Chapter Summaries

Tyrande forced Maiev to release Illidan and arrange for him to attack the Night Elves of Ashenvale, while Robbie vowed to stop him. At Mannoroth’s hidden camp, a powerful winged monster slaughtered the Orcs and confronted Grommash Hellscream and Mannoroth over Cenarius’s death.

• Tyrande threatened Maiev with Illidan until Maiev agreed to release him and implant false memories that would make him attack Ashenvale.
• Alaina Starshine learned Illidan had been released and described how he had once destroyed the Qiraji inside the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj; Robbie promised to redirect him toward avenging Cenarius.
• Mannoroth let Grommash Hellscream prepare to claim Ashenvale after Tyrande promised Illidan would punish its Night Elves, while warning Grommash not to fight Illidan alone.
• A winged monster arrived at Mannoroth’s camp and found the thousand Orcs slaughtered into neatly cut pieces.
• Grommash threw down Gorehowl and blamed Mannoroth for Cenarius’s death, and Mannoroth admitted that he had eaten Cenarius.

Illidan defeated Mannoroth in the mountain hollow, but his unstable memories and personality resurfaced after the battle. Robbie restored Illidan’s worldview and turned his attention to stopping the Legion’s Fel Reaver production line, while Mannoroth awoke aboard a Legion starship above Azeroth.

• Mannoroth attacked the arrogant figure he believed was Illidan, but the monster survived the Fel bombardment and killed Grommash Hellscream in the flames.
• The monster overwhelmed Mannoroth with Azzinoth’s flames and destructive eye beams, so Mannoroth used Broken Tooth Escape to flee by blowing himself up.
• The monster became confused over his feelings for Tyrande Whisperwind, then identified himself as Illidan Stormrage and left to explore the changed world.
• Robbie emerged, left Gorehowl and Mannoroth’s tusks behind, and said he had reconstructed Illidan’s worldview after Maiev’s soul restraints nearly failed.
• Robbie focused on stopping the Burning Legion’s Fel Reaver production line and noted that the Scourge had found a clue at the Goblins’ Rustwater Port.
• Mannoroth woke aboard the Legion’s starship above Azeroth and opened the Legion Communicator, where Kil’jaeden had been waiting.

Kil'jaeden questioned Mannoroth about Illidan's unfamiliar Fel power and ordered him to gather information. Thrall claimed credit for Mannoroth's defeat, then arranged for Jaina and the Tauren to wipe out the Warsong Clan, leaving Garrosh alive and vowing revenge.

• Kil'jaeden mocked Mannoroth, then questioned him about Illidan's powerful and unfamiliar Fel; he ordered Mannoroth to collect information on Illidan.
• Thrall, Eitrigg, and Vol'jin found Gorehowl and Mannoroth's tusks, and Thrall praised Vol'jin for a plan Vol'jin had not made.
• Thrall claimed that he had defeated Mannoroth and ordered a smaller replica of the demon's tusks placed in Orgrimmar as a monument to his glory.
• Thrall declared that the Warsong Clan must be purified, and arranged for Jaina to carry out the slaughter through Cairne Bloodhoof and the Tauren.
• The Warsong Clan's bloodline was cut off except for Garrosh, who blamed Jaina and Cairne Bloodhoof and swore revenge.

Robbie disguised himself as a Goblin noble and entered Rustwater Port, hoping to learn about the Fel Reaver production line by meeting trade prince Marty. After hiring the Goblin guide Rick, he paid him a deposit to arrange the meeting, and Rick disappeared into a sewage-filled alley.

• Robbie entered Rustwater Port in disguise and learned that its Goblin nobles had divided up the abandoned Burning Legion base and sold its war supplies for Almond Biscuit Coins.
• Robbie concluded that the wealthy Goblins likely knew about the Fel Reaver production line and set out to meet trade prince Marty.
• Robbie hired Rick, a streetwise Goblin guide, and demanded that he arrange a meeting with Marty.
• Rick asked for a deposit, and Robbie gave him thirty Almond Biscuit Coins before Rick slipped into an alley.

