Recaps

Robbie and several Outland powers attacked the Moon Goddess Elune’s manifested hand, and Robbie obtained a fragment of her divine power. He escaped the Moon Goddess’s retaliation by sacrificing Ner'zhul’s soul, leaving him with the fragment in Shadowmoon Valley.

• Robbie and Krasus watched the Moon Goddess’s power gather above Coilfang Reservoir, and Robbie prepared to steal it.
• Kael'thas, Vashj, Dragon Slayer Gruul, Illidan’s water giant, and Robbie each attacked the Moon Goddess’s Hand, weakening it and breaking off a fragment.
• Robbie retrieved the fragment from Serpent Lake and fled as the Moon Goddess’s Hand repeatedly struck at him.
• Robbie threw out Ner'zhul’s head to divert the Moon Goddess’s attack, and Ner'zhul’s soul was destroyed.
• Robbie reached Shadowmoon Valley and formed an Arcane sphere around the fragment of the Moon Goddess’s Hand.

The Moon Goddess's Hand rescued Thrall, Vol'jin, and most of the prisoners from Serpentshrine Cavern, but Thrall was ordered to find the Eye of Anzu within a month. Thrall reclaimed control of the Horde from Saurfang and began planning the search.

• The Moon Goddess's Hand restored the Cenarion Circle camp and rescued the prisoners, though Windcaller Clawen remained behind.
• Thrall tried to eat Hamuul Runetotem and Guardian Remulos, but Medivh, Gudan, and the Emissary stopped him and ordered him to obtain the Eye of Anzu within a month.
• Thrall traveled to Telredor, beat Saurfang, and ordered him to guard Orgrimmar's gates and surrender command of the army.
• Thrall summoned his advisers to discuss the Eye of Anzu, and Vol'jin proposed splitting their forces to search for it and the missing fragments of the Moon Goddess's Hand.

Thrall blamed Illidan for stealing the Shard of the Moon Goddess's Hand and assigned Cairne Bloodhoof and Vol'jin to find the Eye of Anzu. Griftah directed rival parties toward the relic, and Vol'jin challenged Griftah's story about his past.

• Thrall ordered Eitrigg to fabricate evidence against Illidan and tasked Cairne Bloodhoof with finding the Eye of Anzu, with Vol'jin as his assistant.
• Griftah told Anachronos and his companions that Rukhran guarded the Eye of Anzu at Skyreach, then warned them Thrall's agents were also seeking it.
• Cairne Bloodhoof and Vol'jin visited Griftah, who claimed that sacrificing many Mag'har Orcs in Skettis would open a portal to the Shadowlands.
• Vol'jin questioned Griftah about his alleged past in Stranglethorn Vale, and Griftah denied it, claiming he had grown up in Dazar'alor.

Vol'jin, Cairne Bloodhoof, and Griftah traveled to Hellfire Peninsula to learn how to reach the Spires of Arak. Chief Elder Desatatal claimed the Spires had become the Blade's Edge Mountains, and Griftah hurriedly agreed to go there.

• Griftah revealed that he was descended from the Zandalari royal family and recounted how a teleportation scroll had taken him to the Spires of Arak.
• Griftah, Vol'jin, and Cairne Bloodhoof went to Hellfire Peninsula, where a Mag'har Orc told them the village was supporting a war against Illidan and Sargeras.
• Vol'jin and Cairne met Chief Elder Desatatal, who demanded the password before answering their question.
• Griftah gave the password, and Desatatal pointed to the Blade's Edge Mountains, claiming they were the former Spires of Arak.
• Griftah thanked Desatatal and led Vol'jin and Cairne toward the Blade's Edge Mountains despite Vol'jin's doubts.

Vol'jin, Cairne Bloodhoof, and Griftah searched for the Spires of Arak, finding their way to Outland through a teleportation scroll given by an ancient clan of Shadow Walkers. In Skettis, they asked Reshad the Scrollkeeper about the Eye of Anzu and received a task to retrieve two objects from the city’s statues.

