Chapter Summaries

Robbie argued with Chen Stormstout, then learned Vanessa planned to track down a mysterious Alliance commander for a Legendary ring and prophetic knowledge. On the way to Embaari Village, the group encountered another supposed Barov heir trapped beneath a tree, continuing Lunarfall’s odd pattern of adventurers imitating the Barov brothers.

• Chen Stormstout argued that he supported Alliance peace, but he backed down from fighting Robbie and agreed to tell Maraad that Robbie would host the reconciliation banquet at his garrison.
• Vanessa told Robbie that test subject No. 335 remained in the Alliance to pursue a Legendary ring, and she planned to become Lunarfall’s strongest healer so the commander would need her help.
• Vanessa ordered Robbie to accompany her as a healer and proposed drugging Yrel so Robbie would sleep with her, but Robbie persuaded Vanessa to drop the idea by citing tragic cross-racial romances.
• Vanessa explained that she sought test subject No. 335 partly because the person knew prophecies that might aid the Brotherhood’s undertaking.
• Vanessa, Robbie, and Delvar Ironfist escorted Yrel toward Embaari Village while Yrel took detours to collect minerals and herbs.
• The group ignored someone calling for help beneath a fallen tree, and Vanessa complained that the trapped person was a Whiteboard scoundrel pretending to be a Barov heir.

Robbie and Vanessa recruited the impoverished Weldon Barov after Robbie tricked him into signing a follower contract, then traveled with Yrel as she gathered supplies and sold them at a roadside stall. At the hunter’s camp, Vanessa considered joining a newly formed party for a bounty, but Robbie grew suspicious of its members.

• Yrel led Robbie and Delvar Ironfist into repeated fights while gathering herbs, and Robbie encountered Weldon Barov pinned beneath a tree.
• Robbie altered a follower contract to claim control of Weldon’s family wealth and pressed Weldon’s fingerprint onto it while he was dazed.
• Weldon explained that he had come to Draenor hoping to benefit from his family’s past fortune, and he followed Vanessa’s group because he could not find his way to the garrison.
• Yrel sold gathered goods at a hunter’s camp, where Robbie paid off her small debt to merchant Mami.
• A Dwarf Warrior invited Vanessa to join a party for the Ku'rat's Fangs bounty, and Robbie warned her that the newly assembled group seemed suspicious.

Robbie and Vanessa joined a party hunting Kurat, whose members planned to exploit the hunt to steal Vanessa’s Enchanter’s Robe. After Robbie foiled an Undead rogue’s ambush, the party tried to abandon the fight as Kurat neared death, but Vanessa pulled Ironfist back into danger and Robbie prepared to make the schemers answer for their crimes.

• Vanessa and Robbie recognized that the party was plotting to steal Vanessa’s Enchanter’s Robe, and Vanessa negotiated for three shares of the bounty.
• The party listed its skills, and Vanessa revealed that she knew Pain Suppression before Robbie hurriedly changed the subject to her cooking.
• The elf hunter drew Kurat away from the herd, and the party began fighting him while Robbie pretended to be a weak attacker.
• The hunter used Misdirection to redirect Kurat toward Ironfist, but Vanessa shielded and healed Ironfist before the Elekk could hurt him.
• An Undead rogue approached Vanessa, but Robbie exposed and badly injured him with a Paladin attack combo, and Vanessa added a Pain spell as he fled.
• As Kurat neared death, the party members tried to escape, but Vanessa used Leap of Faith to pull Ironfist back while Robbie prepared mass repentance.

Robbie and Vanessa uncovered a murder plot targeting Alliance adventurers and meant to turn the Draenei against the Alliance. On the road to Embaari Village, they found Yrel had caught the four adventurers who had slandered Vanessa and robbed them herself.

