Chapter Summaries

Medivh tried to recruit Helya by offering her Silvermoon’s souls and a share of the Scourge’s power, but she withdrew after learning the city’s dead were gone. Medivh ordered the destruction of Dalaran, while Helya decided to investigate Arthas, and Thrall struggled with a secret injury.

• Helya recalled her bitter history with Odyn as she negotiated with Medivh for a share of the Scourge’s power.
• Helya discovered that Silvermoon City had no souls left to claim and called off her deal with Medivh.
• Medivh told Tichondrius that Sylvanas had become the Forsaken’s leader and ordered him to proceed with the plan to destroy Dalaran.
• Helya sent a Val’kyr to make contact with Arthas after deciding he might be a more reliable ally than Medivh.
• Thrall blamed Kael’thas for his lingering injury and secretly sought an unorthodox cure after his healers failed.

Thrall forced Eitrigg to find a remedy for his private ailment, and Experiment 335 gave him a fabricated prescription as revenge. Thrall then asked Antonidas about racial power, and Antonidas began explaining how it limited dragon populations.

• Thrall secretly appointed Eitrigg to find a remedy for his private ailment and threatened him when he tried to refuse.
• Eitrigg confided in Experiment 335, who falsely blamed Thrall’s condition on depleted innate divine essence and prescribed rare ingredients.
• Thrall asked Antonidas what racial power was, while Antonidas hurriedly sent his granddaughter away out of fear.
• Antonidas told Thrall that dragons’ racial power limited their population despite Alexstrasza’s ability to produce offspring.

Thrall learned from Antonidas that excessive reproduction could exhaust a race’s power and cause it to vanish across every timeline, but chose to continue Medivh’s plan. He warned Antonidas that Dalaran was the next target, and the chapter ended with Jaina confirming Medivh intended to destroy it.

• Antonidas explained to Thrall how racial power was depleted and warned that a race that exhausted it would become extinct across all timelines.
• Thrall feared the consequences for the Orcs but decided they would not matter during his lifetime.
• Thrall confessed that the Orcs had destroyed Silvermoon City and warned Antonidas that Medivh planned to sacrifice Dalaran next.
• Antonidas decided to verify Thrall’s warning and asked Jaina whether he could trust her.
• Jaina told Antonidas that Medivh wanted to destroy Dalaran.

Jaina persuaded Antonidas not to ally with Arthas's Scourge and instead consider summoning Archimonde by bringing Dalaran into the Burning Legion's service. Antonidas agreed to think it over and named the materials he would need, while Jaina promised to steal them from Medivh.

• Antonidas considered allying Dalaran with the Scourge, but Jaina warned that Arthas could become even more ruthless than Medivh.
• Jaina claimed the Burning Legion had grown dissatisfied with Medivh and wanted Frostmourne and the Scourge for itself.
• Jaina urged Antonidas to serve the Burning Legion and summon Archimonde, contrasting the fate of Velen's Draenei with the prospect of becoming Kil'jaeden.
• Antonidas said he needed time to decide and lacked the means to summon Archimonde without suitable magic, coordinates, data, and Medivh's book.
• Jaina promised to steal the required materials from Medivh, and Antonidas agreed to consider the plan.

Thrall and Eitrigg sought ingredients for a remedy while planning rumors to hide Thrall’s ailment, and the Scourge advanced on Dalaran. Robbie learned that Antonidas was considering summoning Archimonde and began looking for ways to stop or deceive him.

• Thrall learned from Eitrigg that his ailment came from losing Innate Divine Essence and ordered him to gather the formula’s rare ingredients, including Agna’s foot skin.
• Thrall and Eitrigg decided to spread rumors linking Thrall and Jaina, anticipating Kael'thas’s arrival in Dalaran.
• Robbie warned Arthas to watch Antonidas after learning that Thrall and Jaina were encouraging him to summon Archimonde.
• Kael'thas planned to enter Dalaran and rally its nobles against Antonidas, while Kel'Thuzad explained that summoning Archimonde would require Dalaran’s mages and a powerful magic source.
• Robbie asked whether they could create a fake Archimonde.

Kael'thas arrived in Dalaran, where the Orcs were celebrated as saviors, and warned Rhonin and Vereesa that Antonidas planned to summon Archimonde. He recruited Rhonin to help counter the plan, while Antonidas remained troubled by the decision and received word that Rhonin had come to visit.

