Chapter Summaries

Mogor awoke as a soul in the freezing darkness and found warmth beside his father-in-law, Zuluhed, whose fading flames protected them. Meanwhile, Murozond rescued Benedictus from the End Time, where Benedictus reported finding countless burning Orc souls.

• Mogor regained his memories beside Zuluhed and learned that souls could burn themselves to create warmth and light.
• Mogor stayed beside Zuluhed and helped drive away other souls as Zuluhed's flames weakened.
• At the Infinite Dragonflight's base, Murozond concluded that intelligent souls in Pandaria's mists had developed a broad system of magic.
• Murozond took Robbie and Vanessa to the End Time and fished Benedictus out of its darkness.
• Benedictus warmed himself with Orc-bone soup and described the many Orc souls who had lit themselves on fire and refused him shelter.

Benedictus, Robbie, and Vanessa prepared to enter End Time to investigate Elune’s objective, while Thrall was forced to lead a team into the dangerous future. Thrall and his companions were pulled through the sealed entrance, where something seemed wrong with the team.

• Benedictus told Robbie and Vanessa that Cho'gall’s deductions might reveal Elune’s objective in End Time, and Vanessa agreed to investigate with him.
• Murozond gave Benedictus, Robbie, and Vanessa golden Hourglasses and promised to rescue them if they faced danger.
• Thrall demanded Orcs from Anachronos, who explained that the Caverns of Time could not provide them until End Time was resolved.
• Thrall refused to enter End Time until the Moon Goddess's Emissary tore him apart repeatedly, forcing him to agree.
• Anachronos opened the sealed entrance to End Time, and Thrall joined Baine, Jaina, Tyrande, and Sylvanas.
• Thrall sensed that his teammates were acting strangely, but an irresistible force dragged them into darkness before he could investigate.

Thrall and the others traveled through the frozen End Time while Robbie discovered that sparks could protect the souls there from the cold. Robbie persuaded the soul statues to ignite their sparks, creating a bright passage into the darkness.

• Baine, Sylvanas, Jaina, and Tyrande brought Thrall through the End Time and explained that Elune would judge the souls of everyone who had lived on Azeroth.
• Thrall saw Grom Hellscream pinned by a spear and demanded to know why the group had brought him instead of the Thrall from this Timeline.
• Robbie used the Eye of C'Thun to examine the Orc souls and concluded that their sparks were an antidote to the soul-freezing cold.
• Mogor became a statue rather than ignite the spark in his chest, and Zuluhed left him behind as Mogor's memories faded.
• Robbie explained that the sparks burned away the cold rather than the souls, then used a bewitching spell to persuade the statues to ignite and illuminate a passage.

Robbie, Benedictus, and Vanessa traveled through the End Time, where Benedictus used C'Thun's Spore to connect with the Orc souls and reveal the realm’s true form. The vision showed that the vast region they had crossed was only the little finger of a colossal Orc seated on a black throne.

• Benedictus recognized Drek'Thar among the Orc soul statues and concluded the End Time held more than Orcs.
• At a cliff's edge, Benedictus used C'Thun's Spore to connect with the Orc souls while Robbie and Vanessa protected him.
• Robbie and Vanessa defeated a scouting aberration, then destroyed the Dark Constructs it had summoned.
• Robbie unleashed Professor Putricide's plague, turning the attackers into several thousand Scourge soldiers.
• Benedictus completed the soul connection, and the resulting image revealed a colossal Orc whose little finger was larger than the region they had crossed.

Thrall learned from Sylvanas, Jaina, and Baine about an alternate timeline where another Orc took his place and became the Beast Emperor, destroying Azeroth’s life before challenging Elune. The group reached a Portal as Baine warned Thrall that the End Time was inevitable and no one could escape Elune’s judgment.

• Thrall tried to coax information from Baine by pretending to miss Mulgore, and Baine blamed him for Thunder Bluff’s destruction and the Tauren slaughter.
• Sylvanas and Jaina explained that Blackmoore had raised another Orc, who became a ruthless leader and conquered Stormwind; Sylvanas revealed she was a living High Elf in their timeline.
• Baine and Sylvanas said the Bronze Dragonflight accidentally brought the other Orc to their world, where he was sent back as a baby and took Thrall’s place.
• Jaina recounted how the Orc conquered Azeroth, united every Orc into himself, and eventually wiped out all life on the planet, beginning the Unique Beast Era.
• Sylvanas said the Beast Emperor grew enormous, founded the Giant Beast Heavenly Court, and challenged Elune; Baine said he failed, ending the era and bringing about the End Time.

