Recaps

At the Moon Goddess ceremony on Mount Hyjal, Thrall denounced the Night Elves and revealed the Orcs’ hostility, shattering their trust just as the Burning Legion attacked. Tyrande and Malfurion fled through the burning forest as Mount Hyjal fell into chaos.

• Fandral Staghelm and Valstann learned from the Scourge that the Burning Legion would attack that night, but the Night Elves were unprepared and only those willing to retreat could use the Scourge’s Teleportation Array.
• Thrall began his speech by recounting the Orcs’ history, then declared that the Orcs had helped the Burning Legion destroy their enemies and insulted Tyrande, Malfurion, and the Night Elves.
• Thrall punched Tyrande off the platform and proclaimed the Night Elves doomed, but a disguised divine messenger knocked him unconscious and claimed evil magic had controlled him.
• The divine messenger’s covering fell away and revealed an Orc, while Infernals descended on Mount Hyjal and Fandral Staghelm and Valstann accused Tyrande and Malfurion of betraying their people.
• An Infernal smashed the platform, and Malfurion pulled Tyrande from the wreckage as Fel Flame set the forest ablaze and the Night Elves fled in terror.

The Burning Legion devastated Mount Hyjal as Malfurion and Tyrande watched Night Elves die and blamed Elune for their plight. White lights carried away some despairing Night Elves, while Fandral Staghelm and Valstann considered their people’s fate; at the Heart Spring, Tyrande prayed as a corpse stirred in the water.

• Infernals and the Burning Legion’s forces overran Mount Hyjal, while Malfurion and Tyrande hid and saw Cenarius captured and tortured.
• Malfurion and Tyrande considered surrendering to the Legion, but white lights carried away some Night Elves, which they believed was Elune’s intervention.
• Fandral Staghelm and Valstann realized that the rescued Night Elves had lost faith in Elune and worried about whether Malfurion and Tyrande would accept them.
• Fandral Staghelm decided to go to Nordrassil, and Valstann gave him a banner Arthas had provided.
• Malfurion and Tyrande reached the Heart Spring, where Saurfang’s Orcs boiled Night Elf corpses and made them into rations.
• Tyrande prayed at the Heart Spring, Malfurion warned her to be quiet, and a corpse in the spring moved.

The divine messenger lost his body after Thrall’s Orcs mistook him for Scourge flesh and ate him, so he turned his thoughts to having Medivh intervene. At Nordrassil, Tyrande and Malfurion found the Night Elf generals, and Malfurion defended Elune’s devastation as a test while a general asked where the Moon Goddess’s rescued people were.

• Robbie’s sneak attack knocked the divine messenger unconscious, and he later awoke powerless in a spring among Night Elf corpses as Thrall and Saurfang argued over their failed plot.
• Thrall and Saurfang mistook the divine messenger for an Undead spy, then let hungry Orc soldiers devour his body; the messenger resolved to call on Medivh after resurrecting elsewhere.
• Tyrande and Malfurion reached Nordrassil, where the generals expressed relief at their survival and claimed Thrall’s Orcs had eaten the other Priests of the Moon Goddess.
• Malfurion recognized that the generals resented Tyrande and him, but chose to preserve his leadership by describing Elune’s destruction of hundreds of thousands of Night Elves as a purge of heretics.
• A general asked Malfurion where the Night Elves saved by Elune were.

After the Night Elves suffered devastating losses, Maiev showed Tyrande and Malfurion their people’s despair and the destruction of the Ancients of War. Fandral Staghelm proposed reviving them with water from Nordrassil’s roots, and Maiev left to fetch it as the Burning Legion began its assault.

• Tyrande and Malfurion failed to offer the commanders a plan, so Maiev led them through the fortress and exposed them to their furious, grieving people.
• Maiev showed Tyrande and Malfurion that the Heart Spring’s destruction had withered the Ancients of War, leaving the soldiers preparing for a final stand.
• Fandral Staghelm arrived and learned that General Feathermoon had taken the secret mage corps away and that the Ancients of War had died.
• Fandral Staghelm argued that water from Nordrassil’s roots could revive the Ancients of War, and Maiev led Watchers on Hippogryphs to fetch it.
• The Burning Legion began its full assault shortly after Maiev left.

