Recaps

Thrall declared war on Kul Tiras and used massacred coastal villagers to frame its forces as enemies of Azeroth. As the Horde prepared to strike Daelin’s fleet, Chen Stormstout absorbed the restless souls of the dead and transformed into a huge black-energy Wyvern.

• Thrall declared war on Kul Tiras and ordered Orcs and Trolls to kill coastal villagers and replace them with soldiers so Kul Tiras would be blamed for their deaths.
• Thrall sent Chen Stormstout, Rokhan, Rexxar, and Rok'ton to stop Kul Tiras’s attacks without any soldiers, and Rok'ton offered to use the collected souls to strengthen Chen and Rokhan.
• The Horde slaughtered coastal villagers while Rexxar and Rok'ton gathered their souls, and Big Candle Gagg spread songs blaming Kul Tiras for the killings.
• Daelin’s navy attacked Orcs and Trolls along the coast, allowing Thrall to present the Horde’s retaliation as justified to the peoples of Azeroth.
• Rexxar and Rok'ton summoned the restless souls of the dead, and Chen Stormstout absorbed the Pandaren souls and transformed into a Wyvern surrounded by black energy.

Rokhan, Rexxar, and Rok'ton escaped the Forge of Souls’ pull while Chen Stormstout lost his transformation and fell into the sea. After the mission failed, Thrall blamed Chen, had the Orcs eat him, installed a replacement under his name, and ordered the group to stop Daelin’s navy.

• Rexxar persuaded Rokhan to accept a weakened transformation, and Rokhan, Rexxar, Rok'ton, and Chen Stormstout flew toward Daelin’s fleet as giant Wyverns.
• Robbie activated a simplified Forge of Souls, drawing Restless Souls out of the transformed attackers and forcing Rok'ton to undo the transformations of himself, Rokhan, and Rexxar.
• Chen Stormstout’s body broke apart as the Restless Souls left him, and he fell from the sky before an eagle caught him.
• Rokhan and Rexxar blamed Chen Stormstout for the defeat, and Thrall ordered the Orcs to tear him apart and eat him.
• Thrall introduced a Pandaren replacement as the new Chen Stormstout and ordered Rokhan, Chen Stormstout, Rexxar, and Rok'ton to stop Daelin’s navy from reaching Orgrimmar.

Rokhan used the Rexxar brothers’ Spirit Beasts and a provocative letter to lure Daelin’s hunters toward an apparent trap. Robbie calmed the hunters with a promise of Spirit Beasts, and Daelin then ordered Lord Stormsong and the Tidesages to act against the Orcs at sea.

• Rokhan learned that the Rexxar brothers had supposedly wiped out the Spirit Beasts’ populations and realized their animals could provoke Daelin’s hunters.
• Rok'ton lined up the Spirit Beasts on shore, and the new Chen Stormstout delivered the brothers’ taunting letter to Daelin.
• Vice Admiral Aishifan and other hunters demanded permission to attack the brothers, but Daelin recognized the provocation as a likely ambush.
• Robbie promised the hunters Spirit Beasts from the Scourge, and their anger subsided enough for Daelin to proceed with his plan.
• Daelin told Lord Stormsong to begin, and Lord Stormsong announced that the Tidesages were ready to turn the tides against the Orcs.

Lord Stormsong unleashed the Tidesages’ ocean magic against Orgrimmar, and a colossal wave destroyed the city and flooded Durotar. Aegwynn forced Nozdormu to reverse time and summoned Neptulon and an army of Water Elementals to help her prepare for the attack’s return.

• Lord Stormsong gathered the Tidesages’ power and commanded the sea to destroy Orgrimmar.
• Aegwynn summoned Nozdormu as the wave rose, while Rokhan watched it crash down and devastate Orgrimmar and Durotar.
• Aegwynn ordered Nozdormu to use the last Time Hourglass, threatening him until he reversed time.
• Aegwynn summoned Neptulon and countless Water Elementals from the Throne of the Tides, leaving Ozumat with Xiao Shuihua.
• Nozdormu’s Time Hourglass restored Orgrimmar and revived the Orcs, but the effort left him aged and barely standing.

