Recaps

Garrosh sought Medivh’s help against Jaina, while Jaina brought Kalecgos to Coldarra and confronted the Blue Dragonflight. She used the dragons’ ingrained fear of Orcs to disrupt their magic and leave them vulnerable as the Orcs advanced.

• Garrosh told Medivh about Jaina’s plan, and Medivh sent him away after warning him to deny visiting Karazhan.
• Kalecgos returned to Coldarra, where Vyragosa and the other blue dragons rejected him as their leader.
• Jaina challenged the Blue Dragonflight and unleashed a storm of varied magic, but Teraligos shielded his kin and the dragons prepared a counterattack.
• Jaina opened portals to bring Orcs into the sky and stood on a blue ring whose golden light interrupted the dragons’ spellcasting.
• Jaina revealed that the Blue Dragonflight feared Orcs, and Teraligos lost control of his shield as the Orcs approached.

Jaina helped Kalecgos gain the Blue Dragonflight’s recognition and succeed as Aspect of the Blue, then persuaded the dragons to let them take the Focusing Iris. Unable to transport it through a Portal herself, Jaina asked Kalecgos to escort it personally, and he agreed.

• Teraliggos explained that the Blue Dragonflight’s fear of Orcs came from the lingering effects of the spell Fear of the Orcs, and the dragons agreed to support Kalecgos as their leader.
• Kalecgos became Aspect of the Blue and entrusted the Blue Dragonflight’s affairs to Teraliggos while he remained in Theramore.
• Jaina and Kalecgos persuaded the blue dragons to let mortals temporarily access the Ley Line and take the Focusing Iris from the Nexus.
• Jaina took the Focusing Iris and admitted she could not carry it through a Portal because she lacked sufficient knowledge of Arcane Magic.
• Jaina asked Kalecgos to escort the Focusing Iris personally, and he agreed.

Kalecgos led five Blue Dragons in planning an escort for the Focusing Iris, but his attempts to assert authority pushed them into a slow overland journey in human form. As they camped in the Borean Tundra, an anxious voice warned Kalecgos to abandon the Iris and flee.

• Kalecgos gathered Ulagosi, Luragos, Luragosa, Peilagusa, and Lurugos to plan how to escort the Focusing Iris to Theramore.
• Kalecgos falsely claimed that Deathwing might target the Iris and proposed disguising the dragons as adventurers in human form.
• After the others criticized his plan, Ulagosi suggested a compromise: Kalecgos's group would travel in human form while Taregos, Yaragosa, and Banagos followed in dragon form.
• Kalecgos and his five companions began walking through the ice and snow with the Focusing Iris, then realized their pace would make them miss Jaina's gathering.
• While the group camped in the Borean Tundra, a voice in Kalecgos's mind told him to throw away the Iris and run.

Medivh ambushed the Blue Dragon escort and attacked the five dragons guarding the Focusing Iris. Kalecgos fled to the Nexus, where Keligosa learned the Iris was gone and confronted the returning survivors about their failure.

• Kalecgos heeded Sathrovarr the Corruptor's warning and teleported back to the Nexus.
• Medivh trapped the Blue Dragons in their humanoid forms, killed Keligosa, and ordered his troops to attack the remaining dragons.
• The four surviving Blue Dragons combined their magic against Medivh, but he overwhelmed their Arcane Missiles and sent his forces to finish them off.
• Kalecgos told Keligosa that the escort was safe and blamed Ulagosi for the plan, prompting her to fly out and investigate.
• Taregos and the other cover dragons returned to the Nexus and revealed that the Focusing Iris was gone.
• Keligosa accused Taregos of abandoning his kin and demanded to know who had taken the Focusing Iris.

After Medivh stole the Focusing Iris, Kalecgos fled the Nexus and abandoned his plan to warn Jaina, then attacked an airship and was wounded by its Dwarven musketeers. At Theramore, Jaina waited for the Iris as Genn Greymane arrived with a gift that caught her attention.

