Recaps

Robbie judged Karabor Temple’s beach defenses inadequate against the Iron Horde and persuaded Yrel to fund cannon batteries and fortifications. After the Draenei prepared the beach for a landing, Yrel summoned Robbie to a warehouse and showed him a strange cannon.

• Robbie inspected Karabor Temple’s defenses and concluded the Draenei and Lunarfall adventurers were poorly prepared for the Iron Horde.
• Robbie asked Yrel to fund cannons, then proposed batteries, trenches, musketeers, and a mobile cavalry force to defend the beach.
• Yrel agreed to Robbie’s plan and told him to spend the Draenei’s money carefully.
• The Draenei dug trenches, placed obstacles, and sank ships to prepare Karabor Temple’s beach for the Iron Horde’s landing.
• Yrel summoned Robbie to a warehouse and showed him a strange cannon.

Robbie gave Yrel a salvaged Draenei Particle Beam Weapon, while Anduin secured a protective amber device and prepared to exploit the Draenei’s defeat. As the Iron Horde fleet approached Karabor, scuttled ships blocked its advance in a narrow channel.

• Robbie learned that the Draenei’s last Particle Beam Weapon came from Argus and told Yrel to save it for a critical moment.
• Commander Volka demonstrated the Iron Destroyer to Anduin, who judged it inaccurate and dangerous despite its power.
• Anduin accepted an automatic Ancient Amber protection device from Udir and learned that the Defias Brotherhood had bought cannons and guns for the Draenei.
• Anduin told Udir to prepare to take in selected Draenei refugees and send them to Exodar after Karabor fell.
• The Iron Horde fleet stopped in a narrow channel, and Kalecgos identified scuttled ships as the obstruction.

The Iron Horde bypassed the sunken ships by sending Orcs swimming toward shore, where Robbie’s cannons were ready to fire. The Draenei archbishops intervened to stop Yrel, and Robbie realized they were trying to delay her and weaken her hold on power.

• Commander Volka sent hundreds of heavily armored Orcs swimming toward shore, believing the Draenei would not ambush them.
• Robbie spotted Med'an, Prince Anduin, and Kalecgos aboard the Iron Horde flagship and prepared to fire his cannons at the Orcs.
• Archbishops Maladaar and Othaar and Chief Artificer Hataaru confronted Yrel, accusing her of betraying Draenei traditions by ordering a sneak attack.
• Yrel argued that the Iron Horde was their enemy, but Maladaar condemned her plan as unjust.
• Robbie realized the archbishops were using the argument to delay the attack and undermine Yrel’s authority, and he wondered what to do.

Robbie used a staged display of Holy Light and Vanessa’s intervention to disarm the archbishops opposing Yrel, while Othaar helped her take control. The Draenei’s cannons devastated the Orc vanguard, and Commander Volka turned to Med’an for help defeating them.

• Robbie conjured a display of Holy Light and pretended to be a god to stop Maladaar and Hataaru from undermining Yrel.
• Vanessa silenced Maladaar and Hataaru, while Othaar pledged support and Yrel’s rangers seized the two archbishops.
• Robbie commanded the Draenei to attack the Orcs, and Othaar took control of the council’s guards as hundreds of cannons nearly wiped out the landed vanguard.
• Othaar told Robbie that he opposed Velen’s leadership and supported Yrel, while Robbie warned him against betraying the Draenei.
• Commander Volka learned that Velen was dead and asked Med’an for help, and Med’an claimed he had seventeen ways to defeat the Draenei.

Anduin watched Med'an show off for the Iron Horde and summon a vast ghost fleet from sunken ships. As Med'an prepared a powerful spell aimed at Karabor Temple, Robbie recognized the danger and urged Yrel to kill him.

• Anduin recalled his childhood friendship with Med'an and warned him that the Iron Horde did not know what his most powerful spell was.
• Chief Commander Volka demanded that Med'an prove his strength by casting his most powerful spell.
• Robbie watched from the coast as Med'an raised hundreds of sunken ships into a ghost fleet and sent it toward Karabor Temple.
• Med'an shaped sand into a model of Karabor Temple and began preparing a powerful spell to destroy it.
• Robbie shouted for Yrel to kill Med'an while he was at the critical stage of casting.

Med'an's spellcasting was disrupted by Yrel's hidden particle beam, and the Iron Horde's assault stalled under the Draenei's artillery. Kalecgos transformed into a blue dragon and attacked the Draenei with Dragon's Breath.

