Recaps

Robbie used unexpected kicks and the Shaman-disrupting Back-and-Forth Hopping to overwhelm Ner'zhul in combat, but Ner'zhul escaped in a cloud of smoke. Robbie was left coughing as the Dark Portal closed and Ner'zhul's threat against Prophet Velen echoed.

• Robbie feinted with a leaping strike, kicked Ner'zhul in the face, and broke one of his tusks, then interrupted his spell with Fist of Justice.
• Ner'zhul and Robbie fought with their weapons until Ner'zhul wrapped his staff around the Cursed Torch and sent both weapons flying.
• Robbie dodged Ner'zhul's punches and knocked him down, then used Back-and-Forth Hopping to disrupt the Shaman's elements and batter him.
• A Draenei Shaman explained that Back-and-Forth Hopping had once helped defeat the Troll Shaman army, while Carola recounted its use against Ragnaros.
• Ner'zhul spat out a black bead and vanished in smoke along with the five members of Peace Dove, threatening Prophet Velen as the Dark Portal closed.

Robbie learned that Vanessa planned to control the Dark Star using fallen Naaru fragments, despite the deadly risk, and resolved to protect her. When Vanessa asked whether Tirion Fordring could be trusted, Robbie criticized Tirion’s factional neutrality and questioned his reputation for strength.

• Vanessa explained that fallen Naaru fragments had increased her chance of controlling the Dark Star, but warned that failure would kill her.
• Robbie realized Vanessa might die following the course of history and swore to change her fate.
• Vanessa said the Argent Crusade would sell five more fragments for five sets of Epic equipment, but Tirion Fordring demanded the full price without bargaining.
• Vanessa asked Robbie what he thought of Tirion Fordring, and Robbie argued that Tirion’s rejection of factional loyalties made him unacceptable to both the Alliance and Horde.
• Robbie mocked Tirion Fordring’s strength by pointing out that he had only fought Eitrigg to a draw, and Vanessa laughed.

Robbie shared Big Candle’s doubts about Tirion Fordring with Vanessa, who took him to a secret Infinite Dragonflight laboratory in Karabor Temple. They prepared to use time travel to uncover history, and Robbie realized Vanessa might be planning more than merely meeting Tirion.

• Robbie told Vanessa that Big Candle’s account raised doubts about Tirion Fordring’s encounter with Eitrigg, and Vanessa said they would need to see for themselves.
• Vanessa brought Robbie to an Infinite Dragonflight laboratory in Karabor Temple, where she explained that its time-travel machine had revealed rifts connecting different points in Azeroth’s history.
• Toki, the Eternal One, explained that Robbie was a trusted guide who could lead people through the timeline, and that history could not be changed but the future could.
• Vanessa said she wanted to travel to the timeline where Tirion Fordring met Eitrigg, but Toki warned that the machine needed adjustments to reach that far back.
• Toki suggested seeing Tirion when he was down on his luck in the Plaguelands, and Robbie recognized the reference to the Love and Family quest.

Robbie and Vanessa traveled back to the Eastern Plaguelands and discovered that it was lush and inhabited by orderly undead, unlike the ruined region described in books. After gathering information at Timmy Tavern in Darrowshire, they headed to Marris Stead, where Robbie encountered a female Tauren.

• Robbie and Vanessa traveled through time to the Eastern Plaguelands, where Robbie was surprised to find healthy greenery instead of plague-ravaged land.
• Vanessa explained that the books described the Plaguelands of their own time and that the region had recovered without a source of infection.
• Robbie and Vanessa reached Darrowshire, met Little Pamela, and entered Timmy Tavern to listen for useful information.
• Robbie learned about the factions operating across the Plaguelands and heard that adventurers were killing creatures near Marris Stead.
• Robbie put on his Orc disguise while Vanessa remained invisible, and they set off for Marris Stead.
• Near Marris Stead, Robbie met a full-figured female Tauren who offered him milk.

Robbie encountered adventurers competing for access to Tirion Fordring’s mysterious legacy and accepted a recommendation from a Blood Elf named Sylvanas Windrunner. After Vanessa supplied stolen carrion-worm meat for the quest, Robbie intimidated the gathered adventurers and demanded to see Tirion, while Nathanos the Blightcaller watched and then backed down.

