Recaps

Robbie uncovered Varian’s plans to aid the Warsong Clan and helped Onyxia and VanCleef prepare to resist him. In another timeline, Jaina tried to reach Varian and build support against the Scourge, while Stormwind’s factions maneuvered around her.

• Robbie and Kel'Thuzad realized Vol'jin had kept Thrall alive with Troll gods’ aid, then stayed silent as Varian demanded vengeance over Anduin’s supposed death.
• Udir blamed Yrel and the Draenei for Anduin’s death, prompting Varian to declare war, while Robbie learned Stormwind was too depleted to field the army it claimed to have.
• Vanessa revealed that Anduin’s soul survived in a life crystal and planned to restore him as a puppet ruler, but a black cat drew Robbie into a different Timeline.
• Robbie followed Margaret through Stormwind’s Orc-loving cult and noble circles, then learned that Earl Agramande was Edwin VanCleef and that Varian intended to give Westfall to the Warsong Clan.
• Robbie warned Onyxia that Varian planned to make her a scapegoat, and she allied with VanCleef against him, and Robbie then confronted Varian, who admitted he planned to aid the Orcs and accept human sacrifices.
• VanCleef, Onyxia, and Robbie planned to build resistance in Westfall, and Robbie recognized their proposed People’s Militia as the beginnings of the Defias Brotherhood.
• In year 24 of the Dark Portal, Jaina traveled to Stormwind to seek peace, but Onyxia blocked her access to Varian and arranged for her to be distracted by a welcome ball.
• Jaina learned that Thrall planned to make the Alliance bear the brunt of the coming war, failed to persuade Bolvar to negotiate, and then rejected Windsor’s offer to become queen while urging him to trust Varian against the Scourge.

Jaina tried to force an Alliance-Horde peace by manipulating Varian and Anduin, but Bolvar turned Varian against the Horde and Jaina’s plans unraveled. After a confrontation with Anveena, the group reached Theramore, where Aegwynn revealed a hidden history of demons, humans, and the Orcs while Robbie uncovered a mysterious Holy Light Rune.

• Jaina recruited Marshal Windsor into her plan to abduct Varian, but Robbie and his allies substituted Experiment 335, whose proposal to Jaina ended the kidnapping attempt.
• Jaina tried to influence Anduin into persuading Varian to negotiate with Thrall, and Anduin’s conversations with Orc prisoners convinced him that they wanted peace.
• Varian rejected Anduin’s plea and later accepted Bolvar’s claim that the Heavenly Dao required the Orcs’ destruction, while Jaina’s curse on Varian’s lovers led him to confront her over a letter and remedy.
• The Black Dragon Princess and her allies used Experiment 335 as a decoy Varian, and Jaina brought him to Theramore aboard the Sea's Sovereignty.
• Jaina faced Anveena on an iceberg, then returned to Theramore and told Aegwynn about their encounter.
• Experiment 335 explored Theramore’s poor defenses, while Robbie criticized the missing building supplies and Jaina defended her peace with the Orcs at dinner.
• Aegwynn showed Robbie and Jaina her vault of preserved demon heads, explained that demons could show humanity, and revealed her account of the Burning Legion’s shifting support between humans and Orcs.
• Robbie recognized Aegwynn’s stone tablet as the seventeenth Holy Light Rune, received it from her, and began studying it after putting the drunken Experiment 335 to bed.

Robbie and Vanessa’s plan to turn the peace talks into a gathering of hostile factions spiraled into a battle that ended with Agamaggan’s death and Thrall’s abduction. Jaina and Garona then maneuvered Anduin and Varian toward a rescue, while Uther revealed the Holy Book’s location.

• Robbie fused the seventeenth Holy Light Rune with the Rune of the Dead, creating the Eye of C'Thun, and used it to spy on Aegwynn and Jaina as they discussed Varian’s impostor and the peace talks.
• Jaina used Rexxar’s captivity to obtain Shalla'tor, while Robbie and Vanessa killed Rexxar, recovered Ellemayne, and began plotting to involve rival factions in the negotiations.
• At the Shadebough Inn, Experiment 335 confronted Thrall, who demanded human territory and tried to recruit him with promises of eternal life, before a bomb planted by Robbie and Vanessa exploded.
• The negotiations erupted into a multi-sided battle as the Grimtotem, Quilboar, Kolkar Centaurs, Ogres, Naga, and Orcs joined the fray, and Varimathras’s plague weakened the Horde forces.
• Aegwynn defeated Agamaggan after he revealed his allegiance to the Old Gods, but Cho'gall escaped with the wounded Thrall while Aegwynn and Jaina returned to Theramore.
• Jaina recruited Garona to help retrieve Thrall from the Ogre gathering, and Garona persuaded Anduin that he needed the Holy Book at Northshire Abbey to gain power and become king.
• Uther told Jaina that the Holy Book was at Northshire Abbey, then adopted the identity of Little Sister Pamela, while Cho'gall proposed an alliance to the Black Dragon Princess and Anduin confronted Varian over rescuing Thrall.

Varian’s attempt to rescue Thrall ended in betrayal, while Sylvanas gathered resurrected Orc champions and attacked Karazhan. As the battle fractured its defenders, Robbie and Vanessa searched the tower for the true Book of Medivh.

• Varian marched on Cho'gall’s stronghold, but after reaching Thrall’s prison, he crossed to the Orcs’ side and proposed a bargain before Garona killed him and Jaina installed a prepared replacement king.
• Robbie and Vanessa learned that the Burning Legion’s apparent defeat would leave Azeroth vulnerable, while Sylvanas resurrected Grom Hellscream and Antonidas and captured Thrall, Saurfang, and Garrosh’s souls.
• Sylvanas bound the three Orc leaders in prepared bodies and sent Varian to collect Anduin’s soul, but Varian discovered that Stormwind’s nobles and soldiers had turned against him.
• Sylvanas attacked Karazhan with plague and resurrected champions, but its defenders resisted until the divine envoy broke the Magic Shield and Sylvanas revealed Gul'dan as the tower’s commander.
• Vanessa and the Brotherhood confined Varian and foiled Sylvanas’s attempt to resurrect Light Anduin, while Robbie and Vanessa slipped into Karazhan as Undead Vrykul joined the battle.
• Gul'dan manipulated Cairne with memories and a false promise of forgiveness, and Cairne turned his rune spear toward the approaching Thrall.
• Thrall entered the Death Realm and saw Arthas Menethil above a host of immortal beings, while Robbie and Vanessa searched Karazhan and encountered an illusion of Aegwynn holding a captive who warned her about Queen Azshara.