Recaps

Taran Zhu captured Sylvanas and sought an alliance with Aman'Thul, who supplied a collar to control her and ordered an attack on Orgrimmar. Chen Stormstout learned that three armies were approaching, leaving his new rule under threat.

• Sylvanas was taken to Taran Zhu, who imprisoned her in Holy Light and sent an envoy to Light's Hope Chapel to seek an alliance.
• Aman'Thul rebuked Tirion Fordring and ordered him to face an illusion of Eitrigg until he overcame his fear.
• Aman'Thul agreed to ally with Taran Zhu, gave his envoy a golden collar meant to control Sylvanas, and ordered Grommash Hellscream, Kilrogg, and Blackhand to attack Orgrimmar.
• Chen Stormstout inspected his palace construction and kept a Lightforging Orc resembling Thrall at his side.
• Khadgar warned Chen Stormstout that Aman'Thul had sent three armies toward Orgrimmar.

Chen Stormstout’s forces fought to a stalemate against their enemies while he grew distracted by palace construction. Taran Zhu captured Holy Light's Gate at Theramore, forcing Chen to recognize Amado’s plan and march to stop him.

• Chen Stormstout assigned Charlga Razorflank, Kromza, and Rom to lead forces after finding no commanders in Orgrimmar.
• Grom Hellscream and Rom fought to a standstill at Azshara Rustwater Port, while Kromza stalled Kilrogg's fleet and Charlga repelled Blackhand at Northwatch Hold.
• A Centaur scout spotted an approaching fleet, and Taran Zhu led more than ten thousand Pandaren to seize Holy Light's Gate at Theramore.
• Taran Zhu said he intended to block the portal rather than destroy it, while Sylvanas stood behind him wearing a collar.
• Chen Stormstout realized Amado wanted to cut off Draenor’s escape route and gain power in Azeroth, but Khadgar warned that Chen could not defeat Amado’s Holy Dragons alone.
• Chen Stormstout gathered his army and marched toward Theramore.

Chen Stormstout and Khadgar’s Lightforged Orcs fought Taran Zhu’s forces in a devastating battle at Theramore while Khadgar planned to target Amado. On Draenor, Velen persuaded Imperator Mar'gok to give him Light-Hunter Kuber’s core, then presented it to the Red Dragon Queen to enlist the dragons’ support.

• Khadgar told Chen Stormstout how the Trolls had rewritten the history of their defeat, and Chen’s hundred thousand Lightforged Orcs marched on Theramore.
• Taran Zhu’s hundred thousand Orcs met Chen’s army in Theramore’s ruins, fought for three days and nights, and won; Chen prepared another contingent as both sides sought a way to break the stalemate.
• Khadgar proposed assassinating Amado and arranged a surprise attack on Halfhill, but Taran Zhu’s trap wiped out the attackers while another team sought Xuen’s help on the Timeless Isle.
• On Draenor, Velen persuaded Imperator Mar'gok that the Alliance could be turned against Amado and received Light-Hunter Kuber’s core to help restore the Order of the Silver Hand.
• Velen brought Kuber’s core to the Red Dragon Queen at Wyrmrest Temple and declared that the Holy Light was on their side.

The Red Dragon Queen and Velen planned to create Holy Dragons and recruit Dragon Knights, forcing Dragonkin into relentless labor to build the required Magic Circle. Meanwhile, Robbie impersonated the wealthy Blood Elf Alaisel Sunwatcher and followed a Wolvar guide to a hidden crystal palace where he spotted Velen disguised as Cho'gall.

• The Red Dragon Queen agreed with Velen that Dragon Knights could command Holy Dragons, but their attempts to create them failed until Krasus proposed building a massive Magic Circle.
• The Red Dragon Queen ordered Dragonkin to work without rest, appointed Krasus to enforce the orders, and threatened to turn disobedient workers into puppet Dragons.
• Velen recruited Dragon Knight candidates across Azeroth and required them to surrender their property, which Alaisel Sunwatcher converted into Magic Gems.
• Robbie captured Alaisel, assumed his appearance, and traveled to Mo'aki Harbor among adventurers seeking to become Dragon Knights.
• A Wolvar led Robbie through the bushes to a hidden crystal palace, where Robbie recognized Velen disguised as Cho'gall.

