Chapter Summaries

Wrathion punished Gallywix and ordered Thrall to make Sylvanas retreat, prompting Thrall and Jaina to seek help from Kul Tiras. Jaina confronted Tandred Proudmoore and demanded that he send the fleet to rescue Thrall.

• Gallywix surrendered to Wrathion, who tortured his soul and threatened to torment it forever after death, while Thrall and Jaina also punished him physically.
• Wrathion ordered Thrall to make Sylvanas retreat, but Thrall admitted she would not obey him.
• Thrall urged Jaina to use the Fleet's Heart necklace to call on Kul Tiras, and she decided to seek secret support from Dalaran Mages as well.
• Tandred detected Jaina's approach, prepared the Kul Tiras fleet for battle, and met her as she appeared through a Portal.
• Jaina told Tandred that Thrall was in danger and ordered him to send the fleet out.

Jaina used the Fleet’s Heart and the Mages of Dalaran to teleport the Kul Tiras fleet into battle, where Tandred’s ships destroyed the Forsaken and Orc fleets. When Tandred turned against the Rustwater Cartel transports, Wrathion revealed a gigantic creature formed from sea life and demanded the fleet submit or die.

• Jaina revealed that the Fleet’s Heart could locate and teleport the Kul Tiras fleet, then used the Dalaran Mages’ power to send it to the Forsaken fleet.
• Tandred ordered the Kul Tiras fleet to attack, and its cannons sank Forsaken ships while anti-magic bolts forced Antonidas to retreat.
• Sylvanas escaped through a Portal as the Forsaken fleet was overwhelmed, and Baine survived the sinking flagship by transforming into a seal.
• Tandred ordered the Kul Tiras fleet to engage the Orcs, and the fleet sank them while Thrall celebrated Jaina’s apparent success.
• Tandred led the fleet toward the Rustwater Cartel transports after Jaina and the Dalaran Mages ran out of mana.
• Wrathion spread black mist across the sea, summoned a gigantic creature made from sea life, and demanded that the Kul Tiras fleet submit or die.

Wrathion’s attack scattered the fleet’s leaders, but Gallywix manipulated Baine into taking command and bringing the ships to Rustwater Port. There, Thrall staged the Goblins’ liberation from Gallywix and recruited them as his people, intending to use them against Garrosh.

• Wrathion attacked the Kul Tiras fleet, but the ships vanished; Jaina escaped through a Portal with Thrall, while Gallywix was left behind.
• Baine emerged from the sea, and Gallywix persuaded him to take command of the fleet by claiming Thrall admired him and needed his help.
• Baine led the fleet to Rustwater Port, where the Goblins’ cramped cabins had left more than half of them dead.
• Wrathion confronted Gallywix and ordered Thrall to begin the planned performance, while Gallywix accused the surviving Goblins of betraying Thrall and threatened them with execution by drawing.
• Thrall denounced Gallywix, declared the Goblins of the Kezan Isles free, and welcomed them as his people in Rustwater Port.
• Thrall privately regarded the living Goblins as useful workers and allies against Garrosh.

Gallywix’s brutal exploitation of the Goblins worsened until Wrathion revealed a creation that resurrected dead Goblins as new slaves. Wrathion then claimed Gallywix as a test subject for his painful Dragon Transformation Potion experiment.

• Gallywix forced the Goblins into deadly labor, crushed their rebellion, and grew short of workers as Rustwater Port expanded.
• Wrathion summoned Gallywix to the castle laboratory and showed him a creature that produced eggs containing Goblins.
• Wrathion revealed that the new Goblins had no souls until tendrils transferred the souls of dead Goblins into their bodies.
• Gallywix welcomed the creation as a way to replenish his slave workforce, while resurrected Goblins awoke with memories of their deaths.
• Wrathion told Gallywix he would undergo repeated death-and-resurrection experiments, then named him as the test subject for a painful Dragon Transformation Potion.

