Recaps

Jaina questioned Marshal Windsor about the attack on Medivh's Tower and planned to abduct King Varian, but Twilight's Hammer stormed the estate and trapped them. As Jaina fought the cultists' Elemental Ascendants, Benedictus intervened and stopped her spell with Holy Light.

• Jaina questioned Marshal Windsor about his role in the raid on Karazhan, and he described how he survived by suggesting Sargeras as a possible possessor for Medivh.
• Jaina decided to bring King Varian to Theramore for peace talks with Thrall, planning to abduct him if necessary and frame several groups for the kidnapping.
• The Black Dragon Princess, Robbie and Vanessa watched Jaina and Windsor, intending to learn the operation's details and replace someone with Experiment 335.
• Twilight's Hammer cultists attacked the estate, blocked Jaina's teleportation and surrounded her and Marshal Windsor with Elemental Ascendants.
• Jaina unleashed a spell combining Fire, Frost and Arcane magic, but Benedictus appeared and blocked it with Holy Light.

Benedictus lured Jaina into revealing that she had become a monster empowered by the Old Gods, then trapped her with the Cathedral of Light’s priests. Marshal Windsor’s infatuation with Jaina overcame his judgment, and he prepared to follow her hidden instruction as she remained bound.

• Benedictus accused Jaina of treason and said he planned to attend her funeral after the Twilight’s Hammer assassinated her.
• Jaina used a burst of black fog to slip a scroll into Marshal Windsor’s arms and told him to wait for her command.
• Jaina transformed into a tentacled monster infused with the powers of C'Thun and Yogg-Saron, stunning Windsor.
• Benedictus summoned the Cathedral of Light’s priests, who bound Jaina in a golden net of Holy Light.
• Windsor became distressed by Jaina’s suffering, heard a voice tell him to unroll the scroll, and pulled it out.

Jaina summoned the Sea's Sovereignty to escape Stormwind with Marshal Windsor, then admitted her deception and began recounting the rejection and political marriage that had turned her against her family. Benedictus and the Black Dragon Princess remained behind, considering their own escape from Stormwind City.

• Jaina summoned the Sea's Sovereignty and used its Arcane Cannons to break the priests' defenses before taking Marshal Windsor aboard.
• Benedictus admitted his mistake, while the Black Dragon Princess revealed she had watched from the sidelines and warned him that Stormwind City was no longer safe.
• Jaina sailed toward the waters near Stormwind City and confessed to Marshal Windsor that she had intended to draw the Alliance into war to help Thrall hold off Arthas's Scourge.
• Jaina lost control of her magic and attacked Marshal Windsor with spells before calming down and offering to tell him her story.
• Jaina told Marshal Windsor that Lady Ashvane had driven a wedge between her and her mother and arranged a political marriage she dreaded, then declared that she hated them.

Jaina explained that she had been intended as a sacrificial queen for King Rastakhan, then recruited Marshal Windsor by offering him power and ordered him to reveal King Varian’s whereabouts. Robbie and Experiment 335 tracked the plot to a country villa, where Experiment 335 prepared to impersonate Varian and confront Jaina.

• Jaina told Windsor that Lady Ashvane had intended her to marry King Rastakhan as a sacrifice, and that her resentment toward her family drove her actions.
• Jaina persuaded Windsor to serve her and asked him to identify a moment when King Varian would have few guards.
• Windsor revealed that Varian secretly visited a villa in Elwynn Forest to meet his Tauren mistress, bringing only one guard.
• Robbie and his allies learned of the kidnapping plan and located the villa by following Windsor.
• Experiment 335 disguised himself as Varian and prepared to meet Jaina, while Robbie warned him about the danger.

Experiment 335 disguised himself as King Varian and visited Tina, using a magic necklace to fool her while enduring her overwhelming affection. Jaina arrived, transformed Tina into a rabbit, and was herself distracted by a second necklace, leaving the deception intact.

• Robbie warned Experiment 335 about Jaina and gave him a necklace enchanted to make Tina mistake him for King Varian.
• Experiment 335 entered Tina’s villa in disguise, and the necklace made Tina accept him as her beloved.
• Tina embraced and doted on Experiment 335 so forcefully that he struggled through their time together while Robbie pretended not to notice.
• Jaina arrived and transformed the charging Tina into a rabbit.
• Experiment 335 presented Jaina with an unenchanted diamond necklace, and she forgot her suspicions as Robbie noted that she and Tina shared a weakness for jewelry.