• Taregos concealed the Focusing Iris's loss from the Blue Dragons, while Kalecgos blamed others for the failed escort and declared he would retrieve it alone.
• Keligosa accused Kalecgos of desertion, but Taregos let him leave the Nexus.
• Kalecgos sensed the Focusing Iris far to the south, suspected Medivh might be targeting Jaina, and changed course to avoid Theramore.
• Kalecgos tried to shoot down an airship and frame its crew for stealing the Focusing Iris, but Dwarven musketeers struck his wing and forced him to retreat.
• Jaina waited at Theramore for Kalecgos and the Focusing Iris, while Genn Greymane arrived and presented her with a gift.

Jaina welcomed leaders from across Azeroth as they arrived to negotiate for access to the Ley Lines, each offering requests, gifts, or alliances. Varian proposed that Jaina marry Anduin and inherit Stormwind’s throne, leaving her thrilled but postponing her answer until after the meeting.

• King Greymane promised Jaina support on the condition that a future heir to her throne belonged to the Greymane Family, and Jaina welcomed him.
• Baine Bloodhoof asked Jaina for a larger share of the Ley Lines in exchange for the Tauren’s service, and she arranged for him to stay beside Greymane.
• Moira Bronzebeard demanded Ley Line access for the Dark Iron Dwarves, while Jaina welcomed her and gave her the best room.
• Prophet Velen offered Jaina the heart of Rukhmar in exchange for authority over Ley Line allocation, and Jaina deferred the offer.
• Lor'themar Theron tried to become Jaina’s disciple, but Antonidas instead declared that he would take her as his junior sister on behalf of his own master.
• Varian offered Jaina his fleet and promised she could inherit Stormwind’s throne if she married Anduin, and Jaina said they could discuss it after the meeting.

Malfurion and Tyrande tried to win Jaina’s support with a deceptive gift, while Thrall arrived and was wounded by Tirion Fordring. Medivh prepared to destroy Theramore and frame Jaina and the Alliance, but someone trapped him in a parallel space.

• Malfurion gave Jaina a branch that made her appear younger, while he and Tyrande privately planned to use the deception to gain a larger share of the Ley Line.
• Jaina rejected the idea of sharing the Ley Line and secretly resolved to kill Malfurion and Tyrande to secure Aegwynn’s favor.
• Thrall demanded that Jaina hand over the Ley Line, but Tirion Fordring struck and wounded him, then declared himself Jaina’s loyal guard.
• Medivh and Garrosh planned to destroy Theramore and blame Jaina and the Alliance, using Meryl Winterstorm to summon Jaina’s soul as supposed testimony.
• As Medivh prepared to annihilate Theramore with the Focusing Iris, the Plane Reversal Technique pulled him into a gray parallel space, where a familiar black-robed figure appeared.

Medivh fled across a parallel Azeroth with Kel'Thuzad pursuing him after discovering that Kel'Thuzad possessed a replica Focusing Iris. Meanwhile, Jaina delayed the leaders' meeting while the Focusing Iris remained missing, but after the truth emerged, Sylvanas and the Horde leaders confronted her.

• Kel'Thuzad revealed his replica Focusing Iris, and Medivh fled through a Portal with Kel'Thuzad in pursuit.
• Unable to reach the sealed Nexus, Jaina postponed the meeting and told Thrall and Baine that those unwilling to wait could leave.
• Varian, Aemora, Sylvanas, Lor'themar, Malfurion, and Velen each secretly sought information about the Focusing Iris.
• Velen told Tirion Fordring that the Burning Legion had stolen the Focusing Iris and sent it to Argus Planet, and Tirion confronted Jaina with the news.
• Varian told Jaina that SI:7 had found Kalecgos without the Focusing Iris, then withdrew Stormwind City's fleet from Theramore.
• Sylvanas joined the Horde leaders to confront Jaina, while Antonidas lamented that he had made her his disciple.

Jaina faced accusations and abandonment in Theramore, but Rhonin arrived with evidence that Medivh had stolen the Focusing Iris and offered her a chance to lead Dalaran. She refused to leave her home and remained determined to reclaim what she had lost from the Orcs.