Fandral Staghelm hung Valstann’s banner on the fortress wall, causing Archimonde to halt the Burning Legion’s advance because he recognized it as Queen Azshara’s royal standard. After Maiev returned with lake water that revived the Ancients of War, Fandral strengthened the Night Elves’ defenses, but the Legion’s Cenarius soon challenged them outside the fortress.

• Fandral Staghelm warned the Night Elf commanders that the fortress would fall soon and raised Valstann’s banner as a last resort.
• Archimonde recognized the banner as Queen Azshara’s royal standard and suspended the Legion’s attack, while he and Mannoroth discussed using Medivh to divide the Night Elves and Orcs.
• Archimonde ordered Mannoroth to bring the Fel-transformed Cenarius to challenge the Night Elves and force them to surrender.
• Maiev returned with water from Mount Hyjal’s lake, which revived the Ancients of War and helped the Night Elves assemble an army of around three thousand.
• Fandral Staghelm used the lake water and his magical knowledge to improve Night Elf healing, equipment, weapons, and strength.
• Fandral Staghelm received word that Cenarius was challenging the Night Elves outside the fortress.

Cenarius declared his allegiance to the Burning Legion, while Malfurion considered joining him before Medivh arrived and stripped Cenarius of Fel power. Mannoroth broke free of Medivh’s Rune chains and dismissed his magic as the confrontation continued.

• Cenarius appeared outside the Night Elf fortress corrupted by Fel and urged the Night Elves to surrender, while Malfurion insisted that the Legion had controlled him.
• Cenarius told Malfurion that he had joined the Legion willingly, and Malfurion briefly considered following him before agreeing to try to save him.
• Mannoroth appeared beside Cenarius, causing Malfurion to abandon his plan to contact his mentor in secret.
• Medivh arrived in a vast Arcane sphere, bound Mannoroth with Rune chains, and hurled him into the mountains.
• Medivh entered the fortress and drained the Fel power from Cenarius, restoring his original form, then asked where Tyrande was.
• Mannoroth rose from the crater, broke Medivh’s Rune chains, and mocked his magic.

Medivh tried to force the Night Elf commanders to submit, but Illidan disrupted his magic and publicly taught them how to counter it. Medivh left for Dalaran to study Illidan’s history and search for his weaknesses.

• Fandral Staghelm refused to let Medivh control the Night Elf race, and Medivh used an Arcane Puppet Spell to suspend and choke the commanders.
• Illidan appeared and shattered Medivh’s spheres, freeing the Night Elf commanders.
• Illidan demonstrated Puppet Magic and explained how it worked, prompting some commanders to learn the spell.
• Medivh warned Malfurion to tell Tyrande that the Night Elves had to ally with the Orcs, then escaped through a Portal.
• Medivh returned to Dalaran and searched the archives for information about Illidan’s weaknesses.

Medivh investigated Illidan’s power, then joined forces with Elune’s divine envoy to devise a way to distract him and restore Tyrande’s leadership. After Medivh turned to Gul’dan for help, Robbie remained wary of Medivh’s intentions while Tyrande took hope from his message.

• Medivh studied accounts of Illidan’s feats, grew afraid to return to Mount Hyjal, and contacted the divine envoy.
• The divine envoy remembered his mission, met Medivh through the communication orb, and told him that Maiev Shadowsong had once imprisoned Illidan.
• Medivh and the divine envoy decided to lure Illidan toward dangerous sources of power so he would be occupied away from the Night Elf race.
• Medivh visited the imprisoned Gul’dan and said he had made him a new body and now needed to borrow his head.
• Robbie recalled how he had disguised himself as Illidan to frighten Medivh at Mount Hyjal and stayed alert to Medivh’s plans.
• Malfurion relayed Medivh’s message to Tyrande, giving her renewed hope of reclaiming her position as leader.

Tyrande received a revelation from Elune showing that Nordrassil’s unchecked growth would spread across Kalimdor, transform the Night Elves into Dreadlords, and destroy the world. She told the elders that preventing this future required their support, since only the Burning Legion and Archimonde could destroy Nordrassil.

