Recaps

Thrall revealed himself as the Southsea Pirates’ true backer and recruited Dempl and Kregg for his plan to unite Tanaris and Uldum. Dempl fled after Thrall gave him one chance to produce evidence against Kregg, while Kregg was appointed foreman and led the pirates toward the Caverns of Time.

• Vol'jin introduced Thrall as the real backer of the Southsea Pirates, and Dempl recognized the Savior and pledged to serve him.
• Thrall told Dempl he wanted to establish a nation in Tanaris and Uldum, bringing the region’s peoples together in peace.
• Kregg refused Thrall’s offer by claiming he remained devoted to Lady Goya, but Dempl accused him of deceiving her and spying for Gadgetzan.
• Thrall warned Dempl to stop quarrelling and give him proof against Kregg; Dempl left the harbor in a small boat and did not return.
• Thrall appointed Kregg foreman of the Southsea Pirates and ordered him to gather them for a journey to the Caverns of Time.
• Dempl sailed through the mist and hidden reefs, wondering what Thrall intended, while Kregg led the pirates toward the Caverns of Time and discarded Lady Goya’s glove.

Thrall led the Southsea Pirates to the Caverns of Time, where he revealed that their role in saving Azeroth was to serve as food. After feasting on Goblin dishes, he and Vol'jin planned to enter Uldum as emissaries of the gods and seek the Forge of Origination.

• Thrall and Vol'jin led five thousand Southsea Pirates into the Caverns of Time and ordered them to lay down their weapons.
• Ellurmi transformed into a Dragon and ate a Tauren, terrifying the pirates.
• Thrall told Craig that the pirates were indispensable food, then prepared and ate a feast of Goblin dishes.
• Anachronos counted the pirates as five thousand military rations and offered Thrall five thousand Orc soldiers.
• Vol'jin reported that Ra-den wanted their help leaving Azeroth after they obtained the Forge of Origination.
• Thrall chose Oasis City as their starting point in Uldum and proposed entering as emissaries of the gods.

Robbie and Vanessa discovered that Thrall’s attack on Uldum was tied to a plan involving the Halls of Origination, while King Felix secretly worked with Ra-den to use the war against Lei Shen. The chapter ended with Ra-den promising Felix power and dominion if he killed Lei Shen and reclaimed Ra-den’s stolen power.

• Robbie disguised himself as Harrison Jones and attended King Felix’s war council with Vanessa, where the Tol’vir dismissed Thrall’s threat.
• Vanessa warned Robbie that Thrall and Brann Bronzebeard planned to explore the Halls of Origination, prompting Felix to involve the Ramkahen and Neferset tribes.
• Robbie spied on Felix and discovered that he secretly communicated with Ra-den, who said Thrall’s plan had become more complicated.
• Felix revealed that Oasis City was prepared to fall and sacrifice half its people to draw Lei Shen into the conflict over the Forge of Origination.
• Ra-den promised to cure the Tol’vir’s Curse of Flesh and help Felix rule Uldum and Pandaria if Felix killed Lei Shen and reclaimed Ra-den’s power.

Dark Pharaoh Takahen agreed to feign support for Thrall while secretly preparing to fight for control of the Halls of Origination. After Thrall's army landed in Uldum, Thrall beat Brann Bronzebeard and demanded that he sign a slave contract.

• Ra-den told Takahen that Thrall was the prophesied ruler of Uldum and ordered the Neferset to support him.
• Takahen told his twelve Priests that he would intercept Thrall's army and seek help from Harrison Jones and the Halls of Origination Guardians.
• Thrall landed his Orc army at the Cursed Landing Site and built fortifications while Brann Bronzebeard argued that he should lead the expedition into the Halls of Origination.
• Thrall punched Brann, ordered the Orcs to beat him, and demanded that Brann sign a Slave Contract.

Robbie persuaded Dark Pharaoh Takahen to cooperate against Thrall, while Felix secretly allied the Oasis with Thrall and handed him the Scepter of Orsis. The Neferset then attacked Thrall's camp with the Sun Obelisk as Felix watched from nearby.

