Recaps

Robbie used Rick’s dance with Nissa to investigate Trade Prince Marty’s dealings and discovered signs that Goblin technicians were being sent to Theramore. After finding Eitrigg and an ancient formula called Schisandra, Robbie had Rick reveal to Nissa that she was one of its ingredients.

• Rick posed as a wealthy merchant and danced with Nissa, who praised her father’s trade with Jaina and described Goblin technicians traveling to Theramore.
• Robbie suspected the technicians were serving the Burning Legion and inferred that its Fel Reaver production base might be hidden in Dustwallow Marsh.
• Robbie searched the mansion, found that Marty was absent, and discovered Eitrigg and armed Orcs in a banquet hall.
• After examining Schisandra’s secret formula, Robbie instructed Rick to tell Nissa that five young Goblins were among its ingredients and that she was one of them.

Rick told Nissa that she was to be sacrificed as an ingredient to cure Thrall, and her father, Trade Prince Marty, initially urged her to accept the supposed honor. After Nissa rejected Thrall and called him a beast, Marty chose to abandon his position and enlist the Burning Legion’s help to save her.

• Rick explained that Nissa was the last required blood relative of a Trade Prince and described how Thrall would consume the five ingredients; Nissa fled to find her father.
• Nissa contacted Marty through a Legion Orb, and Marty first told her to be proud of her sacrifice for Azeroth.
• When Nissa denounced Thrall as a beast, Marty promised to help her escape and the Legion Orb vanished.
• Eitrigg broke into Nissa’s room, restrained her with Orc guards, and carried her away as the final ingredient.
• Marty appeared with a Mo'arg Engineer, announced he would return to the Burning Legion to protect Nissa, and the engineer ordered Eitrigg to release her.

The Mo'arg Engineer forced Marty and Nissa to prove their allegiance by eating Eitrigg's flesh, then rebuilt Eitrigg from Orc body parts. Rick seized the chance to become Trade Prince by signing a contract as Thrall's financial adviser under the name Gallywix, while Robbie tracked the engineer toward the Burning Legion's secret base.

• The Mo'arg Engineer dismembered Eitrigg and the other Orcs, then made Marty and Nissa eat Eitrigg's cooked flesh as a pledge of allegiance.
• The Mo'arg Engineer stitched Eitrigg back together and told Nissa she could learn to repair Thrall after eating him.
• Rick knelt before Eitrigg and claimed that a Burning Legion agent had promised him the Trade Prince position.
• Eitrigg offered Rick a contract to serve Thrall as a financial adviser, and Rick signed it using the name Gallywix.
• Robbie followed the tracking spell he had placed on the Mo'arg Engineer to locate the Burning Legion's secret base.

Robbie watched Fandral Staghelm ambush Thrall and realized Thrall’s restoration in the Legion Forge could provide a chance to kill him permanently. Garrosh initially refused to help, but changed his mind when Robbie revealed that Thrall had been vacationing with Agna.

• Robbie scouted the Burning Legion’s secret base in Dustwallow Marsh and found no Ethereals or useful clues.
• Robbie discovered Thrall vacationing with Agna while Gallywix served him, and saw Fandral Staghelm attack Thrall and flee after Thrall’s head escaped by teleportation.
• Robbie concluded that Thrall could be vulnerable while his body was being restored in the Legion Forge and approached Garrosh for help entering it.
• Garrosh refused Robbie’s plan because he feared Archimonde’s suspicion and did not want to risk his life.
• Robbie told Garrosh that Thrall had been vacationing with Agna, and Garrosh angrily agreed to hear what he needed to do.

Garrosh used Robbie’s Rune to attack Thrall, but it injured the evil soul hidden within Thrall instead. The Rune also exposed the Legion base to the Scourge, prompting Archimonde to prepare for war and revealing Area 52’s role in smuggling a Fel Reaver production line through the Dark Portal.