Robbie and the Dragonkin planned how to manage the thousands of dragon-knight candidates and ease the Red Dragonflight’s overwork. After Robbie turned the candidates against Velen, the Red Dragon Queen ordered Velen’s magic sealed and him thrown into the Great Sea.

• Krasus, Anachronos, Velen, and Robbie discussed the overcrowded candidate camp, and Robbie suggested copying Tirion Fordring’s deadly trial to eliminate excess candidates.
• Krasus revealed that more than five hundred Red Dragons had died building the magic circle, so Robbie proposed buying Dalaran’s magic constructs with Red Dragon corpses.
• Robbie visited the disorderly settlement at Wyrmrest Temple, where Velen proposed selling defeated candidates as slaves.
• Velen ordered the candidates to build a trial ground, while Robbie spread a rumor that Velen planned to turn the defeated into jerky.
• The candidates gathered outside Velen’s door and drove him to seek help from Krasus.
• The Red Dragon Queen told Krasus to seal Velen’s magic and throw him into the Great Sea.

Robbie helped Krasus ease the Red Dragonflight’s backbreaking work at Galakrond’s Rest by secretly resurrecting Storm Giants, while investigating the growing Undead threat. When Krasus was sent to Theramore with a golden sphere, Robbie recognized the significance of the enormous death aura surrounding the battlefield.

• Krasus ambushed Velen, tortured him publicly, and threw his corpse into the Eternal Sea.
• Robbie learned that Galakrond’s remains were being nurtured for a future resurrection and saw the exhausted Red Dragons struggling to build a Holy Light Magic Circle.
• Robbie persuaded Krasus to let him secretly resurrect buried Storm Giants, which reduced the Red Dragonflight’s workload.
• Robbie used the Storm Giants to investigate Galakrond’s remains while he and Krasus concealed their actions from the Red Dragon Queen.
• Krasus told Robbie that the Red Dragon Queen had sent him to Theramore with a golden sphere, and Robbie realized the mission was connected to the immense death aura there.
• Robbie and Krasus flew to Theramore, where they saw the Lightforging Orcs continue fighting amid mountains of bones and rotting corpses.

Khadgar’s allies assassinated Aman'Thul, allowing Tirion Fordring to seize leadership of the Plaguelands. Khadgar and Chen Stormstout discussed the danger posed by the new leader and the terrifying power Aman'Thul had possessed.

• Khadgar told Aman'Thul that the Theramore battle had been a feint and revealed that his allies were planning an assassination.
• Garona, disguised as Jessica, attacked Aman'Thul after the Morning Dew Wine weakened him, and the Dark Side of the Moon dagger pierced his chest.
• Aman'Thul’s body decayed, but his damaged soul escaped by possessing a guard and teleporting away.
• Tirion Fordring arrived at Light's Hope Chapel, declared himself the new leader, and demanded obedience; Grommash Hellscream immediately pledged loyalty.
• In The Barrens, Khadgar told Chen Stormstout that Aman'Thul was dead and Tirion Fordring had taken his place, while Chen worried that Tirion would be difficult to handle.

Sylvanas performed the Draenei Dance of Death to fill Theramore with death energy and seal its damaged space against teleportation. As resurrected emperors attacked the ritual, Robbie traced their origins to Prophet Velen on a hidden island, where a golden skeletal Proto-Dragon prepared to send Velen into battle.

• Khadgar and Chen Stormstout teleported to Theramore, where Taran Zhu ordered Sylvanas to begin the Dance of Death.
• Sylvanas summoned a tornado of death energy and animated Theramore’s corpses into skeletons, while Khadgar explained that the ritual would make the island a permanent barrier against teleportation.
• The Gurubashi Emperor and Amani Emperor emerged from spatial rifts to stop the ritual, and Taran Zhu and Chen Stormstout fought them in the air.
• Robbie controlled resurrected emperors as they emerged from the rifts and traced them to Prophet Velen on a hidden island filled with the coffins of historical rulers.
• A golden skeletal Proto-Dragon defeated the emperors’ skeletons, returned their bones to their coffins, and ordered Velen to take the stage.