• Vol'jin and his companions heard several false claims about the Spires of Arak before reaching an ancient Orc village in the mountains.
• A Shadow Walker hermit explained that his shadow-powered clan was nearly extinct and gave the three travelers teleportation scrolls.
• Griftah, Vol'jin, and Cairne used the scrolls to reach a cliff in Outland, where Griftah reunited with his friend Azik.
• Azik directed them toward Reshad the Scrollkeeper in Skettis, warning that he was difficult to persuade.
• Reshad accepted Tough Jerky and told them to bring him sharp wing blades and a white mask from statues at the city gate, while forbidding them from speaking to Skettis’s residents.
• Griftah told Vol'jin that the Eye of Anzu could not be taken away except by the method he had taught him.

Vol'jin and Cairne poisoned Skettis's wells to force the Arakkoa to reveal the Eye of Anzu, but a mysterious power transformed the ruined city into a thriving settlement and summoned them to meet the legendary Emperor Terokk. The chapter leaves Vol'jin questioning the Arakkoa noble who says he knows who Vol'jin is.

• Vol'jin rejected Griftah's suggestion to return the wing blade and white mask, then proposed poisoning Skettis's wells with Darkspear voodoo.
• Cairne approved the plan, while Griftah objected but was too afraid to stop Vol'jin and Cairne from poisoning the wells.
• The voodoo killed many Arakkoa, and Vol'jin planned to use Soul Summoning on the dead to locate the Eye of Anzu.
• A wave of Shadow Energy made Vol'jin, Cairne, and Griftah fall asleep; when Vol'jin woke, Skettis had become a prosperous city and the dead Arakkoa were alive again.
• Arakkoa guards escorted the three to Sethekk Palace, where an officer said Emperor Terokk had requested their presence.
• An Arakkoa noble welcomed them to a banquet, and Vol'jin asked whether he knew who Vol'jin was; the noble said that he did.

Vol'jin, Cairne Bloodhoof, and Griftah learned from Reshad that they had to refuse every offer at the banquet and ask Terokk only for the Eye of Anzu. At Sethekk Halls, they faced the dead gathered around Terokk and resisted the food, but wine was poured for them as the chapter ended.

• The Arakkoa noble identified Vol'jin and Cairne Bloodhoof by their past bargains, while Reshad warned them that Skettis needed living people and that Terokk would return if its numbers fell too low.
• Reshad told Vol'jin, Cairne Bloodhoof, and Griftah to refuse food, wine, dancing, and treasure, and to insist on receiving the Eye of Anzu from Terokk.
• At Sethekk Halls, Vol'jin recognized Sen'jin, Orgrim Doomhammer, Grom Hellscream, Uther the Lightbringer, and King Terenas among the dead, while Cairne Bloodhoof saw his father and the Kolkar leader he had killed.
• Terokk welcomed the three and offered them food as the Tiger Person Pride King Karash's belly burst; Karash was carried away and soon returned with his belly flat.
• Griftah showed Vol'jin and Cairne Bloodhoof that maggots crawled inside the roast meat, so Vol'jin declined it; Terokk then offered wine, which the thirsty guests found tempting.

At Emperor Terokk’s banquet, Vol'jin, Cairne, and Griftah discovered that the food and instruments were dangerous and refused to perform. Terokk sent three beautiful Arakkoa women to sit with them, but memories of their lost loves unsettled all three guests.

• Griftah tested the wine and found that it scorched the carpet, while Vol'jin and Cairne refused to drink for reasons they claimed were personal vows.
• Emperor Terokk asked the three guests to play music, but Griftah discovered the harp strings were razor-sharp, Cairne’s flute was burning hot, and Vol'jin’s drum had a toothed mouth.
• Vol'jin, Cairne, and Griftah each declined to play, angering Terokk, who then summoned his three daughters to entertain them.
• The Arakkoa women sat beside the guests and captivated Vol'jin, Cairne, and Griftah with their beauty.
• Griftah remembered Lisa and rejected the Arakkoa woman; Cairne also remembered Lisa and began to cry, while Vol'jin recalled a woman he thought he had forgotten.

