Recaps

The Argent Tournament collapsed, and Garrosh’s Orcs exploited the survivors for food while Thrall pressed Dalaran to commit to an assault on Icecrown Citadel. Varian, lost after a teleportation mishap, reached an Argent Crusade candidate camp and learned that recruits could bribe their way in.

• The Argent Tournament collapsed into an abyss, and an Argent Crusade commander rallied the surviving soldiers with a false account of the battle.
• Garrosh arrived, ate the young commander, and had his guards butcher Argent Crusade soldiers before taking several thousand aboard his airship as food reserves.
• Rhonin promised Dalaran’s cooperation, and Thrall asked him to pilot Dalaran into the Frozen Throne alongside the approaching armies.
• Jaina noticed that Varian was missing while Varian wandered through the snow after his teleportation scroll sent him to an unfamiliar region.
• Varian reached an Argent Crusade candidate camp, where a Dwarf told him recruits could join by paying the commander ten gold coins.

Varian tried to join the Argent Crusade but was mistaken for a wealthy noble whom its officers could exploit. After they dismissed his claim to be King of Stormwind, he woke in an overcrowded recruit barracks and was ordered to work in a mine.

• Varian gave a Dwarf a gold-and-emerald button as payment to join the Argent Crusade.
• The Dwarf showed the button to a Gnome officer, who ordered him to earn Varian’s trust and discover how much money he could extract from him.
• The Dwarf got Varian drunk, learned that he claimed to be King of Stormwind, and reported it to the Gnome officer.
• The Gnome officer called Varian an impostor and sent him to the candidates’ recruit barracks.
• Varian woke in a crowded, freezing tent and followed the recruits to the camp’s gathering place.
• A Worgen welcomed the candidates and ordered them to mine ore at Sapphiron's Fel Iron Mine.

Varian was tricked into forced labor at Sapphiron's Fel Iron Mine and became dependent on Zombie Potions, while Thrall and Dalaran searched for him to lead the Alliance army. Aegwynn tracked Varian with his blood and discovered he had been transformed into a spider mining ore.

• Varian was mistaken for a newcomer, beaten by Orc overseers, and forced to work at Sapphiron's Fel Iron Mine.
• The overseers gave exhausted miners Zombie Potions, and Varian recalled approving their use in Jasperlode Mine before taking one himself.
• Varian worked day and night under the potion's influence, gradually forgetting his identity as ore was shipped across Azeroth.
• Thrall worried that Varian's disappearance left the Alliance army leaderless, while Duke Bolvar's spies encouraged desertions.
• Jaina asked Aegwynn to find Varian, and Aegwynn used his blood in a tracking spell that revealed a green spider mining in a dim mine.

Aegwynn gave Rhonin formulas to restore Varian after he became a mining spider, while Thrall and Vol'jin secretly used the spider to make a potion for Thrall's ailment. The restoration potion turned a different mining spider into Daolin Gelaisi, leaving Rhonin and Jaina to insist that he was Varian.

• Varian remained a mining spider after Aegwynn brought him to Dalaran, and neither Rhonin nor Jaina knew how to reverse the transformation.
• Aegwynn gave Rhonin two formulas to restore Varian, and Rhonin began gathering ingredients and brewing the potions.
• Vol'jin suggested that Varian was the King's Spider named in an old recipe, and Thrall agreed to secretly use him as an ingredient for a potion.
• Thrall's confidants replaced Varian with another mining spider, and Vol'jin cut off the captive's legs and boiled his body to extract its essence.
• Rhonin prepared Aegwynn's restoration potions and administered them to the replacement spider, which transformed into a young man.
• The young man identified himself as Daolin Gelaisi, but Jaina insisted that he was King Varian Wrynn.

Daolin Gelaisi was forced by Dalaran’s mages to accept that he was King Varian, while the Red Dragon Queen was compelled to obey Elune’s order to attack the Wrathgate. At the army’s rally, Daolin began exposing Thrall and Tirion Fordring as liars.

• Daolin Gelaisi rejected Rhonin, Jaina, and Thrall’s claims that he was King Varian, but Dalaran’s mages transformed his face and pressured him into accepting the role.
• The Emissary ordered Alexstrasza to send the Red Dragonflight to attack the Wrathgate and revealed thirty Fel Demon Dragons that would fight under its banner.
• Thrall prepared a rally for one hundred thousand soldiers after Daolin accepted that he was King Varian.
• Daolin addressed the army and declared that Thrall and Tirion Fordring had deceived them about the Scourge’s threat.

