Recaps

After seizing control of the Night Elves, Tyrande manipulated her court into naming her empress while rejecting Shandris Feathermoon’s call to develop magic. As Tyrande’s coronation approached, a Kobold attack threatened to disrupt the ceremony.

• Tyrande gathered the generals and lords, prayed to the Moon Goddess, and used Malfurion’s proposal for an emperor to advance her plan to rule as empress.
• Shandris Feathermoon argued that the Night Elves needed magic to resist the Burning Legion, but Tyrande and the generals rejected her proposal.
• The generals urged Tyrande to become empress, and she accepted after repeatedly pretending to refuse.
• The Night Elves prepared for Tyrande’s coronation, but the Kobolds attacked a few days before the ceremony.

Black Cat explained how the Kobolds conquered the Night Elves after the Sundering, crushing Tyrande’s bid to become empress and driving her people to the brink of extinction. She revealed that the Satyr Legion ultimately destroyed the Kobold army, leaving the Night Elves in chaos and their faith in the Moon Goddess weakened.

• Black Cat told Robbie that the Sundering destroyed Queen Azshara’s civilization, while Robbie’s changes to Illidan’s fate and the Highborne’s survival had altered history.
• The Kobolds overwhelmed the Night Elves with their numbers, tunnels, and Mass Slow magic, forcing Tyrande to retreat after her coronation failed and their cities fell.
• Black Cat explained that the Night Elves briefly stabilized the front, but the Kobolds returned stronger, reducing the Night Elf population to fewer than ten thousand.
• Tyrande released Illidan to drive back the Kobolds, then returned him to the Vault of the Wardens because she feared the dark soul within him.
• The Satyr Legion, led by Xavius’s portal rescue of Satyrs from Mount Hyjal, returned and wiped out the Kobold army.
• The war shattered Tyrande’s prestige and empress dream, and the Night Elves entered ten thousand years of chaos with diminished faith in the Moon Goddess.

Robbie returned from the Time Portal intending to learn how the false Illidan could be dealt with, and witnessed Cordana Felsong betray Maiev in the Vault of the Wardens. Cordana trapped Maiev with the Tome of Chaos and prepared to destroy the false Illidan’s soul on behalf of the real Illidan.

• Maiev Shadowsong recognized Cordana Felsong among new jailers and met the alluring new jailer Xal'atath.
• Robbie returned ten thousand years later and, after Black Cat warned him a god could not simply be killed, hid near the Vault of the Wardens to observe.
• Cordana Felsong brought Maiev the Tome of Chaos, claiming she had obtained it while working beside Archmage Khadgar.
• Maiev stared into the tome’s Chaos Demon Eye and was trapped, allowing Cordana to reveal her betrayal.
• Cordana told Maiev she loved the real Illidan and that she planned to erase the false Illidan’s soul at his request.

Cordana used the Tome of Chaos to destroy the imprisoned monster’s body, believing she had freed Illidan, while Maiev revealed that Cordana had been deceived by an impostor. Illidan visited Tyrande in a dream to warn her about Sylvanas and Argus before Tyrande learned he had died, but the monster awoke in a new Night Elf body and faced a mysterious woman.

• Cordana used Soul Millstone to crush the monster’s soul, and Maiev questioned how she had learned the spell.
• Cordana said Illidan had taught her and that she had fallen in love with him, but Maiev told her the Illidan she met was an impostor.
• Illidan appeared in Tyrande’s dream, recalled their past, and warned her that Sylvanas had evil intentions and Argus was a trap.
• Tyrande woke to guards telling her that Illidan had died in the Vault of the Wardens.
• The monster awoke in a Night Elf body, and a woman asked whether he still remembered her.

Aman'Thul confronted Xal'atath and tried to bargain for his freedom by explaining how an unknown force had disrupted his plans for Azeroth. He warned her that Elune had turned to a final resort: the World Tree, whose roots had spread throughout Azeroth's crust.