At Emperor Terokk’s banquet, Griftah exposed the gathering as a test and the group earned the offer of a powerful reward. Cairne accepted the Heart of the Three-headed Felhound, Griftah refused, and Vol’jin suspected the reward could go to only one of them.

• Vol’jin, Cairne, and Griftah refused Terokk’s demand for their romantic attention, and Terokk ordered them killed until several guests intervened.
• King Terenas and Uther urged Terokk to spare the three, after which Griftah questioned Terenas and discovered that he and Uther were unnaturally weak.
• Griftah beat Terenas and Uther until Terokk stopped him and revealed that the banquet had tested whether the guests could resist its temptations.
• Terokk offered the Heart of the Three-headed Felhound, which he said granted immortality and passage between the worlds of the living and the dead.
• Cairne accepted the reward, Griftah refused, and Vol’jin concluded that only one of the three could gain its authority.

Griftah used enchanted trinkets from his pack to defeat Vol'jin and Cairne in Emperor Terokk’s contest for the Three-headed Felhound’s heart. He conceded to keep all three alive, but Terokk said the unprecedented outcome required an adjustment to the reward rules, leaving Griftah alarmed.

• Vol'jin and Cairne attacked Griftah, but his Hula Girl Doll took the fatal blows in his place.
• Emperor Terokk announced that only one contestant could survive and claim the Three-headed Felhound’s heart, and Vol'jin and Cairne began fighting Griftah.
• Griftah used a jumping stone to evade their attacks, then knocked Cairne’s Runed Spear away with a Quality Stick.
• Griftah tripped Vol'jin with Soap on a Rope and struck Cairne with an Incredibly Extraordinary Stone, leaving Vol'jin unable to stand and Cairne’s soul outside his body.
• Griftah conceded so none of them would have to kill the others, but Terokk said he would adjust the reward rules because there had never been two winners.

Emperor Terokk offered Vol'jin and Cairne Bloodhoof the chance to become death gods through a covenant with Bastion, but their ceremony was interrupted before they could consume the three-headed Felhound hearts. Vol'jin and Cairne awoke only in a dreamlike scene, while Griftah and Reshad the Scrollkeeper exchanged a secret code.

• Terokk brought out three three-headed Felhound hearts and warned Vol'jin and Cairne that accepting them would cost them much of their lives as mortals.
• Vol'jin and Cairne agreed to Bastion's covenant, which bound them to guide souls and become gods of death.
• As a maid brought the hearts, Kael'thas and Vashj burst into Sethekk Halls, the hearts disappeared, and Vol'jin and Cairne collapsed unconscious.
• Griftah awoke in a stone house, answered Reshad the Scrollkeeper's secret phrase, and exchanged a mysterious smile with him while Vol'jin and Cairne slept.

Griftah reassured Reshad that his scheme would prevent Vol'jin and Cairne from bringing about the extinction of Azeroth’s races. At the Eye of Anzu, Vol'jin saw himself becoming a Loa and Cairne welcomed a vision of Tauren being raised as livestock and eaten.

• Griftah told Reshad the grim futures he had learned for Vol'jin and Cairne, and said he had tricked them into dying early to avert them.
• The next day, Vol'jin and Cairne questioned Griftah about the Arakkoa they had poisoned, who had mysteriously come back to life.
• Reshad gave the three shadow potions and sent them to the Arakkoa Hut to see the Eye of Anzu.
• Griftah drank his potion and saw visions of Cairne being devoured by Orcs and Vol'jin suffering, then reassured himself that his plan had succeeded.
• Vol'jin saw himself bathed in Holy Light and believed he would become a Loa, while Cairne saw Tauren as livestock and happily accepted that future.

Vol'jin recruited Gorkan Bloodfist to provide Mag'har Orcs for his plans, while Reshad explained the betrayal and imprisonment of Emperor Terokk in Sethekk Valley. The chapter left Griftah and Reshad seeking the truth behind the fall of the Arakkoa Empire.