Robbie told Tandred that the Kul Tiras fleet was safe in a Time Vortex and would return when they heard a young woman sing “Daughter of the Sea.” Greymane reached Darnassus and learned that Darius and the soldiers he had abandoned had survived, while Kael'thas secretly observed the Blood Elves’ subservience to the Horde and chose to conduct an experiment in Rustwater Port.

• Robbie told Tandred that Jaina controlled the Fleet's Heart and promised to announce that Kul Tiras would return if its territory were invaded.
• Robbie told Tandred that the fleet could go home when they heard a young woman sing “Daughter of the Sea.”
• Greymane arrived in Darnassus and discovered that Darius and the abandoned soldiers had reached the city before him.
• Darius refused to explain how the soldiers escaped and told Greymane they were no longer the people of Gilneas.
• Kael'thas observed the Blood Elves’ subordinate position in the Horde and decided to conduct an experiment in Rustwater Port.

Kael'thas attacked Rustwater Port to punish Wrathion, Thrall, and Jaina for their treatment of the Goblins, then watched the Goblins protect their oppressors instead of resisting. Disillusioned, he abandoned his desire to save the Blood Elves as cannon fire sounded from the harbor.

• Kael'thas rained fiery meteors on Rustwater Port, destroying Wrathion's castle, monster, and research laboratory, while Wrathion escaped by teleporting.
• Kael'thas sealed the space around Thrall and Jaina, exposed them feasting on living Goblins, and made Thrall surrender in fear.
• Kael'thas pinned Thrall to a door with roasting skewers, burned away Jaina's mana, and destroyed several factories before hiding to observe the Goblins.
• The Goblins freed and cared for Thrall and Jaina, with some flattering Thrall rather than punishing the pair for their crimes.
• Kael'thas concluded that the Goblins would not resist their oppressors and gave up on saving the Blood Elves; cannon fire then sounded from the harbor.

Gallywix betrayed Thrall and persuaded Garrosh to welcome the Goblins into the Horde. Hiding in Theramore, Thrall and Wrathion planned to rebuild their forces in Pandaria and seek Prince Anduin's help.

• Garrosh's forces attacked Rustwater Port after Kael'thas's arrival left Thrall wounded, Jaina depleted, and Wrathion missing.
• Thrall urged the Goblins to defend their homes, but after heavy losses, he and Jaina escaped through a closing Portal.
• Gallywix emerged from the ruins, claimed he had been forced to serve Thrall, and offered Garrosh the Bilgewater Cartel and the Kezan Goblins.
• Garrosh accepted the Goblins into the Horde and named Gallywix their leader, while the Goblins of Rustwater Port swore allegiance to him.
• In a basement in Theramore, Thrall raged over Gallywix's betrayal, and Wrathion proposed moving to Pandaria and recruiting Prince Anduin.

Anduin discovered that Velen believed the Naaru used the Holy Light to make mortal souls more nourishing, but he accepted their power and grew stronger. When Wrathion arrived in Exodar, he forced Velen to let him see Anduin and prepared Thrall to show the prince how unreliable the Holy Light could be.

• Anduin secretly overheard Velen tell O'ros that human souls could become delicious through the Holy Light and that Anduin might provide the Naaru with food.
• Anduin decided he had no objection to trading souls for power, and O'ros began supporting him as his Holy Light abilities rapidly grew.
• Wrathion arrived in Exodar with Jaina and Thrall and told Velen that he understood the Naaru's goal and could sever Velen's connection to the Holy Light.
• Velen yielded and agreed to let Wrathion see Anduin, provided the prince accepted the Holy Light.
• Wrathion said he would show Velen how unreliable the Holy Light was, then ordered Thrall to make Anduin face that reality.

Anduin lost the Holy Light’s protection, but Wrathion rescued him and offered him shadow power drawn from a Sha of Y’Shaarj. At the Shado-Pan Monastery, Taran Zhu received Thrall’s order to imprison the Sha of Madness and reflected on the truth behind Chi.

