Chapter Summaries

Jaina rescued Marshal Windsor from Tagar and the Lakeshire brothers, then learned they had eaten King Varian and took his remains to seek Meryl Winterstorm’s help. Windsor returned to Stormwind City amid a show of support and confronted Onyxia in Stormwind Keep, declaring her reign over.

• Tagar and the three Lakeshire brothers captured Windsor and began roasting him, but Jaina found and rescued him.
• Jaina discovered the Orcs had eaten King Varian, collected his remains, and took them to Theramore to seek Meryl Winterstorm’s help.
• Jaina told Windsor to return to Stormwind City and stabilize the situation while she tried to revive Varian.
• Windsor and his son John returned to Stormwind City, where Marcus Jonathan and cheering citizens welcomed the marshal.
• Windsor entered Stormwind Keep and accused Onyxia of infiltrating the city, declaring that her rule was over.

Windsor accused Countess Katrana and her guards of being Black Dragons, but they were revealed to be his wife and Windsor Family relatives. He chose to uphold the accusation, and after Onyxia exposed herself and defeated Stormwind’s guards, Windsor escaped while Bolvar announced he would go to Northrend.

• Windsor ordered Marcus to assemble Stormwind’s city defense elites and accused Countess Katrana and her guards of being disguised Black Dragons.
• Bolvar revealed that the woman was Windsor’s wife and the soldiers were his relatives, but Windsor insisted they were illusions and used Dark Illusion Magic to turn them into apparent Black Dragons and Dragonkin.
• Marcus and the city guards killed Windsor’s wife and relatives, and Windsor accepted the destruction of his family as the price of becoming Regent.
• Onyxia revealed herself, mocked Windsor for being used by Jaina, and turned Marcus’s guards into black statues with her magic.
• Windsor escaped using Jaina’s magic scroll, while Onyxia asked Bolvar what he planned to do and Bolvar said he belonged in Northrend.

Windsor was summoned to Orgrimmar, where Thrall forced him to transform his daughter into a fake Black Dragon so the Horde could claim credit for killing the Black Dragon Princess, then had Windsor eaten. The chapter then introduced Meryl Winterstorm’s secret academy for Legion demons, where Jaina visited the necromancer.

• Windsor arrived at the Delicious Time Hotel in Orgrimmar and asked to see Thrall.
• Thrall demanded that Windsor prove his willingness to sacrifice for Azeroth, and Eitrigg brought in Windsor’s daughter.
• Windsor used Dark Illusion Magic to turn his daughter into a Black Dragon, and Eitrigg cut off her head.
• Thrall praised Eitrigg, then ordered the Orcs to tear Windsor apart and eat him.
• Jaina entered Winterstorm Academy and met Meryl Winterstorm, who dismissed Arthas as an apprentice in Undead magic.

Jaina sought Meryl Winterstorm’s help in resurrecting King Varian, but Meryl claimed fate prevented him from intervening and told her to seek Elune’s aid. Robbie’s scheme sent Jaina to Moonglade, where she threatened its guardian Remulos.

• Jaina asked Meryl to resurrect King Varian and help stop Arthas, but he refused to intervene, warning that changing fate could destroy Azeroth or the universe.
• Meryl told Jaina to seek Elune’s help, then was struck by a storm of lightning after revealing the secret; Jaina escaped while the Legion stronghold collapsed.
• Robbie watched Meryl emerge unharmed from a hidden basement and revealed that his plan was to make Jaina seek Elune’s resurrection power so the Scourge could learn it.
• Jaina went to Moonglade to find a way to contact Elune and avoid facing Tyrande and Malfurion after destroying the Horn of Nordrassil.
• Remulos confronted Jaina and told her she was unwelcome, but Jaina threatened him and demanded his cooperation.

Jaina learned that resurrecting Varian required the Scythe of Elune and two powerful spellcasters, but she was tempted to replace him with an impostor instead. Meanwhile, Darion and Alexandros discussed their past schemes and grew wary of the Scourge’s approaching end.