• Antonidas and Sylvanas accused Jaina of plotting to use the Focusing Iris to kill Alliance and Horde leaders, and they left Theramore threatening war.
• Aemora, Lor'themar, and Aethas condemned Jaina and departed, while Malfurion and Tyrande left without speaking to her.
• Marcus Jonathan promised to defend Jaina and Theramore with his private army, but Jaina dismissed him.
• Rhonin showed Jaina evidence that Medivh had killed the Blue Dragonflight escort and stolen the Focusing Iris, and he said Garrosh might have been involved.
• Rhonin urged Jaina to leave Theramore and told her he had recommended her to lead Dalaran, but she refused to abandon her home.

Rhonin gave Jaina the Eternal Gate for her protection while Garrosh forced the Sunreavers to devise a Mana Bomb using the Focusing Iris. As a Goblin airship carrying the bomb approached Theramore, Rhonin saw Kalecgos alongside it and hurried to warn Jaina.

• Rhonin showed Jaina the Eternal Gate and urged her to keep it in case Theramore came under attack.
• Medivh gave the powerless Focusing Iris to Garrosh, who ordered Aethas Sunreaver to find a way to destroy Theramore with it.
• After Sharon Songweaver proposed using the Focusing Iris as a Mana Bomb's core, Garrosh demanded the bomb be built within three days.
• Lensha completed the giant Mana Bomb, and Rhonin later spotted it beneath a Goblin airship heading toward Theramore.
• Kalecgos and several Sunreaver mages accompanied the airship, so Rhonin hurried to consult Jaina.

Rhonin used a Titan-forged scroll to trap the sky warship in the Void for half a day, hoping to give Jaina time to evacuate Theramore. When the evacuation descended into chaos, he discovered the Dogslaughter Gang had blocked the land and sea routes and was auctioning fifty places to escape.

• Jaina refused to abandon Theramore, and Rhonin agreed to help her evacuate its residents while he bought time.
• Sharon Songweaver taunted Rhonin aboard the approaching sky warship, and Rhonin banished the ship into the Void with a Titan-forged scroll.
• Someone subtly disrupted Rhonin's spell, limiting the banishment to half a day, and he warned Jaina's servants that people needed to get beyond the Mana Bomb's range.
• Rhonin found Theramore in chaos and followed the crowd to the central square, where Blackheart Gordo announced that the Dogslaughter Gang controlled the ships and had trapped the land exits.
• Blackheart Gordo declared that the gang would auction fifty places to leave Theramore, and Dwarf adventurer asked him to name his terms.

Rhonin learned that Jaina backed the Dogslaughter Gang and had used him to save herself, then released the banished sky warship over Theramore. The city was destroyed in an Arcane explosion, and Rhonin died watching it.

• Rhonin searched for Jaina, then learned from a blind old man that the Dogslaughter Gang controlled Theramore and profited from military ranks, escape slots, and Jaina's support.
• The old man told Rhonin that Jaina had left Theramore and planned to seize the nobles' overseas property before the city was destroyed.
• Rhonin realized Jaina had used him and could no longer sense the Eternal Gate's presence.
• Rhonin lifted the sky warship's banishment with the remaining power of the Titans Scroll, and the ship moved over Theramore.
• Sharon Songweaver laughed as the sky warship released its cargo, destroying Theramore in an Arcane explosion that killed Rhonin.

Jaina watched Theramore's destruction from her hidden laboratory and realized Rhonin had sabotaged her plans, while Garrosh ordered her capture. At dawn, Thrall and Vol'jin sought Jaina's help against Orgrimmar, and Thrall recognized Kalecgos among a group searching for the Focusing Iris.

• Jaina planned to seize Booty Bay and expand her power after Theramore's fall.
• An explosion destroyed Theramore, and Jaina blamed Rhonin after the Eternal Gate shattered.
• Jaina found Rhonin's letter of recommendation for her to lead Dalaran and vowed to reclaim what she had lost.
• Garrosh learned Jaina might have survived and ordered Eitrigg to send Kor'kron forces to capture her.
• Thrall urged Vol'jin to persuade Jaina to attack Orgrimmar, then recognized Kalecgos among figures searching for the Focusing Iris.

