Chapter Summaries

Sylvanas returned to Silvermoon City and warned Elf King Anasterian that the Orcs could destroy the city, but he refused to act without further consultation. She sent Lor'themar Theron and most of the rangers to hidden shelters, leaving the city's fate uncertain.

• After the Scourge withdrew, Sylvanas told Lor'themar Theron to lead most of the rangers to hidden shelters while she returned to Silvermoon City.
• Sylvanas's warning spread through Silvermoon City and forced Anasterian to summon her.
• Sylvanas urged Anasterian to destroy the Orcs before they could threaten the city, citing Lordaeron's destruction.
• Anasterian said the weakened Orcs posed little danger, ordered Sylvanas not to act without permission, and decided to consult others and question Medivh.
• Sylvanas left in despair, fearing Silvermoon City would suffer the same fate as Lordaeron.

Medivh reassured Anasterian that Silvermoon City was safe and persuaded him to stop the rumors, while Arthas's Scourge bypassed the city and laid siege to the Sunwell Plateau. The Scourge struggled against the Sunwell's defenses until an Elf lord arrived, offering a possible turning point.

• Medivh personally helped build a teleportation array in Silvermoon City and secretly resolved to seize Arthas's power, Frostmourne, and the Scourge.
• Medivh explained the array's purpose to Anasterian, promised the Orcs would obtain provisions by fighting the Tauren, and eased the Elf King's fears.
• Anasterian returned to the palace and ordered the rumor-spreaders punished; Thrall apologized after Orcs killed several Elves for food, and Anasterian accepted his apology.
• As the Scourge approached Silvermoon City, Anasterian, Sylvanas Windrunner, Thrall, and the Orc commanders watched it bypass the city and cross toward Quel'Danas.
• The Scourge failed to penetrate the Sunwell Plateau's magical barrier, so Kel'Thuzad told Arthas they could build an army of Undead mages from the surrounding Arcane energy.
• Kel'Thuzad's efforts to break the barrier made little progress until an Elf lord arrived.

Dar'Khan Drathir gave Arthas the Sunwell shield's parameters after testing his intentions, allowing the Scourge to break through the defenses. At the Sunwell, Arthas and Robbie felt its magic awaken something within them.

• Dar'Khan told Arthas he had come with the Sunwell shield's parameters and tested him by questioning his intentions toward the Sunwell and the Orcs.
• Dar'Khan revealed that he had drunk a Plague Potion, then gave Kel'Thuzad the shield parameters because he trusted Arthas to drive the Orcs away.
• Kel'Thuzad calculated the shield's weak points, and the Scourge's catapults brought the Sunwell's defenses down after hours of bombardment.
• The Scourge sent the Sunwell's guards to a prisoner camp, while Dar'Khan, now Undead, urged Arthas to spare the Sunwell and keep his promise to destroy the Orcs.
• Arthas and Robbie reached the Sunwell and felt its magic resonate with something within them.

Robbie studied the Sunwell’s magic and learned to pass through Silvermoon City’s shield, then visited Sylvanas to give her a Plague Potion and discuss the Orcs. He learned that Medivh had exposed the Scourge’s bluff and that the Elf king had changed the shield’s parameters, while Sylvanas began to question whether the Orcs might truly be Azeroth’s saviors.

• Robbie studied the Sunwell’s magical patterns and used them to learn how to pass through Silvermoon City’s shield.
• Robbie entered Silvermoon City disguised as a High Elf and learned that the Sunwell’s fall had sparked protests against the Elf king’s protection of the Orcs.
• Robbie sneaked into Sylvanas’s residence and learned that Medivh had persuaded the Elf king by seeing through the Scourge’s bluff.
• Robbie gave Sylvanas a Plague Potion for use against the Orcs, but she explained that their food and water were now guarded by the Elf king’s trusted confidants.
• Sylvanas told Robbie that the Elf king had changed the shield’s parameters and admitted she had begun to wonder whether Medivh was right about the Orcs being Azeroth’s saviors.

Robbie debated Sylvanas’s views on the Night Elves and war before she left with the Plague Potion to seek Kael'thas’s help. Kael'thas returned to Silvermoon, angered his father with his careless opinion on the Orcs, and then received a secret visit from Sylvanas.

• Robbie disagreed with Sylvanas’s confidence that the Orcs could force Azeroth’s peoples to become stronger, then said goodbye to her as she left with the Plague Potion.
• Kael'thas fell in love with Lisa in Darkshire, followed her to Lakeshire, and discovered that nobody there knew of her.
• Kael'thas returned to Dalaran, fell passionately in love with Jaina, and went with her to Silvermoon after receiving his father’s summons about the Scourge.
• King Anasterian asked Kael'thas how to deal with the Orcs, and Kael'thas said they should be killed because they were ugly.
• Anasterian angrily ordered Kael'thas out of the palace, and Kael'thas found Sylvanas waiting in his room.
• Sylvanas mocked Kael'thas for remaining a prince, and he asked whether she had come only to mock him.