• Remulos told Jaina that the Scythe of Elune could balance life and death, and that an Archdruid and a necromancer had to use it together to resurrect Varian.
• Remulos said the Scythe had last been seen in Duskwood and suggested asking the Explorers' League in Ironforge for help, while proposing that Jaina find someone to impersonate Varian.
• Jaina left Moonglade considering the replacement plan, while Robbie suspected the Scythe lead was a trap and decided Tirion Fordring could be a suitable candidate.
• Darion Mograine spoke with Alexandros Mograine about his failed scheme involving the Scarlet Crusade and the Argent Dawn, and Alexandros warned him against trusting Tirion Fordring.
• Alexandros told Darion that he had seen the real Baron Rivendare and believed the Scourge's end was coming, so they should prepare to escape.

Alexandros and Darion plotted to replace the Argent Dawn as the Scourge neared its downfall, and learned that Tirion Fordring and Sylvanas also planned to attack Light's Hope Chapel. After Kel'Thuzad placed Darion in command of Acherus, the conspirators met to plan their alliance, with Tirion offering Alexandros leadership of the resistance.

• Alexandros told Darion that the Scourge's core members were cursed and proposed taking down the Argent Dawn before the Scourge fell.
• Alexandros introduced Darion to Taelan Fordring, who revealed that Tirion Fordring planned to attack Light's Hope Chapel with help from Sylvanas.
• Darion agreed to cooperate with Tirion Fordring and Sylvanas, while Alexandros promised they would part ways after defeating the Argent Dawn.
• Darion requested duty at Acherus, and Kel'Thuzad made him commander of the fortress and let him select his trainees.
• Alexandros and Darion met Tirion Fordring and Nathanos Blightcaller at a secret stronghold, where Tirion offered to serve as Alexandros's deputy.

Darion and the Forsaken staged a Scourge attack on Light's Hope Chapel to help Alexandros and Tirion take control of the Argent Dawn, but the chapel's defenders barely responded. Tirion appeared to confront Darion, beginning the planned spectacle.

• Alexandros, Tirion Fordring, and Blightcaller agreed that Darion would stage an attack on Light's Hope Chapel, after which Alexandros would persuade Darion to join him and help defeat the Lich King.
• Darion led three hundred Death Knight trainees to the chapel, but its defenders shut the gates and refused to mount a real resistance.
• Blightcaller surrounded the chapel with three thousand Forsaken soldiers, and Darion and Blightcaller staged a loud charge without attacking.
• Darion summoned low-level undead and delivered a dramatic speech, while a voice inside the chapel called on the defenders to trust the Holy Light.
• Tirion Fordring descended in a blaze of Holy Light and knocked Darion to the ground with one punch.

Tirion and Darion staged a battle at Light's Hope Chapel, with Tirion’s exaggerated displays winning the adventurers’ admiration. Tirion then revealed Alexandros as a hostage and ordered Darion to bring him the Ashbringer, while Alexandros warned Darion that Tirion’s performance was a plot.

• Tirion knocked Darion into a crater, then used staged attacks to make the Death Knight trainees and many Forsaken fall while Goblin cameramen recorded him.
• Darion pretended to surrender and claimed Light's Hope Chapel’s Holy Light made the Death Knights powerless, but Tirion countered by insulting Darion and boasting about his own strength.
• Tirion revealed Alexandros bound in a cage of Holy Light and privately threatened to destroy him unless Darion brought the Ashbringer.
• Alexandros told Darion that Tirion had arranged the deception and that the Ashbringer was cursed so Tirion could not claim it.
• Alexandros gave Darion the Ashbringer in exchange for his safety, then crumbled into ash under the Holy Light.

Darion refused to surrender the Ashbringer and attacked Taelan, who was pretending to be Arthas, nearly exposing the deception. As Tirion and Taelan continued their staged confrontation, the innkeeper of Light's Hope Chapel arrived with an offer of wine.