Jaina, Baine, and Sylvanas tried to deliver Thrall to the Beast Emperor, but Eitrigg rescued him and revealed that the Beast Emperor intended to use him as medicine. Inside the Beast Emperor, Eitrigg explained that Thrall had once been destined to become the Unique Beast.

• Thrall accepted the supposed offer to inherit the Beast Emperor’s throne and traveled with Jaina, Baine, and Sylvanas through a strange Portal.
• Eitrigg, appearing as a Splitter, warned Thrall that his escorts were deceiving him, and Thrall chose to go with him instead.
• Eitrigg brought Thrall to an artificial Orgrimmar built inside the Beast Emperor, where Thrall saw soulless copies of familiar Orcs.
• Eitrigg explained that the Beast Emperor planned to devour Thrall to recover from his injuries, while Elune had secretly helped the Beast Emperor grow.
• Eitrigg revealed that Orc clans had fought inside the Beast Emperor for more than twenty billion years and that Thrall should have become the Beast Emperor himself.

Eitrigg convinced Thrall that he was the rightful Beast Emperor, then helped him produce and send out a hundred thousand copies aboard Splitters. After Eitrigg hinted that the Beast Emperor had grown up with Thrall, the Devourer appeared in Medivh’s form and attacked them.

• Thrall declared himself the rightful Beast Emperor, and Eitrigg agreed to help him end End Time.
• Eitrigg took Thrall to a production facility, where they created a hundred thousand copies of Thrall and sent them out aboard Splitters.
• Thrall and Eitrigg returned to Orgrimmar and drank together while Eitrigg hinted that the Beast Emperor had grown up with Thrall.
• An explosion tore through Orgrimmar, and a figure resembling Medivh entered the city.
• Eitrigg warned Thrall that the figure was the Devourer, which took the form of whatever its target feared most, but the Devourer’s attack made both of them explode and plunged Thrall into darkness.

Robbie and his companions entered the giant beast and used the plague to search for Orcs who could identify him. They learned the beast was the Beast Emperor and that the Great Prophet, Malfurion Stormrage, might know his true name.

• Robbie led Vanessa and Benedictus through a passage into the giant beast, where he used the plague to light their way and explained how it worked.
• Robbie established plague bases inside the beast and sent undead troops to search for Orcs who knew its identity.
• Robbie's group captured a fat Orc with a soul, and Benedictus burned him with Holy Light until he agreed to talk.
• The Orc said the giant beast was the Beast Emperor, who had supposedly destroyed all life on Azeroth and lived for 28 billion years.
• The Orc revealed that the Beast Emperor had been gravely wounded by Elune and that the Great Prophet knew his true name.
• The Orc identified the Great Prophet as Malfurion Stormrage.

Robbie learned that Malfurion was imprisoned beneath Giant Tree Canopy and concluded that Elune and the Beast Emperor were connected to Azeroth’s repeated destruction. After the Beast Emperor tried to burn out the plague, Robbie unleashed it, while Thrall was captured by the Devourers and taken away alive.

• Robbie, Benedictus, and Vanessa found Malfurion beneath Giant Tree Canopy, where a giant tree made of Night Elf souls rejected his pleas to return to his people.
• Benedictus and Vanessa analyzed Elune’s plan and the Beast Emperor’s repeated cleansing of Azeroth, and Robbie proposed making the two enemies destroy each other.
• The Beast Emperor set fire to the Undead base, forcing Robbie and his companions to escape through a Portal before Robbie unleashed the dormant plague inside him.
• Thrall awoke in a copied body, and Eitrigg told him the Great Prophet doubted he was the Savior before pushing him into darkness.
• Several Devourers captured Thrall, protected him in a bubble, and bound him with their tentacles.

Thrall was taken to the Beast Emperor’s palace, where Baine, Jaina, Tyrande, and Sylvanas were condemned and killed for their supposed crimes. Left alone before the throne, Thrall learned that he had to endure eighteen days of torture for an audience with the Beast Emperor.

• Several Devourers brought Thrall to Baine, Sylvanas, Tyrande, and Jaina, who escorted him through a portal to the Beast Soul Heavenly Court.
• The Beast Emperor condemned Baine to be crushed beneath a millstone, and Baine accepted the punishment before dying.
• The Beast Emperor sentenced Jaina to burn alive, and she fell into flames and turned to ashes.
• Tyrande tried to leap into the Abyss, but the Beast Emperor forced her to kneel, then froze and shattered her.
• The Beast Emperor sentenced Sylvanas to ten thousand swords piercing her heart, leaving Thrall alone on the walkway.
• The Devourers told Thrall that an audience required a trial of 1.8 million years, but they would shorten his torture to eighteen days because time was short.

