Chapter Summaries

The Black Dragon Princess exposed Jaina’s offer of eternal life as a lie and brought Varian, disguised as a guard, to watch Experiment 335 confront Jaina. Jaina began explaining how magic could preserve her appearance, but Experiment 335’s questions about sagging turned into an insult about her chin.

• The Black Dragon Princess read Jaina’s letter, mocked Varian for considering an alliance with the Horde, and warned him that eternal life was impossible.
• The Black Dragon Princess bound Varian in Shadowflame and concealed him in magical armor while Experiment 335, Robbie, and Vanessa prepared to meet Jaina.
• Experiment 335 and the others waited in Stormwind City’s Harbor District as Jaina passed them twice in disguise before approaching in her true appearance.
• Experiment 335 told Jaina he doubted her promise of eternal life and demanded answers about how she could preserve her appearance.
• Jaina said magic and precious resources could keep someone looking young, and Experiment 335 asked how she would prevent excess flesh beneath her chin from sagging.

Jaina used a magical illusion and a fabricated story about Lo'gosh to convince Experiment 335 that he possessed the wolf god's power, while the real Varian grew increasingly furious at being mocked. She led the group through a portal to a ship at sea, where Robbie warned Experiment 335 to brace himself for something terrifying.

• Jaina endured Experiment 335's taunts and conjured an illusion of Lo'gosh's power around him.
• Jaina claimed the wolf god had chosen Varian and promised that an awakening ritual in Theramore would grant him the blessing.
• Experiment 335 gloated over the real Varian and proposed to Jaina, while Varian seethed at being humiliated by a commoner.
• Jaina opened a portal to the Sea's Sovereignty, claiming Theramore needed time to prepare a welcoming ceremony.
• Experiment 335 kicked Varian down and threatened the Black Dragon Princess before following Jaina, Robbie, and Vanessa through the portal.
• Robbie grabbed Experiment 335's shoulder aboard the ship and warned him to prepare for something terrifying.

Jaina introduced the resurrected Daelin Proudmoore to Varian and tried to intimidate him, but Robbie and Experiment 335 unsettled her with mockery until Vanessa intervened. The Sea's Sovereignty sailed on, and the next morning Jaina rushed on deck after hearing someone sing a song about the Daughter of the Sea.

• Jaina presented Daelin Proudmoore, an undead Kul Tiran commander, to Varian and asserted control over the king.
• Robbie embraced Daelin and called him his idol, while he and Experiment 335 joked that Daelin and Jaina's mother were the sea.
• Vanessa appeared beside Robbie and ordered him and Experiment 335 to stop, frightening Jaina with her stealth.
• Jaina shifted to a polite welcome and offered tea and pastries in the cabin.
• The Sea's Sovereignty traveled through the mist at great speed, and the next morning Jaina heard a song about the Daughter of the Sea and hurried onto the deck.

Jaina faced a mysterious girl who looked like her and matched her magic, while Robbie and the others refused to intervene. After the girl copied Jaina’s spells and quickly mastered a complex one, Jaina asked who she was.

• Jaina spotted a girl standing on an iceberg and sensed that she was a threat.
• Jaina asked Robbie, Vanessa, and Experiment 335 for help, but Robbie said the confrontation was hers alone.
• Jaina claimed the girl was a special Faceless One serving N'Zoth, though Robbie privately doubted her story.
• Jaina and the girl summoned identical three-headed Water Elementals and clashed with matching ice tridents.
• Jaina attacked with a difficult spell combining Frost, Arcane, and fire, but the girl blocked it with Ice Block and mastered the spell after three attempts.
• Jaina asked the girl who she was.

A mysterious little girl confronted Jaina, demonstrated knowledge of her hidden magic, and demanded that she sever her ties with Kul Tiras. Jaina escaped with her magic intact and returned to Theramore, where she noticed that one of Aegwynn's teacups was missing.

• The little girl appeared before Jaina and revealed that she knew about Jaina's many kinds of magic and her Spellstealer Wyrms.
• Jaina begged the little girl not to take her magic, and the girl demanded that Jaina sever her relationship with Kul Tiras and beware of the Horde.
• The little girl took the Sea's Sovereignty in a message bottle and left, while Jaina falsely claimed to have defeated her.
• Jaina hurried back to Theramore with Robbie and his companions, then went to find Aegwynn.
• Jaina saw Aegwynn lost in thought beside the hearth and noticed that one cup from her tea set was missing.

Jaina warned Aegwynn about the mysterious girl Anveena, while Aegwynn urged her to keep Theramore stable until the meeting with Thrall. King Varian, secretly Experiment 335, inspected the city and discovered its defenses and living conditions were far worse than he expected.