• After three days and nights of prayer, Tyrande received a miraculous descent of moonlight and announced that Elune had never abandoned the Night Elves.
• Tyrande showed the surviving elders a Tear of Elune and a vision of Nordrassil spreading World Trees across Kalimdor until other life died out.
• Tyrande explained that the Night Elves would become Dreadlords through their dependence on magical fruit, and that the transformation would eventually destroy the world.
• When an elder asked whether they should destroy Nordrassil, Tyrande said the Night Elves could not destroy it and asked the elders to support her in preventing the foretold future.

Tyrande gained the elders’ support to reclaim leadership and promised to gather an army, while Robbie decided to intervene in the Night Elves’ fate. In Silvermoon City, Illidan Stormrage searched for memories and killed two treasure hunters, finding a notice on one of their bodies.

• The elders agreed to support Tyrande against Fandral Staghelm, and Tyrande promised to raise an army to defeat the Burning Legion and destroy Nordrassil.
• Robbie witnessed Tyrande’s secret meeting and decided he needed to act against the Night Elves’ reliance on tradition.
• Illidan Stormrage examined Silvermoon City and used magic to relive its fall, wondering whether Dath'Remar Sunstrider could help restore his memories.
• A Gnome and a Goblin entered the ruined city with an Unstable Undead Shielding Device, hoping to steal treasure while avoiding Restless Souls.
• Illidan Stormrage killed the two intruders and noticed a notice that had fallen from the Gnome’s clothes.

The monster traveled to Felwood, took the Skull of Gul'dan, and defeated Tichondrius by turning his summoned forces against him. He read Gul'dan's memories and discovered how the Orc army had reached the Tomb of Sargeras, only to be slaughtered and later wiped out by Void demons.

• The monster learned that the Timbermaw Furbolgs had posted a bounty to repel the Burning Legion in Felwood and became interested in the Skull of Gul'dan.
• The monster crossed the ocean to Felwood and found Tichondrius guarding a hidden Flesh Altar with the Skull of Gul'dan on it.
• The monster resisted Tichondrius's Sleep spell, put the Dreadlord to sleep, and took the skull.
• Tichondrius summoned Infernals, Oozes, and carrion insect swarms to attack, but the monster took control of them and they tore Tichondrius apart.
• The monster examined the Skull of Gul'dan and read memories of the Orc army's defeat at the Tomb of Sargeras and its eventual destruction by Void demons.

A monster recalled Gul'dan's memories of the Void and hurried toward the Tomb of Sargeras, while Medivh's plans advanced and Tyrande brought the Red Dragonflight to Mount Hyjal. The Red Dragon Queen Alexstrasza declared that the Red Dragonflight would take responsibility for Azeroth, leaving Fandral Staghelm in hiding and the Night Elves under dragon control.

• The monster recognized the Tomb of Sargeras from Gul'dan's memories and flew off to investigate it.
• Medivh learned that "Illidan" had entered the Tomb of Sargeras and prepared to manipulate Alexstrasza.
• Tyrande persuaded Mount Hyjal's elders to restore faith in Elune, while Fandral Staghelm drove Tyrande and Malfurion from the fortress and seized the elders' property.
• Fandral Staghelm oversaw a test of the Tree Hollow King as the Red Dragonflight descended on the fortress with Tyrande and Malfurion riding with Alexstrasza.
• Fandral Staghelm hid and Maiev Shadowsong led the Watchers away as Tyrande's allies opened the Magic Shield for the Red Dragonflight.
• Tyrande addressed the Night Elves as Alexstrasza announced that the Red Dragonflight would take charge of Azeroth's safety.

Tyrande lost control of Mount Hyjal to the Red Dragon Queen, who revealed her ten-thousand-year plot to exploit the Night Elves and Orcs. The Red Dragonflight struck a deal with the Burning Legion, agreeing to provide Night Elf slaves and fight the Scourge in exchange for Fel support.

