Chapter Summaries

Vanessa explained the origins of Azeroth's Undead and revealed that the soldiers at Corin's Crossing remembered their lives and remained loyal to Lordaeron. Robbie inferred that the plague's real history had been concealed and then sought Anxu Yili at Sorrow Hill, offering to work with him.

• Vanessa described three kinds of Undead and said that the plague was a microorganism, not something Ner'zhul had created with magic.
• Vanessa and Robbie entered Corin's Crossing, where its undead soldiers and citizens recognized Vanessa and saluted her.
• Vanessa asked Robbie to do something for the Undead, and Robbie concluded that a hidden truth about the plague explained why the Scourge had to be destroyed.
• Robbie told Vanessa that Anxu Yili could help them and suggested finding him with the witch Myranda at Sorrow Hill.
• Anxu Yili tried to learn a Scarlet Crusade disguise and password from Myranda, but she knocked him aside when he insulted her.
• Robbie helped Anxu up, introduced himself as Leonardo Tyrannical Axe, and proposed that they work together.

Anxu Yili confronted Taelan Fordring with a forged letter and family keepsakes, while leaflets accusing Taelan of betraying the Scarlet Crusade fell over Hearthglen. Taelan attacked his own guards and fled with Anxu, as Balnazzar warned Tirion Fordring that his son needed help.

• Taelan Fordring rejected Anxu Yili’s recruit application because the Dwarf could not explain his origins, but admitted him after learning he carried a letter from Tirion Fordring.
• Anxu gave Taelan a forged letter and family keepsakes, urging him to abandon the Scarlet Crusade and return to his father.
• A Holy Light dragon scattered leaflets across Hearthglen accusing Taelan of selling Scarlet Crusade intelligence to the Argent Dawn.
• As the soldiers demanded an explanation, Taelan attacked his comrades and told Anxu they would escape together.
• Balnazzar contacted Tirion Fordring and warned him that Taelan needed help.

Robbie and Vanessa watched Taelan Fordring leave Hearthglen, but Tirion Fordring’s attempt to save his son ended in Taelan’s death and sent Tirion into a holy-light frenzy against the Scarlet Crusade. Robbie exploited the chaos to set Tirion’s castle ablaze, and the story left with an older Tirion in Northrend remembering the Orc who burned it down.

• Taelan Fordring escaped Hearthglen with the Dwarf while Robbie and Vanessa watched from hiding, and High Inquisitor Isillien let Taelan pass.
• The Dwarf confronted Taelan and Isillien, then died in the brief fight after realizing what the meat paste meant.
• Tirion Fordring arrived and accidentally struck Taelan with his Holy Light Flying Hammer, killing him as Isillien tried to explain that he had intended to let Taelan go.
• Tirion fell into holy-light fanaticism, attacked Isillien, and plunged the Scarlet Crusade into chaos.
• Robbie used the confusion to reach a watchtower and set fire to Tirion Fordring Castle, jolting Tirion out of his frenzy.
• Years later in Northrend, an elderly Tirion remembered the Orc who had burned down his castle and vowed to settle the score.

Robbie arranged for outside experts to find a substitute for White Maggot Meat and uncover its long-term effects, then hosted Maldra and Chen Stormstout at a banquet Weldon Barov had prepared. Weldon told a startling, possibly drunken tale about his family’s history and Kel’Thuzad defeating Medivh, then denied it after sobering up, leaving Robbie to punish him with toilet duty.

• Marisa Dupé advised Robbie to outsource the White Maggot Meat research to Scholomance, Nefarian’s laboratory, and the Ahn'Qiraj egg-breeding facility, and Robbie agreed.
• Robbie assigned Weldon Barov to prepare a banquet for Maldra, who arrived with Chen Stormstout; Hogger impressed them by drinking a jar of wine and eating it.
• Weldon recounted how Alex Barov had forced Gul’dan to take ships during the Second War and described the Barov Family’s conflicts with Terenas, the Silver Hand, and Uther.
• Weldon claimed Kel’Thuzad had defeated Medivh and said Orc blood in the Barov grain had been the source of the plague.
• After Weldon sobered up and denied his story, Robbie assigned him to manage the garrison’s toilets.

Robbie learned that Weldon feared revealing Medivh’s secret, then accepted Mograine and Whitemane into the fortress under new names. He took them and Weldon to hunt Kriya, but Whitemane’s signature call enraged the marshlight and drew its attack toward her.