• Jaina told Aegwynn about meeting Anveena, and Aegwynn claimed the girl was under their control.
• Aegwynn told Jaina to attend to King Varian and avoid trouble before the meeting with Thrall.
• Experiment 335 asked Archmage Tervosh to show him Theramore's defenses, then objected when Tervosh suggested eating intelligent beings.
• Experiment 335 wandered through Theramore and saw its muddy streets, shacks, and impoverished residents.
• At the dilapidated city gate, Experiment 335 ordered someone to bring him a sturdy spear.

Experiment 335 and Robbie inspected Theramore’s defenses and challenged Archmage Tervosh’s claims about Stormwind and the Horde. At Jaina’s dinner, a lavish crocodile feast revealed Aegwynn’s extraordinary skill, and she asked for help taking its stripped spine to the treasure vault.

• Experiment 335 found that termites had hollowed out Theramore’s gate, and Archmage Tervosh admitted the walls were flimsy and had once collapsed on soldiers.
• Robbie told Tervosh that Stormwind had twice sent building supplies to Theramore, but the shipments disappeared and were later found in Orgrimmar.
• Tervosh defended Jaina’s peace with the Horde, while Robbie warned that the Orcs had destroyed Lordaeron and might destroy Theramore too.
• Jaina apologized to Robbie and the others at dinner and defended the Orcs’ practice of eating people.
• Jaina presented a roasted marsh crocodile called King Terror’s Kiss, and Aegwynn removed its spine without leaving any meat on the bones.
• Aegwynn asked one of Experiment 335’s guards to carry the crocodile spine to the treasure vault.

Aegwynn led Robbie into her underground vault and recounted the stories behind her collection of demons and weapons, describing how her experiences had changed her views on demons and history. She revealed that Emperor Thoradin had been raised by a Troll lord and intended to lead a human army for the Trolls, prompting Robbie to compare him to Thrall.

• Robbie carried the crocodile's enormous spine as Aegwynn led him and Jaina to the vault beneath Theramore's mage tower.
• Aegwynn opened the vault, where chained Felguards guarded a chamber filled with magically preserved demon heads that she called living books.
• Aegwynn described how she had killed a female Dreadlord who later became her friend, and recalled a fishlike demon who had asked her to help its Murloc and Lobstrok dependents find a new home.
• Aegwynn explained that her encounters had taught her that demons could have humanity and were not all irredeemably evil.
• Aegwynn showed Robbie Strom'kar, the Warbreaker, and said she had taken it from Emperor Thoradin after traveling back in time and learning that he had been raised by a Troll lord to lead a human army.
• Robbie recognized the parallel between Thoradin's planned role and Thrall's.

Aegwynn told Robbie that the Burning Legion’s factions had secretly shaped humanity’s rise and that the Orcs’ internment camps had turned the Legion’s support toward the Orcs. Robbie was partly persuaded by her account, but then recognized a mysterious stone tablet in her collection.

• Robbie asked whether Thrall’s story was fabricated, and Aegwynn said Emperor Thoradin had relied on an Old God’s power to defeat the Amani Trolls.
• Aegwynn claimed the Burning Legion’s Pro-peace Faction had secretly supported humans, hoping they would grow powerful enough to defeat the Old Gods.
• Aegwynn said humanity’s failure to expand and unite the Eastern Kingdoms let the Pro-war Faction regain influence and orchestrate the Orcs’ invasion.
• Aegwynn blamed King Terenas’s creation of Orc internment camps for turning the Legion’s support away from humanity and toward the Orcs.
• Robbie found an obscurely marked stone tablet in Aegwynn’s collection and recognized it as one of the mysterious tablets once placed in Lordaeron’s Holy Light churches.

Robbie recognized Aegwynn’s stone tablet as the seventeenth Holy Light Rune and persuaded her to give it to him, learning that she had collected other tablets and that several remained in her old laboratory in Netherstorm. After returning to Theramore, Robbie took the tablet to his room and began studying its rune.

• Robbie recognized the stone tablet in Aegwynn’s storeroom as the seventeenth Holy Light Rune and asked where it came from.
• Aegwynn explained her theories about the runes and gave Robbie the tablet after he insisted it held a deeper secret.
• Aegwynn told Robbie that she had once collected fifteen tablets and that one remained after workers broke four during her move from her Netherstorm laboratory.
• Robbie and Aegwynn returned to the castle, where Jaina asked Robbie to take the drunken Experiment 335 to his room.
• Robbie put Experiment 335 to bed, returned to his own room, and began studying the seventeenth Holy Light Rune.