• Thrall forced Brann to sign a slave contract and arranged for his wounds to be treated, leaving Brann to plan an escape.
• Robbie explained the Forge of Origination's secrets to Takahen and secured the Neferset's cooperation by showing him an object.
• Felix secretly met Thrall, agreed to sacrifice Oasis people to lure Lei Shen, and gave Thrall the Scepter of Orsis.
• Felix returned to find Takahen and five thousand Neferset had camped nearby, but he dismissed them as a threat.
• The Sun Obelisk bathed Thrall's camp in debilitating heat, and the Neferset attacked.

Dark Elder Takahen’s Neferset forces defeated the Orcs at their camp, then he revealed that Thrall had taken three thousand Orcs to Oasis City with a possibly fake Scepter of Orsis. At Oasis City, Shimra Sunreaver defeated Thrall and routed the Orcs, leaving him poised to kill Thrall.

• Takahen and the Neferset Warriors overwhelmed the Orc camp, then Takahen confronted Felix as the Orsis People arrived.
• Takahen told Felix that Thrall had led three thousand Orcs to Oasis City and suggested that the Scepter of Orsis was fake, prompting Felix to send his forces back to reinforce the city.
• Thrall led three thousand Orcs to Oasis City through Portals, and Shimra Sunreaver sent five thousand Orsis soldiers out to meet them.
• Thrall’s Scepter of Orsis shattered, and Shimra struck him down with his warhammer as the Orsis routed the Orcs and Vol'jin escaped.
• Shimra stood on Thrall’s chest and raised his warhammer, ready to kill him.

Ra-den destroyed Oasis City and consumed the souls of its citizens, while the Southwind Lord uncovered evidence linking the attack to Thrall. Felix returned to the ruins, recognized that Lei Shen’s warning had been true, and admitted he knew who was responsible.

• Ra-den’s lightning and Void Energy annihilated Oasis City, consumed its citizens’ souls, and left Shimra dying while he clutched a piece of Thrall’s flesh.
• The Southwind Lord found Shimra’s remains and concluded that Thrall’s flesh carried the powers of Void and lightning, implicating Ra-den.
• Felix dreamed that Lei Shen blamed Ra-den for Uldum’s past tragedies and urged Felix to expose him, but Felix woke rejecting the warning as bewitching magic.
• Felix returned to Oasis City and heard the Southwind Lord explain the evidence, then acknowledged that Lei Shen had told the truth and said he knew the culprit.

Al'Akir ordered the destruction of the Orsis People after deciding to punish Ra-den, while Thrall entered the Halls of Origination with Brann Bronzebeard to seek the Guardian's power. The chapter left Brann searching for another way past the stone guardians after Thrall refused to disguise himself as Ra-den.

• Al'Akir learned that Ra-den had been slaughtering the Tol'vir through an energy avatar and ordered the Lord of the South Wind to wipe out the Orsis People.
• The Lord of the South Wind unleashed a sandstorm that destroyed Oasis City and erased the Orsis bloodline.
• King Faoris and High Priest Ament decided that Ramkahen had to appeal to Ra-den for protection from Al'Akir.
• Thrall told Brann Bronzebeard that he intended to use the Halls of Origination to destroy the Tol'vir tribes and rule Uldum.
• Brann's men opened the Halls of Origination's gates, but Thrall struck Brann when he suggested disguising themselves as Ra-den to evade the stone guardians.

Brann broke Thrall’s control by forming a pact with Anhuur, bringing the Halls of Origination’s Guardians to life and forcing Thrall to flee. Outside, Thrall gained Faoris and Ramkahen as slaves, then led them toward a confrontation with Takahen’s Neferset.

