Chapter Summaries

Robbie used Metamorphosis to free Prince Farondis from a corrupted body, and Queen Azshara halted his plans for revenge while deciding to investigate the corruption. She contacted her mentor Kil'jaeden, who appeared drunk aboard a spaceship.

• Robbie discovered that Corruption had taken hold of Prince Farondis and offered to use Metamorphosis to save him.
• Robbie fused the runes of Redemption and the Dead and used them to separate Farondis's soul from his corrupted body, allowing him to be reborn.
• Farondis sealed the corrupted body and vowed to attack the Temple of the Moon, but Robbie urged him to consult Queen Azshara first.
• Queen Azshara warned Farondis against seeking revenge and kept a piece of the corrupted body for study.
• Queen Azshara contacted her mentor Kil'jaeden, who greeted her while lying drunk among bottles aboard a spaceship.

Queen Azshara learned that Kil'jaeden recognized the sealed tentacle as a clue to forbidden power and warned her to beware the Heavenly Ones. She brought the tentacle to C'Thun, who identified it as part of a scheme by the Heavenly Ones.

• Azshara showed Kil'jaeden the sealed tentacle, and it revived his hopes for a path to eternity.
• Kil'jaeden refused to explain the tentacle's origin, warning Azshara that the secret concerned the End Time and telling her to beware the Heavenly Ones.
• Azshara explained to Robbie that the Burning Legion's old leaders and methods were becoming obsolete, then decided to consult C'Thun.
• Azshara entered Ahn'Qiraj with Robbie and fought off C'Thun's Eye Beam and Dark Reflection before they reached a wary standoff.
• Azshara showed C'Thun the tentacle, and he recognized it as evidence of a scheme by the Heavenly Ones.

Azshara learned from C'Thun that the tentacle held the power of a fallen True God, while C'Thun warned her away from asking about the Heavenly Ones. At Mount Hyjal, Mannoroth found an unexpected potential ally in Broxigar, who claimed the Night Elves sought the Burning Legion's help.

• C'Thun explained that a cosmic alliance had destroyed the sole True God and that the tentacle in Azshara's sphere was a Titan trophy containing its mysteries.
• Azshara asked C'Thun about the Heavenly Ones, but he warned her that the subject was forbidden and tied to the coming End Time.
• After making her deal with C'Thun, Azshara decided that Azshara City's research should focus on uncovering the Moon Goddess's mysteries.
• Mannoroth corrupted Furbolgs on Mount Hyjal and searched for a Night Elf he could manipulate, but found none suitable.
• Mannoroth spotted Broxigar at the Furbolg camp and confirmed that he was a former Burning Legion veteran.
• Broxigar told Mannoroth that the Moon Goddess wanted to cooperate with the Burning Legion because Azshara had bound the Night Elves with the Well of Eternity.

Mannoroth questioned Broxigar’s claim that the Night Elves of Mount Hyjal wanted to abandon the Well of Eternity’s magic for Fel, then consulted Archimonde. Tyrande negotiated with Mannoroth to bring the Burning Legion to Mount Hyjal, but she vehemently rejected his demand to let unwilling Night Elves leave.

• Broxigar told Mannoroth that the Temple of the Moon needed Fel and that the Moon Goddess’s seed had already taken hold in the Night Elves of Mount Hyjal.
• After Broxigar left the Furbolg camp, he changed back into Cenarius’s body, and Mannoroth contacted Archimonde for advice.
• Archimonde told Mannoroth to accept the Night Elves’ terms, allow doubters to flee, and avoid provoking Queen Azshara; he also sent an advance force through a spatial rift.
• Tyrande met Mannoroth and offered half the lands of Azeroth in exchange for the Burning Legion’s power, agreeing that it could build a portal and station troops outside Night Elf settlements.
• Mannoroth demanded that Night Elves unwilling to accept Fel be allowed to leave Mount Hyjal, and Tyrande cried that it was impossible.

Tyrande gave the Night Elves three days to leave Mount Hyjal, then used the Moon Goddess’s power to force them to accept Fel and attack Queen Azshara. The chapter ended with Tyrande punishing thousands of protesting Night Elves as the crowd watched in horror.

• Tyrande agreed to give the Night Elves three days to choose whether to leave Mount Hyjal, and Mannoroth began building a Burning Legion portal there.
• Tyrande disguised the forced conversion as a test of faith, but rumors spread that the Temple of the Moon planned to make its followers accept Fel; fewer than a tenth of the Night Elves left.
• Malfurion watched Lisa leave Mount Hyjal and returned to his cabin, believing he had no choice but to stay.
• After three days, the Temple of the Moon sealed Mount Hyjal’s routes, and Tyrande told the assembled Night Elves to abandon the Well of Eternity’s magic, accept Fel, and fight Queen Azshara and the Highborne.
• When the Night Elves protested, Tyrande declared them blasphemers and struck thousands with moonlight power, causing wormlike creatures to tear through their flesh.

