Recaps

Robbie helped Kites escape the battlefield and handed him the captured Garrosh, whom Kites freed after Garrosh promised to protect Agna. Kites escaped by ship while the Orc armies suffered heavy losses, and Vol'jin, Garrosh, and Eitrigg turned their anger on Tirion Fordring before discussing an attack on the Blue Dragonflight.

• Robbie led Kites and the Royal Guards out of the fog, gave Kites Garrosh, and pointed him toward a ship waiting on the coast.
• Kites spared Garrosh after Garrosh claimed Dranosh was threatening Agna and promised to bring her to him safely.
• Garrosh returned to the Orcs Camp plotting revenge, while Kites and the guards reached the palace ship and escaped before the Adult Red Dragons arrived.
• The battle between Garrosh's and Vol'jin's armies left more than ten thousand Orcs dead, with the Dalaran mages and Red Dragonflight also suffering severe losses.
• Vol'jin, Garrosh, and Eitrigg beat Tirion Fordring and blamed him for Kites's escape.
• Vol'jin raised the armies' food shortage, and Garrosh and Eitrigg proposed joining forces to take the Blue Dragonflight's treasure and population.

Garrosh negotiated with Vol'jin and Eitrigg for credit in the campaign against the Scourge before the armies marched to attack the Blue Dragonflight. Malygos empowered the Blue Dragonflight's subjects through the Ley Lines, transforming them into dangerous magical fighters and putting the Orcs in peril.

• Garrosh bargained with Vol'jin and Eitrigg, securing credit for breaking through three of the Scourge's lines of defense in a single night.
• The Horde and Dalaran armies marched toward the Nexus as Alexstrasza and Ysera prepared to contain the Blue Dragonflight.
• Vol'jin proposed splitting the armies into hundreds of units to attack the Blue Dragonflight's villages, and Garrosh agreed.
• Arygos asked the Blue Dragons how to counter the scattered Orc assault, while Malygos reassured them that their subjects could be empowered.
• Malygos used the Focusing Iris to alter the Ley Lines, and the resulting magical rain empowered the Magnataurs, Kobolds, Tuskarr, and Wolvar to devastate the attacking Orcs.
• Ysera realized Malygos had chosen subjects who became magical creatures when empowered by the Ley Lines, and warned that the Orcs were in danger.

The Orcs suffered a catastrophic defeat against the Blue Dragonflight’s magical subjects, and Garrosh demanded that Alexstrasza destroy Malygos. Alexstrasza confronted Malygos at the Nexus and revealed her trump card, which he recognized as an Infernal.

• The Blue Dragonflight’s magical subjects overwhelmed the scattered Orc squads, leaving fewer than a third of the Orc forces to escape.
• Garrosh threatened Vol'jin over the losses, then demanded that he and Eitrigg seek help from Alexstrasza.
• Alexstrasza promised Garrosh that she would destroy the Blue Dragonflight and flew toward the Nexus to confront Malygos.
• Malygos challenged Alexstrasza’s motives and questioned whether her hidden trump card came from the Guardian or the Burning Legion.
• Alexstrasza unleashed a Fel-wreathed orb that spread a green vortex across the sky, and Malygos identified it as an Infernal.

Malygos used Plane Exchange to remove the Blue Dragonflight’s lands and subjects from the battlefield, then lured the enemy forces into the Eye of Eternity. As the Red Dragon Queen and her allies attacked, Malygos incapacitated Ysera and turned Gruul against the Red Dragon Queen.

• Malygos cast Plane Exchange, swapping the Blue Dragonflight’s territory with land from another plane and leaving himself alone at the Nexus.
• Malygos raised the Eye of Eternity into the air as the Red Dragon Queen’s forces gathered and broke through its Magic Shield.
• The Red Dragon Queen and Ysera entered the Eye of Eternity with forty adult dragons, where Malygos knocked Ysera unconscious with a spell.
• Malygos blocked the Red Dragon Queen’s flames, resisted Krasus’s spell and the green dragons’ poison, and briefly restrained Gruul with ice.
• Malygos bewitched Gruul into charging the Red Dragon Queen, who fled into the air as Gruul shattered the Eye of Eternity’s floor and injured several dragons.

