Recaps

Aegwynn was reborn in a Dreadlord body while Meryl learned she had escaped the Old Gods’ influence, and Aman'Thul’s Holy Light experiment transformed Lucas’s soul. After Lucas contacted Tirion Fordring, Tirion urged him to escape and warn Azeroth that its safety was threatened, but said he could not leave the Flesh-Eternal unless someone took his place.

• Aegwynn awakened in a Dreadlord body, summoned Spellstealer Wyrms, and told Meryl that Medivh was gone and Jaina had not killed her.
• Meryl worried about the Army of the Light, but Aegwynn said the Holy Light preferred to weaken Azeroth through internal conflict and that she could monitor Jaina through Kalecgos.
• At Light's Hope Chapel, Lucas absorbed Holy Light that repaired and transformed his soul, while Aman'Thul watched and discussed the Holy Dragon plan with Jaina.
• Lucas sensed Tirion Fordring's soul and spoke with him, revealing what he had overheard from Jaina and Amado at the banquet.
• Tirion told Lucas that Jaina and Amado were pawns of an evil force controlling the Holy Light and urged him to escape and warn Azeroth, but said he needed someone to take his place in the Flesh-Eternal.

Lucas traded souls with Tirion Fordring, believing he was freeing a hero, but discovered Tirion’s atrocities as he endured the Flesh-Eternal’s torment. Tirion was captured and tortured by Jaina and Amado, who used his soul to create a Holy Dragon and sent Jaina to challenge the Five Dragonflights.

• Tirion Fordring secretly transferred the Holy Light into Lucas's Construct and tricked Lucas into merging with the Rune, exchanging their souls.
• Lucas absorbed Tirion Fordring's memories and learned that Tirion had sold humans to the Orcs, while Tirion escaped in the Construct.
• Lightforging Orcs captured Tirion, mistook him for Lucas, and sealed his soul inside the Construct's core.
• Jaina and Amado tested the core with magical tortures before placing Tirion's soul inside Kalecgos's body.
• Amado and Jaina transformed Kalecgos into a Holy Dragon, then Amado sent Jaina to display it to the Five Dragonflights.

Jaina rode the Holy Dragon to demonstrate the power of the holy light to the Bronze, Green, Black, and Blue Dragonflights. After the Blue Dragons retreated from the Holy Dragon’s Holy Domain, Jaina set her sights on her final and most difficult target at Wyrmrest Temple.

• Jaina’s Holy Dragon circled the Caverns of Time and buried its entrance in sand, leaving Anachronos and the Bronze Dragons shocked and humiliated.
• Jaina appeared over Val’sharah as a second sun and showered the forest with healing holy light, prompting Tyrande to taunt Malfurion about the power of the holy light.
• Jaina circled Neltharion’s Lair, but flew away when the underground creatures prostrated themselves before the Holy Dragon.
• Arygos confronted Jaina at the Nexus with more than a dozen Blue Dragons and accused her of turning Kalecgos’s body into a puppet.
• The Holy Dragon’s Holy Domain drove out Arcane energy, forcing Arygos and the Blue Dragons to retreat as Jaina prepared to go to Wyrmrest Temple.

The Red Dragon Queen decided to support Jaina’s Holy Dragons while secretly expecting them to remain subordinate to Red Dragon bloodlines. She gave Jaina a legendary staff and thirty Red Dragon Eggs, and Jaina agreed to establish the Holy Dragon nest at Fire Plume Ridge.

• The Red Dragon Queen concluded that the Army of the Light was behind the Holy Dragon and told Krasus to avoid conflict with Jaina while preparing unsuitable Red Dragon Eggs for her.
• Jaina and the Holy Dragon arrived at Wyrmrest Temple, where Red Dragons welcomed them with a musical performance and Krasus escorted Jaina to the Red Dragon Queen.
• The Red Dragon Queen gave Jaina Dragon’s Wrath, Taremmus’s Rest, and explained that Taremmus had been corrupted after eating Draenei Broken.
• Krasus brought thirty high-quality Red Dragon Eggs, and the Red Dragon Queen offered them as the foundation of the Holy Dragonflights.
• The Red Dragon Queen recommended Fire Plume Ridge as the Holy Dragons’ nest, Jaina accepted, and the queen asked her to call her sister.