Daolin tried to expose Thrall and Jaina before the Stormwind soldiers, but their established reputations overwhelmed his warning and his speech still prompted some troops to desert. Thrall launched an attack on Icecrown Citadel, where the Scourge prepared a controlled battle to draw the Alliance and Horde into a trap.

• Tirion Fordring attacked Daolin, who dodged him, denounced him, and tried to kill him with Ashbringer before Jaina froze Daolin and stopped him.
• Jaina defended trading ordinary people’s lives for immortality, while Thrall dismissed the soldiers as mindless tools and delivered a speech that made them cheer for him.
• Thrall threatened to let Daolin witness Stormwind’s destruction, but Daolin’s words had stirred doubts, and many soldiers deserted overnight for the Wrathgate or Icecrown Citadel.
• Thrall ordered an attack on Icecrown Citadel, and Tirion Fordring sent three thousand poorly equipped, hungry soldiers through its opened gates while he stayed back.
• Kel'Thuzad explained that the Scourge had partly eased Taelan Fordring’s aging by resurrecting Dranosh Saurfang, while Robbie ordered a one-to-one casualty ratio to lure Thrall and Garrosh into a trap.

Tirion mistook a costly assault on Icecrown Citadel for proof that the Scourge was weak, while the Emissary and Garrosh prepared an attack on the Wrathgate with Alexstrasza and the Fel Demon Dragons. The Red Dragon Queen followed the demons into the fortress and discovered Bolvar’s forces were Scourge soldiers, then heard Bolvar fighting deeper inside.

• A sentry reported that Tirion’s test force had killed about three thousand Scourge before being wiped out, convincing Tirion the enemy was weakened.
• Tirion launched a full assault on Icecrown Citadel; after losing ten thousand soldiers, his army killed Lord Marrowgar’s remains and took a foothold.
• Thrall celebrated Tirion’s apparent victory, mocked Daolin for supporting the wrong leader, and rewarded Tirion with a bone.
• At the Wrathgate, the Emissary urged Garrosh to wait for confirmation before replacing Thrall and Tirion, then summoned Alexstrasza to begin the attack.
• Alexstrasza and thirty Fel Demon Dragons scorched the Wrathgate, but Bolvar revealed his soldiers were hidden inside and retreated into a passage.
• The Fel Demon Dragons charged through the passage, and Alexstrasza discovered Bolvar’s soldiers were disguised Scourge before hearing him fighting ahead.

At the Wrathgate, Duke Bolvar trapped the Red Dragonflight and Fel Demon Dragons, but the Red Dragon Queen escaped by unleashing her Primordial Dragon Flame. At Icecrown Citadel, Kel'Thuzad and Robbie remained unable to resurrect Taelan Fordring because they could not reproduce the sacrifices’ willingness to die for him.

• Duke Bolvar froze the Fel Demon Dragons and used Chains of Order to bind the dragons and drain their flame, combining it with Frost to increase his power.
• The Red Dragon Queen destroyed the chains and incinerated the thirty Fel Demon Dragons and ten Adult Red Dragons with her Primordial Dragon Flame, then flew toward Wyrmrest Temple.
• The Emissary explained that the Red Dragon Queen had spent ten thousand years accumulating enough power for one breath, while Garrosh believed Bolvar had died.
• At Icecrown Citadel, Kel'Thuzad and Robbie reviewed their failed attempt to resurrect Taelan Fordring using ten thousand Alliance soldiers.
• Kel'Thuzad and the Scourge mages concluded that the ritual required willing sacrifices, but they could not find a reason for the Alliance soldiers to die for Taelan.

Robbie proposed using Dranosh Saurfang as the Scourge’s resurrection target, while Thrall and Vol'jin plotted to undermine Tirion Fordring. After the Scourge deployed Undead Orcs led by Deathbringer Saurfang, Taelan’s secret letter warned of their purpose, and Sylvanas began questioning Tirion about Taelan’s whereabouts.

