Recaps

Garrosh and Doras plotted to use the conflict in Gilneas to seize control of the kingdom, while Cairne Bloodhoof’s relentless siege wore down the Bloodfang Worgen. When Nazgrim’s Orc army arrived, Robbie urged Lyral to lead a counterattack, and the Orcs’ presence sent Cairne’s Abominations fleeing in terror.

• Jaina’s letter prompted Garrosh and Doras to plan a march on the Undercity, but a false request for reinforcements led Doras to send Nazgrim’s army toward Gilneas instead.
• Cairne Bloodhoof used nonstop attacks to exhaust the Bloodfang Worgen, and Lyral struggled to keep his troops steady through five days of battle.
• Nazgrim’s elite Orc army landed, and Robbie told Lyral to use the Scythe of Elune to inspire the Worgen and attack Cairne’s forces.
• Lyral opened the city gates and led the Worgen in an assault, causing the Abominations to flee when they saw the Orcs.
• Cairne failed to rally his troops because the Abominations, like him, feared the Orcs who had brutalized their Tauren souls in life.

The Forsaken and Orc forces were defeated at Gilneas, prompting Sylvanas to supply King Greymane with siege weapons so he could attack Lyral and the Bloodfang Worgen. After Lyral fell asleep, Robbie captured a ghostly intruder who revealed that Greymane planned to attack the city that night.

• Lyral’s Bloodfang Worgen routed the Forsaken and scattered the Orcs, while Cairne Bloodhoof escaped to the Undercity by teleportation rune.
• Sylvanas learned of the defeat and arranged for Antonidas to send siege weapons to King Greymane, hoping he would move against Lyral.
• Greymane told Prince Liam that he planned to kill Lyral and use the siege weapons to seize Gilneas for the Greymane Family.
• After Lyral fell asleep, Robbie hid him and created a fake Lyral, which a ghostly figure attacked before becoming fixated on the Scythe of Elune.
• Robbie questioned the ghost, Avel, who revealed that Greymane planned to attack the city that night with siege equipment from the Forsaken.

Robbie’s manipulation turned Greymane’s assault on the royal city into a disastrous trap, driving him to retreat and distrust Sylvanas. Meanwhile, Jaina received Thrall’s plan to use Prince Anduin as the vessel for a powerful being’s arrival on Azeroth.

• Robbie revived Forsaken soldiers and sent them to ambush Greymane’s army at the royal city.
• Greymane’s forces were trapped by the undead, lost their siege engines, and retreated to Greymane Manor.
• Greymane warned Prince Liam not to trust Sylvanas and decided the family and army should evacuate through the manor’s secret passage.
• Greymane asked the imprisoned Darius Crowley to command the rear guard as the Gilnean forces prepared to withdraw.
• Jaina received Thrall’s letter proposing Prince Anduin as the vessel for a great being who would oversee the plan to repair Outland.

After learning that Thrall’s plan to save Azeroth required Anduin to serve as a vessel, Anduin fled Stormwind and sought refuge with Moira Bronzebeard. Moira agreed to protect him after he convinced her that he loved her and explained the threat.

• Jaina sent Thrall’s difficult-to-read letter to Theramore’s scholars, where an SI:7 agent discovered its contents and passed the intelligence to Shaw.
• Shaw secretly warned Anduin that Thrall’s plan put his life at risk, and Anduin decided to flee before Jaina reached Stormwind City.
• Anduin traveled with trusted guards to Blackrock Mountain and arrived at Moira Bronzebeard’s birthday celebration.
• While viewing Moira’s treasures, Anduin found a model ship inscribed as a birthday gift to Jaina Proudmoore and realized Moira and Jaina were close.
• Anduin claimed that he loved Moira and explained Thrall’s plan, prompting Moira to denounce Thrall and promise that no one would hurt him.

