Recaps

Kael'thas arrived in Dalaran, where the Orcs were celebrated as saviors, and warned Rhonin and Vereesa that Antonidas planned to summon Archimonde. He recruited Rhonin to help counter the plan, while Antonidas remained troubled by the decision and received word that Rhonin had come to visit.

• Dalaran's people praised Thrall and the Orcs as heroes, while rumors spread about Thrall and Jaina.
• Kael'thas visited Rhonin and Vereesa, who argued over the Orcs' role in Silvermoon City's destruction.
• Kael'thas warned Rhonin and Vereesa that Antonidas planned to summon Archimonde and bring the Burning Legion to Azeroth.
• Kael'thas asked Rhonin to help him gain Antonidas's trust and learn Dalaran's secrets, and Rhonin agreed.
• Antonidas weighed whether summoning Archimonde was his only option, then learned that Rhonin had come to see him.

Kael'thas confronted Jaina over rumors linking her to Thrall, then accused Antonidas of concealing the Orcs' destruction of Silvermoon City. Rhonin sided with Antonidas and supported a proposal to remove Kael'thas from public office in Dalaran, winning Antonidas's approval.

• Antonidas received Rhonin for a courteous but strained visit, while both discussed Silvermoon City and the Orcs.
• Kael'thas confronted Jaina with a rumor booklet, and she defended her relationship with Thrall while mocking Kael'thas's exile.
• Thrall appeared on his balcony with a bloody arm and taunted Kael'thas by claiming the Orcs had destroyed Silvermoon City and killed his father.
• Kael'thas entered Antonidas's residence and accused him of blaming the Scourge for the destruction of Silvermoon City.
• Rhonin supported Antonidas and proposed that Kael'thas be deemed unfit for public office, prompting Antonidas to welcome his backing.

Kael'thas condemned Dalaran for aiding the Orcs and left, while Antonidas maneuvered Rhonin into leading a plan to summon the Army of the Light. Rhonin enthusiastically played the loyal ally, though he had his own intentions.

• Kael'thas blamed Sylvanas and Dalaran for Silvermoon City's destruction, announced he would leave, and departed after condemning the humans and Orcs.
• Rhonin warned that Dalaran should prepare for the Scourge, but Jaina defended the Orcs and accused him of slandering them.
• Antonidas considered using a respected figure as a public leader while he coordinated a risky plan from behind the scenes, then tested Rhonin's willingness to act.
• Rhonin proposed handing the Orcs to the Scourge, but Antonidas argued that unchecked power could corrupt Arthas and that a greater force was needed.
• Antonidas proposed summoning the Army of the Light from the Void, and Rhonin pledged loyalty and eagerly offered suggestions while Jaina looked unhappy.

Jaina sought Antonidas's help mastering powerful magic while Robbie prepared to make a giant corpse into a substitute Archimonde. As Dalaran's summoning preparations advanced, Medivh learned of the plan and recognized Rhonin as a threat.

• Rhonin spoke with Antonidas until evening, then Jaina gave her mentor the demon-summoning materials she had stolen from Medivh and asked for help breaking the Book of Medivh's protections.
• Antonidas taught Jaina precious magical knowledge, including skills he had previously held back from her.
• Robbie, Arthas, and Kel'Thuzad examined an enormous corpse in Tirisfal Glades, and Kel'Thuzad proposed channeling Dalaran's summoning magic into it to awaken it as a fake Archimonde.
• Rhonin gathered mages in Dalaran and secretly prepared a summoning array with Antonidas's cover, using Jaina's stolen materials.
• Medivh learned that Antonidas and Rhonin were preparing to summon Archimonde, judged Rhonin an unstable factor, and decided to act.

Medivh sent Varimathras to exploit Rhonin’s hidden weaknesses and draw him toward his ambition. After Varimathras hinted that he knew troubling secrets about Rhonin’s mentor and the Red Dragon Queen, Rhonin agreed to talk.

