Recaps

Vanessa bought up Lunarfall’s strongholds before a Portal opened on Nagrand and brought Velen, Khadgar, and the Lightforging Orcs back to Draenor. Velen began converting the Draenei and Orcs to the Holy Light, while a Lightforging Orc watched with cunning.

• Vanessa ordered her Followers to buy every stronghold in Lunarfall, and Robbie explained to Hogger that the Portal to Azeroth made the purchases profitable.
• Grom Hellscream led the Lightforging Orcs through a Portal on Nagrand, followed by Kilrogg Deadeye, Blackhand, Velen, and Archmage Khadgar.
• Kilrogg blamed Blackhand for criticizing the Army of the Light, and Velen punished Blackhand with Holy Light.
• Velen ordered Grom Hellscream to take the group to the Warsong Clan’s territory so they could build a cathedral.
• Grom Hellscream rallied the Orcs of Warsong Hold to praise the Holy Light, while Velen envisioned uniting the Orcs and Draenei under his leadership.

Velen searched his visions for a path to power and decided to build a following among the Draenei, while Yrel withdrew aboard Tempest Keep. The chapter left Velen’s new Lightforging Draenei vulnerable to betrayal as Yrel chose to leave him in Draenor to buy time.

• Velen saw a vision of himself worshipped as a god and ordered the Orcs to keep searching for the Draenei.
• Khadgar reported finding Akama and the Light’s Deathsworn at Karabor Temple, and Velen summoned Akama.
• Akama told Velen that Yrel had abolished Holy Light worship, repaired Tempest Keep, and departed with most of the Draenei.
• Velen claimed a prophecy foretold Tempest Keep’s destruction and invited Akama and his followers to join him, then made them Lightforging Draenei.
• A Lightforging Orc recalled Akama’s past betrayal and began considering how to turn him against Velen.
• Yrel learned Velen led the Lightforging Orcs and refused Maraad’s plan to attack, deciding to let Velen remain in Draenor as a distraction.

Robbie investigated Prophet Velen’s vast construction project near Oshu'gun, where Aman'Thul infiltrated the Lightforging Orcs and impersonated Amado to frame Akama. Zexia presented Akama’s stolen totem at a public hearing, leaving Akama exposed before Velen and the gathered crowd.

• Robbie learned that Velen had spread the Holy Light across Draenor and begun a massive construction project near Oshu'gun, so he went to investigate.
• Aman'Thul killed the overseer Amado, absorbed his memories, and took his appearance to infiltrate the construction site.
• Aman'Thul found Akama with Zexia, knocked her unconscious, and planted Akama’s totem in her arms.
• Kilrogg found the unconscious Zexia in his tent, and the Lightforging Orcs accused him of kidnapping her.
• At the hearing, Akama denied knowing Zexia, but she produced his totem as evidence, leaving him pale with shock.

After Velen replaced Akama with Amado, Aman'Thul persuaded him to create rapidly grown, tireless New Lightforged Orcs, whose growing numbers and obedience alarmed the old Orcs. As Grommash Hellscream, Kilrogg, and Blackhand debated resistance, Zexia and Akama appeared with a plan that targeted the newcomers’ devout faith.

• Velen postponed judgment on Akama, sent him home, and appointed Amado to lead the Lightforging Draenei.
• Aman'Thul convinced Velen to use the Holy Light to produce adult Orcs rapidly, and ten thousand New Lightforged Orcs arrived each day.
• The old Lightforged Orcs grew resentful as the tireless, obedient newcomers outnumbered them.
• Grommash Hellscream, Kilrogg, and Blackhand discussed resisting the New Lightforged Orcs but could not find a solution.
• Zexia and Akama arrived after reconciling and coordinating their stories, and Akama pointed to the newcomers’ devout faith as their weakness.

Akama helped Grommash Hellscream, Kilrogg, and Blackhand turn against Velen by exploiting the New Lightforged Orcs’ obedience, while Aman'Thul’s plan intensified the conflict. The Orcs stormed Velen’s palace, where Durotan arrived and called Velen out of his prayer room.