• Weldon refused to reveal what he knew about Kel'Thuzad and Medivh, so Robbie stopped pressing him and took him on patrol.
• Hogger told Robbie that Mograine and Whitemane wanted to join the Brotherhood, and Robbie agreed to take them in if they changed their names.
• After Mograine and Whitemane disrupted life at the fortress with their public affection, Robbie moved them to Embaari Village.
• Yrel asked Robbie to kill Kriya in Shadowmoon Valley in exchange for an accessory, and he accepted the task with Mograine, Whitemane, and Weldon.
• Robbie drew Kriya out and held its attention while Mograine and Weldon attacked and Whitemane healed them.
• Whitemane called, "Arise, my champion," enraging Kriya and prompting it to bypass Robbie and peck at her legs.

Robbie and Beiqing Feathermoon competed to draw Kriya the Marsh Glowbug’s aggro, and Robbie secured it by using Beiqing’s romantic taunt. Back in Embaari Village, Yrel and the Night Elves had already adopted the phrase as a new taunting method, leaving Robbie worried it would spread across Draenor and Azeroth.

• Robbie failed to pull Kriya the Marsh Glowbug away from Whitemane, so he switched to a two-handed weapon and joined the attack.
• Beiqing Feathermoon arrived with Sori Beast Tamer and Deyuli, declared the forest under Night Elf protection, and tried to tank Kriya.
• Beiqing used the phrase “Arise, my champion” to make Kriya turn away from Whitemane and attack her, while she dodged and struck it with Shield Slams.
• Robbie shouted “Arise, my champion! To fight for you, my lady!” and provoked Kriya into attacking him, securing its aggro with a Holy Light shield.
• Robbie returned to Embaari Village and found Yrel training Draenei Paladins to use his taunt, while Beiqing trained Night Elves in the same method.

Robbie discovered that technician Romuul was available to hire and watched Beiqing try to recruit him after she proved her strength against a pack of wolves. Romuul ignored Beiqing’s generous offers, leaving Robbie suspicious that something was wrong.

• Robbie learned that Romuul had received Krya's spike and remembered that Romuul could be hired as a Follower.
• Robbie met Vanessa outside the inn, where she said the Brotherhood was investigating a corrupted Night Elf Druid but admitted she had come to find a jeweler.
• Beiqing met Vanessa, admired her Enchanter's Robe, and led her and Robbie to Romuul's workshop.
• Sori Beast Tamer and Beiqing noticed Romuul's hire sign, and Vanessa let Beiqing approach him first.
• Beiqing defeated several waves of forest wolves and a rare wolf to prove her strength to Romuul.
• Beiqing offered Romuul generous pay and benefits, then promised to introduce him to a wealthy Draenei woman, but Romuul ignored her.

Beiqing and Vanessa both failed to recruit Romuul, and Robbie learned that Romuul had sworn to follow only the fiftieth person through the Dark Portal. Yrel revealed that Prophet Velen was still waiting for that person, while Robbie promised to show her how to collect more wolf pelts.

• Beiqing taunted Yrel, but Yrel stopped fighting when Robbie reminded her to skin the wolves before they spoiled.
• Vanessa threatened Romuul into terror, but he still refused to become her follower after he recovered.
• Beiqing left after arranging to borrow clothes with Vanessa, and Vanessa wondered why neither she nor Beiqing could recruit Romuul.
• Robbie bluffed Yrel into admitting that Prophet Velen had seen through their disguise and was waiting for the fiftieth person through the Dark Portal.
• Yrel explained that Romuul had sworn to the Naaru to follow only that fiftieth person, then asked Robbie how to get ten times as many wolf pelts.

Vanessa and Robbie searched for technician Romuul after he vanished, while Robbie suspected that someone had hired him to test the wolf-attracting crystal. Vanessa obtained a list of Night Elf Druids from Beiqing Feathermoon, and Robbie identified Archdruid Grandaris as the likely Defiler from the Emerald Dream, though he could only justify his claim with intuition.

• Yrel claimed the wolves attracted by Romuul’s crystal for Embaari Village, while the Heaven and Earth Guild occupied the hillside and repeatedly failed to recruit Romuul.
• Romuul disappeared, and Weldon Barov reported that a coalition of guilds had left Lunarfall to attack the Shadowmoon Clan’s Void mages.
• Vanessa revealed that she had tracked Romuul with Thousand-Mile Fragrance, then followed his scent to an abandoned stronghold where the fragrance had been neutralized.
• Robbie theorized that someone had hired Romuul before the other commanders and used the crystal to test its ability to attract wolf packs.
• Vanessa obtained a list of Lunarfall’s Night Elf Druids from Beiqing Feathermoon, and Robbie singled out Archdruid Grandaris as the Defiler.

Vanessa and Robbie captured Archdruid Grandaris and threatened him until he revealed that he had come to deceive Prophet Velen. Grandaris warned them that the conflict on Draenor involved a much greater danger, then pointed to the mysterious deaths of five blue dragons escorting the Focusing Iris.

