Chapter Summaries

The monster traveled to Felwood, took the Skull of Gul'dan, and defeated Tichondrius by turning his summoned forces against him. He read Gul'dan's memories and discovered how the Orc army had reached the Tomb of Sargeras, only to be slaughtered and later wiped out by Void demons.

• The monster learned that the Timbermaw Furbolgs had posted a bounty to repel the Burning Legion in Felwood and became interested in the Skull of Gul'dan.
• The monster crossed the ocean to Felwood and found Tichondrius guarding a hidden Flesh Altar with the Skull of Gul'dan on it.
• The monster resisted Tichondrius's Sleep spell, put the Dreadlord to sleep, and took the skull.
• Tichondrius summoned Infernals, Oozes, and carrion insect swarms to attack, but the monster took control of them and they tore Tichondrius apart.
• The monster examined the Skull of Gul'dan and read memories of the Orc army's defeat at the Tomb of Sargeras and its eventual destruction by Void demons.

A monster recalled Gul'dan's memories of the Void and hurried toward the Tomb of Sargeras, while Medivh's plans advanced and Tyrande brought the Red Dragonflight to Mount Hyjal. The Red Dragon Queen Alexstrasza declared that the Red Dragonflight would take responsibility for Azeroth, leaving Fandral Staghelm in hiding and the Night Elves under dragon control.

• The monster recognized the Tomb of Sargeras from Gul'dan's memories and flew off to investigate it.
• Medivh learned that "Illidan" had entered the Tomb of Sargeras and prepared to manipulate Alexstrasza.
• Tyrande persuaded Mount Hyjal's elders to restore faith in Elune, while Fandral Staghelm drove Tyrande and Malfurion from the fortress and seized the elders' property.
• Fandral Staghelm oversaw a test of the Tree Hollow King as the Red Dragonflight descended on the fortress with Tyrande and Malfurion riding with Alexstrasza.
• Fandral Staghelm hid and Maiev Shadowsong led the Watchers away as Tyrande's allies opened the Magic Shield for the Red Dragonflight.
• Tyrande addressed the Night Elves as Alexstrasza announced that the Red Dragonflight would take charge of Azeroth's safety.

Tyrande lost control of Mount Hyjal to the Red Dragon Queen, who revealed her ten-thousand-year plot to exploit the Night Elves and Orcs. The Red Dragonflight struck a deal with the Burning Legion, agreeing to provide Night Elf slaves and fight the Scourge in exchange for Fel support.

• The Red Dragon Queen seized the fortresses around Nordrassil and the Heart Spring, trapping the Night Elves on Mount Hyjal while Tyrande continued spreading faith in the Moon Goddess.
• The Red Dragon Queen told her consorts that she had conspired with Nozdormu for ten thousand years and had orchestrated past crises to weaken the Night Elves.
• The Red Dragon Queen planned to sell the missing Night Elves to Archimonde and later eliminate the Orcs after using them.
• Medivh arrived and announced that Archimonde had agreed to exchange technical support for the Night Elves and access to Nordrassil's lake water.
• The Red Dragon Queen reluctantly agreed to help the Burning Legion fight the Scourge until Arthas was killed or captured.

The Red Dragon Queen revealed that she had confined the Night Elves and planned to sell them to the Burning Legion, using a fabricated oracle from Elune to demand their submission. After the Night Elves lost faith in Elune, Tyrande decided to preserve her leadership even if they served Archimonde.

• The Red Dragonflight gathered Night Elves from settlements across Azeroth at Mount Hyjal and restricted them to the World Tree's vicinity.
• The Red Dragon Queen announced that Elune wanted the Night Elves to join the Burning Legion and serve Archimonde, threatening to destroy them if they refused.
• Tyrande called the oracle a lie, and the Red Dragon Queen admitted it was false before giving her three days to accept the ultimatum.
• Malfurion told Tyrande that joining the Legion was what they had hoped for, while Cenarius berated the Night Elves for opposing the Legion and ending up sold to it.
• Tyrande concluded that she had to retain power over the Night Elves even if they became Archimonde's servants.