Sylvanas persuaded Kael'thas to use a plague potion against the Orcs in Silvermoon City, but his plan was exposed and Jaina's betrayal left him disgraced. Anasterian spared Kael'thas from execution and sent him to retake the Sunwell Plateau from the Undead Scourge.

• Kael'thas concealed his ambition to avoid threatening Anasterian, but Sylvanas saw through his carefree-ladies'-man act.
• Sylvanas urged Kael'thas to seize the chance to replace his father, suggesting he use Arthas's Frostmourne against Flamestrike and giving him a plague potion to target the Orcs.
• Kael'thas sought Jaina's advice, and she urged him to persuade Anasterian to kill the Orcs.
• Anasterian summoned Kael'thas and revealed the Plague Potion with Thrall and Medivh present; Jaina sided with Medivh, exposing Kael'thas's plot.
• Anasterian condemned Kael'thas's actions but spared him, ordering him to retake the Sunwell Plateau from the Undead Scourge or die trying.

The Scourge’s attempt to revive Invincible with the Sunwell transformed him into an undead magical creature, while Arthas sent Robbie to learn what Kael'thas knew. Robbie heard of Kael'thas’s infatuation with a woman named Lisa and learned that Kael'thas had obtained the data on Silvermoon City's magical shield and planned revenge on Jaina and Thrall.

• Six Liches used the Sunwell’s power to transform Invincible, but the spell did not bring him back to life.
• Arthas comforted Kel'Thuzad and his Liches, then asked Robbie to speak with Kael'thas about Jaina.
• Kael'thas eagerly asked Robbie whether he knew Lisa, a woman he had met in Darkshire and fallen for.
• Robbie suggested that Lisa might have used a false Lakeshire identity, and Kael'thas regained his confidence.
• Kael'thas dismissed his former feelings for Jaina, revealed that he had Silvermoon City's magical-shield data, and vowed to take revenge on Jaina and Thrall.

Kel'Thuzad discovered that Medivh's magic had weakened Silvermoon City's barrier, and the Scourge attacked the city and the Orcs camped outside it. Arthas and Robbie led the assault as the Orcs collapsed, but Robbie feared the massacre might not be the only danger that night.

• Kel'Thuzad found that Medivh's magic had drastically weakened Silvermoon City's barrier, and Arthas ordered the Scourge to attack the Orcs.
• Robbie wondered whether the Scourge's victory would change history as Toki and Medivh had described time.
• Anasterian walked through Silvermoon City, reassured a little girl about the Orcs, and learned that the Scourge was attacking.
• After the Scourge's catapults broke the barrier and breached the wall, Arthas and Robbie charged into the city.
• The Scourge overwhelmed the Orcs, while Robbie grew more uneasy as he watched Arthas fight.

Arthas’s Scourge routed the Orc army at Silvermoon City, but Thrall and the Orc leaders escaped. Medivh summoned Nozdormu, who invented a bizarre future in which the Orcs saved Azeroth, and Medivh ordered the Bronze Dragonflight to act.

• Arthas slaughtered the Orcs at Silvermoon City while searching in vain for Thrall, Grom Hellscream, High Overlord Saurfang, and Eitrigg.
• Medivh and Jaina watched the Scourge’s victory from above the clouds as Nozdormu arrived in response to Medivh’s summons.
• Medivh demanded that Nozdormu explain why the Orcs’ supposed future had not come to pass, and Nozdormu reluctantly described a fabricated, absurd prophecy of the Orcs saving Azeroth.
• Medivh accepted Nozdormu’s account and told him it was time for the Bronze Dragonflight to act.

Nozdormu realized the Orcs’ imminent extinction created a temporal paradox and attacked Medivh, hoping to exploit the Sands of Time. Medivh escaped Nozdormu’s stomach and fought back, but Nozdormu summoned undead warriors through a golden portal, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Nozdormu recognized that the Orcs’ certain future role contradicted their impending destruction and concluded that the Sands of Time had appeared.
• Nozdormu pretended to offer Medivh a plan, then transformed into a dragon and swallowed him.
• Nozdormu spat Medivh out and attacked with his time-corrupting breath, while Medivh used an Arcane orb and Demon Puppet to injure him.
• Nozdormu used Time Reversal to erase his injuries and summoned an undead Tauren, Draenei, and High Elf to attack Medivh.
• Medivh shattered the Tauren, blocked the Draenei’s dark energy, and faced the High Elf’s arrow as he declared the battle interesting.

Nozdormu summoned a monstrous future version of Thrall to confront Medivh, but Medivh escaped by turning Nozdormu into a sheep and destroying the portal. Medivh survived, while the battle in Silvermoon City neared its end and he chose not to rescue the hidden Thrall.

