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Ameth'Aran lies south along the road from Auberdine. It appears to be the ruins of an old highborne city.

The Tablets of Ameth'Aran

The following is the text on the tablets of Ameth'Aran as seen in-game.

The Lay of Ameth'Aran

Long had the children of the stars dwelled upun the banks of the shimmering waters of that Elune light of the eternal, aspect and goddess of the moon, dwelt within its waters at sucg that she rested from her works. Upon the shores of the Well did the children of the stars, favored of Elune, build their homes. Even as their gaze was trained skyward into the moonlit night.

Though there where many towns and places of habitation constructed upon the lakeshore, Ameth'Aran and Bashal'Aran where the foremost having touch of Azshara, the kaldorei's beloved queen in their creation. Her favored servitors, those of the Highborne. She brought to the twin towns to reside and to govern then she placed Atherikus Narassin. Though it would be that he would spend most of his days in his tower of Althalaxx, some ways removed of the towns.

His second, a mage known of his prowess in the arcane arts as much as with his physical ablities was Asterrion, who lived among the people of Bashal'Aran and went many times to Ameth'Aran to se to the needs and wants of people.

And so it was, upon the shores of the Well of Eternity, the twin towns grew and prospered, while the world beneath the stars fell slowly into madness.

The fall of Ameth'Aran

The earth trembled as the ancient trees in the enchanted forest were uprooted and toppled. The groves and glades tended by the sons and daughters of Cenarius and the stone towers of the children of the stars were brought to the rolling ground. There was our queen, radiant even in the desperation, in the chaos that was the battles. The enchanted sky changed colours with the discharge of magic, with the explosions that threatened to tear the world asunder.

Brother fought brother, Chosen fought Blessed. It was not all the Highborne that fought. Some stood, transfixed as the madness took them. Mighty cities and humble towns alike were felled around them.

In Ameth'Aran all was in ruins, its people clinging to the ground as though that might spare them from the destruction. It was then that Atherikus Narassin, favored of Azshara to guide them to safety.

With a spell he could protect them, he would say. While around them brother and sister, father and mother perished they would have life eternal, and have naught to fear from the Sundering that was to come.

—The Tablets of Ameth'Aran

Personal note from Mirieney Dreamwing

The tablets' times of writing are uncertain. It is likely to assume, however, that it might have been written down by some of the Highborne after the events, so as to tell others about the cataclysm that was the Sundering. The ghosts of the Highborne of the ruins tell another story, haunting the ruins as a reminder of the consequences of reckless use of magic.