Tyrande and the elders tried to prepare the Night Elves to join the Burning Legion, while Medivh and Archimonde planned to destroy the Red Dragonflight at the Heart Spring. As the Night Elves marched there under pressure, Robbie realized he had only one way to prevent disaster.

• Tyrande persuaded the elders to portray the Burning Legion and Sargeras as just and benevolent, though Malfurion remained doubtful.
• Medivh told Archimonde that the Legion needed five hundred thousand soldiers to defeat ten thousand Red Dragons in a direct battle, and revealed that the Heart Spring was a trap.
• Archimonde promised Medivh that after the Night Elves, Red Dragons, and sealed Old Gods were eliminated, Medivh would become Azeroth's supreme god.
• Tyrande praised the Legion to win Archimonde's favor, while Robbie watched and recognized that the Night Elves should not attend the meeting.
• Under Dragonkin pressure, Cenarius and Tyrande led the Night Elves toward the Heart Spring, while many others stayed behind in the fortress.
• Robbie realized he had no choice but to take the only action that could prevent the Night Elves' tragedy.

Robbie impersonated an envoy of Elune to stop Tyrande’s Night Elf army from reaching the Heart Spring, using force and a threat to make her order a halt. As the Night Elves camped, the Red Dragon Queen grew alarmed and sent Vaelastrasz to hurry them along.

• Robbie disguised himself as a divine envoy, defeated Cenarius, and threatened Tyrande with a hidden thread around her throat.
• Robbie hinted that he belonged to the Scourge and claimed Elune had ordered the Night Elves to wait because the Red Dragon Queen would be punished.
• Tyrande recognized Robbie’s threat and likely identity, then told the Night Elves to camp and wait.
• The Red Dragon Queen watched the Legion’s camp, grew uneasy at the Night Elves’ delay, and ordered Vaelastrasz to hurry them along.

Robbie captured Vaelastrasz and five other Red Dragons, while Medivh abandoned his plan to confront Robbie and ordered Thrall to attack the Red Dragonflight. At the Heart Spring, Medivh’s trap stripped the Dragons of their magic, leaving Alexstrasza helpless as the Orcs slaughtered them and Thrall ordered his guards to cut her apart.

• Robbie bound Vaelastrasz and five other Adult Red Dragons and threw them into the pit with Cenarius.
• Medivh decided to abandon his plan to confront Robbie and told Thrall to prepare the Orcs to attack.
• Alexstrasza selected a thousand Adult Red Dragons and prepared to fly to the Night Elf camp.
• Medivh triggered his trap at the Heart Spring, unleashing hundreds of thousands of Restless Souls whose Banshee Wail disrupted the magic of the ten thousand Red Dragons there.
• Saurfang led the Orcs in slaughtering the helpless Red Dragons as Alexstrasza lay trapped.
• Thrall confronted Alexstrasza and ordered his personal guards to cut her to pieces.

At Mount Hyjal, Thrall and Medivh led the slaughter of the Red Dragonflight, and Medivh forced Alexstrasza to agree to become his mount. Alexstrasza withdrew with the few survivors, while Robbie left and Tyrande gained an opportunity.

• Alexstrasza demanded to know why Thrall had betrayed the Red Dragonflight, and Thrall claimed the Orcs had acted for the sake of their dignity.
• Medivh intervened to save Alexstrasza from the Orcs, then revealed his plan to serve the Burning Legion and rule Azeroth through the Orcs.
• Medivh threatened to make Alexstrasza his mount, and Alexstrasza agreed in hopes of sparing some of her people.
• The Orcs slaughtered nearly all the red dragons at the Heart Spring, using their bones and meat for building materials and food.
• Alexstrasza led the remaining Red Dragonflight away from Mount Hyjal, and Robbie departed as Tyrande gained an opportunity.

Tyrande restored the Night Elves’ faith in Elune, then destroyed Fandral Staghelm’s magical research, leaving them poorly equipped to face the Burning Legion. As Jaina arrived with Medivh’s goodwill and an oracle, Malfurion unexpectedly fell in love with her at first sight.