• Robbie used Mass Repentance to make four adventurers regret attacking him, then took their gear and the Elekk's tusks as a reward.
• Weldon revealed that his brother Alexi Barov and his associates had murdered Alliance adventurers, prompting Vanessa to pursue the group and Robbie to take Alexi's Orb of Deception.
• Vanessa concluded that someone had freed former Stockade inmates and sent them to kill Alliance adventurers, hoping to damage Alliance-Draenei relations and help Thrall gain influence in Shadowmoon Valley.
• At the hunter camp, Robbie and Vanessa learned that the four adventurers had convinced Yrel to leave by spreading lies about Vanessa, so the three hurried toward Embaari Village.
• Robbie and Vanessa found Yrel reading The Eredar Twins' Temptation beside the belongings she had taken from the four adventurers who tried to rob her.

Robbie and Vanessa exposed Luobo'an’s quest fraud in Embaari Village and learned that Lord Li Yueke had used him to test the Draenei. Li Yueke then confronted Robbie over the Kurat bounty and demanded a huge payment, while a crowd of adventurers backed him.

• Robbie learned that the Shadowmoon Clan threatened Embaari Village and that Luobo'an had already collected the bounty for Ku'rat's Fangs.
• Yrel caught Luobo'an lying about rescuing three Draenei children and forced him to confess to quest fraud and pay a fine.
• Robbie learned that Lord Li Yueke, who sold commander certificates, had encouraged Luobo'an to commit the fraud, then lent Luobo'an one hundred gold coins.
• Vanessa told Robbie that a show was about to start as adventurers gathered in the tavern and Lord Li Yueke arrived with the group that had tricked them into killing the Elekk.
• Lord Li Yueke demanded one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins and the Enchanter's Robe from Robbie, claiming they had ruined the group's income, while the adventurers rallied behind him.

Johnsen exposed Li Yueke’s connection to a group of adventurers who had killed his family, then forced him to testify against them. Vanessa revealed that the incident was part of a struggle against the Peace Dove and identified Monroe as Azeroth’s number one beauty, Monroe Doras.

• Johnsen told Li Yueke that the four adventurers had killed his sister-in-law, wife, brother, and other relatives, and Li Yueke eventually agreed to testify against them.
• Johnsen ordered the four executed, while Li Yueke left with SI:7 agents.
• Vanessa told Robbie that Li Yueke sold commander credentials for a mysterious noble linked to the Peace Dove, which had arranged the killings and stirred conflict between the Alliance and Draenei.
• Vanessa explained that the Wings of Freedom opposed the Peace Dove and identified Monroe as Monroe Doras.

Vanessa and Robbie learned that the Horde had tried to secure the Draenei’s cooperation through a deceptive relocation agreement, while Anduin staged grief over Monroe’s death to conceal his true feelings. The chapter ended with Anduin urging Grand Duke Alpha to manipulate Velen’s prophecies and turn the Draenei against the Horde.

• Johnsen told Vanessa and Robbie that Liyork had confessed to helping the Horde drive a wedge between the Alliance and the Draenei, and he showed them Monroe’s relocation agreement with its seventy-year limit.
• Yrel invited Robbie and Vanessa to meet Prophet Velen after the Elekk quartet’s execution helped restore order in Lunarfall.
• In Ashran, Anduin’s aides believed he was grieving Monroe, and Bishop Faxien claimed that Meryl Winterstorm could resurrect her from her bones.
• Udir learned that Faxien planned to substitute another Orc woman for Monroe, since Anduin and the others could not tell Orcs apart.
• Anduin privately revealed that he was relieved Monroe was gone and told Grand Duke Alpha to mislead Velen with a false prophecy so the Draenei would cooperate with the Horde.

Robbie and Vanessa confronted Prophet Velen over the Draenei’s fate, and Velen hinted at a greater secret behind the void. After Robbie accepted Yrel’s invitation to visit her home, Ner’zhul revealed that he had delayed his attack on Embaari Village to target the prophesied hope who would save the Draenei: Robbie.

• Robbie met Prophet Velen with Yrel and heard Velen praise his courage, wisdom, and unusual travels.
• Vanessa accused Velen of deciding the Draenei’s fate for them, and Velen explained that he had refused to become like the Burning Legion and had left a seed for the people of Argus.
• Vanessa provoked Velen into hinting at a secret behind the void and the wider rise and fall of civilizations, then bowed respectfully.
• Robbie accepted Yrel’s invitation to visit her home and thought about protecting Samara from Ner’zhul, who planned to use her blood to summon the Dark Star.
• Ner’zhul told a Goblin scout that he had delayed his operation to wait for Robbie, whom he intended to kill to crush the Draenei psychologically.