• Thrall threatened Brann as the Explorers' League sacrificed over a hundred lives while disabling Guardians on their way to Anhuur.
• Anhuur offered Brann a Titans' Pact that would void the Slave Contract, and Brann accepted by marking the runes with his blood.
• Thrall and Vol'jin fled through the passage as Anhuur and the other Guardians attacked the Orcs and sealed the Halls of Origination.
• King Faoris and Ramkahen submitted to Thrall, who accepted them as slaves and rode on Faoris's back.
• Takahen saw Thrall arriving with Faoris and challenged Ramkahen, pointing out that its soldiers had no fighting spirit.

Thrall and Ra-den used the battle between the Ramkahen and Neferset to reach the Halls of Origination, where Ra-den revealed his plan to activate the Forge of Origination. Thrall learned that the blast could wipe out most life across Kalimdor and ordered Ra-den to use it against Orgrimmar.

• Dark Elder Takahen undermined the Ramkahen's morale, and Thrall struck King Faoris until he ordered his forces to attack the Neferset.
• The Neferset used the Sun Obelisk to overpower the Ramkahen, and King Faoris retreated as Ra-den appeared on the battlefield.
• Ra-den battled Al'Akir long enough to seize soldiers from both sides, then flew with Thrall and Vol'jin to the Halls of Origination.
• Ra-den explained that he had planned to use the Forge of Origination to break through the Titans Shield and leave Azeroth, but needed the bloodlines of all three Tol'vir tribes to activate it.
• Ra-den warned Thrall that activating the Forge could wipe out most life across Kalimdor, and Thrall ordered him to help destroy Orgrimmar.

Robbie and N'Zoth planned to use Thrall to disrupt Ra-den's attempt to reach the Forge of Origination. A memory crystal revealed how Lei Shen had trapped Ra-den in the past, but the record ended when Ra-den banished himself into the Void and the pyramid exploded.

• Robbie and N'Zoth discussed the Forge of Origination's unstable condition and N'Zoth's plan to send it into the Void if Ra-den tried to detonate it.
• Ra-den led Thrall and Vol'jin into the Halls of Origination and used the blood of three Tol'vir tribes to open the way to the Forge of Origination.
• Thrall seized Vol'jin's memory crystal, and Vol'jin explained how to activate it.
• The crystal showed Lei Shen confronting Ra-den and using a black rune to weaken him, then offering to make him Grand Marshal.
• Ra-den revealed that the Tol'vir had become his servants, banished himself into the Void, and triggered an explosion that shattered the crystal.

Thrall seized the Black Rune and killed Ra-den, disrupting plans to use the Guardian against Al'Akir. A mysterious power ordered Thrall to sacrifice a hundred thousand Ramkahen to resurrect Ra-den, and Thrall welcomed the chance to enslave him.

• Ra-den brought Thrall and Vol'jin to the Forge of Origination and absorbed its power to stabilize himself.
• Thrall took the Black Rune and used it to bind Ra-den, whose body broke apart as he died.
• Robbie, Vanessa, and N'Zoth wondered why Ra-den's death had changed what should have happened in history.
• Thrall declared his intentions for the Tol'vir, then learned that Ra-den's death had ruined the mysterious being's plan.
• The mysterious being ordered Thrall to have King Faoris sacrifice a hundred thousand Ramkahen to resurrect Ra-den, whom Thrall could then enslave.

King Faoris used the Astral Obelisk to sacrifice Ramkahen civilians and soldiers, helping Thrall resurrect Ra-den. Ra-den joined the Ramkahen against the Neferset, while Siamat offered Dark Pharaoh Takahen a way to fight back by lifting the Curse of Flesh.

• King Faoris escorted captured Ramkahen civilians to the Halls of Origination, where Thrall ordered him to sacrifice them to resurrect Ra-den.
• After the first hundred thousand sacrifices formed a crimson figure without awakening Ra-den, Thrall demanded ten thousand strong soldiers.
• King Faoris used the Astral Obelisk to control Ramkahen soldiers and send them to their deaths, completing Ra-den's resurrection.
• Ra-den awakened and agreed to correct the Neferset, while Thrall offered to help the Ramkahen wage war against them.
• Dark Pharaoh Takahen learned that Al'Akir would not intervene, and Siamat offered to help him lift the Curse of Flesh.

