Ever since the cataclysmic upheaval more than ten thousand years ago—that is, the demon invasion and the explosion of the Well of Eternity—the ancient and mysterious continent of Pandaria had been shrouded in a vast blanket of mist, vanishing into the boundless Great Sea and no longer troubled by the turmoil and wars of the world.
And so,
Many ancient Night Elf scholars had since believed that the Pandaren Empire, which had once overthrown the Mogu's rule in the south of the continent and won a final victory over the great Zandalari Empire in the "Zandalari War," before becoming an ally of the once-glorious Kaldorei Empire, had been utterly wiped out in the great explosion.
What they didn't know was that the territory of the Pandaren Empire—present-day Pandaria—had survived the explosion just like Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. This beautiful and fertile land had endured, and remained as mysterious as ever, its scenery breathtakingly beautiful...
Here, dense forests and mist-wreathed mountains nurtured unique and diverse Fantastic Beasts, along with all kinds of races, such as:
The Mogu, who had once been a heap of decorative stone statues in the Titans' Pandaria "testing ground." After being turned to flesh by the Curse of Flesh and the waters of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, they had awakened and come to life.
Because the Mogu had studied and mastered some of the technology left behind by the Titans, they had successfully prevented themselves from becoming further fleshified in ancient times. They were born with an affinity for magic—perhaps because of the Titans' technology, their magic leaned toward things like souls and flesh? The lizardfolk of Pandaria, meanwhile, were the result of the Mogu using flesh-shaping to create lizards.
Still, the Mogu were a thing of the past, for the Pandaren had overthrown their