Thrall endured eighteen days of torture before meeting the Beast Emperor, who explained that an outside force was multiplying inside him and asked Thrall to unite the Orcs with souls to stop it. The Beast Emperor sent Thrall to persuade them, but as the force arrived, he lost track of time again.

• The Devourers tortured Thrall through eighteen tests, leaving him mentally broken until the Beast Emperor restored his mind.
• The Beast Emperor revealed that Thrall was meant to be his medicine and that an outside force was using his flesh and blood to create Ghouls and take control of his body.
• Thrall identified the outside force as the Plague, and the Beast Emperor said Orcish toxins could counter it.
• The Beast Emperor ordered Thrall to unite the Orcs with souls, but Thrall warned that they would not sacrifice themselves for him.
• The Beast Emperor defended his claim to be Azeroth’s savior by saying he had freed living beings from suffering, then panicked as the outside force arrived.

Robbie and his allies attacked the Beast Emperor’s stronghold, but the plague and their assault failed to finish him before he summoned the chaos entity Zakul for help. Zakul appeared through a passage and scolded the Beast Emperor, who insisted that Elune was not his enemy.

• Benedictus taunted the Beast Emperor, who admitted that he enjoyed ruling and tormenting others.
• Robbie unleashed Professor Putricide’s plague, but the Beast Emperor tried to counter it by making Orc blood rain over the court.
• Robbie’s skeletal creature and Faceless One attacked the Beast Emperor, who set the court ablaze and burned Thrall and the monsters to ash.
• Robbie sent Orc souls to use Soul Scream, damaging the Beast Emperor’s soul and allowing the plague to spread across it.
• The Beast Emperor begged Zakul for help, and Zakul opened a passage to the world of chaos and rebuked him for defying Elune.
• The Beast Emperor wept and told Zakul that Elune was not the enemy.

Robbie’s plague transformed the Beast Emperor into an ominous creature, and he attacked the wounded Elune. Elune destroyed herself and the Beast Emperor to stop him, while a remnant of life drifted to Azeroth.

• Zakul sensed the soul-infecting plague on the Beast Emperor and fled through the rift, leaving a tentacle behind.
• Robbie’s plague corrupted the Beast Emperor, revealing the soul of a Pureblood Orc who Vanessa suspected had been a failed test subject from Medivh’s experiments.
• The Beast Emperor transformed into a red-haired corpse beast and attacked the wounded Elune, but neither her shield nor her counterattack could stop him from biting through it.
• Elune found Thrall inside a clone and sent him back to the Caverns of Time before declaring that the Unique Beast must be destroyed.
• Elune exploded herself, and the Beast Emperor’s body shattered in the resulting energy storm; a clump of life factors drifted to Azeroth.

Thrall returned from the End Time and learned that Elune had chosen him to become the Beast Emperor. The Emissary sent him to retrieve a treasure from the Hour of Twilight and gave him enslavement talismans to secure powerful allies.

• Thrall accused Anachronos of betraying him, but the Emissary said he knew what had happened in the End Time and congratulated Thrall on receiving the Unique Beast's inheritance.
• The Emissary told Thrall that Elune had mapped out his path to becoming the Beast Emperor and assigned him to seize an important treasure in the Hour of Twilight, where Benedictus led the Twilight's Hammer cultists.
• The Emissary named Med'an, Boathis, Softgear, Deriks Hellscream, and Afroya Windrunner as the five saviors who would assist Thrall, while Anachronos explained that some of them were weak or had not yet been born.
• Thrall asked for genuine experts who would work without claiming glory, and the Emissary gave him a list of powerful recruits for Anachronos to help win over.
• When Thrall doubted he could gain their loyalty, the Emissary handed him Elune's enslavement talismans, which could make even a Dragon Aspect his servant.

Thrall’s attempt to recruit adventurers ended in a pirate raid that left him badly injured, so he turned to recruiting powerful elites by force. He enslaved Morchok and set his sights on Hagara the Stormbinder.

• Thrall recruited over five hundred adventurers in Steamwheedle Port, took their wealth, and forced them to fight until only Captain Eudora of Freehold’s Water Rat Gang remained.
• Eudora shot Thrall, and the Water Rat Gang plundered Steamwheedle Port; Marin Noggenfogger lost his fortune, while Thrall was sent to the Caverns of Time for treatment.
• After the Emissary healed him, Thrall traveled with Anachronos to the Eternal Tides to recruit Morchok, lord of the stone elementals.
• Morchok refused to join Thrall, but Anachronos threatened him with a memory of his destroyed birthplace and the ability to kill him as a newborn.
• Thrall forced Morchok to sign an enslavement talisman, then named Hagara the Stormbinder as his next target.

