Surwich is a small Gilnean-controlled Alliance fishing village in the Blasted Lands. Most of its citizens came to the Blasted Lands following the dream of an idealistic druid named Marl Wormthorn. Wormthorn believed that the Tainted Scar could be healed, and attempted to grow it back. The attempt succeeded, but it also lured the majority of demons still present in the scar into his now twisted tree, Maldraz.