Recaps

Thrall and Lor'themar manipulated the Blood Elves and Azeroth's adventurers to feed the Orcs, while Kael'thas and Sylvanas tried to stop them. After Sylvanas devastated the adventurers at Moonscar Valley, Eitrigg and Nathanos fought over Uther's soul, which Nathanos finally bound and pulled into a black vortex.

• Thrall's Orcs defeated the Blood Elf and Aldor forces at Tempest Keep, and Thrall killed M'uru before forcing Lor'themar to claim the Blood Elves were responsible for M'uru's fall.
• Thrall demanded Blood Elves as food, but Kael'thas destroyed the Orc army with Tempest Keep's Holy Light Railgun, and Osaid poisoned and beheaded Thrall.
• Lor'themar chose Thrall over M'uru, sacrificed thirty thousand Blood Elves to restore Thrall's body, then recruited adventurers into the Shattered Sun Offensive with the Legion's help.
• Thrall and Lor'themar trapped the adventurers in Moonscar Valley and planned to turn them into jerky, but Kael'thas exposed the plot and left them among the survivors.
• A vision of Elune turned the adventurers against Kael'thas, and Sylvanas bombarded the valley with plague, killing most of them and raising them as Forsaken.
• Thrall sent Eitrigg to capture Nathanos, who used Uther's soul against the Orcs until Eitrigg began merging with Uther and Sylvanas sought help from the Shadowlands.
• Sylvanas and Varimathras obtained a blessed banana peel that freed Uther from Tichondrius's curse, but Nathanos used another peel to bind Uther's soul and pull it into a black vortex.

Thrall and the Horde expanded their campaign in Outland through betrayal, mass sacrifice, and an attack by Vashj that ended with Thrall captured. Nobundo set out to rescue him and locate Durotan, reaching the Frostwolf’s home as signs of approaching visitors unsettled the household.

• Uther dragged Nathanos and himself into the Shadowlands, while Sylvanas learned from Varimathras that Illidan was close to the Jailer.
• Eitrigg urged Akama to seize Hellfire Citadel, and Nazgrel and Kargath turned adventurers into supplies and souls while advancing their plans in Hellfire Peninsula.
• Jaina and the fake Illidari Council tried to take the Fountain of Living Water, but Magtheridon emerged and later lost track of the relic after the Alliance captured it.
• Kael'thas disrupted Shattrath’s celebration, where Liadrin’s sacrifices summoned Murmur, before A'dal defeated the attackers and Thrall’s forces claimed victories in Outland.
• Kargath worked with Illidan to free Magtheridon, but Magtheridon broke Kargath’s attempt to bind him and took him to the Void World to discuss the vanished Draenei vanguard.
• Nazgrel sent one hundred thousand adventurers to their deaths, and Vashj’s Naga later captured Thrall and the Horde leaders while taking the Cenarion Expedition prisoner.
• Thrall survived as a disguised Orc overseer in the Slave Pens, while Nobundo agreed to rescue him and recruited adventurers with Muen Earthfury’s support.
• After Orc riders killed the hired adventurers, Nobundo used the Holy Light to find Durotan in Nagrand and arrived at his home, where Durotan did not recognize him.

The search for Thrall exposed Gudan’s identity and drew the Lower City bosses, the Mag'har Orcs, and the Burning Legion into a struggle over the Node Key. The key proved to be a fake, and Elune sent moonlight toward Coilfang Reservoir after learning Thrall was imprisoned beneath the ice.

• Durotan and Draka resisted the Earthen Ring’s blood ritual, but Miu'en and Nobundo captured them and traced Thrall’s bloodline to Coilfang Reservoir.
• Gudan revealed that he was Durotan and Draka’s son, while Durotan admitted he had rejected Gudan and disclosed that Draka’s other twin might have been taken to Karazhan.
• Saurfang the Great presented a fake Thrall to lure adventurers into a deadly trap at Coilfang Reservoir, while the real Thrall fought among the Orcs and Vashj kept him under guard.
• Thrall escaped through a blood teleport, confronted Durotan and Draka, and was forced by Vashj to retrieve the Node Key from the Mana-Tombs while carrying a Snake Gu.
• Akama and the Lower City bosses won Greatmother Geyah’s aid, but Grommash Hellscream led the Mag'har Orcs into the Mana-Tombs, where a hundred thousand Orcs died clearing the Node Key’s defenses.
• Gudan arrived at the Mana-Tombs, fought off the forces seeking the Node Key, and left it to the Lower City bosses before departing with the Burning Legion.
• Thrall took the Node Key from Vol'jin and ordered the Lower City bosses killed, but Lurky identified the key as a fake and Vashj sent Thrall and Vol'jin beneath the ice.
• Elune rejected Gudan as a replacement for Thrall, learned that Illidan would not rescue him, and sent a beam of moonlight toward Coilfang Reservoir.

Vol'jin and Cairne Bloodhoof sought the Eye of Anzu, while Griftah guided them through Terokk's trials and a bloody battle that ended the curse in Sethekk Valley. As Thrall maneuvered to seize the Moon Goddess's shard, Lor'themar and the Illidari pursued separate leads that brought them to a strange world and Mr. Bigglesworth's revelations about the Titans.

• Robbie stole a fragment of the Moon Goddess's Hand and escaped to Shadowmoon Valley, while Thrall began searching for the Eye of Anzu and sent Vol'jin and Cairne Bloodhoof to find it.
• Griftah led Vol'jin and Cairne through Skettis, where they survived Terokk's deadly banquet and accepted Bastion's covenant to become gods of death.
• Vol'jin recruited Gorkan Bloodfist's Mag'har Orcs to enter Sethekk Valley, where their deaths weakened Sethe's curse and Terokk returned as A'dal, Anzu, Sethe, and Rukhmar fought.
• Robbie threw the Moon Goddess's shard into Sethekk Valley, petrifying Sethe and stopping the curse, while Vol'jin's party escaped to Shattrath City and forged a fake Eye of Anzu.
• Thrall sent Eitrigg to retrieve the shard from Alassel Sunwatcher, but Mannoroth revealed Eitrigg had sold Alassel a fake fragment and gave Lor'themar a map to Mardum's Abyss.
• Lor'themar and Rommath secured Akama's help in delivering Mannoroth's map to Illidan, and Vandel's Illidari followed it through a portal to a world where nature and energy seemed bound by a powerful Order.
• Mr. Bigglesworth led Vandel to a museum of invaders and showed him visions of Aman'Thul causing Azeroth's Sundering, the Titans teaching Night Elves to use Fel, and the cats' arrival before the Draenei amid disorder in space and time.