Jaina's allied forces purified the lake at the Ruins of Orgrimmar and began roasting Kalecgos's Flesh-Eternal, forcing him to seek a way to escape. The Black Dragon Eggs set a plan in motion and reached Velen through a vision, where he recognized Zakir.

• Velen led the Lightforging Tauren, Lightforging Centaurs, and Lightforging Quilboar toward the Ruins of Orgrimmar, while Jaina and Kalecgos drew everyone's attention.
• Jaina ordered the allied forces to purify the dark lake, revealing Kalecgos's Flesh-Eternal beneath its waters.
• The Black Dragon Eggs proposed that Kalecgos become a Twilight Dragon using Black Dragon essence and Void Dragon essence, and Kalecgos agreed to seek the Red Dragon Queen's help through Velen.
• Jaina ordered the allied forces to roast the Flesh-Eternal as a lasting food supply, trapping Kalecgos in a painful cycle of growing new flesh.
• The Black Dragon Eggs entered Velen's vision while he prayed, and Velen recognized Zakir in the Cosmic Cathedral.

Zakir persuaded Velen to help free him by offering advice on undermining Jaina’s position through sabotage of the Flesh-Eternals. The Black Dragon egg revealed that it had impersonated Zakir to deceive Velen, while the Lightforging armies’ arrival in Azshara drew attention and a Tauren messenger reached the Red Dragon Queen.

• Zakir told Velen that an Eredar demon carrying his head was in Azeroth and offered to serve him for ten thousand years if Velen helped free him.
• Zakir advised Velen to sabotage the Flesh-Eternals by asking the Red Dragon Queen for Void Dragon essence, and Velen began forming a plan.
• After the vision ended, the Black Dragon egg told Kalecgos that it had successfully fooled Velen.
• Lightforging Orcs and Lightforged Trolls established a base at Rustwater Port, where Jaina’s Lightforging Centaurs clashed with them and drew the attention of Azeroth’s factions.
• Leipi arrived at Wyrmrest Temple, and the Red Dragon Queen asked whether the Tauren Chieftains were performing in Northrend.

The Red Dragon Queen sent Void Dragon essence to Velen after realizing he had tried to obtain it, while the war in Azshara intensified. When the Flesh-Eternal stopped growing, Jaina attacked Velen and accused him of treachery; Kalecgos then offered Velen a way to turn the situation against Jaina.

• Leipi told the Red Dragon Queen that a mysterious Tauren Chieftains shareholder had sent him to request Void Dragon essence, and she sent essence to Velen through an intermediary.
• The Lightforging war in Azshara escalated as both sides suffered heavy losses while keeping their strongest fighters out of battle.
• Garrosh told Jaina that the Flesh-Eternal had stopped growing, and Velen demanded an explanation when she returned to the Orgrimmar base.
• Jaina struck Velen, ordered him questioned, and declared that she would punish the traitor behind the Flesh-Eternal's disruption.
• Kalecgos visited the injured Velen and said Jaina was more suited to become a Flesh-Eternal because she had sold many innocent people to the Orcs.

Velen used Kalecgos's soul-dance spell to free the holy souls from Jaina's control and make them engulf her. Jaina became convinced that being eaten by the Orcs was an honor and entered the Flesh-Eternal, which then seized Velen with a tentacle.

• Garrosh had Velen bound and brought him to Jaina's Holy Light Magic Circle as the next sacrifice to become a Flesh-Eternal.
• Jaina activated the Magic Circle, drawing restless souls to Velen and transforming them into holy souls that urged him to sacrifice himself for Azeroth.
• Velen danced the soul-dance Kalecgos had taught him, causing the holy souls to join in and slip from Jaina's control.
• The holy souls engulfed Jaina and made her relive the suffering and manipulation of those who had been sacrificed to the Orcs.
• Jaina accepted her supposed sacrifice as an honor and entered the Flesh-Eternal, while Velen breathed a sigh of relief.
• The Flesh-Eternal wrapped a tentacle around Velen.

