True that. Well at first I wanted to do something outside of Azeroth and it's Lore but I quickly ended up working on a huge mess all by myself so I gave up. Later I started editing Blizzard's maps and surprisingly it wasn't really difficult to integrate a whole new Lore as a continuity to the original one.
Maybe part of the fun of this setting is them trying to piece together information about this strange gothic world bit by bit, allowing you to gradually develop new lore as you go along.
M2 lighting may also do the trick for you. Below is what I got from playing around with the Cata lamppost model and lightadder.