So the broken Isles are the new lands we are being flung into for Legion. The story for this place is kind of interesting since it definitely has had an impact on the lore already. Just to help you avoid any confusion or panic, I already explained everything you need to know right here, just scroll on down below.
So the reason we find ourselves heading these islands' way is because the Burning Legion is staging its third invasion of Azeroth from here. This is because Gul'dan (the one from AU Draenor, not our Gul'dan who died attempting to do the same thing in our timeline) went to the Tomb of Sargeras that the original him raised from the depths all those years ago during the second war, anyway he effectively finished the job old him couldn't I guess you could say. And now an ominous looking green portal now hovers over the old stone spire which marks the tomb itself. 
So the reason why any legion related stuff would be happening here at all now is because ages ago when Magna Aegwynn was the guardian of Tirisfal, who was the humans' protector from the demonic forces of the burning legion during a time when few people understood what that even was, defeated the Avatar of Sargeras when it had manifested itself directly onto Azeroth. The guardian was a role that meant you were empowered way beyond the normal spell caster, so as to be as prepared as anyone possibly can be when tasked with facing against such an omnipotent and destructive force. This mean that sniffing out the Avatar was easy enough, and Aegwynn eventually was set to believe she had defeated him and so looked for a safe place to hide the dark titan's body.
She choose the sunken remains of an ancient night elf temple of Elune, which was blessed and protected by enchantments which were aimed specifically at keeping any Azerothian life form away, which is why Gul'dan is able to enter the place without much harm in the first place.
There is a lot more to that story, but i only covered the parts that were necessary for you to understand why it is being used in the Legion Expansion.
The Pillars of Creation:
The Pillars of Creation were actually named after the very same pillars that you see to the right.
These things are titan creations that they used in their ordering of the planet, I'm assuming you can take the name quiet litteraly when trying to think of their specific functionality, its probably just best to describe them as those tools that the titans just could not work without. What is known is that there is one in each zone, and that they have been used in the past to shut the portals that were opened by magic or otherwise, meaning that we may use them again for the same purpose. But we still have to watch out since the Legion appears to have a different goal in mind for these titan relics, probably having something to do with making the portal that the legion is using even better or bigger. Only time will tell.
Suramar City:
This place is very big in the lore, huge even. During the War of the Ancients the burning legion and the night elven resistance would fight over the area that surrounded the original well of eternity, which the demons were pouring from in the first place, and Suramar shared a portion of this area with the capital of the ancient night elven empire. There was even an interesting experiment conducted by the demons on the population of this city, which had to do with creating an undead army, this experiment no doubt set the groundwork for the scourge which wouldn't appear until 10,000 years later.
But in this expansion we find out that what actually happened was when the sundering hit and the rest of Azeroth went flying everywhere the highborne actually crated a magical barrier to protect the city from the outside world and the chaos that likely ensued.
For ten thousand years the Nightborne have been living in Suramar, with a magical font called the 'nightwell,' these Nightborne are dependent upon the energy from the font, and were at one time the Night elves who inhabited the city before the sundering. When the city ran out of food its people just started using the Nightwells energy as sustenance, eliminating the fear of death, but turning them into something else at the same time.
The leader of the Nightborne people, Grand Magistrix Elisande, has decided to work with Gul'dan, giving away her people to the legion and its darkness.
Vrykul under God-King Skovald
From the vrykul of the Howling Fjord in Northrend, we learn that the humans were actually descended from the children of these monstrous looking humanoids. When they began giving birth to human children, the vrykul people thought of it as a curse, believing that their gods had abandoned them for good. The exact reasons for this are still lost on this Author, but anyway, thousands of years ago a group of them seemed to have migrated to the Stormheim region of the Broken Isles, to find their gods. Today the descendants of these vrykul, under the leadership of God-king Skovald, seek to join the Burning Legion, and are attempting to find the Pillar of Creation that is located in Stormheim.
Sources were you may be able to get more information:
More info on the Avatar of Sargeras: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_of_Sargeras
More info on the tomb itself: http://wow.gamepedia.com/Tomb_of_Sargeras
More information on the Broken Isles(Lore): http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Broken_Isles_(lore)
For more information regarding The Pillars of Creation in Warcraft: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation
For those of you who need to know that I'm not making this shit up: http://wow.gamepedia.com/God-King_Skovald
And some more stuff about them: http://wow.gamepedia.com/Vrykul
More info can be found at: http://wow.gamepedia.com/Suramar_City
And maybe slightly different information to be gleamed from this one: http://wow.gamepedia.com/Suramar
Well thank you for reading..Lorebound Out
-Lorebound, A.K.A, Forrest.
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