• Robbie gave Garrosh a Rune that could locate and destroy Thrall’s soul, and Garrosh entered the Legion Forge while both Orcs were being repaired.
• Garrosh released the Rune near Thrall, and it hurt the evil soul inside Thrall’s head before the soul returned to him.
• The Rune projected a Scourge warning over the Legion base, and Archimonde ordered its defenses strengthened and Azeroth’s forces prepared for battle.
• Archimonde told the Eredar Mage to contact the Consortium, and an Ethereal confirmed that Area 52 had prepared to ship the Fel Reaver production line through the Dark Portal.

Nexus-Prince Haramad arranged for the Burning Legion to guard its own cargo, then used a Shifter's Signet to secretly attend a ball as a female Goblin. An Orc kidnapped him for a potion intended for Thrall, but Haramad's subordinates rescued him, and he blamed his rival Shaffar to conceal his humiliation.

• Haramad let the Burning Legion build a camp near the production site but kept the production line's core components under Consortium control.
• Haramad transformed into a female Goblin and went out secretly to attend a ball.
• An Orc ambushed Haramad and revealed that he had been sent by Thrall and Eitrigg to capture him as an ingredient for Five Princes.
• Haramad's Shifter's Signet wore off while he was imprisoned, and his subordinates found and rescued him.
• Haramad falsely accused Nexus-Prince Shaffar of arranging the kidnapping and checked that the core components were safe.

Robbie sabotaged the Fel Reaver production line, but the Burning Legion still transported it to Dustwallow Marsh while the Scourge attacked Dalaran. Archimonde used Tauren, Pandaren, and Trolls as cannon fodder, and Robbie pushed Arthas to launch the Scourge's assault.

• Robbie knocked out Haramad, disguised himself as him, and secretly damaged the Fel Reaver production line's core components.
• The Burning Legion escorted the production line through the Dark Portal to Dustwallow Marsh, while Theramore, Orgrimmar, and Thunder Bluff prepared for the Scourge.
• The Scourge besieged Dalaran, and Archimonde ordered the Legion to retreat toward Dustwallow Marsh, leaving Tauren, Pandaren, and Trolls behind to delay the attackers.
• Chen Stormstout rallied the confused civilians to charge the Scourge in the name of Azeroth and Archimonde.
• Sylvanas urged Arthas to spare the civilians, but Robbie restrained her and accused her of trying to weaken Arthas's resolve.
• Arthas swung Frostmourne and ordered the Scourge to attack.

The Scourge evacuated Dalaran after the Legion withdrew, and Arthas debated whether to force Azeroth’s races into an alliance or let them choose their own path. Robbie proposed that the Scourge retreat to Northrend while leaving a small force behind to help, as Archimonde discovered the Legion’s Fel Reaver production line was unusable.

• Chen Stormstout watched the Scourge funnel into the Portal while the Burning Legion abandoned Dalaran and its shield.
• Arthas questioned why Azeroth’s races had fought the Scourge, and Kel'Thuzad warned that invading Kalimdor could bring more such battles.
• Arthas and Robbie offered the prisoners a choice between Scourge labor and passage back to Kalimdor, and dozens of ships carried those who chose freedom to Theramore.
• Sylvanas urged Arthas to use force against Azeroth’s races, while Robbie proposed withdrawing the Scourge to Northrend and secretly leaving an elite force to help defend Azeroth.
• Thrall sent the prisoners who landed in Kalimdor to forced labor camps, where the Orcs slaughtered them and made their flesh into jerky.
• Archimonde learned that defective core components had left the Fel Reaver production line unable to operate, and he worried about answering to Lord Sargeras.

Archimonde learned that the Scourge had retreated to Northrend and ordered the Burning Legion to attack Mount Hyjal. As Night Elf commanders argued over whether to seek allies, Tyrande entered the council and proposed asking the divine messenger for the Moon Goddess’s will.