• Medivh explained to Jaina that Archimonde sought Arthas’s power over the dead, and said Rhonin could become a useful variable in Dalaran.
• Medivh summoned Varimathras and ordered him to manipulate Rhonin by uncovering his ambitions, strengths, and secrets.
• Rhonin worked on Dalaran’s magical defenses while secretly helping direct its power toward the Tirisfal Glades to prevent Archimonde’s arrival.
• Jaina introduced Varimathras to Rhonin, who objected to the Dreadlord’s presence until Jaina said Medivh had ordered the visit.
• Varimathras raised rumors about Krasus, Alexstrasza, and Rhonin’s near-expulsion from Dalaran, prompting Rhonin to agree to talk.

Varimathras visited Rhonin and used a confession about his past love for Lisa to expose the pain Rhonin might cause Vereesa through their different lifespans. He left Rhonin shaken and offered to help him change their relationship’s tragic fate.

• Varimathras reassured the wary Rhonin that he wanted only a conversation, then criticized Medivh for refusing to seek the Legion’s help against Arthas and the Undead Scourge.
• Varimathras described spending centuries among humans and said that love was a precious quality humans possessed.
• Varimathras recalled falling in love with Lisa while serving as a guard in Lakeshire, then leaving her because he feared his identity and her aging would lead to tragedy.
• Varimathras challenged Rhonin to consider how Vereesa would feel as a High Elf destined to outlive him by thousands of years.
• Rhonin stood speechless as Varimathras offered to help him change the tragic fate of human and High Elf love.

Rhonin wrestled with fears that his human lifespan would leave Vereesa alone, while Varimathras’s temptation and Kael'thas’s warning deepened his doubts about the Legion. Meanwhile, Antonidas obtained Medivh’s spellbook and planned to contact Archimonde before summoning him.

• Varimathras urged Rhonin to consider whether he could accept growing old while Vereesa lived for thousands of years, leaving Rhonin troubled by their future.
• Rhonin brooded over his aging and sought advice from Kael'thas, who warned him to beware of Dreadlords and the Legion’s false promises.
• Rhonin told Kael'thas that Dalaran’s magic array was ready and that it could contact Archimonde once Jaina found the necessary spell in Medivh’s book.
• Jaina brought Medivh’s spellbook to Antonidas, who comforted her and promised that Dalaran would one day pass into her hands.
• Antonidas discovered spells for communicating with the Legion’s leaders and decided to contact Archimonde and hear his terms before carrying out the summoning ritual.

Antonidas activated a demon communication array to negotiate with Archimonde, while Jaina hurried to warn Medivh. After learning that Medivh had entrusted him with summoning the Burning Legion, Antonidas chose to pursue the opportunity and directly asked Archimonde for rewards.

• Antonidas told Jaina he planned to discuss cooperation with Archimonde, and Jaina hurried to Karazhan to report his plan to Medivh.
• Antonidas activated the communication array and contacted Andarina, Archimonde’s assistant.
• Andarina said Medivh had entrusted Antonidas with the matter and told him to activate the summoning array at the appointed time.
• Antonidas realized Medivh had deceived him but decided to seek a longer life and greater power through Archimonde.
• Antonidas insisted on speaking with Archimonde, who appeared and asked what he wanted.
• Antonidas stammered that he needed some rewards.

Antonidas rejected Arthas's warning and chose to summon the Burning Legion, convinced it would empower Dalaran and grant him a younger body. As the Scourge gathered outside the city, Rhonin prepared the summoning formation while Antonidas left to await Archimonde.

• Antonidas persuaded Archimonde to promise him a reward and told Rhonin he had secured the Burning Legion's help.
• Rhonin warned that the Legion would bring disaster and urged Antonidas to cooperate with Arthas, but Antonidas refused.
• The Scourge surrounded Dalaran, and Arthas called on the Kirin Tor to let his army pass so it could target the Orcs.
• Antonidas taunted Arthas, declared that Dalaran's defenses would destroy the undead, and revealed that the city expected the Burning Legion as an ally.
• Antonidas left Rhonin to prepare the summoning formation and went to consider how to welcome Archimonde.

