Recaps

Robbie fused the seventeenth Holy Light Rune with its Rune of the Dead, creating the Eye of C'Thun and glimpsing the chained Old God’s true form. He tested the rune’s covert scouting ability and discovered Aegwynn telling Jaina that King Varian was an impostor.

• Robbie condensed the seventeenth Holy Light Rune and found that it vanished almost immediately.
• Robbie fused it with the seventeenth Rune of the Dead, creating a stable rune shaped like an eye.
• Robbie opened the Eye of C'Thun and saw the chained Old God and other enormous creatures in an abyss beneath Azeroth.
• Robbie broke his connection to the rune, identified it as the Eye of C'Thun, and debated whether to destroy it or study its power.
• Robbie used the rune’s Dark Flash ability to observe all of Theramore and saw Vanessa give up approaching the Archmage Tower.
• Robbie spied on Aegwynn and Jaina inside the tower as Aegwynn revealed that King Varian was an impostor.

Jaina learned from Aegwynn that Varian was an impostor and that Robbie Capor was the key to the Alliance-Horde peace talks. Aegwynn revealed her plan to use the talks on Alcaz Island to advance her alliance with the Legion’s peace faction, while Robbie persuaded Experiment 335 to demand Shalamayne from Jaina.

• Jaina grew furious after Aegwynn told her that King Varian was a fake, but Aegwynn insisted they continue pursuing peace talks.
• Aegwynn identified Robbie Capor as the person who would decide the talks and said she had planted a seed of darkness in his heart.
• Aegwynn urged Jaina to bring peace between the Alliance and the Horde so she could gain the Burning Legion’s peace faction’s acceptance.
• Aegwynn disclosed that Alcaz Island was her secret laboratory, where she had prepared a magic altar to control anyone who arrived for the negotiations.
• Robbie lied to Experiment 335 about Jaina humiliating him and advised him to demand Shalamayne.
• Jaina invited Experiment 335 to the negotiations on Alcaz Island, and he asked her about the wolf god power she had promised him.

Jaina tried to reassure the false King Varian that Theramore would provide him with Wild God power and longevity, while Hendel and his companions suffered captivity near Theramore. The short prisoner revealed that the monster who had eaten Hendel’s companions was Rexxar, the Horde hero Hendel admired.

• Jaina promised Experiment 335 that Theramore would grant him Wild God power and a way to live forever if he reached an agreement with the Horde, but Robbie said the king did not trust her.
• Hendel recalled how he and his companions had traveled to Theramore to serve Jaina and were captured after falling ill in a canyon.
• A monster dragged Hendel’s companion from the bone cage and butchered him, while Hendel recognized the name Thrall in the monster’s curses.
• The short prisoner gave Hendel greasy pot-washing water and heard his plan to escape and seek Jaina’s help.
• The short prisoner mocked Hendel’s faith in the Horde’s heroes and revealed that the monster who had eaten Hendel’s companions was Rexxar.

Hendel learned that the short cook was Rexxar’s former cook and that Jaina had lured Hendel’s party to be eaten. When Jaina arrived, she used magic to overpower Rexxar, leaving Hendel disillusioned with the Horde hero he had worshipped.

• The short cook introduced Misha and told Hendel that Rexxar had been betrayed by Thrall and rescued by Jaina.
• The short cook explained that stonescale cod weakened outsiders and revealed that Jaina had sent Hendel’s party to Rexxar as food.
• Jaina arrived, ignored Hendel, and summoned Rexxar from the stone house.
• Rexxar insulted Thrall and swung at Jaina, but she used a magic sphere to knock him down and beat him.
• Hendel watched Jaina humiliate Rexxar and lost faith in the hero he had worshipped.

Jaina tortured Rexxar to learn where Shalamayne was, took Shalla'tor, and left Ellemayne with him. Meanwhile, Hendel escaped and vowed revenge, while Jaina offered a sword to Experiment 335 to secure Horde peace talks, which he redirected toward Northwatch Hold.