Velen was dragged into the Flesh-Eternal after the Draenei souls and Orcs broke his resolve, while Aman'Thul halted the attack on Kalimdor to preserve the balance of power. On Draenor, Mar'gok began considering Cho'gall as a replacement for Amado, and the Velen hidden inside Cho'gall welcomed the other Velen's downfall.

• Velen briefly used the Holy Light to resist the Flesh-Eternal, but the Draenei souls accused him of betraying them and he admitted he had treated them as livestock.
• Orcs overwhelmed Velen, and he was dragged into the Flesh-Eternal, where he found Jaina among the restless souls.
• Aman'Thul ordered Baron Maxwell Tyrosus to stop the attack on Kalimdor and withdraw the troops to Rustwater Port, explaining that the Holy Light required a balance of power.
• Mar'gok questioned Amado's decision to halt his attack, and Antonidas suggested that Amado had ambitions for Azeroth.
• Mar'gok summoned Cho'gall to replace Amado, while the Velen hidden inside Cho'gall celebrated the other Velen's loss of freedom.

Velen, controlling Cho'gall, led a vast army of New Lightforged Orcs in a conquest of Kalimdor, forcing Sylvanas, Garrosh, and Magatha into a desperate defense. After the Orcs captured Orgrimmar, Velen prepared to destroy its Flesh-Eternal, but learned that the ships in Azshara had been destroyed just as the Holy Dragon roared overhead.

• Velen secured Mar'gok's permission to command the New Lightforged Orcs and rapidly expanded their forces.
• Velen launched invasions across Kalimdor, while Sylvanas, Garrosh, and Magatha united to resist the Orcs.
• Sylvanas joined forces with Zul'Farrak and used its defenses to stall the Orcs, while Garrosh retreated to Northwatch Hold and Magatha fell back to Thunder Bluff.
• The New Lightforged Orcs captured Orgrimmar, where Velen planned to destroy the Flesh-Eternal and eliminate the other Velen.
• A scout reported that the ships in Azshara's harbor had been destroyed, and the Holy Dragon roared over Orgrimmar.

Kalecgos and the Holy Dragons defeated Cho'gall's forces, and a black-robed Corrector had Cho'gall dragged into the Flesh-Eternal. Inside, Cho'gall's Velen soul met the other Velen and Jaina, before an eerie voice offered the two Velens a chance to escape if they cooperated.

• Thirty Holy Dragons led by Kalecgos attacked Orgrimmar and killed the New Lightforged Orcs accompanying Cho'gall.
• A black-robed mage stopped Cho'gall from teleporting, rejected his surrender, and had the Flesh-Eternal drag him inside.
• Grommash Hellscream and Kilrogg hoped to take command of the New Lightforged Orcs, while Baron Thalassos said he had an old friend in Ratchet.
• Aman'Thul watched and reflected that Cho'gall's presence as a counterforce had brought forth a Corrector.
• Cho'gall's Velen soul met another Velen and Jaina inside the Flesh-Eternal, where Jaina forced them to confess their sins.
• An eerie voice asked the two Velens whether they would cooperate if they could escape.

Two versions of Velen learned that fusing their souls could make them gods and accepted the treacherous voice’s secret art. Their souls merged inside the Flesh-Eternal, leaving a two-headed Draenei soul that the voice called the beginning of a god.

• The two Velens agreed that one of them had to die, but the treacherous voice offered a way to fuse their souls and share power.
• The voice claimed that souls from parallel worlds could merge into gods and proved its knowledge by naming Lisa and revealing the other Velen’s death in the Cosmic Cathedral.
• The Velens remembered how one had killed his parallel self during a Temporal Tremor ten thousand years earlier.
• The voice claimed to be Velen after becoming a god and taught the two Velens the incantation for merging their souls.
• The Velens fused inside the Flesh-Eternal, becoming a two-headed Draenei soul that the voice called the beginning of a god.

Two-headed Velen freed himself from the Flesh-Eternal, rescued Jaina from brainwashing, and recruited her, while Aman'Thul secretly manipulated them. Meanwhile, Mar'gok and Antonidas prepared for a Naaru’s arrival as Durotan’s forces and the New Lightforged Orcs readied for a looming conflict.