Varimathras manipulated Antonidas into repairing and activating Dalaran’s summoning circle, bringing Archimonde and the Burning Legion into the world. After witnessing Dalaran’s impending destruction and Antonidas’s death, Robbie returned to his own time, determined to grow strong enough to change history.

• Varimathras exposed Rhonin’s sabotage, but Antonidas repaired the summoning circle while Rhonin fled Dalaran with Vereesa.
• The circle opened spatial rifts above Dalaran, and Infernals and Doomguards emerged as Arthas and Robbie recognized that Rhonin’s plan had failed and retreated.
• Robbie watched Varimathras summon Archimonde, while the teleportation barrier trapped Dalaran’s mages and Antonidas learned that Archimonde was Medivh’s headmaster.
• Saurfang wounded Antonidas, Thrall killed him, and Archimonde devoured Thrall and Saurfang before ordering Varimathras to command the Orcs.
• Archimonde announced plans to destroy Dalaran and invade Azeroth, and Robbie returned with the Infinite Dragonflight, vowing to master time and change history.

Robbie returned from a half-year journey through another timeline to Karabor Temple, where only minutes had passed, and began adjusting to life in Shadowmoon Valley. After discussing plans with Vanessa, he discovered that the mysterious old Archmage at the inn was Kel'Thuzad.

• Robbie returned to Karabor Temple and asked Toki to give him time to collect his thoughts.
• Robbie told Vanessa that his experience with Arthas and Kel'Thuzad differed from recorded history, then rested and woke the next day in Lunarfall.
• Robbie told Vanessa he planned to make music boxes for Alliance adventurers to help deal with Medivh.
• Vanessa planned to trade a fake Shadowmourne to Med'an for ten Epic equipment sets, and asked Robbie to help prepare.
• Hogger told Robbie that an elderly Archmage claiming to be his distant relative was waiting at the inn.
• Robbie recognized the wandering mage as Kel'Thuzad after the mage sealed the room's sounds.

Robbie and Kel'Thuzad joined forces to prepare a convincing sale of Vanessa’s counterfeit Shadowmourne to Med’an. Robbie devised a scheme involving a mysterious treasure map and Khadgar, while Khadgar recognized the map’s symbols as belonging to a vanished Dalaran school of magic.

• Kel'Thuzad told Robbie that he had lost most memories of Arthas and the Scourge after his undead body fell in Naxxramas.
• Vanessa accepted Kel'Thuzad into the Brotherhood and assigned him to help Robbie handle the deal with Med’an.
• Vanessa showed Robbie and Kel'Thuzad her counterfeit Shadowmourne, which Kel'Thuzad found convincing while Robbie saw through its magical appearance.
• Robbie decided they needed a mysterious story to sell the fake and planned to use Khadgar’s reputation and knowledge.
• Robbie arranged for an expensive treasure map to appear at the Lunarfall auction house, and Khadgar recognized its symbols as a cipher from a vanished Dalaran school that had once explored Northrend.

Khadgar deciphered a treasure map that appeared to reveal Shadowmourne’s location, then sold false information to misdirect anyone searching for it while secretly arranging an expedition. Robbie and Kel'Thuzad watched Khadgar board a ship and meet Med'an, who asked whether the information was true.

• Khadgar bought a treasure map from a Gnome salvager and recognized its cipher as belonging to Dalaran’s lost Migratory Birds and Ocean Currents school.
• Khadgar translated Mika Fei'er’s account of a cursed weapon found in Northrend and realized it could be Shadowmourne.
• Khadgar sold Robbie false directions to a dangerous island while planning to hire trusted people to search for Shadowmourne.
• Robbie and Kel'Thuzad watched Khadgar board a ship in Booty Bay with two attendants.
• Med'an greeted Khadgar aboard the ship and asked whether the information about Shadowmourne was true.