• Jaina tortured Rexxar until he revealed Shalamayne's hiding place, then took Shalla'tor and left Ellemayne with him.
• After Rexxar killed two human soldiers, the short cook freed Hendel and urged him to escape and expose the Horde heroes.
• Hendel fled the canyon, swore revenge on Jaina and her allies, and considered returning to Theramore to secretly build strength.
• Jaina offered Shalla'tor to Experiment 335 as an advance deposit for peace talks with the Horde.
• Experiment 335 agreed to the talks but rejected Alcaz Island and chose to visit Northwatch Hold first.

Robbie and Vanessa found Ellemayne in Blood Gorge and killed Rexxar, while the chained cook decided to assume the dead hero’s identity. After Robbie and Vanessa left with the sword, a mysterious noblewoman traveled toward Goldshire, her attention fixed on Stormwind City.

• Vanessa tracked Ellemayne to Blood Gorge, where Robbie and Vanessa killed Rexxar and recovered the sword from his room.
• Robbie freed the chained cook and healed his injured ankle before leaving with Vanessa.
• The cook, who cared for Misha, decided to disguise himself in Rexxar’s skin and take his place.
• Robbie and Vanessa discussed making a replica of Shalamayne for King Varian, then went their separate ways.
• A noblewoman rode toward Goldshire and watched Stormwind City with a savage look in her eyes.

Garona’s attempt to infiltrate Stormwind and lure King Varian was exposed as a possible espionage plot, prompting the Black Dragon Princess to seek help. At Northwatch Hold, Experiment 335 began telling the soldiers that their fight against the Horde was a futile slaughter and that they should withdraw.

• Garona traveled into Elwynn Forest disguised as a noblewoman, but Hogger detected her Orc scent and reported her to SI:7.
• SI:7 found Garona’s abandoned carriage and realized she was a skilled rogue who had left no footprints, so the Black Dragon Princess sent people to investigate and sought help.
• At Northwatch Hold, Robbie advised Experiment 335 to criticize the fortress’s costly defense and urge the soldiers to stop dying for Jaina.
• Experiment 335 addressed the assembled soldiers as Varian and asked about their difficulties.
• After a commander requested reinforcements, Experiment 335 called the soldiers idiots and demanded to know why they did not withdraw from Northwatch Hold.

Experiment 335 stayed at Northwatch Hold to teach the soldiers, while Robbie met the Black Dragon Princess and learned that Garona had entered Elwynn Forest disguised as a human noblewoman. Garona planned to use divination to approach King Varian discreetly.

• Experiment 335 realized his speech had failed and decided to remain at Northwatch Hold to educate the soldiers, while Robbie let him stay.
• Jaina grew angry after Rexxar escaped with half of the Elven divine sword, and Aegwynn urged her to be patient.
• The Black Dragon Princess arrived secretly at Northwatch Hold and warned Robbie and Vanessa that a powerful female Orc rogue was hiding in Elwynn Forest.
• Vanessa identified Garona's scent on a carriage, and Robbie and Vanessa concluded that Garona was targeting King Varian.
• The Black Dragon Princess proposed watching King Varian to find Garona, who had assumed the identity of Lady Paula Angel and planned to approach him through divination.

Garona used her fake divination skills to win Prince Anduin’s trust, while Robbie, Vanessa, and Experiment 335 prepared to sabotage the Alliance-Horde peace talks by drawing outside factions into the conflict. Garona realized Anduin might help her reach King Varian, and the conspirators readied their lures for several groups.

• Garona mistook Anduin Wrynn for King Varian’s visitor, then impressed the young prince by guessing his identity and telling him his choices would shape his future.
• Garona described Anduin’s worries about his father and a beautiful woman, convincing him she could read his heart and leaving him delighted by her suggestion that he might become king.
• Robbie, Vanessa, and Experiment 335 agreed that they would bring outside forces into the peace talks to make them appear responsible for sabotaging the negotiations.
• Vanessa confirmed that Defias Brotherhood members were active in Theramore, while Experiment 335 explained that false information about the Spear of Victory would draw in the Grimtotem.
• Vanessa said Lurky’s scale would attract the Naga of Alcaz Island and prepared a potion smelling like a female Ogre to lure the Stonemaul Ogres through Thrall.