• Two-headed Velen gained control of the Flesh-Eternal and followed the sly voice’s instructions to find Jaina, unaware that Aman'Thul had scanned both Velens’ memories and deceived them.
• Two-headed Velen freed Jaina from her brainwashing and persuaded her to join him, threatening to devour her if she refused.
• At Light's Hope Chapel, Aman'Thul, disguised as Amado, restored his power and carefully built up the New Lightforged Orcs and their fleet.
• In Draenor, Mar'gok and Antonidas discussed Cho'gall’s defeat and the uncertain preparations to resist the Naaru, while Mar'gok refused to surrender to the Holy Light.
• At the Thunderlord Clan fortress, Durotan prepared a massive ballista and spoke of staking everything on one final chance as Draka arrived with the children.
• After more than ten million New Lightforged Orcs were expended, Oshu'gun’s enormous pyramid and underground palace were completed as a resting place for the arriving Naaru.

Mar'gok and Antonidas prepared to destroy the pyramid as the Naaru descended, while Mar'gok discovered that the Holy Light would judge Draenor’s people as potential servants or prey. As Light-Hunter Kuber crossed into Draenor, a hidden cannon fired a Shadow projectile that shattered him.

• Mar'gok and Antonidas agreed that the Holy Light ceremony was their last chance and prepared to destroy the site if it went wrong.
• Mar'gok lit the pyramid’s torch and learned that the Naaru considered most worshippers unworthy, despite promising to save the dead and living.
• The Holy Light engulfed Nagrand, compelling the Lightforged Orcs to praise it and revealing a rift through which Light-Hunter Kuber and six smaller Naaru descended.
• A concealed cannon among the mountains of Oshu'gun fired a Shadow-powered projectile, which struck Kuber and blasted him apart.

Mar'gok’s attacks failed to destroy Light-Hunter Kuber, who resurrected with his followers at the cost of more than three hundred thousand Lightforging Orcs. Meanwhile, Aman'Thul empowered Velen into a mutated Faceless One and sent him to devour the Naaru, leaving Lucas alive but fused into Velen’s transformed body.

• Mar'gok’s Rune and a Titan-like stone arm struck Light-Hunter Kuber, but Kuber and his five followers later reappeared after the deaths of more than three hundred thousand Lightforging Orcs.
• Light-Hunter Kuber condemned the Draenor World and threatened to make its people pay, while Durotan arrived above a floating island made of the Thunderlord Clan’s black bones.
• Aman'Thul appeared near the Flesh-Eternal in Orgrimmar and urged Two-headed Velen to devour the Naaru and become a god.
• Velen transformed into a gigantic Faceless One and used a Portal to reach Lucas in the Plaguelands, where he drained Lucas’s flesh and blood.
• Aman'Thul praised Velen’s transformation and ordered him to devour the Naaru, while Lucas remained alive with his body incorporated into the Faceless One.

Lucas met Velen after the two Flesh-Eternals fused, while Durotan and Mar'gok's forces failed to defeat Light-Hunter Kuber in Nagrand. Velen arrived as a Faceless One and revealed that he could devour Kuber, but the chapter ended with Kuber asking for terms and Velen saying he wanted to stop being a clown.

• The two Flesh-Eternals fused into a two-headed Faceless One, and Velen learned that Lucas served Tirion Fordring.
• Aman'Thul's portal brought Velen and Lucas to Nagrand as Durotan's forces attacked Light-Hunter Kuber.
• Mar'gok ordered the Lightforging Orcs to abandon the Holy Light, and Durotan rammed Kuber with the floating island after blocking the pyramid's light.
• Kuber survived the explosion, restored himself with light and heat, and exposed Mar'gok's hidden destruction circle.
• Velen appeared as a giant Faceless One and told Kuber that he could devour him by exploiting the Naaru Noble's weak will.
• Kuber recognized Velen and asked for terms, and Velen said he no longer wanted to be a clown.

Velen refused to accept the Naaru essence Kuber offered and attacked him, seeking to devour the Naaru noble instead. Their struggle moved into a contest of wills on Kuber’s homeworld, Polat, where Velen was trapped in darkness but revealed that he could produce light.