Robbie used Rick’s invitation to gain access to Trade Prince Marty’s private banquet, then coerced Rick into helping investigate Marty by pretending to be a lord of the Burning Legion. At the banquet, Robbie ordered Rick to sound out Marty’s daughter Nissa, who had just appeared.

• Rick obtained an invitation to Marty’s banquet from a fallen noble and told Robbie that Marty was expected to attend his daughter’s birthday celebration.
• Robbie confronted Rick about possibly betraying him and revealed that he knew Rick had hidden a letter at home.
• Rick explained that he had recognized Robbie’s Goblin disguise from the equality in Robbie’s gaze, then tried to save himself by claiming Marty had sold weapons to Stormwind and Ironforge and had ties to Jaina.
• Robbie pretended to be a Burning Legion lord and recruited Rick to help investigate Marty, promising that Rustwater Port might need a new Trade Prince.
• Rick attended the banquet at Marty’s mansion, where he became captivated by Nissa.
• Robbie ordered Rick to invite Nissa to dance and sound her out.

Robbie used Rick’s dance with Nissa to investigate Trade Prince Marty’s dealings and discovered signs that Goblin technicians were being sent to Theramore. After finding Eitrigg and an ancient formula called Schisandra, Robbie had Rick reveal to Nissa that she was one of its ingredients.

• Rick posed as a wealthy merchant and danced with Nissa, who praised her father’s trade with Jaina and described Goblin technicians traveling to Theramore.
• Robbie suspected the technicians were serving the Burning Legion and inferred that its Fel Reaver production base might be hidden in Dustwallow Marsh.
• Robbie searched the mansion, found that Marty was absent, and discovered Eitrigg and armed Orcs in a banquet hall.
• After examining Schisandra’s secret formula, Robbie instructed Rick to tell Nissa that five young Goblins were among its ingredients and that she was one of them.

Rick told Nissa that she was to be sacrificed as an ingredient to cure Thrall, and her father, Trade Prince Marty, initially urged her to accept the supposed honor. After Nissa rejected Thrall and called him a beast, Marty chose to abandon his position and enlist the Burning Legion’s help to save her.

• Rick explained that Nissa was the last required blood relative of a Trade Prince and described how Thrall would consume the five ingredients; Nissa fled to find her father.
• Nissa contacted Marty through a Legion Orb, and Marty first told her to be proud of her sacrifice for Azeroth.
• When Nissa denounced Thrall as a beast, Marty promised to help her escape and the Legion Orb vanished.
• Eitrigg broke into Nissa’s room, restrained her with Orc guards, and carried her away as the final ingredient.
• Marty appeared with a Mo'arg Engineer, announced he would return to the Burning Legion to protect Nissa, and the engineer ordered Eitrigg to release her.

The Mo'arg Engineer forced Marty and Nissa to prove their allegiance by eating Eitrigg's flesh, then rebuilt Eitrigg from Orc body parts. Rick seized the chance to become Trade Prince by signing a contract as Thrall's financial adviser under the name Gallywix, while Robbie tracked the engineer toward the Burning Legion's secret base.

• The Mo'arg Engineer dismembered Eitrigg and the other Orcs, then made Marty and Nissa eat Eitrigg's cooked flesh as a pledge of allegiance.
• The Mo'arg Engineer stitched Eitrigg back together and told Nissa she could learn to repair Thrall after eating him.
• Rick knelt before Eitrigg and claimed that a Burning Legion agent had promised him the Trade Prince position.
• Eitrigg offered Rick a contract to serve Thrall as a financial adviser, and Rick signed it using the name Gallywix.
• Robbie followed the tracking spell he had placed on the Mo'arg Engineer to locate the Burning Legion's secret base.

