About the Red Labyrinth ...

[Phyllo]

I've been wondering for a while now, is this place ever gonna become something else than just some warp zone?

I've looked around trying to find some lore on it but even the guards says nothing about it...
I haven't been far in 1.x so I don't really know much but, was it here before?
Is there a story behind it or it's just another place that is here just because it's here?

[Xmbei]

Red labyrinth?

[Phyllo]

In the southern thanalan, it connects the forgotten springs and little ala mhigo, making you skip the whole zan'rak area

[Xmbei]

Oh it might have a new dungeon or something in 2.4

[Phyllo]

You think so? Would be kinda weird to visit an area we skipped for month x3

[Xmbei]

Has a potential and will take us there maybe? We are suppose to be getting beast tribe zones too there is a lot of gates and entrances that become important later.

[Phyllo]

Hm in that case it would be nice, if they do I sure hope it'll live up to its name and be a real maze x3

[Anonymoose]

I haven't been far in 1.x so I don't really know much but, was it here before?

In 1.0, Thanalan, like most areas, was a very large expanse created by copy/pasting the same few chunks and connecting them in different places like legos to form something that has the illusion of a unique area. A lot of times, you wouldn't notice it at first - you'd just enter part of one dungeon that felt a lot like part of another dungeon and get deja vu until you realized "Oh, holy damn, it's all the same few pieces with different stuff in them!" The Red Labyrinth was the name of the southern-most section and was the same scenery as everything else but full of very high level mobs. Nobody ventured out there to see it for any reason beyond curiosity.

The area now known as Forgotten Springs was called Burnt Lizard Creek and was Northwest of the Red Labyrinth but looked pretty much the same. Opposite, to the Northeast, as another pretty much the same area called Zanr'ak. What is now called Zanr'ak is actually where Camp Broken Water used to be, more or less.

Long story short, the Red Labyrinth was just a name back then. A new name for the same ol' terrain. What will it be in ARR? If anything? No idea.

[Phyllo]

Oh I see.

Too bad, I expected some kind of nice stuff on it x3
Thanks anyway moose ^^

[Dichorda]

Hey everyone! First time poster but long time lore reader!
I didn't see this mentioned so I figured I would chime in and say that there was a bit more to the red labyrinth back in 1.0 once upon a time! There was a graphic effect there which made the rock a vibrant red color. It was bugged however and only half the time worked.
No Red:
Very Red: