Recaps

The Emissary accepted Vol'jin, Sylvanas, and Eitrigg's false accusation that Saurfang and his son had plotted Tirion Fordring's death. Vol'jin then used the Horde's food and an offer of membership to win Frost King Malakk's trust, leaving the king poised to hear Thrall's request.

• The Emissary threatened Vol'jin over Tirion Fordring's death, and Sylvanas redirected the blame toward the Scourge and an accomplice within the Horde.
• Vol'jin, Eitrigg, and Sylvanas implicated Saurfang and his son, and the Emissary declared that he would make them pay without verifying the accusation.
• Vol'jin, Sylvanas, and Eitrigg resolved to exploit divisions among Frost King Malakk and the Zul'Drak priests to seize the power of the Loa.
• Vol'jin sent food to Frost King Malakk and claimed that Thrall wanted the Zul'Drak Empire to join the Horde.
• Frost King Malakk agreed to consider joining the Horde, and Vol'jin revealed that Thrall had one small request.

Vol'jin offered the Zul'Drak Empire a place in the Horde in exchange for a Loa becoming Thrall's protector, and his proposal set the Loa against their priests. As several Loa considered the offer, Quetz'lun's priests feared for their tribe, and Warlord Zol'Maz hinted that Chief Priest Novos might offer them another path.

• Frost King Malakk agreed to discuss Vol'jin's proposal that a Zul'Drak Loa become Thrall's Loa of Kings in return for the Horde's friendship and protection.
• The Loa and priests rejected the proposal at a meeting, but Vol'jin's offer drove a wedge between them because the priests feared losing their status and their tribes' protection.
• Quetz'lun contacted Vol'jin and negotiated for a golden altar, offerings, chosen priests, authority over them, and the souls of the Horde's fallen.
• Rhunok, Mam'toth, Har'koa, Akali, and other Loa visited Vol'jin, and most expressed willingness to become Thrall's Loa of Kings.
• High Priests Mufunu, Tua'tua, and Havni worried that Quetz'lun would abandon them and their people, until Warlord Zol'Maz arrived and asked whether they remembered Chief Priest Novos.

Warlord Zol'Maz offered Blood Troll essence to three priests as a way to steal Loa power, but Havni learned from Novos that a Scourge magic array was required. As Quetz'lun prepared to erase her past, Tua'tua and Mufunu attacked her, and Tua'tua began transforming after eating her flesh.

• Warlord Zol'Maz showed High Priest Mufunu, High Priest Tua'tua, and High Priest Havni Blood Troll essence and claimed it could destroy a Loa and let someone take its power.
• Havni disguised himself as an adventurer and visited Novos at Drak'Tharon Keep, where Novos explained that absorbing Loa power required a Scourge magic array.
• Quetz'lun returned to her altar, intending to kill the priests who knew her past, but a blood-powered magic array collapsed her body and drove away her soul.
• Tua'tua and Mufunu gathered Quetz'lun's flesh and blood and ate it, while Robbie watched from hiding.
• Tua'tua fell in agony as Wind Serpent wings grew from his back, and he cried out an indistinct name.

Robbie extracted a soulless Quetz'lun from two corrupted priests, while Vol'jin used the aftermath to lure the remaining Loa into the Horde's grasp. Sylvanas discovered that Thrall planned to claim the Loa's power for himself and left for Nazmir with a new destination in mind.

• Robbie fused Holy Light and Arcane energy to extract a soulless Wind Serpent from Mufunu and Tua'tua, then bound and took it away.
• Mufunu and Tua'tua woke with some of Quetz'lun's power, but Vol'jin used their transformation to persuade the other Loa to seek shelter with the Horde.
• Quetz'lun appeared to Har'koa and warned her that the Horde's offer was a trap, so Har'koa chose to trust her old friend.
• Vol'jin revealed that his altar could restrain the five remaining Loa so the Horde could consume their power gradually, but Thrall arrived and claimed the Loa for himself.
• Sylvanas confronted Vol'jin, then returned to camp and ordered Antonidas to open a Portal to Nazmir.

Frost King Malakk failed to keep the Loa from joining the Horde, while Har'koa stayed away. Vol'jin lured the four Loa who came to a welcoming altar, trapped and tortured them, and made them praise Thrall.

• Frost King Malakk tried to persuade Akali to return to the Zul'Drak Empire, but Akali accused the Drakkari of betraying the Loa and refused.
• Malakk failed to convince the other Loa, while Har'koa hid in Sholazar Basin and Akali, Mam'toth, Rhunok, and Sseratus joined the Horde.
• Vol'jin welcomed the four Loa at an altar and asked them to name the being said to stand behind them, but Sseratus said the being was a taboo whose name could not be spoken.
• Vol'jin sprang a trap that weakened and bound the Loa, then ordered Orc and Troll cooks to cut flesh from them for a feast reserved for Thrall.
• Vol'jin struck the Loa with bloody lightning and demanded that the four captives sing the praises of Savior Thrall in unison.

Sylvanas visited Matriarch Atina to learn how to draw on a Loa’s power and spoke directly with Blood God G'huun. G'huun explained that Thrall’s consumption of different Loa would turn him into a chaotic creature, then revealed that he was the mysterious being behind the Loa.

• Sylvanas asked Atina how to obtain a Loa’s power, and Atina said G'huun could answer in exchange for sacrifices.
• Atina returned with G'huun’s demand to speak directly with Sylvanas, and Antonidas and Blightcaller accompanied Sylvanas to the village altar.
• G'huun recognized Sylvanas and said the sacrifices were insufficient, but revealed that Thrall was eating Loa flesh.
• G'huun warned that Thrall would become a Loa but would turn into a chaotic creature because he had eaten different Loa.
• Sylvanas wondered whether Vol'jin was plotting against Thrall and asked G'huun to name the mysterious being behind the Loa.
• G'huun declared that he himself was the eternal and immortal being behind the Loa.

Robbie deceived Sylvanas about G'huun, but she soon recognized the Blood God as pretentious and turned her attention to working with Varimathras. Meanwhile, Thrall continued consuming the Loa’s flesh and blood until a horn like Akali’s began growing on his forehead.

• Robbie cut off G'huun’s connection to the mortal world, deceived Sylvanas, and warned Matron Atina to seek outside help against the Blood God.
• Back in Undercity, Sylvanas asked Nathanos and Antonidas about G'huun, and Antonidas called him pretentious, prompting Sylvanas to realize she had been deceived.
• Sylvanas visited Varimathras and proposed adding Saurfang the Great, Garrosh, and Vol'jin to his revenge targets, and Varimathras agreed to work with her.
• Varimathras revealed that he planned to strike after the Scourge withdrew and left the Fordragon Legion vulnerable to the Alliance and Horde.
• Thrall continued eating the Loa’s flesh and blood in the Zul'Drak Empire, and a horn like Akali’s grew from his forehead.

Thrall accepted the Witch Doctor’s reassurance as the Scourge launched its long-prepared assault on Aetrite’s control nexus. As the cow and the Elf woman resisted separate attacks, Void creatures sent the Scourge a warning that ended with a vision of a star circling ancient Azeroth.

• Several doctors agreed with the Troll Witch Doctor that the changes in Thrall’s body signaled the power of four Loa gathering within him, and Thrall set aside his worries.
• Thrall and the others watched the Scourge begin its attack on the nexus, after years of using Mechagnome technology to spy on the cow and the Elf woman.
• The Scourge dropped an aetrite-packed Naxxramas onto the cow, then bound its legs with chains empowered by the Old Gods, but the cow survived and quickly repaired its nose ring.
• The Scourge flooded the cave with corrosive plague and sent undead piranhas against the Elf woman, who remained protected by her shield and extended her hand.
• Void creatures observed the battle, and a whale-shaped one sent bubbles to the Scourge camp; Robbie examined one and saw a star circling ancient Azeroth.