• Anduin’s Holy Light failed him, and Thrall seized him and bit off his right hand.
• Wrathion struck Thrall unconscious, healed Anduin’s hand, and offered to teach him true power in exchange for help defeating the Elemental Lords and Old Gods.
• Wrathion explained that Anduin could gain shadow power by merging with a Sha, and Anduin agreed to work with him.
• Wrathion forced the unconscious Thrall to write a letter ordering Taran Zhu to imprison the Sha of Madness at the Shado-Pan Monastery.
• Taran Zhu received the letter and mourned the Pandaren losses caused by the Peace Dove and the Orcs.
• Taran Zhu understood that Chi came from the Sha.

Taran Zhu struggled to decide whether to use a sha-binding array to seize power, while Master Snowdrift urged him to sacrifice his friendship with the Sha of Madness for the Pandaren’s survival. Robbie and Vanessa reached Shado-Pan Monastery, were turned away by its proud guards, and waited at a nearby tea stall, where a mysterious cloaked figure approached them.

• Taran Zhu summoned Master Snowdrift to discuss Thrall’s request and the danger of provoking Garrosh.
• Master Snowdrift proposed that Taran Zhu use the array to absorb the power of three sha and later pursue the other four.
• Taran Zhu resisted because the Sha of Madness was his old friend, and he asked for time to decide.
• Robbie and Vanessa presented themselves at Shado-Pan Monastery, but the guards dismissed the Defias Brotherhood and refused them entry.
• Robbie and Vanessa waited at a nearby tea stall, where a mysterious figure in black robes sat down before Robbie.

Robbie warned the Sha of Madness that Wrathion planned to attack Pandaria and gave him a sealing scroll. As Wrathion’s ship reached Pandaria, the Sha’s influence drove his companions into violence, and Anduin’s uncontrolled Holy Light shattered the ship before Wrathion teleported away.

• Robbie told the Sha of Madness that Thrall had sent Taran Zhu a sealing formation and handed him a scroll to use if needed.
• The Sha of Madness said the Sha of Anger had grown too powerful to seal easily and revealed that the Titans had created the August Celestials to fight the Seven Sha.
• Thrall introduced a fake Chen Stormstout to Wrathion, who dismissed him and used a compass to guide the ship to Pandaria.
• As the ship entered the mist, Wrathion felt the Sha’s influence, and Thrall attacked him before falling unconscious.
• The sailors fought one another, Jaina used a teleportation spell to escape, and Anduin attacked Wrathion with a greatsword of Holy Light.
• Anduin’s strike shattered the ship, and Wrathion teleported away from the wreckage.

Anduin used the Jinyu’s faith to present himself as a divine emissary and begin uniting their tribes, while Thrall seized control of a group of Hozen through force. After learning of each other’s presence, they met in the Jade Forest, where Thrall proposed that they work together.

• Anduin woke among the Pearlfin Jinyu, claimed to be a divine emissary, and persuaded Elder Lushan to unite the Jinyu tribes under his command.
• Sage Mari consulted the Eternal Vision Spring and saw Anduin arriving with Alliance forces, followed by a vision of a Jinyu village in ruins.
• Thrall woke among the Hozen, killed their leader and another warrior to intimidate them, and became king of the local Hozen.
• Thrall established harsh punishments, learned that Anduin was with the Jinyu, and decided to meet him.
• Thrall greeted Anduin in a house in the Jade Forest and suggested they work together.

Thrall tried to recruit Anduin into a plan to use the Jinyu and Hozen as food for an Orc army, but their alliance was interrupted by an attack from Sage Mari and the Terrace of Endless Spring guardians. After Chi-Ji rescued them and drove the Jinyu away, Thrall and Anduin met Wrathion at the Mistveil Trestle, where Madam Goya introduced her husband as the Southern Absolute.