Tirion Fordring arrived at Theramore to stop the effort to seal the Holy Light's Gate and save the Orc clans seeking entry into Azeroth. Khadgar's Eitrigg illusions briefly held him back, but Valrego destroyed them, leaving Tirion ready to attack.

• The skeletal proto-dragon berated Velen, then worried that Lich King Arthas might have returned and decided to prepare by using a pawn.
• Taran Zhu and Chen Stormstout competed as they fought the resurrected Troll emperors, but they abandoned the battle when Tirion Fordring approached in Holy Light.
• Taran Zhu explained that the group was trying to stop Highmaul and the Frostwolf and Thunderlord Clans from invading through the Holy Light's Gate, but Tirion declared that he would save the Orcs.
• Khadgar summoned towering illusions of Eitrigg, forcing Tirion to circle Theramore cautiously while Robbie claimed he had hired a powerful expert to defeat him.
• Tirion seized Valrego, who destroyed Khadgar's Eitrigg illusions, and Tirion prepared to attack the defenders.

Modresh Fire Eye transformed into a powerful skeletal dragon and defeated Tirion, who admitted a mysterious being had sent him. Khadgar identified the dragon from an ancient record as one who had once threatened Nozdormu.

• Tirion interrupted his attack on Sylvanas when Modresh Fire Eye and dancing skeletons appeared on Theramore Island.
• Robbie explained that Modresh had survived in Razorfen Downs, where Varimathras had secretly profited from adventurers' repeated quests to kill Amnennar.
• Modresh evaded Tirion's attacks, infected the Holy Light aberrations with his dance, and transformed into a giant skeletal dragon.
• Modresh pinned Tirion down, tore off his wings, and demanded to know who had ordered him to come.
• Tirion said a mysterious being had entered his dream and threatened him, while Modresh accused him of lying.
• Khadgar found an ancient Highborne record describing a dragon who had threatened Nozdormu and forced him to surrender most of his collection.

As Theramore became an eternal realm of death, Robbie warned Krasus that the Red Dragon Queen planned to resurrect Galakrond using the Red Dragonflight and challenged him to seek the truth about her past. Krasus hesitated over Robbie’s suggestion to use the Infinite Dragonflight to reach the sealed timeline.

• Tirion Fordring identified a Void Creature as the one who had ordered his plot before the black skeletal Dragon carried him away.
• Sylvanas’s dance transformed Theramore into an eternal realm of death, restoring its silent streets and trapping souls within its shadowy canopy.
• Krasus stole a small amount of Theramore’s soul flame in a golden sphere, while Khadgar said it was time to deal with Taran Zhu.
• Robbie warned Krasus that the Red Dragon Queen intended to use the Red Dragonflight’s resentment and Theramore’s soul flame to resurrect Galakrond and merge with him.
• Robbie questioned Krasus’s role in Rhonin’s unlikely rescue of the Red Dragon Queen and suggested that the Infinite Dragonflight could help uncover the truth in the sealed timeline.
• Krasus recognized Robbie’s suggestion but hesitated, looking warily from Robbie to the golden sphere.

Robbie and Krasus traveled to the tenth year of the Dark Portal to investigate the Dragonflight and seek clues from the Dragon Kings. They found the unstable Malygos in his icy cave, where his altered form and overwhelming presence confronted them.

• Robbie brought Krasus through a spatial portal to Dalaran during its reconstruction and used a scale to view Krasus courting Lisa in the past.
• Robbie and Krasus discussed approaching the Dragon Kings for information, deciding to seek out Malygos in Northrend.
• Robbie and Krasus followed giant tracks to Malygos's cave and found frozen corpses and signs of his violent instability.
• Robbie and Krasus reached a crystal palace and discovered Malygos in a distorted, partly draconic form.