Vol'jin and Thrall tried to capture Kalecgos and the Focusing Iris, but Jaina defeated the Orcs and enslaved all three men. With the Iris in her possession, Jaina planned to torture Garrosh and turn the Orcs of Orgrimmar into Magic Marionettes.

• Thrall urged Vol'jin to poison the scattered Kor'kron, and Vol'jin killed several Orcs before they discovered and wounded him.
• Jaina arrived, killed the remaining Kor'kron with magic, and confronted Vol'jin and Thrall while holding Kalecgos captive in a cage.
• Jaina rejected Thrall's offer to destroy Orgrimmar, threatened to kill him, and revealed she planned to turn Kalecgos into a miniature pet dragon.
• Thrall and Vol'jin signed an Enslavement Scroll to save their lives, and Jaina freed Kalecgos, who also signed it.
• Jaina found the Focusing Iris in Theramore's crater and shrank it to the size of her palm.
• Thrall suggested boiling Garrosh alive, but Jaina said she would torture him first and then turn every Orc in Orgrimmar into a Magic Marionette.

Jaina, Thrall, Vol'jin, and Kalecgos confronted Domira, Medivh’s powerful creation, outside Orgrimmar. Domira challenged Jaina for Krasus’s prophecy and Dalaran’s leadership, and their magical battle began with neither side defeated.

• Jaina and her companions found Orgrimmar unusually quiet and suspected Garrosh had prepared for their arrival.
• Jaina detected an enemy nearby, and Domira emerged from the sea as Thrall identified her as the winner of Garrosh’s beauty contest.
• Domira revealed two imprisoned Draenei women on her shoulders and attacked Jaina with their combined frost and fire magic.
• Jaina protected her companions, deceived Domira with an illusion, and struck from behind, but Domira’s magic ring shielded her from the blast.
• Domira claimed her Draenei captives made her unbeatable, copied Jaina’s appearance, and defended herself with three different Magic Shields.
• Jaina hurled a mass of seawater frozen into ice at Domira, who dodged it and countered with Frost Orb and Pyroblast.

Jaina and Domira fought a deadly magic duel that devastated Orgrimmar, but Kalecgos suddenly killed Jaina after revealing that he had been acting under an unknown influence. He left Thrall terrified as he declared that Jaina had finally died by his hand.

• Domira trapped Jaina on the island, nullified the Focusing Iris, froze the sea around them, and unleashed Frostfire.
• Jaina's magic turned Domira's attack against Orgrimmar, where lightning and Water Elementals killed or injured many Orcs.
• Garrosh fled Orgrimmar through a Portal with Eitrigg while Thrall celebrated the damage to his rival's city.
• Kalecgos transformed and bit Jaina, interrupting her magic and killing her.
• Kalecgos's eyes turned black as he told Jaina that she had finally died by his hand, leaving Thrall frightened.

Domira captured Thrall, Vol'jin, and Kalecgos and brought them to a chaotic Orgrimmar, where she learned Garrosh was away. After Thrall persuaded her that Dalaran needed to be managed rather than emptied, Domira spared him and Vol'jin, while Kalecgos tried to save himself by professing his love for her.

• Domira chained Thrall, Vol'jin, and Kalecgos, carried Jaina's corpse through a Portal, and entered Orgrimmar, where berserk Orcs were slaughtering one another.
• Domira froze thousands of Orcs in the Valley of Strength, then found Gagg hiding in the Warchief's hall and learned Garrosh and the officials had gone to save Azeroth.
• Domira said she would take Jaina's place as Dalaran's leader and destroy Stormwind, but Thrall warned her that killing Dalaran's mages would leave the city unable to recover.
• Domira spared Thrall and Vol'jin for the time being, then threatened to turn Kalecgos into an Undead companion for Jaina.
• Kalecgos declared his love for Domira and asked her to make him a magical puppet so he could remain by her side.

