Recaps

Robbie and Krasus explored the Ruby Sanctum and discovered that the Red Dragon Queen had imprisoned and experimented on countless creatures and Dragons to harvest their bloodlines. At the lowest level, they found Galakrond’s living heart and brain, which Robbie identified as part of the Ancient Evil’s resurrection plan, and he told Krasus he had a plan.

• Robbie and Krasus saw newborn Whelps and more than a thousand Chromatic Dragon Eggs undergoing cruel experiments in the Ruby Sanctum.
• They passed a treasury and found prisoners from many peoples and species, including extinct creatures, being kept as test subjects.
• Krasus recognized Blue Dragons and members of all Five Dragonflights in lower cells, while Robbie found that their bodies lived but their brains were dead and their souls gone.
• They discovered frozen Dragon Eggs and ancient Dragon flights, along with bizarre experimental creations including Chromatus.
• At the Sanctum’s lowest level, Robbie and Krasus found a living Dragon heart and brain that Robbie suspected were needed for the Ancient Evil’s resurrection.
• Krasus feared the Ancient Evil would create an ultimate Dragon of ten colors, and Robbie said he had a plan.

Robbie unleashed more than a hundred corrupted Dragon Eggs in the Ruby Sanctum, causing the Twilight Dragons to rampage and flee toward Wyrmrest Temple. As the Red Dragon Queen mobilized the Dragonkin, Kelitu'er Telazi flew to Galakrond's Rest while suspecting the attack might spell disaster for the Red Dragonflight.

• Robbie and Krasus agreed to free the corrupted Dragon Eggs, and Robbie removed their seals so more than a hundred Void Dragon whelps hatched.
• Robbie sent Krasus back to the Red Dragon Queen, then struck Galakrond's brain and heart with beams of pitch-black light before returning to the Ruby Sanctum.
• Kelitu Telazi flattered the Red Dragon Queen, criticized Krasus, and persuaded her to let him bring in people knowledgeable about Holy Light.
• Kelitu Telazi told the queen that the Dragonkin at Galakrond's Rest were working only twenty hours a day, angering her and alarming Krasus.
• An alarm revealed Twilight Dragons rampaging through the Ruby Sanctum, and the Red Dragon Queen opened its gate, allowing them to escape toward Wyrmrest Temple.
• The Red Dragon Queen sent Kelitu'er Telazi to warn Galakrond's Rest, and he flew away from the Twilight Dragons while wondering whether Deathwing had launched the attack.

Kritutrasz fled the Twilight Dragons’ attack, leaving the Red Dragon Queen to defend Wyrmrest Temple while Krasus sought reinforcements. After the Red Dragons rallied to the queen, Kritutrasz’s mysterious ally directed him to meet in Darkshire.

• Kritutrasz panicked at the thought of Deathwing and the Black Dragons and flew toward Howling Fjord instead of returning to Wyrmrest Temple.
• The Red Dragon Queen discovered through her Magic Mark that Kritutrasz was fleeing, then fought through the Twilight Dragons to cover Krasus’s escape.
• Krasus reached Galakrond's Rest and rallied the exhausted Red Dragons to fight for their queen and defend Wyrmrest Temple.
• Kritutrasz spoke with his old friend, who warned him about the dangers of fleeing and told him to meet in human form in Darkshire.
• Kritutrasz thanked the ally, who identified himself as Twilight Father and insisted their relationship was only a transaction.

At Wyrmrest Temple, the Red Dragon Queen discovered that Kelitu Telazi had helped release the Twilight Dragons and ordered Krasus to bring him home. In Darkshire, the Twilight Father showed Kelitu Telazi a vision of a Fel-infused Dragon and invited him to take part in an experiment combining Holy Light and Fel.

• The Red Dragon Queen learned that someone had deliberately damaged the Ruby Sanctum’s seal and identified her own scale as evidence that Kelitu Telazi had entered it.
• After the battle at Wyrmrest Temple, the Red Dragon Queen refused Krasus’s request to let the exhausted Red Dragons rest and ordered them back to work.
• The Red Dragon Queen gave Krasus Kelitu Telazi’s scale and told him to bring the young Dragon home, promising not to blame him.
• In Darkshire, Kelitu Telazi met the Twilight Father, who used Fel magic to reveal a vision of a Demons Dragon and explained that removing the Titans Power could allow Dragons to fuse with Fel.
• The Twilight Father asked Kelitu Telazi whether he would join an experiment combining a Holy Dragon with a Demons Dragon.