Robbie and Arthas learned that Blue Child had seeded life on Azeroth and that Elune imprisoned its World Soul to guard the Nexus seal. As the battle continued, Arthas’s anti-magic strategy failed to drain the Elf-like woman’s power, leaving Robbie to suspect she had an unknown source of energy.

• The voice in the colorful bubble explained Blue Child’s role in spreading life and destroying civilizations through six ice ages, and revealed that Elune had imprisoned its World Soul to guard the Nexus seal.
• The woman created rapidly reproducing crocodile-like creatures that overwhelmed the Undead piranhas, so Arthas burned the plague water and everything in it.
• The woman criticized humanity but acknowledged its cities, magic, and Undead as unexpected signs of potential, then killed waves of Ghouls with her green aura and flames.
• Robbie’s Rune pillars formed an anti-magic field while Arthas sent Gargoyles and other forces against the woman, but she destroyed them with nature-based attacks.
• Robbie and Arthas realized the woman’s energy was not diminishing, and Robbie suspected an unknown source was replenishing it.

Robbie realized Blue Child’s World Soul was drawing power through moonlight, but the Scourge’s Dark Veil freed the imprisoned woman and cow by cutting off Elune’s power. Robbie redirected the crisis by opening the rift to Argus, and the World Soul left through it as Elune’s light returned; the Scourge prepared to leave Azeroth.

• The woman’s cry revived the cow, and Robbie realized Blue Child was receiving energy through moonlight.
• Robbie ordered the Dark Veil raised, and the cow’s frozen attack destroyed most of the World-Ending Mechas.
• The Dark Veil blocked Elune’s power, allowing the woman and cow to break free of their chains and the Anti-Magic Field.
• Robbie reminded Arthas that the Scourge’s goal was to destroy the Aitelite Hub, and Arthas reopened the spatial rift to Argus.
• The woman destroyed the Anti-Magic Field and faced the Scourge’s hidden forces, but she and the cow entered the rift when Elune’s radiance returned.
• Robbie and Arthas watched the World Soul depart, and the Scourge prepared to leave Azeroth.

As the Scourge moved to the New World, Robbie questioned Arthas’s plan to restore the undead to human life and suggested building a dungeon there. After Arthas departed, Robbie faced unrest among fifty thousand soldiers who depended on the Scourge for supplies.

• Robbie warned Arthas that turning the Scourge back into humans might serve Arthas’s personal obsession rather than the undead, and Arthas agreed to let them choose while continuing his research.
• Robbie proposed that the Scourge establish a dungeon in the New World, and Arthas approved the plan as a way to avoid provoking hostility.
• Arthas and the Scourge’s main force left Azeroth through the Portal, while Kel'Thuzad remained behind to manage the Scourge left on the world.
• After learning the Scourge had departed, fifty thousand soldiers at Fordragon Fortress panicked and demanded to return to Stormwind.
• Robbie let the fifty thousand soldiers decide whether to stay or leave.

After fifty thousand Stormwind soldiers were freed from the Scourge, Varian ordered them sent to fight the Forsaken and demanded a hundred-thousand-strong expedition to Northrend. Tyrion struggled to meet the deadline, while Grand Duke Alpha suggested counting the same thirty thousand soldiers three times, and Stormwind’s harbor filled with ships as Varian’s expedition began.

• Most of the fifty thousand soldiers chose to return to Stormwind, while General Xiboli and other generals stayed with Duke Bolvar.
• Tyrion told Varian that the captured soldiers were returning, but Varian angrily ordered them to sail to Southshore and face the Forsaken.
• Varian demanded a hundred thousand soldiers for a personal expedition to Northrend, and Tyrion failed to dissuade him.
• Tyrion told Grand Duke Alpha that he had assembled only a little over thirty thousand soldiers, and Alpha advised him to have them march past Varian three times.
• When the deadline arrived, a thousand sails filled Stormwind City's harbor, and news spread that Varian was leading a hundred thousand soldiers to Northrend.

King Varian sailed toward Northrend while doubting the heroic stories in the Argent Crusade War Chronicle and struggling with blurred memories of Zul'Drak. After a captured Doomsayer revealed that the Horde planned to use the Alliance soldiers as rations, Varian discovered the warning hidden in the book and realized the danger.