• Vanessa and Robbie found Grandaris asleep in bear form, tied him up, and discovered that the rope prevented him from shapeshifting.
• Grandaris claimed that Green Dragon Queen Ysera was his boss, which made Robbie suspect that something was amiss.
• Vanessa and Robbie threatened to butcher Grandaris until he agreed to explain his mission.
• Grandaris admitted that he had come to deceive Prophet Velen and argued that Velen's reliance on prophecy had already led to disaster for the Draenei.
• Grandaris asked who on Azeroth could have instantly killed the five blue dragons escorting the Focusing Iris, leaving traces of demonic magic and Arcane energy.

Robbie learned that the Horde’s growing power threatened the weakened Dragonflights, then went with Yrel to hear Prophet Velen’s response to a bleak prophecy. A mysterious possessor arrived in Luobo'an’s body, while Grandaris prepared to manipulate Velen’s dreams for the Horde.

• Robbie frightened Grandaris into cooperating by using a straw doll and pretending to wield a wizard’s curse.
• Robbie asked Velen what he would do if a prophecy held only despair, and Velen said he trusted the Holy Light to guide the Draenei through their troubles.
• A black-robed man arrived at Moonwillow Vale and revealed himself as someone possessing Luobo'an’s body; Robbie recognized the deception and accepted repayment of the debt.
• Grandaris showed Major Shanmiusen the Nightmare's Heart and agreed to make Velen dream of becoming close with the Horde.
• Major Shanmiusen told Grandaris that Velen must support the Horde against the Iron Horde and that one of their agents would enter the dream with him.

Velen and the mysterious man used the Soul Crystal to glimpse Draenei futures, all of which showed disaster. The man urged Velen to control the Dark Star, but Velen remained hesitant as Yrel tried to persuade him with the promise of riches.

• Velen and the mysterious man drank Insight Potions and used the Soul Crystal to see possible futures.
• Robbie and Yrel watched while Robbie questioned prophecy and Yrel admitted her own prediction had produced every possible outcome.
• Velen described visions in which the Dark Star destroyed Karabor Temple and left many Draenei dead or wounded.
• The mysterious man revealed that the Dark Star was a fallen Naaru and urged Velen to control it to protect the Draenei and defeat their enemies.
• Robbie judged the proposal promising, and Yrel shook Velen by the shoulders and urged him to accept because the Dark Star could be worth a fortune.

Velen refused to control the Dark Star or accept the mysterious figure’s proposed choices, so Grandaris secretly manipulated his prophetic vision to make cooperation with the Horde look like the Draenei’s path to victory. The vision ended in horror when Velen saw Sylvanas and the Draenei transformed into undead, leaving him crying that this was not their fate.

• The mysterious figure urged Velen to control the Dark Star, hold a vote, or choose between sacrificing himself and joining the Horde, but Velen refused and trusted the Naaru and Holy Light.
• Grandaris used the Nightmare’s Heart to weave false visions into Velen’s prophecy, following Major Shanmiusen’s instructions to make the Horde seem like a trustworthy ally against the Iron Horde.
• Velen saw the Horde defeat the Iron Horde at Karabor, with a powerful Orc ally defeating Gruul and Grom Hellscream surrendering.
• Velen then saw himself married to Sylvanas and holding their Zombie baby, before discovering that Yrel, Samara, and the other Draenei had become undead.
• Sylvanas welcomed Velen and his Zombie Draenei to the Horde, and Velen cried out that this was not the Draenei’s fate.

Velen rejected the prophecy that joining the Horde would turn the Draenei into rotting zombies, while Grandaris denied responsibility for the failed vision to Major Shanmiusen. Robbie tracked the mysterious man to his prepared Dwarf body and threatened him with a Nightmare Potion, but the man claimed he had never heard of Stormwind City's Wealth Tablet.

• Velen refused to accept the prophecy, and Yrel recorded it while restraining herself from attacking the mysterious man.
• Grandaris told Major Shanmiusen that he had followed instructions, then threatened to report the incident to Lady Ysera.
• The mysterious man glided from a cliff and entered a hidden cave where a Dwarf body lay waiting.
• Robbie found the cave with help from a rented Gryphon and confronted the mysterious man.
• Robbie threatened to use a Nightmare Potion unless the mysterious man answered his questions.
• The mysterious man said he did not know what Stormwind City's Wealth Tablet was.

Robbie uncovered Peace Dove’s plan to use Romuul’s crystals to lure beasts against the Alliance forces at Lunarfall, while Gangdun Wuwei and Juxiong’s attack on the Shadowmoon Mage camp proceeded. Vanessa and Robbie watched as Med’an arrived with a Horde force, revealing himself as Experiment 709.