Kritutraz refused Medivh’s offer to run the Ruby Sanctum, but Robbie and Krasus planned to use his fear of weakness to make him accept Medivh’s alterations. After a ghost ship attacked him at sea and Krasus tracked him to his cave, Kritutraz turned to Medivh’s communication crystal.

• Kritutraz refused Medivh’s offer to take charge of the Ruby Sanctum, and Medivh left him a communication crystal.
• Robbie told Krasus that Kritutraz could be persuaded to accept Medivh’s alterations by making him realize how important strength was.
• Kritutraz hunted in a storm at sea, but Captain Sanders’s ghost ship attacked and drove him away.
• Kritutraz returned to his cave, smelled Korialstrasz, and realized the Red Dragon Queen’s scale had helped Krasus find him.
• With Krasus hunting him and the ghost ship threatening him, Kritutraz took out Medivh’s communication crystal.

The Twilight Father and Prophet Velen planned to use Kelitu Telazi as an experimental subject, but they had already transformed Lethon into a two-headed Dragon. After Kelitu Telazi agreed to take a loan for greater power, the Twilight Father brought him to New Karazhan and revealed the hidden history of the Atiesh Continent.

• The Twilight Father and Prophet Velen discussed their plan to drain Azeroth’s energy and advance the Divine Lord’s power.
• Kelitu Telazi contacted the Twilight Father and agreed to become stronger, but learned that Lethon had already undergone the transformation.
• The Twilight Father offered to transform Kelitu Telazi if he signed an IOU, promising he would become stronger than his queen.
• The Twilight Father took Kelitu Telazi through a Portal to New Karazhan, a vast tower inside a small world divided into seven sections.
• The Twilight Father told Kelitu Telazi that Atiesh had discovered a hidden continent and that Aegwynn had taken it from the Dragon Kings and built the small world.

Robbie and Krasus discovered that the world beyond the Portal was an illusion concealing an abandoned Burning Legion fortress, where Twilight Father and Velen transformed Kelitu Telazi with Holy Light and Fel. Kelitu Telazi initially displayed immense power, but it quickly faded, and Twilight Father concealed the failure by claiming he needed time to adjust.

• Robbie told Krasus to view the Portal world without magic, revealing a ruined Legion fortress beneath the illusion.
• Twilight Father distracted Kelitu Telazi with talk of the Atiesh Continent while Velen and Kobolds prepared to transform him.
• Velen and the Kobolds operated on Kelitu Telazi for three days, combining Holy Light and Fel with Lethon's head and scales.
• Twilight Father and Velen celebrated the newborn two-headed Dragon, believing their experiment had proved the energies could coexist.
• Kelitu Telazi demonstrated devastating Dragon's Breath and physical strength, but then collapsed as his power dwindled to that of an ordinary Dragon.
• Twilight Father told Kelitu Telazi that his weakness was normal and promised he would soon surpass the Red Dragon Queen.

Kelitu Telazi attacked Captain Sanders’s ghost ship, but the strain triggered a destructive eruption of Holy Light and Fel that left him horribly burned. Krasus brought him to the Red Dragon Queen, who killed him and ordered Krasus to watch for spatial fluctuations at Karazhan, where a stable Portal could be built.

• Kelitu Telazi attacked Captain Sanders’s ghost ship, damaged it with Dragon’s Breath, and tried to seize it before Holy Light and Fel erupted inside him.
• Krasus revealed himself after Kelitu Telazi survived the outburst and told him that the Red Dragon Queen had ordered him brought home.
• At Wyrmrest Temple, the Red Dragon Queen recognized Kelitu Telazi and examined his injuries, then tore him apart and let Holy Light and Fel burn away his body.
• Krasus told the Red Dragon Queen that Medivh and Velen had mentioned the God Lord and the Atiesh Continent.
• The Red Dragon Queen explained that Karazhan was a weak point in Azeroth’s spatial barrier and ordered Krasus to monitor it for a possible stable Portal.