• Aman'Thul recognized Xal'atath, who revealed that she had watched his schemes and demanded that he tell her what he planned next.
• Aman'Thul explained that a mysterious force had made time unpredictable and that his forecasts had stopped being reliable.
• Aman'Thul described Elune's plan to drain Azeroth's life, his own plan to lead Azeroth's peoples against the Burning Legion, and the futures he had expected for Draenor.
• Aman'Thul said Thrall's death, Gul'dan's disappearance, Orgrimmar's destruction, and Sylvanas's guidance by a dark power had disrupted every plan, while Xal'atath denied causing the changes.
• Aman'Thul told Xal'atath that Elune had resorted to the World Tree, whose roots had already spread through Azeroth's crust.

Xal'atath rejected Aman'Thul's plea to help him recover his Titan body until he offered her the chance to have a daughter. After overhearing them, Robbie realized Teldrassil was the key to locating Azeroth's vulnerable roots and feared Elune could make Tyrande destroy it herself.

• Aman'Thul explained that Azerite beneath the World Trees could be used to crack Azeroth's crust and expose its core, and said only a Titan could locate and destroy the roots controlling it.
• Xal'atath dismissed the threat and refused to help Aman'Thul without a reward.
• Aman'Thul revealed that Golganneth's soul had belonged to an Old God and promised Xal'atath a daughter if she helped him obtain Azeroth.
• Robbie followed the powdered Titan souls from Cordana Felsong's Soul Millstone to a coastal cave, where he overheard Xal'atath and Aman'Thul talking.
• Robbie concluded that Teldrassil had to be protected, but feared Tyrande might burn it on Elune's command.

Aman'Thul recruited Xal'atath to help resurrect Illidan as a Savior, then set a hidden Titan plan in motion on the Broken Isles. Brann Bronzebeard followed a mysterious parchment to search for ten Titan orbs while Robbie and Black Cat secretly tracked Aman'Thul.

• Black Cat told Robbie that Elune could detonate Azeroth's hidden Azerite only when the planet was at a precise distance from the star, giving them time to stop Aman'Thul.
• Aman'Thul persuaded Xal'atath to join his scheme and said he would resurrect Illidan as the Child of the Holy Light and Savior of the world.
• Aman'Thul and Xal'atath traveled to the Tomb of Sargeras, where he prepared a Titan hub that required ten orbs scattered across the Broken Isles to be activated in order.
• Aman'Thul arranged for Brann Bronzebeard to find an ancient Titan parchment describing the orbs and a deep-sea jellyfish that could be tamed by activating them.
• Brann Bronzebeard gathered the Explorers' League and set out for the Broken Isles to find the orbs, while Robbie and Black Cat continued following Aman'Thul in secret.

Brann Bronzebeard activated ten orbs but failed to kill Kosumoth the Hungering, unknowingly sending a signal that reached the Holy Light. The Holy Light ordered Xe’ra to secretly recruit Khadgar on Azeroth for a plan to redeem Aman’Thul, and Khadgar awoke with a renewed sense of purpose after a vision led him to Xe’ra.

• Brann Bronzebeard activated the ten orbs, learned he had to kill Kosumoth the Hungering, and abandoned the quest after failing to fight the monster underwater.
• The Holy Light summoned Xe’ra and ordered her to reach Azeroth, proclaim Illidan the Child of the Holy Light, and secretly complete a redemption that would bring Aman’Thul under its influence.
• The Holy Light warned Xe’ra to avoid Elune’s gaze and revealed that Illidan was truly Aman’Thul, the leader of the Pantheon.
• Xe’ra chose Khadgar over Prophet Velen as her spokesperson and secretly descended to Azeroth.
• Khadgar dreamed that a glowing sea giant led him to a cavern where a woman’s voice invited him to come and said she was hungry.
• Khadgar awoke remembering the cavern’s location and regained his ambition and purpose.

Khadgar met Xe'ra beneath the sea and agreed to help her resurrect Illidan Stormrage as Azeroth’s chosen one. Xe'ra sent him to seek Prophet Velen’s support, then announced that they would go to Orgrimmar to claim its souls.