• Vol'jin opened a Portal to the Mag'har Post and ordered Archmage Rommath to send him there.
• Gorkan Bloodfist recalled how the Mag'har Orcs had been deceived into supporting a fabricated Battle of the Black Temple, and how they stoned the Adjutant and his supporters for exposing the lie.
• Vol'jin offered to cooperate with Gorkan and claimed that a hundred thousand Mag'har Orcs' flesh and souls belonged to him.
• Gorkan agreed to rally the Mag'har Orcs to fight the Arakkoa Empire and the Black Temple for their people's glory.
• Reshad told Griftah that priests had betrayed Emperor Terokk and his daughter, imprisoning them in Sethekk Valley, and that Orc flesh and blood might free Terokk.
• Reshad said he wanted to learn who had orchestrated Terokk's downfall, though the Eye of Anzu had given him no answer.

Vol'jin and his allies sent a hundred thousand Mag'har Orcs into Sethekk Valley to exhaust Sethe's curse, sacrificing seventy thousand in the process. The curse lifted, and Terokk returned from death, confronting the Naaru A'dal as he promised to reveal the truth behind the Arakkoa Empire's fall.

• Gorkan Bloodfist assembled a hundred thousand Mag'har Orcs and ordered them into Sethekk Valley under false pretenses.
• The Mag'har Orcs entered the blood-red mist, where their bodies dissolved as their lives weakened Sethe's curse.
• After seventy thousand Orcs died, the curse faded, and the survivors celebrated their supposed victory.
• Terokk appeared in the valley, declared that he had been reborn, and promised to reveal the truth behind the Arakkoa Empire's fall.
• A'dal appeared above the valley, and Griftah recognized the Naaru.

A'dal revealed his ancient plot against Draenor and summoned Sethe, Legion Lord Kazzak, and Doomwalker to fight Anzu and Rukhmar. As the legendary beings clashed, Gorkan Bloodfist decided to send the Mag'har Orcs into battle, though he had secretly resolved not to let them return.

• Terokk accused A'dal of provoking the ancient conflict between Sethe and Rukhmar, and A'dal attacked him with Holy Light.
• Anzu appeared to shield Terokk, and A'dal summoned Sethe to fight the Raven King over their old grudge.
• Rukhmar arrived to confront A'dal, who called in Legion Lord Kazzak and Doomwalker to ambush her.
• Gorkan Bloodfist slapped an Orc officer who urged him to fight the Legion, then decided to send the Mag'har Orcs into battle while planning for them not to return.

Gorkan Bloodfist sent the Mag'har Orcs against Anzu while Sethe used their deaths to recover, and Rukhmar struggled against Kazzak and Doomwalker. M'uru ambushed A'dal, but the injured Naaru escaped to Shattrath City after destroying the remaining Mag'har Orcs.

• Gorkan Bloodfist ordered the Mag'har Orcs to kill Anzu, and Anzu and Sethe slaughtered them while Sethe absorbed their life essence.
• Kazzak and Doomwalker wore down Rukhmar, injuring her wing as Anzu remained trapped fighting Sethe.
• Krasus and Robbie arrived through a Portal, and Robbie revealed that a helper had been waiting for this moment.
• M'uru attacked A'dal with shadow energy, shattered his Holy Light shield, and overwhelmed him with a realm of darkness.
• A'dal fled through the Mag'har Orc ranks, burned the remaining ten thousand troops to ashes, and escaped to Shattrath City.

Sethe unleashed a rapidly spreading Curse of Flesh across the Spires of Arak, forcing the heroes to flee before Robbie stopped it with the Shard of the Moon Goddess's Hand. In Shattrath, Vol'jin's group planned to fake the Eye of Anzu and identified Griftah as the best forger.

• Sethe transformed Sethekk Valley and its surroundings into flesh, while Rukhmar and Anzu failed to stop the curse from spreading.
• Vol'jin, Cairne Bloodhoof, Gorkan Bloodfist, Rommath, and the Silvermoon City mages escaped through a Portal to Shattrath City, while Terokk stayed behind.
• After everyone had left, Robbie threw the Shard of the Moon Goddess's Hand into the valley, halting the curse and turning Sethe into stone.
• Robbie recovered the enlarged Shard of the Moon Goddess's Hand from the center of Sethekk Valley.
• In Shattrath City, Vol'jin's group discussed making a fake Eye of Anzu, and Rommath's party named Griftah as the city's best forger.