Krasus told Robbie that Draenor’s Holy Light crisis would drive the Ogres and Orcs into Azeroth, and he hoped to claim Stormwind’s throne by helping the Red Dragon Queen. At Karazhan, Medivh arranged a limited Portal for the refugees, while Imperator Mar'gok sent scouts to Goldshire and warned them not to cause trouble.

• Krasus warned Robbie that the Ogres and Orcs would flee to Azeroth and proposed that he could become King of Stormwind if the queen helped defend it.
• Robbie agreed to accompany Krasus to Karazhan to scout the situation.
• Medivh negotiated with Tarlna the Ageless, agreeing to transport five hundred Ogres and five hundred Orcs through a Portal in exchange for their wealth and relics.
• Imperator Mar'gok accepted the limit of five hundred places and regretted bringing the Holy Light disaster upon Draenor.
• Mar'gok ordered the Ogre butcher and Tectus to enter Azeroth, learn human form from Medivh, and scout Goldshire without provoking its inhabitants.

The Butcher and Tectus went to Goldshire to observe human society, but the Butcher’s critique of a local Pandaren Chef’s meat and his own rough rabbit cooking created tension with their hosts. Adler Fjord and Helenni concealed how much they enjoyed the Butcher’s food, leaving him offended and ready to leave.

• The Butcher explained to Tectus that the Orcs’ belief in their chieftains fueled endless war, then argued that Stormwind’s ornate but unreinforced buildings revealed human priorities.
• The Butcher and Tectus rented a room from Adler Fjord in Goldshire, where Helenni watched them warily.
• Adler served them meat from a Pandaren Chef, and the Butcher claimed Peacebloom and Earthroot were masking rotten meat.
• Tectus brought back a rabbit, and the Butcher cooked it crudely; Adler and Helenni secretly enjoyed it but dismissed it aloud.
• The Butcher grabbed Tectus and said they should go back.

Butcher warned Tectus that human society and its resistance to outside influence made it dangerous for Ogres, while Robbie and Krasus confronted the chaos at Karazhan and found Velen and Tarlna guarding a portal. After Velen escaped through it, Tarlna threatened to destroy the portal, whose destination was Highmaul; meanwhile, Imperator Mar'gok approved Butcher's plan to settle the Ogres in Gadgetzan.

• Butcher explained to Tectus that humans' rigid class system and devotion to their own civilization could threaten the Ogres with assimilation and decline.
• Butcher said he would gladly serve Prince Arthas if Arthas returned.
• Robbie and Krasus entered the ruined Karazhan, witnessed an apparition of Archimonde, and went underground to confront Medivh.
• Robbie faced Velen while Krasus fought Tarlna the Ageless, but Velen fled through the portal and Tarlna threatened to destroy it.
• Tarlna revealed that the portal led to Highmaul.
• Butcher advised Imperator Mar'gok to take the Ogres to Gadgetzan, and Mar'gok agreed.

Robbie and Krasus destroyed the Karazhan Portal, forcing Medivh and Talnar to arrange passage through a Burning Legion Portal that required the Legion Mark. Imperator Mar'gok accepted the mark and offered Highmaul's service after revealing that the Holy Light had transformed the creatures of Nagrand and left Draenor in grave danger.

• Talnar escaped through the Portal before Krasus melted its chains and sent it into the underground river.
• Talnar found Medivh and Velen at the Legion base, where Medivh proposed using a Legion Portal and explained that travelers had to bear the Legion Mark.
• At Highmaul, Brackenspore and other subordinates argued over the mark's dangers, while Mar'gok asked Talnar about Durotan's decision to accept Legion service.
• Mar'gok agreed to send five hundred marked Ogres through the Portal and offered Highmaul's help to the Burning Legion in exchange for survival.
• Mar'gok showed his court a vision of Nagrand's beasts gathered beneath the Holy Light and revealed that Draenor had little time left.

