Chapter Summaries

Khadgar led Med'an and the Orc veterans through the fog-covered island, teaching them caution as they approached a boulder blocking the northern pass. After their attempts to open a portal failed, Med'an chose to proceed, and Khadgar shattered the boulder, leaving Med'an to face whatever waited beyond it.

• A cursed skeleton frightened Med'an before a scout smashed it, and Khadgar urged the group onward through the island's fog.
• Khadgar warned Med'an not to fly over the blocking boulder and found that the island's magic nodes would not allow a portal to open.
• Robbie and Kel'Thuzad watched from a cave, with Kel'Thuzad explaining that Khadgar's cautious nature made him vulnerable to their plan.
• Khadgar offered to abandon the adventure or destroy the boulder at the cost of his strength, and Med'an chose to continue.
• Khadgar used a magic circle and his ice, fire, and Arcane energies to shatter the boulder, then told Med'an to handle what came next as chains rattled in the fog.

Khadgar led Med'an and the Orcs through a mist-filled, dangerous part of the island, where an undead scout frightened Med'an. Meanwhile, Robbie and Kel'Thuzad prepared to keep the Horde under pressure, and the camp’s supplies took a grim turn before Khadgar’s divination warned him to beware of Trolls.

• A chain-wielding monster seized an Orc scout in the mist, and the scout later returned as a rotting skeleton before the Orc veterans destroyed him.
• Khadgar identified the creature as a reanimated corpse and urged Med'an to face his fear before ordering the group to camp and scout ahead.
• Robbie revealed his monster disguise and suggested taking Med'an’s equipment, but Kel'Thuzad explained that Medivh could track the Guardian Set, so they decided to continue their plan to frighten the Horde.
• Med'an rallied the Horde with a speech about sacrifice, and Pandaren, Blood Elves, and Goblins entered boiling cauldrons to be served as food to the Orcs.
• Khadgar consulted a divination that warned him to beware of Trolls, leaving him puzzled by the warning.

Med'an led the search for the shipwreck through the fog after Khadgar refused to help, but the search ended in panic and Med'an was captured by Robbie. Khadgar suggested using Water Elementals to clear the fog, revealing shipwrecks and the possible location of Shadowmourne, though the summoned elementals went out of control.

• After the Orcs Warriors ate the group’s flesh, necromancers resurrected their bones as Undead.
• Khadgar claimed exhaustion and returned to camp, so Med'an split the group into squads to search for the shipwreck.
• The fog and rattling chains drove the Orcs into a frenzy, and Med'an sounded the retreat after hundreds died; when he entered the fog alone, Robbie captured him.
• Med'an told Khadgar that the adventure had to continue and that no one else would leave alive, so Khadgar suggested using Water Elementals to absorb the fog.
• Med'an sacrificed several Tauren to summon thousands of Water Elementals, which cleared the fog and revealed shipwrecks off the island’s northern shore, but then went out of control.

Med'an and Khadgar searched the island for Shadowmourne, but the Orc veterans were overwhelmed by undead Murlocs when the fog returned. Griftah emerged from the wreck with the axe and escaped, leaving Med'an worried about Saurfang’s approaching birthday.

• Med'an led the Horde warriors through Poisoned Water Elementals and searched the shipwrecks, while Khadgar translated a parchment revealing that Shadowmourne lay underwater beneath a reef.
• Med'an summoned a Fel Reaver and lifted the sunken wreck, but its foot became stuck as the fog returned and the undead Murlocs attacked the Orcs on their rafts.
• Khadgar stayed on shore rather than challenge the evil presence, and Med'an escaped the fog while most of the Orc veterans were killed.
• Griftah arrived in a small boat, used a magic lantern and Voodoo Doll to reach the wreck, and emerged carrying Shadowmourne.
• Griftah offered to negotiate with Khadgar in Shattrath City and sailed away, while Khadgar warned Med'an against pursuing him and reassured him that Griftah would have to sell the axe.

Med'an traded Shadowmourne to Griftah for fifteen sets of Epic equipment and five million gold coins, while Robbie suspected the deal was not as straightforward as it seemed. After finding unusual magical fluctuations in three sets, Robbie proposed a plan involving Gorgrond.