Robbie and Experiment 335 prepared for negotiations at the Shadebough Inn, while Robbie arranged for several groups to disrupt the meeting. Thrall arrived atop Galleon, humiliated Cairne Bloodhoof, and tried to overpower Experiment 335 with a hug, only to be injured by his spiked armor.

• Robbie arranged to draw the Forsaken and other groups into trouble around the negotiations at the Shadebough Inn.
• Experiment 335 insisted on meeting Thrall that day, and Jaina teleported to Orgrimmar to bring him and his entourage to the inn.
• Thrall arrived atop Galleon with Cairne Bloodhoof, Vol'jin, and Gallywix, while Jaina explained how the Mushan Beast had become his mount.
• Thrall stepped on Cairne Bloodhoof's head while dismounting, and Experiment 335 grew upset at seeing how the Tauren chieftain endured the humiliation.
• Thrall hugged Experiment 335 to demonstrate his strength, but screamed when the spikes on Experiment 335's armor pierced his arms.

Experiment 335 rejected Thrall’s threats and gave him a useless ceremonial suit of armor while the Grimtotem prepared to attack the peace talks. As Thrall wore the armor, Ogre leader Mogmorlok caught the scent of a female Ogre and set out to find her.

• Experiment 335 stayed calm as Thrall taunted him and demanded five hundred thousand humans, then mocked Thrall’s bad breath.
• Experiment 335 presented Thrall with the decorative Armor of Azeroth’s Savior, and Thrall put it on.
• Magatha Grimtotem rallied her followers against Cairne Bloodhoof and used a reconnaissance spell to watch the peace talks at the Shadebough Inn.
• Mogmorlok sensed a female Ogre in Dustwallow Marsh and vowed to find her and unite the Ogres.

Charlga Razorflank sought an alliance with Amnennar as threats gathered around the Barrens, while several forces moved toward the Shadebough Inn. At the peace talks, Thrall tried to intimidate Experiment 335 by serving him the roasted flesh of Llane Bloodhoof and demanding that humans surrender Stormwind and move to Orgrimmar.

• Charlga Razorflank persuaded the Quilboar to seize Razorfen from the Tauren and met Amnennar to discuss the danger posed by the Orcs.
• Charlga Razorflank proposed striking Thrall while he was away from Orgrimmar, and Amnennar analyzed the threat the peace talks posed to the Quilboar.
• A Naga force infiltrated Dustwallow Marsh after Naga scholars identified a scale from a drifting bottle as the legendary Sea King Scale.
• Hazzrul Bloodmark led Kolkar Centaurs across the Barrens toward the Shadebough Inn to attack Thrall, Cairne Bloodhoof, and Vol'jin.
• Thrall served Experiment 335 the roasted flesh of Llane Bloodhoof, and Experiment 335 trembled but refused to eat it.
• Thrall told Experiment 335 that humans should move to Orgrimmar and give Stormwind to the Orcs.

Experiment 335 rejected Thrall’s demand to trade Stormwind for eternal life, while Thrall revealed that he was willing to sacrifice the Orcs for the Burning Legion’s power. As negotiations stalled, Vanessa’s group set off a bomb at Thrall’s camp, and it exploded while Gallywix tried to disarm it.