• Medivh destroyed the summoned images of Cairne Bloodhoof, Prophet Velen, and the unnamed High Elf as Nozdormu described their possible tragic futures.
• Nozdormu summoned Thrall Azeroth, a future Orc who had devoured the Elemental Lords and threatened to destroy Azeroth, and the giant Orc swallowed Jaina.
• Thrall Azeroth crushed Medivh's demon portals, devoured the demons, and seized Medivh while Nozdormu said a judge had witnessed Medivh's crimes.
• Medivh cast Polymorph on Nozdormu, turning him into a sheep and forcing Thrall Azeroth to shrink back into the golden portal.
• Medivh destroyed the portal and killed Nozdormu, who said the Sands of Time would bring him back and make Medivh forget what happened.
• As the battle in Silvermoon City neared its end, Medivh knew where Thrall was hiding but chose not to rescue him.

After the Scourge defeated the Orcs at Silvermoon City, Arthas executed their leaders and found that revenge brought him little satisfaction. The Scourge then withdrew after Arthas assured the Elves that Humans and Elves would remain allies, while the Elven King chastised Kael'thas for trusting him.

• Robbie told Arthas that Thrall and the Orc commanders had fled into Silvermoon City's sewers, and the Scourge forced them to surrender.
• Arthas ordered the captured Orcs, including Thrall and High Overlord Saurfang, killed, then questioned whether this was the revenge he had wanted.
• The Elven King blamed Kael'thas for helping the Scourge and ordered Sylvanas arrested so he could hand her over to Arthas.
• The Elven King learned that Sylvanas had disappeared and that the Scourge had withdrawn, leaving a letter promising that Humans and Elves would always be allies.
• The Elven King told Kael'thas that he had allied with Medivh because Medivh was ruthless, and insisted that survival required bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

Robbie watched the world collapse into the Sands of Time and saw Nozdormu emerge as Azeroth was reborn. He returned to the time before the war at Silvermoon City, where the Elven Prince was plotting against Jaina and Thrall.

• Arthas told Robbie he would visit his father and Uther, and planned to resurrect Mograine as a Scourge general to atone for his crimes.
• Arthas offered to replace Robbie’s damaged Holy Light Codex, saying he remembered all thirty-six runes and would send it to the Capor home in Lakeshire.
• Arthas shattered, and Robbie watched the Scourge and the entire world dissolve into specks of light in the desert of time.
• Robbie saw ancient ruined cities and the Old Gods C'Thun and Yogg-Saron among the fragments of history.
• Nozdormu emerged as the world reformed, recognized the Sands of Time, and flew away to find his place in the timeline.
• Robbie returned to the time before the war at Silvermoon City and heard the Elven Prince boast of his plans to defeat the Orcs and capture Thrall.

The Elven King changed Silvermoon City's magic barrier data after realizing Kael'thas might have betrayed it, forcing the Scourge to obtain the new information. Robbie secured the data from Solarian, but Medivh's Void teleportation array activated, and Robbie warned her that Orcs might attack before the Scourge could stop them.

• The Elven King ordered Belo'vir Salanar and Solarian to change Silvermoon City's magic barrier data each day.
• Kel'Thuzad learned the barrier data had changed, and Kael'thas revealed that Solarian was his secret ally.
• Robbie volunteered to retrieve the new data while Arthas prepared the Scourge to approach Silvermoon City.
• Robbie entered the city disguised as a Blood Elf and persuaded Solarian to give him the barrier data.
• The Void teleportation array activated, and Robbie warned Solarian to flee and watch for the Orcs.

Medivh’s spell, Queen Azshara’s Curse, weakened the High Elves of Silvermoon City and enabled the Orcs to seize the city and kill Elf King Anasterian. Medivh planned to blame the Scourge, but Anasterian’s last hope rested on a little girl untouched by Mana Addiction.

• Thrall rallied the Orcs with promises of feasting on Silvermoon’s people as they prepared to attack the city.
• Grand Astromancer Solarian led trusted subordinates out of Silvermoon City and recognized that a strange magic was awakening.
• Queen Azshara’s Curse struck Silvermoon City, leaving the High Elves helpless with Mana Addiction, and High Overlord Saurfang killed Anasterian in a sneak attack.
• Thrall devoured Anasterian while Medivh revealed his plan to blame Arthas and the Scourge for Silvermoon’s destruction.
• Anasterian cursed Medivh and noticed that a little girl nearby was unaffected by Mana Addiction, seeing her as the High Elves’ possible salvation.

Thrall and Medivh fought over the High Elf girl, but Robbie rescued her and promised the dying Elf King to protect her. As the Orcs overran Silvermoon City, Thrall and Saurfang cornered Sylvanas, and Saurfang struck her down while she faced death with regret.