Dragon Slayer Gruul rampaged through the Dragonflights until Ysera helped the Red Dragon Queen and Malygos send him back through the Portal. The Red, Green, and Bronze Dragonflights then combined their spells to kill Malygos, whose final words mourned the beauty and cruelty of the world.

• Dragon Slayer Gruul attacked the Dragonkin, and Ysera used the Eternal Nightmare Staff to clear his mind while the Red Dragon Queen gave him wings to fly.
• Malygos tried to destroy the Portal, but the Red Dragon Queen withdrew Gruul's wings and the Bronze Dragons joined forces to pull Gruul back through it.
• The Red Dragon Queen accused Malygos of gaining strength through the Scourge or Neltharion, while Malygos lamented the Dragons' ancient betrayal of Galakrond.
• The Red, Green, and Bronze Dragonflights trapped Malygos in a net of life and combined their spells to poison him and accelerate his aging.
• Malygos died, and his body crumbled to ash, leaving his skeleton behind.

Malygos revealed that he had survived and trapped the Red Dragon Queen and her dragons, but she escaped using Fel Flame. He withdrew into the Ley Line Plane, where he reunited with Sindragosa, while the world believed he had died.

• Ysera urged Alexstrasza to let Malygos rest in peace, but Alexstrasza threatened to turn his bones into a Demon Dragon.
• Malygos emerged and trapped Alexstrasza and the Red Dragons in a web, then used the combined powers of the five Dragon Kings to destroy the Red Dragons.
• Alexstrasza ignited her wings with Fel Flame, broke free, and fled the Eye of Eternity.
• Malygos let Ysera and the Bronze Dragonflight leave, then entered the Ley Line Plane to absorb more mana and grow stronger.
• Malygos encountered Sindragosa, who had become a five-colored Dragon, and stayed with her as the world believed he had died.
• The Blue Dragonflight returned to the Nexus, and Arygos did not dispute the story of Malygos's death.

Frost King Malakk and Zul'Drak's high priests debated how to respond to the Horde after learning that the Horde and Red Dragonflight had defeated the Blue Dragonflight. Malakk called for an envoy to investigate the Horde and Red Dragonflight's intentions.

• Frost King Malakk considered how the Loa's influence kept Zul'Drak divided and resolved that his empire would not submit to the Horde.
• Drakuru told Malakk that the high priests had gathered, and Malakk went to preside over their meeting.
• High Priest Mufunu reported that Malygos had fallen and the Blue Dragonflight had been devastated by the Horde, Dalaran Mages, and Red Dragon Queen.
• High Priest Mufunu warned that the Horde might target Zul'Drak, while Slad'ran and High Priest Tua'tua argued over whether the Loa could protect them from the Red Dragon Queen.
• High Priest Haverni proposed seeking Scourge aid, and the priests argued over approaching Arthas or surrendering to the Horde.
• Frost King Malakk stopped the argument and asked who would represent him in sounding out the Horde and Red Dragonflight.

Frost King Malakk prepared to seek help from the Scourge as Zul'Drak faced invasion, while Garrosh chose the empire as the Horde’s next target despite Vol'jin’s warnings. Vol'jin concluded that Garrosh’s confidence and the uncertain Red Dragonflight made their campaign too dangerous and resolved to abandon him.

• Frost King Malakk sent High Prophet Moorabi to sound out the Horde and Slad'ran to contact the Red Dragonflight.
• Drakuru warned Malakk that the priests and Loa might abandon Zul'Drak, and Malakk struck him down while insisting he would share the empire’s fate.
• Malakk secretly revealed that he had arranged refuge with the Thunder King, then ordered Drakuru to seek Arthas and bring back plague if he could not secure Scourge reinforcements.
• Garrosh demanded revenge and compensation from Krasus, beat him, and claimed the Red Dragonflight owed him a favor.
• Vol'jin warned Garrosh that their depleted forces and scarce food made an attack on Zul'Drak perilous, but Garrosh insisted the Red Dragon Queen would defeat its Loa.
• Vol'jin suspected the Red Dragon Queen would not help again and resolved to abandon Garrosh rather than share Zul'Drak’s spoils with other Horde forces.