• Experiment 335 challenged Thrall’s demand to relocate Lordaeron’s people to the Barrens and refused to accept the proposed exchange.
• Thrall tried to persuade Experiment 335 by invoking their supposed childhood promise and promising eternal life through the Burning Legion, admitting he would sacrifice the Orcs for his own power.
• Robbie decided the negotiations had to end, and Vanessa arranged for the Defias Brotherhood to take responsibility for provoking the factions with an attack.
• Thrall found a letter from Kil'negg on his roast meat, then learned that a huge bomb had been strapped to his Mushan Beast.
• Thrall ordered Gallywix to disarm the bomb and threatened to detonate the bomb implanted in Gallywix’s head if he refused.
• Gallywix opened the novice-made bomb, underestimated its faulty countdown, and was caught in its explosion.

Robbie used the fake Spear of Victory to provoke the Mushan Beast and escape as its sneeze threw the Shadebough Inn into chaos. While the Horde fought the Quilboar and Grimtotem, Jaina faced Amnennar, who prepared to reveal his Bone Band Brigade.

• Robbie and Vanessa’s bomb startled the Mushan Beast, but Thrall paralyzed it with a remote control.
• Robbie revealed the imitation Spear of Victory, threw it into the Mushan Beast’s nostril, and teleported away with Experiment 335.
• The Mushan Beast sneezed, scattering the Horde and covering Thrall, Vol’jin, and Cairne Bloodhoof with snot.
• Magatha Grimtotem led the Grimtotem into battle against Cairne Bloodhoof, while Charlga Razorflank and the Quilboar attacked the Horde and bound the Mushan Beast with thorny vines.
• Jaina froze Charlga’s vines and confronted Amnennar, who put on a plate helmet and called forth his Bone Band Brigade.

Jaina struggled against Amnennar the Ice King's resonance-based attack while Thrall's allies fought over the Spear of Victory and his dying Mushan Beast. King Mogmorlok arrived, but told Thrall he had come looking for a bride.

• Amnennar used the Bone Band's music to disrupt Jaina's concentration, and Robbie explained that the sound resonated with her heartbeat and organs.
• Jaina retreated from the mountain of bones and watched helplessly as Charlga Razorflank's thorn-bound Mushan Beast weakened from blood loss.
• Cairne Bloodhoof fought Magatha Grimtotem and declared he would become an immortal god, while Magatha hesitated to kill the warrior she had once treated like a son.
• Thrall ordered Vol'jin to help Cairne attack Magatha, but Hazzrul Bloodmark and the Kolkar Centaurs joined the battle, forcing Cairne to face Hazzrul.
• Thrall welcomed King Mogmorlok and the Ogres as reinforcements, but Mogmorlok said he had come looking for a bride.

Thrall became the target of Mogmorlok, who mistook him for an Ogre bride, and a battle erupted among the gathered factions. Jaina discovered the fake plague formula too late, and Varimathras’s plague attack forced Saurfang and the Orc army to flee.

• Mogmorlok identified Thrall as the Ogre bride because Experiment 335 had secretly put a female Ogre potion on the Strength Pauldrons, while the Naga leader attacked Thrall over Lurky’s scale in the armor.
• Thrall and the Naga leader fought Mogmorlok until Thrall ordered Jaina to open the Dark Portal and summon the Orc army.
• Saurfang led thousands of Orc soldiers through the portal, alarming Magatha Grimtotem, Amnennar, and Charlga Razorflank.
• Jaina found a plague formula scroll on the portal and watched it burn to ash when Varimathras demanded it.
• Varimathras unleashed an unfinished plague from his airship, weakening the Orc soldiers, and Saurfang fled through the portal.

The Quilboar summoned Agamaggan into the Mushan Beast’s body as Thrall and Jaina struggled against their enemies, while Varimathras fled the battle. Robbie and Experiment 335 tried to escape Aegwynn, who transformed Thrall’s attackers and confronted Agamaggan.

• Jaina refused to hand Varimathras the plague formula unless he saved Thrall, but Varimathras demanded the scroll and withdrew when the battle worsened.
• King Mogmorlok knocked Thrall down while the Naga leader attacked him, leaving Jaina unable to rescue him.
• Charlga Razorflank summoned Agamaggan, whose soul consumed the Mushan Beast’s soul and entered its corpse; Varimathras fled aboard the airship.
• Robbie grabbed Experiment 335 and used Flash of Light to escape as Aegwynn appeared, but she declared she would deal with the Green Shade Inn.
• Aegwynn transformed King Mogmorlok into a sheep and the Naga leader into a fish, then ordered Agamaggan to return to where he belonged.