• The Red Dragon Queen seized the fortresses around Nordrassil and the Heart Spring, trapping the Night Elves on Mount Hyjal while Tyrande continued spreading faith in the Moon Goddess.
• The Red Dragon Queen told her consorts that she had conspired with Nozdormu for ten thousand years and had orchestrated past crises to weaken the Night Elves.
• The Red Dragon Queen planned to sell the missing Night Elves to Archimonde and later eliminate the Orcs after using them.
• Medivh arrived and announced that Archimonde had agreed to exchange technical support for the Night Elves and access to Nordrassil's lake water.
• The Red Dragon Queen reluctantly agreed to help the Burning Legion fight the Scourge until Arthas was killed or captured.

The Red Dragon Queen revealed that she had confined the Night Elves and planned to sell them to the Burning Legion, using a fabricated oracle from Elune to demand their submission. After the Night Elves lost faith in Elune, Tyrande decided to preserve her leadership even if they served Archimonde.

• The Red Dragonflight gathered Night Elves from settlements across Azeroth at Mount Hyjal and restricted them to the World Tree's vicinity.
• The Red Dragon Queen announced that Elune wanted the Night Elves to join the Burning Legion and serve Archimonde, threatening to destroy them if they refused.
• Tyrande called the oracle a lie, and the Red Dragon Queen admitted it was false before giving her three days to accept the ultimatum.
• Malfurion told Tyrande that joining the Legion was what they had hoped for, while Cenarius berated the Night Elves for opposing the Legion and ending up sold to it.
• Tyrande concluded that she had to retain power over the Night Elves even if they became Archimonde's servants.

Tyrande and the elders tried to prepare the Night Elves to join the Burning Legion, while Medivh and Archimonde planned to destroy the Red Dragonflight at the Heart Spring. As the Night Elves marched there under pressure, Robbie realized he had only one way to prevent disaster.

• Tyrande persuaded the elders to portray the Burning Legion and Sargeras as just and benevolent, though Malfurion remained doubtful.
• Medivh told Archimonde that the Legion needed five hundred thousand soldiers to defeat ten thousand Red Dragons in a direct battle, and revealed that the Heart Spring was a trap.
• Archimonde promised Medivh that after the Night Elves, Red Dragons, and sealed Old Gods were eliminated, Medivh would become Azeroth's supreme god.
• Tyrande praised the Legion to win Archimonde's favor, while Robbie watched and recognized that the Night Elves should not attend the meeting.
• Under Dragonkin pressure, Cenarius and Tyrande led the Night Elves toward the Heart Spring, while many others stayed behind in the fortress.
• Robbie realized he had no choice but to take the only action that could prevent the Night Elves' tragedy.

Robbie impersonated an envoy of Elune to stop Tyrande’s Night Elf army from reaching the Heart Spring, using force and a threat to make her order a halt. As the Night Elves camped, the Red Dragon Queen grew alarmed and sent Vaelastrasz to hurry them along.

• Robbie disguised himself as a divine envoy, defeated Cenarius, and threatened Tyrande with a hidden thread around her throat.
• Robbie hinted that he belonged to the Scourge and claimed Elune had ordered the Night Elves to wait because the Red Dragon Queen would be punished.
• Tyrande recognized Robbie’s threat and likely identity, then told the Night Elves to camp and wait.
• The Red Dragon Queen watched the Legion’s camp, grew uneasy at the Night Elves’ delay, and ordered Vaelastrasz to hurry them along.

Robbie captured Vaelastrasz and five other Red Dragons, while Medivh abandoned his plan to confront Robbie and ordered Thrall to attack the Red Dragonflight. At the Heart Spring, Medivh’s trap stripped the Dragons of their magic, leaving Alexstrasza helpless as the Orcs slaughtered them and Thrall ordered his guards to cut her apart.

• Robbie bound Vaelastrasz and five other Adult Red Dragons and threw them into the pit with Cenarius.
• Medivh decided to abandon his plan to confront Robbie and told Thrall to prepare the Orcs to attack.
• Alexstrasza selected a thousand Adult Red Dragons and prepared to fly to the Night Elf camp.
• Medivh triggered his trap at the Heart Spring, unleashing hundreds of thousands of Restless Souls whose Banshee Wail disrupted the magic of the ten thousand Red Dragons there.
• Saurfang led the Orcs in slaughtering the helpless Red Dragons as Alexstrasza lay trapped.
• Thrall confronted Alexstrasza and ordered his personal guards to cut her to pieces.