Thrall’s Orcs were restored by Nozdormu’s reversal of time, but Daelin’s Kul Tiran fleet still threatened Orgrimmar. As Neptulon sought to sway the ocean’s wills and Robbie put a plan in motion, Vol’jin’s advisers warned that a storm was coming.

• Nozdormu reversed time with the last Titan relic, restoring the fallen Orcs, and Robbie explained that he could not do it again.
• Daelin prepared to flood Orgrimmar again, but Neptulon’s Water Elemental army arrived and faced off against the Kul Tiran navy.
• Aegwynn ordered Neptulon to attack, but he refused to be treated as her servant and agreed only to try persuading the ocean’s wills to support the Orcs.
• Daelin withdrew his fleet, and Robbie assured him that he already had a complete plan to win the war.
• Neptulon began using an altar to communicate with the ocean’s wills while Vol’jin gathered his advisers in Orgrimmar.
• Dugar warned Vol’jin that the current situation was the prelude to a storm and urged him to prepare.

Vol'jin and Dugar decided to help Thrall by enslaving Neptulon and controlling Nozdormu with Gorian magic. Thrall sent Rexxar and a large tribute to King Mogmorlok, who concealed that he had already found a spell for enslaving powerful elementals.

• Dugar warned Vol'jin that Nozdormu or Neptulon might challenge Thrall for leadership, then proposed either backing one of them or controlling them both.
• Vol'jin chose to support Thrall and suggested seeking help from King Mogmorlok, whose people once controlled the Throne of the Elements.
• Thrall eagerly ordered Rexxar and Rok'ton to take two thousand Tauren and five hundred Orc women to Brackenwall Village as gifts for King Mogmorlok.
• King Mogmorlok had recently translated an ancient Gorian tablet describing a dark spell that could enslave high-level elemental beings, but he had kept the discovery secret.
• Rexxar asked Mogmorlok for an elemental-binding spell and offered more gifts; Mogmorlok denied having one, but Rexxar recognized his act and raised the offer.

Rexxar traded King Mogmorlok an Orc beauty for black magic that could enslave high-level elementals, and Thrall’s Shamans discovered the spell bore the taint of Fel. Despite Broxigar’s warnings, Thrall went to use it on Neptulon, claiming Archimonde had taught him a way to communicate with the tides.

• Rexxar showed King Mogmorlok a portrait of an unwashed Orc beauty and listened as the king claimed Gorian royal ancestry and offered the family’s elemental-enslaving black magic.
• Rexxar brought the beauty to Brackenwall Village, and King Mogmorlok taught the magic to the two brothers in exchange.
• Thrall sent the spell to Orgrimmar, where Shamans studied it and Broxigar warned that it drew on Fel and might be a Burning Legion trap.
• Thrall dismissed Broxigar’s warning and decided the risk was worth taking to control Neptulon.
• Thrall approached Neptulon at the coastal altar and claimed Archimonde had taught him a method of communicating with the tides.

Thrall used Fel magic to corrupt Neptulon, but the Water Elemental Lord destroyed most of his Pure Water Core to escape and returned to the Throne of the Tides gravely weakened. He appointed Xiao Shuihua to impersonate him and command the Water Elementals while he hid away to recover.

• Thrall and the Orc Shamans cast a Fel spell that struck Neptulon's Pure Water Core and began corrupting him.
• Thrall declared Neptulon his slave, but Neptulon realized the danger and detonated most of his Pure Water Core, destroying the Altar and killing the Shamans and Water Elementals there.
• Thrall escaped by teleportation scroll, while Neptulon fled to the Throne of the Tides with a small uncorrupted core fragment and rebuilt a severely weakened body.
• Neptulon gave Xiao Shuihua a Pure Water Primal Core and ordered Xiao Shuihua to take his place and keep the Water Elementals out of the conflict.
• Neptulon left to recover in a secret refuge, estimating that he would return in ten thousand years.
• After absorbing the core, Xiao Shuihua grew into a form like Neptulon's and told Ozumat that Xiao Shuihua had a plan to keep them out of trouble.

Thrall deceived Aegwynn into believing the Burning Legion had ordered him to target Neptulon and Nozdormu, and she gave him three scales that could control Nozdormu. As Kul Tiran raids devastated Orc and Troll settlements, Thrall considered asking Jaina for help.