• Darion told the Blightcaller he would keep the Ashbringer, the only weapon that might let him survive.
• Taelan appeared in replica Lich King armor, and his power seemed to revive the Death Knights and Forsaken at Light's Hope Chapel.
• Darion broke free of the Blightcaller and leaped at Taelan, pointing the Ashbringer at his chest.
• Tirion Fordring hurried over, and Taelan continued the act by accusing Tirion of exposing himself to the Lich King.
• The innkeeper walked onto the battlefield and invited Darion, Taelan, and Tirion to share wine.

Darion followed Tirion Fordring into Light's Hope Chapel and discovered that Eitrigg had been directing the Argent Dawn and had arranged his father's murder. Darion rejected Eitrigg's demand that he serve him and threatened to curse Tirion so they would both die if Darion was harmed.

• Darion kept Taelan under his sword and followed Tirion Fordring into the seemingly empty Light's Hope Chapel.
• Eitrigg entered with armed Orcs and revealed that he had sent the men who ambushed Alexandros.
• Darion recalled how he had uncovered the Argent Dawn's crimes against innocent people and planned to replace the organization before trusting Eitrigg had ruined his scheme.
• Eitrigg offered to spare Darion if he served him by slaughtering innocents and blaming the Scourge, but Darion refused to believe him.
• Darion demanded that he place a curse on Tirion Fordring, threatening that Tirion would die if anything happened to him.

Darion forced Tirion Fordring to claim the purified Ashbringer and present a staged victory over Arthas, while Nathanos Blightcaller accepted Sylvanas’s mission to retrieve a soul in Duskwood. There, a Firebloom stirred memories of the girl Lisa, whom Nathanos had met when he was young.

• Darion and Eitrigg had Tirion Fordring beaten and cursed, then sent him out with the purified Ashbringer to stage a victory over Arthas.
• Tirion Fordring used the staged battle to recruit for the Argent Dawn, while Darion returned to Acherus and focused on supplying Death Knights to whoever paid.
• Nathanos Blightcaller told Sylvanas that the Orcs were disregarding the Forsaken’s interests, and Sylvanas revealed her plan to target Gilneas instead of the Plaguelands.
• Sylvanas sent Nathanos to retrieve a soul in Duskwood, with Antonidas accompanying him as her assistant.
• At Vulgol Ogre Mound, Nathanos noticed an out-of-season Firebloom and told Antonidas how he had met a girl named Lisa in Darkshire.

Antonidas and the Blightcaller approached the Vulgol Ogre Mound to obtain a soul, but the Blightcaller charged in and was crushed by the Ogres. Antonidas resurrected him and devised a deceptive approach, then used a magical display to open negotiations with an Ogre sentry.

• The Blightcaller told Antonidas how he left Lisa to study Magecraft at Karazhan, where Medivh deceived him into serving as a stable hand, and how he later found Lisa forgotten in Duskwood.
• Antonidas speculated that an Old God-like being might have erased memories of Lisa, while the Blightcaller described meeting Sylvanas and feeling alive again.
• Antonidas warned that the Vulgol Ogres might possess an unknown advantage, but the Blightcaller ignored him and attacked their camp alone.
• More than a hundred Ogres trampled the Blightcaller, then threw his remains into Raven Hill because they would not eat Undead flesh.
• Antonidas rebuilt the Blightcaller's body from bones and proposed using deception to deal with the Ogres.
• Antonidas and the hooded Blightcaller returned to the mound, where Antonidas showed a sentry a magical vision of Azeroth and offered to discuss a deal.

Antonidas negotiated with Zhakeuer to purify the Vulgol Ogre Mound in exchange for training Ogre Mages, then discovered King Varian Wrynn’s soul and bargained with C’Thun to claim it. He captured the soul in a crystal ball and began considering how to use it.