• After Khadgar and Med'an left Skull Island, Goblins dismantled the trapped Fel Reaver and shipped it away before the Blue Dragonflight could find it.
• Med'an met Griftah in Shattrath City and threatened him, but Griftah refused to hand over Shadowmourne for a thousand gold coins.
• Griftah introduced Kel'Thuzad, disguised as the Arakkoa appraiser Skizzik the Talonpriest, and negotiated a trade with Med'an.
• Med'an exchanged Shadowmourne for fifteen sets of Epic equipment and five million gold coins, then left with the weapon.
• Robbie examined the equipment and noticed that three sets had different magical fluctuations from the others.
• Robbie pointed to Gorgrond on a map of Draenor and told Kel'Thuzad he had a plan.

Med'an’s attempt to recover the Epic armor led his party to Destroyer Dov, while Robbie returned with twelve sets and prepared to investigate Shaz’gul with Vanessa. As they approached the Shadowmoon Clan stronghold, Robbie suspected the disguises had exposed Yrel’s rescue party.

• Destroyer Dov ate the three sets of armor from the dropped chest, then attacked Med’an’s group after Med’an teleported them to the Gronn’s location, leaving only Med’an and Eitrigg to escape.
• Med’an gave Saurfang a fake Shadowmourne, ruining Saurfang’s birthday feast, while Robbie returned to the garrison with twelve Epic sets.
• Vanessa told Robbie that Yrel had led rangers into Shaz’gul to rescue captured Draenei, and insisted they infiltrate the stronghold to learn about the Earthen Ring’s cooperation with Ner’zhul.
• Saileni gave Robbie and Vanessa Orc disguises and bombs, warning them about the Shadowmoon Clan’s wolves and Warlock scouts.
• Near Shaz’gul, Vanessa discarded her disguise, and Robbie concluded that something about the disguises might have revealed Yrel’s party.

Robbie and Vanessa infiltrated Shaz'gul, sabotaged the Shadowmoon Clan's war preparations, and discovered that a fake Yrel had been used to lure them into a trap. After reuniting with the real Yrel, Vanessa realized the Draenei had allied with the Horde, leaving the Alliance at Lunarfall threatened by a combined attack.

• Robbie disguised himself as a Shadowmoon Orc, entered Shaz'gul with Vanessa, and planted bombs around the camp.
• Robbie and Vanessa overheard Ner'zhul discuss his plans to exploit Peace Dove negotiators and use Draenei knowledge to summon the Dark Star.
• Robbie recognized the hidden Yrel as an impostor, and the trap revealed her to be Carola, a human Priestess captured by Ner'zhul.
• Vanessa stole a replica of Ner'zhul's Staff of Ten Thousand Souls, and she and Robbie escaped Shaz'gul before detonating their bombs.
• Robbie and Vanessa met the real Yrel, who said she had fought her way out of the camp and discovered the Peace Dove's deception.
• Vanessa concluded that the Draenei had chosen to cooperate with the Horde, putting the Alliance in Lunarfall at risk of a joint assault.

Vanessa decided to accelerate negotiations to bring the Draenei into the resistance against the Iron Horde before Velen could reconsider. Robbie attempted to use Tirion Fordring’s visit to Light’s Hope Chapel to secure a deal, but after a bizarre attack by Orc maids, he approached Fordring disguised as a Blood Elf named Nicolas Sunstrider.

• Vanessa concluded that Guardian Medivh was the key to the Peace Dove and decided that the deal with Tirion Fordring had to happen quickly.
• Tirion Fordring visited Light’s Hope Chapel, where Jessica Chambers told him that many Argent Dawn warriors had joined the Undercity and become Forsaken.
• Jessica arranged for female Orc maids to entertain Fordring, who was badly injured before the Holy Light healed him.
• Robbie watched the attack and realized he could not kill Fordring while the Holy Light protected him.
• Robbie disguised himself as Nicolas Sunstrider and introduced himself to Fordring at Light’s Hope Chapel.