• Yrel shot Med'an with a concealed particle beam, disrupting his spell and sending him tumbling into the sea.
• Prince Anduin ordered Med'an rescued as his failed Ghostly Kingdom spell caused the ghost fleet to collapse.
• Robbie directed the Draenei artillery, which devastated the Iron Horde troops trying to land.
• Commander Volka asked for help destroying the Draenei cannons, and Anduin introduced Kalecgos as a Dragon King.
• Kalecgos transformed into a blue dragon and struck a group of Draenei with Dragon's Breath.

Kalecgos seemed to be an inept ally of the Iron Horde until a chance attack left him surrounded by adventurers. Robbie discovered demonic power and the souls of five dead blue dragons hidden within Kalecgos, who transformed and set his sights on Naaru K'ara at Karabor Temple.

• Kalecgos's foul breath knocked Draenei unconscious, but they recovered and complained about the stench while Anduin assured Volka that Kalecgos had not shown his true strength.
• A disoriented Draenei ranger accidentally struck Kalecgos's wing with a javelin, bringing him down near the adventurers defending Karabor Temple.
• The adventurers recognized Kalecgos and attacked him, hoping to kill him and claim his scales and horns.
• Robbie grew suspicious of Kalecgos's apparent helplessness, hurried to the battlefield, and saw demonic power hidden in the dragon's soul.
• Kalecgos's consciousness disappeared as a powerful soul took control, revealing the imprisoned spirits of five dead blue dragons and transforming him with green flames and black wings.
• Kalecgos ignored the adventurers and fixed his attention on Naaru K'ara at Karabor Temple.

Robbie fought the demon-controlled Kalecgos at Karabor Temple, then entered a rift and discovered Kalecgos and Sathrovarr were cooperating. After Sathrovarr sacrificed himself, Kalecgos returned to his dragon form and entered a demonic portal, grieving for his beloved.

• Robbie identified the demon controlling Kalecgos as Sathrovarr the Corruptor and blocked his attack on Karabor Temple.
• Robbie and the adventurers fought Kalecgos, whose corrupted Frost Breath was weakened by K'ara's blessing; Vanessa wounded his wing with the Fangs of the Father.
• Robbie followed a spatial rift beneath Kalecgos's wing and found Kalecgos and Sathrovarr fighting inside it.
• Robbie realized Kalecgos and Sathrovarr were working together, then battered Kalecgos while Sathrovarr tried to protect him.
• Sathrovarr took Robbie's hammer blow and urged Kalecgos to escape before blowing himself up and collapsing the mysterious space.
• Kalecgos returned to his Blue Dragon form, mourned Sathrovarr, and walked into a demonic portal.

Prince Anduin and Med'an prepared to destroy Karabor Temple with a gunpowder-laden ship, while Robbie, Vanessa, and Yrel recognized that attacking it could trigger Stormwind City's royal succession crisis. The ship sailed toward the temple, leaving the Draenei trapped between letting it through and risking war with King Varian.

• Commander Volka blamed Prince Anduin for the failed attack, while Anduin continued to seek the power of Gorgrond promised by Duke Alpha.
• After Med'an woke, an Orc served Anduin foul Iron Horde food and warned him that the Orc chiefs would seize any real power from Gorgrond for themselves.
• Anduin and Med'an agreed to proceed with the Draenei's destruction, and Med'an resolved to fulfill what he believed was the Draenei's destined fate.
• Med'an summoned a gunpowder-laden black ship, and Anduin joined him aboard as it sailed toward Karabor Temple.
• Robbie explained to Yrel and Vanessa that the Draenei could not fire on the ship without risking King Varian's retaliation, since Prince Anduin stood at its bow.

Yrel ordered the Draenei to fire on the explosive-laden ship carrying Prince Anduin, while Experiment 335 warned Anduin that he was being manipulated. Vanessa and Robbie used Murlocs and Robbie’s ability to board the ship, where Robbie confronted Anduin in disguise and declared him a prisoner.

• Yrel ordered the Draenei cannons to fire on the approaching ship, and Med’an used a Magic Shield to protect it.
• Experiment 335 revealed himself to Anduin and warned him that the Iron Horde wanted him dead, but Anduin insisted the Draenei would be destroyed instead.
• Vanessa asked Robbie to break through the ship’s Magic Shield and proposed capturing Anduin to control the Alliance.
• Robbie and Vanessa used Murlocs to reach the ship underwater, and Robbie found a weak point in the shield and boarded with her.
• Robbie appeared disguised as an Orc and announced that Prince Anduin would become his prisoner.