• Thrall returned to Orgrimmar and prepared an explanation for Neptulon's disappearance before Aegwynn confronted him.
• Thrall claimed Kil'jaeden had ordered Neptulon's elimination, and Aegwynn punished him for acting without informing her.
• Thrall told Aegwynn that the Legion also wanted Nozdormu dealt with, and she gave him a scroll containing three scales with powers to imprison, kill, or destroy Nozdormu.
• Aegwynn left Orgrimmar after instructing Nozdormu to protect the city, and Nozdormu stationed much of the Bronze Dragonflight there while remaining wary of the Orcs.
• Daelin sent the Kul Tiran navy to raid Orc and Troll coastal villages, leaving Thrall's forces at a disadvantage as the Dragonkin arrived too late.
• Thrall considered asking Jaina for help as the fighting went badly for the Orcs.

Jaina sought to draw Kalecgos into proving his devotion by killing her father, while Kalecgos claimed he could make the Bronze Dragonflight serve the Orcs if Nozdormu were captured. Nozdormu learned that Jaina had ambushed Thrall in Hunter's Valley, leaving her motives unclear.

• Kalecgos flattered Jaina by condemning Neptulon and praising the Orcs, and Jaina asked him to bring her Admiral Daelin's head.
• Eitrigg arrived to invite Jaina to join the Orcs' fight against Kul Tiras, and Kalecgos suggested capturing Nozdormu to control the Bronze Dragonflight.
• Eitrigg said Thrall already had a perfect plan for dealing with the Bronze Dragonflight.
• Nozdormu struggled to see the future and learned that Jaina had ambushed Thrall's forces in Hunter's Valley.

Nozdormu misread the battle reports and was lured into Hunter's Valley, where Thrall used Aegwynn's scroll to ensnare him. Jaina destroyed the adult bronze dragons, leaving Thrall to decide what to do with Nozdormu.

• Nozdormu repeatedly sent a bronze whelp to scout as Thrall's forces faced Jaina, Tauren, and Forsaken attacks.
• Nozdormu mistook the Focusing Iris's power over Hunter's Valley for a threat to the Orcs and led more than a dozen adult bronze dragons into the valley.
• Jaina, Thrall, and Kalecgos revealed that they had staged the battle to draw Nozdormu into the Arcane energy.
• Thrall activated Aegwynn's scroll, binding Nozdormu with black aura while the Focusing Iris trapped the bronze dragons.
• Jaina used the Focusing Iris to turn the adult bronze dragons to dust as Nozdormu crashed to the ground.
• Thrall asked Kalecgos how they should deal with the captured Nozdormu.

Kalecgos urged Thrall to break Nozdormu through torture, and the Orcs brought the Bronze Dragon Aspect to the brink of submission. Robbie discovered Murozond hidden within Nozdormu and concealed him, but Murozond then separated from Nozdormu and thanked Robbie as he prepared to act on his own.

• Kalecgos told Thrall to torture Nozdormu until his will broke, and Thrall approved the plan.
• The Orcs dragged Nozdormu into Ragefire Chasm, where they repeatedly cut away his flesh while his will weakened.
• Robbie entered Orgrimmar in disguise and used Soul Magic to discover a hidden personality within Nozdormu, which he suspected was Murozond.
• Nozdormu met Murozond in his mind and learned that they had split over conflicting futures and that Murozond had influenced the Bronze Dragonflight.
• Murozond separated from Nozdormu, formed a black-and-white Dragon body, and thanked Robbie for hiding him from the Dreadlord.

Thrall learned that Nozdormu had been left helpless after being mutilated, while Aegwynn confronted four Titan Keepers and explained that protecting the Orcs was part of winning Elune’s favor. As Kul Tiras advanced on Orgrimmar, Thrall marched out to meet its fleet, and Robbie identified the enemy as the four Titan Keepers from Ulduar.