Garrosh tried to intimidate Moorabi into surrendering the Drakkari Empire by showing off the Orc army, its weapons, and the Dalaran Mages. Moorabi secretly used blood magic to scout the camp and discovered that the Orcs were short on food, their siege equipment was mostly broken, and the mages resented Garrosh.

• Garrosh welcomed Moorabi and showed off his armored legion, siege weapons, and Dalaran Mages, while Moorabi pretended to be impressed by their strength.
• Garrosh demanded that half the Drakkari become provisions and the rest become livestock in exchange for Horde protection.
• Moorabi used blood runes and a swarm of horseflies granted by Mam'toth to spy on the Orc camp.
• Moorabi discovered the Orc soldiers were poorly fed and dispirited once out of their armor, and concluded that their shortages made them vulnerable.
• Moorabi found that most of the siege equipment was damaged and heard Dalaran Mages cursing Garrosh, leaving him hopeful that the Orc army was in trouble.

Moorabi and the Zul'Drak priests learned that Garrosh's army was weakening and the Red Dragonflight would not help him, then planned to draw the Orcs into a prolonged war. Meanwhile, Drakuru set out on Malakk's secret mission to contact the Scourge and decided to disguise himself as a Furbolg to enter Fordragon Fortress.

• Moorabi discovered that the Dragon skeleton was assembled from Tuskarr bones and concluded that the Orc army was nearing the end of its strength.
• Slad'ran used Shadow Serpents to spy on Wyrmrest Temple and learned that the Red Dragonflight would refuse to help Garrosh.
• Moorabi and Slad'ran reported their intelligence to the Zul'Drak priests, who planned to trap Garrosh's army in a drawn-out war and keep their findings from Frost King Malakk.
• Drakuru found that reaching the Scourge required passing through Fordragon Fortress, where Duke Bolvar's trade network had made the Fordragon Legion self-sufficient.
• Drakuru decided to disguise himself as a Furbolg and sneak into Fordragon Fortress.

Disguised as a Furbolg, Drakuru was captured by slave smugglers and bought by Robbie, who brought him to Dak'sin Ruins to question him about the Loa. Drakuru revealed that the city had once been guarded by a Loa stronger than Prophet Saronite: King of a Thousand Worms Daksin.

• Drakuru entered Grizzly Hills in disguise but was captured by Samir's adventuring party and imprisoned at Rock Camp.
• Samir invented a fearsome reputation for Drakuru and placed him at the top of a list of captured Trolls offered for sale.
• Robbie recognized Drakuru's name, learned his true identity, and went to Rock Camp disguised as a merchant to buy him.
• Robbie took Drakuru to Dak'sin Ruins and explained that he might be freed if he helped answer questions about the Loa.
• Drakuru said that Trolls did not know how the Loa came into being and denied that Zul'Drak's priests would try to take their power.
• Drakuru revealed that Dak'sin had been guarded by King of a Thousand Worms Daksin, once stronger than Prophet Saronite.

Robbie brought Drakuru into the ruins and showed him murals claiming that Daksin had grown powerful by devouring Troll souls, shaking Drakuru’s faith in the Loa and the Zul'Drak Empire. Robbie revealed he was with the Scourge and freed Drakuru, who resolved to change the empire after learning the truth.

• Robbie and his party brought Drakuru to the temple ruins, where Drakuru explained how to open the hidden passage beneath the green brazier.
• Robbie led Drakuru through the passage to a nine-headed ice worm statue, and Drakuru deciphered the writing and turned its heads in the right order.
• Robbie’s group entered a sealed cavern and found murals depicting Daksin’s growth and its consumption of Troll souls, including those of nine emperors.
• Drakuru concluded that the Loa had raised the Frost Trolls as food and was devastated by the revelation.
• Robbie revealed that he was with the Scourge and declared Drakuru free, while Drakuru resolved to change Zul'Drak.

