Recaps

Thrall’s Horde and Shattrath’s allied forces assembled to attack Tempest Keep, but the Orcs seized Pliers Town and stole the allies’ supplies, leaving Voren'thal’s army struggling to prepare. As the allied commanders planned their assault, Kael'thas and Robbie devised a scheme against the Nether Rays, and Dur'in arrived the next morning with alarming news.

• Thrall led fifty thousand Orcs into Outland, while the Blood Elves, Tauren, Trolls, and Shattrath factions gathered forces for the attack on Tempest Keep.
• The Orcs occupied Pliers Town, barred the allies from entering, and shipped the Sha'tar’s supplies to Orgrimmar, forcing Voren'thal to loot food and weapons in Shattrath.
• Lor'themar and M'uru arrived, and Voren'thal’s commanders planned to secure air superiority, establish a Portal, and use M'uru to open Tempest Keep’s doors.
• Kael'thas admitted to Robbie that he was outnumbered, and Robbie gave him a silver disc to have his phoenix carry around Pliers Town.
• Dur'in rushed to Voren'thal the next morning, bloodshot-eyed, and reported that something terrible had happened.

Voren'thal's coalition lost its Nether Ray air force and used adventurers as cannon fodder in a costly siege of Tempest Keep. As Kael'thas's defenders neared exhaustion, Thrall's Orcs destroyed the teleportation altar and slaughtered the mages, leaving Voren'thal unconscious.

• Solarian used the sound of Orcs to panic the Skyguard's Nether Rays, costing Dur'in more than two hundred mounts and forcing Voren'thal to arrest him.
• Voren'thal ordered the coalition to teleport waves of five hundred adventurers to Tempest Keep, where Kael'thas's troops cut them down at heavy cost.
• Thrall and Eitrigg agreed to eliminate the Blood Elf mages, and Eitrigg went to arrange the attack.
• As Kael'thas's forces grew exhausted, Voren'thal prepared to send in his elite troops.
• Thrall's Orcs charged from Pliers Town, slaughtered the exhausted mages at the altar, and tore it down.
• Voren'thal cried out in despair and fainted.

Voren'thal refused Ishanah's plea to retreat, and the Aldor joined the battle against Kael'thas with a mass levitation assault. Thrall sent Orcs to destroy the Aldor altar while the Blood Elves stood aside, leaving the Aldor defeated and Lor'themar eager to prove the Blood Elves' superiority.

• Voren'thal rejected Ishanah's advice to admit defeat, arguing that the Blood Elves had to accommodate the Orcs to survive.
• Ishanah sent three hundred elite Shaman Priests to establish an altar, while Rommath surrounded it with thirty thousand Blood Elves.
• Kael'thas saw twenty thousand Aldor adventurers fly toward Tempest Keep, but his Spellbreakers dispelled their levitation and caused several thousand to fall into the Abyss.
• Thrall ordered five thousand Orcs to attack the altar, and a messenger warned the Blood Elves not to fight them.
• Rommath let the Orcs pass, and they killed the three hundred Draenei Shamans, causing the Aldor adventurers to plunge into the Abyss.
• Lor'themar celebrated the Aldor's defeat and declared that the Blood Elves would prove their superiority.

After the Shattrath coalition’s defeat, Lor'themar took command and led Silvermoon City’s forces toward Tempest Keep with M'uru’s help. As the battle began, Thrall viewed Lor'themar’s rise as a threat and revealed that Mannoroth had given him instructions concerning M'uru.

• Lor'themar blamed the coalition’s defeat on its commanders, took command, and announced an all-out attack on Tempest Keep.
• Anachronos, Durotan, Mar'gok, and Velen discussed the defeat and wondered why history omitted Thrall’s role in the battle.
• M'uru created Heaven’s Path, allowing Silvermoon City and the weakened coalition to advance toward Tempest Keep under Holy Light.
• Thrall accused Lor'themar of challenging his authority, then told Eitrigg that the Naaru had abandoned M'uru and that Mannoroth had given him instructions.

Thrall used the Corruption Scepter to bring down M'uru, causing Heaven's Path to shatter and devastating the allied Blood Elf and Sha'tar forces. Lor'themar agreed to blame the Blood Elves for M'uru's fall, while the shattered Naaru revealed that he could still be saved at the Sunwell.