• Eitrigg reported that Nozdormu had gone stupid and could no longer recover, so Thrall ordered him sunk in lava and his disappearance concealed.
• Eitrigg told Thrall that Aegwynn was already beside Nozdormu in Ragefire Chasm, and Thrall rushed there after beating Eitrigg.
• Aegwynn healed Nozdormu and told the four black-clad figures that Elune could save them if she merged with Azeroth, while protecting the Orcs would earn her favor.
• Thrall arrived, and Aegwynn ordered him to prepare the army because the Kul Tiras navy had returned to attack Orgrimmar.
• Thrall led the Orc army out as Cairne Bloodhoof brought thirty thousand Tauren to the front, and Daelin questioned Robbie about their enemy.
• Robbie told Daelin that the enemy was the four Titan Keepers from Ulduar.

The four Guardians of Ulduar trapped Daelin's fleet in ice and forced the Horde to attack, but Kul Tiras repelled the Tauren with cannon fire and volley tactics. As the Guardians moved to destroy the fleet, Murozond appeared and summoned a colossal beast to attack them, leaving the battle's outcome uncertain.

• Daelin ordered his fleet to fire on the four Guardians, but Hodir froze the sea and trapped the ships in the ice.
• Thrall sent Cairne Bloodhoof and the Tauren to attack, but Kul Tiras's cannon fire and volley tactics killed nearly ten thousand before the Tauren retreated.
• Aegwynn ordered the Guardians to destroy the fleet, while Lord Stormsong unleashed a towering tidal wave that Thorim could not stop.
• Freya calmed the waves with life magic, breaking the curse of the tides and causing Lord Stormsong to collapse.
• Murozond knocked Mimiron's mech into the sea, identified himself to the Guardians, and opened a space-time Portal.
• A gigantic, tentacled creature descended from the Portal and pounced on the four Guardians.

Aegwynn’s corrupted Thrall tore through the four Guardians before Murozond sent him away, and Loken took the damaged Guardians to seek Yogg-Saron’s help. Aegwynn then unleashed her true trump card: a colossal tide driven by Elune’s movement of the moon, which surged toward Kul Tiras’s fleet.

• Thrall’s corrupted monster killed Freya and Hodir, tore off Thorim’s leg, and left Mimiron succumbing to Corruption as Murozond opened a portal and sent it away.
• Murozond told Mimiron that only Yogg-Saron could cure the Corruption, but Loken knocked Mimiron unconscious and gathered the broken Guardians to take them to Yogg-Saron.
• Loken explained that the green-skinned monster was Thrall from a version of End Time in which he had absorbed the Old Gods’ power and all life had vanished.
• Aegwynn declared that Elune’s wrath would destroy her opponents, and Daelin spotted a colossal wave approaching across the sea.
• Robbie told Daelin that the wave was pure Tidal Power, created when Elune moved the moon to generate a massive tide against Kul Tiras’s fleet.

After Elune’s tide destroyed the Kul Tiras fleet, Daelin learned that Azshara had teleported the ships away and resolved to sacrifice the Sea’s Sovereignty to destroy Orgrimmar. Jaina tried to stop him by sending Cairne Bloodhoof and Orc warriors aboard, but her forces fell from the airborne ship, leaving Daelin’s course unchecked.

• Elune’s tide drowned Cairne Bloodhoof’s Tauren warriors while sparing the Orc army, and Robbie told Daelin that the Kul Tiras ships had been teleported away.
• Daelin decided to send Tandred away and fly the Sea’s Sovereignty toward Orgrimmar, intending to destroy the city and reclaim the fleet; Robbie knocked Tandred unconscious and warned Daelin to be careful of Jaina.
• Aegwynn told Jaina to stop Daelin, and Jaina sent Cairne Bloodhoof to kill her father while recruiting Rokhan, Chen Stormstout, Rexxar, Rok’ton, and elite Orcs.
• Daelin ordered his crew to kill anyone who tried to stop them, including Jaina, and Cairne’s first group of Tauren fell from the Sea’s Sovereignty after boarding.
• Jaina teleported Rexxar, Rok’ton, and dozens of Orcs behind the moving ship by mistake, and they fell from the sky.

Jaina forced Cairne Bloodhoof to send Tauren and Orcs to their deaths attacking Daelin's ship as it neared Orgrimmar. Aegwynn pressured Kalecgos into intervening, but Daelin shot him down, and Jaina confronted her father in fury.