Anduin was taken into King Bronzebeard’s custody after Jaina revealed his location, but he secretly left Moira a Scrying Gem as a birthday gift. The gem showed Muradin Bronzebeard admitting that he forged Frostmourne and revealing King Bronzebeard had an illegitimate son, leaving Moira with a new threat to her claim to the throne.

• Anduin hid in Moira’s bedroom while Jaina tracked him to Blackrock Depths and secretly informed King Magni Bronzebeard.
• King Bronzebeard broke into Moira’s bedroom, found Anduin there, and ordered him taken to Ironforge while warning Moira to keep the incident secret.
• Anduin slipped Moira a note directing her to a birthday present at an inn in Thorium Point, where she found a Scrying Gem and his letter about Muradin Bronzebeard.
• Moira activated the gem and watched a recording of Muradin admitting that he forged Frostmourne and claiming King Bronzebeard had an illegitimate son who could inherit the throne.

Moira summoned Muradin to learn about Magni’s illegitimate children and the Bronzebeard Clan’s secret protection. She then demanded Muradin help her overthrow her father, and he reluctantly proposed using a Titan relic that turns its user into diamond.

• Moira threatened to send evidence against Muradin to Thrall unless he returned to meet her, so Muradin traveled to Blackrock Depths.
• Moira questioned Muradin about Magni’s other women and illegitimate children, and Muradin revealed that Brann kept a list of them.
• Muradin told Moira that Magni secretly supported his children and that one had disguised himself as an Orc in the Zandalari Empire.
• Muradin warned that the Bronzebeard Clan served a great being that protected its kings, but Moira rejected his warning and insisted she would control her own fate.
• Moira proposed that she and Muradin join forces against Magni, threatening him with the evidence she held.
• Muradin reluctantly suggested using a Titan relic from Ulduar that could turn its user into diamond, then worried that Magni would see through the plan.

Moira gained Magni's trust and obtained the Dream Hammer, but Muradin warned that Magni suspected her and could sense its use. In Gilneas, Lyral survived an attack by Avel and chose to live in hiding while a veiled Night Elf investigated how he had cured the Bloodfang Worgen.

• Moira returned to Ironforge, apologized to Magni, and persuaded him that she no longer loved Anduin.
• Magni showed Moira the Bronzebeard Clan's Titan relics and gave her the Dream Hammer, which could inflict nightmares and madness.
• Muradin warned Moira that the Dream Hammer was Magni's test and that he would sense whenever she used it.
• Lyral learned that Avel had attacked him, then agreed with Robbie to fake his death and remain with the Worgen in secret.
• A veiled Night Elf inspected the Bloodfang Worgen's settlement and found traces of the Scythe of Elune's aura in their church.

Jaina went to Ironforge to retrieve Anduin, but Magni Bronzebeard demanded territory in exchange. Moira offered to help steal Anduin and asked Jaina to take her to Ysera, where she asked about the Dream Hammer.

• Jaina visited King Bronzebeard, who first demanded an intimate favor and then an enormous payment to release Anduin.
• Jaina returned to negotiate and agreed to consider Magni Bronzebeard's demand that the Horde leave Hammerfall and withdraw from the Arathi Highlands.
• Jaina found Moira's note, sneaked out of the inn, and met her at a private house.
• Moira offered to help steal Anduin in exchange for meeting Green Dragon Queen Ysera.
• Jaina took Moira through a Portal to the Emerald Dream, where Moira asked Ysera about the Dream Hammer.

Moira struck a bargain with Ysera to learn the Dream Hammer’s deeper powers, then used them and Ysera’s scale to manipulate Magni into ordering Muradin to bring the Elemental Tablet to Ironforge. The chapter ended with Muradin uneasy as he received Magni’s command.