• Antonidas persuaded Zhakeuer that a powerful source of magic lay beneath the cave and offered to purify it and train Ogre Mages in return for access.
• Antonidas prepared a ritual with the Ogres and summoned the restless souls haunting the cave.
• Antonidas discovered King Varian Wrynn’s soul among the spirits and was confronted by C’Thun.
• C’Thun demanded that Antonidas become his pawn, and Antonidas agreed to serve him in the distant future.
• C’Thun released Varian Wrynn’s soul, and Antonidas captured it in a crystal ball.

Sylvanas learned that she could use King Varian’s soul to gain leverage over Jaina and considered resurrecting him as a puppet ruler of Stormwind. In Theramore, Jaina abandoned her lookalike plan after learning Sylvanas had the soul and ordered Kalecgos to eat the candidate so she could pursue resurrection first.

• The Blightcaller presented King Varian’s soul to Sylvanas, who asked Antonidas how it could be used.
• Antonidas advised holding the soul as leverage over Jaina, but Sylvanas proposed putting Varian on Stormwind’s throne as a Forsaken-controlled king.
• Varimathras warned that the Legion could only resurrect Varian as a Demon and told Sylvanas that Jaina had sought Master Meryl’s guidance about Elune.
• Varimathras suggested using the soul to pressure Jaina and assured Sylvanas that his network of Dreadlords could keep her actions under surveillance.
• Jaina prepared a nobleman to impersonate Varian, but a letter informed her that Sylvanas had obtained the real king’s soul.
• Jaina ordered Kalecgos to eat the lookalike and declared that they had to resurrect Varian before Sylvanas could.

Jaina learned that the Scythe of Elune was last seen in Duskwood, where it might be connected to the sixth Old God, and went there with Kalecgos to seek it. Sylvanas also set out for Duskwood, while Kites began telling Jaina his story after Kalecgos left to find spider legs for him to eat.

• Jaina trusted Kalecgos and told him she needed the Scythe of Elune to bring King Varian back to life.
• Kalecgos relayed Sathrovarr's intelligence that the scythe was last seen in Duskwood, where the Thousand-Faced God, a suspected sixth Old God, might be hidden.
• Kalecgos told Jaina that a Darkshire resident named Kites had seen the scythe at Roland's Grave, and Jaina decided to investigate Duskwood herself.
• Varimathras warned Sylvanas that the sixth Old God was extremely dangerous, so she ordered Antonidas and Nathanos to accompany her to Duskwood and asked Antonidas to watch Jaina from afar.
• Jaina and Kalecgos found Kites at Raven Hill, where he refused to answer questions unless they brought him roasted spider legs.
• After Kalecgos went into the forest, Kites eagerly offered to tell Jaina about the Scythe of Elune and tried to take her hand.

Jaina uncovered that Medivh had used Kites as bait in a failed attempt to lure a mysterious target at Roland's Doom, and she enchanted Kites into serving her. Meanwhile, C'Thun revealed that Elune was searching for the secret of the Sixth Old Gods and offered Robbie a dangerous task, leaving him holding volatile Old God essence.

• Jaina used Charm Magic to make Kites reveal that Medivh had sent him to Roland's Doom with the Scythe of Elune as bait for a target, and she recruited him to serve her.
• Jaina told Kalecgos that they would investigate Roland's Doom, while Sylvanas, Blightcaller, and High Archmage Antonidas secretly followed her and Robbie followed Sylvanas.
• Robbie sensed C'Thun watching him and used the Eye of C'Thun to reveal the Old God in Duskwood.
• C'Thun told Robbie that Elune had manipulated events to make Jaina seek the Scythe of Elune and uncover the secret of the Sixth Old Gods, which the Old Gods had hidden for thousands of years.
• C'Thun called Elune their common enemy and offered Robbie a ball of volatile Old God essence, warning that its power could corrupt all of Duskwood.

Robbie agreed to help C'Thun plant evidence of a sixth Old God in Duskwood in exchange for learning how to use the Curse of Flesh to turn undead into humans. Jaina searched Roland's Grave for the hidden traces while Antonidas, Sylvanas, and the Blightcaller watched her from afar.