Imperator Mar'gok brought five hundred Ogre refugees to Gadgetzan, where Khadgar's plan to attack the city for an insurance claim was halted by a Holy Light shield. As Khadgar began a siege and faced a new threat from Durotan in Winterspring, the conflict around Gadgetzan remained unresolved.

• Mar'gok explained that Highmaul's failing shield had forced him and five hundred chosen Ogres to flee Draenor for Gadgetzan.
• Chen Stormstout received Amado's cryptic letter, then learned from Khadgar that Mar'gok was rallying Ogres across Azeroth and had ties to the Burning Legion.
• Khadgar revealed that he had bought a disputed insurance policy in the name of the Quilboar and used the claim as a pretext to mobilize against Gadgetzan.
• Khadgar's forces surrounded Gadgetzan by land and sea, and Marin Noggenfogger sought Mar'gok's help.
• Mar'gok raised a golden Holy Light shield over Gadgetzan, forcing Khadgar to begin a siege instead of attacking through it.
• Khadgar learned that Durotan had led five hundred Orcs into Winterspring, creating trouble on a second front.

Mar'gok and Butcher planned to seek the Bronze Dragonflight's help by offering Titan relics hidden in Outland, while Khadgar tried to persuade Marin Noggenfogger to undermine Gadgetzan's Holy Light barrier. The chapter left Khadgar hoping the Goblins and Bronze Dragonflight would turn against each other, though Marin claimed to have a covert plan of his own.

• Mar'gok surveyed Khadgar's besieging army, and Butcher reminded him that Gadgetzan depended on the Bronze Dragonflight.
• Mar'gok realized he could offer the Bronze Dragonflight Titan relics buried in Outland in exchange for its intervention.
• Butcher warned Mar'gok that the siege could be broken from within by dealing with the Goblins.
• Marin Noggenfogger secretly offered Khadgar land and a harbor in return for tearing up the Insurance Policy, but Khadgar demanded the Ogres instead.
• Khadgar told Marin that a Bronze Dragonflight relic could disrupt the Hourglass of Time Shard and claimed he wanted the Holy Light barrier destroyed.
• Marin said he had a covert way to destroy the barrier, while Khadgar admitted to Charlga Razorflank that he had invented the relic idea to turn the Goblins and Bronze Dragonflight against each other.

Marin Noggenfogger’s stolen Bronze Dragon treasure led Valrego and Kelage to discover a dragon scale and contact the Bronze Dragonflight. Anachronos agreed to mediate peace talks and advised Mar'gok to exploit Chen Stormstout’s weaknesses.

• Marin Noggenfogger secretly removed a scale from the Bronze Dragon head in his vault and arranged for a female Goblin to carry it as an ornament.
• Valrego noticed the ornament’s magical aura, exposed the golden scale, and reported it to Imperator Mar'gok with Kelage.
• Mar'gok used the scale to contact Anachronos, who identified it as belonging to An'erfeiya, a Bronze Dragon who had fallen at the Scarab Wall.
• Mar'gok offered the Bronze Dragonflight Gorian treasures, and Anachronos declined to fight but offered to mediate a peace negotiation.
• Anachronos told Mar'gok that targeting Chen Stormstout might succeed because Khadgar’s leader was a fool.

Durotan used the Holy Souls of dead Orcs to awaken ancient Kobold Empire war machines beneath Lake Keslil and defeat the Yeti King’s forces. After discovering a silver-furred Kobold noble, he planned to restore the Kaisriel Empire, while Khadgar learned of the danger and resolved to end the war in Gadgetzan quickly.

• Durotan confronted the Yeti King on Lake Keslil after the Yeti King accused him of slaughtering a tribe.
• Durotan used the golden sphere to awaken ancestral Yetis beneath the lake, and they killed more than a hundred Yetis in battle.
• Durotan ordered the ancestral Yetis to settle down and awakened an ancient silver-furred Kobold, confirming the Kaisriel Empire’s noble class had existed.
• Durotan declared that Winterspring could help him restore the Kobold Empire and boasted that even the Lich King Arthas would be no great threat.
• Khadgar received the Yeti King’s letter, realized Durotan was more dangerous than Imperator Mar'gok, and decided to end the Gadgetzan war and return the army to Orgrimmar.