• Dalaran's people praised Thrall and the Orcs as heroes, while rumors spread about Thrall and Jaina.
• Kael'thas visited Rhonin and Vereesa, who argued over the Orcs' role in Silvermoon City's destruction.
• Kael'thas warned Rhonin and Vereesa that Antonidas planned to summon Archimonde and bring the Burning Legion to Azeroth.
• Kael'thas asked Rhonin to help him gain Antonidas's trust and learn Dalaran's secrets, and Rhonin agreed.
• Antonidas weighed whether summoning Archimonde was his only option, then learned that Rhonin had come to see him.

Kael'thas confronted Jaina over rumors linking her to Thrall, then accused Antonidas of concealing the Orcs' destruction of Silvermoon City. Rhonin sided with Antonidas and supported a proposal to remove Kael'thas from public office in Dalaran, winning Antonidas's approval.

• Antonidas received Rhonin for a courteous but strained visit, while both discussed Silvermoon City and the Orcs.
• Kael'thas confronted Jaina with a rumor booklet, and she defended her relationship with Thrall while mocking Kael'thas's exile.
• Thrall appeared on his balcony with a bloody arm and taunted Kael'thas by claiming the Orcs had destroyed Silvermoon City and killed his father.
• Kael'thas entered Antonidas's residence and accused him of blaming the Scourge for the destruction of Silvermoon City.
• Rhonin supported Antonidas and proposed that Kael'thas be deemed unfit for public office, prompting Antonidas to welcome his backing.

Kael'thas condemned Dalaran for aiding the Orcs and left, while Antonidas maneuvered Rhonin into leading a plan to summon the Army of the Light. Rhonin enthusiastically played the loyal ally, though he had his own intentions.

• Kael'thas blamed Sylvanas and Dalaran for Silvermoon City's destruction, announced he would leave, and departed after condemning the humans and Orcs.
• Rhonin warned that Dalaran should prepare for the Scourge, but Jaina defended the Orcs and accused him of slandering them.
• Antonidas considered using a respected figure as a public leader while he coordinated a risky plan from behind the scenes, then tested Rhonin's willingness to act.
• Rhonin proposed handing the Orcs to the Scourge, but Antonidas argued that unchecked power could corrupt Arthas and that a greater force was needed.
• Antonidas proposed summoning the Army of the Light from the Void, and Rhonin pledged loyalty and eagerly offered suggestions while Jaina looked unhappy.

Jaina sought Antonidas's help mastering powerful magic while Robbie prepared to make a giant corpse into a substitute Archimonde. As Dalaran's summoning preparations advanced, Medivh learned of the plan and recognized Rhonin as a threat.

• Rhonin spoke with Antonidas until evening, then Jaina gave her mentor the demon-summoning materials she had stolen from Medivh and asked for help breaking the Book of Medivh's protections.
• Antonidas taught Jaina precious magical knowledge, including skills he had previously held back from her.
• Robbie, Arthas, and Kel'Thuzad examined an enormous corpse in Tirisfal Glades, and Kel'Thuzad proposed channeling Dalaran's summoning magic into it to awaken it as a fake Archimonde.
• Rhonin gathered mages in Dalaran and secretly prepared a summoning array with Antonidas's cover, using Jaina's stolen materials.
• Medivh learned that Antonidas and Rhonin were preparing to summon Archimonde, judged Rhonin an unstable factor, and decided to act.

Medivh sent Varimathras to exploit Rhonin’s hidden weaknesses and draw him toward his ambition. After Varimathras hinted that he knew troubling secrets about Rhonin’s mentor and the Red Dragon Queen, Rhonin agreed to talk.

• Medivh explained to Jaina that Archimonde sought Arthas’s power over the dead, and said Rhonin could become a useful variable in Dalaran.
• Medivh summoned Varimathras and ordered him to manipulate Rhonin by uncovering his ambitions, strengths, and secrets.
• Rhonin worked on Dalaran’s magical defenses while secretly helping direct its power toward the Tirisfal Glades to prevent Archimonde’s arrival.
• Jaina introduced Varimathras to Rhonin, who objected to the Dreadlord’s presence until Jaina said Medivh had ordered the visit.
• Varimathras raised rumors about Krasus, Alexstrasza, and Rhonin’s near-expulsion from Dalaran, prompting Rhonin to agree to talk.

Varimathras visited Rhonin and used a confession about his past love for Lisa to expose the pain Rhonin might cause Vereesa through their different lifespans. He left Rhonin shaken and offered to help him change their relationship’s tragic fate.