• Thrall worried that M'uru might have powerful allies but decided to kill him and used the Corruption Scepter while Lor'themar failed to warn him.
• M'uru collapsed, Heaven's Path shattered, and thirty thousand Blood Elves along with the Aldor and Scryers fell into the Abyss.
• Thrall beat Lor'themar, then spared his life on the condition that he claim the Blood Elves caused M'uru's fall by drawing too much Holy Light.
• Liadrin challenged Lor'themar for sacrificing their people, while Rommath feared the Army of the Light would punish them.
• M'uru revealed that he was still alive and told the Blood Elves to take him to the Sunwell for a chance to survive.

Thrall forced the captured leaders to agree to use Silvermoon City's people as leverage against Kael'thas, while the leaders argued over the plan. At Tempest Keep, Salarid challenged Rommath's belief that surrender could save the Blood Elves.

• Anachronos, Durotan, Velen, and Imperator Mar'gok watched Thrall's ambush and wondered how the Orcs could reach Tempest Keep.
• Thrall humiliated the commanders at Pliers Town and demanded that Silvermoon City's people be sent there as food to force Kael'thas to surrender.
• Lor'themar agreed to Thrall's plan, while Liadrin, Rommath, and Voren'thal argued over who was responsible for the Blood Elves' danger.
• Rommath told Kael'thas about Thrall's plan, and Salarid challenged him to consider whether Thrall would truly spare Silvermoon City after a surrender.

Kael'thas reconsidered surrendering Tempest Keep after Salarid challenged Rommath’s claims about Thrall, and he chose to fight for the Blood Elves’ dignity. Meanwhile, Lor'themar brought Silvermoon’s people to the Orcs, where even his father Vakansinas was marked for Thrall to eat.

• Rommath persuaded Kael'thas to surrender Tempest Keep, but Robbie secretly sent Salarid a message that helped him challenge Rommath’s argument about Thrall’s savagery and strength.
• Kael'thas regained his resolve, rejected surrender, and told Rommath to ask Lor'themar whether he could bear to see the Blood Elves slaughtered.
• At Toshley's Station, Lor'themar told Thrall that M'uru had helped him execute ten thousand rebels to force Silvermoon’s people into submission.
• Vakansinas Theron arrived through a Portal and praised the Orcs, but Eitrigg told him Thrall intended to eat him; Lor'themar urged his father to accept it as an honor.
• More Blood Elves crossed through the Portals, gathering as a feast for the Orcs.

Kael'thas fired Tempest Keep's Holy Light Railgun at Pliers Town, destroying the Orc army while a barrier protected Thrall and two others. Thrall ordered the slaughter of half the Blood Elves, Lor'themar began carrying it out, and Osaid assassinated Thrall.

• Kael'thas saw Blood Elves celebrate being chosen as Orc food, then ordered Tempest Keep's Holy Light Railgun fired at Lor'themar and Pliers Town.
• The railgun blast destroyed Pliers Town and the fifty-thousand-strong Orc army, but Vakansinas Theron's Holy Light barrier saved Thrall and Eitrigg.
• Thrall ordered Lor'themar to kill half the Blood Elves in Silvermoon City and turn them into hard jerky, and Lor'themar agreed despite Liadrin's protest.
• Lor'themar led his guards in slaughtering thousands of Blood Elves while Thrall feasted on Vakansinas Theron.
• Osaid poisoned and beheaded Thrall with a dagger, leaving Eitrigg and Lor'themar stunned.

Thrall's body was poisoned by Osaid the Kobold, though his soul remained intact, and the factions carried him to Shattrath for help. A'dal said the toxin was beyond his power to cure and forced Lor'themar to choose between Thrall and M'uru, leaving Lor'themar committed to Thrall.