Domira’s portal misfired and dropped her into the Dread Wastes, where Mantid killed and ate her. Thrall then sought to use Anduin to pressure the Alliance into attacking the Mogu, but Anduin refused and reacted angrily when Thrall mentioned Prophet Velen.

• Domira took Kalecgos through a portal with Jaina’s frozen corpse, but the portal opened high above the Dread Wastes and Domira fell to her death among the Mantid.
• Thrall, Vol'jin, and Kalecgos escaped Orgrimmar and discussed Thrall’s plan to use Anduin and the Alliance against Lei Shen and the Mogu.
• Thrall and Vol'jin ate Jaina’s remains, while Kalecgos kept her skull and considered taking it to Undercity to be raised as a Lich.
• At Mistveil Trestle, Anduin read conflicting reports about Jaina and Theramore before Thrall arrived and urged him to seek Stormwind’s help against Lei Shen.
• Anduin refused to help, and Thrall revealed that Prophet Velen was searching for him, prompting Anduin to curse Velen.

Thrall pressured Anduin to make Stormwind attack the Mogu by threatening to expose him to the Holy Light, while Anduin struggled to find support in Goldshire. A woman disguised as Jaina offered him leadership of Peace Dove and warned that refusing would let King Varian take his place.

• Thrall showed Anduin Jaina’s severed arm and claimed Velen would report Anduin to the Holy Light unless Stormwind attacked the Mogu.
• Anduin agreed to find a way to send Stormwind’s army against the Mogu, then went to Goldshire to gather information and seek support from nobles.
• Anduin’s letters went unanswered as he stayed at the Lion’s Pride Inn and worried that Varian would act against him.
• A woman disguised as Jaina approached Anduin and explained that Peace Dove had supported the Orcs by sacrificing Alliance people and now needed a new leader.
• The woman offered Anduin control of Peace Dove so he could hand the Alliance over to the Orcs, and said that more than half of Stormwind’s nobles belonged to the organization.
• When Anduin demanded to know her identity, the woman claimed she represented a great existence he could not refuse.

Anduin signed a contract and took control of Peace Dove, then confronted a mysterious white-haired woman who resembled Jaina and met with King Varian. He secured fifty thousand soldiers and ships for his campaign against the Mogu, but Varian left him to find food for the army.

• Anduin signed the silver contract offered by the woman, who then rose away in a pillar of light.
• After taking charge of Peace Dove, Anduin encountered a white-haired woman resembling Jaina outside Stormwind Keep, and she warned him that Peace Dove had refused to help Jaina before her death.
• Anduin learned that the woman had asked Varian to send Alliance troops to destroy Orgrimmar, but Varian had refused.
• Anduin told Varian that Lei Shen Ji Wudao planned to destroy Azeroth and demanded fifty thousand soldiers to fight the Mogu.
• Varian agreed to provide the soldiers and ships but said Stormwind had no food to supply them, while Anduin departed in the Holy Light.

Anduin ordered Laines Trollbane to secure dried meat for an expeditionary force, and Laines returned with supplies after the five thousand soldiers under his command suffered heavy losses. Anduin then gathered his trusted officers, including General Trollbane, and began promoting a fabricated history that portrayed the Orcs as Azeroth’s civilizing saviors.

• Laines Trollbane was summoned by Anduin, who ordered him to procure a large quantity of meat within half a month for fifty thousand soldiers bound for Pandaria.
• Laines accepted the task and requested two thousand soldiers and twenty ships, but Anduin gave him five thousand soldiers and fifty ships and appointed him general.
• Vol’jin questioned Anduin about the order, and Anduin said he would reward Laines if he succeeded without scandal or hang him if his methods became public.
• Half a month later, Laines delivered fifty ships loaded with dried minced meat, while his forces had suffered heavy losses and no unfavorable reports had reached Anduin.
• Anduin praised General Trollbane and sent the ships out from Stormwind City.
• Anduin addressed his trusted generals and aides, claiming the Orcs had arrived with the Titans, defeated the Old Gods, and taught Azeroth’s peoples language, writing, and cooking.