• King Varian questioned the exaggerated accounts of the Argent Crusade and wondered whether his memories of Garrosh's feats in Zul'Drak were real.
• A Royal Guard brought Varian a tortured soldier accused of being a Doomsayer, who claimed his group had already saved three thousand soldiers and hoped to rescue twenty-seven thousand more.
• The soldier told Varian that the central fleet held only thirty thousand troops, despite the claim that the Alliance army numbered a hundred thousand.
• The soldier directed Varian to read the first letter of every other line in the Argent Crusade War Chronicle, revealing the message that the soldiers were rations for the Orcs.
• Varian destroyed the book in anger as the soldier declared that the Horde was drawing the Alliance into war because it needed food.

King Varian purged alleged doomsayers aboard his fleet before arriving at Valiance Keep, where Garrosh and Tyrion the Gnome revealed their betrayal and forced him to order Stormwind's soldiers to surrender. Varian signed the order, leaving his thirty thousand troops at Garrosh's mercy.

• King Varian silenced a doomsayer, sentenced him to be thrown overboard, and later purged many more from the fleet.
• Tyrion the Gnome told Varian that General Garrosh had arrived at Valiance Keep instead of Tirion Fordring.
• Varian confronted Garrosh about the Zul'Drak Empire, and Garrosh admitted he had wanted Stormwind's soldiers as provisions.
• Tyrion the Gnome betrayed Varian, and the Royal Guards refused to defend him as Garrosh beat him.
• Garrosh demanded that Varian choose between his life and his thirty thousand soldiers, and Varian signed an order commanding them to lay down their weapons.

After Varian enslaved human soldiers and ordered farmers conscripted to feed the Orcs, Robbie and Kel'Thuzad unleashed the Scourge on Valiance Keep. Garrosh escaped and fabricated a heroic account of the massacre in Dalaran, while Varian disappeared and the surviving human soldiers were left without a king.

• Varian forced thirty thousand human soldiers to surrender, used them as labor and food for the Orcs, and ordered farmers conscripted from Stormwind.
• Kel'Thuzad read Varian's intercepted letter, and Robbie and Kel'Thuzad decided to attack the Horde.
• The Scourge slaughtered the Orcs at Valiance Keep, killed the traitorous Royal Guards and the Peace Dove, and teleported Varian away.
• Garrosh escaped with a teleportation scroll, and the human soldiers emerged to find the Orcs gone and their king missing.
• Garrosh reached Dalaran and told Rhonin that the Scourge had destroyed his army, then exaggerated his own exploits and claimed he had wounded Sargeras.

After the Scourge wiped out Garrosh's army, the survivors gathered in Dalaran and argued over who was responsible. The Moon Goddess's Emissary punished Garrosh for his actions, leaving him reduced to his head and half a spine.

• Garrosh, Sylvanas, Vol'jin, Eitrigg, Dranosh, and the wounded Tirion Fordring regrouped in Dalaran after the Scourge's attack.
• Sylvanas, Vol'jin, and Eitrigg blamed Garrosh's plan to use Alliance soldiers as Orc rations for provoking the Scourge, while Dranosh accused him of destroying his army.
• Varian teleported into Dalaran, and Garrosh bit his shoulder before the Moon Goddess's Emissary stopped him.
• The Emissary treated Varian, ordered Garrosh to apologize, and then tied him to a horse to be dragged through Dalaran for an hour.
• After the ride, Garrosh was left with only his head and half a spine.

The Emissary forced Varian to accept the Moon Goddess's plan and ordered the Alliance and Horde to unite against the Scourge. As Azeroth's force of rejection caused Scourge troops to age, Robbie prepared a test involving Thrall.