• Robbie turned down advances from a Tauren, an Orc, and an Undead before a Blood Elf introduced herself as Sylvanas Windrunner and offered to recommend him to Tirion Fordring.
• Sylvanas gave Robbie three quests and explained that collecting more carrion-worm meat would improve his chances of meeting Tirion.
• Vanessa gave Robbie dozens of bags of white maggot meat, which she had stolen while he was distracted.
• At Marris Stead, an Undead rogue recognized his stolen bag, so Robbie tore off the rogue’s limbs and threw him into the filthy water.
• Nathanos the Blightcaller appeared with his two Undead hounds, but withdrew after Robbie met his gaze; Robbie then demanded that the adventurers let him see Tirion Fordring.

Robbie attended Tirion Fordring’s gathering in the Eastern Plaguelands and discovered that the famed Paladin lived in a disguised castle and wielded overwhelming Holy Light. When Tirion stayed to answer the questions of female Orcs, Robbie gained a chance to delay him while Vanessa searched his home for a mysterious inheritance.

• Robbie arrived with adventurers from Marris Stead and learned that Tirion Fordring’s humble hut concealed a five-story castle.
• Robbie heard about the factional reputation gap, the Alliance leader Dick, and the Dwarf Anxu Yili, who had raised his reputation alone.
• Tirion Fordring entered the gathering, displayed his powerful Holy Light, and handed out signed recruitment cards after urging everyone to stay happy, glad, and optimistic.
• Robbie tried to keep Tirion from leaving by tripping a female Orc, but Tirion stopped to help her and began answering questions from the female Orcs.
• Robbie began planning another way to delay Tirion while the female Orcs occupied him.

Robbie stalled Tirion Fordring by posing as a messenger of Gul'dan and inventing a story about Gul'dan needing Holy Light to escape a Titan body. Their conversation turned to Tirion's past and a difficult quest, but a persistent Dwarf arrived with the family painting, leaving only Tirion's final request to complete.

• Robbie introduced himself to Tirion as Leonardo Brutalaxe, a messenger of Gul'dan, and claimed Gul'dan was cooperating with Grand Archmage Elisande in Suramar.
• Tirion believed Robbie enough to bring him into his hut, where he recalled how a collapsed watchtower and Barthilas's burst of Holy Light had allowed Arthas to escape.
• Robbie claimed Gul'dan was trapped in a Titan body and needed a powerful Holy Light user, prompting Tirion to boast about his growing strength and his plans to defeat Arthas.
• Tirion explained that the Love and Family quest required a painting from Stratholme's Scarlet Enclave, which he thought no adventurer could retrieve.
• Anxu Yili arrived with the painting after bribing a member of the Scarlet Crusade to obtain it.
• Tirion told Anxu Yili to visit his son Taelan Fordring in Hearthglen and ask about leftover meat sauce to receive the Mysterious Inheritance.

Robbie negotiated with Tirion Fordring over Gul'dan's cooperation while Tirion defended his son Taelan's place in the Scarlet Crusade. When Argent Dawn adventurers arrived, Robbie secretly kept them occupied long enough to dismantle Tirion's hidden castle.

• Anxu Yili argued with Tirion Fordring, who rejected his accusations against the Scarlet Crusade and said he was proud of Taelan Fordring.
• Tirion Fordring asked Robbie to discuss Gul'dan's potential help against the Lich King and questioned how Gul'dan would face the Orcs of Orgrimmar.
• Robbie said power mattered more than honor and listed survival, deception, and eliminating threats among his priorities, winning Tirion's approval for their cooperation.
• When two novice adventurers arrived, Tirion disguised himself as a farmer and hid his castle while asking them to deal with plague creatures.
• The human adventurer and Orc objected to killing the creatures, and Robbie secretly gave them diarrhea until they asked to stay overnight.
• Robbie concluded that the adventurers had bought him enough time to dismantle Tirion's castle.

Robbie and Vanessa uncovered Tirion Fordring’s secret method for gaining Holy Light power by blessing and eating White Maggot Meat, along with his role in the fall of Ashbringer. Vanessa then revealed that Tirion was also a broker for the Argent Dawn.