Robbie, disguised as the Orc Axe of Tyranny, confronted Prince Anduin and Med’an aboard a ship, where Med’an revealed a plot to kill Anduin and blame the Draenei. Anduin offered a Legendary cloak as ransom, and as Robbie agreed to escort him ashore, a black raven landed on the bow.

• Robbie attacked Anduin while Med’an defended the prince with a magical barrier.
• Med’an claimed the mission was to kill Anduin and destroy the ship, then blame the Draenei, and stepped aside to let Robbie take him.
• Anduin offered a Legendary cloak to ransom his life, and Robbie took the cloak.
• Robbie agreed to escort Anduin ashore, but noticed the prince’s expression and suspected a plot as a black raven landed on the bow.

Prince Anduin summoned Archmage Khadgar to recover his cloak, but Robbie exposed the ship’s explosives and Khadgar was ambushed by Vanessa. After Anduin threatened to destroy Lakeshire and revealed Stormwind’s role in the Raven Hill massacre, Robbie decided to end House Wrynn’s rule.

• Anduin summoned Khadgar, who demanded that Robbie return the prince’s cloak and refused to question the explosives aboard the ship.
• Robbie accused Anduin and Med’an of plotting to destroy Karabor Temple, but Khadgar defended them and threatened to send Robbie to the Iron Horde.
• Vanessa ambushed Khadgar with a poisoned shadow-force wound, forcing him to escape after identifying Robbie as a human and a member of the Defias Brotherhood.
• Anduin recognized Robbie Capor and threatened to have Lakeshire destroyed if Robbie did not submit to him.
• Med’an revealed that Marcus Jonathan had massacred Raven Hill’s people and blamed the slaughter on the Lich King’s forces.
• Robbie said he had no choice but to bring an end to Stormwind City’s royal succession and House Wrynn’s rule.

Robbie fought Prince Anduin, escaped the destruction of the gunpowder ship with Vanessa, and learned that Medivh had abandoned Anduin. In Karazhan, Medivh revealed his plan to keep humanity divided and use humans to supply Undercity with corpses and souls.

• Robbie attacked Anduin with Holy Light's Vengeance, breaking the prince's arm and crushing his face as Anduin tried to bargain.
• Anduin used a Titan relic to turn Experiment 335 to diamond, but Robbie dodged its beam and continued attacking.
• Med'an opened a portal to Orgrimmar and left Anduin behind, while amber shielded the prince from Robbie's hammer.
• Vanessa and Robbie crushed their Rune Hearthstones as the Draenei's shells struck the gunpowder ship, and the explosion shattered part of Anduin's amber shell.
• In Karazhan, Medivh discussed his experiments and his plan to make humans reproduce without forming kingdoms, supplying Undercity with corpses and souls.

Medivh and Grand Duke Alpha discussed humanity, the Forsaken, and Medivh’s plan to turn humans into a source of materials for them. After learning that Anduin had died but the Iron Horde was defeated and Karabor Temple remained unharmed, Medivh set out to destroy Naaru K'ara himself.

• Medivh criticized Varian’s rule and said he intended to end House Wrynn’s reign, while Grand Duke Alpha argued that Varian had faced threats from within and without.
• Medivh explained that he considered the Forsaken his people and planned for humans to become isolated, lose their abilities, and supply materials to the Forsaken.
• Medivh and Grand Duke Alpha watched the life-flame representing Anduin go out, and Medivh celebrated his death.
• Aegwynn contacted Medivh and reported that Med'an had returned, the Iron Horde had been defeated, and Karabor Temple was unharmed.
• Medivh decided to go to Karabor Temple and destroy Naaru K'ara to provoke Varian into avenging Anduin.

Robbie and the Brotherhood prepared to confront Medivh, while Robbie kept watch over Experiment 003 and discovered that Kel'Thuzad had summoned the Eredar Twins. When Medivh arrived at Karabor Temple, he found Draenei rangers and a crowd of adventurers ready to face him.

• Robbie ordered the Brotherhood to develop improved firearms and cannons, and learned that Experiment 003 had recalled three Holy Light Runes by absorbing fallen Orc souls.
• Robbie found the Eredar Twins dancing in the tavern and learned that Kel'Thuzad had summoned them to help prepare against Medivh.
• Robbie and Kel'Thuzad sensed Medivh's approach and teleported to Karabor Temple as Destiny's red letters appeared and adventurers scattered.
• The Brotherhood's leaders urged the adventurers to stand their ground, while Yrel summoned Draenei rangers and headed for Karabor Temple.
• Medivh descended on Karabor Temple and found Draenei rangers in formation and a large crowd of adventurers gathered outside.