• Thrall persuaded Anduin to help him provoke war between the Jinyu and Hozen so he could feed an Orc army and reclaim the Warchief title, while promising Anduin Stormwind’s throne.
• Sage Mari and three guardians emerged from underground, and Sage Mari’s water spear pierced Anduin’s chest as Thrall surrendered.
• Chi-Ji healed Anduin, stopped the Jinyu from killing Thrall, and sent Sage Mari and the guardians back to the Terrace of Endless Spring.
• Chi-Ji told Thrall and Anduin that Wrathion was waiting at the Mistveil Trestle.
• Madam Goya told Wrathion that her husband was the Southern Absolute, and Wrathion identified him as the hero Guo Yiwei.

Madam Goya explained how the August Celestials had used Dao Follows Nature to justify Pandaren being eaten by Orcs, then proposed turning the Pandaren into jerky and giving their lands to the Orcs. Wrathion agreed to heal her husband and help her family leave Azeroth, while Robbie, Vanessa, and the Sha of Madness secretly listened and watched Lorewalker Cho outside.

• Madam Goya told Wrathion that her husband, the former head of the Vermilion Bird Temple, had been crippled after the August Celestials backed the Orcs and the temple was destroyed.
• Thrall and Prince Anduin arrived, and Thrall crudely explained Dao Follows Nature and Unity of Heaven and Humanity as Pandaren being eaten and merging with the earth.
• Madam Goya proposed making Pandaren into jerky, handing their lands to the Orcs, and asked Wrathion to heal her husband and help her family leave Azeroth.
• Wrathion agreed to Madam Goya's two conditions, while Thrall welcomed her plan.
• Robbie, Vanessa, and the Sha of Madness listened through a magical barrier, and the Sha identified the Pandaren outside as Lorewalker Cho, Madam Goya's longtime admirer.

Robbie and the Sha of Madness used Lorewalker Cho’s anger and martial arts to attack Thrall and Anduin during the negotiations, while Wrathion tried to stop him. Chi-Ji revived the two men and explained that the August Celestials drew their power from Pandaria, leaving Lorewalker Cho’s mind clear again.

• Robbie realized Madam Goya wanted to disrupt the negotiations until the person she was waiting for arrived, and suggested that Lorewalker Cho handle the matter.
• The Sha of Madness infected Lorewalker Cho with madness, and he attacked Thrall, breaking his limbs and overwhelming Wrathion with his martial arts.
• Lorewalker Cho struck Thrall and Anduin with fatal blows after Wrathion teleported away, despite a voice calling for him to stop.
• Chi-Ji arrived, confronted Lorewalker Cho, and revived Thrall and Anduin by invoking Unity of Heaven and Humanity.
• The Sha of Madness explained that the Sha and the August Celestials were both effectively indestructible because each drew power from a vast source.

Lorewalker Cho learned that Xuen had crippled his martial arts potential, while Madam Goya and Wrathion maneuvered to draw Garrosh and Varian into a struggle over Pandaria. As Varian sent his fleet after Anduin and Garrosh prepared to empower his troops, Vol'jin escaped from prison through a tunnel.

• Chi-Ji rescued Thrall and Anduin from Lorewalker Cho, who realized Xuen had secretly placed a force in his body to prevent him from practicing martial arts.
• Lorewalker Cho left Madam Goya to avoid implicating her, while she told Wrathion that news of Thrall and Anduin's ordeal would spur Varian and Garrosh into action.
• After reading a fabricated account of events in Pandaria, Varian ordered all his ships to bring Anduin back to Stormwind in chains.
• Garrosh prayed for guidance and received a blueprint for a Sacred Bell that would grant his loyal soldiers the power of the Sha of Pride.
• Vol'jin dug through a hidden tunnel beneath Orgrimmar prison and reached the night sky.

Vol'jin escaped from Orgrimmar and reached Theramore, where Jaina arranged for him to leave for Pandaria. After Garrosh’s forces killed a magical double, the real Vol'jin sailed onward in freedom.

