Chapter Summaries

Jaina learned from Aman'Thul that Kalecgos held two dark souls, including a survivor of the Black Dragon Egg race whose past involved Velen and the Draenei. She extracted Lucas's soul and trapped it in a construct, where his torment ended when he saw the living mountain of flesh called Tirion Fordring.

• Jaina told Aman'Thul that she feared Aegwynn more than Kalecgos, and Aman'Thul suggested using Kalecgos to reach Aegwynn's legacy.
• Aman'Thul explained that the Black Dragon Egg was the last survivor of a race that had imprisoned Velen and the Draenei, and that Velen had secretly executed his wife after she sought the Burning Legion's help.
• Jaina decided what to do next and extracted Lucas's soul, placing it inside a construct at Aman'Thul's request.
• Lucas endured repeated agony and darkness inside the construct, then regained his ability to see and hear the outside world.
• Lucas saw the construct cutting pieces from a gigantic, golden-lit mountain of flesh and recognized it as Tirion Fordring.

Lucas resolved to save Tirion Fordring and avenge himself on Jaina, while Kalecgos weighed whether to accept Aegwynn’s offer to teach him magic. He secretly met Aegwynn in Orgrimmar, where she presented her Spellstealer Wyrms and asked him to accept them.

• Lucas silently vowed to rescue Tirion Fordring and take revenge on Jaina, though he remained trapped in a construct’s body.
• Kalecgos discussed Jaina and the growing conflicts with Sathrovarr and the Black Dragon egg, who urged him to consider different ways of dealing with her.
• Kalecgos received a report that Jaina had concealed Aegwynn’s offer to pass on her skills, and he debated whether the offer was a trap.
• Sathrovarr and the Black Dragon egg advised Kalecgos to study Aegwynn’s magic without mastering it, and Kalecgos decided to pursue the opportunity.
• Kalecgos disguised himself as an adventurer, secretly entered Orgrimmar, and met Aegwynn at a dark lake.
• Aegwynn offered Kalecgos more than a thousand Spellstealer Wyrms containing her magic and asked whether he would accept them.

Kalecgos rejected Aegwynn’s offer of the Spellstealer Wyrms and accepted her magic recorded on a Magic Gem instead. As he and his companions studied the spells, they discovered that Aegwynn had ensnared them with the heartbeat of her Old God body.

• Kalecgos resisted the Spellstealer Wyrms, which Sathrovarr the Corruptor and the Black Dragon Eggs warned were vessels for Aegwynn’s soul.
• Kalecgos refused to give Aegwynn one of his scales and offered a Magic Gem to record her magic instead.
• Aegwynn inscribed her spells on the gem, declared Kalecgos her disciple, and vanished after saying she hoped they would never meet again.
• Kalecgos took the Magic Gem to the Eye of Eternity, where he, Sathrovarr, and the Black Dragon Eggs examined its vast collection of spells.
• The group heard a heartbeat and realized it came from Aegwynn’s Old God body; Sathrovarr’s consciousness began to sink as they recognized her trap.

Kalecgos, Sathrovarr, and the Black Dragon Eggs awoke trapped in the Flesh-Eternal after exchanging souls with Aegwynn, who took control of Kalecgos's body. Jaina tracked Aegwynn to the Eye of Eternity and fought her, but Aegwynn drained the space of magic, leaving Jaina to face her with a sword.

• Kalecgos, Sathrovarr, and the Black Dragon Eggs exchanged souls with Aegwynn and found themselves trapped inside the Flesh-Eternal.
• Aegwynn took over Kalecgos's body and discovered that its magic was damaged and disordered.
• Jaina entered through a golden Portal and attacked Aegwynn with a Frost Bomb, but Aegwynn disrupted the spell and injured her with dragon scales and horns.
• Jaina used magical items, Divine Shield, and Ice Block to survive Aegwynn's attacks, while Wind Blades severed Aegwynn's wings and limbs.
• Aegwynn revealed that Kalecgos had sealed the Eye of Eternity and that the explosions had depleted its magic; Jaina landed and drew a sword.

Jaina killed Aegwynn and negotiated with the Blue Dragons to repair Kalecgos so she could enslave him as her mount. Meanwhile, Meryl Winterstorm prepared a female Dreadlord as the next vessel for a soul tied to the Dragon's scale.

• Jaina's hidden ally, a woman she had sent to be swallowed, emerged from Aegwynn's body and disrupted her Dragon's Breath.
• Jaina climbed onto Aegwynn's head and killed her, then recovered her mana after the Eye of Eternity opened.
• Jaina convinced the Blue Dragons that Kalecgos's soul had been replaced and bargained for them to repair his body so she could turn him into her puppet mount.
• Meryl Winterstorm took the humming Blue Dragon scale to a prepared coffin and plunged it into the chest of a sleeping female Dreadlord.