Robbie fused the seventeenth Holy Light Rune with its Rune of the Dead, creating the Eye of C'Thun and glimpsing the chained Old God’s true form. He tested the rune’s covert scouting ability and discovered Aegwynn telling Jaina that King Varian was an impostor.

• Robbie condensed the seventeenth Holy Light Rune and found that it vanished almost immediately.
• Robbie fused it with the seventeenth Rune of the Dead, creating a stable rune shaped like an eye.
• Robbie opened the Eye of C'Thun and saw the chained Old God and other enormous creatures in an abyss beneath Azeroth.
• Robbie broke his connection to the rune, identified it as the Eye of C'Thun, and debated whether to destroy it or study its power.
• Robbie used the rune’s Dark Flash ability to observe all of Theramore and saw Vanessa give up approaching the Archmage Tower.
• Robbie spied on Aegwynn and Jaina inside the tower as Aegwynn revealed that King Varian was an impostor.

Jaina learned from Aegwynn that Varian was an impostor and that Robbie Capor was the key to the Alliance-Horde peace talks. Aegwynn revealed her plan to use the talks on Alcaz Island to advance her alliance with the Legion’s peace faction, while Robbie persuaded Experiment 335 to demand Shalamayne from Jaina.

• Jaina grew furious after Aegwynn told her that King Varian was a fake, but Aegwynn insisted they continue pursuing peace talks.
• Aegwynn identified Robbie Capor as the person who would decide the talks and said she had planted a seed of darkness in his heart.
• Aegwynn urged Jaina to bring peace between the Alliance and the Horde so she could gain the Burning Legion’s peace faction’s acceptance.
• Aegwynn disclosed that Alcaz Island was her secret laboratory, where she had prepared a magic altar to control anyone who arrived for the negotiations.
• Robbie lied to Experiment 335 about Jaina humiliating him and advised him to demand Shalamayne.
• Jaina invited Experiment 335 to the negotiations on Alcaz Island, and he asked her about the wolf god power she had promised him.

Jaina tried to reassure the false King Varian that Theramore would provide him with Wild God power and longevity, while Hendel and his companions suffered captivity near Theramore. The short prisoner revealed that the monster who had eaten Hendel’s companions was Rexxar, the Horde hero Hendel admired.

• Jaina promised Experiment 335 that Theramore would grant him Wild God power and a way to live forever if he reached an agreement with the Horde, but Robbie said the king did not trust her.
• Hendel recalled how he and his companions had traveled to Theramore to serve Jaina and were captured after falling ill in a canyon.
• A monster dragged Hendel’s companion from the bone cage and butchered him, while Hendel recognized the name Thrall in the monster’s curses.
• The short prisoner gave Hendel greasy pot-washing water and heard his plan to escape and seek Jaina’s help.
• The short prisoner mocked Hendel’s faith in the Horde’s heroes and revealed that the monster who had eaten Hendel’s companions was Rexxar.

Hendel learned that the short cook was Rexxar’s former cook and that Jaina had lured Hendel’s party to be eaten. When Jaina arrived, she used magic to overpower Rexxar, leaving Hendel disillusioned with the Horde hero he had worshipped.

• The short cook introduced Misha and told Hendel that Rexxar had been betrayed by Thrall and rescued by Jaina.
• The short cook explained that stonescale cod weakened outsiders and revealed that Jaina had sent Hendel’s party to Rexxar as food.
• Jaina arrived, ignored Hendel, and summoned Rexxar from the stone house.
• Rexxar insulted Thrall and swung at Jaina, but she used a magic sphere to knock him down and beat him.
• Hendel watched Jaina humiliate Rexxar and lost faith in the hero he had worshipped.

Jaina tortured Rexxar to learn where Shalamayne was, took Shalla'tor, and left Ellemayne with him. Meanwhile, Hendel escaped and vowed revenge, while Jaina offered a sword to Experiment 335 to secure Horde peace talks, which he redirected toward Northwatch Hold.

• Jaina tortured Rexxar until he revealed Shalamayne's hiding place, then took Shalla'tor and left Ellemayne with him.
• After Rexxar killed two human soldiers, the short cook freed Hendel and urged him to escape and expose the Horde heroes.
• Hendel fled the canyon, swore revenge on Jaina and her allies, and considered returning to Theramore to secretly build strength.
• Jaina offered Shalla'tor to Experiment 335 as an advance deposit for peace talks with the Horde.
• Experiment 335 agreed to the talks but rejected Alcaz Island and chose to visit Northwatch Hold first.