Robbie and Kel'Thuzad confronted Medivh with a staged judgment, using claims about the Pillars of Creation to keep him occupied. As Medivh waited for an attack, the giant image began advertising music boxes to the people watching across Azeroth.

• Robbie nodded, and Kel'Thuzad conjured a giant image that accused Medivh of crimes and threatened to judge him.
• Medivh feared that his weakness had been discovered, but relaxed when the image mentioned the Pillars of Creation.
• Kel'Thuzad opened portals to Everlook, Booty Bay, Gadgetzan, Ratchet, and other places, leading Medivh to believe the Pillars were hidden among them.
• The giant image listed Medivh's crimes, and Medivh admitted them impatiently while waiting for his opponents to attack.
• The image addressed Azeroth's citizens and began explaining how to use a music box, leaving Medivh stunned by the commercial break.

Robbie exposed Medivh’s weakness by making his song play through music boxes across Azeroth, forcing the Guardian to flee from place to place. Medivh returned to Karazhan believing the threat had been contained, where Grand Duke Alpha led him to Prince Malchezaar.

• Medivh fled when a music box played Robbie singing Praise of Queen Azshara, and adventurers across Azeroth joined in with their own music boxes.
• Robbie spread Medivh’s secret across Azeroth, making the song a widespread means of driving him away.
• Medivh hid in a remote Tuskarr village, recovered, and planned to return to Karazhan to use his backup plans.
• A Worgen girl and singing Ogres forced Medivh to avoid Darkshire and travel through Deadwind Pass.
• Grand Duke Alpha welcomed Medivh back to Karazhan and claimed the music boxes there had been destroyed.
• Medivh followed Grand Duke Alpha to the rooftop, where Prince Malchezaar was chained inside a magic array.

Medivh tried to take Prince Malchezaar’s Eredar body to gain power, but Duke Alpha and Malchezaar turned against him. Medivh escaped through an unfamiliar teleportation spell and arrived in an underground prison, where an Orc resembling Gul'dan offered help.

• Medivh explained that he wanted Malchezaar’s body to replace his flawed Spellstealer Wyrm and build power for revenge.
• Medivh prepared to extract Malchezaar’s soul, while Duke Alpha challenged his plan and urged him to bargain rather than pursue power at any cost.
• Duke Alpha helped Malchezaar break free, and the two confronted Medivh as a music box played.
• Medivh crushed a strange black Teleportation Rune and vanished despite the barrier blocking teleportation.
• Medivh reappeared in an empty underground prison, where an Orc resembling Gul'dan asked if he needed help.

Medivh disguised himself as an Orc and cautiously gathered information in Ratchet before confronting Eitrigg to learn about Thrall’s position. He discovered that Eitrigg recognized him and was ready to answer his questions.

• The Scarless gave Medivh an Orc disguise and papers identifying him as First Sergeant Griffin Bloodblade, then revealed that Gul'dan had escaped.
• Medivh traveled to Ratchet, where he learned that the Horde had outlawed music boxes and supported his position, while Aegwynn and Med'an were safe.
• Medivh learned that Saurfang the Great was gaining ground against Thrall and decided to seek Thrall’s help, but waited for a chance to enter Orgrimmar.
• Medivh ambushed Eitrigg in his room in Ratchet, and Eitrigg recognized his voice and knelt before him.
• Medivh asked Eitrigg to explain Thrall’s position.

Medivh rushed to Orgrimmar to stop Saurfang from bringing the Burning Legion through the unstable portal at Theramore, then discovered that Aegwynn’s experiment in Ragefire Chasm had produced a new Old God. Thrall welcomed Medivh as the music boxes began playing a song praising Queen Azshara.

• Eitrigg told Medivh that Saurfang planned to open the Dark Portal in Theramore and summon the Burning Legion, possibly with Gul'dan's help.
• Medivh disguised himself as an Orc and rode a Wyvern with Eitrigg to Orgrimmar, intending to stop Saurfang.
• Eitrigg described the Cleft of Shadow’s secret restaurants and their gruesome dishes as they approached Ragefire Chasm.
• Medivh sensed Aegwynn’s powerful shadow magic and entered her hidden laboratory, convinced that her research was nearly complete.
• Thrall revealed that the experiment had succeeded and a new Old God had descended, then seized Medivh’s hands as thousands of music boxes played Praise of Queen Azshara.