• Khadgar entered the glowing cavern and met Xe'ra, who offered him guidance and proposed that he become Illidan’s guide.
• Xe'ra named Illidan Stormrage as the chosen one and explained that his death was part of his destined path to redemption.
• Khadgar accepted Xe'ra’s plan and agreed to help resurrect Illidan and unite Azeroth’s forces.
• Xe'ra told Khadgar to take a sphere of light to Prophet Velen on the Exodar, saying it would secure his support.
• Khadgar suggested Light’s Hope Chapel as a source of souls, but Xe'ra chose Orgrimmar instead.

Khadgar sought Prophet Velen’s support for Xe'ra’s plan to make Illidan Stormrage the Chosen One, offering a Naaru orb that revealed Velen’s son Rakeesh fighting for the Burning Legion. Velen recognized that the Army of the Light knew his secret and said he had seen the holy light’s guidance.

• Xe'ra told Khadgar she could help Sylvanas obtain the Scepter of Sargeras and the Eye of Aman'Thul to open Draenor’s Dark Portal if Illidan became the Chosen One.
• Khadgar hid Xe'ra in a wagon and took her to Orgrimmar while preparing to negotiate with Sylvanas.
• Khadgar went to the Exodar to seek Velen’s support, but Velen criticized his role in helping Sylvanas and initially dismissed his claim about Illidan.
• Khadgar gave Velen a Naaru orb, and Velen saw his son Rakeesh leading Burning Legion forces.
• Velen realized the Army of the Light knew about his secret arrangement concerning Rakeesh and told Khadgar he had seen the holy light’s guidance.

Velen drew Khadgar close with rare wine, then warned him that Illidan might be the greatest danger to their plan to make him the Savior. He suggested that Illidan’s extraordinary abilities meant he might not be a Night Elf at all.

• Velen welcomed Khadgar warmly and shared wine from Argus, claiming he had sacrificed hundreds of Draenei and M'uru to preserve it.
• After the wine brought them closer, Velen warned Khadgar that the Army of the Light might have hidden motives and asked which Naaru was overseeing the Savior scheme.
• Khadgar said persuading Sylvanas would be the hardest part, but Velen argued that Illidan himself was the greater threat.
• Velen described Illidan’s history and questioned why he had fought the Burning Legion instead of taking revenge on Tyrande and Malfurion.
• Velen said Illidan’s combat skills surpassed even Archimonde and Kil'jaeden, then proposed that Illidan was not a Night Elf.

Khadgar and Prophet Velen tried to recruit Sylvanas into a united effort against the Burning Legion by offering the Holy Light’s help in opening the Dark Portal. The negotiations collapsed when Velen named Illidan Stormrage as Azeroth’s Savior, and Sylvanas demanded that Illidan obey her if she resurrected him.

• Velen told Khadgar that Illidan was likely a powerful Naaru using others as cannon fodder against the Burning Legion, and advised him to bargain for a good price.
• Sylvanas fretted over Illidan’s death and her inability to use him to find Queen Azshara and summon the Dark Portal, then spoke with Antonidas about the vanished Orc souls.
• Khadgar and Velen arrived in Theramore and offered Sylvanas the Holy Light’s help in summoning the Dark Portal in exchange for her verbal support.
• Velen declared that Illidan Stormrage was the Savior, angering Sylvanas, who demanded that Illidan obey her if she resurrected him.
• Sylvanas forgot to ask how to open the Dark Portal, and she smashed a pot of tea as the negotiations broke down.

Sylvanas rejected Velen and Khadgar’s attempt to persuade her, while a spy reported her response to Kel'Thuzad. After learning that Xe'ra was acting behind the scenes to make Illidan Azeroth’s Savior, Robbie sought help from High Archmage Elisande in Suramar City.