Vol'jin paid Griftah to forge an Eye of Anzu, then presented it to Thrall, who received a prophecy about the Shard of the Moon Goddess's Hand. Vol'jin learned that Thrall planned to recover and destroy the shard, and asked who would verify it was genuine.

• Vol'jin confronted Griftah, who demanded a Tauren Chieftain's horn, the Darkspear Tribe leader's tusk, the Blood Elf leader's eyeball, and the Mag'har Orc leader's toe to forge an Eye of Anzu.
• Vol'jin obtained the materials, traded them to Griftah, and received a convincing imitation Eye of Anzu.
• A'dal examined the imitation in Shattrath City, praised Vol'jin, and let him leave with it.
• Thrall told Vol'jin that the Eye of Anzu had prophesied that Alassel Sunwatcher possessed the Shard of the Moon Goddess's Hand.
• Eitrigg criticized Vol'jin and said the Horde needed to recover the shard without alerting Alassel; Thrall ordered it destroyed in spatial turbulence above Netherstorm.
• Vol'jin asked who would verify the shard's authenticity if it was recovered.

Thrall ordered Eitrigg to recover the Shard of the Moon Goddess's Hand from Alassel Sunwatcher and Vol'jin to prepare a fake shard as a backup. In Silvermoon City, Alassel warned Lor'themar that Eitrigg was coming for him, and Lor'themar fled to seek Mannoroth's help.

• Thrall assigned Eitrigg to retrieve the shard from Alassel and ordered Vol'jin to make a fake one while ensuring Illidan was blamed for its theft.
• Alassel used a Voiceworm to tell Lor'themar that he supported Thrall because Lor'themar was too ineffective to find Black Empire ruins.
• Alassel warned Lor'themar that Eitrigg believed he had been framed by a fake Eye of Anzu and would force Lor'themar to reveal Alassel's whereabouts.
• When Eitrigg arrived and demanded Alassel, Lor'themar fled through the back door to find Archmage Rommath after Alassel advised him to appeal to Mannoroth's tastes.
• Eitrigg entered carrying a Blood Elf girl with her throat bitten through and wondered where Lor'themar had gone.

Lor'themar and Rommath disguised themselves as Orc vagrants to deliver Alaiseer's gift to Mannoroth and seek his protection. Mannoroth accepted the gift, condemned the Titans and the Holy Light, and asked the Blood Elves to help him deal with the Demon Hunters.

• Lor'themar and Rommath waited near the Blood Elf embassy, where Orcs abducted the ambassador to serve as a snack.
• An Orc officer passed Lor'themar a box from Alaiseer and directed the Blood Elves to Mannoroth's cave in the Valley of Spirits.
• Mannoroth took the black stone from the box and praised its markings as a relic of the Black Empire.
• Mannoroth explained his view that the Old Gods had guided Azeroth's World Soul and that the Titans had wronged Sargeras.
• Mannoroth revealed that Eitrigg had sold Alaiseer a fake Fragment of the Moon Goddess's Hand and promised to protect the Blood Elves from him.
• Mannoroth asked Lor'themar and Rommath to do something about the Demon Hunters, whom he considered a threat.

Mannoroth sent Lor'themar to contact Akama and help the Horde target the Black Temple, while Vol'jin was ordered to assist him. In Shattrath, Dar'Khan offered access to Akama in exchange for delivering a love letter to Liadrin, leaving Lor'themar and Rommath to accept the deal.

• Mannoroth gave Lor'themar a map of Mardum's Abyss and told him to find Akama and get the map to Illidan.
• Griftah refused Vol'jin's request to make a Shard of the Moon Goddess's Hand, and Thrall later ordered Vol'jin to support Lor'themar's mission instead.
• Vol'jin, Lor'themar, and Rommath traveled to Shattrath, where Prophet Voren'thal said he could not help them meet Akama.
• Dar'Khan encountered Lor'themar and revealed that he controlled most of Lower City's businesses and had defeated Akama, who now worked for him.
• Dar'Khan agreed to arrange a meeting with Akama if Lor'themar and Rommath delivered his love letter to Liadrin.