• Varimathras reassured the wary Rhonin that he wanted only a conversation, then criticized Medivh for refusing to seek the Legion’s help against Arthas and the Undead Scourge.
• Varimathras described spending centuries among humans and said that love was a precious quality humans possessed.
• Varimathras recalled falling in love with Lisa while serving as a guard in Lakeshire, then leaving her because he feared his identity and her aging would lead to tragedy.
• Varimathras challenged Rhonin to consider how Vereesa would feel as a High Elf destined to outlive him by thousands of years.
• Rhonin stood speechless as Varimathras offered to help him change the tragic fate of human and High Elf love.

Rhonin wrestled with fears that his human lifespan would leave Vereesa alone, while Varimathras’s temptation and Kael'thas’s warning deepened his doubts about the Legion. Meanwhile, Antonidas obtained Medivh’s spellbook and planned to contact Archimonde before summoning him.

• Varimathras urged Rhonin to consider whether he could accept growing old while Vereesa lived for thousands of years, leaving Rhonin troubled by their future.
• Rhonin brooded over his aging and sought advice from Kael'thas, who warned him to beware of Dreadlords and the Legion’s false promises.
• Rhonin told Kael'thas that Dalaran’s magic array was ready and that it could contact Archimonde once Jaina found the necessary spell in Medivh’s book.
• Jaina brought Medivh’s spellbook to Antonidas, who comforted her and promised that Dalaran would one day pass into her hands.
• Antonidas discovered spells for communicating with the Legion’s leaders and decided to contact Archimonde and hear his terms before carrying out the summoning ritual.

Antonidas activated a demon communication array to negotiate with Archimonde, while Jaina hurried to warn Medivh. After learning that Medivh had entrusted him with summoning the Burning Legion, Antonidas chose to pursue the opportunity and directly asked Archimonde for rewards.

• Antonidas told Jaina he planned to discuss cooperation with Archimonde, and Jaina hurried to Karazhan to report his plan to Medivh.
• Antonidas activated the communication array and contacted Andarina, Archimonde’s assistant.
• Andarina said Medivh had entrusted Antonidas with the matter and told him to activate the summoning array at the appointed time.
• Antonidas realized Medivh had deceived him but decided to seek a longer life and greater power through Archimonde.
• Antonidas insisted on speaking with Archimonde, who appeared and asked what he wanted.
• Antonidas stammered that he needed some rewards.

Antonidas rejected Arthas's warning and chose to summon the Burning Legion, convinced it would empower Dalaran and grant him a younger body. As the Scourge gathered outside the city, Rhonin prepared the summoning formation while Antonidas left to await Archimonde.

• Antonidas persuaded Archimonde to promise him a reward and told Rhonin he had secured the Burning Legion's help.
• Rhonin warned that the Legion would bring disaster and urged Antonidas to cooperate with Arthas, but Antonidas refused.
• The Scourge surrounded Dalaran, and Arthas called on the Kirin Tor to let his army pass so it could target the Orcs.
• Antonidas taunted Arthas, declared that Dalaran's defenses would destroy the undead, and revealed that the city expected the Burning Legion as an ally.
• Antonidas left Rhonin to prepare the summoning formation and went to consider how to welcome Archimonde.

Varimathras manipulated Antonidas into repairing and activating Dalaran’s summoning circle, bringing Archimonde and the Burning Legion into the world. After witnessing Dalaran’s impending destruction and Antonidas’s death, Robbie returned to his own time, determined to grow strong enough to change history.

• Varimathras exposed Rhonin’s sabotage, but Antonidas repaired the summoning circle while Rhonin fled Dalaran with Vereesa.
• The circle opened spatial rifts above Dalaran, and Infernals and Doomguards emerged as Arthas and Robbie recognized that Rhonin’s plan had failed and retreated.
• Robbie watched Varimathras summon Archimonde, while the teleportation barrier trapped Dalaran’s mages and Antonidas learned that Archimonde was Medivh’s headmaster.
• Saurfang wounded Antonidas, Thrall killed him, and Archimonde devoured Thrall and Saurfang before ordering Varimathras to command the Orcs.
• Archimonde announced plans to destroy Dalaran and invade Azeroth, and Robbie returned with the Infinite Dragonflight, vowing to master time and change history.