• Tyrande secretly arranged for the elders and Night Elves to credit Elune with punishing the Red Dragonflight, and Cenarius joined them when he realized his plans had failed.
• The nearly destroyed Red Dragonflight withdrew, and Tyrande led the Night Elves back to their stronghold while the Burning Legion remained a threat.
• Tyrande rejected magic and destroyed Fandral Staghelm’s research, leaving the Night Elves with no clear way to grow stronger.
• Malfurion suggested asking Arthas and the Scourge for help, but Tyrande hesitated because she feared repeating her mistake with the Red Dragonflight.
• Medivh sent Jaina to the Night Elf stronghold with his goodwill and an oracle from Elune, and Malfurion fell in love with her at first sight.
• Tyrande initially dismissed Jaina, but Malfurion asked her to hear the young woman out, and Tyrande agreed.

Jaina used Aegwynn’s seduction magic to influence Malfurion and negotiated a secret alliance with Tyrande on behalf of Medivh. Tyrande agreed to consider working with the Orcs to destroy the Night Elf secret mage force and use the Wrath of Nordrassil against Archimonde, but the alliance remained to be arranged.

• Aegwynn’s seduction spell caused Malfurion to favor Jaina as she urged Tyrande to ally with the Orcs against the Burning Legion.
• Jaina asked to speak privately, and Malfurion advised Tyrande to hear Medivh’s proposal.
• In a warded room, Jaina said she represented Medivh and revealed that Archimonde wanted Nordrassil while Elune opposed the Night Elves’ use of magic.
• Jaina proposed that the Night Elves eliminate their secret mage force, let Archimonde reach Nordrassil, and kill her with the Wrath of Nordrassil.
• Malfurion revealed the Wrath of Nordrassil, and Tyrande rebuked him for exposing the secret.
• Tyrande chose to trust Elune rather than Arthas and nodded toward finding a way to work with the Orcs, though she remained concerned about their past betrayal.

Tyrande persuaded the Night Elves to ally with Thrall’s Horde and Jaina’s Alliance by presenting the alliance as Elune’s will and Medivh’s demand. While Medivh and Archimonde celebrated their scheme, Thrall’s Orcs secretly corrupted Nordrassil’s roots, causing magical gems to surface that the Night Elves mistook for Elune’s blessing.

• Tyrande and Malfurion told the Night Elf military council that Elune had used the Orcs to punish their people and now guided them toward an alliance.
• Tyrande rejected a general’s proposal to cooperate with Arthas and urged the Night Elves to join forces with Thrall’s Horde under Medivh’s pressure.
• Malfurion and Tyrande joined Thrall’s Horde and Jaina’s Alliance to form the Mount Hyjal Grand Alliance Army, though the three factions kept their camps apart.
• Medivh and Archimonde celebrated their scheme, and Medivh revealed that he had ordered Thrall’s Orcs to damage Nordrassil’s roots.
• Thrall ordered the Orcs to dig to Nordrassil’s roots and corrupt them with Fel power, causing gem deposits to emerge that the Night Elves called ancient gem veins.

A Vrykul caravan supplied the Night Elves with powerful armor and weapons, turning the tide of their clashes against the Burning Legion. Tyrande uncovered signs of a conspiracy, while Medivh’s misdirected teleportation convinced him that the interference came from inside the Night Elves’ stronghold.

• Three hundred Vrykul warriors entered the Night Elf stronghold and traded magic gemstones for equipment that sharply improved the Night Elves’ battlefield performance.
• Tyrande noticed the Night Elves’ falling death toll, examined a guard’s armor, and realized its enchanted craftsmanship could not have come from the Vrykul.
• Archimonde sent Medivh to investigate the Vrykul caravan and prevent it from obstructing the Legion’s plans.
• Medivh’s teleportation sent him to the Orc camp, where he scolded Thrall, and then to Northrend before he returned safely to Karazhan.
• Medivh concluded that someone inside the Night Elf stronghold was interfering with his teleportation spell.