• The Emissary punished Garrosh by joining his head to a stronger Orc's body, then pressured Varian into accepting Peace Dove assistance for Stormwind.
• Vol'jin and Eitrigg blamed Thrall for eating a Loa's flesh, and the Emissary ordered the Alliance and Horde to unite against the Scourge and find Thrall.
• Kel'Thuzad reported that more than ten thousand Ghouls who had fought the Horde were aging, so Robbie sent them through the spatial rift to Argus World.
• Robbie suspected that Azeroth's force of rejection targeted stronger combatants who had killed Orcs, and he ordered Scourge soldiers to be made from Orc corpses and souls.
• Kel'Thuzad showed Robbie a map locating Thrall as he trudged through the mountains between the Zul'Drak Empire and Grizzly Hills.

Thrall became a mindless monster after eating the Loa, while the Emissary’s search party discovered that the Scourge had grown inexplicably weak and credited Elune. The Emissary brought Thrall to the tortured Loa and demanded they restore him, threatening to kill them if they failed.

• Thrall’s body transformed into a huge, deformed creature, and he wandered into the snowy mountains as Vol'jin concealed what had happened and organized a search.
• Vol'jin’s party fought off weak Ghouls, leading Vol'jin to believe Elune had weakened the Scourge; at Icecrown Citadel, Kel'Thuzad and Robbie examined captured Orc-made Scourge soldiers and discussed the risks of making them too powerful.
• Tirion Fordring, Garrosh, Dranosh, and Sylvanas reported defeating unusually weak Scourge forces, and the Emissary attributed their weakness to Elune and rallied the Horde’s commanders to fight.
• The Emissary found Thrall and brought him, bound in a magic chain, to the four Loa, accusing them of causing his transformation and demanding they save him.
• Sseratus said the Loa could do nothing to restore Thrall, but the Emissary threatened to torture and kill them, forcing them to seek a way to survive.

The Emissary sought a way to save Thrall after the four Loa directed them to Prophet Saronite, who pointed toward Ulduar. Loken refused to help, but Thorim and Sif decided to intervene, and Loken realized Sif was about to ruin his plans.

• The four Loa urged the Emissary to seek Prophet Saronite, and the Emissary went to Drak'Tharon Keep for his advice.
• Novos told the Emissary that King of a Thousand Worms Daksin had witnessed Titan power in Ulduar and that the Titan Keepers might know how to save Thrall.
• General Biagri barred the Emissary from the Halls of Lightning and said Loken believed Thrall had to die to save Azeroth.
• Thorim and Sif discussed rescuing Thrall to gain Elune's friendship, and Sif went to meet the Emissary.
• Loken sensed Sif's move, cried out that she would ruin his plans, and knocked the game board into disarray.

Sif stopped Loken from interfering and examined Thrall, finding that four Loa powers were tangled inside him and that Azeroth’s four elements would be needed to save him. Meanwhile, Vol'jin persuaded Eitrigg to help frame Sif with a strand of her hair, leaving the two Orcs prepared to blame her once Thrall recovered.

• Sif threatened to accuse Loken of molesting her, so he let her go to the Emissary.
• Sif examined Thrall at the Loa altar and said she needed the power of Azeroth’s four elements to restrain the four Loa powers inside him.
• Vol'jin warned Eitrigg that Thrall might suspect them and argued that Eitrigg had more to lose if he lost Thrall’s trust.
• Vol'jin showed Eitrigg a strand of Sif’s hair that he had bought from a Frost Giant.
• Vol'jin and Eitrigg planned to claim that a witch in the Storm Peaks had taught them about gaining Loa powers and to blame Sif for their crimes.

Sif restored Thrall by balancing the powers of the four Loa with the elements, and Thrall punished those who had fed him Loa flesh. At a threatening banquet, Vol'jin and Eitrigg explained their actions and produced a strand of Sif's golden hair, leaving Thrall to recognize her involvement.