Anachronos hosted negotiations in Thunder Bluff as the Bronze Dragonflight’s strength waned, while Tyrande and Maiev plotted to use a frozen Kobold assassin against Durotan. The talks began amid disturbing Tauren feasts, and a hidden observer watched the guests.

• Mar'gok won Chen Stormstout’s friendship by bringing him a Tauren, and the two swore an oath of brotherhood the next morning.
• Tyrande warned Maiev that Durotan planned to revive the Kobold empire with a million holy souls.
• Maiev revealed Osaid, a trained Kobold assassin, and agreed to send him after Durotan and potentially other targets.
• Anachronos welcomed the negotiators in Thunder Bluff, where guests were served live Tauren and discussed the right of races to exist.
• A hidden observer watched the gathering and struggled to identify the different guests.

Chen Stormstout’s drunken outburst disrupted negotiations between the factions, while Velen arrived and openly declared himself the Holy Light’s spokesperson. As Velen demanded the deaths of Mar'gok and Durotan, Durotan prepared to demonstrate that the Holy Light brought destruction.

• Chen Stormstout threatened Taran Zhu and, after Taran Zhu threw him against a wall, threatened war against the Pandaren before proposing that Highmaul and Orgrimmar become brothers.
• Taran Zhu accused Highmaul of causing Draenor’s tragedy, and Mar'gok blamed Prophet Velen, with Durotan and Khadgar supporting his account.
• Taran Zhu summoned Velen, who admitted he served the Holy Light and argued that Mar'gok and Durotan had to die to save Azeroth.
• Mar'gok agreed to return the Hourglass of Time Shard, but Velen challenged him to swear that he had never prayed to the Holy Light.
• Durotan looked around and declared that he would prove the Holy Light brought nothing but destruction.

Durotan and Amado accused Velen of conspiring with the Burning Legion, while Velen denied the charges and blamed his son. Amado revealed that he was Illidan, who confronted Velen over his role in the Black Temple plot.

• Durotan accused Velen of arranging the Draenei's retreat and plotting to bring the age of Holy Light to Azeroth, while Mar'gok and Anachronos demanded answers.
• Velen claimed his son had betrayed him, but Amado testified that Velen had ties to the Burning Legion and manipulated events at the Black Temple.
• Amado explained that Velen had helped the Legion defeat Illidan and sought to make his son Rakeesh lord of Outland.
• Amado transformed into Illidan, revealed that he had infiltrated the Burning Legion on Argus Planet, and accused Velen of deceiving him.

Durotan interrupted “Illidan” as he tried to kill Velen, then accused him of serving the Burning Legion and offered Thrall’s testimony as proof. “Illidan” countered by claiming Durotan was actually Fenris and that Thrall had eaten the real Durotan and his wife.

• Durotan used the Ancestral Spirits to shove Taran Zhu into “Illidan’s” path, giving Velen time to break free and defend himself with a dragon claw.
• “Illidan” tore off Velen’s transformed arm, but a commanding voice compelled Anachronos to intervene and challenge the attempted execution.
• Velen accused “Illidan” of serving the Burning Legion, and Durotan claimed Thrall had told him Illidan’s Illidari secretly served Kil’jaeden.
• Anachronos and Chen Stormstout backed Thrall’s reputation, while Taran Zhu mocked Anachronos by reminding him Thrall had eaten his father.
• “Illidan” claimed the real Durotan and his wife had survived Gul’dan’s assassins but were later eaten by Thrall, then revealed that the present Durotan was Fenris.

After Osaid’s failed attempt to kill Durotan, the group decided to travel through time to verify Velen’s account of events at the Black Temple. As the party prepared to leave, Gagg recruited Osaid to assassinate Thrall in the past.