Medivh urged Tyrande to expel the Vrykul and make the Night Elves abandon their new weapons, but a soldier’s message on her armor revealed that the caravan was helping the missing Night Elves who had survived under Arthas. As Vrykul arms strengthened the fortress and Tyrande remained unable to act, Magni Bronzebeard dreamed that a woman’s voice called him to save the Night Elves of Mount Hyjal.

• Medivh sent Tyrande a secret letter demanding that she stop the Vrykul trade and have the Night Elves discard their armor and weapons.
• A young sentinel showed Tyrande a message carved into armor from her beloved Ailuya Chengge, revealing that the missing Night Elves were alive.
• Tyrande and Malfurion concluded that the caravan was a front for ancient Vrykul from Northrend who had been raised by Arthas and were helping the rescued Night Elves.
• Medivh sent further letters warning that Archimonde would leave Azeroth if Tyrande failed to act, while the Vrykul continued supplying and installing heavy weapons in the fortress.
• Magni Bronzebeard dreamed that a woman called him to rise and save the Night Elves of Mount Hyjal.

Magni and the Night Elves received matching warnings that Arthas’s gifts were cursed, and Tyrande used the prophecy and Cenarius’s claims to convince the Night Elves to destroy their new equipment. The chapter ended with Tyrande urging her people to trust in their faith rather than their weapons.

• Magni dreamed that enchanted armor transformed Night Elves into undead, then used the Dream-Making Hammer to seek Mount Hyjal.
• Tyrande, Malfurion, and Mount Hyjal’s leaders shared a dream about a human face on Nordrassil and heard its prophecy warning of a cursed lure from the Dark Prince.
• Tyrande identified the Dark Prince as Arthas and claimed the Scourge had captured missing Night Elves and supplied the armor.
• Cenarius declared that the Vrykul were undead impostors and urged the Night Elves to remove and destroy their equipment.
• The Night Elves burned their armor and weapons, while Tyrande urged them to rely on their faith and resolve.

Robbie's gem scheme drew powerful buyers while Tyrande and Malfurion worried over their bargain with Archimonde and Medivh. Valstann infiltrated their sealed bedroom, condemned them for sacrificing their people’s future, and revealed the Night Elves had agreed to serve the Scourge for a hundred years in exchange for rescue and equipment technology.

• Robbie sold purified Mount Hyjal gems at the Goblin auction house, attracting bids from the Army of the Light, a Void force, and Archimonde.
• Tyrande and Malfurion ordered the Night Elves to destroy the equipment, then debated whether their bargain with Archimonde and Medivh was worth the risk to their people.
• Valstann appeared in Tyrande's bedroom, bound Malfurion with roots, and sealed the room against the guards.
• Tyrande tried to call on Elune, but Valstann's roots blocked her power as he praised magic and condemned the Night Elves for rejecting it.
• Valstann revealed that the rescued Night Elves had agreed to serve the Scourge for a hundred years in exchange for rescue and equipment technology, then accused Tyrande and Malfurion of betraying their people.

Valstann spared Tyrande and Malfurion as Archimonde began his assault, while the allied armies staged retreats that left the Night Elf fortress exposed. Tyrande's order to admit the retreating troops was thwarted by the Vrykul, who departed after freezing the Orc vanguard, and the Legion attacked the fortress directly.

• Valstann left Tyrande and Malfurion alive, then Archimonde launched the Burning Legion's all-out assault.
• Jaina retreated after Rage Winterchill attacked her camp, while Anetheron found the Orc camp deserted and staged a mock battle there.
• Tyrande ordered the fortress gates opened for the retreating armies, but the defending commander recognized that the Orcs showed no signs of having fought and could not open the reinforced gates.
• Tyrande ordered the gates blown open in Elune's name, but three hundred Vrykul warriors appeared and surrounded her.
• A female Vrykul mage froze thousands of Orcs in the vanguard, then the Vrykul left through a Portal.
• The Burning Legion bypassed the retreating Orcs and humans and attacked the Night Elf fortress, prompting the defending commander to call the armies actors.

