Recaps

Vanessa told Robbie how the Defias Brotherhood and the People's Militia of Westfall were intertwined, and Robbie became acting commander of her garrison. While completing Khadgar's logging task, Robbie encountered his old friend and rival Luobo'an, who claimed he had withdrawn from pursuing Lisa.

• Vanessa explained that the Defias Brotherhood had become the People's Militia of Westfall, and that Marshal Grian Stoutmantle used VanCleef as a shared identity.
• Vanessa described how the Brotherhood helped Westfall's refugees after the Northrend campaign and later disbanded as its members joined the People's Militia.
• Robbie became acting commander and oversaw the garrison as its buildings and workshops began operating.
• Robbie joined Delvar Ironfist and Gnoll lumberjacks to fell a designated tree, then helped Ironfist capture the Warlock who had charmed him.
• Robbie recognized the Warlock as Luobo'an, his childhood friend and rival for Lisa, who said he was leaving Lisa in Robbie's care.

Robbie reunited with his childhood friend Luobo'an in Draenor, learned that Luobo'an had bought a commander certificate and was struggling with his Followers, and agreed to help him hunt a rare wolf. Their trap worked on the wolf pups, but Luobo'an tried to lure Slitthroat himself despite Robbie's warning.

• Robbie met Luobo'an and his Succubus partner, Cangbudewensi, and learned that Luobo'an had paid for a commander certificate and was unhappy with his Followers.
• Robbie advised Luobo'an to use the Followers' contracts to assign them dangerous missions, then agreed to help Luobo'an kill wolves near a tree he needed to chop down.
• Luobo'an hired Dwal Ironfist for thirty gold, and Robbie discovered their target was the rare wolf Slitthroat.
• Robbie proposed digging a pit and instructed Luobo'an to lure the wolf pups toward it while Robbie and Dwal Ironfist prepared to attack.
• The pups chased Luobo'an around the pit, and Dwal Ironfist took their attention, but Luobo'an cast Shadow Bolt at Slitthroat to lure it over despite Robbie shouting for him to stop.

Robbie and Dwal Ironfist found a Kirin Tor ring and a diary in Throat Cutter's lair, and Vanessa had Robbie decipher the diary. It revealed Azazel Carla's account of meeting Arthas after Dalaran's destruction, ending with Arthas claiming he had seen Jaina when Dalaran fell.

• Luobo'an fell into Throat Cutter's trap, and Robbie killed the wolf pups before the group killed Throat Cutter.
• Robbie and Dwal Ironfist found Throat Cutter's Fang, a Kirin Tor Apprentice's Ring, and a diary in the Wolf Den.
• Vanessa gave Robbie a book to help him decipher the diary, and he worked through the night.
• Azazel Carla's diary described meeting Arthas in Southshore after Dalaran's destruction and discussing their past, Jaina, and the Orc raised at Durnholde Keep.
• Arthas told Azazel that he had seen Jaina when Dalaran was destroyed.

Azazel discovered that a Spellstealer Wyrm had stolen his magical aptitude, then regained his power after a prince removed it and healed him with the Holy Light. Years later, his diary led Vanessa and Robbie to investigate a mysterious player connected to the Wealth Tablet and the Battle of Mount Hyjal.

• A prince cut open Azazel's chest with Frostmourne, removed a Spellstealer Wyrm hatchling, and restored his wounds with the Holy Light.
• Azazel learned the wyrm had caused his lost magical aptitude and kept his recovered powers secret while searching across Azeroth for clues about hidden history.
• After finding the Wealth Tablet during repairs in Stormwind, Azazel traveled through the Dark Portal, was sent thirty-five years into the past by the Bronze Dragonflight, and prepared a dangerous experiment to return and reveal the truth.
• Vanessa and Robbie read Azazel's diary and inferred that the person he described as a commander who would pass through the Dark Portal was a player.
• Vanessa explained that the unidentified fiftieth person at the Dark Portal had fought at Mount Hyjal and might know the truth linking the Wealth Tablet to Archimonde.

Vanessa took Robbie into the woods to confront Qiyana Moonshadow, a druid she had tracked for days. As Qiyana prepared for a duel, Robbie suspected she was an impostor.

