Recaps

Khadgar and his allies assembled forces for the Broken Shore, where Aman'Thul seized control and transported the survivors to Argus. Robbie uncovered the Moon Goddess’s schemes, intervened in Archimonde’s past, and began helping Arthas prepare the Scourge for war.

• Khadgar persuaded Xe'ra and Velen to rally Azeroth against the Burning Legion, while Varian secretly learned that Illidan had caused the Broken Isles’ massacres and decided to seek power through the campaign.
• Greymane recruited Varian to command a ragtag army at the Tomb of Sargeras, while Khadgar won Sylvanas’s support by promising her an immortal Highborne body.
• Sylvanas and Varian arrived at the Broken Shore, where Aman'Thul’s forces and the Iron Horde joined the battle, and Aman'Thul killed Varian when he refused to lead the Alliance charge.
• Alliance and Horde troops attacked the Tomb of Sargeras in repeated waves, weakening its demons through their deaths, until Grosse broke into the pyramid and unleashed a Death Wraith.
• Aman'Thul took the Tomb of Sargeras and used the Key to the Worlds and Eye of Aman'Thul to bring Argus near Azeroth, transporting the Broken Shore’s survivors there as the Iron Horde rebelled.
• Greymane seized Lordaeron while Tyrande killed Sylvanas, then Tyrande and Malfurion’s trap led Rakeesh to trigger Teldrassil’s destruction and take control of the Draenei by turning them against O’ros and the Naaru.
• Robbie and Black Cat searched Dalaran’s archives and the Explorers’ League vault, where Magni Bronzebeard’s diary revealed the Moon Goddess’s guardianship of the World Trees and Robbie recognized her supposed envoy.
• Robbie returned to Archimonde’s assault on Dalaran and used Scourge power to hold Archimonde off, then withdrew with Arthas as the Legion enslaved the Orcs and prepared to use them against the Night Elves.
• Arthas and Kel'Thuzad discussed the Scourge’s failures with Robbie, who began explaining how the Undead were sustained by death magic.

Robbie worked to shape the Darkspear Tribe’s choices as Vol'jin turned against Sen'jin and brought the Orcs into conflict with the Murlocs. Thrall’s invasion devastated the Tauren, but Daelin’s fleet trapped the Dragonblood Orcs among hidden reefs, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Robbie linked fifty thousand Scourge soldiers’ minds to teach them magic while Magni secretly swapped Mograine’s Rizebu Crystal and helped forge Ashbringer.
• Varimathras failed to recruit Feisila, then infiltrated the Darkspear Tribe and tried to manipulate Sen'jin into supporting the Burning Legion.
• Robbie met Vol'jin, who accepted Bwonsamdi’s help and began building support to replace Sen'jin and ally with the Orcs.
• Vol'jin and Rokhan arranged to frame Sen'jin for an attack on Tide Lord Feralas, but Feralas escaped the trap and the Darkspear killed the Murloc nobles.
• Thrall took the Darkspear surrender and sailed for the Echo Isles, but Feralas’s storm sank ships and cost the Orcs thirty thousand Dragonblood soldiers.
• Thrall’s forces ravaged Highmountain, while Robbie persuaded Daelin to fight the Orcs by offering to disrupt the Dragonkin’s flight magic.
• Daelin rejected Thrall’s challenge and fired on the Orc fleet, driving it toward hidden reefs as Vaelastrasz warned the Red Dragon Queen that the Dragonblood Orcs were in grave danger.

Thrall and the Burning Legion destroyed the Darkspear Tribe while Sen'jin and Vol'jin were caught in Bwonsamdi’s contest, and a new soul took possession of Vol'jin’s body. Thrall then plotted to use Chen Stormstout to secure Pandaria’s sea turtles, but Robbie exposed the Orcs’ crimes to Chen, who overheard Thrall’s plans.

• Alexstrasza sent Red Dragons to rescue Thrall, but Daelin’s Silver Necklace drew them into a deadly sea trap, and a Dragon-Orc Corpse Ship emerged from the wreckage.
• The Burning Legion and Scourge fought a costly war until Archimonde withdrew his exhausted forces behind Dalaran’s shield, while Thrall’s Orcs massacred Darkspear Trolls.
• Thrall manipulated Rokhan and Vol'jin into helping him destroy Sen'jin’s tribe, and Sen'jin returned through the Portal to reclaim the Royal Palace as plague spread among the Trolls.
• Thrall’s Orcs used the Kukan Family’s secret passage to breach the palace and slaughter the Darkspear, while Vol'jin and Rokhan formed a new tribe and Sen'jin revealed he was Vol'jin’s father.
• Bwonsamdi orchestrated a contest between Sen'jin and Vol'jin’s souls, and a dark new soul entered Vol'jin’s body and killed Sen'jin.
• With the Burning Legion turning on the Orcs, Thrall sought a route to Kalimdor and planned to use Chen Stormstout to obtain Pandaria’s giant turtles as transport and provisions.
• Thrall and Vol'jin convinced Chen that the Orcs were worthy of his trust, and Chen agreed to write letters asking the Turtle Island masters to lend their turtles.
• Robbie showed Chen the Orcs’ attacks on Trolls and the remains of Darkspear victims, then Chen overheard Thrall and Vol'jin discussing plans to use him to get twelve sea turtles.

Thrall’s Orcs tried to conquer Rag City and recruit Kalimdor’s powers, while Garrosh and Doras formed an alliance that threatened Thrall’s plans. After Tyrande rejected their warning, Elune sent a divine envoy to Darnassus to secure cooperation against the Troggs.

• Thrall and Vol'jin manipulated Chen Stormstout, used him to gather Pandaren, and tortured him with the deaths of his people and the apparent murder of his family, but Nomi rescued Chen and revealed that his family was safe.
• Nomi explained the Legion’s plans to use Orcs as food, then examined the Scourge and described how it divided scraps of souls among its soldiers.
• Robbie discovered that Experiment 335 had built Rag City into a powerful Trogg stronghold, and the Troggs’ volley fire repelled two Orc attacks.
• Experiment 335 allied with Lord and Lady Ashvane, while Thrall sought help from Jaina and then turned to Doras to win Night Elf support.
• Garrosh joined Thrall’s forces, learned from Saurfang that Thrall had manipulated him, and agreed to work against Thrall while pursuing his own plans with Doras.
• Garrosh killed a false Queen Doras and her consorts, but the real Doras offered to help him depose Thrall and rescue Grom Hellscream in exchange for his protection as Warchief.
• Doras, Garrosh, and Vol'jin failed to persuade Tyrande to oppose the Troggs, so Elune awakened a divine envoy and sent him to Darnassus.
• The envoy disguised himself as an Orc, defeated Garrosh, revealed that he served Elune, and gained Vol'jin and Doras’s pledges of service.