Robbie and Krasus confronted Malygos, whose conflicting memories revealed that powerful forces had altered and sealed his past. Malygos left after warning Krasus that Alexstrasza was not a dragon, and Robbie and Krasus decided to seek answers from Nozdormu and Ysera.

• Malygos attacked Krasus and Robbie with frost, then struggled to distinguish memories of Deathwing, the Demon Soul, and the Blue Dragonflight's fate.
• Robbie questioned how an Orc could wield the Demon Soul to capture Alexstrasza, leading Malygos to conclude that Deathwing had staged the events.
• Malygos regained his reason and explained that two powers were sealing different sets of memories within him.
• Malygos told Krasus that Alexstrasza was not a dragon, then left the cave.
• Robbie suggested visiting Nozdormu and Ysera, and Krasus vowed to uncover the truth.

Rhonin met Daval Prestor in a Lordaeron inn and explained why he had left Dalaran. After recounting the night his Holy Word struck Teron Gorefiend and Antonidas’s spell killed his five companions, Rhonin said he had wanted to escape a place of sorrow.

• Rhonin entered a Lordaeron inn looking for a cheap room, but the innkeeper offered him a free one in exchange for his company.
• Daval Prestor invited Rhonin to drink and offered to help him find a position in Lordaeron.
• Rhonin told Prestor that two years earlier he had encountered Teron Gorefiend and other Orcs while drunk with five companions.
• Rhonin cast Holy Word on Teron Gorefiend, and Antonidas ordered him to dispel it before using Greater Disintegration.
• Rhonin escaped the spell, but his five companions were reduced to dust, and he was blamed for their deaths.
• Rhonin told Prestor he had left Dalaran to get away from the place where he had suffered so much.

Prestor gave Rhonin a letter and gold to help him atone, while Robbie and Krasus entered Nozdormu’s hidden realm to find the Bronze Dragon Aspect. They discovered that Nozdormu’s vast collection held the ruins and relics of Azeroth’s past, and Robbie identified a mask that might draw him out.

• Prestor gave Rhonin a letter for Korialstrasz and extra gold, urging him to seek a chance to atone.
• Robbie used the Eye of C'Thun to locate a temporal disturbance near Gadgetzan, and he and Krasus found the Eternal Rose at Sandfury Camp.
• Krasus activated the Eternal Rose, transporting them into Nozdormu’s desert realm, where they saw relics and ruins from across Azeroth.
• Krasus removed the Sea King War Glaive from the sand, but Nozdormu did not appear.
• Robbie pointed out an ordinary stone mask bearing a Night Elf and dragon face, saying Nozdormu’s strong aura on it showed it was precious to him.

Robbie and Krasus sought Nozdormu’s help for Alexstrasza and learned that the Bronze Dragon Aspect’s memories had been tampered with. Nozdormu sent them back to the desert, and they decided to visit Ysera.

• Nozdormu seized his stone mask and warned Krasus to leave, but Krasus asked him to help free Alexstrasza from the Orcs.
• Krasus revealed that he came from the future, prompting Nozdormu to recall a terrifying vision of dragons being eaten by Orcs.
• Nozdormu showed Robbie and Krasus the buried skeletons of his comrades who had fought Galakrond and said someone had erased his memories.
• Robbie translated the Highborne inscription on Nozdormu’s mask as “the Maw,” while Nozdormu spoke of a time before the Titans when Azeroth had no Nightmare.
• Nozdormu swept Robbie and Krasus back to Sandfury Camp, where Krasus realized he had already begun forgetting their encounter.
• Robbie proposed visiting Ysera, while Nozdormu remained alone in the desert, mourning Lisa and clutching the mask.

Rhonin delivered Lord Prestor’s Draconic letter to Krasus, who grew alarmed at its threat and told Rhonin to await a task. At a Council of Six meeting, the mages discussed the Red Dragon Queen’s imprisonment, Deathwing’s influence over King Terenas, and chose Rhonin to scout the Dragonmaw Clan.