Aegwynn was reborn in a Dreadlord body while Meryl learned she had escaped the Old Gods’ influence, and Aman'Thul’s Holy Light experiment transformed Lucas’s soul. After Lucas contacted Tirion Fordring, Tirion urged him to escape and warn Azeroth that its safety was threatened, but said he could not leave the Flesh-Eternal unless someone took his place.

• Aegwynn awakened in a Dreadlord body, summoned Spellstealer Wyrms, and told Meryl that Medivh was gone and Jaina had not killed her.
• Meryl worried about the Army of the Light, but Aegwynn said the Holy Light preferred to weaken Azeroth through internal conflict and that she could monitor Jaina through Kalecgos.
• At Light's Hope Chapel, Lucas absorbed Holy Light that repaired and transformed his soul, while Aman'Thul watched and discussed the Holy Dragon plan with Jaina.
• Lucas sensed Tirion Fordring's soul and spoke with him, revealing what he had overheard from Jaina and Amado at the banquet.
• Tirion told Lucas that Jaina and Amado were pawns of an evil force controlling the Holy Light and urged him to escape and warn Azeroth, but said he needed someone to take his place in the Flesh-Eternal.

Lucas traded souls with Tirion Fordring, believing he was freeing a hero, but discovered Tirion’s atrocities as he endured the Flesh-Eternal’s torment. Tirion was captured and tortured by Jaina and Amado, who used his soul to create a Holy Dragon and sent Jaina to challenge the Five Dragonflights.

• Tirion Fordring secretly transferred the Holy Light into Lucas's Construct and tricked Lucas into merging with the Rune, exchanging their souls.
• Lucas absorbed Tirion Fordring's memories and learned that Tirion had sold humans to the Orcs, while Tirion escaped in the Construct.
• Lightforging Orcs captured Tirion, mistook him for Lucas, and sealed his soul inside the Construct's core.
• Jaina and Amado tested the core with magical tortures before placing Tirion's soul inside Kalecgos's body.
• Amado and Jaina transformed Kalecgos into a Holy Dragon, then Amado sent Jaina to display it to the Five Dragonflights.

Jaina rode the Holy Dragon to demonstrate the power of the holy light to the Bronze, Green, Black, and Blue Dragonflights. After the Blue Dragons retreated from the Holy Dragon’s Holy Domain, Jaina set her sights on her final and most difficult target at Wyrmrest Temple.

• Jaina’s Holy Dragon circled the Caverns of Time and buried its entrance in sand, leaving Anachronos and the Bronze Dragons shocked and humiliated.
• Jaina appeared over Val’sharah as a second sun and showered the forest with healing holy light, prompting Tyrande to taunt Malfurion about the power of the holy light.
• Jaina circled Neltharion’s Lair, but flew away when the underground creatures prostrated themselves before the Holy Dragon.
• Arygos confronted Jaina at the Nexus with more than a dozen Blue Dragons and accused her of turning Kalecgos’s body into a puppet.
• The Holy Dragon’s Holy Domain drove out Arcane energy, forcing Arygos and the Blue Dragons to retreat as Jaina prepared to go to Wyrmrest Temple.

The Red Dragon Queen decided to support Jaina’s Holy Dragons while secretly expecting them to remain subordinate to Red Dragon bloodlines. She gave Jaina a legendary staff and thirty Red Dragon Eggs, and Jaina agreed to establish the Holy Dragon nest at Fire Plume Ridge.

• The Red Dragon Queen concluded that the Army of the Light was behind the Holy Dragon and told Krasus to avoid conflict with Jaina while preparing unsuitable Red Dragon Eggs for her.
• Jaina and the Holy Dragon arrived at Wyrmrest Temple, where Red Dragons welcomed them with a musical performance and Krasus escorted Jaina to the Red Dragon Queen.
• The Red Dragon Queen gave Jaina Dragon’s Wrath, Taremmus’s Rest, and explained that Taremmus had been corrupted after eating Draenei Broken.
• Krasus brought thirty high-quality Red Dragon Eggs, and the Red Dragon Queen offered them as the foundation of the Holy Dragonflights.
• The Red Dragon Queen recommended Fire Plume Ridge as the Holy Dragons’ nest, Jaina accepted, and the queen asked her to call her sister.

Jaina's allied forces purified the lake at the Ruins of Orgrimmar and began roasting Kalecgos's Flesh-Eternal, forcing him to seek a way to escape. The Black Dragon Eggs set a plan in motion and reached Velen through a vision, where he recognized Zakir.

• Velen led the Lightforging Tauren, Lightforging Centaurs, and Lightforging Quilboar toward the Ruins of Orgrimmar, while Jaina and Kalecgos drew everyone's attention.
• Jaina ordered the allied forces to purify the dark lake, revealing Kalecgos's Flesh-Eternal beneath its waters.
• The Black Dragon Eggs proposed that Kalecgos become a Twilight Dragon using Black Dragon essence and Void Dragon essence, and Kalecgos agreed to seek the Red Dragon Queen's help through Velen.
• Jaina ordered the allied forces to roast the Flesh-Eternal as a lasting food supply, trapping Kalecgos in a painful cycle of growing new flesh.
• The Black Dragon Eggs entered Velen's vision while he prayed, and Velen recognized Zakir in the Cosmic Cathedral.

