Demon Fall Canyon

Demon Fall Canyon is a fel-corrupted canyon in southeastern Ashenvale, south of Felfire Hill and just east of Demon Fall Ridge. Lesser demons fill it. A monument to Grom Hellscream stands in the canyon, and a path beside it climbs to Demon Fall Barrow, a barrow den.

The canyon is named for the fight between the pit lord Mannoroth and the orcs Grommash Hellscream and Thrall. Mannoroth knocked Thrall senseless, but Grom's axe split the demon's chest, and the blast of Mannoroth's death killed Grom as well. Orcs travel there to honor the warrior who freed their people from the Burning Legion's curse, and Thrall's words on the monument say Grom paid for that freedom with his blood.

The loa have told a Shadowtooth troll of a poison gathering strength where Mannoroth was slain. Someone is drawing power from the pit lord's remains, and she believes they must be using illusions to hide their rituals. The dreadlord Diathorus the Seeker keeps his lair here. In Winterspring's Darkwhisper Gorge he broke a ritual led by Gregory, a death knight who was once a paladin of the Silver Hand; he killed the paladin Ada Darkhardt and called forth the pit lord Azgaloth, whom he invited to his canyon lair as a general for an invasion to come.

Other foes wait with them: Grimroot, an ancient called the Mourning Guardian; the Destructor's Wraith, a felguard; Zilbagob, an imp who drives a goblin shredder; and Pyranis, a night elf druid who warns intruders that they cannot stop what has been put in motion. At the monument, adventurers face a fel orc spirit, Hellscream's Phantom.

The Shadowtooth Emissary at the Emerald Sanctuary in Felwood makes a ward from the glands of Winterspring owlbeasts; it protects its bearer from the fel glamours around the canyon. Gregory knows that Uther the Lightbringer's blood is needed to slay Azgaloth, and he has paladins consecrate their weapons with it and destroy the pit lord, for his fallen friend Aeonas and for Ada. Doan Karhan sends warlocks in alone to summon the demon Des'Altek and take his soul.