• Rhonin paid his way into a meeting with Krasus and gave him Lord Prestor’s letter, which made Krasus suspect a secret had been exposed.
• Krasus questioned Rhonin about whether he understood Draconic, then told him to wait for word while he considered what to do.
• The Council of Six debated the Red Dragons’ destruction in Khaz Modan, Dalaran’s funding, and whether King Terenas was being influenced by Deathwing.
• Krasus proposed sending Rhonin to scout the Dragonmaw Clan and report on the situation around the captive Red Dragon Queen.
• Antonidas approved the plan, arguing that Rhonin’s mission could win the Orcs’ goodwill.

Dalaran assigned Rhonin a mission to find Alexstrasza in Grim Batol, but his promised escort dwindled to a single Elf ranger, leaving him to face the danger nearly alone. Meanwhile, Robbie told Krasus how to enter the Emerald Dream and proposed using a passage in Blackheart Thicket.

• Antonidas ordered Rhonin to infiltrate Grim Batol and locate the Red Dragon Queen, Alexstrasza, giving him an Orb of Sight and a protective ring.
• Rhonin planned a route into Dragonmaw territory and set out for the port, expecting Elf rangers to escort him and mages to provide support.
• An intermediate mage told Rhonin that only one Elf ranger would accompany him and that no other mages were available, leaving Rhonin to continue alone.
• In Val'sharah, Krasus complained about entering the Emerald Dream, and Robbie explained that imagining himself as a powerful being could protect him from its effects.
• Robbie told Krasus that the entrance was in Blackheart Thicket and that they needed to borrow a passage from Xavius.

Robbie and Krasus entered the Emerald Dream, where Ysera revealed that the Dragonflights’ ancient victory over Galakrond involved releasing an evil soul from the Maw. She explained that the Titans’ blessing had left the Dragon Kings unable to recognize that one of their own had been possessed, leading them to destroy their former comrades and their clans.

• Robbie and Krasus reached the Emerald Dream through a dream Portal in Blackheart Thicket, and Krasus took the form of an Otherworldly Giant Worm.
• A Serpent of Lies claimed Krasus would have looked like a snake if Azeroth had not been altered, but a Dryad warned them not to believe it and led them toward Ysera.
• Ysera contacted Krasus through Il'gynoth and asked whether he would sacrifice everything for her; Krasus said his love had limits and asked what had happened.
• Ysera recalled that, during the fight against Galakrond, one of their companions opened the Shadowlands and created an entrance to the Maw.
• Ysera revealed that the Dragons released an ancient evil from the Maw to help defeat Galakrond, and that it possessed one of their companions.
• Ysera explained that after receiving the Titans’ blessing, the five Dragon Kings wrongly believed the possessed Dragon was not among them and helped wipe out their former comrades and their clans.

Krasus learned from Ysera that the ancient evil might be connected to the Maw, and she urged him to seek Deathwing and, if necessary, Illidan. Robbie brought Krasus to Lordaeron to meet Lord Prestor, where a dispute over the interned Orcs ended with Prestor offering to take them.

• Ysera told Krasus that Deathwing knew the most about the Maw and directed him to seek Illidan at the Vault of the Wardens if he found no answers.
• Robbie suggested visiting Lord Prestor, and he and Krasus traveled to Lordaeron City to meet King Terenas.
• Robbie met King Terenas, Uther the Lightbringer, and Lord Daval Prestor in the king's private study.
• Robbie proposed killing the interned Orcs for meat, angering Uther and prompting King Terenas to defend their care.
• Prestor warned that the Orcs would eventually eat the king and offered to take all of them into his custody.

Robbie witnessed King Terenas and Uther defend the Orcs while Lord Prestor argued that Lordaeron needed a solution to its famine. After learning why Terenas trusted the Orcs, Robbie helped Princess Calia Menethil conjure food, and Krasus approached Prestor with an important question.

• Lord Prestor proposed using diluted Pit Lord blood to restore the Orcs, but King Terenas rejected the plan and Uther insisted the Orcs must be protected.
• Robbie questioned Terenas's devotion to the Orcs, then left with Krasus after Terenas urged him to spend time among them.
• Lord Prestor revealed that House Menethil's insecure claim to the throne and King Terenas's temperament helped explain his rejection of the people and faith in the Orcs.
• Calia Menethil begged Prestor to marry her and rescue her and her hungry brother, but he refused.
• Robbie taught Calia a secret Conjure Food spell suited to her bloodline, and she successfully cast it before leaving with hope.
• Krasus gathered his courage and approached Lord Prestor to ask him about an important matter.