• Akama told the three chieftains that Velen feared Orcs and revealed that Durotan would help them oppose him if they cooperated.
• Robbie watched a vast pyramid take shape at Oshu'gun as New Lightforged Orcs joined the work and the Frostwolf Clan secretly entered Nagrand.
• Aman'Thul reduced the Old Lightforging Orcs’ food and used an enforcement unit to suppress their resistance, causing some to starve.
• Akama led Grommash Hellscream, Kilrogg, and Blackhand in capturing Aman'Thul, while the New Lightforged Orcs remained idle without orders.
• The three chieftains led the Old Lightforging Orcs in an assault on Velen’s palace, where Blackhand discovered Velen ate Lightforged Orc meat.
• Durotan arrived with the Frostwolf Clan at Velen’s prayer room and demanded that Velen come out.

Velen emerged from his prayer room but surrendered to Durotan, who negotiated with the Holy Light and received the Naaru Mark in Velen’s place. After Velen fled, Robbie found the plans for a Holy Light pyramid and realized it included a device to bring a Naaru to Draenor; Durotan then declared himself Warlord of Draenor.

• Velen left the prayer room and begged Durotan to spare him, so the Frostwolf soldiers captured and chained him.
• Durotan entered the prayer room and persuaded the Holy Light to trust him with Velen’s role, receiving the Naaru Mark while agreeing not to kill Velen.
• Velen healed himself with Holy Light but fled in panic when he learned the Holy Light had chosen Durotan.
• Robbie entered the palace, found the Woshu Valley construction plans, and recognized that the pyramid would draw in Holy Light and bring down a Naaru.
• Durotan stood amid the humbled Lightforging Orcs and declared himself the Warlord of Draenor.

Grommash Hellscream, Kilrogg, and Blackhand worried that the old Lightforged Orcs were dying while Durotan relied on short-lived new Lightforged Orcs to build Oshu'gun. Meanwhile, Aman'Thul rescued the ailing Velen and proposed using the new Lightforged Orcs to persuade the Ogres to help defeat Durotan.

• Grommash Hellscream, Kilrogg, and Blackhand discussed the new Lightforged Orcs' three-month lifespan and the dwindling number of old Lightforged Orcs.
• Grommash Hellscream called for confronting Durotan, but the chieftains stayed focused on the construction at Oshu'gun.
• Velen struggled to survive in the wilderness, fell ill after eating poorly cooked Talbuk, and lay near death in a cave.
• Aman'Thul appeared, removed a parasite from Velen, and explained that Holy Light had worsened the infestation.
• Aman'Thul proposed using the Ogres to defeat Durotan and offering them the new Lightforged Orcs as a food supply.

Imperator Mar'gok feared the remaining Lightforging Draenei and hoped the Ogres could harness the Holy Light to surpass the Orcs. Velen sought Khadgar’s help to meet Mar'gok and secured an introduction by offering him a Naaru Shard tied to K'ure’s final legacy.

• Mar'gok blamed the Draenei for the decline of the Ogre Empire and worried that the surviving Lightforging Draenei could become as powerful as he was.
• Mar'gok believed the Ogres could use the Holy Light to reclaim their former glory and outdo the Orcs.
• Velen and Aman'Thul visited Khadgar in Highmaul to ask him to arrange an audience with Mar'gok.
• Khadgar withheld his help until Velen revealed that a wounded Naaru named K'ure was aboard the crashed ship at Oshu'gun and offered a shard that could lead to K'ure’s final legacy.
• Khadgar accepted the Naaru Shard and promised to help Velen meet Mar'gok at the palace ball the next day, advising him to win over Cho'gall first.

Velen and Aman'Thul negotiated with Cho'gall, offering him the Naaru shard K'ure and Garona's location in exchange for his support. Khadgar then accompanied Cho'gall to meet Imperator Mar'gok, who later invited Velen and Aman'Thul to tour the exhibition hall.