Robbie and Vanessa found Ellemayne in Blood Gorge and killed Rexxar, while the chained cook decided to assume the dead hero’s identity. After Robbie and Vanessa left with the sword, a mysterious noblewoman traveled toward Goldshire, her attention fixed on Stormwind City.

• Vanessa tracked Ellemayne to Blood Gorge, where Robbie and Vanessa killed Rexxar and recovered the sword from his room.
• Robbie freed the chained cook and healed his injured ankle before leaving with Vanessa.
• The cook, who cared for Misha, decided to disguise himself in Rexxar’s skin and take his place.
• Robbie and Vanessa discussed making a replica of Shalamayne for King Varian, then went their separate ways.
• A noblewoman rode toward Goldshire and watched Stormwind City with a savage look in her eyes.

Garona’s attempt to infiltrate Stormwind and lure King Varian was exposed as a possible espionage plot, prompting the Black Dragon Princess to seek help. At Northwatch Hold, Experiment 335 began telling the soldiers that their fight against the Horde was a futile slaughter and that they should withdraw.

• Garona traveled into Elwynn Forest disguised as a noblewoman, but Hogger detected her Orc scent and reported her to SI:7.
• SI:7 found Garona’s abandoned carriage and realized she was a skilled rogue who had left no footprints, so the Black Dragon Princess sent people to investigate and sought help.
• At Northwatch Hold, Robbie advised Experiment 335 to criticize the fortress’s costly defense and urge the soldiers to stop dying for Jaina.
• Experiment 335 addressed the assembled soldiers as Varian and asked about their difficulties.
• After a commander requested reinforcements, Experiment 335 called the soldiers idiots and demanded to know why they did not withdraw from Northwatch Hold.

Experiment 335 stayed at Northwatch Hold to teach the soldiers, while Robbie met the Black Dragon Princess and learned that Garona had entered Elwynn Forest disguised as a human noblewoman. Garona planned to use divination to approach King Varian discreetly.

• Experiment 335 realized his speech had failed and decided to remain at Northwatch Hold to educate the soldiers, while Robbie let him stay.
• Jaina grew angry after Rexxar escaped with half of the Elven divine sword, and Aegwynn urged her to be patient.
• The Black Dragon Princess arrived secretly at Northwatch Hold and warned Robbie and Vanessa that a powerful female Orc rogue was hiding in Elwynn Forest.
• Vanessa identified Garona's scent on a carriage, and Robbie and Vanessa concluded that Garona was targeting King Varian.
• The Black Dragon Princess proposed watching King Varian to find Garona, who had assumed the identity of Lady Paula Angel and planned to approach him through divination.

Garona used her fake divination skills to win Prince Anduin’s trust, while Robbie, Vanessa, and Experiment 335 prepared to sabotage the Alliance-Horde peace talks by drawing outside factions into the conflict. Garona realized Anduin might help her reach King Varian, and the conspirators readied their lures for several groups.

• Garona mistook Anduin Wrynn for King Varian’s visitor, then impressed the young prince by guessing his identity and telling him his choices would shape his future.
• Garona described Anduin’s worries about his father and a beautiful woman, convincing him she could read his heart and leaving him delighted by her suggestion that he might become king.
• Robbie, Vanessa, and Experiment 335 agreed that they would bring outside forces into the peace talks to make them appear responsible for sabotaging the negotiations.
• Vanessa confirmed that Defias Brotherhood members were active in Theramore, while Experiment 335 explained that false information about the Spear of Victory would draw in the Grimtotem.
• Vanessa said Lurky’s scale would attract the Naga of Alcaz Island and prepared a potion smelling like a female Ogre to lure the Stonemaul Ogres through Thrall.

Robbie and Experiment 335 prepared for negotiations at the Shadebough Inn, while Robbie arranged for several groups to disrupt the meeting. Thrall arrived atop Galleon, humiliated Cairne Bloodhoof, and tried to overpower Experiment 335 with a hug, only to be injured by his spiked armor.

• Robbie arranged to draw the Forsaken and other groups into trouble around the negotiations at the Shadebough Inn.
• Experiment 335 insisted on meeting Thrall that day, and Jaina teleported to Orgrimmar to bring him and his entourage to the inn.
• Thrall arrived atop Galleon with Cairne Bloodhoof, Vol'jin, and Gallywix, while Jaina explained how the Mushan Beast had become his mount.
• Thrall stepped on Cairne Bloodhoof's head while dismounting, and Experiment 335 grew upset at seeing how the Tauren chieftain endured the humiliation.
• Thrall hugged Experiment 335 to demonstrate his strength, but screamed when the spikes on Experiment 335's armor pierced his arms.