Med'an sought High Overlord Saurfang's favor by recovering Shadowmourne and joined Khadgar to pursue a lead on the weapon. As their ship stopped at Ratchet, Khadgar discovered Med'an had assembled an army instead of the small specialist team he had expected.

• Med'an decided to seek High Overlord Saurfang's support by recovering Shadowmourne for his birthday.
• Med'an persuaded Khadgar to guide him to Shadowmourne, and Khadgar warned that the search involved strange undead power and an unknown entity.
• Med'an asked Khadgar how to deal with Medivh, and Khadgar advised him to keep his distance from his unpredictable father.
• At Ratchet, Khadgar found that Med'an had brought more than thirty ships and over a thousand people, including Kor'kron veterans.
• Khadgar criticized Med'an's oversized force, noting that an army was poorly suited to an expedition requiring experienced adventurers.

Khadgar and Med’an led a fleet to Skull Island in search of Shadowmourne, but the island’s strange magic spoiled the Orcs’ meat supply. They landed with twenty scouts to investigate and encountered Undead, while Khadgar believed they could still finish quickly and open a portal for supplies.

• Robbie stayed behind as Khadgar and Med’an sailed toward the mist-covered island he had named Skull Island.
• Khadgar learned that the ships’ dried meat had rotted and coached the panicked Med’an to reassure the Orc warriors.
• Khadgar ordered twenty scouts to land with him, and Med’an insisted on joining the expedition.
• The group crossed a shore strewn with enormous bones and defeated rotting Murlocs that attacked them.
• Khadgar explained that the island’s decaying sea-beast corpses had disrupted the magical field and spawned Undead, then Med’an cried out after stepping on an Orc skeleton.

Khadgar led Med'an and the Orc veterans through the fog-covered island, teaching them caution as they approached a boulder blocking the northern pass. After their attempts to open a portal failed, Med'an chose to proceed, and Khadgar shattered the boulder, leaving Med'an to face whatever waited beyond it.

• A cursed skeleton frightened Med'an before a scout smashed it, and Khadgar urged the group onward through the island's fog.
• Khadgar warned Med'an not to fly over the blocking boulder and found that the island's magic nodes would not allow a portal to open.
• Robbie and Kel'Thuzad watched from a cave, with Kel'Thuzad explaining that Khadgar's cautious nature made him vulnerable to their plan.
• Khadgar offered to abandon the adventure or destroy the boulder at the cost of his strength, and Med'an chose to continue.
• Khadgar used a magic circle and his ice, fire, and Arcane energies to shatter the boulder, then told Med'an to handle what came next as chains rattled in the fog.

Khadgar led Med'an and the Orcs through a mist-filled, dangerous part of the island, where an undead scout frightened Med'an. Meanwhile, Robbie and Kel'Thuzad prepared to keep the Horde under pressure, and the camp’s supplies took a grim turn before Khadgar’s divination warned him to beware of Trolls.

• A chain-wielding monster seized an Orc scout in the mist, and the scout later returned as a rotting skeleton before the Orc veterans destroyed him.
• Khadgar identified the creature as a reanimated corpse and urged Med'an to face his fear before ordering the group to camp and scout ahead.
• Robbie revealed his monster disguise and suggested taking Med'an’s equipment, but Kel'Thuzad explained that Medivh could track the Guardian Set, so they decided to continue their plan to frighten the Horde.
• Med'an rallied the Horde with a speech about sacrifice, and Pandaren, Blood Elves, and Goblins entered boiling cauldrons to be served as food to the Orcs.
• Khadgar consulted a divination that warned him to beware of Trolls, leaving him puzzled by the warning.

Med'an led the search for the shipwreck through the fog after Khadgar refused to help, but the search ended in panic and Med'an was captured by Robbie. Khadgar suggested using Water Elementals to clear the fog, revealing shipwrecks and the possible location of Shadowmourne, though the summoned elementals went out of control.