• Velen and Khadgar urged Sylvanas to give up power for Azeroth, but she threatened Khadgar and sent them away.
• Antonidas warned Sylvanas that Velen and Khadgar were trying to use her, and she revealed she had deliberately played along to challenge the force behind them.
• An Undead spy loyal to Kel'Thuzad reported the negotiations and Sylvanas’s conversation with Antonidas, prompting Kel'Thuzad to recognize that something major was coming.
• After receiving Kel'Thuzad’s intelligence, Robbie concluded that Xe'ra was operating through Khadgar and decided to approach High Archmage Elisande for help.
• Robbie entered Suramar City disguised as an Alliance messenger and met Elisande, who asked whether they had met before.

Robbie warned Elisande that Illidan and a mysterious woman were organizing the Withered, but her pride led her to attack their camp. Aman'Thul’s plan to use the Withered uprising as a pretext collapsed, and Elisande’s forces were routed when he revealed his power as Illidan.

• Robbie warned Elisande that the Withered were being organized by Illidan Stormrage and a mysterious woman, but she dismissed the threat and refused to seek help.
• After learning that the Eye of Aman'Thul was the real target, Elisande led a large Nightborne force out of Suramar City toward Aman'Thul and Xal'atath's hiding place.
• The Nightborne destroyed the Withered before Aman'Thul could use their uprising as a pretext to unite the Alliance and Horde against Suramar.
• Aman'Thul emerged in Illidan's demonic form and attacked Elisande's forces with Eye Beams and Fel fire, killing or wounding more than half and scattering the rest.
• Elisande saw her army routed and, despite her faltering confidence, advanced to face Illidan.

Aman'Thul overwhelmed Elisande’s defenses and seized her by the throat while Black Cat explained to Robbie how Titans were born and why civilizations could eventually surpass them. The story left Elisande in despair and Robbie reeling from Black Cat’s claim that Sargeras was no longer the Burning Legion’s strongest fighter.

• Aman'Thul destroyed Elisande’s space-time elementals and battered through the magical shields powered by the Nightwell.
• Robbie admitted to Black Cat that he could not defeat Aman'Thul, and Black Cat explained that Titans were born when a civilization’s strongest individual fused with its World Soul, sacrificing most of its people.
• Black Cat told Robbie that Titans stagnated after their birth and claimed that the Burning Legion’s Dark Titan Sargeras was no longer its strongest combatant.
• Aman'Thul shattered Elisande’s remaining shields, grabbed her by the throat, and left her facing him in despair.

Robbie used Black Cat’s combat disk while disguised as Maiev to rescue Elisande by wounding Aman'Thul, who fled. Elisande returned to Suramar, consulted the Eye of Aman'Thul, and summoned a mysterious protector who revealed herself as Elisande’s sister and recalled Suramar’s neutrality during the Sundering.

• Black Cat gave Robbie a combat disk that transformed him into Maiev and concealed his identity.
• Robbie confronted Aman'Thul, whose attack was countered by the disk, and severed his arm and wounded his throat.
• Aman'Thul fled, and Robbie declined to pursue him after rescuing Elisande.
• Black Cat explained that the disk used intelligent combat simulation to exploit an opponent’s movements.
• Elisande consulted the Eye of Aman'Thul, which judged Maiev’s victory to have been an extraordinarily unlikely coincidence.
• Elisande summoned a mysterious woman, who revealed that she was Elisande’s sister and asked whether Elisande remembered Suramar’s neutrality during the Sundering.

Elisande learned that Queen Azshara had once taught her time magic and that the Eye of Aman'Thul had led her to abandon the Highborne, then secretly set out to swear allegiance to Illidan. Robbie used a disguise to tamper with the Eye, while Xal'atath left Aman'Thul after criticizing his loss of composure.

• Queen Azshara told Elisande that the Highborne had tried to slay a god and that the Eye of Aman'Thul had predicted their deaths, prompting their Metamorphosis and exile.
• Queen Azshara ended her secret bond with Elisande, who decided to seek Illidan and pledge allegiance to him.
• Robbie and Black Cat planned to alter the Eye of Aman'Thul, and Robbie entered the Nighthold disguised as Elisande to carry out the plan.
• Robbie completed Black Cat's task by touching the Eye with the golden disc, then noticed a cat-paw mark on the candle Elisande used to contact Queen Azshara.
• Xal'atath packed her belongings and told Aman'Thul she was leaving him, criticizing his impulsive fight with Elisande and recalling that Illidan had once cut off one of his fingers.