• A Doomguard told Archimonde that the Scourge had withdrawn to Northrend, and Archimonde ordered the Legion to march on Mount Hyjal and seize Nordrassil.
• Tyrande prayed to Elune for three days without an answer, then went to a military council and listened from outside as Fandral Staghelm called for war against the Orcs.
• Malfurion urged the Night Elves to unite with the Orcs, while Fandral accused Thrall of killing his son, Valstann.
• Shandris Feathermoon rejected the need for allies, while Maiev Shadowsong argued for joining forces with the Dragonkin.
• Tyrande entered the council and told the commanders to seek the honored divine messenger’s guidance on the Moon Goddess’s will.

Tyrande and the Night Elf commanders sought the divine envoy’s guidance on facing the Burning Legion, and he declared that they must ally with Thrall and the Orcs. After the envoy used a vision to redirect Fandral Staghelm’s grief and anger, the Night Elves accepted the alliance, and the envoy promised to meet Thrall and seek aid from the Red Dragon Queen.

• Tyrande brought the Night Elf commanders to the Temple of the Moon to ask the divine envoy how to face the Burning Legion and the Scourge.
• The divine envoy proclaimed that the Night Elves must ally with Thrall and the Orcs to defeat the Burning Legion.
• Fandral Staghelm denounced the envoy as a fraud, attacked Malfurion, and refused to allow an alliance with the Orcs.
• The divine envoy showed Fandral a vision of Valstann’s death and persuaded him that General Rajaxx and the Qiraji had killed his son, not Thrall.
• Tyrande declared that the Night Elves would obey the Moon Goddess’s will and ally with the Orcs, and the commanders accepted.
• The divine envoy promised to meet Thrall and seek the Red Dragon Queen’s aid.

Tyrande’s prayer led the Night Elves to prepare Mount Hyjal for war, while Elune warned Magni that their victory over the Burning Legion would doom Azeroth. In Orgrimmar, the divine envoy challenged Thrall’s claims of Orc benevolence by listing the deaths and environmental devastation caused since the Orcs arrived in Kalimdor.

• Tyrande finished her prayer, and the Night Elves began building fortifications and gathering troops at Mount Hyjal.
• Elune warned Magni that the Night Elves’ victory would revive their dangerous obsession with magic and bring about Azeroth’s destruction.
• Magni agreed to follow Elune’s guidance, though he secretly resented the Night Elves and the Orcs and intended to protect his own people.
• Thrall welcomed the divine envoy to Orgrimmar and described how the Orcs had united Kalimdor’s races and improved the land.
• The divine envoy confronted Thrall about eating Tauren and Pandaren, then described the severe losses those peoples and others had suffered under Orc rule.
• The divine envoy accused the Orcs of destroying forests, oases, and rivers across Durotar, the Barrens, and Ashenvale.

Thrall struggled to convince the divine emissary that the Orcs had turned against the Burning Legion, while Jaina proposed bribing him. Meanwhile, Arthas and the Scourge marched through Northrend, raised Frost Dragons, and opened the hidden path to Ner'zhul's prison as the Red Dragon Queen sensed their approach.

• The divine emissary rejected Thrall's explanation, warned that Arthas would destroy Orgrimmar, and rode away on a Hippogryph.
• Thrall killed a Tauren in his rage, and Jaina urged Vol'jin and Thrall to bribe the emissary, whom she believed was a human in disguise.
• Kel'Thuzad told Arthas that Ner'zhul could help them learn about the Burning Legion, and Robbie predicted Ner'zhul would bring a surprise.
• The Scourge collected Dragon bones and souls in Northrend, then created Frost Dragons from the remains of the Blue Dragonflight.
• Kel'Thuzad led Arthas and Robbie through the hidden passage inside the icy peak toward Ner'zhul's prison.
• The Red Dragon Queen opened her eyes at Wyrmrest Temple and saw the Scourge's vast army and its resurrected Frost Dragons.

Alexstrasza revealed her plans to Malygos, who accused her of orchestrating the Blue Dragonflight’s destruction. At the Frozen Throne, Kel'Thuzad and his allies destroyed Ner'zhul’s soul and uncovered a memory suggesting a mysterious woman had guided him in the ritual that shattered Draenor.