• Robbie and the other two followers went on patrol missions to earn money, improve their equipment, and gain experience.
• After Hogger bought the Imitation Molten Fury Fist Weapons, Vanessa woke Robbie in the middle of the night and took him into the woods.
• Vanessa and Robbie found a raccoon druid named Qiyana Moonshadow teaching animals in a clearing.
• Vanessa accused Qiyana of helping others impersonate her and demanded to know who she was looking for.
• Qiyana asked to eat before their duel, and Vanessa told Robbie she had escaped her seven times before.
• Robbie whispered to Vanessa that the raccoon was an impostor, not Qiyana Moonshadow.

Vanessa exposed Qiana Moonshadow’s disguise and challenged her to a duel, while Robbie met the Pandaren druid Mili Huojikaochi, who dreamed of meeting Thrall. Vanessa defeated Qiana by repeatedly using Sap, and Qiana agreed to go to Vanessa’s stronghold, though she demanded the truth before becoming a Follower.

• Robbie helped Vanessa realize that the mouse beneath the wildcat’s paw was Qiana Moonshadow, and Qiana revealed herself and accepted Vanessa’s challenge to a duel.
• While Vanessa and Qiana fought in the clearing, Mili Huojikaochi offered Robbie chestnuts, introduced herself, and told him she hoped to meet Thrall and thank him.
• Mili claimed her master had studied under Malfurion Stormrage and predicted that Vanessa would lose.
• Qiana changed into several animals, including an Elite Ironjaw Wolf, but Vanessa repeatedly stopped her with Sap.
• Qiana admitted defeat and agreed to go to Vanessa’s stronghold, but said she would not become Vanessa’s Follower unless Vanessa told her the truth.
• Vanessa told Robbie to take them to the stronghold and explained that leaving Stealth was difficult and had a long cooldown.

Qiana Moonshadow questioned Vanessa about the Defias Brotherhood’s survival after the assault on the Dark Portal, and Vanessa revealed that a mysterious young Paladin helped them escape. Robbie realized the Paladin may have been himself, while Qiana offered a clue about another hidden adventurer.

• Qiana Moonshadow described the three groups that attacked the Dark Portal and asked how Vanessa’s group survived after Khadgar’s portal failed.
• Vanessa denied that the Brotherhood had surrendered to the Iron Horde and explained that they escaped through a portal hidden in a latrine pit.
• Vanessa said a young Paladin in a filthy Warlock’s robe killed over a thousand Iron Horde troops before vanishing into the latrine pit.
• Robbie recognized the Paladin’s description and suspected that the strange blood he had drunk caused him to lose memories of his actions.
• Qiana Moonshadow gave Vanessa her detailed list of the fifty attackers and explained that Khadgar had concealed one adventurer’s identity.
• Qiana Moonshadow added that the mysterious adventurer had once returned from a solo mission with a young Draenei woman named Yrel.

Vanessa’s Followers investigated Yrel, but Kiana Moonshadow’s attempt to question her failed when Yrel claimed to be the legendary fiftieth person. Robbie concluded Yrel wanted a grand return to Embaari Village and devised a plan to exploit her vanity, leaving Hogger preparing a lavish inn suite to lure her.

• Vanessa recruited Kiana Moonshadow and assigned her to watch Yrel, after which Kiana brought in Buma Swiftstone and Dalila Crescent.
• Yrel announced she wanted a commander to escort her to Embaari Village, and Robbie’s group monitored her while debating whether to keep doing so.
• Kiana treated Yrel to a meal and wine, but returned furious after Yrel claimed credit for major victories and insisted she never wore underpants.
• Robbie sent Kiana’s group to pursue other quests and studied Yrel’s behavior, concluding that she wanted to return home in glory rather than meet the mysterious fiftieth person.
• Robbie asked Hogger whether he could defeat Yrel, then told him to create an extravagant Chieftain Suite priced at 8,888 gold per night and promote a free trial to attract her.

Robbie discovered that Yrel had been using her Paladin Mercy skill to make people treat her kindly while she freeloaded, and he confronted her with Hogger over her unpaid stay. Yrel’s magic and Robbie’s Cleanse set up a standoff, which ended with Robbie and Hogger threatening to make her pay.