• Robbie suggested that the Scourge mages make Dranosh Saurfang the target of their resurrection plan, and Kel'Thuzad agreed to develop it.
• Thrall and Vol'jin plotted to use Taelan and Sylvanas to discredit Tirion Fordring, then saw the Wrathgate burn and heard that the Red Dragonflight had destroyed Duke Bolvar's garrison.
• Tirion Fordring led an assault on Icecrown Citadel, but Deathbringer Saurfang's Undead Orcs killed three thousand allied soldiers and forced him to retreat.
• Sylvanas asked Tirion Fordring to confirm whether Deathbringer Saurfang was Dranosh, and Tirion sent a messenger to contact Taelan.
• Taelan's secret letter said the Scourge was creating Orc soldiers to slow its aging, with Dranosh's soul serving as their mainstay.
• After reading the letter, Sylvanas pressed Tirion Fordring to explain why his messenger had not seen Taelan.

Thrall stripped Tirion of command and pressured Saurfang the Great to deal with Dranosh, prompting Saurfang to seek Muradin Bronzebeard's help through Kalecgos. Kalecgos reached the Skybreaker and began a private appeal to Muradin.

• Thrall handed command of the Argent Crusade and Stormwind's royalist troops to Jaina, dismissed Tirion's defense of Taelan, and ordered Vol'jin to threaten Saurfang over Dranosh.
• Saurfang received Thrall's letter while hosting Kalecgos and worried that he could not risk his small force in a fight against Dranosh.
• Kalecgos offered to persuade Muradin to send troops against Icecrown Citadel, and Saurfang agreed to travel to Northrend with his elite subordinates aboard Orgrimmar's Hammer.
• Orgrimmar's Hammer approached Muradin's Skybreaker, and Kalecgos flew over to negotiate after Muradin recognized him.
• Kalecgos landed on the Skybreaker, asked to speak with Muradin privately about Azeroth's survival, and Muradin welcomed him over wine.

Kalecgos persuaded Muradin to confront Dranosh by promising him the location of a dangerous Titan relic, while secretly arranging for Muradin to withdraw during the battle. As Saurfang the Great faced his son at Icecrown Citadel, Dranosh revealed that he remembered his death and hinted that he could be resurrected like Tirion Fordring.

• Kalecgos offered Muradin the location of a Titan relic in Ulduar in exchange for one attempt to confront Dranosh, and Muradin accepted without promising to kill him.
• After Kalecgos left, Muradin secretly sent a letter to Icecrown Citadel.
• On the final day of the agreed period, Saurfang the Great arrived at Icecrown Citadel aboard Orgrimmar's Hammer, followed by the Skybreaker, while Thrall ordered Jaina to stop the Alliance airship.
• Muradin led a thousand Dwarves onto the balcony to face Dranosh, but a strange whirlwind carried Muradin and his warriors away, leaving Saurfang to confront his son.
• Dranosh told Saurfang that he remembered Thrall torturing him in Dalaran and suggested that the Undead could be resurrected like Tirion Fordring.

Dranosh defeated Saurfang the Great’s forces, though the supposed king he killed was an impostor. Jaina discovered a message from the captured Primordial Emissary and brought its Communication Gem to Aegwynn, who trusted its runes and dismissed Jaina’s suspicions.

• Saurfang the Great tried to persuade Dranosh to join him, but Dranosh rejected him, so Saurfang ordered his forces to attack.
• Dranosh fought three apparent Saurfangs the Great and used Blood Beasts to defeat them, discovering that none was the real king.
• Dranosh displayed one impostor’s head, causing Saurfang’s troops to surrender, then gave the head to Jaina as a gift.
• Jaina withdrew with the allied forces and found a Communication Gem and a message directing her to deliver it to Aegwynn.
• Aegwynn examined the gem in Theramore and told Jaina that its runes proved the message came from the Primordial Emissary.

After Aegwynn learned that the Scourge had discovered a way to slow aging, she ordered Jaina to attack Icecrown Citadel and follow Dranosh’s instructions. At the altar, the Primordial Emissary commanded Jaina to resurrect Dranosh using ten thousand willing warriors, and the soldiers agreed.

• Aegwynn deciphered a message from the Primordial Emissary and ordered Jaina to attack Icecrown Citadel with Dranosh after learning the Scourge could slow aging.
• Thrall accused Tirion of withholding Taelan’s warning, and Sylvanas and Vol'jin beat him before Thrall had him hung from a flagpole.
• Jaina led the allied forces to Icecrown Citadel, where they fought Dranosh’s undead Orcs and followed him into a vast abandoned hall.
• Jaina met Dranosh at a rune-covered platform, where the Primordial Emissary told her to resurrect him with the willing sacrifice of ten thousand warriors.
• Jaina asked the soldiers to offer their flesh and souls for Dranosh, and they answered together that they were willing.