• Alexstrasza contacted Malygos and defended raising the Orcs, while Malygos accused her of causing Sindragosa and their children’s deaths.
• Alexstrasza threatened to execute Malygos if he disobeyed her and planned to use the Battle of Mount Hyjal to approach the Burning Legion and Elune.
• At the Frozen Throne, Ner'zhul begged Kel'Thuzad for his life, but Kel'Thuzad used a magical helmet to extinguish his soul and read his memories.
• The Legion's mages scanned Ner'zhul's memories and found a hidden scene of him preparing a ritual with the Eye of Dalaran, the Book of Medivh, and the Scepter of Sargeras.
• Ner'zhul's memory showed a mysterious woman instructing him to cast the spell that would tear Draenor apart.

Ner'zhul’s ritual revealed a new world but shattered Draenor, and Arthas decided the Scourge would eventually take Lordaeron’s people there. Meanwhile, Archimonde heard why the Legion’s attack on Mount Hyjal had failed and ordered Thrall brought to him.

• Ner'zhul opened spatial rifts to a lush new world, but the woman revealed that the ritual’s power would tear Draenor apart.
• Ner'zhul memorized the world’s coordinates before leaving the Black Temple, but Kil'jaeden later captured him before he could tell the Orcs.
• Kel'Thuzad urged Arthas to leave Azeroth for the new world, and Arthas agreed to take the resurrected people of Lordaeron there after the Orcs were defeated.
• The Scourge built a fortress at the Frozen Throne and sent Rage Winterchill’s vanguard to attack Mount Hyjal, where the Ancients of War overwhelmed the Legion forces.
• Rage Winterchill explained the defeat to Archimonde, who blamed the failure on the Legion’s tactics and ordered Thrall brought to him.

Thrall and Archimonde mistook the divine envoy’s identity and planned to secure his support by marrying him to Jaina and giving him Theramore. Magni learned of their scheme, while Jaina rejected the proposed match before Eitrigg could reveal the envoy’s identity.

• Archimonde scolded Thrall for failing to win the divine envoy’s favor, then revealed that he believed the envoy was Emperor Thoradin.
• Thrall decided the envoy wanted to regain political power, and Archimonde told him to arrange a marriage to Jaina and offer him Theramore.
• Magni used the Azeroth Archives and his network of informants to learn about Thrall’s plans, then resolved to protect the World Tree himself.
• Eitrigg went to Theramore to tell Jaina that Thrall had arranged a human match for her.
• Jaina rejected the idea of marrying any human, declaring that even Emperor Thoradin would not be worthy of her.

Thrall sought a way to please the Moon Goddess’s divine envoy after the envoy rejected Jaina, but Magni secretly manipulated Thrall with a fabricated Void Lord dream. Thrall received orders to prepare Tauren and Pandaren for the envoy, and mistakenly thought the envoy simply wanted a feast.

• Aegwynn promised Jaina that she would become her student if she married the divine envoy, and Jaina agreed.
• The divine envoy publicly declared he would never marry a human, leaving Jaina shocked and secretly delighted.
• Thrall dreamed that a Void Lord chose him as its representative and ordered him to cooperate with its followers.
• Magni revealed that he had created the dream to deceive Thrall and secure an alliance between the Orcs and Night Elves.
• Thrall received secret orders to prepare three hundred healthy Tauren and three hundred well-fed Pandaren for the divine envoy.
• Vol'jin translated the orders, and Thrall concluded that the envoy only wanted to eat Tauren and Pandaren.

Thrall sent Rokhan and Vol'jin to demand that Rastakhan surrender the Zandalari queen, while Rastakhan debated resistance with the dark prophet Zul. After Zul left Zuldazar, Vol'jin and Rokhan arrived, and Vol'jin revealed he had arranged for the Burning Legion to assassinate Zul.

