansion, it would bring back the old world, which in my opinion should be revisited instead of being pushed further away every expansion. It would also make for an interesting story line. Laters
-Paladin Alysm
P.S. Heres some youtube gameplay footage of the naga temple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnb4IqK8FJk
Intresting stuff starts at 0:45
Credits : Pictures and information from nogg-aholic - Check out his blog at http://nogg-aholic.blogspot.com/
Youtube clip - From user InstitutioN2457 his page is at : http://www.youtube.com/user/InstitutioN2457