Thrall manipulated King Faoris into leading the Ramkahen against the Neferset while secretly targeting Ramkahen City. After the Neferset revealed their ancient forms, Thrall reached the city with Ra-den and Vol'jin as ten thousand Orcs came through a Portal to attack it.

• Thrall forced King Faoris to launch a night assault on the Lost City, and the Ramkahen fought their way inside.
• The Neferset's golden colossus fell, but transformed Neferset warriors slaughtered the Ramkahen in the city center.
• High Priest Ament told King Faoris that the Neferset had broken the Curse of Flesh and urged him to seek Ra-den's help.
• King Faoris discovered that Ra-den, Thrall, and Vol'jin had left, while Thrall revealed that Ramkahen City was his real target.
• A young man from the Caverns of Time provided Thrall with ten thousand Orc soldiers, who emerged from a Portal beside Ramkahen City.

King Faoris and Takahen joined forces against the approaching Orcs, but Faoris betrayed the Neferset by unleashing a flood on them. Takahen’s surviving Stone Tol’vir escaped, while Faoris claimed the title of first emperor and watched the Orcs and Ra-den attack Ramkahen.

• Takahen warned Faoris that Orcs were crossing the Portal toward Ramkahen and that Ra-den was aiding Thrall.
• Faoris saw the Orc army with the Astral Obelisk and persuaded Takahen to form a truce to defend the Tol’vir.
• Faoris led the battered troops toward Ramkahen while Takahen followed with a thousand Neferset whose Curse of Flesh had been lifted.
• Takahen discovered Faoris and High Priest Ament were missing as the Vir’naal Dam gates opened and a flood swept away the Neferset army.
• Takahen’s Stone Tol’vir emerged from the flood with golden light and obsidian wings, and Takahen conceded the first emperor title to Faoris before leaving.
• The Orcs attacked Ramkahen with Ra-den, and Faoris calmly watched his people being slaughtered.

After the Orcs slaughtered Ramkahen, Thrall agreed to sacrifice fifty thousand Orcs so Ra-den could summon Void reinforcements to enslave Al'Akir. The Void answered by proposing a partnership and promising to send Void Cartographers to locate Azeroth, leaving Ra-den responsible for protecting them.

• King Faoris watched the Orcs massacre Ramkahen, then escaped into the desert with High Priest Ament and several thousand soldiers.
• Thrall asked Ra-den how the Orcs could reach the Throne of the Four Winds, and Ra-den demanded fifty thousand Orcs as sacrifices to the Void.
• Thrall summoned fifty thousand Orcs through the Caverns of Time and ordered them to build a Void altar in Ramkahen.
• Ra-den opened a portal to the Void and seized thousands of Orc souls, while the rest panicked inside a mist they could not escape.
• A voice from the Void offered to help Ra-den drive out Azeroth's owner in exchange for protecting Void Cartographers sent to find the world's coordinates.
• Ra-den accepted the cooperation and said no one on Azeroth could stand against him.

Ra-den and Thrall helped Void Cartographers use Uldum’s obelisks to calculate Azeroth’s changing coordinates, while Robbie prepared to stop them. As Ossirian and the Qiraji attacked, Ra-den fell into a daze and Robbie summoned the desert’s restless dead.

• Ra-den used the three obelisks to help the Void Cartographers calculate Azeroth’s Variable Parameters, and Thrall accepted the Void’s plan to wipe out other civilizations.
• Robbie learned from N’Zoth that revealing Azeroth’s coordinates could expose the Void faction’s own location and decided to capture the Cartographers.
• N’Zoth teleported Ossirian the Unscarred and a Qiraji force to Uldum, and Thrall sent ten thousand Orcs to fight them.
• Ra-den fought Ossirian, shattered an Ancient Crystal, and became entranced by the strange eyeball hidden inside it as Anubisath closed in.
• Robbie summoned Restless Souls and the skeletons of Ramkahen people killed by the Orcs to rise against the invaders.