• Vanessa showed Robbie photographs of Tirion Fordring’s storeroom, including its enormous supply of White Maggot Meat and a powerful source of Holy Light.
• Robbie read Tirion Fordring’s diary and learned that eating Holy Light-infused White Maggot Meat had strengthened Tirion, though it came with an embarrassing cost.
• Robbie infused a piece of White Maggot Meat with Holy Light and proposed that the Brotherhood search for an alternative without the drawbacks.
• Robbie read that Tirion had secretly replaced the Rizebu Crystal with a plague crystal, causing Ashbringer to lose its power and Mograine to die.
• Vanessa handed Robbie what she called her most valuable discovery: Tirion Fordring was a broker for the Argent Dawn.

Robbie and Vanessa uncovered Tirion Fordring’s dealings and eavesdropped on his conversation with Balnazzar, learning about Legion plans and a mysterious Orc messenger. Vanessa then took Robbie to Corin’s Crossing and began explaining the plague and the three categories of undead.

• Robbie and Vanessa pieced together Tirion Fordring’s ties to the Argent Dawn, the Horde, the Scarlet Crusade, and the undead trade.
• Vanessa used a Legion Communication Orb to eavesdrop as Tirion confronted Balnazzar about a missing painting and discussed business with Baron Rivendare.
• Tirion asked Balnazzar about an Orc claiming to be Gul’dan’s messenger, and Balnazzar advised him to establish the Orc’s identity and test his loyalty to the Legion.
• Vanessa refused to end the mission and brought Robbie to a hill overlooking the Scourge stronghold of Corin’s Crossing.
• Vanessa asked Robbie about the essence of the plague, praised his explanation, and revealed that undead on Azeroth fell into three categories.

Vanessa explained the origins of Azeroth's Undead and revealed that the soldiers at Corin's Crossing remembered their lives and remained loyal to Lordaeron. Robbie inferred that the plague's real history had been concealed and then sought Anxu Yili at Sorrow Hill, offering to work with him.

• Vanessa described three kinds of Undead and said that the plague was a microorganism, not something Ner'zhul had created with magic.
• Vanessa and Robbie entered Corin's Crossing, where its undead soldiers and citizens recognized Vanessa and saluted her.
• Vanessa asked Robbie to do something for the Undead, and Robbie concluded that a hidden truth about the plague explained why the Scourge had to be destroyed.
• Robbie told Vanessa that Anxu Yili could help them and suggested finding him with the witch Myranda at Sorrow Hill.
• Anxu Yili tried to learn a Scarlet Crusade disguise and password from Myranda, but she knocked him aside when he insulted her.
• Robbie helped Anxu up, introduced himself as Leonardo Tyrannical Axe, and proposed that they work together.

Anxu Yili confronted Taelan Fordring with a forged letter and family keepsakes, while leaflets accusing Taelan of betraying the Scarlet Crusade fell over Hearthglen. Taelan attacked his own guards and fled with Anxu, as Balnazzar warned Tirion Fordring that his son needed help.

• Taelan Fordring rejected Anxu Yili’s recruit application because the Dwarf could not explain his origins, but admitted him after learning he carried a letter from Tirion Fordring.
• Anxu gave Taelan a forged letter and family keepsakes, urging him to abandon the Scarlet Crusade and return to his father.
• A Holy Light dragon scattered leaflets across Hearthglen accusing Taelan of selling Scarlet Crusade intelligence to the Argent Dawn.
• As the soldiers demanded an explanation, Taelan attacked his comrades and told Anxu they would escape together.
• Balnazzar contacted Tirion Fordring and warned him that Taelan needed help.

Robbie and Vanessa watched Taelan Fordring leave Hearthglen, but Tirion Fordring’s attempt to save his son ended in Taelan’s death and sent Tirion into a holy-light frenzy against the Scarlet Crusade. Robbie exploited the chaos to set Tirion’s castle ablaze, and the story left with an older Tirion in Northrend remembering the Orc who burned it down.

