It was one of the first draenei cities overrun by the orcs before the first opening of the [[Dark Portal]].<ref>{{ref game |title=World of Warcraft |expansion=[[The Burning Crusade]] |campaign= |mission= |zone=[[Terokkar Forest]] |npc=Vindicator Idaar |quote= |quest={{quest|The Fate of Tuurem}} }}</ref>

Now it's inhabited by hostile mutated draenei: the [[Wrekt]] [[broken]] and the [[Tuurem (Lost Ones)|Tuurem]] [[Lost One]]s. It is here where they sent a Broken suicide bomber to blow up [[Cenarion Thicket]], a [[Cenarion Expedition]] outpost closeby. The Broken and Lost Ones of Tuurem are allied with [[Kael'thas]]'s [[Firewing]] [[blood elves]] of [[Firewing Point]].<ref>{{ref game |title=World of Warcraft |expansion=[[The Burning Crusade]] |campaign= |mission= |zone=[[Terokkar Forest]] |npc=Lieutenant Meridian |quote= |quest={{quest|Attack on Firewing Point (Alliance)}} }}</ref><ref>{{ref game |title=World of Warcraft |expansion=[[The Burning Crusade]] |campaign= |mission= |zone=[[Terokkar Forest]] |npc=Sergeant Chawni |quote= |quest={{quest|Attack on Firewing Point (Horde)}} }}</ref> The broken [[Empoor]], a traveling salesman, delivered the ingredients<ref>{{ref game |title=World of Warcraft |expansion=[[The Burning Crusade]] |campaign= |mission= |zone=[[Terokkar Forest]] |npc=Empoor |quote= |quest={{quest|Wind Trader Lathrai}} }}</ref> for the bomb<ref>{{ref game |title=World of Warcraft |expansion=[[The Burning Crusade]] |campaign= |mission= |zone=[[Terokkar Forest]] |npc=Jenai Starwhisper |quote= |quest={{quest|What Are These Things? (Alliance)}} }}</ref> from Shattrath City to Tuurem to make the explosive device.<ref>{{ref game |title=World of Warcraft |expansion=[[The Burning Crusade]] |campaign= |mission= |zone=[[Terokkar Forest]] |npc=Wind Trader Lathrai |quote= |quest={{quest|Investigate Tuurem}} }}</ref> In Tuurem there are some [[Firewing]] blood elves that take the parts of the bombs to [[Firewing Point]].<ref>[[Pathaleon the Calculator's Image#Conversations of Pathaleon|Conversation between Pathaleon the Calculator's Image and Sharth Voldoun]]</ref>