Robbie traded seven Naaru Shards to Tirion Fordring for Epic equipment, then faced Tirion’s allies Varimathras and Nathanos Blightcaller outside Light’s Hope Chapel. Robbie returned alone with their heads, leaving Tirion stunned.

• Robbie told Tirion Fordring that the Blood Elves needed Naaru Shards to study Holy Light and ease Mana Addiction.
• Robbie and Tirion exchanged five Naaru Shards for five sets of Epic equipment, then traded two more sets for a larger sixth shard.
• Tirion accused Robbie’s people of swindling Epic equipment from Karazhan and said he opposed their deception of High Overlord Saurfang.
• Varimathras and Nathanos Blightcaller arrived to support Tirion, and Robbie agreed to fight them outside the chapel.
• Jessica challenged Tirion over his cowardice and allegiance to the Horde while Robbie fought outside.
• Robbie returned with Varimathras and Blightcaller’s heads, and Tirion dropped his cigarette in shock.

Robbie thwarted Tirion Fordring’s attempt to restore the Ashbringer with the trapped souls beneath Light’s Hope Chapel. After the Holy Light destroyed the freed spirits, Robbie exploited Tirion’s fondness for Orcs to leave him at the mercy of a crowd of Orc women.

• Tirion Fordring revealed that he had brought Robbie to Light’s Hope Chapel so the Ashbringer could feed on the Restless Souls buried there.
• Robbie used Ner’zhul’s Shadowmoon Staff of Ten Thousand Souls, disguised as a Sunstrider family relic, to free and empower the Restless Souls against Tirion Fordring.
• Tirion Fordring unleashed the Holy Light and burned the attacking Restless Souls to ash, but failed to restore the Ashbringer’s power.
• Robbie pointed out Tirion Fordring’s weakness, and Jessica summoned more than thirty Orc women to meet him.
• The Orc women swarmed Tirion Fordring, breaking his thighbone and piercing his cheeks while he screamed and refused to fight back.

Robbie and Vanessa humiliated Tirion at Light's Hope Chapel, poisoned him, and took the seven Epic armor sets before he escaped to Silvermoon City. After High Overlord Saurfang demanded fifteen armor sets from the Argent Crusade, Robbie returned to Lunarfall and considered how to draw Yrel's Draenei into a fight against the Shadowmoon Clan.

• Female Orcs overwhelmed Tirion at Light's Hope Chapel until he angrily rejected them and confronted Robbie, whom he called Nicolas Sunstrider.
• As Tirion prayed for strength, Vanessa slit his throat with a poisoned dagger, and he used Divine Shield and a Rune Stone to Hearthstone to Silvermoon City.
• Tirion recovered as Vanessa's toxin faded, then High Overlord Saurfang confronted him and demanded fifteen Epic armor sets for the Argent Crusade; Tirion discovered that his seven newly acquired sets were missing.
• Robbie and Vanessa returned to Lunarfall, where Robbie planned to use Yrel and her Draenei rangers to attack the Shadowmoon Clan's Bastion of Pain.
• Someone told Robbie that his friend Luobo'an had come to visit.

Luobo'an sought Robbie’s help after Peace Dove chose him as its twentieth negotiator with Ner'zhul, a mission from which the previous nineteen had never returned. Robbie learned that Luobo'an knew where Thrall’s six Earthen Ring Shamans were hiding and devised a dangerous plan to disrupt Peace Dove’s negotiations and give Luobo'an a chance to survive.

• Luobo'an begged Robbie to save him after General Shanmiusen assigned him to negotiate with Ner'zhul as the twentieth emissary.
• Robbie offered to help Luobo'an escape, but Luobo'an refused because his flight could bring punishment upon his family.
• Luobo'an revealed that Thrall wanted a share of Ner'zhul’s secret power and had sent six Earthen Ring Shamans, led by Lemuel, to negotiate in exchange for elemental knowledge.
• Luobo'an told Robbie that the Shamans were staying at Bloodthorn Ridge, where he had been serving them before jealous colleagues got him assigned to the perilous mission.
• Robbie told Luobo'an to accept Ner'zhul’s terms, then secretly reveal the Shamans’ location so Ner'zhul would abduct them and ruin the alliance with Thrall.
• Luobo'an accepted Robbie’s risky plan and resolved to carry it out despite the chance of being killed.