Thrall used a Courage Scroll to send tens of thousands of Orcs to die holding back the Undead while he escaped, and Ra-den also fled from Ossirian the Unscarred. After the Void forces were trapped and divided among Robbie and C'Thun, King Faoris remained hidden in his desert refuge as an unseen voice addressed him.

• Thrall used a Fearless Heroism Scroll to embolden the Orcs, then escaped with Vol'jin and several thousand elite Orcs as the sacrifices charged the Undead.
• Ra-den unleashed lightning to escape Ossirian the Unscarred, then split into three sand clones to confuse his pursuer.
• The eye trapped the Vantu masters when the Void passage was blocked by bones, realized Ra-den had deceived it, and closed the passage.
• Robbie and N'Zoth divided the captured Vantu masters with C'Thun, and Robbie sent seven to Ossirian the Unscarred before ordering the Undead to leave Ramkahen.
• King Faoris danced beside a heated pot in his hidden desert refuge when a voice asked whether he liked dancing.

Ra-den confronted Thrall over the Undead army and the missing Mantid Seer, then killed Thrall and attacked the Orcs and Tol'vir. Lei Shen arrived and effortlessly subdued Ra-den, revealing that his power had reached a new realm.

• Thrall ordered Vol'jin to keep King Faoris alive in a pot and ate slices of his flesh while dancing.
• Ra-den confronted Thrall about the Undead invasion of Ramkahen and the Mantid Seer's abduction, then boiled and ate Thrall.
• Ra-den grabbed the Orcs and declared that the Tol'vir should also be wiped out, leaving King Faoris unconscious.
• Lei Shen descended and challenged Ra-den, who accused him of protecting the Tol'vir despite their past betrayal.
• Ra-den attacked Lei Shen with lightning and Void power, but Lei Shen seized him by the throat and dispersed his energy.

Lei Shen captured Ra-den and took him away, while King Faoris claimed victory and declared the founding of the Uldum Empire. Restored to life, Thrall learned that Elune had ordered him to rescue Ra-den, and he accepted the mission after discovering Garrosh had been assigned the same task.

• Lei Shen reminded Ra-den that his past self had awakened and revealed a secret connected to Elune, then carried him away in chains of lightning.
• King Faoris learned that the Lost City of the Tol'vir and Neferset City were deserted, declared himself emperor of a unified Uldum, and led the Ramkahen soldiers home to celebrate.
• The Emissary revealed that he had preserved Thrall's soul, and Anachronos restored Thrall to the moment before Ra-den threw him into the cauldron.
• Thrall and Vol'jin plotted to turn the Alliance and Horde against Ra-den, while the Emissary and Anachronos listened.
• The Emissary ordered Thrall to rescue Ra-den without harming him and said Garrosh had received the same task, with the rescuer to become Azeroth's Savior and the Horde's Warchief.
• Thrall accepted the mission and swore to rescue Ra-den for Azeroth.

Garrosh used a feast to pressure Eitrigg into devising a way to enlist Jaina and Kalecgos in rescuing Ra-den, while plotting to occupy Theramore. He then frightened Kalecgos with a staged feast of dragon whelps and presented him with an agreement declaring the Blue Dragonflight Garrosh’s slaves.

• Garrosh asked Eitrigg about Thrall’s actions in Uldum and ordered him to find a way to rescue Ra-den from Lei Shen.
• Eitrigg suggested using the Alliance, then proposed exploiting Jaina’s feelings for Kalecgos to draw her into the rescue and create an excuse to occupy Theramore.
• Garrosh approved the plan and ordered Eitrigg to invite Kalecgos to Orgrimmar under the pretense of celebrating his succession as Aspect of the Blue.
• Kalecgos arrived and found five roasted dragon whelps at Garrosh’s feast, including a Red Dragon disguised as a Black Dragon.
• Garrosh and Eitrigg pressured Kalecgos to help protect Azeroth and gave him a cooperation agreement to examine.
• Kalecgos spotted a clause stating that the Blue Dragonflight would forever be Garrosh’s slaves.