• Moira agreed to return the Dream Hammer to the Emerald Dream after her death, and Ysera explained its ability to plant subconscious impulses and gave her a green dragon scale.
• Moira told Jaina to be patient about helping her smuggle Anduin out, saying she would soon be queen of Ironforge.
• Magni recognized that he was dreaming and used a Titan relic spinning top to test and disrupt the dream.
• Moira rebuilt the dream as the Temple of the Moon, distracted Magni with Tyrande, and used Elune’s voice to make him believe Thrall threatened Azeroth and that the Elemental Tablet could control the elements.
• Magni woke believing the dream’s message and sent Muradin a letter ordering him to return to Ironforge with the tablet.
• Muradin received Magni’s order and felt uneasy about what Moira might have done.

King Magni Bronzebeard questioned Anduin, then brought him and Muradin to Old Ironforge to attempt a dangerous ritual using a Titan tablet. Magni revealed the ruined city and appointed Muradin as his heir if the ritual killed him, leaving Muradin stunned.

• King Bronzebeard questioned Anduin about Varian, Rehgar, Thrall, and Blackmoore, then left him trembling after condemning Blackmoore for saving Thrall.
• Muradin brought Magni a Titan tablet from Ulduar and explained that its inscription meant to become one with the earth and listen to its voice.
• Magni decided to perform the dangerous ritual in Old Ironforge and ordered Anduin to accompany them.
• Anduin saw Old Ironforge’s illusory mountain of gems and its petrified Dwarves, while Magni warned him about the dangers of Azeroth and descenders.
• Magni told Anduin that Muradin would inherit the throne if the ritual killed him, and Muradin asked why Moira would not inherit it.

Magni Bronzebeard entered the Abyss through the stone tablet and was transformed into diamond after a terrifying consciousness emerged and was repelled by Azeroth’s living beings. Muradin succeeded him as king of Ironforge with Anduin’s support, while Moira marched on the city with an army of Dark Iron Dwarves.

• Before beginning the ritual, Magni signed a document naming Muradin his successor, with Prince Anduin as witness.
• Magni entered Ny’alotha and ignored N’Zoth’s warnings to reach the Abyss, where a cold existence swallowed his consciousness and turned him to diamond.
• A vast, merciless consciousness swept across the world, but the combined power of Azeroth’s living beings shattered the portion that emerged.
• Muradin realized Moira had plotted to claim the throne, enlisted Anduin’s support, and succeeded Magni as king with Ironforge’s leaders’ approval.
• Moira learned that Muradin had taken the throne and marched on Ironforge with her child and a vast army of Dark Iron Dwarves.

Muradin prepared to face Moira’s Dark Iron army while discovering clues that Magni might return, then helped Anduin arrange a false double and proposed uniting the three dwarf clans. The chapter ended with Moira reading and burning a letter in which her father explained why he had withheld the throne.

• Muradin found Titan relic records that explained how to counter Moira’s Dream Hammer and suggested the Moon Goddess Elune had once given oracles to Ironforge’s kings.
• Muradin suspected Magni might still return, resolved not to harm Moira, and used a Titan relic to alter a frozen man’s appearance and memories as Anduin’s replacement.
• Anduin arranged to live in seclusion behind a Lion King’s Iron Mask and offered to support the dwarves if they ever clashed with humans.
• Muradin told Anduin that Moira’s army was approaching and that he feared both bloodshed and Magni’s return; Anduin suggested uniting the three dwarf clans under three kings.
• Muradin welcomed the idea of reuniting the clans, while Moira received her father’s letter explaining that he had withheld the throne to spare her the curse on Ironforge’s kings.
• Moira burned the letter and angrily declared that her father had never understood her.

Moira failed to secure Jaina’s help in reclaiming Ironforge, while Muradin uncovered the Bronzebeard kings’ terrible curse. Jaina brought Prince Anduin to Stormwind City, where Varian mistook the encounter for a test and set out to capture the real Anduin in Ironforge.

• Moira asked Jaina to help her reclaim the Ironforge throne, but Jaina refused and left.
• Muradin opened a locked mahogany box and discovered records explaining the curse that afflicted the Bronzebeard kings.
• Jaina brought Prince Anduin to Stormwind City, where he tearfully said goodbye to Varian.
• Varian decided the Anduin before him was a fake and demanded to know where the real Anduin was.
• Varian ordered Shaw to help him capture Prince Anduin, and Shaw sent expendable SI:7 agents with him toward Ironforge.