• Daelin's sailors repeatedly repelled the Tauren and Orcs Jaina teleported aboard the Sea's Sovereignty, while Cairne protested the needless losses and Jaina ordered him to continue.
• Aegwynn decided against attacking the ship herself and manipulated Kalecgos into flying toward it.
• Kalecgos stayed beyond the ship's weapons and prepared to feign an attack, but Daelin recognized him and shot through his wing.
• Kalecgos recovered and escaped toward the sea as Thrall regretted losing the chance to eat him.
• Jaina teleported above the Sea's Sovereignty and glared furiously at Daelin.

Jaina confronted Daelin over his attack on Kalecgos and revealed that she had learned ruthless politics from her father and history. As they fought, Daelin fused with his magic ship and declared he had enough time to destroy Orgrimmar.

• Daelin rejected Jaina’s relationship with Kalecgos, and Jaina accused him of neglecting her and teaching her through his example of political ruthlessness.
• Jaina explained that she had studied the Proudmoore family’s hidden histories and concluded that rulers survived by consuming others, while history praised those who collaborated with the Burning Legion.
• Jaina revealed that she wanted to join the Burning Legion, was using the Dreadlord inside Kalecgos, and intended to kill Daelin over his past attempt to marry her to the Zandalari Empire.
• Jaina attacked Daelin with an ice spell and a Blizzard, but he broke through her magic with his sword and gun.
• Daelin revealed that he had fused with his magic ship as its sacrifice and claimed he could maintain the form long enough to destroy Orgrimmar.

Jaina fought Daelin aboard the Sea's Sovereignty as it approached Orgrimmar, then discovered the ship’s hidden weakness and awakened the corruption within it. With the ship’s maw poised to break free of Daelin’s control, Aegwynn urged Jaina to sacrifice one more Horde soldier, but Jaina refused.

• Jaina battled Daelin and argued that the Orcs were Azeroth’s destined saviors, while Daelin warned that the Burning Legion and Thrall were using her.
• Aegwynn learned that the Sea's Sovereignty had been built from Vordrassil’s trunk and told Jaina how to exploit its weakness.
• Jaina revealed that blood on the deck could awaken the ship’s corruption, then teleported thousands of Horde soldiers onto it as sacrifices.
• The Sea's Sovereignty awakened, devoured the dead, and began resisting Daelin’s control as Jaina continued feeding it soldiers.
• The ship’s evil eye blocked Jaina’s teleportation, and Aegwynn urged her to sacrifice one more Horde soldier, but Jaina refused.

Jaina refused to sacrifice herself, but she stopped the Sea's Sovereignty from reaching Orgrimmar when it swallowed the Paladin Marcus. The Horde warriors arrived to confront Daelin, and the chapter ended with a mysterious golden figure emerging from the deck and killing everyone aboard.

• Aegwynn tried to intervene, but Murozond trapped her while Thrall led his army away from Orgrimmar and blamed Jaina for refusing to die.
• A blood-red crescent appeared in the sky, and Marcus fell through a Portal onto the Sea's Sovereignty, where he joked about Jaina and Orgrimmar before the ship swallowed him.
• The Sea's Sovereignty stopped moving after consuming Marcus, and Jaina told Daelin that she had won.
• Rokhan, Rexxar, Rok'ton, Chen Stormstout, Cairne Bloodhoof, and Horde warriors appeared on the ship, and Jaina ordered them to kill Daelin and his sailors.
• Cairne sensed danger and retreated as a golden figure burst from the deck; smoke engulfed the ship, and a pile of minced flesh remained when it cleared.

After Marcus mysteriously rescued Daelin, Rexxar and Rok'ton claimed credit for killing the admiral and were promoted to high generals by Thrall. Vol'jin warned Rokhan that their growing fame threatened Thrall, who began to consider eliminating the brothers.

• Robbie suspected that a mysterious power, possibly from the Void, had helped Marcus kill the Orc soldiers and escape with Daelin and his men.
• Rexxar and Rok'ton claimed that they had killed Daelin, and Jaina confirmed their story as the Horde heroes returned to their ranks.
• Jaina took the Sea's Sovereignty toward Theramore, and the war between Kul Tiras and the Horde ended without Orgrimmar pressing its advantage.
• Thrall promoted Rexxar and Rok'ton above Saurfang the Great, while Vol'jin told Rokhan that their fame could provoke Thrall's wrath.
• At the victory procession in Orgrimmar, Thrall heard female Orcs praising Rexxar and Rok'ton and decided that he had to get rid of them before they grew more powerful.