Agamaggan was reborn and confronted Aegwynn, who used the Orcs’ connection to Mannoroth and the ancient war against the Burning Legion to shake his confidence. Aegwynn gained the upper hand with magic drawn from eight mana nodes, while Agamaggan prepared a dangerous countermeasure to stop her from finishing a spell that could kill him.

• Agamaggan completed his rebirth, and Charlga Razorflank urged him to fight Aegwynn, calling her a demon and the Orcs servants of the Burning Legion.
• Agamaggan recognized Mannoroth’s power in the Orcs and became enraged, but Aegwynn made him question the Wild Gods’ role in the ancient war and the Well of Eternity’s destruction.
• The Horde and the Quilboar withdrew from the Green Shade Inn as Agamaggan and Aegwynn began fighting; Agamaggan’s poison mist and storm dispersed Aegwynn’s mana clouds.
• Aegwynn opened eight portals to mana nodes and bombarded Agamaggan with spells, gradually weakening him and preventing his escape.
• Aegwynn began forming a Burning Legion model spell array to trigger a fatal backlash in Agamaggan’s magic, and Agamaggan resolved to use a spell he had hoped to avoid.

Aegwynn used Elune’s blessing and her superior magic to overwhelm Agamaggan, while undermining him with claims about Illidan, Malfurion, and the Old Gods. As she believed she had won, Agamaggan revealed that he had seen through the schemes and secretly accepted deals and gifts.

• Agamaggan accepted Elune’s blessing to strengthen himself, but Aegwynn destroyed his portals and used the Spellstealer Wyrm to receive the same blessing.
• Aegwynn redirected Agamaggan’s attacks and wounded him with star fragments, then used plants growing in his wounds to suppress his regeneration.
• Aegwynn taunted Agamaggan with claims that Illidan had been misled by Malfurion and Tyrande and that the Old Gods threatened Azeroth.
• Aegwynn tore apart Agamaggan with the power of nature and urged him to remain a Wild God rather than seek reincarnation.
• Agamaggan laughed and revealed that he had understood the schemes behind the War of the Ancients and had secretly accepted certain deals and gifts.

Aegwynn defeated the transformed Agamaggan with a dangerous spell that fused five elements, ending the Quilboar god’s resurrection. As Aegwynn left to recover, Cho'gall abducted the injured Thrall and escaped through a portal.

• Agamaggan shed Elune's power and transformed into a tentacled, carapaced servant of the Old Gods, then declared that he and Aegwynn were rivals competing to consume the world.
• Aegwynn fused five elements into a black sphere and used it to consume Agamaggan, who turned to dust before the sphere exploded and left only a fading black flame.
• Charlga Razorflank knelt in despair as the Quilboar mourned Agamaggan, and Aegwynn, exhausted, called Jaina over to give her instructions.
• A strange bomb filled the Horde camp with green smoke, and Cho'gall knocked out the wounded Thrall and carried him away.
• Cho'gall escaped through a prepared portal, and Aegwynn chose not to pursue him, telling Jaina that they would search for Thrall after she rested.
• Jaina opened a portal, and she and Aegwynn returned to Theramore.

Garona struggled to reach King Varian while living undercover as fortune-teller Paula Angel, until Jaina arrived with news that Cho'gall had kidnapped Thrall. Jaina revealed that rescuing him from the Vulgol Ogre Mound in Duskwood required Varian's help, and proposed a plan that depended on Garona.