• Vol'jin escaped Orgrimmar, stole clothes, and killed a family in the Lower City before heading for Theramore.
• Jaina learned that a Troll claiming to be Vol'jin had arrived in Theramore, and she ordered him brought to her.
• Vol'jin asked Jaina for souls, then sacrificed more than fifty Murlocs on an island to regain his strength.
• General Nazgrim and the Kor'kron surrounded the island, killed Vol'jin’s double, and sent its head to Garrosh.
• Garrosh realized the dead Troll was likely a double and suspected the real Vol'jin had already sailed for Pandaria.
• Vol'jin sailed toward Pandaria, enjoying the sea breeze and his freedom.

Vol'jin reached Pandaria and searched the jungle for Thrall, while Garrosh's Orcs landed and began gathering food as the Peace Dove urged Pandaren to offer themselves to them. At the Shado-Pan Monastery, Lorewalker Cho witnessed the cowardice of its defenders and the courage of an elderly sweeping monk who drove off an Orc intruder.

• Vol'jin landed in the Krasarang Wilds with a Pandaren guide, ate him, and set off to find Thrall, whom he believed had become king of the Hozen.
• Garrosh's Kor'kron vanguard landed in the Krasarang Wilds and hunted animals by setting fires across the forest.
• The Peace Dove encouraged Pandaren to become Orcs' food to attain immortality, while factions formed over whether Garrosh or Thrall deserved greater loyalty.
• Lorewalker Cho went to the Shado-Pan Monastery to seek Taran Zhu's help, but found himself named a traitor on a wanted notice.
• Badun forced his way into the monastery, attacked a disciple, and threatened to burn the buildings when no one came out to fight him.
• Ye Wen, an elderly sweeping monk, extinguished the fire and defeated Badun, prompting Lorewalker Cho to despair over the Pandaren's lack of courage.

Lorewalker Cho accepted the Sha of Madness’s offer to restore the Pandaren’s accumulated negative emotions as the Shado-Pan Monastery faced an Orc attack and political turmoil. After Taran Zhu chose Thrall’s side and ordered Master Ye Wen executed, Ye Wen awakened as the Sha of Anger.

• The Sha of Madness urged Lorewalker Cho to abandon the Dao following nature, and Cho agreed to receive the negative emotions accumulated over a thousand years.
• Taran Zhu feared both Garrosh’s approaching Orc forces and the Sha of Madness, while Master Snowdrift spoke with Chi-Ji about Wrathion’s formation to seal the Sha.
• Vol'jin met Thrall at the abandoned Vermilion Bird Temple, heard his plans to strike back at Garrosh, and agreed to go reassure Taran Zhu.
• General Nazgrim used the Orc soldiers’ injuries as a pretext to send an elite army against the Shado-Pan Monastery, and Taran Zhu chose to align with Thrall.
• Lorewalker Cho found Master Ye Wen’s body hanging at the monastery gate, then went to the Sha of Madness’s quarters.
• Dark aura awakened Master Ye Wen, who declared himself the Sha of Anger.

Taran Zhu learned that Master Ye Wen had become the Sha of Anger, then chose to activate an array against the Sha of Madness instead of joining Ye Wen. The Sha of Madness unleashed the Pandaren’s fury to give the Shado-Pan courage to resist the approaching Orcs, and entrusted Lorewalker Cho with leading them.

• Master Ye Wen attained the Dao and transformed into the gigantic Sha of Anger as Pandaren souls gathered around him.
• The Sha of Madness explained to Taran Zhu that the Sha arose from the emotions within Pandaren, and urged him to apologize to Ye Wen and resist the Orcs.
• Taran Zhu refused, citing the August Celestials and the Peace Dove, then secretly activated an array that bound the Sha of Madness with four dragon souls.
• The Sha of Madness identified the array as an incomplete Five-Dragon Sealing Array and seized the dragon souls, while Taran Zhu suspected Master Snowdrift had arranged it.
• The Sha of Madness released bloodlust and other violent emotions throughout the Shado-Pan Monastery, empowering Taran Zhu and the disciples to fight the coming Orc invasion.
• The weakened Sha of Madness gave the leader’s seal to Lorewalker Cho and told him to lead the Shado-Pan against the Orcs and beware of the August Celestials.