Aman'Thul used Elisande’s unwitting submission to assimilate her, then transformed Suramar’s Nightwell and forced the Nightborne to endure Fel, killing more than half. He declared the survivors his Illidari and prepared to lead them against the Burning Legion, though he also planned to indulge his corrupt desires.

• Aman'Thul emerged before Elisande, accepted her allegiance, and used Titans’ Redemption to replace her consciousness with one of his own.
• With Elisande’s help, Aman'Thul entered Suramar City, seized the Eye of Aman'Thul, and remade the Nightwell to draw on Fel.
• Aman'Thul addressed Suramar’s people, killed a noble who questioned him, and claimed the Burning Legion threatened them.
• Aman'Thul unleashed Fel through the Nightwell, and more than half of the Nightborne died from the torment.
• Aman'Thul named the surviving Fel-powered Nightborne his Illidari and said they would fight the Burning Legion for Azeroth.
• Aman'Thul planned to march against the Legion after indulging his desire to collect women and other creatures for his pleasure.

Aman'Thul's Nightborne Legion ravaged Azeroth, destroying Goblin settlements and abducting women while Robbie and Black Cat watched from hiding. Robbie realized Aman'Thul intended to bring Argus into Azeroth's star system, forcing Azeroth's people to fight the Legion.

• The Nightborne attacked Booty Bay, killed Revilgaz and nearly all the Goblins, and left the city in ruins.
• The Legion invaded Gadgetzan, killed Mayor Noggenfogger, and seized Princess Pubal, Princess Theradras, and Mor'gan Darkmane; Bwonsamdi rescued Princess Talanji.
• Aman'Thul used the Nightwell to summon demons and direct the invasions while his Legion plundered wealth and abducted women across Azeroth.
• Robbie asked Black Cat whether they could stop Aman'Thul, but Black Cat urged secrecy and patience to protect the Kingdom of Stormwind.
• Robbie concluded that Aman'Thul planned to bring Argus Planet into the Azeroth Star System, forcing Azeroth's people into a final war against the Legion.

Black Cat and Robbie deduced that Aman'Thul planned to use the Key to the Worlds to bring Argus Planet into Azeroth's star system, and they considered how to interfere with his scheme. Meanwhile, Xe'ra sent Khadgar to retrieve the artifact from the Vault of the Wardens, where Maiev had just handed it to Cordana before fleeing.

• Black Cat and Robbie discussed the threat posed by Argus Planet and concluded that Aman'Thul intended to use the Key to the Worlds to bring it near Azeroth.
• Black Cat proposed tampering with the Key again, while Robbie warned that adding a planet to Azeroth's star system could cause a catastrophic upheaval.
• Khadgar complained to Xe'ra about Sylvanas, but Xe'ra redirected him to find the Key to the Worlds in the Vault of the Wardens.
• Maiev told Cordana that Illidan would return for his imprisoned Demon Hunters and gave her a treasure taken from one of them.
• Cordana received the Key to the Worlds as Maiev left the Vault of the Wardens to escape Illidan's revenge.

Robbie disguised himself as an adventurer and watched Khadgar and Velen’s campaign against the Vault of the Wardens gather force. When the Seven Swords Guild and Skywolf Guild recruited a suspiciously large number of adventurers, Robbie followed them toward an evil faction’s camp to learn what they were planning.

• Cordana Felsong struggled to defend the Vault of the Wardens as evil forces and adventurers attacked it from all sides.
• Khadgar and Velen urged adventurers to storm the Vault, first calling for justice for Illidan and then denouncing Cordana as a Burning Legion mole.
• Robbie and Black Cat joined a camp of adventurers who waited for the competing forces to weaken each other.
• A Worgen woman from the Seven Swords Guild inspected the camp, and a guild representative announced that Seven Swords and Skywolf would lead the assault.
• The guilds accepted nearly every adventurer who applied, making Robbie suspect they intended to use them as cannon fodder.
• Robbie declined to sign up and secretly followed the guilds and several thousand adventurers toward the nearby evil faction’s camp.