Tyrande used the Moon Goddess's power to suppress resistance and slaughter nearly half the Night Elves on Mount Hyjal, while Illidan struggled to accept the massacre. At Azshara's Royal Palace, Queen Azshara revealed that her mages were studying Elune and said their growing knowledge would eventually let them prevail.

• Tyrande praised the surviving Night Elves as devout followers of the Moon Goddess, and frightened survivors joined her slogans to earn Elune's favor.
• Illidan learned of the massacre on Mount Hyjal and vowed to return, but Xavius restrained him and Robbie suggested they seek Queen Azshara.
• Robbie, Xavius, and Illidan arrived at the Royal Palace and found Azshara's mages studying images of Elune through a vast magical eye above the Well of Eternity.
• Queen Azshara told Illidan that courage alone could not defeat a goddess and explained that her mages were narrowing the gap through their studies.
• Illidan and Xavius asked what they could do, and Azshara's explanation left their next course of action unresolved.

Robbie discovered that the moon was the living body of Elune, and Queen Azshara ordered the Night Elves to investigate the goddess’s power. Meanwhile, Archaeus of the Zandalar Great Empire summoned his priests to learn whether the Mount Hyjal rebellion could end Azshara’s rule.

• Queen Azshara ordered the Night Elves to investigate the moon after it moved unusually close to Azeroth.
• A Night Elf Archmage discovered that the moon was hollow and contained a magic well drawing shadow energy from the Void.
• Robbie used the Eye of C'Thun and Point, Line, and Plane to detect magic across the moon and realized it was alive and was Elune’s true form.
• Xavius reported Robbie’s discovery to Queen Azshara, who ordered the Night Elves to unravel Elune’s power quickly.
• Archaeus summoned the Zandalar Great Empire’s priests and asked whether the Mount Hyjal rebellion could bring Azshara’s rule to an end.

Troll Emperor Archaeus used the Loa priests’ unanimous prophecies to justify joining the rebels at Mount Hyjal against the Night Elves. Meanwhile, Krasus and Rhonin reached the dragons’ gathering place, where the Dragonflights were discussing the Demon Soul, and Krasus suspected their decision could shape its creation.

• Archaeus forced the Troll priests to seek the Loa’s guidance, and their prophecies supported his alliance with the Mount Hyjal rebels.
• Archaeus declared that the Zandalari Empire would exploit the Night Elves’ division and defeat them, and the priests cheered his decision.
• Krasus and Rhonin followed a red dragon scale’s memories to the Dragon King’s Sanctum and met the younger Korialstrasz in a nearby cavern.
• Korialstrasz told Krasus and Rhonin to wait while the Dragonflights discussed an important matter.
• Krasus and Rhonin identified the Demon Soul as the subject of the meeting, and Krasus wondered whether their choices would affect its creation.

Rhonin and Krasus secretly watched the Dragon Kings debate creating the Demon Soul, intending to stop it. Deathwing argued that the dragons should flee to a planet the Black Dragonflight had prepared, and Malygos asked whether they could share it.

• Rhonin and Krasus agreed to oppose the Demon Soul after considering the harm it would bring to the dragons.
• Rhonin used a concealed magical stone to spy on the Dragon Kings' chamber, claiming the spell was a human adventurer's trick.
• Rhonin and Krasus saw Alexstrasza lead the push to create the Demon Soul while Deathwing opposed concentrating the dragons' power.
• Ysera argued that the Night Elves remained a danger even under Queen Azshara, but Deathwing revealed that the Black Dragonflight had prepared a new planet for an interstellar migration.
• Malygos asked Deathwing whether the Black Dragonflight would share the new planet with the other dragons.

Neltharion rejected the other Dragonflights’ demand to help forge the Demon Soul, and the dispute erupted into a brawl between him and Alexstrasza’s side. Nozdormu and Ysera eventually persuaded Neltharion to offer Draenor as a refuge, though Alexstrasza remained unimpressed.

• Neltharion accused the other Dragonflights of abandoning the Black Dragonflight and refused to share its discoveries or help forge the Demon Soul.
• Alexstrasza challenged Neltharion, and their mates fought; Neltharion’s side defeated the Red Dragon Queen and her companions without using magic.
• Ysera intervened to stop the fight, but Alexstrasza vowed to challenge her opponent again after losing weight.
• Nozdormu appealed to Neltharion for help, and Ysera urged him not to abandon the other Dragonflights.
• Neltharion revealed Draenor as a possible refuge, describing its inhabitants as food and potential laborers.
• Malygos, Ysera, and Nozdormu expressed interest in Draenor, while Alexstrasza looked on with contempt.