Robbie returned from a half-year journey through another timeline to Karabor Temple, where only minutes had passed, and began adjusting to life in Shadowmoon Valley. After discussing plans with Vanessa, he discovered that the mysterious old Archmage at the inn was Kel'Thuzad.

• Robbie returned to Karabor Temple and asked Toki to give him time to collect his thoughts.
• Robbie told Vanessa that his experience with Arthas and Kel'Thuzad differed from recorded history, then rested and woke the next day in Lunarfall.
• Robbie told Vanessa he planned to make music boxes for Alliance adventurers to help deal with Medivh.
• Vanessa planned to trade a fake Shadowmourne to Med'an for ten Epic equipment sets, and asked Robbie to help prepare.
• Hogger told Robbie that an elderly Archmage claiming to be his distant relative was waiting at the inn.
• Robbie recognized the wandering mage as Kel'Thuzad after the mage sealed the room's sounds.

Robbie and Kel'Thuzad joined forces to prepare a convincing sale of Vanessa’s counterfeit Shadowmourne to Med’an. Robbie devised a scheme involving a mysterious treasure map and Khadgar, while Khadgar recognized the map’s symbols as belonging to a vanished Dalaran school of magic.

• Kel'Thuzad told Robbie that he had lost most memories of Arthas and the Scourge after his undead body fell in Naxxramas.
• Vanessa accepted Kel'Thuzad into the Brotherhood and assigned him to help Robbie handle the deal with Med’an.
• Vanessa showed Robbie and Kel'Thuzad her counterfeit Shadowmourne, which Kel'Thuzad found convincing while Robbie saw through its magical appearance.
• Robbie decided they needed a mysterious story to sell the fake and planned to use Khadgar’s reputation and knowledge.
• Robbie arranged for an expensive treasure map to appear at the Lunarfall auction house, and Khadgar recognized its symbols as a cipher from a vanished Dalaran school that had once explored Northrend.

Khadgar deciphered a treasure map that appeared to reveal Shadowmourne’s location, then sold false information to misdirect anyone searching for it while secretly arranging an expedition. Robbie and Kel'Thuzad watched Khadgar board a ship and meet Med'an, who asked whether the information was true.

• Khadgar bought a treasure map from a Gnome salvager and recognized its cipher as belonging to Dalaran’s lost Migratory Birds and Ocean Currents school.
• Khadgar translated Mika Fei'er’s account of a cursed weapon found in Northrend and realized it could be Shadowmourne.
• Khadgar sold Robbie false directions to a dangerous island while planning to hire trusted people to search for Shadowmourne.
• Robbie and Kel'Thuzad watched Khadgar board a ship in Booty Bay with two attendants.
• Med'an greeted Khadgar aboard the ship and asked whether the information about Shadowmourne was true.

Med'an sought High Overlord Saurfang's favor by recovering Shadowmourne and joined Khadgar to pursue a lead on the weapon. As their ship stopped at Ratchet, Khadgar discovered Med'an had assembled an army instead of the small specialist team he had expected.

• Med'an decided to seek High Overlord Saurfang's support by recovering Shadowmourne for his birthday.
• Med'an persuaded Khadgar to guide him to Shadowmourne, and Khadgar warned that the search involved strange undead power and an unknown entity.
• Med'an asked Khadgar how to deal with Medivh, and Khadgar advised him to keep his distance from his unpredictable father.
• At Ratchet, Khadgar found that Med'an had brought more than thirty ships and over a thousand people, including Kor'kron veterans.
• Khadgar criticized Med'an's oversized force, noting that an army was poorly suited to an expedition requiring experienced adventurers.

Khadgar and Med’an led a fleet to Skull Island in search of Shadowmourne, but the island’s strange magic spoiled the Orcs’ meat supply. They landed with twenty scouts to investigate and encountered Undead, while Khadgar believed they could still finish quickly and open a portal for supplies.

• Robbie stayed behind as Khadgar and Med’an sailed toward the mist-covered island he had named Skull Island.
• Khadgar learned that the ships’ dried meat had rotted and coached the panicked Med’an to reassure the Orc warriors.
• Khadgar ordered twenty scouts to land with him, and Med’an insisted on joining the expedition.
• The group crossed a shore strewn with enormous bones and defeated rotting Murlocs that attacked them.
• Khadgar explained that the island’s decaying sea-beast corpses had disrupted the magical field and spawned Undead, then Med’an cried out after stepping on an Orc skeleton.