Inhabitants: Ca. 11,000 in total — 8,000 atop the mesas themselves and around 3,000 living in the bustling town that has grown at the foothills.
Thunder Bluff sits as the beating heart of Mulgore, built atop a mesa cluster overlooking the plains below. Its central mesa is divided into several tiers, and bridges conenct a handful of nearby mesas to it — the Spirit Rise, the Elder Rise, and the Hunter Rise.
The city was established in the aftermath of The Third War, when with the orcs' help the Bloodhoof tribe managed to drive back the centaur and claim the grasslands of Mulgore for their own.
For the first time in hundreds of years, the tauren had a land to call their own. Upon the windswept mesa of Thunder Bluff, Cairne built a refuge for his people, where tauren of every tribe is welcome.
Over time, the scattered tauren tribes united under Cairne's rule. There are a few tribes who disagree about the direction their new nation should take, but all agree that Cairne is the wisest and best suited to lead them towards the future.
Thunder Bluff is the first city of its kind; for centuries, the tauren wandered the plains as nomads, unable to claim a permanent home. All Horde visitors are welcome here, and the expertise of the tauren in professions ranging from leatherworking to shamanism, druidism to hunting are all practiced and taught here.
The Thunder Bluff Mesas
Thunder Bluff is a city buiilt over several tall mesas. The central mesa in Thunder Bluff is divided into three regions; the Lower, Middle, and High rise. Then there are the three outer mesas; the Elder Rise, Hunter Rise, and Spirit Rise. While the three central rises are where most commerce and living takes place, the three outer rises are each a bustling community in their own rise.
There is also a pretty dense scattering of semi-permanent structures forming a settlement at the foothills of the city. It is as much a part of the city as the Rises themselves, if a bit unwieldy at times for the tauren braves — and ultimately much more preferable to hauling kodos and other beasts of burden up the city's elevators.
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