Recaps

Thrall’s Horde and the Burning Legion’s allies besieged the Black Temple while Illidan uncovered Vandel’s challenge to his rule and ultimately fell to Maiev. The Orcs claimed Outland’s apparent victory, then entered Zangarmarsh, where their sacrifices fed Zang as Robbie prepared to awaken it.

• Velen and Rakeesh negotiated a division of territory with Thrall, while a surveillance crystal exposed their dealings and the Legion’s plans for the Black Temple.
• The Army of the Light and the Burning Legion launched a massive assault on Illidan’s temple, and millions of Orcs died as they broke through its defenses.
• Jaina brokered a deal with Rakeesh, who entered the Council Chamber and learned that Illidan had outmaneuvered the assembled forces with knowledge they lacked.
• Illidan sent Rakeesh away with a message for Kil'jaeden, then the adventurers and Akama opened the terrace and discovered that vengeful Orc spirits were draining Illidan’s life.
• Vandel revealed that Fel had driven Demon Hunters mad and offered to replace theirs, while Maiev killed Illidan and took his body to the Vault of the Wardens.
• Thrall claimed victory and sent a million Orcs toward Zangarmarsh, where Eitrigg and Gai Laya drove them through deadly hunger, disease, and battles against the Fungal Giants.
• Jaina explained that the Orc dead would nourish Zang, as Robbie led Krasus beneath the roots and announced that he would awaken it.

Robbie activated the Titan device beneath Zangarmarsh, leading to the destruction of Gai Laya’s Orc army and Eitrigg’s desperate choices. Meanwhile, Medivh and Thrall returned to threaten the kingdoms, while Chen Stormstout’s campaign against Thrall collapsed into a public movement that left Mela Highmountain confronting Blackhorn’s claims about Huln.

• Robbie and Krasus activated the Titan device beneath Zangarmarsh, which began modifying Fungal Giants after Robbie refused to uplift the Orcs.
• Gai Laya led the Orcs through a disastrous campaign, then escaped to Orgrimmar with Eitrigg, where she resolved to become like Thrall.
• At Thrall’s banquet, Jaina exposed his transformation and forced Eitrigg to choose between Thrall and Gai Laya, and Eitrigg killed Gai Laya before leaving Orgrimmar.
• Naruk Xil revived Thrall and recruited Magni Bronzebeard to help him unite the Orcs, while Medivh gained the Holy Light’s power and demanded land for the Orcs.
• Medivh failed to seize Stormwind and Ironforge, then joined Naruk Xil’s effort to restore Thrall as Azeroth’s leader.
• Chen Stormstout’s coalition captured Thrall, but protests and political pressure grew until Chen claimed Thrall’s identity and declared himself Chen Thrall Stormstout.
• Mela Highmountain sought guidance from Huln, who confirmed Thrall and Chen were the same person and told her to offer most of her people as Orc rations.
• Blackhorn brought Mela into Huln’s realm and demonstrated that its terrifying bones and cliff were illusions, then promised to bring Huln to her.

After the Horde’s rule over the Highmountain Tauren and Night Elves tightened, Chen Stormstout tried to strengthen his power with Ironblood Orcs and a manufactured Kobold religion. Osaid united the Kobolds, but Chen and Khadgar unleashed a Plague that devastated them, leaving Osaid underground and vowing revenge.

• Blackhorn revealed to Mela Highmountain that Huln Highmountain’s legend had been fabricated, but Gray Sky Highmountain arrested Blackhorn and Mela fled with spiritwalkers to Neltharion's Lair.
• Mela returned to Thunder Totem, killed General Leiti on false charges, and surrendered the Highmountain Tauren to Chen Stormstout, who established a slaughterhouse.
• Malfurion and Tyrande watched as Mela’s forces desecrated the Temple of the Moon and the Night Elves accepted a golden statue of Chen as Elune.
• Illidan offered to train a hundred Night Elf Demon Hunters, while Chen Stormstout pursued Ironblood Orcs and declared himself Emperor of Azeroth before learning the Orcs were unstable.
• Christina released millions of Kobolds across Durotar, and Thrall advised Chen Stormstout to install Big Candle Gagg as their king.
• Gagg used a staged prophecy and Holy Light teachings to unite the Kobold tribes, while Osaid became their emperor and secretly acquired rifles from Christina with Illidan’s help.
• Osaid armed and organized Kobolds across the Barrens and Mulgore, but Chen Stormstout and Khadgar released a Plague that turned Kobolds into Ghouls.
• Osaid watched the slaughter from underground, vowed revenge, and Test Subject 335 told him that surviving the sacrifice had made him a qualified king.

A chain of coups, plagues, and betrayals reshaped the Horde as Osaid, Rend Blackhand, and others struggled for power while the Tauren faced ruin. Rend, Velen, and Thrall entered a parallel world to find Naruk Xil, where Velen persuaded Aedelas Blackmoore to raise the infant Thrall as a future king and savior.

• Khadgar discovered that armed Kobolds had conquered Orgrimmar while Chen Stormstout slept, and Osaid withdrew after Magni Bronzebeard installed Eitrigg as Warchief.
• Robbie and Kel'Thuzad made Chen the New Scourge’s puppet leader, while Christina’s actions led Rom Wildtotem to take the Spear of Sorrow and unleash the Undead Legion against Thunder Bluff.
• Eitrigg imprisoned Thrall and used Peace Dove to turn public opinion against him, while Rom’s Tauren attacked Orgrimmar and the Army of the Light sought a way to purify them.
• Tyrande trapped the Emissary, Medivh, and Magni, then extorted treasure from them, and Velen agreed to sacrifice himself, but Medivh’s massacre of reporters ended with Naruk Xil taking him for judgment.
• MOTHER and Zakul joined the contest for Velen’s supposed fortune, while Rend Blackhand seized Orgrimmar and used Thrall to rally Lightforging Orcs against Rom’s Tauren.
• Rend and the other leaders tried to choose a Warchief in Ratchet, where Osaid briefly claimed the title before Naruk Xil intervened and was abducted by figures from the Timeways.
• Rend and Velen took Thrall to the Caverns of Time, and Anachronos led them through a portal into the parallel world created by Thrall’s invented history.
• The group watched Aedelas Blackmoore rescue infant Thrall, and Velen disguised himself as a priest to convince Blackmoore to raise him as a future king and savior.