Experiment 335 impersonated King Varian and derailed Jaina’s attempt to discuss peace with a shameless marriage proposal. He left Jaina furious after demanding that she become Anduin’s mother and reaching beneath her skirt, only to have his hand injured.

• Experiment 335 gave Jaina a diamond necklace and impulsively proposed marriage to her.
• Jaina tried to steer the meeting toward Alliance-Horde peace, while Experiment 335 dismissed her claims and boasted about protecting Azeroth.
• Jaina warned that dangers threatened Azeroth and urged Varian to support Thrall, but Experiment 335 rejected her arguments.
• Experiment 335 demanded that Jaina become Anduin’s mother in exchange for agreeing to everything.
• Experiment 335 leaned toward Jaina and reached beneath her skirt, then cried out and pulled back his bleeding hand.

Robbie foiled Jaina’s attempt to seize Varian, forcing her to abandon her plan and turn her attention to Prince Anduin. After learning about Anduin’s upbringing and his secret connection to the Old Gods, Jaina decided to win his trust by filling the place of the mother he had lost.

• Robbie redirected Jaina’s Shapeshifting spell and extinguished her Fireball, protecting Varian and making Jaina give up her kidnapping attempt.
• Experiment 335 resumed his proposal to Jaina, who deferred her answer until she could consult her mother and then left Stormwind.
• After Jaina departed, Experiment 335 admitted to Robbie that he had fallen for her.
• Jaina asked Marshal Windsor for information about Anduin and learned about his difficult childhood, his tutor Lady Cassandra, and the Old Gods’ power he had used to excel at his studies.
• Jaina decided to gain control over Anduin by taking the place of the mother he had never known.

Jaina arranged a chance meeting with Anduin and used warmth, magic, and conversation to win his trust. After revealing her identity and challenging what Bolvar had taught him, she persuaded Anduin to speak to his father about peace with the Orcs.

• Jaina drenched Anduin with a magically localized rain shower, then offered to help him wash and dry his clothes.
• Jaina completed Anduin's jigsaw puzzle and told him that Orcs were honorable allies against the Lich King.
• Anduin repeated Bolvar's warnings about Jaina, and she revealed that she was the ruler of Theramore.
• Jaina told Anduin that Varian refused to negotiate with the Orcs, and Anduin agreed to talk to his father.

Jaina persuaded Anduin to urge Varian to negotiate with Thrall, but Varian took his son to the prison to prove that Orcs were dangerous. Anduin chose to spend the night with four imprisoned Orcs, who treated him kindly and told him stories that left him convinced of their innocence.

• Jaina sent Anduin to speak with Varian about making peace with Thrall.
• Anduin argued that the Orcs were honorable and that the Scourge, not the Orcs, had destroyed Lordaeron, angering Varian.
• Varian brought Anduin to the prison and offered him the choice of admitting he was wrong or staying overnight with four Orc prisoners.
• Anduin chose to stay with the Orcs, and Varian reluctantly agreed while secretly instructing the Jailer to protect him.
• The Orcs welcomed Anduin, shared his meal, and told him that humans had wronged them and that they wanted peace.
• Anduin listened tearfully and began to believe the Orcs' account.

Anduin enjoyed a night of play with four Orc prisoners and begged Varian to spare them, but Varian sent them to execution. Jaina revealed that she had rescued the Orcs only to kill them herself, then urged Anduin to help unite the Alliance and Horde against the Scourge; he agreed.

• Anduin played happily with four Orcs in his cell, and Varian later took him away after dismissing his plea to spare them.
• The guards transported the four Orcs into the forest, where Jaina revealed her plan to kill them and conjured a flame.
• Anduin spent the day troubled by his father's actions and went to Jaina's residence after class.
• Jaina described human-Orc misunderstandings and argued that peace talks could prevent further conflict.
• Jaina showed Anduin a map of Northrend and warned that the Alliance and Horde had to unite against the Scourge; Anduin agreed to help.

Jaina coached Anduin to persuade Varian to act against the Scourge, while the Black Dragon Princess and Robbie planned a counter through Duke Bolvar. Anduin tried to speak with his father, but Varian drew his sword and accused Jaina of manipulating him and betraying her father.