Robbie watched Fandral Staghelm ambush Thrall and realized Thrall’s restoration in the Legion Forge could provide a chance to kill him permanently. Garrosh initially refused to help, but changed his mind when Robbie revealed that Thrall had been vacationing with Agna.

• Robbie scouted the Burning Legion’s secret base in Dustwallow Marsh and found no Ethereals or useful clues.
• Robbie discovered Thrall vacationing with Agna while Gallywix served him, and saw Fandral Staghelm attack Thrall and flee after Thrall’s head escaped by teleportation.
• Robbie concluded that Thrall could be vulnerable while his body was being restored in the Legion Forge and approached Garrosh for help entering it.
• Garrosh refused Robbie’s plan because he feared Archimonde’s suspicion and did not want to risk his life.
• Robbie told Garrosh that Thrall had been vacationing with Agna, and Garrosh angrily agreed to hear what he needed to do.

Garrosh used Robbie’s Rune to attack Thrall, but it injured the evil soul hidden within Thrall instead. The Rune also exposed the Legion base to the Scourge, prompting Archimonde to prepare for war and revealing Area 52’s role in smuggling a Fel Reaver production line through the Dark Portal.

• Robbie gave Garrosh a Rune that could locate and destroy Thrall’s soul, and Garrosh entered the Legion Forge while both Orcs were being repaired.
• Garrosh released the Rune near Thrall, and it hurt the evil soul inside Thrall’s head before the soul returned to him.
• The Rune projected a Scourge warning over the Legion base, and Archimonde ordered its defenses strengthened and Azeroth’s forces prepared for battle.
• Archimonde told the Eredar Mage to contact the Consortium, and an Ethereal confirmed that Area 52 had prepared to ship the Fel Reaver production line through the Dark Portal.

Nexus-Prince Haramad arranged for the Burning Legion to guard its own cargo, then used a Shifter's Signet to secretly attend a ball as a female Goblin. An Orc kidnapped him for a potion intended for Thrall, but Haramad's subordinates rescued him, and he blamed his rival Shaffar to conceal his humiliation.

• Haramad let the Burning Legion build a camp near the production site but kept the production line's core components under Consortium control.
• Haramad transformed into a female Goblin and went out secretly to attend a ball.
• An Orc ambushed Haramad and revealed that he had been sent by Thrall and Eitrigg to capture him as an ingredient for Five Princes.
• Haramad's Shifter's Signet wore off while he was imprisoned, and his subordinates found and rescued him.
• Haramad falsely accused Nexus-Prince Shaffar of arranging the kidnapping and checked that the core components were safe.

Robbie sabotaged the Fel Reaver production line, but the Burning Legion still transported it to Dustwallow Marsh while the Scourge attacked Dalaran. Archimonde used Tauren, Pandaren, and Trolls as cannon fodder, and Robbie pushed Arthas to launch the Scourge's assault.

• Robbie knocked out Haramad, disguised himself as him, and secretly damaged the Fel Reaver production line's core components.
• The Burning Legion escorted the production line through the Dark Portal to Dustwallow Marsh, while Theramore, Orgrimmar, and Thunder Bluff prepared for the Scourge.
• The Scourge besieged Dalaran, and Archimonde ordered the Legion to retreat toward Dustwallow Marsh, leaving Tauren, Pandaren, and Trolls behind to delay the attackers.
• Chen Stormstout rallied the confused civilians to charge the Scourge in the name of Azeroth and Archimonde.
• Sylvanas urged Arthas to spare the civilians, but Robbie restrained her and accused her of trying to weaken Arthas's resolve.
• Arthas swung Frostmourne and ordered the Scourge to attack.

The Scourge evacuated Dalaran after the Legion withdrew, and Arthas debated whether to force Azeroth’s races into an alliance or let them choose their own path. Robbie proposed that the Scourge retreat to Northrend while leaving a small force behind to help, as Archimonde discovered the Legion’s Fel Reaver production line was unusable.

