Recaps

Nazgrim’s campaign against the Pandaren led the Horde into Mogu’shan Vaults, where the Mogu sought Orc blood to end the Curse of Flesh. Meanwhile, Wrathion trapped the August Celestials and experimented with Pandaria’s mist, but Yanzhu’s time-domain powers and the resurrected Immerseus left the Horde in crisis.

• Lorewalker Cho exposed Master Snowdrift as an inside man and prepared the Shado-Pan Monastery against Nazgrim, while Gu Chuanyun killed Guteer and claimed mastery of the Shado-Pan Fist.
• Rokhan lured the Golden Lotus into the Horde camp, where Orcs boiled many of its masters, and Lao Xianglong led the survivors into Mogu’shan Palace as the Horde attacked.
• King Xien awoke and learned from Lao Xianglong and Ra-den that Orc flesh could stop the Curse of Flesh, while the Mogu captured Orcs and Trolls for their plans.
• Shan Jihai possessed Malkorok and used him to escape, while Wrathion, Thrall, and Anduin arrived on the Timeless Isle and learned that thousands had disappeared in Mogu’shan Vaults.
• Wrathion and Madam Goya trapped the August Celestials in a formation, and Wrathion tortured Yu'lon before attempting to give Orcs the Celestials’ restorative power.
• Murozond created a Time Domain near Stormstout Brewery, where Yanzhu and Wuk Wuk gained power, while Chen Stormstout stole fragments of Sha and clashed with the Hozen and Jinyu.
• Wrathion tested Pandaria’s mist on Orcs, but nearly all died, after Chen led Wrathion to the brewery, Yanzhu unleashed Alementals that forced them to flee.
• Wrathion returned to the Timeless Isle and found thousands of Orc corpses, while Thrall revealed that Immerseus had absorbed bloody mud and become a monster.

Wrathion’s schemes to stop Garrosh collided with the Sacred Bell, Velen’s crimes, and the Orcs’ invasion of Pandaria. After Garrosh’s army collapsed and Cho'gall seized Orgrimmar, Garrosh sought allies while Medivh exposed the plan, leaving Nazgrim to negotiate with the Dragonmaw Clan.

• Wrathion sent Chen Stormstout back to the Orcs as a spy, and Chen convinced Nazgrim that Thrall was plotting against Azeroth.
• Garrosh marched into Pandaria with a hundred thousand Orcs, used the Sacred Bell to empower his forces, and fought Wrathion, Thrall, and Anduin at the Vermilion Bird Temple.
• Robbie’s golden Holy Light guardian destroyed the demonized Orcs and shattered the Sacred Bell, while Wrathion fled and was captured by Shan Jitong and Madam Goya.
• Wrathion rescued Anduin from Velen, who admitted to slaughtering villages for souls, then showed him how Orc rule and Pandaren compromise led to Bai Yutou’s torture and the revolt in Herb-Scent Town.
• Five hundred Mogu routed the Orcs, and Sha-infected Pandaren killed nearly ten thousand of them as Nazgrim escaped by ship.
• Cho'gall took Orgrimmar, exploited its food stores, and defeated Garrosh’s forces, while the Dragonmaw Clan destroyed the stranded Orc army’s ships at Gadgetzan.
• Garrosh asked Baine for Tauren troops and later sought Medivh’s help against Cho'gall, but Medivh revealed Med'an’s plan to Cho'gall, who decided to abandon Orgrimmar.
• Nazgrim approached Zuluhed for Dragonmaw support, and Zuluhed reminded him that Nazgrim had once left him waiting for ten days.

Garrosh’s and Thrall’s conflict and Medivh’s experiments led into End Time, where Thrall and his allies confronted the Beast Emperor and Elune. After the Unique Beast fell, the Emissary tasked Thrall with gathering recruits and seizing a treasure in the Hour of Twilight.

• Zuluhed told Nazgrim that Cho'gall had coerced the Dragonmaw Clan into serving his plan, while Nazgrim won over Mogor with wine and stories of the outside world.
• Med'an incited Orcs in Orgrimmar to rebel against Cho'gall, but Cho'gall turned the civilians against Garrosh’s imprisoned guards, and Garrosh later arrived with twenty thousand soldiers and slaughtered the city’s forces.
• Mogor poisoned and killed Zuluhed, then claimed the Dragonmaw chieftainship, but Nazgrim and Saurfang betrayed him and killed him after he chose to support Garrosh.
• Nazgrim helped Garrosh defeat the Dragonmaw Clan, but Garrosh had him captured and paraded through Orgrimmar after learning of his disloyalty.
• Murozond sent Benedictus, Robbie, and Vanessa to investigate End Time, where Thrall joined Baine, Jaina, Tyrande, and Sylvanas and learned that a Beast Emperor had conquered Azeroth and extinguished all life.
• Thrall discovered that the Beast Emperor was connected to his own fate, while Robbie, Benedictus, and Vanessa found Malfurion and prepared to turn the Beast Emperor against Elune.
• The Beast Emperor tortured Thrall and sentenced his companions, but Robbie’s plague and the Orc souls weakened him until he transformed and attacked Elune.
• Elune sent Thrall back to the Caverns of Time before destroying herself and the Beast Emperor, and the Emissary then tasked Thrall with gathering recruits and enslaving Morchok for the coming Hour of Twilight.

Thrall forced Hagara and other powerful figures into his service while pursuing allies and weapons for the Hour of Twilight. His search led him and his companions through a Time Beacon to the ancient Zandalar Great Empire.

• Thrall enslaved Hagara and ordered Morchok to kill the miners she had tried to protect.
• Thrall pursued Blackhorn through a magical mist and escaped after Jianjiao Heiti led the Heizong Tauren to his rescue.
• Blackhorn showed Thrall's group visions of Mulgore Goldenhoof's past, and the resurrected Goldenhoof Emperor killed Jianjiao Heiti before submitting to Thrall.
• Hagara and Morchok sought a way to break their enslavement, and Hagara persuaded Tirion Fordring to leave Thrall's mission.
• Robbie and Murozond reached Dazar before Thrall, and Dazar later joined Thrall's group after subduing him.
• Dazar trapped Thrall in an illusion during the mission to the Hour of Twilight, where Thrall believed he had taken Xal'atath.
• Yeh'kinya summoned Hakkar to learn about an ancient Zandalari weapon, and Hakkar gave him a Time Beacon.
• Anachronos opened a portal with the Time Beacon, and Thrall's group arrived at the unfinished capital of the Zandalar Great Empire.