• Jaina urged Anduin to warn Varian that the Scourge and Arthas threatened Azeroth, and Anduin agreed to speak with his father.
• The Black Dragon Princess, Robbie, and Experiment 335 discussed Jaina's influence over Anduin and planned to use Duke Bolvar to counter her.
• Robbie proposed that the Black Dragon Princess persuade Bolvar to advise Varian against Jaina's arguments.
• At dinner, Anduin tried to discuss Arthas with Varian, who drew his sword and demanded to know who had coached him.
• Anduin named Jaina, and Varian denounced her for allowing the Orcs to kill her father and asked whether Anduin wanted to become king.

After a violent argument with Anduin, King Varian dismissed the prince’s warnings about Arthas and the Scourge, while Jaina recruited Mofeile to spy on House Wrynn. As rumors and doubt troubled Varian, he began to favor peace talks with Thrall.

• Varian threatened Anduin during an argument over negotiations with the Orcs, leaving the prince frightened and ill with a fever.
• Varian ordered a search for Jaina and locked down Stormwind Keep, but his agents failed to find her.
• Mofeile told Varian that Anduin had been speaking about the Scourge and Arthas, and Varian blamed Jaina for influencing him.
• Jaina appeared in Mofeile’s carriage and offered to help her become a true mage in exchange for spying on House Wrynn.
• Rumors about Arthas and the Scourge spread through Stormwind Keep, deepening Varian’s doubts about refusing an alliance with the Horde.
• Varian weighed the dangers of Arthas against the possibility of gaining power through peace talks with Thrall and began to favor negotiations.

Varian struggled to choose between Arthas's Scourge and Thrall's Horde, then sought Duke Bolvar's counsel after a nightmare about King Llane and suspicions that Jaina had spread rumors to sway him. Bolvar warned him about Arthas but invoked the Black Dragonflight's knowledge of the Heavenly Dao, leaving Varian with a new and mysterious argument against forcing the outcome.

• Varian dreamed that King Llane accused him of forgetting to avenge his death and woke shaken by the vision.
• Varian realized the prophecy about Llane's murder had been fabricated and suspected someone had arranged the rumors in Stormwind Keep to influence his decision.
• Varian went to Duke Bolvar for advice, and Bolvar said Jaina was behind the rumors and wanted to manipulate him.
• Bolvar urged Varian to weigh Arthas's danger against Medivh's, suggesting that Jaina might be right to oppose Arthas's growing power.
• When Varian asked whether Bolvar supported peace talks with Thrall, Bolvar described Deathwing's understanding of the Heavenly Dao and claimed the Scourge would rise and fall according to it.

Duke Bolvar persuaded King Varian that the Scourge and the Black Dragon Princess were calamities brought about by the Orcs, and that destroying the Orcs would make those threats fade. Varian swore to wipe out the Orcs, but after he repeated Bolvar’s theory at a banquet, Jaina heard of it and prepared a final way to challenge him.

• Duke Bolvar used the idea of Azeroth’s Heavenly Dao to convince Varian that the Orcs had provoked the Scourge and that the Scourge would vanish once the Orcs were destroyed.
• Bolvar warned Varian that cooperating with the Orcs would defy the Heavenly Dao, and Varian swore to wipe them out.
• Varian ordered people to stop spreading rumors, then repeated the Heavenly Dao theory at a banquet a few days later.
• Jaina heard Varian’s theory and considered using one last card to change his mind.

Jaina used black magic against Varian’s lovers and sent him a letter offering a chance to inherit a Wild God’s power and gain eternal immortality. The Black Dragon Princess took the letter from Varian and warned him that its promise of immortality was a lie.

• Jaina cursed Varian’s lovers outside Stormwind, and Varian discovered the spreading aging stains when he visited one of them in Goldshire.
• A priest identified the stains as demonic black magic that only the caster could undo, and Varian blamed Jaina after learning that his lovers across Elwynn Forest had also been targeted.
• Varian confronted Lady Cassandra, whom he accused of leading Twilight’s Hammer in Stormwind, and she gave him Jaina’s remedy formula and letter.
• Varian read Jaina’s letter and returned to Stormwind Keep, where the Black Dragon Princess demanded he hand it over.
• The Black Dragon Princess took the letter and claimed Jaina had lied about eternal immortality, though she also revealed that Varian could inherit a Wild God’s power.

The Black Dragon Princess exposed Jaina’s offer of eternal life as a lie and brought Varian, disguised as a guard, to watch Experiment 335 confront Jaina. Jaina began explaining how magic could preserve her appearance, but Experiment 335’s questions about sagging turned into an insult about her chin.