• C'Thun gave Robbie a black orb made from the fused essences of four Old Gods and asked him to make Jaina and Sylvanas believe a sixth Old God was hiding in Duskwood.
• C'Thun promised to teach Robbie the Curse of Flesh, which could restore undead as humans, if Robbie completed the task.
• Robbie secretly entered Roland's Grave and planted traces from the orb before Jaina arrived.
• Jaina disguised herself, Kalecgos, and Kites as Worgen, then led them into the den and gained the Worgen's trust.
• Jaina and her companions searched the den through the night but found nothing, so Jaina decided to stay longer.
• Antonidas watched Jaina through a crystal ball as Sylvanas and the Blightcaller questioned her search, and he insisted the real clues were hidden in darkness.

Jaina and Kalecgos discovered evidence of a possible sixth Old God while investigating the Worgen transformation ritual at Roland's Grave. After Kites revealed that Sven had once given him Worgen blood and chanted the same painful incantation, Jaina decided to confront the farmer.

• A scholar from Stormwind City drank Worgen blood during a ritual at Roland's Grave, while the priest explained that a figure in a portrait had created the Worgen to save Duskwood from Orcs.
• Kites reacted painfully to the priest's incantation, and Jaina turned him into a sheep to keep him quiet.
• Jaina and Kalecgos found an enchanted six-pointed star diagram on the back of the portrait, listing five named Old Gods and a sixth whose name had been erased.
• Jaina identified a strange Old God aura on the diagram, but said the evidence was not yet enough to prove a sixth Old God existed.
• Kites told Jaina that Sven had once made him drink Worgen blood and chanted an incantation that caused him pain, though Kites's bloodline resisted the curse.
• Jaina decided to go meet Sven with Kalecgos.

Jaina suspected Sven was connected to the sixth Old God, but he revealed himself as a powerful Worgen and fled with Nathanos after biting him. While Jaina followed Sven, Kalecgos and Kites found his diary, which linked the Worgen to an Old God, the Scythe of Elune, and a plan to raise an army of the dead.

• Jaina questioned Sven about his Worgen nature and his knowledge of communicating with a god, while Sven claimed he had learned magic from Morbent Fel.
• Jaina teleported to Raven Hill, leaving Sylvanas, Antonidas, and the Blightcaller to confront Sven.
• Sven transformed into a giant Worgen, bit the Blightcaller, and fled with him as Sylvanas and Antonidas pursued them.
• Jaina returned with Kalecgos and Kites, explained that she had marked Sven with a Magic Beacon, and followed his trail alone.
• Kalecgos and Kites searched Sven's cottage and found his diary, which described an Old God restoring the Worgen's sanity and ordering them to retrieve the Scythe of Elune.
• Kalecgos read that the god intended to raise an army from dry bones and create a new world.

Kalecgos and Jaina investigated clues about the sixth Old God, while Robbie learned from C'Thun how the Scythe of Elune and the Worgen were connected to Y'Shaarj. As Jaina reached Archmage Kalai's villa, Kalai tried to flee with his cursed son, but their Portal began closing.

• Kalecgos decided the evidence in Sven's diary pointed to the Lich King Arthas, but Jaina warned that someone might be framing him and insisted they investigate the god's messenger, Archmage Kalai.
• Kites revealed that he had met Kalai and his son after escaping Roland's Grave, and said Kalai's son had been cursed by the Scythe of Elune.
• Robbie confronted C'Thun about the clues implicating Arthas, and C'Thun admitted Sven was one of theirs and offered Yogg-Saron's help to divert attention from Icecrown Bulwark.
• C'Thun told Robbie that Y'Shaarj had created the Worgen and that Elune used Y'Shaarj's remains to make the Fang of Goldrinn and Staff of Elune, which together formed the Scythe of Elune.
• C'Thun sent Robbie to reach Kalai before Jaina, while explaining that Kalai's son had become a Worgen after being bitten at Roland's Grave.
• When Jaina and her companions arrived at Kalai's seaside villa, Kalai took his son into a secret chamber to escape through a Portal, but the Portal began to close.