Hagara tried to buy the Burning Blade Clan's miners' Sands of Time and gems so she could escape Thrall and evade the Bronze Dragonflight, but Orek kept raising his demands. After Al'Akir sent her gold and offered protection, Orek still refused to leave, and Hagara went to seek more money.

• Hagara asked Orek to sell her the miners' Sands of Time and precious gems, explaining that Thrall was coming and she needed them to escape his pursuit.
• Orek demanded ten times the price and refused Hagara's warning to leave Uldum, while telling his daughter Jimi that Thrall was a great savior.
• Hagara contacted Al'Akir, who offered her protection and sent gold to help her pay the miners.
• Hagara returned to Orek with the gold, but he demanded fifty times the price and declared his loyalty to Garrosh.
• Hagara pleaded with Orek to accept the money and flee to the Throne of the Four Winds, then left to raise more funds.

Hagara the Stormbinder tried to save the Burning Blade Clan miners from Thrall, but he forced her to become his servant and had Morchok slaughter them. Orek reached Orgrimmar hoping to rebuild his life, only to be rejected as worthless, while Thrall turned his attention to Warmaster Blackhorn.

• Hagara the Stormbinder rushed to the miners and tried to evacuate them, but they refused to leave because they revered Thrall.
• Thrall arrived with an adult bronze dragon and Morchok, then extorted Orek for the Sands of Time and claimed the Burning Blade Clan as his property.
• Thrall threatened the miners, and Hagara signed an enslavement scroll to protect Jimi; Thrall then ordered Morchok to stomp the miners to death.
• Orek told Jimi that the miners had deserved to die, then traveled for half a month to Orgrimmar seeking work under Garrosh.
• A Warsong Clan guard refused Orek entry and dismissed him as trash, while Thrall looked at the next name on his list: Warmaster Blackhorn.

Blackhorn warned Heizong Tauren chieftain Jianjiao Heiti that Thrall was coming, while Blackhorn continued investigating ancient Yaungol ruins. Though Jianjiao had been confident he could resist Thrall, the Earth Mother instructed him to cooperate with the Savior, and he pledged the Heizong Tauren’s loyalty.

• Blackhorn, an outcast Tauren skilled in Shadow Magic, rescued the Heizong Tauren from Cairne Bloodhoof’s attack and became known as the Warmaster.
• Blackhorn explored ancient Yaungol ruins and excavated remains that suggested the earliest Yaungol had used magic.
• Jianjiao Heiti dismissed Blackhorn’s warning that Thrall was approaching, confident that the Earth Mother’s power would protect the Heizong Tauren.
• Jianjiao prayed to the Earth Mother, who told him to cooperate fully with Thrall, and he pledged the Heizong Tauren’s loyalty.

Thrall led Morchok, Hagara the Stormbinder, and Anachronos into the mist to hunt Warmaster Blackhorn, but they became trapped in a strange place they could not escape. With no food or water, Thrall was the only one in immediate danger of starving.

• Thrall dismissed the danger of the mist and ordered Morchok, Hagara the Stormbinder, and Anachronos to enter it and seize Blackhorn.
• Blackhorn taunted Thrall and revealed that he had made a deal with Garrosh to take Thrall’s head and become chieftain of Thunder Bluff.
• Thrall waited until Morchok and Hagara the Stormbinder appeared unharmed before entering the mist on Anachronos’s back.
• After searching the mountains without finding Blackhorn, the group tried to leave the mist but could not find their way out.
• Hagara the Stormbinder’s map showed that their position lay far beyond the seven mountains, while Morchok found mist even underground.
• The group realized they were trapped without food or water, and Thrall grew dangerously hungry after exhausting his rations.

Thrall and his companions were trapped in a silver mist, where he tried to eat Anachronos before the strange mist ruined the dragon’s flesh. The Heizong Tauren entered the mist to rescue Thrall, breaking Blackhorn’s spell, and Thrall ended the chapter after eating Jianjiao Heiti’s youngest son.

• Thrall ordered Morchok and Hagara the Stormbinder to subdue Anachronos so he could eat him, and they badly wounded the dragon.
• The dragon meat turned into a rotted-cotton-like substance, and Hagara the Stormbinder determined that Anachronos had been falsely accused because his flesh’s magic had evaporated.
• Jianjiao Heiti heard the Earth Mother call him to rescue Thrall and led thousands of Heizong Tauren into the silver mist.
• The arrival of the Heizong Tauren exceeded Blackhorn’s spell’s limit, forcing Blackhorn and his Void Creatures to retreat into an ancient tomb.
• Thrall mistook Jianjiao Heiti’s youngest son for food, ate him, and then received Jianjiao Heiti’s pledge of service.