At Mount Hyjal, Thrall and Medivh led the slaughter of the Red Dragonflight, and Medivh forced Alexstrasza to agree to become his mount. Alexstrasza withdrew with the few survivors, while Robbie left and Tyrande gained an opportunity.

• Alexstrasza demanded to know why Thrall had betrayed the Red Dragonflight, and Thrall claimed the Orcs had acted for the sake of their dignity.
• Medivh intervened to save Alexstrasza from the Orcs, then revealed his plan to serve the Burning Legion and rule Azeroth through the Orcs.
• Medivh threatened to make Alexstrasza his mount, and Alexstrasza agreed in hopes of sparing some of her people.
• The Orcs slaughtered nearly all the red dragons at the Heart Spring, using their bones and meat for building materials and food.
• Alexstrasza led the remaining Red Dragonflight away from Mount Hyjal, and Robbie departed as Tyrande gained an opportunity.

Tyrande restored the Night Elves’ faith in Elune, then destroyed Fandral Staghelm’s magical research, leaving them poorly equipped to face the Burning Legion. As Jaina arrived with Medivh’s goodwill and an oracle, Malfurion unexpectedly fell in love with her at first sight.

• Tyrande secretly arranged for the elders and Night Elves to credit Elune with punishing the Red Dragonflight, and Cenarius joined them when he realized his plans had failed.
• The nearly destroyed Red Dragonflight withdrew, and Tyrande led the Night Elves back to their stronghold while the Burning Legion remained a threat.
• Tyrande rejected magic and destroyed Fandral Staghelm’s research, leaving the Night Elves with no clear way to grow stronger.
• Malfurion suggested asking Arthas and the Scourge for help, but Tyrande hesitated because she feared repeating her mistake with the Red Dragonflight.
• Medivh sent Jaina to the Night Elf stronghold with his goodwill and an oracle from Elune, and Malfurion fell in love with her at first sight.
• Tyrande initially dismissed Jaina, but Malfurion asked her to hear the young woman out, and Tyrande agreed.

Jaina used Aegwynn’s seduction magic to influence Malfurion and negotiated a secret alliance with Tyrande on behalf of Medivh. Tyrande agreed to consider working with the Orcs to destroy the Night Elf secret mage force and use the Wrath of Nordrassil against Archimonde, but the alliance remained to be arranged.

• Aegwynn’s seduction spell caused Malfurion to favor Jaina as she urged Tyrande to ally with the Orcs against the Burning Legion.
• Jaina asked to speak privately, and Malfurion advised Tyrande to hear Medivh’s proposal.
• In a warded room, Jaina said she represented Medivh and revealed that Archimonde wanted Nordrassil while Elune opposed the Night Elves’ use of magic.
• Jaina proposed that the Night Elves eliminate their secret mage force, let Archimonde reach Nordrassil, and kill her with the Wrath of Nordrassil.
• Malfurion revealed the Wrath of Nordrassil, and Tyrande rebuked him for exposing the secret.
• Tyrande chose to trust Elune rather than Arthas and nodded toward finding a way to work with the Orcs, though she remained concerned about their past betrayal.

Tyrande persuaded the Night Elves to ally with Thrall’s Horde and Jaina’s Alliance by presenting the alliance as Elune’s will and Medivh’s demand. While Medivh and Archimonde celebrated their scheme, Thrall’s Orcs secretly corrupted Nordrassil’s roots, causing magical gems to surface that the Night Elves mistook for Elune’s blessing.

• Tyrande and Malfurion told the Night Elf military council that Elune had used the Orcs to punish their people and now guided them toward an alliance.
• Tyrande rejected a general’s proposal to cooperate with Arthas and urged the Night Elves to join forces with Thrall’s Horde under Medivh’s pressure.
• Malfurion and Tyrande joined Thrall’s Horde and Jaina’s Alliance to form the Mount Hyjal Grand Alliance Army, though the three factions kept their camps apart.
• Medivh and Archimonde celebrated their scheme, and Medivh revealed that he had ordered Thrall’s Orcs to damage Nordrassil’s roots.
• Thrall ordered the Orcs to dig to Nordrassil’s roots and corrupt them with Fel power, causing gem deposits to emerge that the Night Elves called ancient gem veins.