• The mysterious man confessed that Med’an of the Horde had ordered him to hire Romuul as part of Peace Dove’s plan to destroy the Alliance commanders and Followers in Lunarfall.
• Gangdun Wuwei and Juxiong prepared a four-group assault on the Shadowmoon Clan’s Void Mages, unaware that 128 crystals could summon beasts to attack them.
• Robbie and Vanessa learned from Romuul that a hub crystal controlled the traps, and Romuul made a necklace and a disruption crystal to counter them.
• The Alliance attack advanced into the Shadowmoon Mage camp as Vanessa spotted a Horde force emerging from a Void portal on the hill.
• Robbie identified the arriving boy as Med’an, and Vanessa confirmed he was Experiment 709, the savior template.

Robbie and Vanessa watched Med'an arrive in Shadowmoon Valley and expose his plans to exploit and exterminate the Draenei. Med'an betrayed the Alliance organizers who had helped him, leaving Juxiong dead and the Alliance forces vulnerable to the Horde.

• Med'an emerged from the portal with his Followers and Cairne's Chair, while Vanessa told Robbie that Ograk had plotted Cairne Bloodhoof's death.
• Med'an complained that his false prophecy was failing, and Ograk praised his deception of the Alliance.
• Med'an and Ograk discussed draining the Draenei's mana and using the Dark Star to wipe them out.
• Med'an ordered a signal that brought the Alliance organizers up the hill, where Orc Warriors disarmed them.
• Med'an served the organizers plague-tainted wine, rejected Juxiong's plea for peace, and killed him.

Med'an's unstable power turned a trap against the beasts into chaos for his own Followers. As the animals swarmed the hill, he transformed everyone nearby into sheep and left his followers helpless against the charge.

• Vanessa explained that Med'an was Experiment 709, an unreliable hybrid whose emotions were difficult to control, while the human mage escaped with Blink.
• The officers of the ten major guilds used their abilities to flee, leaving Gangdun behind; Med'an rejected Gangdun's offer to become Forsaken, and his Followers killed him.
• Ograk activated the crystal to draw beasts toward the camp, while Romuul activated the jammer and altered their course toward Med'an's hill.
• Despite warnings to retreat, Med'an refused and challenged the Alliance adventurers as the beasts surrounded the hill.
• Med'an used Mass Polymorph to turn everyone within five hundred yards, including his own Followers, into sheep.
• The charging beasts stormed the hill, and Ograk wept and begged Med'an to reverse the spell.

Med'an's Followers faced an overwhelming beast attack as Med'an's reckless powers worsened their losses. He summoned a Fel Reaver, while the Fel vortex alarmed Velen and terrified Ner'zhul in Shadowmoon Valley.

• Med'an summoned more than two hundred Mirror Images, but their attacks were too inefficient to stop the beasts, and many of the copies were destroyed.
• Med'an unleashed his Water Elemental Domain, killing beasts and his own Followers, then opened a portal to Ancient Dalaran that killed a Troll who tried to escape.
• Med'an forbade the surviving Followers from retreating and summoned a Fel Reaver with the power of Fel.
• Robbie recognized the Fel energy, while Velen sensed it and Ner'zhul feared it would bring disaster to Shadowmoon Valley.

Med'an’s Fel Reaver malfunctioned and killed nearly all his Followers before turning on him, leaving him wounded and despairing. As Vanessa signaled the appearance of “Fate” and the Alliance fled for shelter, a vast shadow descended and a voice addressed Med’an as his father destroyed the Fel Reaver.

• Med’an ordered the Fel Reaver to attack the beasts, but its faulty systems killed his Followers and then attacked him.
• Vanessa watched Med’an struggle against the Fel Reaver and warned Robbie not to act recklessly, fearing the arrival of “Fate.”
• Med’an was badly wounded, lost a leg, and nearly gave up as the Fel Reaver battered his Ice Block.
• Vanessa fired a flare that displayed the red word “Fate,” prompting Alliance forces across Shadowmoon Valley to flee for shelter.
• A vast shadow covered the moon, and an unseen figure called Med’an a disappointment before turning the Fel Reaver into crystal and ash.
• Med’an called the figure “Father.”

Robbie and Vanessa watched Medivh unleash the Focusing Iris against the Alliance and threaten Embaari Village. Velen linked the Draenei villagers’ lives to defend them, and Medivh turned his attention toward Lunarfall.

• Robbie saw Medivh’s Dominating Gaze, and Vanessa warned him to control his emotions so Medivh would not sense them.
• Medivh lectured Med'an about ruling through power and strategy, then used the Focusing Iris to kill wounded people, healers, and fleeing adventurers with an Arcane wave.
• Robbie grew furious as Vanessa explained that Medivh had gone unchecked since Illidan, the Lich King, and Deathwing fell.
• Medivh attacked Embaari Village, and Velen shielded the Draenei with Holy Light before linking their lives to withstand the assault.
• Medivh spared Velen and the Draenei for the moment, then promised Med'an he would sweep away Lunarfall for the Horde.