Jaina’s ritual resurrected Dranosh Saurfang through the power of an Old God’s heart, and Robbie and Kel'Thuzad discovered that it could restore an Undead’s body and soul. As Jaina led the weakened Dranosh back toward camp, Garrosh Hellscream ambushed them, killed Dranosh, and ordered him prepared as dinner.

• Jaina conducted the Ten Thousand Souls Resurrection Ritual, and an Old God’s embryo formed before a spell destroyed it and left behind its heart.
• Robbie stopped the Undead Dranosh from consuming his new body and used the Old God’s heart to drain his Power of the Dead and restore his body and soul with the Curse of Flesh.
• Jaina realized the “Primordial Emissary” had tricked her, but she told the soldiers their sacrifices had helped resurrect Dranosh and led them out of Icecrown Citadel.
• Jaina detected Orcs lying in ambush at the allied camp and escaped with Blink as the soldiers remained unaware.
• Garrosh Hellscream emerged from the camp, snapped Dranosh’s neck, and ordered his corpse cooked for dinner.

Garrosh seized the coalition camp, but Antonidas helped Thrall and the others escape to the Undercity. Seeking Alliance support, they resurrected Varian as one of the Forsaken, leaving him furious with Thrall.

• Garrosh captured the coalition camp and persuaded Tirion Fordring to join him and urge him to execute Thrall, Vol'jin, and Sylvanas.
• Antonidas opened a Portal and rescued Thrall and the others before Garrosh could reach them.
• Thrall fled to the Undercity and asked Sylvanas to prepare its defenses while he sought help from Medivh.
• Sylvanas proposed asking the Alliance for troops, and Antonidas said he could resurrect Varian if they found something from his body.
• Vol'jin gave Antonidas Varian's shrunken skull, and Antonidas used Soul Summoning to bring Varian back as one of the Forsaken.
• Varian remembered that Thrall had cooked and eaten him, then swore he would never coexist with Thrall.

Thrall and Sylvanas forced Varian to return to Stormwind and raise an army against Garrosh, so Varian assembled a ragtag force and claimed it numbered five hundred thousand. Garrosh accepted Sylvanas’s offer to betray Thrall, while Tirion Fordring’s Argent Crusade confronted Varian’s army, and a battle began.

• Thrall and Vol'jin pressured Varian to help fight Garrosh, while Sylvanas threatened him until he agreed to obey.
• Thrall ordered Varian to rally Stormwind’s forces, and Sylvanas sent royal guards to escort him back to the city.
• Varian forcibly recruited Stormwind’s residents, then conscripted gnolls and murlocs in Elwynn Forest, assembling an army of fifty thousand.
• Varian marched the army to Tirisfal Glades and falsely proclaimed it numbered five hundred thousand.
• Sylvanas secretly offered to betray Thrall and his allies to Garrosh in exchange for Undercity keeping its status in the Horde, and Garrosh accepted.
• Tirion Fordring led the Argent Crusade to investigate Varian’s army, and the two forces clashed in a massive melee.

Varian and Tirion Fordring led their forces into a chaotic battle in which the Gnolls and Murlocs eventually fled, leaving Varian a prisoner. Meanwhile, Thrall and his followers escaped the Undercity through the sewers and flew to his hidden palace in the Swamp of Sorrows to wait for a chance to return.

• Tirion Fordring urged the Argent Crusade to attack the humans, while Varian positioned his human soldiers between the Gnolls and Murlocs.
• The Gnolls and Murlocs charged in confusion, breaking up the armies and turning the battle into a melee that left Varian and Tirion fighting side by side.
• The Gnolls fled into the forest and the Murlocs escaped to the Tirisfal coast, while Tirion captured Varian and accused him of causing the deaths.
• Thrall, Vol'jin, Eitrigg, and their companions escaped the Undercity through a sewer passage Thrall had learned about from a bribed merchant.
• Thrall rejected suggestions to seek refuge elsewhere and revealed his hidden palace in the Swamp of Sorrows, where he planned to wait for Garrosh's power to weaken.
• Thrall's group disguised themselves as Horde adventurers, rented Gryphons in Silverpine Forest, and flew to the Swamp of Sorrows at night.