Tyrande and Malfurion fled from one collapsing Night Elf fortress to another as Azgalor and the Burning Legion overwhelmed their defenses. After eighteen fortresses fell in a day, Shandris Feathermoon confronted Tyrande and declared that they would face the final battle together, taking Tyrande’s teleportation scrolls.

• Azgalor led the Burning Legion’s assault, and Infernals shattered the weakened shield and breached the first Night Elf fortress.
• Malfurion shielded Tyrande from an Infernal, and they escaped the overrun fortress with a teleportation scroll.
• Tyrande and Malfurion repeatedly fled to other fortresses, but eighteen fell within a single day as Tyrande’s morale speeches failed to inspire the soldiers.
• At the nineteenth fortress, Tyrande claimed the Legion had retreated, while exhausted Night Elf soldiers watched her with distrust.
• Shandris Feathermoon confronted Tyrande about the disastrous defeat and her plotting, then said she would take Tyrande’s teleportation scrolls and join her in the final battle.

The Night Elves prepared to make their last stand at the nineteenth fortress, using lake water, Flame Druid magic, and the Secret Mage Corps to resist the Burning Legion. Their defenses held against Azgalor and the aerial assault, but Archimonde identified the hidden mages and ordered the Orcs to confront them.

• Shandris Feathermoon destroyed Tyrande's teleportation scrolls and told her to pray to Elune after the Night Elves lost.
• The Night Elves gathered at the nineteenth fortress, where Fandral Staghelm taught Flame Druid spells and the army armed itself with water from Mount Hyjal's lake.
• The Burning Legion attacked, but Fandral and the Night Elves contained the Infernals and wounded Azgalor with lake-water-enhanced arrows.
• Azgalor charged the fortress, and Fandral bound him with flaming vines and drove out his Doom Curse.
• Archimonde and Mannoroth sent Fel Screechers against the fortress, but the Secret Mage Corps shielded it with a net of lightning.
• Archimonde learned the mages' location in the forest and said the Orcs were ready to deal with them.

Thrall's Orcs joined the Burning Legion's assault on the Nighthold, where Shandris Feathermoon's Secret Mage Corps destroyed the Legion's Fel Cannons. The Orcs then charged into the valley, but a massive explosion killed them, leaving Archimonde impressed by the Night Elves' small cleverness.

• Thrall sent elite Orc warriors to hold up the Secret Mage Corps while ten thousand Orcs moved to encircle them.
• Archimonde and Mannoroth planned to use the Mo'arg Engineers' Fel Cannons to break the Night Elves' defenses.
• Shandris Feathermoon revealed the Secret Mage Corps and used their Moon Goddess Orbital Cannon to destroy the Fel Cannons.
• Thrall ordered the Orcs to attack the Night Elves, and the Orcs charged into the valley as Fandral Staghelm condemned their betrayal.
• A massive explosion blasted the Orcs to pieces, and Archimonde examined a Fel sphere before praising the Night Elves' cleverness.

Archimonde avoided a costly assault and sent Jaina to persuade Tyrande to betray the location of the Night Elves’ Secret Mage Corps. After Malfurion revealed that the corps was hidden in Ice Spring, Medivh surrounded it with elite Orcs and told Jaina to take Tyrande and Malfurion away.

• Archimonde recognized the canyon as an illusion and ordered Medivh to act rather than waste Legion troops attacking the stronghold.
• Medivh sent Jaina to speak with Tyrande, who admitted she no longer trusted Elune to save her if the Night Elves fell.
• Jaina appealed to Tyrande’s self-interest and learned that Malfurion’s scouts had found the Secret Mage Corps in Ice Spring.
• Medivh confirmed the corps was hiding underwater, then surrounded Ice Spring with ten thousand elite Orcs.
• Medivh promised to honor his agreement and instructed Jaina to send Tyrande and Malfurion on their way.