A Vrykul caravan supplied the Night Elves with powerful armor and weapons, turning the tide of their clashes against the Burning Legion. Tyrande uncovered signs of a conspiracy, while Medivh’s misdirected teleportation convinced him that the interference came from inside the Night Elves’ stronghold.

• Three hundred Vrykul warriors entered the Night Elf stronghold and traded magic gemstones for equipment that sharply improved the Night Elves’ battlefield performance.
• Tyrande noticed the Night Elves’ falling death toll, examined a guard’s armor, and realized its enchanted craftsmanship could not have come from the Vrykul.
• Archimonde sent Medivh to investigate the Vrykul caravan and prevent it from obstructing the Legion’s plans.
• Medivh’s teleportation sent him to the Orc camp, where he scolded Thrall, and then to Northrend before he returned safely to Karazhan.
• Medivh concluded that someone inside the Night Elf stronghold was interfering with his teleportation spell.

Medivh urged Tyrande to expel the Vrykul and make the Night Elves abandon their new weapons, but a soldier’s message on her armor revealed that the caravan was helping the missing Night Elves who had survived under Arthas. As Vrykul arms strengthened the fortress and Tyrande remained unable to act, Magni Bronzebeard dreamed that a woman’s voice called him to save the Night Elves of Mount Hyjal.

• Medivh sent Tyrande a secret letter demanding that she stop the Vrykul trade and have the Night Elves discard their armor and weapons.
• A young sentinel showed Tyrande a message carved into armor from her beloved Ailuya Chengge, revealing that the missing Night Elves were alive.
• Tyrande and Malfurion concluded that the caravan was a front for ancient Vrykul from Northrend who had been raised by Arthas and were helping the rescued Night Elves.
• Medivh sent further letters warning that Archimonde would leave Azeroth if Tyrande failed to act, while the Vrykul continued supplying and installing heavy weapons in the fortress.
• Magni Bronzebeard dreamed that a woman called him to rise and save the Night Elves of Mount Hyjal.

Magni and the Night Elves received matching warnings that Arthas’s gifts were cursed, and Tyrande used the prophecy and Cenarius’s claims to convince the Night Elves to destroy their new equipment. The chapter ended with Tyrande urging her people to trust in their faith rather than their weapons.

• Magni dreamed that enchanted armor transformed Night Elves into undead, then used the Dream-Making Hammer to seek Mount Hyjal.
• Tyrande, Malfurion, and Mount Hyjal’s leaders shared a dream about a human face on Nordrassil and heard its prophecy warning of a cursed lure from the Dark Prince.
• Tyrande identified the Dark Prince as Arthas and claimed the Scourge had captured missing Night Elves and supplied the armor.
• Cenarius declared that the Vrykul were undead impostors and urged the Night Elves to remove and destroy their equipment.
• The Night Elves burned their armor and weapons, while Tyrande urged them to rely on their faith and resolve.

Robbie's gem scheme drew powerful buyers while Tyrande and Malfurion worried over their bargain with Archimonde and Medivh. Valstann infiltrated their sealed bedroom, condemned them for sacrificing their people’s future, and revealed the Night Elves had agreed to serve the Scourge for a hundred years in exchange for rescue and equipment technology.

• Robbie sold purified Mount Hyjal gems at the Goblin auction house, attracting bids from the Army of the Light, a Void force, and Archimonde.
• Tyrande and Malfurion ordered the Night Elves to destroy the equipment, then debated whether their bargain with Archimonde and Medivh was worth the risk to their people.
• Valstann appeared in Tyrande's bedroom, bound Malfurion with roots, and sealed the room against the guards.
• Tyrande tried to call on Elune, but Valstann's roots blocked her power as he praised magic and condemned the Night Elves for rejecting it.
• Valstann revealed that the rescued Night Elves had agreed to serve the Scourge for a hundred years in exchange for rescue and equipment technology, then accused Tyrande and Malfurion of betraying their people.