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The Maelstrom is the gigantic rift that was created when the Well of Eternity collapsed into itself during the Great Sundering.
As things currently stand, the Maelstrom is a large storm only viewable in World of Warcraft on the world map, where it sits between Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. Ship and zeppelin routes go out of their way to avoid the Maelstrom, for fairly obvious reasons. It is implied that the Maelstrom is slowly drawing the Broken Isles towards itself, and will ultimately destroy them for good.
At the center of the Maelstrom is a location known as the Eye. The empires of the makrura and the naga lie beneath it.
In Warcraft III, when Thrall's fleet crashed, they made an emergency landing on an island near the Maelstrom where they found a group of trolls fighting desperately against human colonists and murloc invaders. The island was destroyed (though not by the Maelstrom), with Thrall barely escaping.
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