The Boughs were lost to all of civilization when the capital of the elven people, Zin-Azshari, sank to the bottom of the ocean with many other significant elven sites. However, roughly ten thousand years later, the warlock Gul'dan accidentally raised the Boughs of Azshara alongside the Tomb of Sargeras, which had formerly been known as the Temple of Elune. The Temple of Elune and Boughs of Azshara had both been located in Suramar. These different, newly discovered historical sites would become known as the Broken Isles, a scattered group of islands off the eastern coast of modern day Kalimdor, closer to the twisting Maelstrom, the physical remainder of the Well of Eternity and the marker of Queen Azshara and cherished Quel'dorei's watery grave.