• After the Orcs Warriors ate the group’s flesh, necromancers resurrected their bones as Undead.
• Khadgar claimed exhaustion and returned to camp, so Med'an split the group into squads to search for the shipwreck.
• The fog and rattling chains drove the Orcs into a frenzy, and Med'an sounded the retreat after hundreds died; when he entered the fog alone, Robbie captured him.
• Med'an told Khadgar that the adventure had to continue and that no one else would leave alive, so Khadgar suggested using Water Elementals to absorb the fog.
• Med'an sacrificed several Tauren to summon thousands of Water Elementals, which cleared the fog and revealed shipwrecks off the island’s northern shore, but then went out of control.

Med'an and Khadgar searched the island for Shadowmourne, but the Orc veterans were overwhelmed by undead Murlocs when the fog returned. Griftah emerged from the wreck with the axe and escaped, leaving Med'an worried about Saurfang’s approaching birthday.

• Med'an led the Horde warriors through Poisoned Water Elementals and searched the shipwrecks, while Khadgar translated a parchment revealing that Shadowmourne lay underwater beneath a reef.
• Med'an summoned a Fel Reaver and lifted the sunken wreck, but its foot became stuck as the fog returned and the undead Murlocs attacked the Orcs on their rafts.
• Khadgar stayed on shore rather than challenge the evil presence, and Med'an escaped the fog while most of the Orc veterans were killed.
• Griftah arrived in a small boat, used a magic lantern and Voodoo Doll to reach the wreck, and emerged carrying Shadowmourne.
• Griftah offered to negotiate with Khadgar in Shattrath City and sailed away, while Khadgar warned Med'an against pursuing him and reassured him that Griftah would have to sell the axe.

Med'an traded Shadowmourne to Griftah for fifteen sets of Epic equipment and five million gold coins, while Robbie suspected the deal was not as straightforward as it seemed. After finding unusual magical fluctuations in three sets, Robbie proposed a plan involving Gorgrond.

• After Khadgar and Med'an left Skull Island, Goblins dismantled the trapped Fel Reaver and shipped it away before the Blue Dragonflight could find it.
• Med'an met Griftah in Shattrath City and threatened him, but Griftah refused to hand over Shadowmourne for a thousand gold coins.
• Griftah introduced Kel'Thuzad, disguised as the Arakkoa appraiser Skizzik the Talonpriest, and negotiated a trade with Med'an.
• Med'an exchanged Shadowmourne for fifteen sets of Epic equipment and five million gold coins, then left with the weapon.
• Robbie examined the equipment and noticed that three sets had different magical fluctuations from the others.
• Robbie pointed to Gorgrond on a map of Draenor and told Kel'Thuzad he had a plan.

Med'an’s attempt to recover the Epic armor led his party to Destroyer Dov, while Robbie returned with twelve sets and prepared to investigate Shaz’gul with Vanessa. As they approached the Shadowmoon Clan stronghold, Robbie suspected the disguises had exposed Yrel’s rescue party.

• Destroyer Dov ate the three sets of armor from the dropped chest, then attacked Med’an’s group after Med’an teleported them to the Gronn’s location, leaving only Med’an and Eitrigg to escape.
• Med’an gave Saurfang a fake Shadowmourne, ruining Saurfang’s birthday feast, while Robbie returned to the garrison with twelve Epic sets.
• Vanessa told Robbie that Yrel had led rangers into Shaz’gul to rescue captured Draenei, and insisted they infiltrate the stronghold to learn about the Earthen Ring’s cooperation with Ner’zhul.
• Saileni gave Robbie and Vanessa Orc disguises and bombs, warning them about the Shadowmoon Clan’s wolves and Warlock scouts.
• Near Shaz’gul, Vanessa discarded her disguise, and Robbie concluded that something about the disguises might have revealed Yrel’s party.