Varian’s attempt to seize Moira backfired when her power forced him to agree to help rescue Anduin and arrange their marriage. In Gilneas, Darius reached Greymane at Southshore, while a drunken Prince Liam denounced Jaina to the tavern patrons.

• Jaina went to the Exodar to ask Prophet Velen for help bringing Anduin back from Ironforge.
• Varian met Moira on the way to Ironforge, insulted her, then tried to capture her to use as leverage against Muradin.
• Moira melted Varian’s sword and frightened his agents into fleeing, forcing Varian to agree to her marriage with Anduin and to summon Stormwind’s army.
• Darius escaped Gilneas with fewer than half his soldiers and reached Greymane’s camp at Southshore, where Greymane told him they would take refuge in Darnassus.
• Prince Liam drank in a Southshore tavern and angrily called Jaina Thrall’s lackey.

After Prince Liam insulted Jaina, members of the Peace Dove reported his words, and Velen came to Ironforge at Thrall’s request. There, Velen cleansed Moira’s flame power, leaving Muradin to fear that his decision might doom the Dwarves.

• Members of the Peace Dove recorded Prince Liam cursing Jaina and sent the report to Theramore, where Velen agreed to Thrall’s request.
• Muradin and Falstad Wildhammer joined forces against Moira, but Moira entered Ironforge with Varian and declared herself the rightful heir.
• Moira defended her alliance with Thaurissan and threatened to transform the Dark Iron Dwarves into Flame Dwarves.
• Moira revealed her blazing power, and Muradin refused to join her, pleading for the Holy Light to save the Dwarves.
• Velen arrived through a Portal and used the Holy Light to strip Moira of her flames, while Muradin wondered whether the Dwarves could survive the Orcs without their protections.

Velen forced Anduin to agree to sacrifice himself for Azeroth and left Ironforge with Varian, while Muradin and Moira were unable to stop him. In Theramore, Jaina learned that Prince Liam had insulted her and decided to use him instead of Anduin for Thrall’s plan.

• Moira cursed Velen after he destroyed her flame power, and Muradin struck Velen with his hammer and ordered him out of Ironforge.
• Velen used the Holy Light to bring Anduin before him and compelled him to say he would sacrifice himself for Azeroth.
• Moira attacked Velen, but he knocked her away before leaving Ironforge with Varian and declaring the Orcs Azeroth’s only hope.
• Velen praised Varian for putting Azeroth before his son, then teleported toward Theramore with Anduin.
• Jaina froze and shattered a subordinate who reported Liam’s insults, then decided to use Liam as the prince Thrall needed instead of Anduin.

Jaina secured Anduin’s safety and forced Velen to teach him the Holy Light, then demanded that King Greymane hand over Liam as Thrall’s Vessel. Facing the choice of sacrificing his son or losing his people, Greymane leaned toward surrender, while Liam and Lord Godfrey began planning a coup.

• Jaina accused Velen of abducting Anduin, freed the prince, and made Velen promise to teach him the Holy Light.
• Jaina wrote to King Greymane demanding Liam as Thrall’s Vessel and ordered General Darius to watch the king.
• Greymane told Darius that Liam had publicly insulted Jaina and lamented that refusing her could doom Gilneas’s people.
• After hearing that Greymane might surrender him, Liam rejected Godfrey’s plan to seek support from the Bloodfang Worgen.
• Liam agreed to consider Godfrey’s coup plan after learning that their forces outnumbered the king’s guards.

Prince Liam’s rebellion against Greymane stalled as Darius used negotiations to buy time, while Belysra returned with the Scythe of Elune and Greymane chose to use it to raise a Worgen army. The chapter ended with Worgen attacking Liam’s forces and Lord Godfrey warning that Liam’s hesitation had brought defeat.