• Kuber sacrificed a Naaru and offered its essence to Velen, explaining that the Army of the Light treated ordinary Naaru as spellcasting materials.
• Velen attacked Kuber, devoured nearly a hundred thousand Lightforging Orcs to repair his body, and dragged Kuber into his maw.
• Kuber invoked Polat, shifting their contest of wills to his destroyed homeworld, where light was essential for survival.
• Velen shaped his will into Hydross the Unstable, while Kuber took the form of a glowing creature from Polat.
• Kuber extinguished the surrounding creatures’ light and immobilized Velen, but Velen said he could glow too.

Velen and Light-Hunter Kuber fought in an underwater contest of wills while Kuber recounted how betrayal and loss had led him to destroy his planet. Kuber revealed that he had also been deceiving Lucas, whose will appeared as Grom Hellscream and charged at Velen.

• Velen and Kuber exchanged poisonous water bolts and ice attacks beneath the sea, and Velen gained the advantage.
• Kuber told Velen that his people’s escape plan had failed because their elders secretly bargained with the Army of the Light.
• Kuber described how his lover was executed, how he escaped into the furnace, and how he destroyed the planet’s core in revenge.
• Kuber revealed that he had told his story to deceive Lucas, who had joined the contest of wills.
• Lucas’s will took the form of Grom Hellscream, who raised his axe and charged at Velen.

Lucas caused Velen to lose the contest of wills, allowing Kubor to unleash the Age of Holy Light across Draenor, but Yrel’s plan with Naaru K’ure’s technique ultimately destroyed Kubor. Aman'Thul then began preparing to unite Azeroth with a force of Holy Dragons.

• Lucas defeated Velen in the contest of wills, then died believing he had saved Azeroth.
• Kubor began spreading holy light across Draenor, controlling its inhabitants and declaring the Age of Holy Light.
• An approaching ball of holy light pursued Kubor, mixed foreign energy into him, and shattered him.
• Yrel confirmed Kubor’s death aboard the stealthed Tempest Keep, crediting Naaru K’ure’s technique.
• Aman'Thul learned of Kubor’s death and decided to unite Azeroth, then inspected Red Dragon eggs infused with holy light beneath Light's Hope Chapel.
• Aman'Thul spoke to Tirion Fordring beside an adult Holy Dragon and anticipated creating a Holy Dragonflight.

Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Magatha planned to invade Kalimdor for food until Jaina arrived with a way to feed their forces and demanded leadership. They accepted her temporary command, built a portal and shipyard, and received Pandaren provisions along with Lightforging Orcs.

• Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Magatha agreed to expand into Kalimdor and slaughter its inhabitants to supply their armies.
• Jaina arrived in a new body with Taran Zhu and Chen Stormstout, offering Pandaren from the Vale of Eternal Blossoms as food in exchange for becoming leader of the allied forces.
• Jaina warned that Holy Dragons would attack any advance into Stonetalon Mountains and said the armies should unite to attack the Plaguelands instead.
• Magatha and Sylvanas supported Jaina, and Garrosh agreed to her leadership while retaining command of the Lightforging Quilboar.
• The factions built a permanent Portal to the Vale and a Shipyard in Durotar; once the Portal opened, ten thousand Pandaren entered Orgrimmar to be slaughtered, accompanied by many Lightforging Orcs.

Jaina revealed her plan to use New Lightforged Orcs and rebuild the Peace Dove to draw Alliance races into her army. Meanwhile, Velen faced the Army of the Light over Kuber’s death and accepted a chance to atone by spreading the Holy Light across Azeroth.

• Garrosh realized Jaina controlled the New Lightforged Orcs, and she announced she would rebuild the Peace Dove to recruit humans and Dwarves as provisions.
• Aman'Thul recognized Velen and offered him a chance to atone for attacking Light-Hunter Kuber by preaching the Holy Light, with former Argent Crusade members supporting him.
• Velen prayed to the Holy Light and was drawn into a memory of the Polat Planet, where the elders accused him of betraying them after he drew the marked card.
• Velen defended himself by claiming that Light-Hunter Kuber was an Unclean One, then agreed to accept punishment and spread the Holy Light across Azeroth.