Garrosh’s starving Orc army reached Drak'Tharon Keep, but the Dalaran Mages failed to breach its magically protected walls. After Garrosh killed their strongest Archmage, he rallied the Warsong Clan to attack the fortress directly.

• Garrosh grew angry as the Red Dragonflight delayed sending troops and decided his army had to capture Drak'Tharon Keep before its food ran out.
• A Goblin siege engineer told Garrosh that Dalaran Mages could use a separation spell to collapse part of the fortress.
• The Dalaran Mages’ spell failed because an unknown force interfered with their casting, and their Archmage estimated it would take half a month to investigate.
• Garrosh killed the Archmage and gave the remaining mages three days to find a solution.
• Garrosh raised Gorehowl, accused the Drakkari Trolls of threatening Azeroth, and ordered the Warsong Clan to charge.

Garrosh’s assault on Drak'Tharon Keep faltered against Prophet Saronite’s Blood Siphon and the Drakkari Trolls’ venomous creatures. After a young Pandaren warned him that the Trolls were concealing their strength, Garrosh withdrew by night, while Vol'jin prepared a basin of bone dust.

• Garrosh’s Orcs reached the walls, but the Drakkari Trolls killed the first attackers through coordinated fighting and Prophet Saronite’s Blood Siphon.
• Garrosh sent another force onto the walls, where venomous snakes killed Orcs and the Trolls ate their bodies; he ordered a retreat until the Furbolgs’ counter-venom powder arrived.
• A young Pandaren prisoner warned Garrosh that the Drakkari Trolls were luring him into defeat and advised him to withdraw until reinforcements came.
• Garrosh agreed with the warning but killed and ate the Pandaren before withdrawing his army under cover of darkness.
• Vol'jin received news of Garrosh’s withdrawal, then poured bone dust into a basin.

Vol'jin summoned Bwonsamdi to learn how to weaken the Animal Loa, bargaining with one of his daughters in exchange for the secret. After Bwonsamdi revealed that G'huun's corruption could destroy the Loa's bodies, Vol'jin prepared to test a vial of Blood Troll essence.

• Vol'jin summoned Bwonsamdi, who confronted him about their old deal and revealed that Vol'jin had many secret children.
• Vol'jin agreed to give Bwonsamdi one of his daughters in exchange for help and asked for the Animal Loa's weakness.
• Vol'jin drew a symbol in the ashes, prompting Bwonsamdi to warn that he had provoked a dangerous being.
• Bwonsamdi explained that Animal Loa's power resided in their bodies and that G'huun's corruption could make them decay.
• Vol'jin retrieved a vial of Blood Troll essence and considered testing it against the Animal Loa.

After defeating Garrosh at Drak'Tharon, the Drakkari Troll leaders Warlord Himbo and Chief Priest Novos fell into conflict, giving Vol'jin a chance to exploit their division. Vol'jin's display of Tirion Fordring striking a wounded dragon left Himbo and Novos afraid of the power gathered outside their keep.

• Frost King Malakk rewarded Warlord Himbo but withheld commendation from Chief Priest Novos, deepening their hostility after Prophet Saronite had held back her powers during the battle.
• Vol'jin and Eitrigg learned that Himbo and Novos had sent their families to safety, and considered using Novos's Tauren wife and children in Moonglade as leverage.
• Vol'jin planned to frighten the Drakkari and pressure Novos by demonstrating the power of his forces.
• Himbo encountered Novos on Drak'Tharon's wall, where Novos warned that Prophet Saronite sensed a gathering power in the Orc camp.
• Tirion Fordring rose above the camp in a sphere of light and struck a wounded dragon from the sky, prompting Novos to identify him and Himbo and Novos to fear him.

Vol'jin secretly met with Novos and gave him a ritual for contacting his ancestors. Through it, Novos learned that Prophet Saronite consumed the souls of his priests, leaving him desperate to escape Saronya's control.