• Chen Stormstout watched the Scourge funnel into the Portal while the Burning Legion abandoned Dalaran and its shield.
• Arthas questioned why Azeroth’s races had fought the Scourge, and Kel'Thuzad warned that invading Kalimdor could bring more such battles.
• Arthas and Robbie offered the prisoners a choice between Scourge labor and passage back to Kalimdor, and dozens of ships carried those who chose freedom to Theramore.
• Sylvanas urged Arthas to use force against Azeroth’s races, while Robbie proposed withdrawing the Scourge to Northrend and secretly leaving an elite force to help defend Azeroth.
• Thrall sent the prisoners who landed in Kalimdor to forced labor camps, where the Orcs slaughtered them and made their flesh into jerky.
• Archimonde learned that defective core components had left the Fel Reaver production line unable to operate, and he worried about answering to Lord Sargeras.

Archimonde learned that the Scourge had retreated to Northrend and ordered the Burning Legion to attack Mount Hyjal. As Night Elf commanders argued over whether to seek allies, Tyrande entered the council and proposed asking the divine messenger for the Moon Goddess’s will.

• A Doomguard told Archimonde that the Scourge had withdrawn to Northrend, and Archimonde ordered the Legion to march on Mount Hyjal and seize Nordrassil.
• Tyrande prayed to Elune for three days without an answer, then went to a military council and listened from outside as Fandral Staghelm called for war against the Orcs.
• Malfurion urged the Night Elves to unite with the Orcs, while Fandral accused Thrall of killing his son, Valstann.
• Shandris Feathermoon rejected the need for allies, while Maiev Shadowsong argued for joining forces with the Dragonkin.
• Tyrande entered the council and told the commanders to seek the honored divine messenger’s guidance on the Moon Goddess’s will.

Tyrande and the Night Elf commanders sought the divine envoy’s guidance on facing the Burning Legion, and he declared that they must ally with Thrall and the Orcs. After the envoy used a vision to redirect Fandral Staghelm’s grief and anger, the Night Elves accepted the alliance, and the envoy promised to meet Thrall and seek aid from the Red Dragon Queen.

• Tyrande brought the Night Elf commanders to the Temple of the Moon to ask the divine envoy how to face the Burning Legion and the Scourge.
• The divine envoy proclaimed that the Night Elves must ally with Thrall and the Orcs to defeat the Burning Legion.
• Fandral Staghelm denounced the envoy as a fraud, attacked Malfurion, and refused to allow an alliance with the Orcs.
• The divine envoy showed Fandral a vision of Valstann’s death and persuaded him that General Rajaxx and the Qiraji had killed his son, not Thrall.
• Tyrande declared that the Night Elves would obey the Moon Goddess’s will and ally with the Orcs, and the commanders accepted.
• The divine envoy promised to meet Thrall and seek the Red Dragon Queen’s aid.

Tyrande’s prayer led the Night Elves to prepare Mount Hyjal for war, while Elune warned Magni that their victory over the Burning Legion would doom Azeroth. In Orgrimmar, the divine envoy challenged Thrall’s claims of Orc benevolence by listing the deaths and environmental devastation caused since the Orcs arrived in Kalimdor.

• Tyrande finished her prayer, and the Night Elves began building fortifications and gathering troops at Mount Hyjal.
• Elune warned Magni that the Night Elves’ victory would revive their dangerous obsession with magic and bring about Azeroth’s destruction.
• Magni agreed to follow Elune’s guidance, though he secretly resented the Night Elves and the Orcs and intended to protect his own people.
• Thrall welcomed the divine envoy to Orgrimmar and described how the Orcs had united Kalimdor’s races and improved the land.
• The divine envoy confronted Thrall about eating Tauren and Pandaren, then described the severe losses those peoples and others had suffered under Orc rule.
• The divine envoy accused the Orcs of destroying forests, oases, and rivers across Durotar, the Barrens, and Ashenvale.