Lor'themar forced Liadrin to write Dar'Khan an ambiguous reply while Orcs terrorized Silvermoon City, but Dar'Khan rejected his assumptions and brought him to see Akama. There, Lor'themar discovered that Dar'Khan had saved the supposedly incurable Mindless Mana Addiction Sufferers, and Akama took him aside to talk.

• Lor'themar threatened Liadrin into writing Dar'Khan a reply while Eitrigg's Orcs brutalized Silvermoon City and the city gates remained sealed.
• Liadrin wrote that she had once given her heart to Dar'Khan but insisted he should not return to Silvermoon City.
• Dar'Khan tore up the reply, confronted Lor'themar about his willingness to sacrifice everything for Thrall, and agreed to take him to Akama.
• Lor'themar saw Blood Elves queuing to join the Illidari or enter the Pleasure Gardens and reacted angrily to what he called their disgrace.
• Dar'Khan revealed that the Blood Elves were former Mindless Mana Addiction Sufferers whom he had saved, leaving Lor'themar stunned.
• Dar'Khan introduced Lor'themar to Akama, who took him to the backyard for a private conversation.

Akama accepted Lor'themar's map of Mardum to present to Illidan, and Vandel's Illidari used it to find a Portal to the beautiful world they had long sought. They entered a land where Fel and other energies behaved strangely, leaving Vandel and Magtheridon uncertain what rule governed it.

• Lor'themar gave Akama a map of Mardum and persuaded him to present it to Illidan.
• Vandel's Illidari struggled through Mardum's fractured timelines while searching for the beautiful planet.
• A Demon Hunter delivered Mannoroth's map, and Vandel judged it genuine despite Magtheridon's suspicion that it was a plot.
• The Illidari followed the map, cleared rubble from a Demon nest, and uncovered a Portal to the planet.
• Vandel led the group through the Portal and found fertile grasslands, forests, and roaming animals.
• Magtheridon and a former mage among the Demon Hunters noticed that Fel and other elements were unusually stable in the new world.

Vandel, Magtheridon, and the Demon Hunters explored a strange world where their actions could not change anything, and Magtheridon concluded that a powerful Order bound its energy. They encountered a voice that knew the Night Elves and Sargeras, then discovered it belonged to Mr. Bigglesworth, a cat riding a single-horned snake.

• Magtheridon explained that the world’s grass and a crushed leaf restored themselves, while Vandel suspected they were in an illusion.
• Magtheridon spun on his tail to test whether they were dreaming, then collapsed and insisted the test proved they were not.
• Magtheridon killed and ate a deer, but it reappeared; a Demon Hunter ate outside rations without difficulty, and Magtheridon concluded that a powerful Order bound the world’s energy.
• In the forest, a voice spoke to the group, called Pit Lords inefficient users of Fel, and revealed that vines had suspended Magtheridon.
• Vandel found the single-horned snake and saw a cat perched on its neck; the cat introduced itself as Mr. Bigglesworth.

Vandel followed Mr. Bigglesworth to learn why Illidan was forbidden from entering the cats’ world. After seeing memories that implicated Aman'Thul and raised doubts about Illidan’s motives, Vandel left with his eyes restored and his understanding of the world shaken.

• Mr. Bigglesworth offered the Demon Hunters a place to settle but forbade Illidan from entering, then led Vandel away alone to explain why.
• Mr. Bigglesworth showed Vandel a museum of invaders preserved as living stone statues and explained that the Army of the Light had lured them to Mardum.
• Mr. Bigglesworth revealed that the cats had cooperated with Sargeras against a common enemy and showed Vandel a vision of Aman'Thul causing Azeroth’s Sundering.
• Vandel learned that Aman'Thul’s soul had escaped and that the Titans had taught the Night Elves to use Fel, while the sacrifice of their eyes helped control their minds.
• Vandel’s eyes grew back, and Mr. Bigglesworth explained that the cats had arrived before the Draenei because of disorder in space and time.