Redridge Mountains

Redridge Mountains
Level 15-20
Capital	Lakeshire
Races	Human  Dwarf Orc Wildhammer  High elf  Murloc  Gnoll
Government	Democracy
Major settlements	Stonewatch Keep
Minor settlements	Tower of Ilgalar
Affiliation	Alliance
Location	Eastern Azeroth
PvP status	Contested territory (PvP realms only)

For the Warcraft: Orcs & Humans campaign mission, see The Red Ridge Mountains (WC1 Orc).

The Redridge Mountains (also known as the Red Ridge Mountains or Redridge Range) are located east of Elwynn Forest, northeast of Duskwood, and south of the Burning Steppes. Although it may be considered contested, Horde characters have no settlements or NPCs and it is thus a place they use mostly for passing through to reach Flame Crest or Stonard.

An idyllic region of rushing rivers, towering elms and rising elevations, the Redridge Mountains are under Stormwind's protection, and remain one of the last peaceful regions in Azeroth. The people are content and calm, and supply Stormwind with timber, fish, and crops. A force of Blackrock orcs from the Burning Steppes has secured Stonewatch Keep, but so far the orcs keep to themselves. In comparison with Westfall, Redridge is still relatively stable.

On the northern bank of Lake Everstill is the Alliance town of Lakeshire, the central hub for this faction's adventurers, offering many services and quests, as well as flight paths. As the town is under constant siege by gnolls and Blackrock orcs, adventurers should use extreme caution around this town.

The enemy-held Stonewatch Keep and Tower of Ilgalar are connected with quests, but are also very dangerous and require a party to handle properly.

The crossroads known as the Three Corners, located in the southwest corner of the zone, connects the town of Lakeshire with Elwynn, Duskwood and, via the Lakeridge Highway, Stonewatch Keep. The highway itself is quite a dangerous place occupied by gnolls, murlocs, and wild animals. There are also a few camps located in Redridge — an orc camp in Render's Valley, Shadow Hide gnoll camps near the Tower of Ilgalar, and murloc camps near the lake. While the lake's surface appears peaceful enough, murlocs reside beneath the waves, and rumours of sightings of a sea monster persist.

History

Geographically, the Redridge Mountains form the spine of the continent of Azeroth, although its many limbs and valleys have come to be known by separate, often ominous names such as 'Deadwind Pass' and the 'Burning Steppes'. Although claimed by the humans, the dwarven Dark Iron clan founded its own kingdom in the northern reaches, fleeing defeat in the War of the Three Hammers. Summoning the Firelord Ragnaros to aid them, their leader Thaurissan inadvertently caused the eruption of a new, immense volcano; Blackrock Mountain. This not only destroyed his clan's new city, but utterly devastated the ecology of northern Redridge, forever leaving it an ash-choked wasteland.

The humans of Stormwind remained dominant in the unblemished southern ranges. Now a much smaller region, the Redridge Mountains were eventually conquered by the Orcish Horde in the First War, in which the southern kingdom was forced into exile. The humans eventually returned triumphant and began rebuilding their former holdings. Yet the orcs of the Blackrock and Black Tooth Grin clans would also return, this new "Dark Horde" plaguing the town of Lakeshire from their former stronghold of Blackrock Mountain.

Eventually, the orcs allied with the wicked human warlock Morganth and his Shadowhide gnoll lackeys, and seized the eastern half of Redridge, capturing the human castle of Stonewatch Keep before the events of World of Warcraft. Weakened by political turmoil in Stormwind, Lakeshire was left with little military aid to fend off the encroaching orcs until the return of Reginald Windsor.

The region remains heavily contested. Desperate, the people of Redridge seek help from outside sources, recruiting passing adventurers to help in the defence of Lakeshire and the liberation of Stonewatch.

Geography

The Redridge Mountains contain no dungeons, raid dungeons, or battlegrounds. The micro dungeon Stonewatch can be found in this zone. The Redridge Range stretches from the zone of the Redridge Mountains to the zone of Deadwind Pass.

Maps and subregions

Map of Redridge Mountains.