Robbie watched Aman'Thul pose as Illidan Stormrage and turn negotiations near the Vault of the Wardens into a massacre, unleashing parasitic demons across Azsuna. Khadgar learned of the devastation, but Velen defended the atrocities as necessary, and Khadgar recorded the destruction as a crime of the Burning Legion.

• Sky Wolf and Seven Swords negotiated with the Evil faction, which agreed to withdraw most of its forces in exchange for rescuing its people and receiving a reward.
• Aman'Thul entered the tent disguised as Illidan Stormrage, rejected the adventurers as unworthy, and infected them with demon seeds that burst from their bodies.
• Aman'Thul ordered the newborn demons to kill and devour nearby life, and the demons spread across Azsuna, consuming creatures and destroying the blue dragons' home and eggs.
• Khadgar learned of Azsuna's destruction, while Velen defended the sacrifices and claimed Illidan would defeat the Burning Legion.
• Khadgar recorded Azsuna's destruction in Dalaran's journal as another crime of the Burning Legion.

Aman'Thul’s campaign devastated the Broken Isles as he sought the Key to the Worlds and prepared to seize the power of Sargeras’s avatar. After obtaining the Key, he turned his attention to the Tomb of Sargeras, planning to use the Alliance and the Horde to clear the way.

• Aman'Thul’s demon army ravaged the Broken Isles, slaughtering the Vrykul, Druids, Tauren, and surviving Orcs while refugees fled to nearby islands.
• Cordana Felsong rejected reports that Illidan led the demons, then believed a false claim that Kil'jaeden commanded them.
• Aman'Thul sent Cordana a threatening letter and a Greater Demon Core, forcing her to become a demon after she realized she had been deceived.
• Robbie disguised himself as a Scythe Demon, took the Key to the Worlds, touched it with his golden disc, and returned it after tampering with it.
• Aman'Thul obtained the Key to the Worlds and, with the Eye of Aman'Thul, moved closer to his goal, leaving the Tomb of Sargeras as the last obstacle.
• Aman'Thul planned to use the Alliance and the Horde to overcome the demon factions occupying the Tomb of Sargeras and claim the avatar’s power.

Sylvanas weighed the Army of the Light’s support for Illidan and offered the Alliance a deal that could let the Iron Horde enter Azeroth. Meanwhile, Xe'ra sent Khadgar to question Illidan, who claimed the Tomb of Sargeras had driven him into a murderous frenzy.

• Sylvanas rejected Antonidas’s suggestion to expose Illidan immediately and decided to wait until she understood why the Army of the Light supported him.
• Sylvanas told Antonidas to offer the Alliance a deal: open the Dark Portal to the Iron Horde, and she would bring Illidan to justice.
• Xe'ra ordered Khadgar to travel to the Broken Isles and ask Illidan what had caused his madness, giving him a Holy Light token.
• Khadgar met Aman'Thul in Suramar City, where Aman'Thul said the Tomb of Sargeras had affected his mind and driven him into a murderous frenzy.

Aman'Thul forced Khadgar to help him gather an army to seize the Tomb of Sargeras. After torturing Khadgar into submission, he ordered him to enlist Sylvanas's Iron Horde and threaten the Alliance into opening the Dark Portal.

• Aman'Thul demanded that Khadgar help him take the Tomb of Sargeras, but Khadgar explained that Azeroth's exhausted forces could not manage it.
• Aman'Thul beat and tortured Khadgar, threatening to destroy Dalaran and ruin his reputation unless he obeyed.
• Elisande healed Khadgar, who submitted to Aman'Thul out of fear.
• Aman'Thul decided Sylvanas's Iron Horde could make the assault possible and ordered Khadgar to offer her the throne of Azeroth in exchange for her help.
• Aman'Thul ordered Khadgar to tell the Alliance to open the Dark Portal for the Iron Horde, threatening Stormwind with the Burning Legion if they refused.