• Garona’s fortune-telling identity became popular among Stormwind nobles, but Kobold servants made it too dangerous for her to infiltrate Stormwind Keep.
• Jaina arrived and told Garona that Cho'gall had kidnapped Thrall to make him the Ogres’ bride and rally the Ogre Empire.
• Garona offered to help rescue Thrall, but Jaina explained that Cho'gall was holding the Ogre gathering at the Vulgol Ogre Mound in Duskwood, where the Horde could not safely attack.
• Jaina proposed getting King Varian to risk his life to help rescue Thrall and said she needed Garona’s help.

Jaina explained to Garona that she planned to make Varian fear a threat to his throne by establishing Anduin as the Child of Light, while Robbie and Vanessa learned the Twilight's Hammer wanted their Mother Ogre Potion. The chapter ended with Uther recounting an increasingly grandiose version of his death to Arthas, though he still could not remember how he had actually died.

• Jaina told Garona that Varian's throne was his lifeline and proposed making him see Anduin as a threat to House Wrynn's rule.
• Jaina revealed that she wanted Anduin to gain the Holy Light's favor as the Child of Light, and Garona agreed to help; Jaina also disclosed that her box held the new and old King Varian.
• Robbie and Vanessa learned that Cho'gall wanted to buy the Mother Ogre Potion and its formula, while Experiment 335 left to return to his Timeline.
• Robbie and Vanessa decided to visit the Black Dragon Princess, and the chapter shifted to Uther's tomb in the Western Plaguelands four years after his death.
• Uther told visiting Paladins that he had fought the Scourge for ten days before laying down his weapon, although he still could not recall how Arthas had killed him.

Uther's invented stories and false claims drove visitors away, while rumors about his death left him isolated in his tomb. Jaina offered to disguise him as another spirit in exchange for the story of how he became the Lightbringer, and Uther began recounting his past.

• Uther grew angry when a bard mocked his stories and challenged his claim to have mentored Thrall.
• Uther eavesdropped on travelers and learned that people blamed him for lying about being killed by Saurfang the Great, so he withdrew into his tomb.
• Jaina visited Uther and explained that Arthas's power protected him from those who could harm spirits.
• Jaina offered Uther a Ghostly Mask made from modified Spectral Essence to help him gain acceptance among the heroic spirits, in exchange for information about his past.
• Uther agreed and said he had fled his noble family in Lordaeron for Stormwind, where he became a monk at Northshire Abbey and encountered an unconscious boy.

Uther told Jaina how he became the impostor who received A'dal's Holy Book and revealed that it was at Northshire Abbey. After Jaina left, Uther used the Ghostly Mask to become Little Sister Pamela, while Garona urged Prince Anduin to seek power if he wanted to become king.

• Uther told Jaina that he had impersonated Medivh's replacement at Northshire Abbey and received the Holy Book from a prophet who mistook him for Medivh.
• Uther revealed that the Holy Book was at Northshire Abbey, and Jaina left through a portal after hinting that she might be seeking it for a prince.
• Uther used the Ghostly Mask to transform into a little ghost girl, called himself Little Sister Pamela, and began waiting at a ruined manor to trick adventurers.
• Garona cultivated Prince Anduin's trust and listened as he argued that the Alliance should cooperate with the Horde against Arthas.
• Garona told Anduin that he needed power capable of influencing the world if he wanted to become king.

Garona manipulated Anduin into believing he needed the Holy Book at Northshire Abbey to gain the power to become Azeroth’s hero, while Varian and Bolvar discussed Cho'gall’s alliance with the Alliance. Anduin burst into the throne room wielding the Holy Light and struck Varian, accusing him of destroying Azeroth.

• Garona convinced Anduin that his father brought disaster to those around him and directed him to seek the Holy Book at Northshire Abbey.
• Cho'gall sent the Black Dragon Princess gifts and a letter proposing an alliance, and she passed the letter to Varian.
• Varian and Duke Bolvar agreed to warn Cho'gall, prepare Stormwind’s defenses, and spread word of Thrall’s humiliation.
• Anduin demanded that Varian mobilize soldiers to save Thrall, then used the Holy Light to slap Varian and accuse him of destroying Azeroth.