Ner'zhul attacked the Truna Observatory to seize Samara's pendant and summon the Dark Star, but Robbie, Vanessa, and Yrel arrived to rescue her. The chapter ended with Ner'zhul mistaking a mocking note for the pendant's incantation.

• Ner'zhul dismissed a Peace Dove Goblin's warning about Robbie, choked him, and demanded Peace Dove pledge loyalty.
• Robbie and Vanessa visited Yrel and Samara, where Vanessa stole a large Dark Star fragment from Samara's necklace.
• After learning Samara had gone to the Truna Observatory, Robbie rushed there with Vanessa and Yrel and found Peace Dove guards blocking the entrance.
• Yrel broke through the guards, and the group discovered Ner'zhul holding Samara and Draenei astrologers captive while six mages opened a Void rift.
• Ner'zhul sacrificed the six mages to summon a shadow demon, but it ignored his commands, and Robbie prompted him to inspect Samara's pendant.
• Ner'zhul read Robbie's note, “I'm not telling you, I'm not telling you,” and declared that it must be the incantation for communicating with the Dark Star.

At the Truna Observatory, Robbie stalled Ner'zhul from contacting the Dark Star by tricking him into singing a bogus incantation, while Yrel rescued the Draenei captives. When Ner'zhul discovered the deception, he killed a Peace Dove member and turned on Robbie, who stood ready to face him.

• Ner'zhul recited the note Robbie had written, and Robbie convinced him the incantation had to be sung.
• Yrel rescued Samara and the trapped Draenei stargazers while Ner'zhul repeatedly sang and danced without reaching the Dark Star.
• Carola and the other five Peace Dove Council members arrived, and Ner'zhul ordered them to join his singing and dancing.
• The Gnome Discipline Priest spotted that the note's ink was still wet, so Ner'zhul struck him dead and confronted Robbie.
• Robbie admitted writing the note, and Yrel returned with Samara and five Draenei stargazers as Robbie prepared to face Ner'zhul.

Robbie used unexpected kicks and the Shaman-disrupting Back-and-Forth Hopping to overwhelm Ner'zhul in combat, but Ner'zhul escaped in a cloud of smoke. Robbie was left coughing as the Dark Portal closed and Ner'zhul's threat against Prophet Velen echoed.

• Robbie feinted with a leaping strike, kicked Ner'zhul in the face, and broke one of his tusks, then interrupted his spell with Fist of Justice.
• Ner'zhul and Robbie fought with their weapons until Ner'zhul wrapped his staff around the Cursed Torch and sent both weapons flying.
• Robbie dodged Ner'zhul's punches and knocked him down, then used Back-and-Forth Hopping to disrupt the Shaman's elements and batter him.
• A Draenei Shaman explained that Back-and-Forth Hopping had once helped defeat the Troll Shaman army, while Carola recounted its use against Ragnaros.
• Ner'zhul spat out a black bead and vanished in smoke along with the five members of Peace Dove, threatening Prophet Velen as the Dark Portal closed.

Robbie learned that Vanessa planned to control the Dark Star using fallen Naaru fragments, despite the deadly risk, and resolved to protect her. When Vanessa asked whether Tirion Fordring could be trusted, Robbie criticized Tirion’s factional neutrality and questioned his reputation for strength.

• Vanessa explained that fallen Naaru fragments had increased her chance of controlling the Dark Star, but warned that failure would kill her.
• Robbie realized Vanessa might die following the course of history and swore to change her fate.
• Vanessa said the Argent Crusade would sell five more fragments for five sets of Epic equipment, but Tirion Fordring demanded the full price without bargaining.
• Vanessa asked Robbie what he thought of Tirion Fordring, and Robbie argued that Tirion’s rejection of factional loyalties made him unacceptable to both the Alliance and Horde.
• Robbie mocked Tirion Fordring’s strength by pointing out that he had only fought Eitrigg to a draw, and Vanessa laughed.