Thrall struggled to convince the divine emissary that the Orcs had turned against the Burning Legion, while Jaina proposed bribing him. Meanwhile, Arthas and the Scourge marched through Northrend, raised Frost Dragons, and opened the hidden path to Ner'zhul's prison as the Red Dragon Queen sensed their approach.

• The divine emissary rejected Thrall's explanation, warned that Arthas would destroy Orgrimmar, and rode away on a Hippogryph.
• Thrall killed a Tauren in his rage, and Jaina urged Vol'jin and Thrall to bribe the emissary, whom she believed was a human in disguise.
• Kel'Thuzad told Arthas that Ner'zhul could help them learn about the Burning Legion, and Robbie predicted Ner'zhul would bring a surprise.
• The Scourge collected Dragon bones and souls in Northrend, then created Frost Dragons from the remains of the Blue Dragonflight.
• Kel'Thuzad led Arthas and Robbie through the hidden passage inside the icy peak toward Ner'zhul's prison.
• The Red Dragon Queen opened her eyes at Wyrmrest Temple and saw the Scourge's vast army and its resurrected Frost Dragons.

Alexstrasza revealed her plans to Malygos, who accused her of orchestrating the Blue Dragonflight’s destruction. At the Frozen Throne, Kel'Thuzad and his allies destroyed Ner'zhul’s soul and uncovered a memory suggesting a mysterious woman had guided him in the ritual that shattered Draenor.

• Alexstrasza contacted Malygos and defended raising the Orcs, while Malygos accused her of causing Sindragosa and their children’s deaths.
• Alexstrasza threatened to execute Malygos if he disobeyed her and planned to use the Battle of Mount Hyjal to approach the Burning Legion and Elune.
• At the Frozen Throne, Ner'zhul begged Kel'Thuzad for his life, but Kel'Thuzad used a magical helmet to extinguish his soul and read his memories.
• The Legion's mages scanned Ner'zhul's memories and found a hidden scene of him preparing a ritual with the Eye of Dalaran, the Book of Medivh, and the Scepter of Sargeras.
• Ner'zhul's memory showed a mysterious woman instructing him to cast the spell that would tear Draenor apart.

Ner'zhul’s ritual revealed a new world but shattered Draenor, and Arthas decided the Scourge would eventually take Lordaeron’s people there. Meanwhile, Archimonde heard why the Legion’s attack on Mount Hyjal had failed and ordered Thrall brought to him.

• Ner'zhul opened spatial rifts to a lush new world, but the woman revealed that the ritual’s power would tear Draenor apart.
• Ner'zhul memorized the world’s coordinates before leaving the Black Temple, but Kil'jaeden later captured him before he could tell the Orcs.
• Kel'Thuzad urged Arthas to leave Azeroth for the new world, and Arthas agreed to take the resurrected people of Lordaeron there after the Orcs were defeated.
• The Scourge built a fortress at the Frozen Throne and sent Rage Winterchill’s vanguard to attack Mount Hyjal, where the Ancients of War overwhelmed the Legion forces.
• Rage Winterchill explained the defeat to Archimonde, who blamed the failure on the Legion’s tactics and ordered Thrall brought to him.

Thrall and Archimonde mistook the divine envoy’s identity and planned to secure his support by marrying him to Jaina and giving him Theramore. Magni learned of their scheme, while Jaina rejected the proposed match before Eitrigg could reveal the envoy’s identity.

• Archimonde scolded Thrall for failing to win the divine envoy’s favor, then revealed that he believed the envoy was Emperor Thoradin.
• Thrall decided the envoy wanted to regain political power, and Archimonde told him to arrange a marriage to Jaina and offer him Theramore.
• Magni used the Azeroth Archives and his network of informants to learn about Thrall’s plans, then resolved to protect the World Tree himself.
• Eitrigg went to Theramore to tell Jaina that Thrall had arranged a human match for her.
• Jaina rejected the idea of marrying any human, declaring that even Emperor Thoradin would not be worthy of her.