• Robbie arranged a free trial stay in the Chieftain Suite for Yrel, who stayed on after her voucher expired and ran up a huge bill.
• Hogger returned from confronting Yrel under the influence of her Mercy skill, having given her his Lava Fury Fist Weapons and wallet.
• Robbie found an ancient record describing the Mercy skill and used Cleanse to restore Hogger’s memories and anger.
• Yrel cast Mercy on Hogger again, but Robbie dispelled it with Cleanse; she then used Mass Mercy on both of them, and Robbie answered with Mass Cleanse.
• Robbie demanded payment for Yrel’s stay, but she claimed she had no money, so Robbie and Hogger threatened to make her pay with her body.

Robbie and Hogger fought Yrel over her unpaid stay, but her powerful Holy Light techniques defeated them. After realizing her tail helped her balance, they planned to work together and Hogger began teaching Robbie how to use Unarmed Disarm with Holy Light-strengthened teeth.

• Robbie challenged Yrel to pay for staying in the brotherhood's fortress, and their Fist of Justice and Hoof of Justice attacks clashed.
• Yrel broke through Robbie's Divine Shield with a kick, but Hogger enlarged his head and bit her hoof.
• Yrel's Hoof of Radiance burned Hogger unconscious, so Robbie carried him away and healed him in the fortress pond.
• Hogger recovered and admired his fiercer appearance, while Robbie explained Yrel's Paladin abilities and identified her tail as the source of her balance.
• Robbie and Hogger planned for Robbie to distract Yrel while Hogger attacked her tail, then Hogger began teaching Robbie the Gnoll secret Unarmed Disarm.

Robbie adapted Unarmed Disarm into Deathwing's Gaze, a controllable Holy Light illusion shaped like Deathwing's head, and tested it on Yrel. Vindicator Maraad appeared in the Brotherhood's fortress to take Yrel, and Robbie provoked him by accusing him of cowardice and betrayal.

• Robbie created a golden Deathwing head that flew out and bit into a tree, then named the skill Deathwing's Gaze with Hogger.
• Robbie and Hogger cornered Yrel and eyed her tail, but Yrel calmly asked Robbie to teach her Deathwing's Gaze in exchange for Hoof of Radiance.
• Yrel shouted for help, and Vindicator Maraad emerged from the inn carrying the Hammer of the Naaru.
• Hogger revealed that he had mistaken Maraad for a jeweler named Artisan Romuul and hidden him in the inn's basement.
• Maraad recognized Robbie as Defiler Kapol and demanded an apology, while Robbie reminded him of his past with the Orcs and called him a craven coward and a disgrace to the Draenei.

Robbie and Hogger fought Vindicator Maraad after Robbie's taunts disrupted his Holy Light. Robbie discovered that heat could penetrate Maraad's defenses, forcing him to retreat and leaving Robbie with his helmet.

• Robbie's taunts angered Vindicator Maraad and destabilized his Holy Light.
• Hogger fought Maraad but could not overcome him, while Robbie's secret technique failed to stop Maraad from recovering.
• Maraad formed his Holy Shield Bastion and drove Hogger away with its tracking shields.
• Robbie suspected fire was the Bastion's weakness and heated his Replica Cursed Torch in a Dwarf bunker.
• Robbie melted Maraad's shields and threatened the Hammer of the Naaru with his heated weapon.
• Maraad fled to protect his hammer, and Robbie used his abilities to seize Maraad's helmet.

Robbie stripped Maraad of his armor until Maraad escaped by teleporting to Khadgar, while Yrel took back the Hammer of the Naaru and demanded to meet the Brotherhood’s commander. Vanessa questioned Yrel about the fiftieth person in the Dark Portal raid, and Yrel revealed that a Tauren had come to meet her on Khadgar’s orders.

• Robbie used Deathwing's Gaze to strip Maraad of his armor and weapon, prompting Maraad to teleport away with his beacon.
• Yrel reclaimed the Hammer of the Naaru and convinced Robbie to take her to the commander.
• Vanessa reprimanded Glubtok, Fangore James Harrington, Cookie, and Hogger for letting Khadgar defeat them, then ordered Hogger to negotiate Maraad’s ransom.
• Yrel recognized Vanessa’s Enchanter’s Robe and tested her ability to detect lies with questions drawn from her romance books.
• Yrel told Robbie and Vanessa that a Tauren of the Horde had come to meet her on Khadgar’s orders after she escaped the Iron Horde’s prison.

