Recaps

Illidan’s campaign against the Scourge drew together the Legion, Forsaken, Blood Elves, and other forces, while Thrall’s flight led him through captivity and back to power. The arc left Kul Tiras facing Aegwynn’s threat and Admiral Daelin seeking the Scourge’s help to preserve his people’s souls.

• Elune set Tyrande and Maiev against Illidan, while Tyrande secured Orcs from Bolvar and moved to take Dalaran.
• Tyrande allied secretly with Sylvanas after surviving the Forsaken ambush, while Malfurion tried to keep Illidan from disrupting her plans.
• Illidan, Kael'thas, and Vashj traveled to Outland, where Illidan created Fel Orcs, captured the Black Temple, and formed the Illidari.
• Sylvanas joined the Legion’s campaign against Arthas, and Illidan led an allied army through Northrend before Robbie warned him that he would fall in the Black Temple.
• Thrall escaped Northwatch Hold with Rexxar and Renekton, but Mogmorlok captured the group and used Damage Transfer to force Thrall to protect Brackenwall Village.
• Thrall reached Theramore, where Aegwynn revealed her plan to destroy Kul Tiras and ordered him to prepare the Orcs for war.
• Jaina sought allies for Kul Tiras, while Thrall returned to power in Orgrimmar and learned the Zandalari had sent a huge force of Trolls as provisions.
• Robbie met Admiral Daelin, who asked the Scourge to preserve Kul Tiras’s souls so its people could defend their country after death.

Thrall used deception, forbidden magic, and captured powers to fight Kul Tiras, while Jaina’s betrayal and Daelin’s final assault ended the war. After Thrall turned against his celebrated heroes, Robbie and Murozond looked ahead to Northrend as Tirion sought Sylvanas’s help against Arthas.

• Thrall staged coastal massacres to blame Kul Tiras, then sent Chen Stormstout, Rokhan, Rexxar, and Rok'ton against Daelin’s fleet, but Robbie’s Forge of Souls disrupted their transformations and Thrall replaced Chen Stormstout.
• Daelin’s Tidesages raised a wave that destroyed Orgrimmar, but Aegwynn forced Nozdormu to reverse time and restore the city before Thrall tried to enslave Neptulon with Fel magic.
• Neptulon escaped the spell by destroying most of his core, while Thrall captured Nozdormu with Jaina’s help and tortured him until Murozond emerged from his mind.
• Daelin’s fleet returned to attack Orgrimmar, but the four Titan Keepers intervened and were assaulted by a corrupted future version of Thrall before Murozond sent the monster away.
• Elune drowned Cairne Bloodhoof’s Tauren and Jaina confronted Daelin aboard the Sea's Sovereignty, revealing her intention to join the Burning Legion and using Horde soldiers to awaken the ship’s corruption.
• After the Sea's Sovereignty consumed Marcus, Jaina declared Daelin dead and brought the war to an end, while Thrall later ordered Rexxar and Rok'ton’s beasts slaughtered and Rexxar betrayed Rok'ton to survive.
• Thrall had Rexxar beaten after he admitted Daelin was alive, then gave him and Misha to Jaina, and meanwhile Doras recruited Saurfang to plot against Thrall, and Robbie prepared to travel five years ahead toward Northrend.
• Murozond warned Robbie that Arthas would need to resurrect Thrall, while Tirion asked Sylvanas to help assemble the Argent Dawn and Alliance adventurers against Arthas.

Jaina tried to restore Varian and reclaim Stormwind while Thrall and Sylvanas pursued their own plans, and Robbie maneuvered events to draw the Scourge toward Elune’s power. The search for the Scythe of Elune brought Jaina and Kalecgos to Raven Hill, where Kites offered information about it.

• Tirion Fordring asked Sylvanas to resurrect his children as Forsaken, while Thrall faced famine and agreed to use an arena to draw adventurers to Northrend.
• Arthas explained to Robbie that the Scourge had less than a year on Azeroth and planned to use Elune’s power to restore the Undead, while Robbie suggested involving Tirion Fordring.
• Jaina brought Varian into Stormwind’s struggle and recruited prisoners to rescue Marshal Windsor, but her plan led to her capture by Emperor Thaurissan and Varian’s apparent death at the hands of Tagar’s group.
• Jaina rescued Windsor and returned him to Stormwind, where he used Dark Illusion Magic to convince guards to kill his own family before Onyxia drove him out of the city.
• Jaina sought Meryl Winterstorm’s help to resurrect Varian, then pursued Remulos’s lead that the Scythe of Elune could restore him through the combined work of an Archdruid and a necromancer.
• Tirion Fordring and Darion staged a confrontation at Light’s Hope Chapel, but Eitrigg exposed Darion’s schemes and forced him to send Tirion out with the purified Ashbringer.
• Antonidas found Varian’s soul in a cave haunted by restless spirits and captured it in a crystal ball after agreeing to serve C’Thun in the distant future.
• Sylvanas planned to use Varian’s soul to control Stormwind, while Jaina learned Sylvanas had it and set out with Kalecgos to find the Scythe of Elune in Duskwood.

Jaina and her allies maneuvered around the Scythe of Elune, the Old Gods, and competing claims to Stormwind’s throne. Kites became king after a fabricated dragon-slaying, while Agna’s mission to win him over began in an unexpected way.

• Jaina investigated Roland’s Doom and uncovered clues to a supposed Sixth Old God, while Robbie planted false evidence for C’Thun and helped Meryl deceive her.
• Jaina tried to resurrect Varian, but Kites sabotaged the spell, and Sylvanas offered Varian’s soul in exchange for Kites.
• At Mount Hyjal, Kites accepted Lo’gosh’s blessing and a pact to conquer Orgrimmar, while Sylvanas arranged for the real Varian to be resurrected and sent to Stormwind.
• Varian negotiated with Thrall to join the Horde, while Jaina gathered allies and Kites allied with Garrosh against Thrall and Jaina.
• A Black Dragon kidnapped Anduin, and the kings agreed to compete to kill the Black Dragon Princess, while Tirion planned to substitute Chromaggus’s head.
• Valeera and Broll betrayed Varian, and Griftah fused his body with a dragon’s head, and Kites then took Anduin to Booty Bay and claimed the throne after a fabricated victory over Onyxia.
• Thrall sent Agna to seduce Kites, who sought to root out the Peace Dove, but he fell in love with Agna after she collapsed on him while singing.