Velen was reborn as Weite, a Pandaren raised as food in Pandaria, and tried to figure out how to spread the Holy Light among his people. After winning praise for his speeches and arguing that Pandaren stood above Orcs, he considered becoming a dinner ingredient to reach Taran Zhu or Jaina.

• The Holy Light sent Velen’s soul into Weite, an educated Pandaren who was being raised as food for distinguished guests.
• Weite delivered a speech celebrating the Pandaren’s status as Azeroth’s most delicious ingredients, earning applause from the crowd.
• At a gathering of Pandaren sages, Weite argued that Pandaren history and civilization placed them above Orcs.
• Weite decided that persuading Taran Zhu or Jaina might let him spread the Holy Light among the Pandaren.
• After two sages were chosen as Garrosh’s dinner, Weite considered becoming an ingredient to gain access to Taran Zhu and Jaina.
• The sages began debating Pandaren traitors, and one elder proposed creating an enforcement force.

Velen used the Law Enforcement Force proposal to arrange a secret attack on Qionghua Lake, hoping the resulting chaos would let him escape the guarded Vale of Eternal Blossoms. After fewer than a hundred Jinyu routed the Pandaren and caused massive casualties, he urged Taran Zhu to consider the Holy Light, while the sages falsely celebrated a victory and debated how to cook Jinyu.

• The Vale of Eternal Blossoms sages formed a Law Enforcement Force, and Velen volunteered to take their proposal to Taran Zhu after its leader was chosen by lot.
• When Taran Zhu refused to act on the proposal, Velen lied to the force’s leader that Sect Master Zhu had approved a secret attack on Qionghua Lake.
• Fifty Pandaren attacked Qionghua Lake, but the Jinyu killed them and then charged into the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, where panic caused more than a hundred thousand casualties.
• Taran Zhu learned that fewer than a hundred Jinyu had attacked, and Velen warned that more might come before suggesting the Path of the Holy Light and the Holy Light Edict.
• The sages claimed that thirty million Jinyu had attacked and that the Pandaren had won easily, then began debating how to cook Jinyu.

Velen’s attempt to turn the Vale of Eternal Blossoms Pandaren into an army ended in disaster, while Jaina’s Peace Dove secretly expanded across the Kingdom of Stormwind. The chapter left Vanessa’s Followers preparing to use Robbie’s latest Holy Light research against Jaina’s plan.

• Taran Zhu received Velen’s weakened Holy Light Edict, converted the Vale Pandaren, and approved a war against the Shado-Pan Monastery after Velen urged the sages to attack.
• Taran Zhu led an expedition that lost its vanguard, drowned more than a hundred thousand Pandaren, and lost over a hundred thousand more to the cold before retreating without reaching the monastery.
• The Vale Pandaren celebrated their supposed victory, while Velen recognized his failure, prayed for forgiveness, and was ordered by the Holy Light to go to the Kingdom of Stormwind and assist Jaina’s operation.
• At Lunarfall, Vanessa’s Followers learned from Whitemane that the Peace Dove had quietly spread throughout the Kingdom of Stormwind, and Robbie proposed using the team’s latest research.

Velen went undercover in Stormwind City as Cyrus to investigate the Peace Dove, where he learned Jaina planned to enslave humans through a corrupted form of the Holy Light. After discovering Archbishop Benedictus was spreading this Unholy Holy Light, Velen planned to enlist Genn Greymane’s help and traveled to Gilneas.

• Velen arrived in Stormwind City disguised as Cyrus and followed a Peace Dove messenger to a basement meeting.
• Maiwen Anluofu drained the messenger’s soul shard, then told Velen that Jaina planned to make Stormwind’s people slaves and food for Orcs.
• Maiwen asked Velen to help eliminate Archbishop Benedictus, who had returned to Stormwind.
• At Benedictus’s sermon, Velen sensed that the Holy Light entering the congregation was corrupted and resolved to stop its spread.
• Velen decided to seek help from Genn Greymane, whose ambitions included Stormwind’s throne, and an uninvited guest arrived in Gilneas City.