• Sif spent seven days and nights balancing the Loa and elemental powers within Thrall, who recovered his Orc form and woke the next morning.
• Thrall executed the four Loa, thanked the Emissary and Sif, and later summoned Vol'jin and Eitrigg to a banquet featuring the Troll and Orc cooks who had prepared the Loa's meat.
• Thrall killed an Orc chef and ate his brain while accusing Eitrigg of wrongdoing; Vol'jin defended Eitrigg and ate a Darkspear Troll's brain when Thrall challenged him.
• Vol'jin gave Eitrigg wine, and Eitrigg explained that a witch in the Storm Peaks had told them Loa flesh granted power and had reassured them when Thrall became ill.
• Eitrigg gave Thrall a strand of golden hair as proof of the witch's identity, and Thrall recognized it as Sif's.

Thrall grew suspicious of Sif and feared the Titan Keepers would replace the Orcs in Elune’s favor, while Vol'jin and Eitrigg drew Sylvanas into the threat. Varimathras gave Antonidas a Soul Orb intended to torment Sif, setting a plot against the Titan Keepers in motion.

• Thrall concluded that he needed to prevent the Titan Keepers from joining Elune’s camp, ended the banquet, and let Vol'jin and Eitrigg leave.
• Vol'jin told Eitrigg to report Thrall’s suspicion of Sif to Sylvanas, and Eitrigg visited her the next day.
• Sylvanas sent Antonidas to Undercity to seek Varimathras’s help against the Titan Keepers.
• Varimathras explained that the Titan Keepers’ souls were their weakness and gave Antonidas a Soul Orb meant to extract and torment Sif’s soul.

Thrall betrayed Sif during a banquet, used the Soul Orb to torture her soul, and destroyed her heart to prevent her resurrection. Thorim witnessed her death through their bond but hesitated to avenge her because the Orcs had Elune’s protection.

• Thrall welcomed Sif to a banquet and praised Orc loyalty while recounting how the Orcs had repaid the Draenei who saved them by annihilating them.
• Thrall revealed that he had poisoned Sif with the Soul Orb, which tore her soul from her body and subjected it to torment.
• Thrall ordered the Orcs to attack Sif’s body, then smashed her heart with Doomhammer to prevent the Titan Keepers from restoring her.
• Thrall told Eitrigg to dump Sif’s remains in the Frost Giants’ camp and blame them for her death.
• Thorim sensed Sif’s suffering through their telepathic bond and saw Thrall’s betrayal, but hesitated to attack because he feared offending Elune.

Thorim lost Sif after Thrall destroyed her heart, then let grief and rage drive him to attack Angrim and the Frost Giants. Loken turned to Yogg-Saron for help with the crisis and released one of the Old God’s tendrils, while Yogg-Saron offered a possible way to restore Sif.

• Thrall smashed Sif’s heart as her soul remained trapped in a gray sphere, and Thorim erupted in grief and rage.
• Angrim brought Sif’s mutilated body to Thorim, who ignored Angrim’s pleas and killed him with Krolmir.
• Thorim attacked the Frost Giants at their camp, prompting Loken to investigate and learn of Sif’s death.
• Loken went to Yogg-Saron and asked for help dealing with Hodir, Thorim, Freya, and Mimiron.
• Loken released one of Yogg-Saron’s tendrils, and Yogg-Saron offered to help revive Sif if Loken brought him her soul.

Thrall fled to Dalaran after Loken destroyed the orc camp while pursuing Sif’s soul, and Rhonin chose to defend Thrall against Loken. Loken then forced Rhonin to face a choice between protecting his children and maintaining his loyalty to Thrall, as Thrall eyed the children hungrily.

• Loken attacked Thrall’s camp, killed the orc warriors, and pursued Sif’s soul to Dalaran while Tirion survived under the protection of the Holy Light.
• Thrall, Vol’jin, Eitrigg, and Sylvanas escaped to Dalaran, where Thrall ate one of Rhonin’s disciples and Rhonin ordered the city’s defenses raised.
• Loken demanded that Dalaran hand over Thrall and Sif’s soul, but Rhonin declared that he would protect Thrall even at the cost of the city.
• Loken sent black mist through Dalaran’s magical shields and revealed that Rhonin’s maid was bringing his children to the Violet Citadel.
• As Loken’s lightning shook Dalaran, he challenged Rhonin to choose between his children and his ambition, while Thrall called the children dessert.