• Lor'themar, Liadrin, and Rommath learned that Thrall had died, while Anachronos, Durotan, Prophet Velen, and Prophet Voren'thal wondered how Osaid had reached their time.
• Voren'thal and Ishanah sensed that Thrall's soul was preserved inside his rotting body, but Voren'thal could not overcome the Kobold Empire's poison.
• Eitrigg beat Lor'themar when Voren'thal could not heal Thrall, and Rommath proposed asking A'dal for help.
• The battle was declared over and Tempest Keep captured, while Thrall's remains were taken to Shattrath and a Blood Elf corpse was displayed as Kael'thas's.
• A'dal confirmed that Thrall's soul was intact but said he could not cure the toxin, then explained M'uru's transformation into Entropius and asked Lor'themar to choose between them.
• Lor'themar chose Thrall over M'uru, pledging to give everything for the Savior.

Lor'themar agreed to sacrifice the Sunwell to resurrect Thrall, prompting Liadrin to secretly warn Kael'thas that Silvermoon City's Blood Elves could be devastated. Kael'thas set out to save M'uru and preserve the Sunwell, while the Burning Legion arrived to support the resurrection plan and confront M'uru.

• A'dal demanded the Sunwell as the price of purging the poison from Thrall, and Lor'themar agreed despite Liadrin's protests.
• Lor'themar struck Liadrin, and she later sent an anonymous warning to Kael'thas at Tempest Keep.
• Kael'thas, Salarid, Robbie, and Krasus discussed the threat to the Blood Elves and concluded that restoring M'uru at the Sunwell might prevent its destruction.
• Kael'thas decided to take troops to Silvermoon City and tell M'uru about the plan, despite Robbie's warning about the danger.
• Mannoroth sent two Eredar Priestesses and Brutallus to Silvermoon City to assist with Thrall's resurrection, while Kalecgos arrived uninvited.
• Brutallus offered to make the contaminated Sunwell a Burning Legion base and volunteered to deal with M'uru.

Brutallus and the Eredar Twins attacked M'uru in Silvermoon City, forcing him to flee into the Void World before he returned gravely wounded. He accused Lor'themar of betraying him, and A'dal appeared to offer M'uru a choice between devouring Thrall's soul and dying.

• Brutallus and the Eredar Twins reached M'uru's hiding place, where M'uru swallowed the dark souls he had released and learned that Brutallus had come for revenge.
• M'uru tried to bargain with Sacrolash and Alythess, but the sisters and Brutallus attacked him, forcing him to flee into the Void World.
• Brutallus and the Eredar Twins pursued M'uru through his portal, while Lor'themar prepared to take Thrall's body to the Sunwell.
• M'uru returned to Silvermoon City badly wounded, accused Lor'themar of betraying him, and learned that Lor'themar had planned to use the Sunwell to resurrect Thrall.
• A'dal appeared above Lor'themar and told M'uru to devour Thrall's soul if he wanted to live, or accept death.

M'uru helped Lor'themar escape with Thrall, then was captured by Kael'thas's forces during their takeover of Silvermoon City. Unable to win the people's support without violence, Kael'thas withdrew, and Lor'themar returned to rule through another massacre.

• A'dal urged M'uru to devour Thrall's soul for a promotion, but M'uru refused and sent Lor'themar away with Thrall through a Void portal when Kael'thas invaded Silvermoon City.
• Kael'thas attacked M'uru, but Robbie secretly blocked M'uru's spell and stopped his escape, allowing the Ethereal Mech to defeat and capture him.
• Kael'thas found Silvermoon City's people hostile and learned from Robbie and his advisors that they feared Lor'themar more than they resented his rule.
• Kael'thas refused to rule more brutally than Lor'themar and withdrew to Magisters' Terrace on the Isle of Quel'Danas.
• Lor'themar returned to Silvermoon City and had twenty thousand people hanged, while the survivors praised him aloud out of fear.

Lor'themar sacrificed thirty thousand Blood Elves to the Burning Legion to resurrect Thrall, but Thrall remained asleep and needed a Naaru to awaken him. With Silvermoon left weak and the Legion demanding M'uru, Lor'themar sought help from Shattrath City.

• Lor'themar brought Thrall's corpse to the Sunwell, where Brutallus offered to resurrect Thrall by draining thirty thousand Blood Elves into Mindless Mana Addiction Sufferers.
• Blood Elves eagerly volunteered for the ritual, and Brutallus drained their respected elder first, leaving him mindless and withered.
• Brutallus drained the thirty thousand Blood Elves, then used the altar's blood-red energy to restore Thrall's body and reattach his head.
• Thrall breathed but did not wake, and Brutallus said only a Naaru could awaken his sleeping soul, urging Lor'themar to capture Magisters' Terrace and find M'uru.
• With fewer than three thousand Blood Elves left and the drained elves too weak to fight, Lor'themar turned to Shattrath City for aid.