• Prince Liam surrounded Greymane’s camp with rebel forces and sent negotiators to demand that Greymane surrender.
• Darius persuaded Greymane to resist and then prolonged negotiations with Liam for three days.
• Belysra and a Ghost Wolf stole a replica of the Scythe of Elune while Robbie and Lyral let them escape to learn Malfurion and Tyrande’s intentions.
• Lord Godfrey urged Liam to attack, but Liam insisted on resolving the conflict peacefully.
• Belysra brought the Scythe to Greymane, who declared that he would use it to build a powerful Worgen army.
• Worgen charged Liam’s forces, and Godfrey told Liam that his hesitation had led to their defeat.

Sylvanas rescued Prince Liam from Greymane and delivered him to Thrall, who used a brutal sacrifice ritual to summon a being from beyond a spatial rift into Liam's body. The possessed prince opened his red eyes and shrieked.

• Lord Godfrey urged Liam to escape while he and his soldiers held off Greymane's Worgen, but Greymane soon captured Liam.
• Greymane declared that Liam would be handed over to Thrall, but Sylvanas used an explosive arrow and an Abomination's hook to abduct him.
• Sylvanas mocked Greymane for pretending to care about Liam, then escaped through Antonidas's Portal as Greymane vowed revenge.
• Jaina brought the bound Liam to Thrall, claiming he was a more suitable Vessel than Anduin, and Thrall began preparing the descent ritual.
• Thrall forced a spiked seed into an Orc, causing black vines to merge hundreds of Orcs into a mass that drew elemental power and opened a spatial rift.
• A cloud-serpent-like figure flew from the rift into Liam's body, crushed his consciousness, and left him with red eyes and a piercing shriek.

Wrathion rejected the weak body Thrall had found and demanded that Jaina bring him a Black Dragon Egg, threatening to keep torturing Thrall until she did. Jaina persuaded Alexstrasza to hand over an egg and left with it for Theramore, while Alexstrasza revealed she had been waiting centuries to get rid of it.

• Wrathion tortured Thrall for giving him a weak body, then ordered Jaina to find a Black Dragon Egg while keeping Thrall captive.
• Jaina went to Theramore and asked Aegwynn for help, and Aegwynn wrote a letter to Alexstrasza.
• Jaina persuaded Alexstrasza to give her a Black Dragon Egg by promising the Red Dragonflight a place in restored Outland and threatening that Azeroth would be destroyed if they refused.
• Alexstrasza gave Jaina the egg, which could not be transported by magic, and ordered Rheastrasza to carry it to Theramore with Jaina.
• After Jaina left, Krasus congratulated Alexstrasza for getting rid of the egg, and Alexstrasza said she had hoped Aegwynn would steal it three hundred years earlier.

Rheastrasza revealed that the Black Dragon Egg had cursed the Red Dragonflight, then secretly switched it with a Red Dragon Egg before delivering it to Jaina. Jaina tracked the real egg to the Badlands, where Garrosh’s forces and an approaching airship threatened it, and Rheastrasza regained control of herself.

• Rheastrasza told Jaina that the Black Dragon Egg had caused at least a thousand Red Dragon Eggs to fail to hatch and had bewitched Red Dragons into protecting it.
• After Rheastrasza left Jaina in Theramore, Aegwynn identified the egg as a hatchless Red Dragon Egg, and Jaina used a tracking spell to locate the real egg in the Badlands.
• A mysterious being told Garrosh that a powerful enemy would descend at the Throne of the Elements and might need the Black Dragon Egg, so Garrosh sent armies toward Nagrand and the Badlands.
• In a Badlands cave, the Black Dragon Egg urged the bewitched Rheastrasza to stop an Orc airship approaching Kargath, but seeing the Orcs snapped her out of its influence.
• Rheastrasza realized the egg had bewitched her, and the egg declared that it no longer needed the Red Dragonflight because it had new Orc subordinates.