Robbie shared Big Candle’s doubts about Tirion Fordring with Vanessa, who took him to a secret Infinite Dragonflight laboratory in Karabor Temple. They prepared to use time travel to uncover history, and Robbie realized Vanessa might be planning more than merely meeting Tirion.

• Robbie told Vanessa that Big Candle’s account raised doubts about Tirion Fordring’s encounter with Eitrigg, and Vanessa said they would need to see for themselves.
• Vanessa brought Robbie to an Infinite Dragonflight laboratory in Karabor Temple, where she explained that its time-travel machine had revealed rifts connecting different points in Azeroth’s history.
• Toki, the Eternal One, explained that Robbie was a trusted guide who could lead people through the timeline, and that history could not be changed but the future could.
• Vanessa said she wanted to travel to the timeline where Tirion Fordring met Eitrigg, but Toki warned that the machine needed adjustments to reach that far back.
• Toki suggested seeing Tirion when he was down on his luck in the Plaguelands, and Robbie recognized the reference to the Love and Family quest.

Robbie and Vanessa traveled back to the Eastern Plaguelands and discovered that it was lush and inhabited by orderly undead, unlike the ruined region described in books. After gathering information at Timmy Tavern in Darrowshire, they headed to Marris Stead, where Robbie encountered a female Tauren.

• Robbie and Vanessa traveled through time to the Eastern Plaguelands, where Robbie was surprised to find healthy greenery instead of plague-ravaged land.
• Vanessa explained that the books described the Plaguelands of their own time and that the region had recovered without a source of infection.
• Robbie and Vanessa reached Darrowshire, met Little Pamela, and entered Timmy Tavern to listen for useful information.
• Robbie learned about the factions operating across the Plaguelands and heard that adventurers were killing creatures near Marris Stead.
• Robbie put on his Orc disguise while Vanessa remained invisible, and they set off for Marris Stead.
• Near Marris Stead, Robbie met a full-figured female Tauren who offered him milk.

Robbie encountered adventurers competing for access to Tirion Fordring’s mysterious legacy and accepted a recommendation from a Blood Elf named Sylvanas Windrunner. After Vanessa supplied stolen carrion-worm meat for the quest, Robbie intimidated the gathered adventurers and demanded to see Tirion, while Nathanos the Blightcaller watched and then backed down.

• Robbie turned down advances from a Tauren, an Orc, and an Undead before a Blood Elf introduced herself as Sylvanas Windrunner and offered to recommend him to Tirion Fordring.
• Sylvanas gave Robbie three quests and explained that collecting more carrion-worm meat would improve his chances of meeting Tirion.
• Vanessa gave Robbie dozens of bags of white maggot meat, which she had stolen while he was distracted.
• At Marris Stead, an Undead rogue recognized his stolen bag, so Robbie tore off the rogue’s limbs and threw him into the filthy water.
• Nathanos the Blightcaller appeared with his two Undead hounds, but withdrew after Robbie met his gaze; Robbie then demanded that the adventurers let him see Tirion Fordring.

Robbie attended Tirion Fordring’s gathering in the Eastern Plaguelands and discovered that the famed Paladin lived in a disguised castle and wielded overwhelming Holy Light. When Tirion stayed to answer the questions of female Orcs, Robbie gained a chance to delay him while Vanessa searched his home for a mysterious inheritance.

• Robbie arrived with adventurers from Marris Stead and learned that Tirion Fordring’s humble hut concealed a five-story castle.
• Robbie heard about the factional reputation gap, the Alliance leader Dick, and the Dwarf Anxu Yili, who had raised his reputation alone.
• Tirion Fordring entered the gathering, displayed his powerful Holy Light, and handed out signed recruitment cards after urging everyone to stay happy, glad, and optimistic.
• Robbie tried to keep Tirion from leaving by tripping a female Orc, but Tirion stopped to help her and began answering questions from the female Orcs.
• Robbie began planning another way to delay Tirion while the female Orcs occupied him.