After capturing King Varian, Tirion Fordring reported that Thrall had escaped, prompting Garrosh to threaten Undercity before the Emissary beat him and ordered him to attack the Scourge. Garrosh’s Orcs swept through three defensive lines at Icecrown Citadel, and he led ten thousand elite Orcs toward its open gates, unaware of Robbie’s plan to trap them.

• Tirion Fordring reported Thrall’s escape to Garrosh, who threatened to destroy Undercity and conquer the Eastern Kingdoms before the Emissary stopped him.
• The Emissary beat Garrosh into submission and ordered him to attack Icecrown Citadel as a command from a god.
• Kel'Thuzad built five defensive lines to lure Garrosh’s Orcs deeper into the Scourge’s trap.
• Garrosh sent the Argent Crusade to test the defenses, then led a night attack that broke through three lines and killed more than fifty thousand Scourge soldiers.
• Big Candle Gagg’s coverage spread exaggerated reports of Garrosh’s victories, and Garrosh dismissed comparisons with Thrall.
• Garrosh led ten thousand elite Orcs through Icecrown Citadel’s open gates, expecting to win the final battle and feast on the Frozen Throne.

Thrall plotted to reclaim the Warchief title by revealing Gorehowl’s secret to the Lich King, while Robbie and Kel'Thuzad used the information to manipulate Garrosh’s assault on Icecrown Citadel. Garrosh’s army pushed through the citadel’s defenses but suffered its heaviest losses yet on the third level, where the Orcs prepared to counterattack the Frost Dragons and Scourge mages.

• Thrall gathered his followers, proposed using Arthas to kill Garrosh, and explained that Gorehowl’s sealed Gronn-heart magic could kill its wielder if the seal was removed.
• Thrall sent Robbie a letter containing the black magic needed to remove Gorehowl’s seal, and Robbie planned to use it without raising Garrosh’s suspicions.
• Robbie’s Old God-heart magic resurrected Taelan Fordring, who recovered and took on the Lich King’s armor, while Kel'Thuzad praised undeath as humanity’s path of evolution.
• Garrosh led ten thousand elite Orcs through the first and second levels of Icecrown Citadel, overcoming Ghouls, Crypt Fiends, Death Knights, and Abominations with limited losses.
• On the third level, Frost Dragons and Scourge mages killed over a thousand Orcs before exhausting their attacks, and Garrosh had Orc peons bring up enormous ballistae.

Garrosh led the Orcs through the Scourge’s defenses and wore down Arthas’s Vrykul guards with successive waves of Rage-potion-fueled soldiers. After Taelan raised fallen Orcs as Ghouls, Garrosh’s forces destroyed them and exhausted the Lich King, leaving Garrosh eyeing Gorehowl as the Orcs’ axes failed to pierce his armor.

• The Orcs used magical ballistae to bring down most of the Frost Dragons, clearing the way to the Frozen Throne.
• Garrosh ordered Orcs to take Rage Potions and attack the thousand Undead Vrykul guarding the passage, sending wave after wave until the Vrykul grew exhausted.
• After more than five thousand Orcs had fallen, the Vrykul were slaughtered, and Garrosh challenged the lone figure on the Frozen Throne.
• Taelan summoned Scourge minions through Frostmourne, raising fallen Orcs as Ghouls, but Garrosh’s remaining soldiers defeated them.
• Garrosh’s personal guard surrounded Taelan and wore him down while the Orcs fought; exhausted and unable to lift Frostmourne, Taelan remained protected by his sturdy armor.
• When the Orcs’ battle axes failed to damage Taelan’s armor, Garrosh looked at Gorehowl.

Garrosh’s attack on Icecrown Citadel ended in disaster when Gorehowl turned against him, and he returned to camp blaming Thrall. Tirion Fordring’s assault confirmed that the Scourge still had large forces, so he advised Garrosh to keep sending troops to wear Arthas down.