Thrall betrayed Medivh and fused him with a vast mass of Old God flesh, condemning him to provide meat for the Orcs. As Thrall celebrated and plotted against High Overlord Saurfang, Saurfang confronted him and warned that he had lost.

• Thrall restrained Medivh, drove the Spellstealer Wyrms from his body, and revealed that he had lured Medivh into a trap.
• Thrall showed Medivh the Old God flesh containing Aegwynn and explained that he intended to merge them into an inexhaustible food source for the Orcs.
• Thrall hurled Medivh into the mass of flesh, where Medivh lost control of his consciousness and faced the accusing Restless Souls of victims of the Orcs.
• Thrall celebrated his revenge on Medivh and considered how to torture High Overlord Saurfang after joining forces with the Burning Legion.
• High Overlord Saurfang attacked Thrall, took a punch to the face, and warned him that he had lost as elemental power gathered.

Agna, Garrosh Hellscream, and Saurfang the Great turned against Thrall, who revealed that his supposed efforts to save the world had served his ambition and the Burning Legion. As Thrall began transforming into an Infernal, Saurfang warned the others to watch out.

• Agna attacked Thrall, but he overpowered her with elemental magic before Garrosh Hellscream emerged and joined the fight.
• Garrosh and Agna used Dark Shaman power to strip Thrall of his elemental support, then Garrosh beat him severely.
• Thrall revealed that he had manipulated Garrosh, planned to seize Azeroth’s elemental powers, and blamed Garrosh for thwarting his schemes.
• Garrosh accused Thrall of using him and broke his bones, while Thrall exposed Saurfang the Great’s body-swapping plot and his role in ruining it.
• Thrall declared that the Burning Legion had rewarded him for eliminating powerful beings, then became enveloped in Fel power.
• Saurfang the Great recognized Thrall’s transformation and warned Garrosh to watch out for the Infernal.

Thrall revealed his demonic forms, defeated Garrosh, and threatened the survivors after devouring him. Vol’jin then confronted Thrall and declared that he would defeat him and claim the title of true Warchief.

• Thrall transformed into a demon and revealed that he had been the flying man-eating demon terrorizing Orgrimmar.
• Thrall transformed again into a monstrous, heavily armored demon, while Garrosh prepared to fight him with Gorehowl.
• Thrall shrugged off Garrosh’s attack, crushed his shoulder, then ate him and spat out his armor and shattered bones.
• Thrall threatened Eitrigg, Agna, and Saurfang the Great, but Vol’jin arrived and challenged him.
• Vol’jin denounced Thrall’s tyranny and declared that he would defeat him and prove himself the true Warchief.

Vol'jin used a mysterious power to kill Thrall and seized control of the Horde, then revealed his plot to replace Saurfang the Great with his own son, Sagulos. With Agna's help, he planned to install Zotus as a false Thrall, though Zotus could not command the elements.

• Vol'jin challenged Thrall and invoked a mysterious master, causing Thrall to vomit blood and lose his demon form.
• Vol'jin cut off Thrall's head, and Eitrigg, Saurfang the Great, and Agna knelt to him.
• Vol'jin dismissed Saurfang the Great's offer to work with Gul'dan, and Sagulos ambushed Saurfang and cut him in half.
• Vol'jin revealed that Sagulos was Saurfang the Great's son and planned to take his place.
• Agna explained that the Horde needed a replacement Savior, and Vol'jin discussed making Zotus, Queen Doras's brother, impersonate Thrall despite his inability to command the elements.

Robbie and Kel'Thuzad investigated reports that an immense power stood behind Vol'jin, while Naaru Lala helped estimate its strength. The chapter left Robbie proposing a different way to interpret the evidence.

• Robbie descended into the underground chamber, where the freed Naaru Lala hid while struggling to control her invisibility domain and singing incessantly.
• Kel'Thuzad asked Lala about the power behind Vol'jin, but she had never heard of a being as powerful as the reports described.
• Robbie verified Doras's intelligence through evidence from Orgrimmar and reports about Thrall's demon form and loss of the elements' aid.
• Kel'Thuzad concluded that demon Thrall had been as powerful as fifteen Antonidases, and Lala estimated that the force behind Vol'jin equaled at least twelve hundred Sargerases.
• Robbie suggested that they look at the problem another way.