• Taelan Fordring escaped Hearthglen with the Dwarf while Robbie and Vanessa watched from hiding, and High Inquisitor Isillien let Taelan pass.
• The Dwarf confronted Taelan and Isillien, then died in the brief fight after realizing what the meat paste meant.
• Tirion Fordring arrived and accidentally struck Taelan with his Holy Light Flying Hammer, killing him as Isillien tried to explain that he had intended to let Taelan go.
• Tirion fell into holy-light fanaticism, attacked Isillien, and plunged the Scarlet Crusade into chaos.
• Robbie used the confusion to reach a watchtower and set fire to Tirion Fordring Castle, jolting Tirion out of his frenzy.
• Years later in Northrend, an elderly Tirion remembered the Orc who had burned down his castle and vowed to settle the score.

Robbie arranged for outside experts to find a substitute for White Maggot Meat and uncover its long-term effects, then hosted Maldra and Chen Stormstout at a banquet Weldon Barov had prepared. Weldon told a startling, possibly drunken tale about his family’s history and Kel’Thuzad defeating Medivh, then denied it after sobering up, leaving Robbie to punish him with toilet duty.

• Marisa Dupé advised Robbie to outsource the White Maggot Meat research to Scholomance, Nefarian’s laboratory, and the Ahn'Qiraj egg-breeding facility, and Robbie agreed.
• Robbie assigned Weldon Barov to prepare a banquet for Maldra, who arrived with Chen Stormstout; Hogger impressed them by drinking a jar of wine and eating it.
• Weldon recounted how Alex Barov had forced Gul’dan to take ships during the Second War and described the Barov Family’s conflicts with Terenas, the Silver Hand, and Uther.
• Weldon claimed Kel’Thuzad had defeated Medivh and said Orc blood in the Barov grain had been the source of the plague.
• After Weldon sobered up and denied his story, Robbie assigned him to manage the garrison’s toilets.

Robbie learned that Weldon feared revealing Medivh’s secret, then accepted Mograine and Whitemane into the fortress under new names. He took them and Weldon to hunt Kriya, but Whitemane’s signature call enraged the marshlight and drew its attack toward her.

• Weldon refused to reveal what he knew about Kel'Thuzad and Medivh, so Robbie stopped pressing him and took him on patrol.
• Hogger told Robbie that Mograine and Whitemane wanted to join the Brotherhood, and Robbie agreed to take them in if they changed their names.
• After Mograine and Whitemane disrupted life at the fortress with their public affection, Robbie moved them to Embaari Village.
• Yrel asked Robbie to kill Kriya in Shadowmoon Valley in exchange for an accessory, and he accepted the task with Mograine, Whitemane, and Weldon.
• Robbie drew Kriya out and held its attention while Mograine and Weldon attacked and Whitemane healed them.
• Whitemane called, "Arise, my champion," enraging Kriya and prompting it to bypass Robbie and peck at her legs.

Robbie and Beiqing Feathermoon competed to draw Kriya the Marsh Glowbug’s aggro, and Robbie secured it by using Beiqing’s romantic taunt. Back in Embaari Village, Yrel and the Night Elves had already adopted the phrase as a new taunting method, leaving Robbie worried it would spread across Draenor and Azeroth.

• Robbie failed to pull Kriya the Marsh Glowbug away from Whitemane, so he switched to a two-handed weapon and joined the attack.
• Beiqing Feathermoon arrived with Sori Beast Tamer and Deyuli, declared the forest under Night Elf protection, and tried to tank Kriya.
• Beiqing used the phrase “Arise, my champion” to make Kriya turn away from Whitemane and attack her, while she dodged and struck it with Shield Slams.
• Robbie shouted “Arise, my champion! To fight for you, my lady!” and provoked Kriya into attacking him, securing its aggro with a Holy Light shield.
• Robbie returned to Embaari Village and found Yrel training Draenei Paladins to use his taunt, while Beiqing trained Night Elves in the same method.

Robbie discovered that technician Romuul was available to hire and watched Beiqing try to recruit him after she proved her strength against a pack of wolves. Romuul ignored Beiqing’s generous offers, leaving Robbie suspicious that something was wrong.