Robbie watched the Draenei’s alliance with the Peace Dove collapse into disaster as Ner’zhul attacked, while Velen continued to reject an all-out war against the Shadowmoon Clan. The chapter ended with Vanessa warning Robbie that Shanmiusen’s Peace Dove was approaching Lunarfall to capture fugitives.

• Velen announced that the Draenei would support the Peace Dove and work with the Shadowmoon Clan, prompting Khadgar to confront him and many Alliance adventurers to leave Lunarfall.
• Robbie found that Velen had stripped Yrel of her command, and she returned with him to Vanessa’s newly completed stronghold.
• After the Shadowmoon Orcs abducted the Earthen Ring shamans, Ner’zhul attacked the Peace Dove and the Draenei, captured Velen’s disciples, and drove Velen into despair.
• Robbie urged Yrel to rally the Draenei and said the remaining Alliance elites could defeat the Shadowmoon Clan, but Velen refused to wage an all-out war and instead called for a rescue mission at the Bastion of Pain.
• Vanessa woke Robbie and warned him that Shanmiusen’s Peace Dove was coming to Lunarfall under Ashran’s banner to capture fugitives.

Robbie prepared to protect the fortress and the Defias Brotherhood from General Shanmiusen’s investigation, anticipating that Prophet Velen was backing him. When Shanmiusen arrived with soldiers, Robbie welcomed Velen and denied harboring criminals, but Shanmiusen began identifying Hogger as a wanted fugitive.

• Vanessa and Robbie feared Shanmiusen would expose the Brotherhood, and Robbie guessed that Velen was supporting him.
• Robbie decided to silence Luobo'an and fed him Savory Wind Serpents until he became a slime monster, then told Hogger to disguise him as a pet.
• Shanmiusen arrived at the fortress with fifty elite soldiers and Prophet Velen, and Robbie greeted Velen while overpowering Shanmiusen in a test of strength.
• Robbie claimed that the fortress held only loyal citizens and said Luobo'an had left to summon a Succubus.
• Shanmiusen identified Hogger as a wanted criminal, but Robbie claimed he was a Pandaren monk named Fan Tong.
• Shanmiusen challenged Robbie to explain Hogger’s teeth, mane, and tail.

Robbie used forged identities and documents to deflect General Shanmiusen’s accusations against the garrison and Vanessa’s Followers. When Shanmiusen raised Robbie’s encounter with Ner’zhul as an inescapable charge, Velen’s killing intent was checked by Kel’Thuzad and a hidden, even more threatening presence.

• Robbie presented fake certificates and cover stories to keep Shanmiusen from identifying the Brotherhood’s Followers as wanted criminals.
• Robbie disguised Kel’Thuzad, Mograine, and Whitemane as Archmage Vargoth, Shirley Hanby, and Leeroy Jenkins.
• Robbie claimed the oversized garrison combined five heroes’ authorized garrisons, invoking Qiyana Moonshadow and their letters of authorization.
• Shanmiusen accused Robbie of confronting Ner’zhul at the observatory, leaving him vulnerable to charges whichever explanation he gave.
• As the Brotherhood prepared to fight, Velen released a powerful aura, but Kel’Thuzad and an unseen presence held him in check.

Robbie accused Shadowmoon Clan chieftain Ner'zhul of being the Lich King, and Kel'Thuzad and Yrel supplied evidence that convinced Shanmiusen the accusation might be true. Shanmiusen shifted the blame to Velen, accusing the prophet of colluding with the Lich King.

• Robbie claimed he had fought the Lich King Ner'zhul, who had replaced the Shadowmoon Clan chieftain, and challenged Shanmiusen to confront the real chieftain.
• Robbie undermined Velen's testimony, while Velen defended Ner'zhul despite his capture of Draenei and the planned sacrifices.
• Shanmiusen demanded proof, and Kel'Thuzad presented ice fragments he said had imprisoned the Lich King's soul.
• Yrel testified that she had seen Ner'zhul's true form as a Lich, strengthening Robbie's accusation.
• Robbie accused the Peace Dove of colluding with the Lich King, so Shanmiusen blamed Velen and accused him of seeking to destroy the world.