Yrel told Vanessa and Robbie how the mysterious shapeshifting adventurer had failed the Draenei’s tests and vanished, leaving Luobo'an in charge of the garrison. Vanessa arranged for Robbie to impersonate the adventurer, then Robbie visited Luobo'an’s garrison and suspected its powerful Pandaren brewer was Chen Stormstout.

• Yrel recounted how the adventurer had failed to prove himself by killing Shockfist and Norn Bloodseeker before disappearing, while the garrison passed to Luobo'an.
• Vanessa revealed that the adventurer was test subject No. 335, an undying soul able to inhabit many bodies, and explained that Med'an was test subject No. 709.
• Vanessa proposed that Robbie impersonate the missing adventurer, and Yrel agreed that he could pass for him despite concerns about his achievements and status.
• Robbie went to Luobo'an’s rundown garrison to gather information and found that Luobo'an had dismissed most of his staff to save money.
• A powerful Pandaren named Old Chen arrived with drinks, and Robbie suspected he was the famed Chen Stormstout.

Robbie discovered that Chen Stormstout had joined Luobo'an as a follower after mistaking him for the mysterious fiftieth person, and he watched Luobo'an drive Chen away by trading his employment certificate for a beer recipe. Chen then tried to borrow money from Robbie before revealing he had come to persuade him to reconcile with Maraad, leaving Robbie suspicious of Chen's allegiance.

• Robbie told Luobo'an that the fortress had once belonged to a Lobstrok, while Chen Stormstout secretly recorded the conversation in a notebook.
• Luobo'an argued with Chen Stormstout and refused to let him leave until Chen traded a beer recipe for his Follower employment certificate.
• Robbie met Chen outside the fortress, rejected his requests to borrow gold, and pretended not to recognize him.
• Chen told Robbie that Maraad had invited him to a feast at Starfall Outpost, with Khadgar as mediator, to make peace.
• Robbie refused the invitation and asked Chen whether he belonged to the Alliance or the Horde.

Robbie argued with Chen Stormstout, then learned Vanessa planned to track down a mysterious Alliance commander for a Legendary ring and prophetic knowledge. On the way to Embaari Village, the group encountered another supposed Barov heir trapped beneath a tree, continuing Lunarfall’s odd pattern of adventurers imitating the Barov brothers.

• Chen Stormstout argued that he supported Alliance peace, but he backed down from fighting Robbie and agreed to tell Maraad that Robbie would host the reconciliation banquet at his garrison.
• Vanessa told Robbie that test subject No. 335 remained in the Alliance to pursue a Legendary ring, and she planned to become Lunarfall’s strongest healer so the commander would need her help.
• Vanessa ordered Robbie to accompany her as a healer and proposed drugging Yrel so Robbie would sleep with her, but Robbie persuaded Vanessa to drop the idea by citing tragic cross-racial romances.
• Vanessa explained that she sought test subject No. 335 partly because the person knew prophecies that might aid the Brotherhood’s undertaking.
• Vanessa, Robbie, and Delvar Ironfist escorted Yrel toward Embaari Village while Yrel took detours to collect minerals and herbs.
• The group ignored someone calling for help beneath a fallen tree, and Vanessa complained that the trapped person was a Whiteboard scoundrel pretending to be a Barov heir.

Robbie and Vanessa recruited the impoverished Weldon Barov after Robbie tricked him into signing a follower contract, then traveled with Yrel as she gathered supplies and sold them at a roadside stall. At the hunter’s camp, Vanessa considered joining a newly formed party for a bounty, but Robbie grew suspicious of its members.

• Yrel led Robbie and Delvar Ironfist into repeated fights while gathering herbs, and Robbie encountered Weldon Barov pinned beneath a tree.
• Robbie altered a follower contract to claim control of Weldon’s family wealth and pressed Weldon’s fingerprint onto it while he was dazed.
• Weldon explained that he had come to Draenor hoping to benefit from his family’s past fortune, and he followed Vanessa’s group because he could not find his way to the garrison.
• Yrel sold gathered goods at a hunter’s camp, where Robbie paid off her small debt to merchant Mami.
• A Dwarf Warrior invited Vanessa to join a party for the Ku'rat's Fangs bounty, and Robbie warned her that the newly assembled group seemed suspicious.