• Cho'gall threatened Velen and demanded compensation for the Draenei freeing the Orc slaves, while Aman'Thul proposed that the Ogres govern the Orcs.
• Velen offered Cho'gall the Naaru shard K'ure, but Cho'gall demanded Garona, whom he claimed to love.
• Velen gave Cho'gall Garona's address after Cho'gall insisted that he could not live without her.
• Khadgar revealed that he had wanted Velen to offer K'ure to Cho'gall so Highmaul's forces could search for the Naaru in Woshu Valley.
• Khadgar and Cho'gall went together to meet Imperator Mar'gok, and Velen later received an invitation to the palace.
• After the court ball, Imperator Mar'gok invited Velen and Aman'Thul to tour the exhibition hall.

Imperator Mar'gok used a mind spell to expose and mock Velen before negotiating an alliance against Durotan in exchange for the Lightforging Draenei. After Velen signed the contract, Mar'gok revealed his plans to use the Draenei to improve Ogre bloodlines and help Cho'gall capture Naaru K'ure.

• Imperator Mar'gok showed Velen and Aman'Thul the Gorian Empire's history and used mind magic to make Velen insult the Draenei.
• Mar'gok blamed the Draenei for the Orcs' destruction of the Ogre Empire and demanded compensation from Velen.
• Mar'gok agreed to help subdue Durotan and take control of the Lightforging Orcs in exchange for half the livestock, while the contract listed the Lightforging Draenei as a deposit.
• Velen signed the contract and left with Aman'Thul, unaware that Cho'gall doubted his ability to command Yrel.
• Mar'gok told Cho'gall he wanted the Draenei to improve Ogre bloodlines and offered to help him capture Naaru K'ure, warning him not to act against the Gorian Empire.

Velen recalled his betrayal of K'ure, while Cho'gall led an Ogre force into Oshu'gun Mountain to destroy the Pale Orcs. There, the party encountered a powerful ghost that devoured magic and souls, and it began killing the cyclopes.

• In a dream, K'ure confronted Velen about abandoning their friendship and asked whether he was colluding with the Void Lords; Velen admitted the Ata'mal Crystal could contact them, and the dream collapsed.
• Cho'gall led cyclopes, Gronn, and Ogre Mages into Oshu'gun Mountain, where he infected a Pale Orc with a pill designed to drive the Pale Orcs into killing one another.
• The party pressed deeper through the cave, killing dark creatures and passing Orc skeletons and fragments of the Draenei spaceship as Pale Orcs fought in the distance.
• A crowned ghost confronted the Ogres and absorbed the souls of dying Pale Orcs; it also swallowed Cho'gall's summoned Arcane aberrations and his ball of chaos.
• Cho'gall ordered the cyclopes to charge, but the ghost possessed one and stripped away his flesh before moving toward another.

Cho'gall and Durotan's parties both failed to pass the ghost guarding K'ure inside Oshu'gun, and Grommash Hellscream identified the ghost as a likely Archbishop Hattemas. Khadgar then entered the mountain alone and convinced the confused ghost that he was Highlord Tirion Fordring, leaving the ghost questioning his own identity.

• Cho'gall retreated from Oshu'gun and planned to use Lightforging Draenei to destroy the ghost with Holy Light.
• Durotan led Grommash Hellscream, Kilrogg, Blackhand, and Lightforging Orcs into Oshu'gun, where the ghost absorbed their Holy Light and drove them back outside.
• Grommash Hellscream recalled that Archbishop Hattemas had sworn to protect K'ure and said he knew where Hattemas's remains were buried.
• Khadgar entered Oshu'gun alone and spoke with the ghost, who recognized him as human but could not remember why.
• Khadgar told the ghost that he was Highlord Tirion Fordring, his former friend, and claimed they had crossed the Dark Portal and fought the Iron Horde together.

Khadgar was trapped aboard Oshu’gun with a ghost who knew his identity, while Durotan learned that the ghost was Prophet Velen and hurried to stop Cho’gall from bringing him back to life. The chapter ended as the ghost revealed that he knew Khadgar and addressed him by name.