• Tirion Fordring's display of power frightened the Drakkari Frost Trolls, and Novos feared Drak'Tharon Keep would eventually fall.
• Vol'jin sent Novos a secret letter, and Novos agreed to meet him after learning Vol'jin knew where his wife and child lived.
• Vol'jin questioned Novos about his ancestors and gave him a scroll describing a ritual to contact their souls.
• Novos performed the ritual in his laboratory and reached his father's spirit in a frozen world.
• Novos's father told him that Prophet Saronite consumed the souls of the dead and urged him to free himself from Saronya's control.

Novos agreed to help Vol'jin eliminate Prophet Saronite in exchange for a place in Moonglade and help fulfilling his wish, but Drakuru revealed that Novos's family had been killed and offered him a chance to seize Saronite's power for revenge. Novos accepted the risk, while the fate of Drak'Tharon Keep remained unresolved.

• Novos accepted Vol'jin's plan to use Blood Troll essence against Prophet Saronite and asked the Orcs to capture Drak'Tharon Keep within three days.
• Drakuru and Robbie confronted Novos in disguise, and Drakuru revealed that he knew about Novos's deal with Vol'jin.
• Drakuru told Novos that Orcs had killed and eaten his wife and children, and Novos confirmed their deaths using Spirit Calling.
• Drakuru offered to teach Novos how to absorb Saronite's magic essence and power instead of destroying it.
• Novos agreed to take the risk so he could avenge his family.

Novos wrestled with betraying Prophet Saronite as Vol'jin's forces attacked Drak'Tharon Keep, where the defenders survived repeated assaults with the help of secret medicine. After Saronya used Blood Siphon, Novos hesitated to activate a trap against the Loa, then learned that Saronya planned to sacrifice all the priests to escape, destroying his last faith in the deity.

• Robbie gave Novos a vial of plague that could turn him into a Lich if he failed to absorb the Loa's power, and Novos struggled with whether to betray Prophet Saronite.
• Vol'jin attacked Drak'Tharon Keep, but the Drakkari Trolls fought fiercely with secret medicine and repelled the Orcs and the Argent Crusade.
• Vol'jin sent the Orcs back into battle, and as the exhausted defenders began losing sections of the wall, Novos secretly alerted Prophet Saronite.
• Prophet Saronite used Blood Siphon to harvest the Orcs' lives, then returned to its lair while Novos prepared to activate a hidden magic array with a Rune.
• Novos hesitated to trigger the array, and Saronya told him to summon the priests so it could use Blood Siphon again and escape with Dark Praise.
• Saronya explained that Dark Praise required sacrificing every priest, and Novos lost his remaining faith in Prophet Saronite.

Novos betrayed Prophet Saronite and absorbed its Loa power, hoping to change the fate of the Zul'Drak Trolls. The Dragon power in his body then began tearing him apart, and he drank a vial of plague to counter it.

• Vol'jin saw Novos appear on Drak'Tharon Keep's wall and understood his signal, then sent Dragonblood Orcs into the assault.
• The Orcs broke through the Drakkari defenses, and Novos realized that the Warlord Himbo they had fought was only a decoy.
• Prophet Saronite used Blood Siphon and later told Novos to summon the priests while it slept to absorb its newly acquired power.
• Novos questioned Saronite about the frozen souls of its followers, then crushed a Rune that unleashed the Blood Trolls' essence against the Loa.
• Novos used a spell to gather Saronite's essence into a sphere and swallowed it, declaring he would become the new Loa and change the Trolls' fate.
• As the Dragon power tore at his body, Novos drank a vial of plague while the dying Saronite watched.

Novos used his new Lich powers to turn Prophet Saronya into an undead servant, then sensed a mysterious dark power around his own soul. As the Orc leaders waited outside Drak'Tharon Keep, Tirion Fordring revealed that he had sensed two Undead inside, leaving Vol'jin worried that the Scourge had entered the conflict.

• Novos discovered that his Lich form let him combine powers and no longer required him to feed on souls.
• Novos transformed Prophet Saronya into an undead creature and compelled it to obey him, planning to turn the Zul'Drak Empire's Priests into Liches.
• Novos sensed an unexplained dark power coiled around his soul but could find nothing unusual.
• Vol'jin waited for news from Drak'Tharon Keep, then returned the Orc army to camp when neither Novos nor Prophet Saronite appeared.
• Vol'jin, Eitrigg, and Tirion Fordring discussed the silence at the keep, and Tirion revealed he had sensed two Undead inside.
• Vol'jin feared the Scourge had become involved in the battle.