Robbie and Vanessa joined a party hunting Kurat, whose members planned to exploit the hunt to steal Vanessa’s Enchanter’s Robe. After Robbie foiled an Undead rogue’s ambush, the party tried to abandon the fight as Kurat neared death, but Vanessa pulled Ironfist back into danger and Robbie prepared to make the schemers answer for their crimes.

• Vanessa and Robbie recognized that the party was plotting to steal Vanessa’s Enchanter’s Robe, and Vanessa negotiated for three shares of the bounty.
• The party listed its skills, and Vanessa revealed that she knew Pain Suppression before Robbie hurriedly changed the subject to her cooking.
• The elf hunter drew Kurat away from the herd, and the party began fighting him while Robbie pretended to be a weak attacker.
• The hunter used Misdirection to redirect Kurat toward Ironfist, but Vanessa shielded and healed Ironfist before the Elekk could hurt him.
• An Undead rogue approached Vanessa, but Robbie exposed and badly injured him with a Paladin attack combo, and Vanessa added a Pain spell as he fled.
• As Kurat neared death, the party members tried to escape, but Vanessa used Leap of Faith to pull Ironfist back while Robbie prepared mass repentance.

Robbie and Vanessa uncovered a murder plot targeting Alliance adventurers and meant to turn the Draenei against the Alliance. On the road to Embaari Village, they found Yrel had caught the four adventurers who had slandered Vanessa and robbed them herself.

• Robbie used Mass Repentance to make four adventurers regret attacking him, then took their gear and the Elekk's tusks as a reward.
• Weldon revealed that his brother Alexi Barov and his associates had murdered Alliance adventurers, prompting Vanessa to pursue the group and Robbie to take Alexi's Orb of Deception.
• Vanessa concluded that someone had freed former Stockade inmates and sent them to kill Alliance adventurers, hoping to damage Alliance-Draenei relations and help Thrall gain influence in Shadowmoon Valley.
• At the hunter camp, Robbie and Vanessa learned that the four adventurers had convinced Yrel to leave by spreading lies about Vanessa, so the three hurried toward Embaari Village.
• Robbie and Vanessa found Yrel reading The Eredar Twins' Temptation beside the belongings she had taken from the four adventurers who tried to rob her.

Robbie and Vanessa exposed Luobo'an’s quest fraud in Embaari Village and learned that Lord Li Yueke had used him to test the Draenei. Li Yueke then confronted Robbie over the Kurat bounty and demanded a huge payment, while a crowd of adventurers backed him.

• Robbie learned that the Shadowmoon Clan threatened Embaari Village and that Luobo'an had already collected the bounty for Ku'rat's Fangs.
• Yrel caught Luobo'an lying about rescuing three Draenei children and forced him to confess to quest fraud and pay a fine.
• Robbie learned that Lord Li Yueke, who sold commander certificates, had encouraged Luobo'an to commit the fraud, then lent Luobo'an one hundred gold coins.
• Vanessa told Robbie that a show was about to start as adventurers gathered in the tavern and Lord Li Yueke arrived with the group that had tricked them into killing the Elekk.
• Lord Li Yueke demanded one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins and the Enchanter's Robe from Robbie, claiming they had ruined the group's income, while the adventurers rallied behind him.

Johnsen exposed Li Yueke’s connection to a group of adventurers who had killed his family, then forced him to testify against them. Vanessa revealed that the incident was part of a struggle against the Peace Dove and identified Monroe as Azeroth’s number one beauty, Monroe Doras.

• Johnsen told Li Yueke that the four adventurers had killed his sister-in-law, wife, brother, and other relatives, and Li Yueke eventually agreed to testify against them.
• Johnsen ordered the four executed, while Li Yueke left with SI:7 agents.
• Vanessa told Robbie that Li Yueke sold commander credentials for a mysterious noble linked to the Peace Dove, which had arranged the killings and stirred conflict between the Alliance and Draenei.
• Vanessa explained that the Wings of Freedom opposed the Peace Dove and identified Monroe as Monroe Doras.