The Kor'kron commander massacred Meltlight Town and the Troggs of Uldaman to provision his army, then led three thousand Orcs to the Black Dragon egg, which took control of them. Jaina found the Kor'kron camp and asked Varian to intervene, but he refused to join the Orcs' conflict.

• The Kor'kron commander seized Meltlight Town, killed its Trade Prince, and had his troops devour the town's inhabitants while searching for the Red Dragon's hiding place.
• The commander had the Kor'kron army slaughter Troggs in Uldaman to prepare provisions for a prolonged campaign.
• The Black Dragon egg used its power to make three thousand Kor'kron Orcs its obedient guards.
• Jaina found Meltlight Town deserted and discovered the Kor'kron camp near the Black Dragon egg's cave.
• Jaina entered Stormwind Keep and urged Varian to send an army, but Varian refused to fight Garrosh's Orcs.

Jaina led five thousand Stormwind soldiers into the Badlands to trap the Kor'kron Legion, relying on General Harrison's plan to exhaust the Orcs and kill them without a direct battle. The Goblins instead helped the Orcs break out, leaving Harrison to concede defeat.

• Varian lent Jaina five thousand soldiers while refusing to commit Stormwind City to the conflict.
• General Harrison proposed trapping the Orcs in their canyon and harassing them until they turned on one another, and Jaina accepted his plan.
• Jaina dismissed Harrison's warning about the Goblins and received a promise of support from the Trade Prince of Steamwheedle Port.
• Harrison's forces blocked the canyon exit and harassed the Orc camp, where the Orcs soon began killing one another.
• Harrison sent a thousand soldiers to guard Meltlight Wharf as the Orcs' death toll rose to a thousand.
• A Goblin airship bombed the canyon fortifications and declared its support for the Orcs, who charged the human camp as Harrison told Jaina they had lost.

Jaina defeated the Kor'kron Orcs and delivered the Black Dragon Egg to Wrathion, who hatched a powerful Black Dragon and chose the Goblins of Kezan as the starting point for his game. Meanwhile, the escaped black mist possessed Kalecgos and drove him to attack the Orc women on a Durotar beach.

• Jaina sealed the canyon, destroyed the Goblin airship, and led the humans in wiping out the Kor'kron Orcs.
• The Black Dragon Egg released a stream of black mist before human soldiers carried it from the cave for Jaina.
• Jaina delivered the egg to Wrathion, who transformed into a Whelp and rapidly grew into an adult Black Dragon.
• Wrathion rejected Thrall's plan to destroy Azeroth outright and decided to manipulate civilizations for amusement.
• Wrathion chose the Goblins of Kezan as the first target of his game after Jaina suggested their islands.
• Black mist possessed Kalecgos on a Durotar beach, forcing him into his Blue Dragon form, where he swallowed the Orc women.

The Black Dragon egg battled Sathrovarr for control of Kalecgos, then agreed to remain hidden in his mind while seeking a better vessel. Meanwhile, Wrathion planned to lure the Goblins of the Kezan Isles to Mount Kajaro and exploit them by provoking a volcanic eruption.

• The Black Dragon egg nearly defeated Sathrovarr for control of Kalecgos, but a Wyvern attacked the weakened dragon and forced Sathrovarr to take over and drive it away.
• The Black Dragon egg agreed to stay in Kalecgos until it found a suitable vessel and vowed revenge against Jaina.
• At the Pleasure Palace, Thrall questioned Gallywix about the Kezan Isles, and Gallywix complained that the Goblins had escaped Orc control and destroyed his estates.
• Wrathion rejected Jaina and Gallywix's plans to kill the Goblins and instead ordered Thrall to bring a hundred Shamans and Gallywix to buy or destroy the islands' ships.
• Wrathion led the Shamans up Mount Kajaro and told Gallywix to announce that the volcano was about to erupt, hoping Goblins would flock to the islands for its riches.