Prestor told Krasus that Rhonin was investigating the Dragonmaw Clan and the Red Dragon Queen at Grim Batol, while warning that King Terenas had sent a force that was not there to help. Rhonin finally boarded a ship to Khaz Modan with Vereesa Windrunner, but he feared someone aboard was after him and found that Vereesa would not protect him from anything beyond Orcs or Dragons.

• Prestor told Krasus that he suspected Alexstrasza's involvement with the Orcs and had sent Rhonin to investigate Grim Batol, then warned that King Terenas's special force was not coming to provide aid.
• Vereesa Windrunner waited three days at the docks for Rhonin, having taken the escort mission to investigate the Dragonmaw Clan and the Red Dragon Queen.
• Rhonin tried to sneak past Vereesa using invisibility, but she spotted his footprints, caught him, and hurried him toward the ship bound for Khaz Modan.
• Rhonin boarded the ship after it had passed its scheduled departure time and collapsed on deck, while Vereesa went to find her room.
• Rhonin asked Vereesa to protect him after he sensed someone following him, but she agreed only to help against Orcs or Dragons and refused to get involved in anything else.

Rhonin and Vereesa survived a Red Whelp’s attack on their ship and escaped to shore, where Rhonin planned to abandon the mission and flee to Kalimdor. Three Gryphon Riders then found them.

• Vereesa told Rhonin they were still three days from Hask, while a Court Mage revealed King Terenas intended to have Rhonin handed over badly injured or dead.
• Robbie and Krasus decided to intervene, and Robbie teleported a Red Whelp above Rhonin’s ship to make the attack look like an unexpected encounter.
• The Red Whelp and an Orc scout attacked the ship, killing the Court Mages and sinking it; Rhonin and Vereesa escaped into the sea.
• Rhonin cast an Underwater Breathing Spell on Vereesa, and they swam ashore and hid in thick grass after the attackers left.
• Rhonin said he would abandon the mission and go to Kalimdor, but three Gryphon Riders landed nearby and approached them.

Rhonin and Vereesa were tracked to the coast and captured by the Order of the Silver Hand, who planned to hand Rhonin over to the Orcs. Robbie and Krasus decided his captivity might serve their purposes because Nekros Skullcrusher could use Uther the Lightbringer’s presence to weaken Zuluhed.

• Rhonin tricked three Dwarves into leaving, and Vereesa revealed that Mana Wyrm hatchling powder had let the mother Wyrm track them.
• Vereesa explained that mud could hide their trail, but six knights of the Order of the Silver Hand arrived before Rhonin could use it.
• The knights captured Rhonin, while their leader said Uther the Lightbringer would hand him over to the Orcs, and Vereesa insisted on staying with him.
• Robbie told Krasus that Uther supported Zuluhed, who was bitterly opposed by Nekros Skullcrusher, and concluded Rhonin would be safer with Nekros.

Rhonin was captured by the Silver Hand and imprisoned in their camp, but an Orc attack carried him to Nekros Skullcrusher. Nekros tested Rhonin by ordering him to kill an Orc Death Knight with a Holy Word, leaving Rhonin to face the challenge with Vereesa's bow and arrows in sight.

• Rhonin and Vereesa were taken to a camp controlled by the Silver Hand, where Duncan Senturus questioned Vereesa about Teron Gorefiend and kept Rhonin weak in captivity.
• An Orc attack overwhelmed the camp, and a dragon claw seized Rhonin before he lost consciousness.
• Orcs nursed Rhonin back to strength and told him that Nekros Skullcrusher wanted to see him.
• Nekros showed Rhonin the Demon Soul and demanded that he kill an Orc Death Knight with a Holy Word in exchange for one reasonable request.
• Rhonin accepted the test after noticing Vereesa's bow and arrows nearby.