• Thrall tried to kill the High Elf girl, but Medivh blasted him away, and Grommash Hellscream and High Overlord Saurfang attacked her in turn.
• Saurfang used a focused battle cry against the girl, but Robbie stepped in and punched him aside, prompting Medivh to flee with Thrall and the wounded Grommash Hellscream.
• The dying Elf King asked Robbie to protect the future of the High Elves, and Robbie gave his word before the Elf King died.
• Tens of thousands of Orcs entered Silvermoon City's Elven quarter as the Scourge's catapults began firing, while Sylvanas was left weakened by Mana Addiction.
• Thrall and Saurfang cornered Sylvanas, and Tichondrius urged them to consume her soul; Saurfang's axe struck her as she regretted choosing the Orcs.

Tichondrius manipulated Sylvanas and watched the Scourge overrun Silvermoon City while Thrall withdrew his Orcs. As Kael'thas struggled to save his people and sought Arthas's help, Arthas agreed to raise the dead after awakening a new ability.

• Tichondrius used dark magic to make Sylvanas believe Arthas had killed her and the Scourge had destroyed Silvermoon City, then let her go as a hidden piece in his scheme.
• Thrall ordered the Orcs to retreat through the portal, but the Warsong Clan continued slaughtering High Elves as the city's barrier failed.
• Kael'thas swore the Orcs would pay for the massacre, while Robbie secretly entrusted the rescued High Elf girl to Kel'Thuzad and warned him to hide her from Kael'thas.
• Kael'thas begged Arthas to turn Silvermoon City's dead into Undead so they could take revenge, but Arthas's first attempt failed because the High Elves resisted his power.
• Robbie explained that the High Elves' fear of sudden death outweighed their desire for revenge, and Kael'thas still urged Arthas to raise them.
• Arthas refused to erase the dead High Elves' memories and make them Forsaken, then agreed to proceed after images flashed before him and he awakened a special ability.

Arthas raised Silvermoon City’s dead as the Forsaken, believing their future was destined but hoping an alliance could resist greater tragedies. As Thrall escaped through the portal, Arthas warned him that Medivh was consuming the Orcs’ Racial Power, and Kael’thas’s attack unexpectedly burned Thrall between the legs.

• Robbie warned Arthas that erased memories would leave the Forsaken without hatred, but Arthas explained that he had foreseen their future and chose to raise them himself.
• Arthas told Robbie that fate could contain loopholes and called for a reliable alliance to oppose future tragedies.
• Arthas chose Windrunner Sylvanas to lead the Forsaken and raised Silvermoon City’s dead, while the Scourge killed many Orcs who had failed to retreat.
• Thrall taunted Arthas from inside the portal, and Arthas warned that Medivh was consuming the Orcs’ Racial Power and endangering their future.
• Kael’thas hurled fire at Thrall, but the portal’s shield stopped most of it while stray flames scorched him between the legs.

Arthas and his allies resurrected Sylvanas, whose mind remained trapped in hatred and fear, and discussed making her a future leader. Robbie then discovered that the little girl who had escaped Mana Addiction was named Anveena, the Sunwell's incarnation.

• Sylvanas's memories were distorted by dark magic, and she awoke believing Arthas had killed her and destroyed Silvermoon City.
• Kel'Thuzad warned Kael'thas that removing the dark magic would shatter Sylvanas's mind, so she needed time to rebuild her sense of self.
• The Liches restored Sylvanas's body with Sunwell magic, and Arthas commanded her spirit to return to it.
• Sylvanas returned to her body and said she felt very cold, while Robbie proposed that she might someday rule the Orcs.
• Robbie, Arthas, and Kel'Thuzad discussed the High Elves' future and questioned the little girl who was immune to Mana Addiction.
• The girl introduced herself as Anveena, and Robbie recognized her as the Sunwell's incarnation.

Robbie, Kel'Thuzad, and Arthas planned to hide the real Anveena by creating a fake Sunwell avatar to distract Medivh, then disguise Anveena as a human and send her to Stormwind. As they prepared to entrust her to Earl Flintley, Medivh arrived near Silvermoon City aboard a ghost ship and bargained with Helya for her support against Odyn.

• Robbie proposed that Kel'Thuzad create a false Sunwell avatar resembling Anveena, while the real girl was hidden from Medivh.
• Kel'Thuzad suggested tying the fake avatar to Borel, and Robbie proposed making her look human to deepen Medivh's suspicions.
• Robbie, Arthas, and Kel'Thuzad sought human growth records from Kael'thas, who revealed a crystal documenting Katherine Proudmoore's life.
• Arthas proposed sending Anveena, disguised as a human girl, to his secret contact Earl Flintley in Stormwind.
• Medivh arrived aboard Helya's ghost ship near Silvermoon City and offered her Silvermoon's restless souls and his friendship against Odyn.