Anduin’s pro-Orc speeches leave the Alliance fleet unwilling to defend him when Malkorok repeatedly tortures him, driving him mad. After Thrall shows him a newspaper about Orgrimmar’s destruction and Garrosh’s expedition to Pandaria, Anduin recognizes Laines Trollbane as responsible.

• Anduin reads Peace Dove propaganda to Alliance officers and insists that the Orcs are benevolent saviors who would never attack without provocation.
• Malkorok boards Anduin’s flagship, beats him, and orders Orcs to eat his limbs while the Alliance soldiers watch without intervening.
• Anduin regenerates his limbs with the Holy Light, but Malkorok returns the next day and has the Orcs torture him for an hour.
• After two days of torture, Anduin wakes from a nightmare driven mad, and a Priest confirms his condition.
• Thrall and Vol’jin visit Anduin with a newspaper reporting that Orgrimmar was destroyed and Garrosh assembled a fleet bound for Pandaria.
• Anduin regains his senses after reading the report and names Laines Trollbane as the culprit.

After Thrall beat Anduin for trying to appease Garrosh, Anduin blamed Llane Trollbane and was punished by Malkorok when he tried to hand Llane over. Seeking answers, Anduin used Prophecy to glimpse possible futures and realized he had mistaken Garrosh for the one who still had allies.

• Thrall struck and threatened Anduin for seeking Garrosh’s mercy, and Anduin ordered his soldiers to bring him Llane Trollbane.
• Anduin’s adviser argued that he should curry favor with Garrosh, but Anduin resisted until Llane was brought before him.
• Malkorok entered, declared that Llane was under his protection, and ordered Orcs to punish Anduin for failing to understand his mistake.
• After his injuries healed, Anduin used Prophecy to see futures in which Garrosh conquered Stormwind, the Alliance defeated the Orcs, or Thrall killed Garrosh.
• Anduin decided that the future he wanted was the one where Thrall defeated Garrosh and Garrosh lost the support of his allies.

Anduin considered Lains’s advice for resisting Garrosh’s army but delayed making a decision until he could speak with Thrall. In a dream, Ra-den tempted Chen Stormstout with the hidden Heart of Darkness, and Chen agreed to seek it in exchange for a chance to defeat Lei Shen and free Ra-den.

• Anduin told his generals that the Holy Light had revealed Garrosh’s alliance with Deathwing and his threat to Azeroth, but his advisers feared Garrosh’s army of five hundred thousand.
• Lains argued that Garrosh could not feed such a large force, estimated that he would keep only a hundred thousand elites, and advised the Alliance to fortify or avoid battle until the Orcs ran out of provisions.
• The generals rejected Lains’s strategy, and Anduin postponed his decision until he could discuss it with Thrall the Savior.
• Chen Stormstout dreamed that Ra-den asked him for help escaping Lei Shen’s prison and offered to restore his Pandaren body.
• Ra-den revealed that a hidden Heart of Darkness lay beneath the Vale of Eternal Blossoms and could give Chen power over the Seven Sha of Pandaria.
• Chen agreed to find Y'Shaarj’s heart, defeat Lei Shen, and free Ra-den.

Chen Stormstout and Taran Zhu entered the underground palace beneath the August Celestials’ statues, each seeking the Heart of Y'Shaarj, and agreed to fight for it. A masked Pandaren defeated them both and revealed herself as Jiyun Ailin, a Swiftcloud Sect survivor and Garrosh’s agent.

• Chen Stormstout found fresh claw prints at the statues and followed them into a hidden underground palace.
• Chen Stormstout discovered Taran Zhu inside, and the two recognized each other and discussed their search for the Heart of Y'Shaarj.
• Chen Stormstout and Taran Zhu agreed that the winner of a match would take the Heart, then exchanged attacks.
• A masked female Pandaren interrupted their fight, knocked Taran Zhu and Chen Stormstout aside, and revealed that she had lured them there with a Nightmare technique.
• The woman identified herself as Jiyun Ailin, a leader of Garrosh’s special forces with the codename Qingluan.