• Robbie learned that Romuul had received Krya's spike and remembered that Romuul could be hired as a Follower.
• Robbie met Vanessa outside the inn, where she said the Brotherhood was investigating a corrupted Night Elf Druid but admitted she had come to find a jeweler.
• Beiqing met Vanessa, admired her Enchanter's Robe, and led her and Robbie to Romuul's workshop.
• Sori Beast Tamer and Beiqing noticed Romuul's hire sign, and Vanessa let Beiqing approach him first.
• Beiqing defeated several waves of forest wolves and a rare wolf to prove her strength to Romuul.
• Beiqing offered Romuul generous pay and benefits, then promised to introduce him to a wealthy Draenei woman, but Romuul ignored her.

Beiqing and Vanessa both failed to recruit Romuul, and Robbie learned that Romuul had sworn to follow only the fiftieth person through the Dark Portal. Yrel revealed that Prophet Velen was still waiting for that person, while Robbie promised to show her how to collect more wolf pelts.

• Beiqing taunted Yrel, but Yrel stopped fighting when Robbie reminded her to skin the wolves before they spoiled.
• Vanessa threatened Romuul into terror, but he still refused to become her follower after he recovered.
• Beiqing left after arranging to borrow clothes with Vanessa, and Vanessa wondered why neither she nor Beiqing could recruit Romuul.
• Robbie bluffed Yrel into admitting that Prophet Velen had seen through their disguise and was waiting for the fiftieth person through the Dark Portal.
• Yrel explained that Romuul had sworn to the Naaru to follow only that fiftieth person, then asked Robbie how to get ten times as many wolf pelts.

Vanessa and Robbie searched for technician Romuul after he vanished, while Robbie suspected that someone had hired him to test the wolf-attracting crystal. Vanessa obtained a list of Night Elf Druids from Beiqing Feathermoon, and Robbie identified Archdruid Grandaris as the likely Defiler from the Emerald Dream, though he could only justify his claim with intuition.

• Yrel claimed the wolves attracted by Romuul’s crystal for Embaari Village, while the Heaven and Earth Guild occupied the hillside and repeatedly failed to recruit Romuul.
• Romuul disappeared, and Weldon Barov reported that a coalition of guilds had left Lunarfall to attack the Shadowmoon Clan’s Void mages.
• Vanessa revealed that she had tracked Romuul with Thousand-Mile Fragrance, then followed his scent to an abandoned stronghold where the fragrance had been neutralized.
• Robbie theorized that someone had hired Romuul before the other commanders and used the crystal to test its ability to attract wolf packs.
• Vanessa obtained a list of Lunarfall’s Night Elf Druids from Beiqing Feathermoon, and Robbie singled out Archdruid Grandaris as the Defiler.

Vanessa and Robbie captured Archdruid Grandaris and threatened him until he revealed that he had come to deceive Prophet Velen. Grandaris warned them that the conflict on Draenor involved a much greater danger, then pointed to the mysterious deaths of five blue dragons escorting the Focusing Iris.

• Vanessa and Robbie found Grandaris asleep in bear form, tied him up, and discovered that the rope prevented him from shapeshifting.
• Grandaris claimed that Green Dragon Queen Ysera was his boss, which made Robbie suspect that something was amiss.
• Vanessa and Robbie threatened to butcher Grandaris until he agreed to explain his mission.
• Grandaris admitted that he had come to deceive Prophet Velen and argued that Velen's reliance on prophecy had already led to disaster for the Draenei.
• Grandaris asked who on Azeroth could have instantly killed the five blue dragons escorting the Focusing Iris, leaving traces of demonic magic and Arcane energy.

Robbie learned that the Horde’s growing power threatened the weakened Dragonflights, then went with Yrel to hear Prophet Velen’s response to a bleak prophecy. A mysterious possessor arrived in Luobo'an’s body, while Grandaris prepared to manipulate Velen’s dreams for the Horde.

• Robbie frightened Grandaris into cooperating by using a straw doll and pretending to wield a wizard’s curse.
• Robbie asked Velen what he would do if a prophecy held only despair, and Velen said he trusted the Holy Light to guide the Draenei through their troubles.
• A black-robed man arrived at Moonwillow Vale and revealed himself as someone possessing Luobo'an’s body; Robbie recognized the deception and accepted repayment of the debt.
• Grandaris showed Major Shanmiusen the Nightmare's Heart and agreed to make Velen dream of becoming close with the Horde.
• Major Shanmiusen told Grandaris that Velen must support the Horde against the Iron Horde and that one of their agents would enter the dream with him.