• Osaid attacked Durotan, but the white wolf pelt shielded him, and “Illidan” revealed that the real Durotan’s soul had been destroyed.
• Taran Zhu, Chen Stormstout, and Khadgar agreed to supervise Velen, who claimed that A'dal and Kil'jaeden’s envoy had divided Azeroth between them.
• Anachronos offered to take a group to the era when Thrall escaped Durnholde so they could verify Velen’s story, and Durotan, Mar'gok, and Velen agreed to go with him and Khadgar.
• Osaid secretly followed Durotan, but Gagg found him and revealed his golden-furred Kobold ancestry.
• Gagg asked Osaid to kill Thrall when Thrall escaped from Durnholde.

Robbie learned that Anachronos, Khadgar, Durotan, Velen, and another companion planned to enter year eighteen of the Dark Portal, so he and Krasus set out to arrive first. In the past, Blackmoore had secured control of Durnholde through brutality and now threatened a group of Peace Dove protesters led by Sir Chris of Stormwind City.

• Osaid hesitated over killing Thrall, but Big Candle Gagg urged him to judge Thrall for himself.
• Robbie learned of Anachronos's group's plan and decided to reach the Black Temple Timeline before them with Krasus.
• Blackmoore recounted how he took control of Durnholde, survived Uther's attack, and enslaved Orcs to fund the detention center.
• Blackmoore's adjutant told him that Peace Dove protesters, including young nobles, had arrived at the gates.
• Sir Chris accused Blackmoore of mistreating the Orcs, and Blackmoore threatened to feed him to them.

Blackmoore dealt with Peace Dove members at Durnholde and learned Medivh’s magic had implanted their beliefs. Later, Robbie and Krasus sought the gladiator champion Thrall, but found thirty-three Orc slaves called thralls, leaving them to suspect the legendary Thrall had come from Karazhan instead.

• Blackmoore let the Orcs devour Sir Chris after he declared that Stormwind City belonged to the Orcs.
• A Peace Dove woman and the other members refused to renounce their beliefs, and Blackmoore had them thrown to the Orcs.
• Blackmoore’s female adjutant said Medivh had used magic to implant the Peace Dove members’ beliefs in their minds.
• Blackmoore received a valuable Highborne crystal goblet from a Kalimdor merchant whose guest wanted to meet Thrall.
• The female adjutant showed Robbie and Krasus the thirty-three surviving Orc gladiators, explaining that thrall meant slave.
• Robbie and Krasus realized the legendary Thrall was likely raised by Medivh at Karazhan, not in Durnholde.

Anachronos encountered a powerful Jaina in Southshore, while Robbie and Krasus watched her confront the Silver Hand. Jaina’s effortless use of Holy Light left Robbie fearing that the Age of Holy Light had come in her future.

• Anachronos and Krasus waited in Southshore for Thrall, while Anachronos sent Khadgar, Durotan, Mar'gok, and Velen to investigate Durnholde.
• Anachronos recognized Jaina at an inn and suspected she had traveled from the future.
• Robbie and Krasus identified Anachronos and discussed testing Jaina’s strength.
• Alexandros Mograine ordered Jaina to leave the inn, but she struck him down when he tried to grab her.
• Jaina severed Isillien’s arms with unseen power and let the Silver Hand knights escape.
• Robbie identified Jaina’s power as Holy Light and warned Krasus that the Age of Holy Light had arrived in her future.

Khadgar and the others found no sign of Thrall in Durnholde, while Anachronos learned that Jaina had arrived from the future and wondered whether she had come for Arthas. In Lordaeron, Jaina confronted the tortured King Terenas and demanded to know where Prince Arthas was.

• Khadgar, Durotan, and Mar'gok reported that neither Durnholde's records nor its imprisoned Orcs revealed a Thrall, while Mar'gok learned that Blackmoore had no adopted son by that name.
• Anachronos told the group that Jaina had arrived from the future, and Khadgar asked where Prince Arthas was.
• Orgrim tortured King Terenas and demanded that he free the Orcs from the internment camps, while Uther healed the king and pledged the Silver Hand's service.
• Terenas told Uther that Sir Chris had been fed to the Orcs at Durnholde, and ordered him to urge Varian to ask Medivh to intervene against Blackmoore.
• Jaina appeared before Terenas, threatened to torment his soul, and demanded to know where Prince Arthas was.