Recaps

Robbie and his allies uncovered Emperor Ata’s plan to sacrifice the Zandalari to Hakkar, while Yeh'kinya exposed the empire’s buried crimes and the Dark Scepter’s hold over its people. After Corrupted Blood ravaged Zandalar and the group scattered, Thrall learned of a Titan conspiracy and began preparing to use Azeroth’s elemental power against Al'Akir.

• Thrall and his companions pursued the Crystal Firmament’s riddles, but Yeh'kinya solved the summoning riddle and agreed to help Emperor Ata summon Hakkar.
• Emperor Ata told Yeh'kinya that a warning about the empire’s survival had appeared, then secured Yeh'kinya’s help by promising to protect the realm of the gods.
• Robbie and Vanessa learned that Emperor Ata punished people by turning them into Blood Food, while Dasa warned that Hakkar might be behind the empire’s coming disaster.
• Yeh'kinya summoned Hakkar, who demanded half of Zandalar’s souls in exchange for granting Ata a stronger body, and Ata accepted the bargain.
• Robbie, Vanessa, and Ulda discovered the City of the Sky was an illusion, while Thrall followed Dasa and Mulgore to Uldir as they tried to unleash G'huun against Hakkar.
• As Ata began sacrificing the gathered Zandalari, the undead emperors challenged him, and Yeh'kinya judged the founding emperor to be Prophet Skeram, breaking the Dark Scepter’s control.
• Hakkar defeated G'huun, turned him into a Blood Crystal, and spread Corrupted Blood across Zandalar, while Ulda concluded Prince Dasa could be the last imperial descendant.
• Hagara, Mulgore, and Morchok rejected Thrall’s plan to use Corrupted Blood against Orgrimmar and departed, while Robbie rescued Yeh'kinya and learned that Holy Light could dispel the plague.
• Thrall awakened in the Pantheon and learned that Aman'Thul had exploited other Titans, then received instructions to use Azeroth’s elemental power against Al'Akir.
• Thrall met Vol'jin and began working with his Southsea Pirate army, while Cruel Dempl escaped a Goblin attack and brought a treasure map to two cloaked visitors.

Thrall tried to seize Uldum and the Forge of Origination, but Ra-den’s schemes and the Void drew the conflict into a wider struggle. After Thrall was restored and tasked with rescuing Ra-den, Jaina and Garrosh began plotting around the Ley Lines and the Focusing Iris, leaving Theramore at the center of a dangerous trap.

• Thrall revealed himself as the Southsea Pirates’ backer and led them and an Orc army toward Uldum, while Dempl sailed away and Kregg became their foreman.
• Thrall’s forces entered Uldum, where Felix and the Tol’vir tribes were caught in Ra-den’s plans, and Thrall forced Brann Bronzebeard to sign a slave contract before taking the Halls of Origination.
• Thrall and Ra-den fought over the Forge of Origination, and Thrall killed Ra-den with the Black Rune before the mysterious being ordered him to sacrifice Ramkahen to resurrect him.
• Thrall and Ra-den turned on the Tol’vir, while King Faoris and Takahen tried to defend their people and the Void Cartographers entered Uldum to calculate Azeroth’s coordinates.
• Robbie and N’Zoth disrupted Ra-den’s attempt to cooperate with the Void, but Ra-den killed Thrall and pursued his campaign against the Tol’vir before Lei Shen defeated and captured him.
• The Emissary and Anachronos restored Thrall, who accepted a mission to rescue Ra-den, while Garrosh separately ordered Eitrigg to arrange a rescue through Kalecgos and Jaina.
• Garrosh bound the Blue Dragonflight with a contract and pressured Kalecgos and Jaina to lead the expedition, while Jaina sought help from Dalaran and received little support from other leaders.
• Jaina proposed that she and Garrosh lure Alliance and Horde leaders to Theramore and use the Focusing Iris to kill them, while Varian pursued control of Stormwind’s Ley Lines and Garrosh asked a mysterious being how to move against Jaina.

Jaina’s pursuit of the Focusing Iris collapsed into Theramore’s destruction, and she was later killed in the struggle around Orgrimmar. Anduin was drawn into Peace Dove’s schemes and the war against Garrosh, while Chen Stormstout’s search for Y'Shaarj’s heart ended in a confrontation with Jiyun Ailin.

• Jaina won the Blue Dragonflight’s support for Kalecgos and secured the Focusing Iris, but Medivh stole it and killed Keligosa during the escort.
• Jaina gathered leaders in Theramore, but they turned against her when the Iris went missing, while Garrosh prepared a Mana Bomb using the stolen relic.
• Rhonin discovered the bomb approaching Theramore and tried to evacuate the city, but the Dogslaughter Gang trapped its residents and the resulting blast destroyed Theramore and killed Rhonin.
• Jaina survived and pursued the Focusing Iris, enslaving Thrall, Vol'jin, and Kalecgos before finding it in Theramore’s crater and confronting Domira near Orgrimmar.
• Kalecgos killed Jaina during the battle, and Domira took her corpse to Orgrimmar before falling to her death in the Dread Wastes.
• A disguised woman recruited Anduin into Peace Dove, and he secured an Alliance force for Pandaria before Orcs tortured him and news of Orgrimmar’s destruction restored his resolve.
• Anduin chose to seek a future in which Thrall defeated Garrosh, while Chen Stormstout and Taran Zhu’s contest for the Heart of Y'Shaarj was interrupted by Jiyun Ailin.

Garrosh claimed the Heart of Darkness and used its power to build a vast coalition, while Thrall maneuvered to oppose him and their staged duel erupted into a wider battle. The struggle left both sides plotting new alliances, with Garrosh turning his attention toward Velen and Exodar.

• Jiyun Ailin ordered Taran Zhu and Chen Stormstout to gather three thousand Pandaren Chi masters, while Anduin arrived in Pandaria with Alliance forces and Garrosh advanced with the Kor'kron.
• Garrosh entered the Vale, where the Pandaren attacked his exhausted Kor'kron, then Jinxiu brought him to Qionghua Palace and the Heart of Darkness rejected him as unworthy.
• Thrall failed to merge with the heart, while Taran Zhu tried to reach it before Garrosh captured him and demanded his help retrieving it.
• Jiyun Ailin's plan to destroy Qionghua Palace shattered its seals, releasing Sha energy that devastated the Vale, and Garrosh claimed the purple heart as Thrall's forces arrived.
• Garrosh's army captured Thrall and sacrificed three thousand Jinyu to empower the heart, but Chromie rescued Thrall and Jaina before Garrosh could execute them.
• Garrosh marched on the Alliance and besieged Niuzao Temple, where the Mantid and Sha of Fear attacked him before the heart healed him and he forced Pandarian leaders to praise him.
• The Endless Guardians turned against Garrosh, but his soldiers sacrificed themselves to heal him, and Thrall resolved to strike back with the Fel Orcs.
• Thrall and Garrosh staged a duel and negotiated control of Pandaria, but Huoji intervened, turning the contest into a chaotic battle that ended with both leaders withdrawing and Garrosh escaping with Nazgrim and the heart.
• Thrall ordered his surviving soldiers and fleeing generals killed, then sent Vol'jin to recruit Sylvanas and Velen to influence Anduin, while Huoji was taken to Garrosh's banquet among captives.
• Velen promised Varian that he would discipline Anduin, then threatened Anduin in the Stockade, while Eitrigg urged Garrosh to attack Exodar and enslave Velen.