Robbie stalled Tirion Fordring by posing as a messenger of Gul'dan and inventing a story about Gul'dan needing Holy Light to escape a Titan body. Their conversation turned to Tirion's past and a difficult quest, but a persistent Dwarf arrived with the family painting, leaving only Tirion's final request to complete.

• Robbie introduced himself to Tirion as Leonardo Brutalaxe, a messenger of Gul'dan, and claimed Gul'dan was cooperating with Grand Archmage Elisande in Suramar.
• Tirion believed Robbie enough to bring him into his hut, where he recalled how a collapsed watchtower and Barthilas's burst of Holy Light had allowed Arthas to escape.
• Robbie claimed Gul'dan was trapped in a Titan body and needed a powerful Holy Light user, prompting Tirion to boast about his growing strength and his plans to defeat Arthas.
• Tirion explained that the Love and Family quest required a painting from Stratholme's Scarlet Enclave, which he thought no adventurer could retrieve.
• Anxu Yili arrived with the painting after bribing a member of the Scarlet Crusade to obtain it.
• Tirion told Anxu Yili to visit his son Taelan Fordring in Hearthglen and ask about leftover meat sauce to receive the Mysterious Inheritance.

Robbie negotiated with Tirion Fordring over Gul'dan's cooperation while Tirion defended his son Taelan's place in the Scarlet Crusade. When Argent Dawn adventurers arrived, Robbie secretly kept them occupied long enough to dismantle Tirion's hidden castle.

• Anxu Yili argued with Tirion Fordring, who rejected his accusations against the Scarlet Crusade and said he was proud of Taelan Fordring.
• Tirion Fordring asked Robbie to discuss Gul'dan's potential help against the Lich King and questioned how Gul'dan would face the Orcs of Orgrimmar.
• Robbie said power mattered more than honor and listed survival, deception, and eliminating threats among his priorities, winning Tirion's approval for their cooperation.
• When two novice adventurers arrived, Tirion disguised himself as a farmer and hid his castle while asking them to deal with plague creatures.
• The human adventurer and Orc objected to killing the creatures, and Robbie secretly gave them diarrhea until they asked to stay overnight.
• Robbie concluded that the adventurers had bought him enough time to dismantle Tirion's castle.

Robbie and Vanessa uncovered Tirion Fordring’s secret method for gaining Holy Light power by blessing and eating White Maggot Meat, along with his role in the fall of Ashbringer. Vanessa then revealed that Tirion was also a broker for the Argent Dawn.

• Vanessa showed Robbie photographs of Tirion Fordring’s storeroom, including its enormous supply of White Maggot Meat and a powerful source of Holy Light.
• Robbie read Tirion Fordring’s diary and learned that eating Holy Light-infused White Maggot Meat had strengthened Tirion, though it came with an embarrassing cost.
• Robbie infused a piece of White Maggot Meat with Holy Light and proposed that the Brotherhood search for an alternative without the drawbacks.
• Robbie read that Tirion had secretly replaced the Rizebu Crystal with a plague crystal, causing Ashbringer to lose its power and Mograine to die.
• Vanessa handed Robbie what she called her most valuable discovery: Tirion Fordring was a broker for the Argent Dawn.

Robbie and Vanessa uncovered Tirion Fordring’s dealings and eavesdropped on his conversation with Balnazzar, learning about Legion plans and a mysterious Orc messenger. Vanessa then took Robbie to Corin’s Crossing and began explaining the plague and the three categories of undead.

• Robbie and Vanessa pieced together Tirion Fordring’s ties to the Argent Dawn, the Horde, the Scarlet Crusade, and the undead trade.
• Vanessa used a Legion Communication Orb to eavesdrop as Tirion confronted Balnazzar about a missing painting and discussed business with Baron Rivendare.
• Tirion asked Balnazzar about an Orc claiming to be Gul’dan’s messenger, and Balnazzar advised him to establish the Orc’s identity and test his loyalty to the Legion.
• Vanessa refused to end the mission and brought Robbie to a hill overlooking the Scourge stronghold of Corin’s Crossing.
• Vanessa asked Robbie about the essence of the plague, praised his explanation, and revealed that undead on Azeroth fell into three categories.