• Garrosh challenged the exhausted Arthas to a duel, but Gorehowl’s backlash trapped him until the Primordial Emissary spilled the blood of more than half the Orc soldiers to stop it.
• Garrosh escaped Icecrown Citadel while the remaining Orc soldiers covered his retreat, leaving him as the only survivor of the ten thousand who had marched there.
• Garrosh returned to camp with 190,000 troops remaining, blamed Thrall for his defeat, and ordered Tirion Fordring to attack Icecrown Citadel.
• Tirion led five thousand Argent Crusade soldiers into the citadel, fought the Ghouls and Crypt Fiends on the first floor, and retreated after failing to defeat them.
• Tirion reported that Death Knights and Abominations remained on the second floor, then advised Garrosh to keep attacking because each Scourge death consumed Arthas’s life.

Garrosh continued sending Orcs to attack Icecrown Citadel on the Primordial Emissary’s assurances, losing a hundred thousand before refusing to sacrifice more. The Emissary arrived, blamed Tirion Fordring, and ordered Garrosh to commit his entire army to an uninterrupted assault.

• Garrosh agreed with Tirion Fordring to send ten thousand Orcs each day to attack Icecrown Citadel, but the Scourge’s elite Undead Vrykul inflicted mounting losses.
• Taelan’s messages relayed the Primordial Emissary’s encouragement, and Garrosh repeatedly recommitted to the assault despite growing casualties and despair.
• After a hundred thousand Orcs had died without defeating the Scourge, Garrosh stopped sending troops, and Tirion revealed that the Primordial Emissary had been imprisoned.
• The Emissary arrived at the allied camp, accused Tirion Fordring of causing the losses, and ordered him stripped and hung from a flagpole.
• The Emissary ordered Garrosh to send his entire army against Icecrown Citadel without pause and threatened that Thrall could replace him, so Garrosh reluctantly agreed.

Garrosh led the Orcs through Icecrown Citadel, defeating the Scourge’s Vrykul and undead Demons at the cost of nearly his entire army. He reached the Frozen Throne, where “Arthas” spoke of the dangers of kingship and the Shadowlands.

• Garrosh sent his Orcs in waves against the undead Vrykul on the first and second levels, while “Arthas” repeatedly offered peace.
• Garrosh rejected “Arthas’s” offers and continued the assault, believing the weakened Lich King was near defeat.
• On the third level, Garrosh’s Orcs fought the Scourge’s undead Burning Legion Demons until every Demon fell.
• “Arthas” fled toward the Frozen Throne as fewer than ten thousand Orcs remained after 190,000 had died at Icecrown Citadel.
• Garrosh reached the Frozen Throne, where “Arthas” sat with Frostmourne and described the abyss beneath it and the Shadowlands.

“Arthas” revealed that he had healed more than three thousand abandoned orc soldiers, who joined Dranosh Saurfang in defeating Garrosh’s army at Icecrown Citadel. Garrosh escaped to Dalaran and decided to kill Tirion Fordring before the Emissary could replace him.

• “Arthas” told Garrosh that the wounded orcs he had treated had sworn loyalty to him, and fighting broke out on the Frozen Throne and its lower levels.
• Garrosh’s forces became trapped and fought Dranosh Saurfang’s advancing soldiers, but exhaustion left them unable to resist.
• Garrosh teleported to Dalaran as his army suffered a crushing defeat at Icecrown Citadel.
• An Argent Crusade officer rescued Tirion Fordring and told him Garrosh had lost; Tirion feared Garrosh would kill him and urged the officer to help him escape.
• Garrosh arrived at the Violet Citadel, beat Rhonin nearly to death, and decided to kill Tirion Fordring before the Emissary could discard him.

Garrosh fled after failing to capture Tirion Fordring, while the Emissary ordered Tirion to lead an attack on Icecrown Citadel. Tirion’s teachings made the allied army too afraid to fight the Orcs, so he and the Emissary considered asking Thrall to persuade them to leave the Scourge.

• Garrosh revived Rhonin, ordered Dalaran Mages to help him return to camp, and discovered Tirion had escaped.
• Garrosh fled to Ratchet before the Emissary arrived, and the Emissary learned that only a little over two thousand Orcs remained at Icecrown Citadel.
• The Emissary ordered Tirion to lead forty thousand allied soldiers against Arthas, but Tirion realized he could not bring himself to attack the Orcs.
• Tirion sent his adjutant to lead the assault, but the allied soldiers surrendered rather than fight the Orcs, and Tirion kept the army camped outside Icecrown Citadel.
• The Emissary pressed Tirion to explain the delay, and Tirion argued that defeating the Orcs would dishonor them and suggested bringing back Thrall to persuade them to leave the Scourge.