Recaps

Rhonin and the Dragon Aspects confronted the Ancient Evil within Alexstrasza, while Lordaeron’s rulers advanced a disastrous peace plan with the Orcs. The story ended with Krasus and Robbie discovering a chamber of Twilight-corrupted eggs in the Ruby Sanctum.

• Rhonin impressed Nekros with his Holy Words and was brought before the Red Dragon Queen, who strengthened his magic through meditation with the Demon Soul.
• Prestor condemned Terenas’s plan to hand Alterac and its people to the Orcs, then raised an army against the Dragonmaw Clan while Nekros forced Rhonin to fight Uther.
• Rhonin and Nekros battled Zuluhed’s forces, and Rhonin learned that the Red Dragon Queen’s reanimated corpse had become an Undead Dragon.
• Robbie and Krasus investigated the queen’s history as Prestor led an army toward Grim Batol, where Zuluhed’s forces faced an Ogre ambush and Uther’s Silver Hand was destroyed.
• Nekros attacked Zuluhed with Talanastrasz, but Alexstrasza revealed her Death Dragon form and fought Talanastrasz before Rhonin’s Holy Word exposed the Ancient Evil within her.
• The Ancient Evil took control of Talanastrasz, while Prestor revealed himself as Deathwing and the Dragon Aspects arrived to fight him and the emerging Chromatus.
• Rhonin used a Demon Soul fragment to release its power, and Atramedes and Chromatus vanished in an explosion before Alexstrasza and the Dragon Aspects renewed their fight against Deathwing.
• Robbie impersonated Gul’dan to free the Dragon Aspects from the Ancient Evil’s control, while Terenas’s Peace Dove campaign culminated in Orgrim mutilating him before a crowd.
• Robbie and Krasus returned to the age of Holy Light, where Eranikus warned Krasus of Ysera’s vision, and they later found over a hundred Twilight-corrupted eggs hidden in the Ruby Sanctum.

Robbie and Krasus uncovered Dragon experiments and tracked Kelitu Telazi’s transformation as the Holy Light’s influence spread through Azeroth. The search for Thrall shifted into a time-travel investigation, ending with Jaina confronting King Terenas and demanding to know where Prince Arthas was.

• Robbie and Krasus discovered Dragon experiments and imprisoned test subjects in the Ruby Sanctum, where Robbie suspected Galakrond’s heart and brain were needed to resurrect the Ancient Evil.
• Robbie freed more than a hundred Void Dragon whelps, while Kelitu Telazi helped trigger the Twilight Dragons’ attack and fled toward the Twilight Father.
• The Twilight Father and Velen transformed Kelitu Telazi with Holy Light and Fel, but the Red Dragon Queen killed him after his new powers proved unstable.
• Robbie and Krasus investigated Karazhan as Medivh arranged portals for refugees from Draenor, while Mar'gok led Ogres to Gadgetzan and Durotan entered Winterspring.
• Khadgar besieged Gadgetzan, but Mar'gok secured Chen Stormstout’s friendship and Durotan awakened ancestral Yetis as Khadgar retreated from the threat in Winterspring.
• At Anachronos’s negotiations, Durotan and others accused Velen of serving the Holy Light and Burning Legion, while “Illidan” revealed that the apparent Durotan was Fenris and the real Durotan’s soul had been destroyed.
• Anachronos took Khadgar, Durotan, Mar'gok, and Velen to investigate Thrall’s past, while Robbie and Krasus found that Durnholde held no records of Thrall and suspected Medivh had raised him at Karazhan.
• Jaina revealed her Holy Light power in Southshore and later confronted King Terenas, demanding to know where Prince Arthas was.

Ashkandi’s arena career ended in betrayal, and Aiguleiya became Thrall after pledging himself to the Burning Legion. Thrall seized control through brutal campaigns and manipulation, while Jaina’s hunt for Arthas and Blackmoore’s return left the story at a new turning point.

• Jaina ordered the Peace Dove to find Arthas, while Medivh prepared Ashkandi to become the Orcs’ king and arranged his arena debut with Aiguleiya at his side.
• Ashkandi won a series of brutal arena fights, but Aiguleiya crippled and killed him, then Orgrim tortured Aiguleiya and left him to die in the forest.
• Aiguleiya survived by using a hidden Super Titans Elixir, joined Grommash Hellscream’s Warsong Clan, and accepted Varimathras’s offer to become Thrall in exchange for revenge.
• Thrall betrayed Drek’Thar, terrorized the Frostwolf Clan, and worked with Orgrim to attack Durnholde, where Blackmoore captured the Orcs and imprisoned Thrall.
• Thrall and Antonidas failed to persuade most of the interned Orcs to leave Durnholde, and Blizzard and Fel Flame killed thousands before Thrall built a following among the survivors.
• Thrall killed Taretha and blamed Blackmoore, while Jaina learned Arthas was at Quel'Danil Lodge and sent Thrall to kill him, and Thrall fled after losing their fight.
• Murozond empowered Blackmoore to pursue his destiny, but Jaina escaped their confrontation and sent Thrall back to his people, where he turned toward capturing Orcs for food.
• Thrall seized the Silverpine Forest camp after Med'an’s toxin incapacitated its Orcs, tortured Moyan, and offered to spare a hundred Orcs who praised him loudest.

Illidan manipulated Akama, Maiev, and the time-traveling visitors while Mannoroth’s schemes drew the Horde and the Sha'tar into conflict. The arc ended with Voren'thal publicly forgiving Thrall and Rommath seeking his help to bring the Blood Elves into the Horde.

• Jaina freed Illidan from the Vault of the Wardens, and Illidan revealed that he had arranged the time travelers’ arrival and wanted their help defeating Thrall.
• Illidan sent Akama with Vandel to Rustwater Port, where Akama repeatedly betrayed Vandel under the Tauren spirit’s influence before Mannoroth claimed Akama’s torn soul for the Legion.
• Khadgar rescued Akama, but Akama secretly joined Mannoroth and helped Illidan lure Maiev and the Watchers into an ambush, where Illidan captured Maiev.
• Khadgar attacked Akama, but Kael'thas rescued him, and Robbie freed Kael'thas from the scarlet holy light that had controlled him and the Blood Elves.
• Kael'thas returned to Tempest Keep to free his followers, while Voren'thal tried to negotiate with Thrall and was brutally mutilated in Orgrimmar.
• Sylvanas proposed an alliance with Silvermoon, but M'uru urged Lor'themar, Liadrin, and Rommath to join Thrall’s Horde, and Lor'themar chose to do so.
• Mannoroth delivered Thrall’s severed head to the Sha'tar, and Voren'thal regained his sanity before publicly claiming that Thrall was merciful and kind.