Safe Haven

Safe Haven is a cinematic that sees Varok Saurfang traveling to Nagrand to seek out Thrall and ask him to fight for the Horde's honor. Set before the events of Patch 8.2: Rise of Azshara, Safe Haven was released on May 15, 2019.

Varok Saurfang realizes that if he is to secure a future for the Horde, he must reach out to the one who led it in the past.

• Outland
• Nagrand
• Oshu'gun (in the background)
• Thrall's home

• Varok Saurfang is walking through the fields of Nagrand. He touches the field's grain and it crumbles in his hand. While gazing at Outland's landscape, he continues towards an orcish settlement while Oshu'gun stands imposing on the distance. As he walks towards the residence of an old friend, Thrall appears grinding a blade, then he notices Saurfang approaching. The two walk towards each other and meet in front of a building.
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• Thrall takes notice of Varok Saurfang's slightly burned pendant with a Horde insignia before responding.
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• Thrall simply turns around and walks away, but something invisible moves in the nearby bushes. It suddenly rushes up behind Saurfang, but he manages to deflect the attack, causing it—an assassin—to bound over him and land between the two orcs, disengaging from Stealth. Thrall uses a shovel to hurl dust into the air, revealing another assassin. The two pairs begin to fight. Saurfang smacks one of the assassins with a nearby post, slamming her against a stone wall and presumably killing her. Thrall fends off his own assassin, though when she leaps backwards and enters Stealth once more, Saurfang grabs her and snaps her neck, killing her as well. The old orc then pulls back the assassin's mask, revealing her to be Forsaken. Thrall angrily confronts Saurfang.
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• A remorseful expression passes over Thrall's features before he turns and walks towards his anvil, pushing it aside and revealing a hidden compartment underneath, from which he pulls out an axe. He turns to face Saurfang and slings the weapon over his shoulder, resolved to fight for the Horde alongside him.

• Directed by Marc Messenger
• Written by Christie Golden
• Music by Neal Acree
• Edited by Joanna Griebel
• Modeling Supervisor: Shannon Thomas
• Lead Character Modeler: Chung Kan
• Production sculpts for the Forsaken assassins by Chung Kan and the Blizzard Cinematics Department
• Environment Modeling Lead: Aaron Hamman

• The cinematic canonizes that rogues actually become invisible when in Stealth mode, complete with the sound effect used when rogue players enter Stealth in World of Warcraft.