Robbie observed the secrets behind the Loa's power and returned to Icecrown Citadel while Vol'jin and Eitrigg chose to attack Drak'Tharon Keep. The Orcs captured the fortress, and Novos emerged as a Lich, prompting Vol'jin to denounce him and call for his punishment.

• Robbie recorded the Loa's energy runes and saw a cursed black rune pass from Saronya into Novos when Novos became a Lich.
• Robbie left Drak'Tharon Keep and returned to Icecrown Citadel as Vol'jin and Eitrigg decided to risk attacking the fortress.
• Vol'jin divided his troops to avoid Prophet Saronite's Blood Siphon, and the Dragonblood Orcs broke through the walls and seized the fortress gate.
• Novos ordered the Drakkari Trolls to make a final stand, and the Orcs drove the defenders back to Prophet Saronite's lair.
• Vol'jin entered the keep, praised Novos for helping the Horde, and watched him emerge from the lair as a Lich.
• Vol'jin accused Novos of serving the Scourge and ordered him to face punishment.

Novos transformed Drak'Tharon Keep into a deadly trap, annihilating most of Vol'jin's army after Vol'jin narrowly escaped. Vol'jin blamed the disaster on Fordring and planned to bypass the keep and attack the Zul'Drak Empire directly.

• Novos's warning made Vol'jin realize Drak'Tharon Keep was a trap, and Vol'jin escaped with a Teleportation Rune Stone moments before Novos's spell struck.
• Novos used Prophet Saronite's power to drain the blood of nearby living beings and raise the dead, overwhelming the Orcs and Trolls inside the keep.
• Vol'jin watched the slaughter from the camp, then beat Fordring and falsely accused him of conspiring with Arthas to explain the defeat.
• Eitrigg joined Vol'jin in blaming Fordring, while Vol'jin secretly decided to keep him alive to preserve the Argent Crusade's supplies.
• Vol'jin asked Eitrigg to arrange reinforcements from Keleina's army and proposed bypassing Drak'Tharon Keep to attack the Zul'Drak Empire's homeland.

Vol'jin planned to draw the Alliance into a war against the Zul'Drak Empire by exploiting Kites's pride, while Chen Stormstout persuaded Kites that conquering the Drakkari would make him a celebrated hero and win Agna's love. Kites decided to send troops against the Zul'Drak Empire.

• Vol'jin told Eitrigg that Kites's concern for human pride would lead him to pay for another military campaign.
• After returning to Stormwind, Kites left government to his ministers and celebrated news that Garrosh and Vol'jin had suffered defeats at Drak'Tharon Keep.
• Kites invited Chen Stormstout to a banquet, where Stormstout described Thrall's austere life and criticized the Horde's commanders.
• Stormstout urged Kites to defeat the Drakkari and become a renowned hero, suggesting this would also help him win Agna's affection.
• After Stormstout left, Kites spent the night considering the proposal and resolved to send troops against the Zul'Drak Empire.

Kites used Jaina’s Peace Dove network to seize control of Stormwind’s political machinery and launch a fifty-thousand-soldier expedition against the Zul'Drak Empire. As the army prepared to bypass Drak'Tharon Keep, Benedictus proposed a plan to deal with the Loa.

• Kites received Jaina’s secret letter detailing Peace Dove’s contacts, communication method, and bases in Stormwind City.
• Kites chose to unite Peace Dove under his leadership, summoned its core members, and declared himself both their leader and the king of Stormwind City.
• Peace Dove helped Kites pass a resolution for war, conscript troops, requisition grain, and assemble an army of fifty thousand soldiers bound for Valiance Keep.
• Kites rejected the generals’ concerns about Drak'Tharon Keep and ordered the army to bypass it and attack the Zul'Drak Empire directly.
• Benedictus, troubled by Kites’s growing power, sought an audience and warned him that the Loa posed the real threat before offering a plan.