• Khadgar pretended to be Tirion Fordring’s friend, but the ghost led him into a sealed room aboard Oshu’gun and left him trapped there.
• At Spirit Haunt, Durotan and the Lightforging Orcs disturbed the Draenei spirits while searching for Archbishop Hasmat’s remains.
• Archbishop Hasmat told Durotan that the ghost inside Oshu’gun was Prophet Velen, who wanted a Draenei body to return to life.
• Durotan and Hasmat set out for Oshu’gun after learning that Cho’gall was bringing Lightforging Draenei there.
• Cho’gall entered Oshu’gun with a hundred Lightforging Draenei, and the ghost recognized him and revealed that he knew Khadgar.

Khadgar agreed to help the ghost Velen possess a Draenei body in exchange for learning a powerful system of Arcane Magic. Velen attacked Cho'gall's party, created a winged Draenei from the captured Lightforged, and escaped into the spaceship as Archbishop Hasmat and Durotan pursued him.

• Velen revealed that he had recognized Khadgar and offered to teach him powerful Arcane Magic in exchange for help escaping Oshu'gun after possessing a Draenei body.
• Khadgar accepted the deal, and Velen explained that he would attack Cho'gall's party and take one of the Draenei.
• Velen ambushed Cho'gall's party, incapacitated Cho'gall, and drained the Holy Light from a hundred Draenei.
• Velen fused the Draenei's flesh and blood into a young man with black-feathered wings, then carried him into the spaceship.
• Archbishop Hasmat arrived and called the winged Draenei an ancient taboo, while Durotan used shadow power to learn the spaceship's layout and led the pursuers inside.

Khadgar destroyed the Blasphemer's body after Velen tried to fuse with it, but a second part of Velen's soul survived by taking over Cho'gall. As the groups left Oshu'gun, Velen in Highmaul entered a dream and encountered a reflection that promised they would meet soon.

• Velen fused with the Blasphemer's body and gave Khadgar the secret palace's coordinates, but Khadgar betrayed him and destroyed the body.
• Durotan and the Lightforging Orcs found the Blasphemer's remains, argued with the Draenei over Oshu'gun, and withdrew under Durotan's orders.
• The surviving Velen revealed that he had split his soul, devoured Cho'gall's soul, and taken over his body before leading the Ogres away.
• Robbie and three Naaru watched the two groups depart, while K'ure, K'ara, and Lala discussed the two Prophet Velens.
• At Highmaul, Velen sought guidance through a dream and met his reflection, which told him they would meet soon.

Velen learned that K'ure had supposedly been killed and joined Imperator Mar'gok's plan to capture Durotan, while Yrel welcomed the real K'ure aboard Tempest Keep. Durotan secretly visited his pregnant wife Draka, unaware that figures had emerged from a hidden portal in their pool.

• Velen heard that Cho'gall had returned victorious and that K'ure had transformed into Entropius before Vindicator Nobundo and Prophet Drek'Thar killed him.
• Velen urged Imperator Mar'gok to act, and Mar'gok revealed that Khadgar had returned and ordered Velen to help capture Durotan.
• Yrel learned that K'ure had entered Tempest Keep in stable condition and prepared to meet him, while hearing that Robbie wanted to share technology.
• Durotan secretly arranged for the New Lightforged Orcs to build a holy light receiver near Oshu'gun, then had them executed to protect its location.
• A Lightforging Orc in the Ogres' pay spotted Durotan leaving camp and sent a signal as he traveled to visit Draka, who was pregnant and hidden on a floating island.
• Several figures emerged from a concealed portal at the bottom of a pool near Draka's villa and remained hidden in the water.

Highmaul’s elite party ambushed Durotan on the floating island, using magic to trap and overpower him while he tried to summon help. The golden Portal was a decoy, and several tall figures emerged from a hidden shadow Portal behind him.