• The Black Dragon Princess read Jaina’s letter, mocked Varian for considering an alliance with the Horde, and warned him that eternal life was impossible.
• The Black Dragon Princess bound Varian in Shadowflame and concealed him in magical armor while Experiment 335, Robbie, and Vanessa prepared to meet Jaina.
• Experiment 335 and the others waited in Stormwind City’s Harbor District as Jaina passed them twice in disguise before approaching in her true appearance.
• Experiment 335 told Jaina he doubted her promise of eternal life and demanded answers about how she could preserve her appearance.
• Jaina said magic and precious resources could keep someone looking young, and Experiment 335 asked how she would prevent excess flesh beneath her chin from sagging.

Jaina used a magical illusion and a fabricated story about Lo'gosh to convince Experiment 335 that he possessed the wolf god's power, while the real Varian grew increasingly furious at being mocked. She led the group through a portal to a ship at sea, where Robbie warned Experiment 335 to brace himself for something terrifying.

• Jaina endured Experiment 335's taunts and conjured an illusion of Lo'gosh's power around him.
• Jaina claimed the wolf god had chosen Varian and promised that an awakening ritual in Theramore would grant him the blessing.
• Experiment 335 gloated over the real Varian and proposed to Jaina, while Varian seethed at being humiliated by a commoner.
• Jaina opened a portal to the Sea's Sovereignty, claiming Theramore needed time to prepare a welcoming ceremony.
• Experiment 335 kicked Varian down and threatened the Black Dragon Princess before following Jaina, Robbie, and Vanessa through the portal.
• Robbie grabbed Experiment 335's shoulder aboard the ship and warned him to prepare for something terrifying.

Jaina introduced the resurrected Daelin Proudmoore to Varian and tried to intimidate him, but Robbie and Experiment 335 unsettled her with mockery until Vanessa intervened. The Sea's Sovereignty sailed on, and the next morning Jaina rushed on deck after hearing someone sing a song about the Daughter of the Sea.

• Jaina presented Daelin Proudmoore, an undead Kul Tiran commander, to Varian and asserted control over the king.
• Robbie embraced Daelin and called him his idol, while he and Experiment 335 joked that Daelin and Jaina's mother were the sea.
• Vanessa appeared beside Robbie and ordered him and Experiment 335 to stop, frightening Jaina with her stealth.
• Jaina shifted to a polite welcome and offered tea and pastries in the cabin.
• The Sea's Sovereignty traveled through the mist at great speed, and the next morning Jaina heard a song about the Daughter of the Sea and hurried onto the deck.

Jaina faced a mysterious girl who looked like her and matched her magic, while Robbie and the others refused to intervene. After the girl copied Jaina’s spells and quickly mastered a complex one, Jaina asked who she was.

• Jaina spotted a girl standing on an iceberg and sensed that she was a threat.
• Jaina asked Robbie, Vanessa, and Experiment 335 for help, but Robbie said the confrontation was hers alone.
• Jaina claimed the girl was a special Faceless One serving N'Zoth, though Robbie privately doubted her story.
• Jaina and the girl summoned identical three-headed Water Elementals and clashed with matching ice tridents.
• Jaina attacked with a difficult spell combining Frost, Arcane, and fire, but the girl blocked it with Ice Block and mastered the spell after three attempts.
• Jaina asked the girl who she was.

A mysterious little girl confronted Jaina, demonstrated knowledge of her hidden magic, and demanded that she sever her ties with Kul Tiras. Jaina escaped with her magic intact and returned to Theramore, where she noticed that one of Aegwynn's teacups was missing.

• The little girl appeared before Jaina and revealed that she knew about Jaina's many kinds of magic and her Spellstealer Wyrms.
• Jaina begged the little girl not to take her magic, and the girl demanded that Jaina sever her relationship with Kul Tiras and beware of the Horde.
• The little girl took the Sea's Sovereignty in a message bottle and left, while Jaina falsely claimed to have defeated her.
• Jaina hurried back to Theramore with Robbie and his companions, then went to find Aegwynn.
• Jaina saw Aegwynn lost in thought beside the hearth and noticed that one cup from her tea set was missing.

Jaina warned Aegwynn about the mysterious girl Anveena, while Aegwynn urged her to keep Theramore stable until the meeting with Thrall. King Varian, secretly Experiment 335, inspected the city and discovered its defenses and living conditions were far worse than he expected.