Yrel forced Velen to surrender the Prophet's Mark after rejecting his defense of Ner'zhul and his peaceful policy. With the mark transferred to her, Yrel declared war on the Shadowmoon Clan, reversing the situation in Shadowmoon Valley.

• Robbie challenged Velen's denial that Ner'zhul was a Lich, while Shanmiusen pressed Velen to choose between the Shadowmoon Clan and Azeroth's Alliance and Horde.
• Yrel accused Velen of bringing suffering to the Draenei and declared that he was no longer fit to lead them.
• Shanmiusen left the fortress after warning Robbie and Velen, while Yrel stopped Velen from following him.
• Yrel demanded that Velen surrender the Prophet's Mark and promised Robbie's support in return for the Alliance's help.
• Velen transferred the Prophet's Mark to Yrel and left the fortress.
• Yrel declared the Draenei at war with the Shadowmoon Clan, and the situation in Shadowmoon Valley reversed.

The Alliance campaign drove the Shadowmoon Clan into the Bastion of Pain while Vanessa arranged for other factions to fight under the Defias Brotherhood’s name in exchange for a share of the spoils. At Exile’s Rise, Experiment 335 and Luobo'an tried to persuade Rulkan to give them the key to the stronghold, but her defiance caught Experiment 335 off guard.

• Yrel declared war on the Shadowmoon Clan, and the Defias Brotherhood led the Alliance campaign that drove the Orcs into the Bastion of Pain.
• Vanessa let other Alliance factions join the war under the Brotherhood’s name in exchange for a share of the plunder.
• Robbie considered the Bastion of Pain’s barrier and suspected something was wrong with the claim that Rulkan had betrayed Ner'zhul.
• Experiment 335 and Luobo'an visited Rulkan at Exile’s Rise to seek the Shard of Pain, which served as the key to the Bastion of Pain.
• Rulkan tested the two adventurers by warning them that the Shadowmoon Clan would not submit, and her forcefulness left Experiment 335 stunned.

Rulkan released Luobo'an and Experiment 335, then gave Robbie the Shard of Pain after learning about the Lich King Ner'zhul. Robbie accepted it, unaware that Rulkan and an Orc elder had schemed to win Chieftain Ner'zhul's gratitude.

• Rulkan spared Luobo'an but sent Experiment 335 into a cave with two Orc women, who later returned him exhausted.
• Luobo'an told Robbie what happened, and Robbie led Kel'Thuzad, Mograine, Whitemane, Hogger, and soldiers to confront Rulkan.
• Rulkan returned Experiment 335 to Robbie and persuaded him to hear her request.
• Rulkan asked Robbie about the Lich King Ner'zhul and, after hearing his history, declared her admiration for him and offered the Shard of Pain.
• Kel'Thuzad examined the Shard of Pain, and Robbie accepted it in exchange for the promise of peace after the Draenei prisoners were rescued.
• After Robbie left, an elderly Orc elder praised Rulkan for helping Chieftain Ner'zhul.

Robbie devised a plan to overcome the Bastion of Pain’s shield and led adventurers to the fortress while Yrel and Shanmiusen debated how the Draenei could be saved. The chapter ended with Robbie’s group revealing three enormous Gnome-made bombs hidden in their carts.

• Rulkan learned that Ner'zhul had given the Alliance the Shard of Pain to delay them while a powerful ally prepared traps to capture their commanders.
• Robbie rejected using the shard to send a small team into the fortress, and Kel'Thuzad explained that its simple, sturdy shield would be difficult to break by magic.
• Robbie proposed a plan involving fire and smoke, while Yrel waited with Draenei rangers near the Bastion of Pain.
• Shanmiusen questioned Yrel's faith in Robbie and warned her that history offered no mercy to the weak.
• Robbie arrived with about a hundred adventurers and twenty covered carts, prompting Shanmiusen to secretly investigate their contents.
• Robbie and Kel'Thuzad removed the disguises from the carts and revealed three enormous Gnome-made bombs.