Robbie and Vanessa infiltrated Shaz'gul, sabotaged the Shadowmoon Clan's war preparations, and discovered that a fake Yrel had been used to lure them into a trap. After reuniting with the real Yrel, Vanessa realized the Draenei had allied with the Horde, leaving the Alliance at Lunarfall threatened by a combined attack.

• Robbie disguised himself as a Shadowmoon Orc, entered Shaz'gul with Vanessa, and planted bombs around the camp.
• Robbie and Vanessa overheard Ner'zhul discuss his plans to exploit Peace Dove negotiators and use Draenei knowledge to summon the Dark Star.
• Robbie recognized the hidden Yrel as an impostor, and the trap revealed her to be Carola, a human Priestess captured by Ner'zhul.
• Vanessa stole a replica of Ner'zhul's Staff of Ten Thousand Souls, and she and Robbie escaped Shaz'gul before detonating their bombs.
• Robbie and Vanessa met the real Yrel, who said she had fought her way out of the camp and discovered the Peace Dove's deception.
• Vanessa concluded that the Draenei had chosen to cooperate with the Horde, putting the Alliance in Lunarfall at risk of a joint assault.

Vanessa decided to accelerate negotiations to bring the Draenei into the resistance against the Iron Horde before Velen could reconsider. Robbie attempted to use Tirion Fordring’s visit to Light’s Hope Chapel to secure a deal, but after a bizarre attack by Orc maids, he approached Fordring disguised as a Blood Elf named Nicolas Sunstrider.

• Vanessa concluded that Guardian Medivh was the key to the Peace Dove and decided that the deal with Tirion Fordring had to happen quickly.
• Tirion Fordring visited Light’s Hope Chapel, where Jessica Chambers told him that many Argent Dawn warriors had joined the Undercity and become Forsaken.
• Jessica arranged for female Orc maids to entertain Fordring, who was badly injured before the Holy Light healed him.
• Robbie watched the attack and realized he could not kill Fordring while the Holy Light protected him.
• Robbie disguised himself as Nicolas Sunstrider and introduced himself to Fordring at Light’s Hope Chapel.

Robbie traded seven Naaru Shards to Tirion Fordring for Epic equipment, then faced Tirion’s allies Varimathras and Nathanos Blightcaller outside Light’s Hope Chapel. Robbie returned alone with their heads, leaving Tirion stunned.

• Robbie told Tirion Fordring that the Blood Elves needed Naaru Shards to study Holy Light and ease Mana Addiction.
• Robbie and Tirion exchanged five Naaru Shards for five sets of Epic equipment, then traded two more sets for a larger sixth shard.
• Tirion accused Robbie’s people of swindling Epic equipment from Karazhan and said he opposed their deception of High Overlord Saurfang.
• Varimathras and Nathanos Blightcaller arrived to support Tirion, and Robbie agreed to fight them outside the chapel.
• Jessica challenged Tirion over his cowardice and allegiance to the Horde while Robbie fought outside.
• Robbie returned with Varimathras and Blightcaller’s heads, and Tirion dropped his cigarette in shock.

Robbie thwarted Tirion Fordring’s attempt to restore the Ashbringer with the trapped souls beneath Light’s Hope Chapel. After the Holy Light destroyed the freed spirits, Robbie exploited Tirion’s fondness for Orcs to leave him at the mercy of a crowd of Orc women.

• Tirion Fordring revealed that he had brought Robbie to Light’s Hope Chapel so the Ashbringer could feed on the Restless Souls buried there.
• Robbie used Ner’zhul’s Shadowmoon Staff of Ten Thousand Souls, disguised as a Sunstrider family relic, to free and empower the Restless Souls against Tirion Fordring.
• Tirion Fordring unleashed the Holy Light and burned the attacking Restless Souls to ash, but failed to restore the Ashbringer’s power.
• Robbie pointed out Tirion Fordring’s weakness, and Jessica summoned more than thirty Orc women to meet him.
• The Orc women swarmed Tirion Fordring, breaking his thighbone and piercing his cheeks while he screamed and refused to fight back.