Lor'themar sought Shattrath's help to save Silvermoon City from Kael'thas, and the Aldor and Scryers agreed to assist in exchange for ancient treasures. They founded the Shattered Sun Offensive to recruit adventurers, leaving Silvermoon with a force of over fifty thousand outsiders and an uncertain future for its people.

• A'dal praised Lor'themar for helping save Thrall but initially refused to aid Silvermoon City against Kael'thas.
• Voren'thal and Ishanah offered their factions' help, then demanded ancient treasures from Silvermoon City in exchange.
• Lor'themar agreed to give each faction a bottle of water from the Well of Eternity after Voren'thal revealed the treasures and threatened to expose them.
• Voren'thal proposed hiring Alliance and Horde adventurers, and Ishanah named the new organization the Shattered Sun Offensive.
• Lor'themar established a base in Quel'Thalas and asked the Burning Legion to help maintain order as more than fifty thousand adventurers arrived.

Lor'themar gathered fifty thousand adventurers to attack Magisters' Terrace, but Brutallus and Thrall lured them into a trap in Moonscar Valley and had them killed. The Burning Legion and Orcs then used the massacre and a propaganda campaign to recruit a million more adventurers, while Brutallus pointed Lor'themar toward Turalyon.

• Lor'themar persuaded Brutallus to provide commanders and equipment for the adventurers, agreeing that the Legion would take Magisters' Terrace's magical power as payment.
• Lor'themar promised the adventurers rewards, including Silvermoon residency and Blood Elf brides, and led them toward Magisters' Terrace.
• Brutallus and Thrall revealed that they had plotted to trap the adventurers in Moonscar Valley, where a magic circle incapacitated them and Troll cooks turned them into jerky.
• Lor'themar believed Kael'thas had ambushed the adventurers and asked Brutallus how to replace them; Brutallus suggested using Turalyon's appearance in Outland to draw more recruits.
• Orc-controlled media blamed Kael'thas for conspiring with the Burning Legion and urged every race to join a million adventurers in a fight for Azeroth.

Lor'themar recruited Turalyon to investigate the crisis in Quel'Thalas, but Turalyon grew suspicious of Lor'themar's account and uncovered evidence that Trolls had ambushed the adventurers at Moontrace Valley. The chapter ended with an Ogre's Restless Soul revealing that the Trolls had turned the victims into jerky.

• Lor'themar asked Turalyon to rally Azeroth's adventurers against Kael'thas, and admitted that the Shattered Sun Offensive had lost at Tempest Keep.
• Turalyon agreed to visit Quel'Thalas before deciding whether to help, but media surrounded him as soon as he arrived.
• Turalyon exposed a Felguard disguised as a Blood Elf guard and questioned Lor'themar's claim that the Legion soldiers had joined the offensive willingly.
• Turalyon went with Lor'themar to Moontrace Valley, where he found bones and suspected that Orcs had ambushed the adventurers.
• Turalyon summoned Restless Souls, and an Ogre's Restless Soul said that Trolls had ambushed them and made them into tough jerky.

Turalyon fought Thrall's Orcs but was stopped from killing him by the Holy Light, then escaped Brutallus with Kael'thas and went to Magisters' Terrace. Thrall and Rommath responded by declaring Turalyon a Kobold, and Azeroth's people accepted the claim.

• Thrall ambushed Turalyon and Lor'themar with Orcs, but Turalyon cut through them and pursued Thrall.
• Lor'themar clung to Turalyon's leg to help Thrall escape, and Turalyon knocked Lor'themar unconscious before fighting off the Orcs.
• The Holy Light froze Turalyon as he tried to kill Thrall, and Brutallus confronted him after his weapon's power faded.
• Kael'thas arrived with the Ethereal Mech, and Turalyon chose to visit Magisters' Terrace rather than return to Shattrath City.
• Thrall tortured Lor'themar while Rommath proposed using someone to impersonate Turalyon, and Thrall decided that a Kobold would do.
• Thrall announced that Turalyon was a Kobold, and the people of Azeroth came to accept it as true.