• Jaina told Aegwynn about meeting Anveena, and Aegwynn claimed the girl was under their control.
• Aegwynn told Jaina to attend to King Varian and avoid trouble before the meeting with Thrall.
• Experiment 335 asked Archmage Tervosh to show him Theramore's defenses, then objected when Tervosh suggested eating intelligent beings.
• Experiment 335 wandered through Theramore and saw its muddy streets, shacks, and impoverished residents.
• At the dilapidated city gate, Experiment 335 ordered someone to bring him a sturdy spear.

Experiment 335 and Robbie inspected Theramore’s defenses and challenged Archmage Tervosh’s claims about Stormwind and the Horde. At Jaina’s dinner, a lavish crocodile feast revealed Aegwynn’s extraordinary skill, and she asked for help taking its stripped spine to the treasure vault.

• Experiment 335 found that termites had hollowed out Theramore’s gate, and Archmage Tervosh admitted the walls were flimsy and had once collapsed on soldiers.
• Robbie told Tervosh that Stormwind had twice sent building supplies to Theramore, but the shipments disappeared and were later found in Orgrimmar.
• Tervosh defended Jaina’s peace with the Horde, while Robbie warned that the Orcs had destroyed Lordaeron and might destroy Theramore too.
• Jaina apologized to Robbie and the others at dinner and defended the Orcs’ practice of eating people.
• Jaina presented a roasted marsh crocodile called King Terror’s Kiss, and Aegwynn removed its spine without leaving any meat on the bones.
• Aegwynn asked one of Experiment 335’s guards to carry the crocodile spine to the treasure vault.

Aegwynn led Robbie into her underground vault and recounted the stories behind her collection of demons and weapons, describing how her experiences had changed her views on demons and history. She revealed that Emperor Thoradin had been raised by a Troll lord and intended to lead a human army for the Trolls, prompting Robbie to compare him to Thrall.

• Robbie carried the crocodile's enormous spine as Aegwynn led him and Jaina to the vault beneath Theramore's mage tower.
• Aegwynn opened the vault, where chained Felguards guarded a chamber filled with magically preserved demon heads that she called living books.
• Aegwynn described how she had killed a female Dreadlord who later became her friend, and recalled a fishlike demon who had asked her to help its Murloc and Lobstrok dependents find a new home.
• Aegwynn explained that her encounters had taught her that demons could have humanity and were not all irredeemably evil.
• Aegwynn showed Robbie Strom'kar, the Warbreaker, and said she had taken it from Emperor Thoradin after traveling back in time and learning that he had been raised by a Troll lord to lead a human army.
• Robbie recognized the parallel between Thoradin's planned role and Thrall's.

Aegwynn told Robbie that the Burning Legion’s factions had secretly shaped humanity’s rise and that the Orcs’ internment camps had turned the Legion’s support toward the Orcs. Robbie was partly persuaded by her account, but then recognized a mysterious stone tablet in her collection.

• Robbie asked whether Thrall’s story was fabricated, and Aegwynn said Emperor Thoradin had relied on an Old God’s power to defeat the Amani Trolls.
• Aegwynn claimed the Burning Legion’s Pro-peace Faction had secretly supported humans, hoping they would grow powerful enough to defeat the Old Gods.
• Aegwynn said humanity’s failure to expand and unite the Eastern Kingdoms let the Pro-war Faction regain influence and orchestrate the Orcs’ invasion.
• Aegwynn blamed King Terenas’s creation of Orc internment camps for turning the Legion’s support away from humanity and toward the Orcs.
• Robbie found an obscurely marked stone tablet in Aegwynn’s collection and recognized it as one of the mysterious tablets once placed in Lordaeron’s Holy Light churches.

Robbie recognized Aegwynn’s stone tablet as the seventeenth Holy Light Rune and persuaded her to give it to him, learning that she had collected other tablets and that several remained in her old laboratory in Netherstorm. After returning to Theramore, Robbie took the tablet to his room and began studying its rune.

• Robbie recognized the stone tablet in Aegwynn’s storeroom as the seventeenth Holy Light Rune and asked where it came from.
• Aegwynn explained her theories about the runes and gave Robbie the tablet after he insisted it held a deeper secret.
• Aegwynn told Robbie that she had once collected fifteen tablets and that one remained after workers broke four during her move from her Netherstorm laboratory.
• Robbie and Aegwynn returned to the castle, where Jaina asked Robbie to take the drunken Experiment 335 to his room.
• Robbie put Experiment 335 to bed, returned to his own room, and began studying the seventeenth Holy Light Rune.