Shimmering Flats

A flat, barren area just southeast of Thousand Needles (and is technically part of that zone).

The flatness of the area makes it especially desirable for Goblins and Gnomes, who have set up a race track in the area and constantly compete against each other to see who can build the fastest racing machine. Their inventions are frequently unstable, and the area is littered with the wreckage and parts of countless failed gizmos, as well as numerous craters.

The area is full of turtles, buzzards, and basilisks. A group of Dwarven archaeologists were driving out of the ruins in the southwest when they inadvertantly dug into a subterranean Silithid hive.

It seems that the area was once underwater, as there is a wrecked sailing vessel in the northern part.