Thrall turned the Horde’s victory feast into a test of loyalty, demanding that Rexxar and Rok'ton provide meat and ultimately causing Rok'ton’s death. Rexxar sacrificed his brother and his magical beasts to preserve his wealth and standing, while Jaina intervened to claim Misha before she was slaughtered.

• Thrall served meat from Cairne Bloodhoof’s youngest son and a Pandaren sage, then told Rexxar and Rok'ton that he wanted to taste an Ogre-Orc half-breed.
• Rok'ton offered to sacrifice himself so Rexxar could escape, but Rexxar stabbed him and offered his brother to Thrall.
• Thrall and the commanders praised Rexxar as he ate Rok'ton’s cooked meat without showing grief.
• Thrall asked Rexxar to slaughter the brothers’ magical beasts for the commanders, and Rexxar agreed without objection.
• Jaina realized Rexxar was surrendering his beasts to avoid seeming threatening and claimed the giant bear Misha before she could be butchered.

Thrall celebrated the Horde’s victory by isolating Rexxar and ordering him beaten, but Jaina secured Rexxar and Misha for herself. As Thrall’s banquet continued, Doras approached Saurfang at Orgrimmar’s gates and revealed that her people had infiltrated the city.

• Thrall praised Jaina’s supposed compassion while the banquet guests ate slaughtered magical beasts, and he privately decided Rexxar was a threat.
• Vol'jin prompted Thrall to discuss the Horde’s next steps, and Rexxar begged for mercy and confessed that he had not killed Admiral Daelin.
• Thrall ordered Rexxar’s flesh taken, and Orc guards and Rokhan beat him until he was badly injured.
• Jaina asked Thrall to give Rexxar to her as a servant and experimental subject, and Thrall also gave her the swords Saratol and Quel'Mayne for Guardian Aegwynn.
• Jaina left with Rexxar and Misha while the banquet guests praised Thrall’s mercy.
• Doras met Saurfang at Orgrimmar’s gate and told him her people had infiltrated key positions in the city.

Doras and Saurfang allied to challenge Thrall’s rule and secure the Horde’s succession, while the Scourge planned to destroy the Aitelite Hub with Murozond’s help. Robbie prepared to leap five years ahead to the Alliance and Horde invasion of Northrend, where Murozond warned him to persuade Arthas to resurrect Thrall.

• Doras told Saurfang that he was too old to defeat Thrall and proposed joining forces to take power through the next Warchief’s succession.
• Saurfang agreed to ally with Doras, who promised a plan to gain wealth and restore his family’s power.
• Elune’s expeditions failed to investigate the Aitelite Hub, while the Scourge struggled to devise a way past its guardians and destroy it.
• Murozond joined the Scourge and offered to freeze the Hub’s guardians in time, though digging a tunnel to reach them would take at least five years.
• Robbie decided to travel five years forward to the Alliance and Horde’s invasion of Northrend, and Murozond warned him that he must persuade Arthas to resurrect Thrall.

Tirion Fordring approached Sylvanas with a plan to unite forces against the Lich King Arthas, using his past ties and deceptive stories to win her interest. Sylvanas agreed to hear him out, and Tirion proposed infiltrating the Scourge with seventeen of his dead adopted children.

• Tirion, impoverished and desperate, sent Sylvanas a plan through Nathanos Blightcaller and asked when she would meet him.
• Nathanos threatened Tirion and mocked him, while Tirion argued that the Scourge would threaten them all if Arthas were left unchecked.
• Tirion spun increasingly outrageous lies about his past and his adopted son Taelan, leaving Nathanos stunned until Sylvanas arrived.
• Sylvanas praised Tirion for fooling Nathanos but challenged his credibility and asked him to present a real plan.
• Tirion proposed gathering the Argent Dawn under the old Order of the Silver Hand and recruiting Alliance adventurers to march against Arthas.
• Tirion proposed infiltrating the Scourge through his seventeen adopted children, and Sylvanas saw that their bodies were buried in the grave.