Garrosh and Vol'jin pressured Kalecgos into signing a contract and committing Jaina to lead an expedition to rescue Ra-den from Lei Shen. When the news reached Theramore, Aegwynn abandoned Jaina, leaving her to seek another source of help.

• Garrosh frightened Kalecgos into signing a contract that bound the Blue Dragonflight to the Orcs.
• Vol'jin and Garrosh pressured Kalecgos to promise that he and Jaina would organize a rescue for Ra-den and defeat Lei Shen.
• Garrosh and Vol'jin brought reporters into the tent, where Kalecgos faced questions about the expedition and his relationship with Jaina.
• Aegwynn confronted Jaina over newspaper reports announcing the rescue expedition and refused to help her challenge Lei Shen.
• Aegwynn opened a Portal and left Theramore, while Jaina wept and thought of someone she might rely on.

Jaina sought Rhonin's help against Lei Shen and the Mogu, but Rhonin warned that the Orcs posed the real danger to Theramore and promised Dalaran's support. After Jaina's appeals for help were rejected or met with hostile demands, she devised a desperate plan that threatened everyone who had abandoned her.

• Jaina met Rhonin in Dalaran, and he advised her to stall the Mogu while warning that Garrosh might target Theramore.
• Rhonin promised that Dalaran would go to war with Orgrimmar if Garrosh threatened Theramore, and Jaina returned to gather allies.
• Jaina sent letters to Alliance leaders, Horde figures, and personal acquaintances asking them to help defend Theramore.
• Jaina staged preparations for war against the Mogu while the leaders' replies revealed that few would support her without demanding something in return.
• Jaina flew into a rage over the replies, then devised an all-or-nothing plan and vowed that no one would live if Theramore fell.

Jaina secretly forced Garrosh to destroy his contract with Kalecgos, then recruited him into a plan to lure the Alliance and Horde leaders to Theramore and kill them with the Focusing Iris. She intended to claim rule over the Alliance afterward, while Garrosh embraced the scheme.

• Garrosh panicked when Jaina appeared in his tent and revealed she had caused the strange disturbances.
• Jaina threatened Garrosh over his contract with Kalecgos, and he destroyed it in front of her.
• Jaina proposed working with Garrosh and asked whether he wanted Thrall, Varian, Malfurion, Tyrande, and Sylvanas dead; Garrosh said he did.
• Jaina outlined a plan to invite the leaders to Theramore under the pretext of discussing Lei Shen, Ra-den, the Blue Dragonflight’s treasures, and control of the Ley Line.
• Jaina explained that the Focusing Iris could unleash enough energy to destroy Theramore and kill everyone there, resolving Garrosh’s concerns about their guards escaping.
• Garrosh praised the plan and asked whether Jaina would sacrifice Theramore; Jaina said she intended to become the Alliance’s supreme queen after its leaders died.

Varian, Jaina, Rhonin, and Garrosh reacted to the proposed sharing of the Ley Lines as rival leaders tried to secure a share. Rhonin uncovered the danger of the Focusing Iris, while Garrosh sought guidance on how to respond to Jaina.

• Varian questioned Andromath about the Ley Lines and decided to control Stormwind's share to protect House Wrynn's authority.
• Jaina received flattering offers and promises from Alliance and Horde leaders seeking access to the Ley Lines, and she resolved to trap them all.
• Rhonin learned that the Focusing Iris was the core of the Ley Lines and could destroy Dalaran, then agonized over whether to warn Jaina.
• Garrosh feared Jaina might attack Orgrimmar with the Focusing Iris and asked a mysterious being for help.
• The mysterious being told Garrosh to seize the initiative after he proposed killing Jaina first.