Alexstrasza revealed that Azeroth’s Titan-made barrier trapped dragons inside the world and that the Night Elves would eventually need their essence to escape it. As the Dragon Kings debated whether to create the Demon Soul to protect their kind, Nozdormu prepared to hear from Krasus and Rhonin, summoned from ten thousand years in the future.

• Alexstrasza told Neltharion and the other Dragon Kings that Eonar had called Azeroth a prison and its dragons the jailers.
• Neltharion explained that the Titans’ barrier kept powerful beings from entering Azeroth but also prevented its inhabitants from reaching the stars.
• Alexstrasza warned that the Night Elves would eventually hunt the dragons for their essence, which could serve as a key through the planetary defense system.
• Krasus and Rhonin agreed that the Demon Soul had to be created to save the dragons, though Rhonin worried that doing so would end the Night Elves’ promising civilization.
• Neltharion suggested Queen Azshara might overcome the barrier without killing the dragons, but Alexstrasza rejected relying on their enemy.
• Nozdormu brought Krasus and Rhonin from ten thousand years in the past to advise the dragons as their fate approached.

Rhonin and Krasus answered the Dragon Kings’ questions about the war against the Night Elves, revealing that the Demon Soul succeeded but that the dragons paid a heavy price. Neltharion then asked whether their firsthand view of the past differed greatly from recorded history, and Alexstrasza objected.

• Nozdormu restricted each Dragon King to one yes-or-no question to protect the timeline, and Alexstrasza agreed.
• Alexstrasza asked whether the Demon Soul ended the Night Elves’ rule, and Rhonin and Krasus said yes.
• Malygos asked whether the dragons paid a heavy price, and both visitors said yes; Rhonin’s pity unsettled him.
• Ysera asked whether any of the Five Dragonflights were wiped out, and both visitors said no, though Rhonin hesitated.
• Neltharion asked whether the visitors’ firsthand knowledge of the past differed greatly from historical records, and Alexstrasza objected.

Neltharion challenged Krasus and Rhonin over whether history was deceptive, but Nozdormu explained their opposing answers as honest judgments based on different sources. A time-traveling Dryad then warned the Dragon Kings about the Demon Soul’s disasters and the Red Dragonflight’s future enslavement, leaving Nozdormu confronted with the claim that his future self had sent the Dryad.

• Neltharion questioned whether history was deceptive, and Rhonin answered yes while Krasus answered no.
• Nozdormu explained that Krasus relied on firsthand memories while Rhonin relied on history books, so neither had lied.
• A young dragon revealed himself as a male Dryad and warned Malygos that the Demon Soul had devastated the Blue Dragonflight.
• The Dryad told Alexstrasza that Orcs would use the Demon Soul to enslave her and the Red Dragonflight, and Krasus’s hesitation supported the warning.
• The Dryad described the Demon Soul’s role in the Well of Eternity’s destruction, prompting the Dragon Kings to reconsider forging it.
• Nozdormu explained that the Dryad might have seen events from branch timelines, and the Dryad said Nozdormu’s future self had sent him.

After the dragons’ gathering ended in accusations and no resolution, Rhonin returned to the Emerald Dream and fell asleep. His dream turned into a funeral for himself, where a mysterious voice told him it was his nightmare.

• Nozdormu killed the dryad, and Ysera recognized the dropped weapon as the stolen Oak Axe of the Emerald Dream.
• Ysera and Nozdormu blamed the dryad’s claims on Queen Azshara’s magic and suspected a traitor among the dragons.
• Malygos ended the argument and opened a portal home, while Neltharion urged Alexstrasza to put the dragons’ interests first.
• Rhonin followed Krasus back to the Emerald Dream and fell asleep in a comfortable room.
• Rhonin dreamed of Jaina attending a funeral for a great mage named Rhonin, then saw himself in the coffin as the world froze.
• A mysterious voice asked Rhonin whether the scene was his nightmare.

N'Zoth warned Rhonin that Jaina was dangerous and ordered him to persuade Neltharion to forge the Demon Soul so he could win Alexstrasza's trust and learn the Titans' secrets. Krasus then took Rhonin toward Neltharion's lair, where Rhonin planned to deceive Deathwing with Krasus's help.

• N'Zoth entered Rhonin's dream, warned him about Jaina, and questioned him about the Dragon Kings' meeting.
• Rhonin told N'Zoth everything he knew about the meeting and the Dragon Kings' reactions.
• N'Zoth ordered Rhonin to persuade Neltharion to forge the Demon Soul and explained that the Dragon Aspects' power hindered dragonkind's future.
• Krasus woke Rhonin and took him toward Neltharion's lair at the Red Dragon Queen's command.
• Rhonin told Krasus that humans excelled at deception and asked him to help fool Deathwing.

