For months, fans speculated about what World of Warcraft Classic+ meant since the leak, long before Blizzard Entertainment announced it at BlizzCon 2026. We found some mysterious dungeon portals in World of Warcraft: Forever (Beta), and even more to uncover as players level up in the launched game.
This list of existing new dungeon and raid portals will be updated as more show up in future patches.
Classic+ Meaning: Existing Future Dungeon and Raid Portals in World of Warcraft: Forever
Bael Modan
Bael Modan (The Red Mountain in Dwarven) is a dig site located in the southern area of The Barrens, Kalimdor. Adjacent to and north of Razorfen Downs. It is unclear how canon are the Sword & Sorcery v 3.5 Warcraft RPG books distributed by White Wolf Publishing in collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment.
Some of these RPG books were sold a year before the World of Warcraft (2004) Beta. The credits page even lists Blizzard authors: Bob Fitch and Chris Metzen, and artists: Samwise Didier, Michel & René Koiter, Arnold Tsang (UDON) — to name a few. Some RPG book stuff has been deemed non-canon, but eventually became canon in some World of Warcraft expansions. So the word “non-canon” is thin and flexible when it comes to RPG books and the MMORPG.
That said, Bael Modan was mentioned in the Warcraft RPG books before we even saw it in the 2004 beta. Published in 2003, Warcraft The Roleplaying Game: Alliance & Horde Compendium said that some gnomes who fled Gnomeregan for Ironforge later joined the dwarves who traveled with Jaina to Kalimdor in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
These gnomes resided deep in the tunnels of Bael Modan (Page 17). To some degree, that is canon because the book says there are at least two gnomes in Theramore. One was Babs Fizzletorque (by the Theramore lighthouse).
What’s the deal with Bael Modan?
Bael Modan is one of the many research lab facilities the Titans seeded throughout Azeroth. The Dwarves learned about their Titan ancestry at the Bael Modan dig site and have since discovered many Titan artifacts. Their first discovery was the Tear of the Moons relic, as seen in the quest “The Tear of the Moons” by Feegly the Exiled. It cursed him, transforming him into a Trogg.
Khaz’goroth the Shaper (Titan of the Pantheon) left behind Acheras the Custodian to guard Bael Modan (Reference: World of Warcraft: Horde Player’s Guide, 241-243).
In the World of Warcraft: Alliance Players Guide (Page 160), it says the dwarves discovered in Bael Modan that the Titans arrived on Azeroth approximately 147,000 years ago and created the Earthen. The Titans departed 64,001 years ago, empowering the dragonflights to care for the world and the Well of Eternity.
In Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game (page 211), it says fragments of notes unearthed from Bael Modan suggest that a great titan city lies deep within the rocky expanse of the desert (coughs, Uldum in Tanaris).
The World of Warcraft RPG: Horde Player’s Guide contains an adventure titled “Unearthing Bael Modan.” This adventure spans ten pages. It says Bael Modan served the Titans as a storage facility for platinum discs. We know of these as the Discs of Norgannon in Uldaman.
The Sundering caused the facility to sink underground, and over millennia, the ground shifted, splitting its chambers into different depths. Some caved-in tunnels and walls give access to adjacent underground caverns. One connects to an ancient Kolkar centaur tribe. In another area of Bael Modan, an earthquake broke a trogg hibernation chamber.
The “Unearthing Bael Modan” RPG adventure even contains two maps.
Was Bael Modan a dungeon in Vanilla WoW?
The answer is no. But World of Warcraft: Forever has a hidden dungeon portal with access blocked behind a plank wall. The content from the World of Warcraft RPG books might be non-canon or partially canon. We won’t know until the World of Warcraft: Forever developers provide access to the Bael Modan dungeon in some distant patch or PTR.