• Topographic map of Redridge Mountains

Travel hubs

Tower of Ilgalar

Flight paths from Lakeshire

• Stormwind, Elwynn Forest
• Eastvale Logging Camp, Elwynn Forest
• Sentinel Hill, Westfall
• Camp Everstill, Redridge Mountains
• Darkshire, Duskwood
• Morgan's Vigil, Burning Steppes
• The Harborage, Swamp of Sorrows

Flight paths from Camp Everstill

• Lakeshire, Redridge Mountains
• Shalewind Canyon, Redridge Mountains

Flight paths from Shalewind Canyon

• Camp Everstill, Redridge Mountains
• Bogpaddle, Swamp of Sorrows

Adjacent Regions

Zone Name	Faction	Level Range	Direction	Access
Burning Steppes		50-52	North	By foot or flight path Chiselgrip, Flame Crest, Morgan's Vigil).
Duskwood		20-25	Southwest	By foot or flight path (Darkshire, Raven Hill).
Elwynn Forest		1-10	West	By foot or flight path (Eastvale Logging Camp, Goldshire).
Swamp of Sorrows		52-54	South	By foot or flight path (Bogpaddle, Marshtide Watch, Stonard, The Harborage).

Quest and travel hubs

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Place Name	Faction	# of Quests	Flight Path	Notable Character
Camp Everstill		??	YES	Bravo Company
Keeshan's Post	1	??	NO2
Lakeshire		??	YES	Magistrate Solomon
Shalewind Canyon		??	YES	John J. Keeshan

1. Initially unoccupied, Keeshan's Post gets quests and NPCs after  [20] AHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!!! has been completed.

Redridge Range

The Redridge Highway

The Redridge Range is a mountain range in the southern sub-continent of Azeroth that stretches from the zone of the Redridge Mountains to the zone of Deadwind Pass. The range once extended much farther north, but three hundred years before the opening of the Dark Portal the range was shattered by the summoning of Ragnaros and the creation of Blackrock Mountain. Warcraft RPG

Notable characters

Lakeshire Inn

Main article: Redridge Mountains NPCs

The Redridge Mountains are home to several humans of note, the great bulk of which reside in Lakeshire. At the fallen bridge Marshal Marris sends promising young humans to eradicate the clusters of Shadowhide gnolls and Blackrock orcs who have taken a chokehold on the land. He is assisted in his efforts by Verner Osgood, who also seeks to rid Redridge of the vile Redridge gnolls. And at the Lakeshire Town Hall, the aging Magistrate Solomon recruits adventures to seek help from Stormwind's other bastions of civilization like Stormwind City, Sentinel Hill, and Darkshire. Stormwind City seems to have abandoned Lakeshire to fend for itself like it did to Darkshire and Sentinel Hill. Both these towns say they cannot help Lakeshire due to their own overwhelming problems.

Quests

Foreman Oslow in a spot of bother

Main article: Redridge Mountains storyline

Resources

Alther's Mill

• Cloth
  •  [Linen Cloth]
  •  [Wool Cloth]
  •  [Silk Cloth]
• Herbs
  •  [Earthroot]
  •  [Mageroyal]
  •  [Swiftthistle]
  • Briarthorn
  •  [Bruiseweed]
• Leather
  •  [Light Leather]
  •  [Medium Leather]
  •  [Black Whelp Scale] (Skinning level 17-25 whelps)
• Ore
  • Copper Vein
  • Tin Vein
  • Silver Vein

Dig sites

Redridge Mountains has one dig site:

1. Lakeridge Highway; contains Fossil Archaeology Fragments.

Wild creatures

Render's Camp

• Boars
• Carrion Birds
• Dragon Whelps
• Gnolls
• Murlocs
• Orcs
• Tarantulas
• Threshadons
• Giants (only one though, the rare mob Boulderheart)
• Freshwater Eels

Notes, tips, & additional info

Close up of the Flight Path marker at Keeshan's Post on the Redridge map. There is currently no Flight Master present in any of the phases here.

• Redridge has one of the game's highest level-gaps between zones at its border with the Burning Steppes, which is a 30 level jump from 20 to 50. Players are instead directed to Duskwood (to the southwest) after completing all the quests here.
• There are a few current phasing bugs in this area. Players have reported various bugs in the Render's Valley area in which the area doesn't appear to be in the correct phase that the player is actually in. However, a more specific issue is present at the Keeshan's Post area. The map lists an Alliance-only Flight Path as being available in that part of the zone, yet there is no Flight Master to be found anywhere near the map's marker (only one of the NPC's that is involved in a quest), even after all the quests involving Keeshan in both Redridge and later in the Burning Stepps are completed in full. There is currently no word on if there is actually a FP that's intended to be there, or if it's only there for a particular phase, or if the map is marked incorrectly. This has yet to be included by Blizzard in the list of known bugs.

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB

PC Gamespy Read Flintlocke's letter to the Mayor of Redridge!