• Thrall ordered Rokhan to bring the Zandalari queen to Orgrimmar and threatened to destroy the Zandalari Empire if Rastakhan refused.
• Vol'jin warned Thrall that Rastakhan might jeopardize their plans and joined Rokhan as an envoy.
• Rastakhan rejected the demand as an insult, while Zul blamed him for ignoring earlier chances to strengthen the Trolls and warned that Zandalar faced destruction.
• Rastakhan dismissed Zul, who urged him to resist to the end before leaving Zuldazar.
• Vol'jin and Rokhan arrived in Zandalar, and Vol'jin said he had asked the Burning Legion to send an assassin after Zul.

Vol'jin pressured King Rastakhan into sending the Zandalari queen to Orgrimmar by pretending Thrall had sacrificed Cairne Bloodhoof's son and Taran Zhu's daughter as food. When the queen appeared, Vol'jin became captivated by her and believed he had found true love.

• Vol'jin learned that Zul had left Zuldazar and decided to present Rastakhan with a grand gift.
• Vol'jin and Rokhan entered Rastakhan's palace, where the king had armed men waiting to attack them.
• Vol'jin presented a hot pot and claimed its ingredients were Cairne Bloodhoof's son and Taran Zhu's daughter, frightening Rastakhan into agreeing to send the queen to Orgrimmar.
• Rastakhan summoned the queen, and Rokhan and Vol'jin were both struck by her beauty.

Vol'jin, Rokhan, and Thrall were captivated by the queen of Zandalar, whom Thrall arranged to present to the divine envoy during negotiations. When Vol'jin went to fetch her, he found her and her maids dead, with the queen having taken her own life rather than surrender her honor.

• Vol'jin and Rokhan escorted the queen of Zandalar by ship to Orgrimmar, where Thrall welcomed her.
• Thrall prepared a lavish banquet for the divine envoy and praised ruthless rule while discussing Emperor Thoradin and the trolls.
• Thrall told the divine envoy that he expected the Zandalari Empire to join the Horde, and the envoy praised him as a true hero.
• Vol'jin went to fetch the queen and found her maids dead and the queen lying in a pool of blood.
• Vol'jin saw the queen's final message in ancient Trollish: "Honor above my life!"

Vol'jin replaced the dead Queen of Zandalar with an impostor during a feast where Thrall and a Night Elf divine envoy negotiated an alliance. News that the Night Elves had devastated Archimonde’s forces derailed cooperation, and Thrall ended by demanding to know how the Queen had died.

• Vol'jin found the Queen of Zandalar dead and arranged for a female Troll to impersonate her at the feast.
• Thrall and the divine envoy discussed cooperation between the Orcs and Night Elves, but an Orc scout announced that the Burning Legion had been defeated.
• Thrall killed the scout after demanding an explanation, while the envoy and Thrall doubted the report and the banquet ended with negotiations stalled.
• Vol'jin studied reports describing the Night Elves’ surprise attack, the destruction of the Legion’s Magic Shield, and Archimonde’s retreat with only around thirty thousand soldiers remaining.
• Vol'jin reported that the envoy in Darnassus had discovered an impostor posing as the Moon Goddess’s divine envoy had organized the attack.
• Thrall dismissed the dispute over the false envoy and asked Vol'jin how the Queen of Zandalar had died.

Thrall ordered the Zandalari queen’s soul captured and her reputation destroyed, but her soul vanished. Robbie later met the queen’s spirit, who asked for rest, revenge, and a final chance to see Rastakhan.

• Thrall accused the dead queen of threatening the Orcs and ordered Vol'jin to make Bwonsamdi find her soul for torture.
• Thrall made Rokhan name one of his daughters as the queen’s heir, then had the queen’s corpse cooked and fed to Orc laborers.
• Eitrigg spread fabricated rumors about the queen, and Zandalari people turned against her family while praising Thrall.
• The Legion Forge and Bwonsamdi could not find the queen’s soul, enraging Thrall.
• Robbie led Night Elves and the Firelord in a raid that damaged the Burning Legion’s camp, then secretly left after the real divine messenger returned.
• The queen’s spirit found Robbie and said she wanted peace, revenge if possible, and to see Rastakhan once more.

