Tarren Mill

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Tarren Mill is a Horde-allied town located in the northeast of the Hillsbrad Foothills.

Contents 1 History 2 Tarren Mill is under attack! 3 Facilities 3.1 Notable trade items 4 Travel connections 4.1 Flight 5 Quests 5.1 Starting 6 Notes 7 Trivia

History

The township of Tarren Mill was originally a coastal town in the Tarren Mill region of Lordaeron (shown to be southwest of Alterac) during the Second War. King Terenas had ordered Alliance forces to the town in order to free elven archers that had been captured in the region, and were being held in a nearby prison camp. The elves had sent along a force of elven archers to assist the Alliance soldiers in the task, as well as plans for an elven lumber mill.^{W2ToDOSG 98-99, 101}

When the soldiers reached Tarren Mill the discovered that the elven archers had already prepared the village for war. They had located their captured brethren, and were ready to seek revenge. The enemy camp was too far inland for Alliance warships to assist so they made preparations to march the next day. The Alliance forces made several raids from the town before attacking the Horde prison camp. The soldiers returned to Tarren Mill and immediately sent word of their success. A day later an elven destroyer arrived at the town with orders for the force to board ship and sail to Southshore where the battles were becoming more common.^{W2ToDOSG 98-99, 101}

While the reason is not clear, Tarren Mill was eventually moved inland northeast of Southshore (and southeast of Alterac). Humans once ran this mill, but it fell to the Scourge, and later the Forsaken. The undead, led by High Executor Darthalia, attacks Hillsbrad’s citizens mercilessly.^{LoC 98}

Tarren Mill was once a thriving Human town, but was destroyed and taken over by the Forsaken soon after the Battle of Mount Hyjal. The town was the site of a major battle between the Orcish Horde and the Alliance of Lordaeron during the days of the Second War.

Tarren Mill is under attack!

This affectionate nickname is due to the unfortunate fact that, before the introduction of Battlegrounds, Tarren Mill was essentially inaccessible because of the 24-hour all-out war that took place right outside it, and oftentimes even inside it; this situation was created because Southshore is so close by. In its early days, it was not uncommon to find every single NPC — merchants, quest NPCs, and even the bat handler — to be killed immediately upon their spawning. The Honor System did eventually manage to curb this slaughter, but it didn't even put a dent in the real problem: ganking of low-level players, a problem that existed mainly because Horde players arrive there at 20-30, whilst many Alliance players go there 5-10 levels later.

The huge load of dozens of players fighting at once created massive zonewide slowdown, oftentimes leading to a condition known as 'lag death' simply because a network connection couldn't possibly handle the overload — more than once an entire server has crashed whenever hundreds were fighting simultaneously. If one were to be either foolish or masochistic enough to turn on the LocalDefense channel (or, alternately, the WorldDefense channel), the phrase that gave Tarren Mill its nickname would literally crowd out anything and everything else in the chatbox.

A common sight (if one's hardware could manage to show it) was a veritable wall of Alliance charging the town, with another wall of Horde rushing forward to meet them. Common latency times were 5+ seconds, with the highest values of 7+ seconds. Since the introduction of Battlegrounds, however, what was once a fool's dream is now a reality: sporadic peace in Tarren Mill. However, on PvP servers it is still a favorite area for Alliance players to hunt lower-level Horde players and vice versa.

Facilities

• Herbalism trainer
• Alchemy trainer (expert)
• Tailoring trainer (master)
• Mushroom vendor
• Trade supplies vendor
• Tailoring vendor
• Weaponsmith (south of town - allows item repair)
• Forge (behind weaponsmith above)
• Stable master
• Inn
• Mailbox
• Flight master

Notable trade items

• Recipe: Shadow Protection Potion at Cristoph Jeffcoat, tradesman (in the inn)

Buildings:

• 1 Church
• 1 Barn
• 2 one-story houses
• 1 two-story house (acts as an inn)

Travel connections

Flight

The Undercity

The Sepulcher

Revantusk Village

Hammerfall

Quests

Starting

•  [32] Stone Tokens
•  [34] Prison Break In
  •  [35] Dalaran Patrols
•  [23] Blood of Innocents
  •  [23] Return to Thunder Bluff
•  [22] Elixir of Suffering
  •  [22] Elixir of Suffering (2)
•  [24] Elixir of Pain
  •  [24] Elixir of Pain (2)

1.  [28] Elixir of Agony
2.  [28] Elixir of Agony (2)
3.  [30] Elixir of Agony (3)
4.  [30] Elixir of Agony (4)
5.  [30] Elixir of Agony (5)

•  [32] The Hammer May Fall
•  [39] The Crown of Will
•  [22] The Rescue

1.  [24] Battle of Hillsbrad
2.  [25] Battle of Hillsbrad (2)
3.  [26] Battle of Hillsbrad (3)
4.  [26] Battle of Hillsbrad (4)
5.  [28] Battle of Hillsbrad (5)
6.  [30] Battle of Hillsbrad (6)
7.  [32] Battle of Hillsbrad (7)

•  [28] Dangerous!
•  [30+] Humbert's Sword
•  [31] Soothing Turtle Bisque (Horde)

Notes

• Newer players, who are not paying attention, often call Tarren Mill "Tauren Mill". "Terran Mill" is also occasionally used.
• Some Horde players also know Tarren Mill as "ganking hell".

Trivia

• The map for Lands of Conflict shows Tarren Mill as Tebren Mill.
• Near the Tarren Mill entry in Lands of Conflict, it is also spelled as Tarrin's Mill. In the entry itself, it is spelled correctly.^{LoC 98}

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