Vanessa and Robbie learned that the Horde had tried to secure the Draenei’s cooperation through a deceptive relocation agreement, while Anduin staged grief over Monroe’s death to conceal his true feelings. The chapter ended with Anduin urging Grand Duke Alpha to manipulate Velen’s prophecies and turn the Draenei against the Horde.

• Johnsen told Vanessa and Robbie that Liyork had confessed to helping the Horde drive a wedge between the Alliance and the Draenei, and he showed them Monroe’s relocation agreement with its seventy-year limit.
• Yrel invited Robbie and Vanessa to meet Prophet Velen after the Elekk quartet’s execution helped restore order in Lunarfall.
• In Ashran, Anduin’s aides believed he was grieving Monroe, and Bishop Faxien claimed that Meryl Winterstorm could resurrect her from her bones.
• Udir learned that Faxien planned to substitute another Orc woman for Monroe, since Anduin and the others could not tell Orcs apart.
• Anduin privately revealed that he was relieved Monroe was gone and told Grand Duke Alpha to mislead Velen with a false prophecy so the Draenei would cooperate with the Horde.

Robbie and Vanessa confronted Prophet Velen over the Draenei’s fate, and Velen hinted at a greater secret behind the void. After Robbie accepted Yrel’s invitation to visit her home, Ner’zhul revealed that he had delayed his attack on Embaari Village to target the prophesied hope who would save the Draenei: Robbie.

• Robbie met Prophet Velen with Yrel and heard Velen praise his courage, wisdom, and unusual travels.
• Vanessa accused Velen of deciding the Draenei’s fate for them, and Velen explained that he had refused to become like the Burning Legion and had left a seed for the people of Argus.
• Vanessa provoked Velen into hinting at a secret behind the void and the wider rise and fall of civilizations, then bowed respectfully.
• Robbie accepted Yrel’s invitation to visit her home and thought about protecting Samara from Ner’zhul, who planned to use her blood to summon the Dark Star.
• Ner’zhul told a Goblin scout that he had delayed his operation to wait for Robbie, whom he intended to kill to crush the Draenei psychologically.

Ner'zhul attacked the Truna Observatory to seize Samara's pendant and summon the Dark Star, but Robbie, Vanessa, and Yrel arrived to rescue her. The chapter ended with Ner'zhul mistaking a mocking note for the pendant's incantation.

• Ner'zhul dismissed a Peace Dove Goblin's warning about Robbie, choked him, and demanded Peace Dove pledge loyalty.
• Robbie and Vanessa visited Yrel and Samara, where Vanessa stole a large Dark Star fragment from Samara's necklace.
• After learning Samara had gone to the Truna Observatory, Robbie rushed there with Vanessa and Yrel and found Peace Dove guards blocking the entrance.
• Yrel broke through the guards, and the group discovered Ner'zhul holding Samara and Draenei astrologers captive while six mages opened a Void rift.
• Ner'zhul sacrificed the six mages to summon a shadow demon, but it ignored his commands, and Robbie prompted him to inspect Samara's pendant.
• Ner'zhul read Robbie's note, “I'm not telling you, I'm not telling you,” and declared that it must be the incantation for communicating with the Dark Star.

At the Truna Observatory, Robbie stalled Ner'zhul from contacting the Dark Star by tricking him into singing a bogus incantation, while Yrel rescued the Draenei captives. When Ner'zhul discovered the deception, he killed a Peace Dove member and turned on Robbie, who stood ready to face him.

• Ner'zhul recited the note Robbie had written, and Robbie convinced him the incantation had to be sung.
• Yrel rescued Samara and the trapped Draenei stargazers while Ner'zhul repeatedly sang and danced without reaching the Dark Star.
• Carola and the other five Peace Dove Council members arrived, and Ner'zhul ordered them to join his singing and dancing.
• The Gnome Discipline Priest spotted that the note's ink was still wet, so Ner'zhul struck him dead and confronted Robbie.
• Robbie admitted writing the note, and Yrel returned with Samara and five Draenei stargazers as Robbie prepared to face Ner'zhul.