• Khadgar led Kelage, Tectus, Velen, Brackenspore, the Butcher, and elite Ogre sorcerers to ambush Durotan and planned to make him an obedient Undead servant.
• Durotan sensed the magic barrier being cast and left Draka to investigate the intruders near the pool.
• Kelage attacked Durotan, but Durotan trapped him in a pit before Tectus reshaped the terrain and helped him escape.
• Durotan took flight, but Khadgar’s No-Fly spell forced him down, so he opened a golden Portal to summon help.
• Tectus, Brackenspore, the Butcher, and Velen buried and corrupted the golden Portal’s Holy Light, believing they had stopped Durotan’s reinforcements.
• A hidden shadow Portal completed its transport behind Durotan, and several tall figures emerged.

Durotan escaped Khadgar’s ambush after summoning several powerful figures reborn through the Holy Light, including Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Jaina. Khadgar’s expedition retreated to prepare for Highmaul, while Amado offered to explain the Holy Light Kingdom to Imperator Mar’gok.

• Gruul and Oregorger emerged from the Portal and fought the expedition’s beasts while Durotan was surrounded by Tectus, Brackenspore, and Kelage.
• Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Jaina emerged from the Portal, and Durotan used golden light to make Garrosh his obedient servant.
• Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Jaina helped repel the attackers, and Jaina opened a Portal that allowed Durotan and his allies to escape.
• Khadgar ended the ambush and ordered a retreat, deciding the expedition should prepare to defend Highmaul.
• Velen admitted he did not understand how the dead had been reborn, and Amado offered to answer Imperator Mar’gok’s questions.

“Amado” challenged Velen’s claims about the Holy Light and revealed what Sargeras had taught him about the cosmic forces. He explained that Light and Darkness were once one and that the other cosmic energies prevented them from merging and destroying the universe.

• Velen attacked “Amado” for challenging his authority, but Khadgar blocked the blow and warned Velen that he was only a guest in Highmaul.
• At Mar'gok’s questioning, Velen claimed the Holy Light had revealed that the dead were judged by the Jailer and sent to Holy Light Heaven or the Shadow Abyss.
• Khadgar challenged Velen’s explanation with the examples of Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Jaina, and Velen insisted that questioning the Holy Light was blasphemy.
• “Amado” dismissed Velen’s account and said Sargeras had taught him that the Burning Legion fought the Void Lords and sought to destroy the Old Gods.
• “Amado” explained that Light and Darkness had once been one, and that Arcane, nature, death, and Fel interfered with their reunion to keep the universe from returning to chaos.

Imperator Mar'gok questioned Velen about the Holy Light's weakness as Durotan led the Lightforging Orcs against Highmaul. After the Orcs breached the city with waves of self-detonating soldiers, Mar'gok gave the signal to begin a hidden counterattack.

• Imperator Mar'gok asked Velen to reveal the Holy Light's weakness, and Velen demonstrated the Lightforged Orcs' spells under his command.
• Durotan learned Draka was safe, received a secret mission from the Naaru, and ordered his army to attack Highmaul without trying to capture it.
• The Lightforging Orcs filled Highmaul's moat, then used their Holy Light-protected soldiers to blast holes in the city's walls.
• Durotan ordered his forces into Highmaul and considered destroying the city after its defenses seemed weak.
• Imperator Mar'gok watched from a mage tower, declared they could begin, and Highmaul shook with a series of explosions.

Durotan halted his costly assault on Highmaul, while K'ure taught the Draenei that combining different energies could overcome the Holy Light's limits. In Shadowmoon Valley, Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Jaina searched empty fortresses for prisoners and encountered a voice claiming to be a god.

• Durotan realized his Lightforging Orcs were being lured into self-destruction by Highmaul's illusion array and ordered his troops to stop attacking and summon reinforcements.
• Imperator Mar'gok explained that Ogre Mages had designed the illusion array, and Khadgar worried that Durotan might attack again.
• K'ure told the Draenei that the Army of the Light had reached a technological bottleneck and taught them about combining Holy Light with other energies.
• Garrosh led Sylvanas, Jaina, and fifty Lightforging Orcs through a series of deserted fortresses in search of prisoners who could reveal Azeroth's coordinates.
• At an empty fortress, an eerie voice claimed it was a god that had ruled the world before the party arrived.

Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Jaina escaped an Old God at Lunarfall and met Aman'Thul, who disabled their Holy Light Edicts and recruited them to secretly oppose the Naaru. Back at the frontline camp, Jaina revealed that an illusion array had been set up inside Highmaul.

• An Old God attacked Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Jaina inside Lunarfall, and Jaina teleported them to safety.
• The three learned that the Holy Light Edict bound them to Durotan, until Aman'Thul offered to make it ineffective without removing it.
• Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Jaina agreed to follow Aman'Thul and pretend the Edict still controlled them while they awaited his orders.
• The three returned to Durotan, who asked them to report on Highmaul, and Jaina used a spell to reveal an illusion array inside the fortress.

Durotan and Highmaul remained locked in a stalemate until Velen secretly helped Imperator Mar'gok summon powerful champions through a Holy Light receiver. The chapter ended with Khadgar, Antonidas, Saurfang the Great, and Zul'jin confronting Durotan as Jaina and the others prepared to join the fight.

• Durotan chose to maintain the blockade around Highmaul rather than risk attacking its Illusion Formation, leaving both sides at a stalemate.
• Velen, isolated from Durotan and eager to change the situation, offered Imperator Mar'gok a way to counter Jaina, Garrosh, and Sylvanas.
• Velen and Mar'gok built a Holy Light receiver, and a Naaru answered Velen's prayer by resurrecting Antonidas, Saurfang the Great, and Zul'jin.
• Antonidas told Velen that the three resurrected champions would serve Mar'gok, and Mar'gok welcomed them into Highmaul's plan.
• Jaina sensed the Holy Light descending on Highmaul, while Durotan received a warning from the Holy Light that someone was interfering with their undertaking.
• Khadgar, Antonidas, Saurfang the Great, and Zul'jin teleported to Durotan, and Khadgar raised a shield as Durotan called for Jaina and the others to help.

Durotan lost the battle against Mar'gok and escaped after Arcane Corruption overwhelmed him, while Mar'gok claimed victory and led the Gorian Empire and Lightforged Orcs. Durotan recovered in secret and prayed to Gromgal, vowing that Mar'gok would not have the last laugh.

• Antonidas, Saurfang the Great, and Zul'jin pressed Jaina, Garrosh, and Sylvanas as Durotan noticed his side was holding back.
• Grommash Hellscream, Kilrogg, and Blackhand led Lightforged Orcs in attacking Khadgar's Magic Shield, and Imperator Mar'gok reinforced it.
• Mar'gok attacked Durotan with Arcane magic, and Arcane Corruption spread across half of Durotan's body.
• Durotan crushed a Rune Stone and teleported away, while Jaina escaped through a Portal with Garrosh and Sylvanas.
• Grommash Hellscream, Kilrogg, Blackhand, and the Lightforged Orcs submitted to Mar'gok, who declared himself Warlord of Draenor.
• Durotan recovered at the Thunderlord Clan's Gromgal ruins, vowed that Mar'gok would not have the last laugh, and prayed to Gromgal.

Velen followed the Holy Light’s guidance and secretly befriended “Cho'gall,” each seeking an ally against Mar'gok. Meanwhile, Aman'Thul approached Antonidas about escaping the Holy Light’s control.

• The Holy Light rebuked Velen for his inaction and told him to partner with Cho'gall to overthrow Mar'gok.
• Velen visited the recovering “Cho'gall,” who concealed that he had taken over Cho'gall's body, and the two tested each other's loyalty.
• Velen encouraged “Cho'gall” to seek Old God power and suggested that a Rune could protect his mind from corruption.
• Velen and “Cho'gall” became close allies, and Velen offered to use Holy Light Frenzy to turn Highmaul's commanders into Cho'gall's followers.
• Velen revealed that a Particle Beam Weapon was hidden in a secret storeroom in Karabor Temple, surprising “Cho'gall.”
• Aman'Thul, disguised as “Amado,” visited Antonidas and asked whether he wanted to break free of the Holy Light's bonds.