After Turalyon’s speech drew adventurers to Quel'Thalas, Thrall and Lor'themar exploited the influx while Alleria escaped a Scryer attempt to capture her. She reached Sylvanas in the Undercity and proposed joining the Shattered Sun Offensive to counter Thrall’s plans.

• Turalyon’s speech inspired people across Azeroth to travel to Quel'Thalas, while merchants raised prices and Thrall ordered arriving adventurers killed for food.
• Lor'themar praised the speech’s success, and Thrall congratulated him for helping supply the Orcs with food.
• Voren'thal and the Scryers confronted Alleria in a Shattrath City inn, but she vanished in a smoke bomb despite Ishanah’s search.
• Alleria appeared in the Undercity and discussed her Void powers and Lor'themar’s betrayal with Sylvanas.
• Sylvanas explained that Thrall wanted the adventurers’ flesh, blood, and souls, and Alleria proposed that they join the Shattered Sun Offensive.

Alleria sought Sylvanas’s help to undermine Thrall’s plan to turn the Shattered Sun Offensive into tough jerky, while Kael'thas’s forces considered how to respond. Thrall trapped the adventurers in Moonscar Valley, but they woke before the Troll chefs could process them and discovered his plot.

• Alleria asked Sylvanas to expose Thrall’s plan, but Sylvanas warned that the adventurers would not believe them and that Turalyon could be endangered; Alleria agreed to cooperate to protect her husband and the Army of the Light’s souls.
• Kasrakel disarmed the 650,000 adventurers, brutally suppressing resistance, then had them build warehouses that Thrall planned to use for storing tough jerky.
• At Magisters' Terrace, Kael'thas and his commanders weighed the danger of exposing Thrall’s scheme, then chose to strike at Moonscar Valley.
• Thrall and Lor'themar used green runes to make the adventurers collapse in Moonscar Valley, and Thrall revealed he planned to use Magisters' Terrace as a trap to eliminate adventurers across Azeroth.
• As the Troll chefs began cutting into the unconscious adventurers, they woke and shouted that Thrall had plotted to turn them into tough jerky.

Thrall’s attempt to deceive the adventurers failed when Brutallus exposed his alliance with the Burning Legion, and Kael'thas arrived to confront the Pit Lord. Thrall and Lor'themar were stranded among the furious adventurers, while Alleria and Sylvanas watched from hiding.

• The adventurers beat the Troll chefs, and Lor'themar and Kasrakel persuaded them that Kael'thas had arranged the ambush.
• Brutallus appeared and revealed that Thrall and the Legion meant to turn the adventurers into food, prompting Thrall to admit his betrayal.
• Brutallus began casting Abyss Poison Gas, but Kael'thas arrived through a Portal with the Ethereal Mech and the Seven Weapons.
• Brutallus escaped by shedding his tail, while Kael'thas disrupted Thrall's teleportation and left him and Lor'themar among the adventurers.
• Kasrakel confronted the kneeling Thrall as the adventurers turned against him, while Alleria and Sylvanas observed from the cliff.

Thrall used a divine vision attributed to Elune to turn the adventurers against Kael'thas, but Sylvanas trapped most of them in Moonscar Valley and raised them as Forsaken. Back at the Shattered Sun Offensive base, Thrall punished Lor'themar after Eitrigg persuaded him that Sylvanas had profited from the disaster.

• Kasrakel nearly killed Thrall, but a vision of Elune surrounded Thrall with light and led the adventurers to worship him and attack Kael'thas.
• Kael'thas escaped with his companions as adventurers climbed the cliffs, while Thrall and Lor'themar disappeared and the divine radiance faded.
• Sylvanas ordered the Forsaken to bombard Moonscar Valley with plague, killing most of the adventurers and raising them as Forsaken.
• Alleria lamented Sylvanas's actions, while fewer than 50,000 of the 650,000 adventurers escaped and sought refuge at Magisters' Terrace.
• Brutallus repeatedly battered Thrall at the base, and Thrall later whipped Lor'themar until Eitrigg blamed him for Sylvanas's gains.
• Thrall asked Lor'themar if he had anything to say before he died.