Velen and the mysterious man used the Soul Crystal to glimpse Draenei futures, all of which showed disaster. The man urged Velen to control the Dark Star, but Velen remained hesitant as Yrel tried to persuade him with the promise of riches.

• Velen and the mysterious man drank Insight Potions and used the Soul Crystal to see possible futures.
• Robbie and Yrel watched while Robbie questioned prophecy and Yrel admitted her own prediction had produced every possible outcome.
• Velen described visions in which the Dark Star destroyed Karabor Temple and left many Draenei dead or wounded.
• The mysterious man revealed that the Dark Star was a fallen Naaru and urged Velen to control it to protect the Draenei and defeat their enemies.
• Robbie judged the proposal promising, and Yrel shook Velen by the shoulders and urged him to accept because the Dark Star could be worth a fortune.

Velen refused to control the Dark Star or accept the mysterious figure’s proposed choices, so Grandaris secretly manipulated his prophetic vision to make cooperation with the Horde look like the Draenei’s path to victory. The vision ended in horror when Velen saw Sylvanas and the Draenei transformed into undead, leaving him crying that this was not their fate.

• The mysterious figure urged Velen to control the Dark Star, hold a vote, or choose between sacrificing himself and joining the Horde, but Velen refused and trusted the Naaru and Holy Light.
• Grandaris used the Nightmare’s Heart to weave false visions into Velen’s prophecy, following Major Shanmiusen’s instructions to make the Horde seem like a trustworthy ally against the Iron Horde.
• Velen saw the Horde defeat the Iron Horde at Karabor, with a powerful Orc ally defeating Gruul and Grom Hellscream surrendering.
• Velen then saw himself married to Sylvanas and holding their Zombie baby, before discovering that Yrel, Samara, and the other Draenei had become undead.
• Sylvanas welcomed Velen and his Zombie Draenei to the Horde, and Velen cried out that this was not the Draenei’s fate.

Velen rejected the prophecy that joining the Horde would turn the Draenei into rotting zombies, while Grandaris denied responsibility for the failed vision to Major Shanmiusen. Robbie tracked the mysterious man to his prepared Dwarf body and threatened him with a Nightmare Potion, but the man claimed he had never heard of Stormwind City's Wealth Tablet.

• Velen refused to accept the prophecy, and Yrel recorded it while restraining herself from attacking the mysterious man.
• Grandaris told Major Shanmiusen that he had followed instructions, then threatened to report the incident to Lady Ysera.
• The mysterious man glided from a cliff and entered a hidden cave where a Dwarf body lay waiting.
• Robbie found the cave with help from a rented Gryphon and confronted the mysterious man.
• Robbie threatened to use a Nightmare Potion unless the mysterious man answered his questions.
• The mysterious man said he did not know what Stormwind City's Wealth Tablet was.

Robbie uncovered Peace Dove’s plan to use Romuul’s crystals to lure beasts against the Alliance forces at Lunarfall, while Gangdun Wuwei and Juxiong’s attack on the Shadowmoon Mage camp proceeded. Vanessa and Robbie watched as Med’an arrived with a Horde force, revealing himself as Experiment 709.

• The mysterious man confessed that Med’an of the Horde had ordered him to hire Romuul as part of Peace Dove’s plan to destroy the Alliance commanders and Followers in Lunarfall.
• Gangdun Wuwei and Juxiong prepared a four-group assault on the Shadowmoon Clan’s Void Mages, unaware that 128 crystals could summon beasts to attack them.
• Robbie and Vanessa learned from Romuul that a hub crystal controlled the traps, and Romuul made a necklace and a disruption crystal to counter them.
• The Alliance attack advanced into the Shadowmoon Mage camp as Vanessa spotted a Horde force emerging from a Void portal on the hill.
• Robbie identified the arriving boy as Med’an, and Vanessa confirmed he was Experiment 709, the savior template.