Rhonin and Krasus planned to deceive Neltharion, while Neltharion weighed the threat of Azshara and the secrets surrounding Elune. Their visit began with Krasus apologizing, but Neltharion refused to trust his account of the future, leaving Rhonin to try a different approach.

• Rhonin suggested invoking Eonar and claiming the Demon Soul would benefit the Dragonkin, then told Krasus he would try to fool Neltharion himself.
• Neltharion considered the Night Elves' power, the alarming future described by the envoys, and his suspicions about Elune and Alexstrasza.
• Neltharion allowed Rhonin and Krasus into his lair and summoned Black Dragons to witness their meeting.
• Krasus apologized to Neltharion and offered to describe Azeroth ten thousand years in the future.
• Neltharion said he would not believe Krasus and challenged Rhonin, who asked whether the Black Dragon King knew himself well enough.

Rhonin told Neltharion that N'Zoth viewed the Demon Soul as a chance for the Black Dragonflight to escape the titans’ restraints. Uncertain how to judge the message, Neltharion went to Queen Azshara for advice, unaware that the queen before him was an illusion.

• Neltharion dismissed Krasus and took Rhonin deeper into the cave to speak privately.
• Rhonin admitted he had come on N'Zoth's behalf and said future accounts wrongly blamed Neltharion for forging the Demon Soul.
• Rhonin relayed N'Zoth's claim that the Demon Soul could free the Black Dragonflight from the titans’ restraints, and Neltharion thanked him before sending him away.
• After Rhonin left, Neltharion considered his words and went through a hidden portal to Azshara to consult Queen Azshara.
• Neltharion arrived at the Royal Palace as Lord Prestor, and Queen Azshara welcomed him and asked for a question worth considering.

Neltharion visited Queen Azshara for guidance about the Titans’ power and the limits placed on the dragonflights. Azshara explained the risks of the Demon Soul and warned that the time to forge it had not yet come.

• Robbie used magic to show Illidan and Xavius Neltharion meeting with Queen Azshara, while they discussed the Black Dragon King’s strength.
• Neltharion asked Azshara what price the Titans had imposed when they granted the dragons their power.
• Azshara argued that the Titans’ hierarchy constrained both the dragons’ power and their willingness to accept successors, leading Neltharion to realize that his rule could limit his flight’s future.
• Azshara urged Neltharion to encourage shared growth and competition, then described how the Night Elves sought to escape their own constraints by combining different powers.
• Neltharion asked about the Demon Soul, and Azshara revealed that the Night Elves knew of it and could counter it, but said the right moment to forge it had not arrived.

Xavius proposed using himself to test how Elune’s power would interact with the Old Gods’ corruption, and Robbie and Illidan reluctantly helped him begin the dangerous experiment. As a worm infected Xavius and spread eggs through his body, an unknown power suddenly erupted inside him.

• After Queen Azshara made Neltharion agree to wait before creating the Demon Soul, Xavius suggested testing Elune’s power on someone carrying the Old Gods’ corruption.
• Xavius volunteered himself, and Illidan objected while Robbie warned that Xavius had less than a ten percent chance of surviving safely.
• Xavius persuaded Illidan to record the experiment, and Robbie helped separate them so the procedure could begin.
• Xavius swallowed a worm that shed a shell in his stomach and secretly moved from his esophagus into his lungs.
• The worm infected Xavius’s lungs, spread eggs through his blood, damaged his eyesight, and weakened his body before a power erupted inside him.

Xavius's Old God power let him glimpse ancient Troll blood pools and a hidden contingency left by Xal'atath, while the worms in his body absorbed and controlled that power. His visions then revealed the Sha of Y'Shaarj and a mysterious being who may have revived the Old God, leaving Robbie and Illidan alarmed and uncertain of the being's identity.

• Xavius's shadow and Old God power briefly drove back the worms, and he described visions of Troll sacrifices and blood pools.
• Robbie and Illidan realized Xal'atath's power remained concealed in Troll bloodlines and might allow her return through enough sacrifices.
• The worms merged with and corrupted Xal'atath's power, then infected Xavius with the Seven Sha of Pandaria, forcing Robbie to repeatedly bolster him with blessings.
• Xavius saw Y'Shaarj torn apart above a moon, then glimpsed an ancient holy city destroyed and a mysterious being using nature and life to revive the Old God.
• Illidan questioned whether Elune was Y'Shaarj, and Robbie suggested that an unknown being had brought Y'Shaarj back to life.