Thrall and Eitrigg planned to capture Nathanos Blightcaller and use him to control Sylvanas, while Lor'themar revealed that the Blightcaller was a puppet controlled by a living Nathanos. Nathanos secretly lived beneath Marris Stead and went to Uther's Tomb, hoping to turn Uther's soul into a puppet.

• Thrall spared Lor'themar and discussed the threats posed by Illidan and the Black Temple with Eitrigg.
• Lor'themar proposed capturing Nathanos to force Sylvanas to obey, then claimed the Blightcaller was controlled by a living person within five hundred yards.
• Eitrigg confirmed that the Blightcaller had survived repeated attempts to kill him, and Lor'themar explained how dark magic could bind and control an undead body.
• Thrall assigned Eitrigg to capture Nathanos, rejected involving Tirion Fordring, and agreed with Eitrigg to use Uther the Lightbringer.
• Nathanos woke from a dream of Sylvanas, hid in a cellar beneath Marris Stead, and noticed that his fingertips were turning black from exposure to the undead.
• Nathanos went to Uther's Tomb, intending to make Uther's restless soul his puppet despite the protection of the Holy Light.

Nathanos learned that Tichondrius had placed Uther under his control and that Eitrigg planned to use Uther against him. With Demetria’s advice, Nathanos arranged a trap at Marris Stead, but Tirion Fordring intervened before the Blightcaller could kill Eitrigg.

• Nathanos watched Eitrigg command Uther and learned from Tichondrius that the Dreadlord already controlled Uther.
• Nathanos summoned Demetria, who warned him that Uther feared Orcs and advised him to hire Orc guards.
• Uther attacked Marris Stead, but an undead Orc controlled by Nathanos frightened him into fleeing.
• Nathanos used the Blightcaller and plague hounds to defeat Eitrigg’s guards and corner Eitrigg.
• The Blightcaller stabbed Eitrigg, but Tirion Fordring arrived and ordered him to stop.

Nathanos drove Eitrigg and Fordring from Marris Stead, but Eitrigg later sought Tichondrius’s help to take control of Uther’s soul. After learning that Sylvanas wanted to challenge Uther’s curse through the Shadowlands, Varimathras agreed to teach her how to contact it.

• Nathanos used a rotting Orc to frighten Fordring, who escaped with Eitrigg by crushing a Teleportation Rune.
• Eitrigg beat Fordring and tortured him and Uther’s soul, then asked Tichondrius how to overcome Uther’s fear of Orcs.
• Tichondrius advised Eitrigg to merge with Uther’s soul after sealing away more of Uther’s memories, and Eitrigg accepted.
• Sylvanas learned that Eitrigg had attacked Marris Stead and praised Nathanos for driving him back.
• Sylvanas asked Varimathras how to lift Uther’s curse, and he explained that Tichondrius had violated the Shadowlands’ rules by keeping Uther in the living world.
• Sylvanas decided to contact the Shadowlands despite the risk of being dragged into the Maw, and Varimathras offered to teach her the Nathrezim method.

Sylvanas and Varimathras obtained a Shadowlands-blessed banana peel, which Nathanos used to disrupt Uther's Holy Light and send his soul toward the Maw. Uther instead sided with Eitrigg and the Orcs, but Nathanos's last peel finally dragged him into a black vortex.

• Sylvanas and Varimathras summoned Soul Warden Ta'nawal by tearing apart a general's helmet, and Ta'nawal gave them a banana peel blessed by the Shadowlands.
• Nathanos received the peel at Marris Stead as Uther, empowered by Eitrigg, attacked him in the form of a Golden Armored Giant.
• The golden peel extinguished Uther's Holy Light and freed his soul from Tichondrius's curse, restoring his memories of being killed by the Orcs.
• Uther surprised Nathanos by swearing loyalty to Eitrigg and the Orcs, then shattered the Blightcaller's Undead Body with Earthshaker.
• Uther searched Marris Stead and entered Nathanos's basement, where Nathanos used his final banana peel to bind Uther's soul and pull it into a black vortex.