Rastakhan heard a warning from his dead queen about the Loa, Thrall’s plan for the Zandalari throne, and the need to protect the empire. In Darnassus, a divine emissary demanded punishment for the Night Elves’ attack on the Burning Legion, and Tyrande threatened Shandris Feathermoon for questioning Elune’s judgment.

• Rastakhan grieved over his queen’s disgrace and his inability to resist Thrall’s influence.
• The queen’s shadow warned Rastakhan that the Loa limited the Zandalari and that Thrall intended to install Rokhan’s illegitimate daughter as heir.
• Rastakhan vowed not to let the throne pass to an outsider, and the queen told him never to make a deal with a god before she departed with Robbie.
• At the Temple of the Moon, the divine emissary demanded that Tyrande and Malfurion arrest everyone involved in the Night Elves’ unauthorized attack on the Burning Legion.
• Shandris Feathermoon questioned the punishment, and Tyrande threatened to send those who blasphemed a god into the abyss of nightmares.

The divine emissary ordered the Night Elves to stop fighting without Elune’s permission and announced that they must attack the Firelord Ragnaros. Fandral Staghelm warned that the plan would betray the alliance protecting Mount Hyjal, but Cenarius and Hamuul Runetotem arrived as apparent candidates to lead the attack.

• The divine emissary punished the Night Elf officers and soldiers who had attacked the Burning Legion, while Maiev questioned how they could respond to a surprise attack.
• Tyrande and Malfurion rebuked Maiev for doubting Elune, and the emissary declared that Elune had ordered an attack on Ragnaros.
• Fandral Staghelm burst into the Temple of the Moon and warned that attacking the Firelands would betray the pact protecting Mount Hyjal from the Burning Legion.
• The emissary mocked Fandral and said that other leaders would command the attack on the Firelands.
• Cenarius, restored to his physical body, entered with Hamuul Runetotem, the Druid leader from Thunder Bluff.

Fandral Staghelm secretly contacted Ragnaros and, after learning that the Scourge was Azeroth’s defense against annihilation, chose to trust Arthas. He summoned his resurrected son Valstann, who urged him to believe Arthas and the Scourge.

• The divine emissary drove Fandral Staghelm from the council and told Tyrande and Malfurion that he should not be allowed to remain.
• Fandral Staghelm slipped away from his watchers and contacted Ragnaros from the Flame Druids’ secret laboratory.
• Fandral Staghelm and Ragnaros discussed Elune’s influence, the danger facing the Night Elves, and Ragnaros’s belief that Arthas and the Scourge were Azeroth’s hope.
• Fandral Staghelm decided to take the risk of trusting Arthas and rang the bell Valstann had sent him.
• Valstann appeared as an Undead Druid, and Fandral Staghelm tearfully welcomed his son.
• Valstann told Fandral Staghelm that Arthas was worthy of trust and that the Orcs had killed him after he mistakenly believed Thrall was a savior.

Fandral Staghelm secretly helped Night Elves opposed to the Orc alliance flee Mount Hyjal while Tyrande celebrated the pact with Thrall. After Orcs took over guarding the Heart Spring, the Ancients of War weakened, and unease spread as the Moon Goddess's priesthood day approached.

• Fandral Staghelm recognized that Arthas was still human and learned that the Scourge wanted to help the Night Elves escape Mount Hyjal.
• Cenarius, Malfurion, and Hamuul Runetotem abandoned their failed Firelands expedition, angering Ragnaros and ending the Firelord's cooperation with the Night Elves.
• Thrall and Tyrande formally allied the Orcs and Night Elves, prompting widespread celebration in Darnassus and on Mount Hyjal.
• Fandral Staghelm gathered Night Elves who opposed the alliance and secretly helped them flee Mount Hyjal as their concerns went unheard.
• Tyrande arranged for Orcs to guard the Heart Spring, and Shandris Feathermoon and Maiev failed to persuade her to reverse the decision.
• The Ancients of War grew weaker after the Orcs took their post, reports to Tyrande went unanswered, and the Moon Goddess's priesthood day arrived.