Waking Shores storyline

The Waking Shores storyline begins the Dragonflight campaign proper, taking place at the ancestral home of the red and black dragonflights. A wild, untamed land rife with elemental magic, the Waking Shores are the first zone that players see when they arrive to the Isles with a joint Explorers' League–Reliquary expedition. In the zone there are gorlocs and trolls.

The zone storyline sees Alexstrasza summoning the Alliance and Horde to aid the red flight against the native Djaradin, while Wrathion seeks to reclaim the Obsidian Citadel of the black flight from enemy hands and come to terms with the state of his ruined flight.

The Dragonflight intro experience was activated with patch 10.0.2 two weeks before the launch of the expansion proper. In addition, the pre-patch time-limited event Tempest Unleashed also took place.

The primary campaign launched with the expansion and is tracked in the achievement Waking Hope.

The side quests are tracked in the achievement Sojourner of the Waking Shores.