Zakir persuaded Velen to help free him by offering advice on undermining Jaina’s position through sabotage of the Flesh-Eternals. The Black Dragon egg revealed that it had impersonated Zakir to deceive Velen, while the Lightforging armies’ arrival in Azshara drew attention and a Tauren messenger reached the Red Dragon Queen.

• Zakir told Velen that an Eredar demon carrying his head was in Azeroth and offered to serve him for ten thousand years if Velen helped free him.
• Zakir advised Velen to sabotage the Flesh-Eternals by asking the Red Dragon Queen for Void Dragon essence, and Velen began forming a plan.
• After the vision ended, the Black Dragon egg told Kalecgos that it had successfully fooled Velen.
• Lightforging Orcs and Lightforged Trolls established a base at Rustwater Port, where Jaina’s Lightforging Centaurs clashed with them and drew the attention of Azeroth’s factions.
• Leipi arrived at Wyrmrest Temple, and the Red Dragon Queen asked whether the Tauren Chieftains were performing in Northrend.

The Red Dragon Queen sent Void Dragon essence to Velen after realizing he had tried to obtain it, while the war in Azshara intensified. When the Flesh-Eternal stopped growing, Jaina attacked Velen and accused him of treachery; Kalecgos then offered Velen a way to turn the situation against Jaina.

• Leipi told the Red Dragon Queen that a mysterious Tauren Chieftains shareholder had sent him to request Void Dragon essence, and she sent essence to Velen through an intermediary.
• The Lightforging war in Azshara escalated as both sides suffered heavy losses while keeping their strongest fighters out of battle.
• Garrosh told Jaina that the Flesh-Eternal had stopped growing, and Velen demanded an explanation when she returned to the Orgrimmar base.
• Jaina struck Velen, ordered him questioned, and declared that she would punish the traitor behind the Flesh-Eternal's disruption.
• Kalecgos visited the injured Velen and said Jaina was more suited to become a Flesh-Eternal because she had sold many innocent people to the Orcs.

Velen used Kalecgos's soul-dance spell to free the holy souls from Jaina's control and make them engulf her. Jaina became convinced that being eaten by the Orcs was an honor and entered the Flesh-Eternal, which then seized Velen with a tentacle.

• Garrosh had Velen bound and brought him to Jaina's Holy Light Magic Circle as the next sacrifice to become a Flesh-Eternal.
• Jaina activated the Magic Circle, drawing restless souls to Velen and transforming them into holy souls that urged him to sacrifice himself for Azeroth.
• Velen danced the soul-dance Kalecgos had taught him, causing the holy souls to join in and slip from Jaina's control.
• The holy souls engulfed Jaina and made her relive the suffering and manipulation of those who had been sacrificed to the Orcs.
• Jaina accepted her supposed sacrifice as an honor and entered the Flesh-Eternal, while Velen breathed a sigh of relief.
• The Flesh-Eternal wrapped a tentacle around Velen.

Velen was dragged into the Flesh-Eternal after the Draenei souls and Orcs broke his resolve, while Aman'Thul halted the attack on Kalimdor to preserve the balance of power. On Draenor, Mar'gok began considering Cho'gall as a replacement for Amado, and the Velen hidden inside Cho'gall welcomed the other Velen's downfall.

• Velen briefly used the Holy Light to resist the Flesh-Eternal, but the Draenei souls accused him of betraying them and he admitted he had treated them as livestock.
• Orcs overwhelmed Velen, and he was dragged into the Flesh-Eternal, where he found Jaina among the restless souls.
• Aman'Thul ordered Baron Maxwell Tyrosus to stop the attack on Kalimdor and withdraw the troops to Rustwater Port, explaining that the Holy Light required a balance of power.
• Mar'gok questioned Amado's decision to halt his attack, and Antonidas suggested that Amado had ambitions for Azeroth.
• Mar'gok summoned Cho'gall to replace Amado, while the Velen hidden inside Cho'gall celebrated the other Velen's loss of freedom.

Velen, controlling Cho'gall, led a vast army of New Lightforged Orcs in a conquest of Kalimdor, forcing Sylvanas, Garrosh, and Magatha into a desperate defense. After the Orcs captured Orgrimmar, Velen prepared to destroy its Flesh-Eternal, but learned that the ships in Azshara had been destroyed just as the Holy Dragon roared overhead.

• Velen secured Mar'gok's permission to command the New Lightforged Orcs and rapidly expanded their forces.
• Velen launched invasions across Kalimdor, while Sylvanas, Garrosh, and Magatha united to resist the Orcs.
• Sylvanas joined forces with Zul'Farrak and used its defenses to stall the Orcs, while Garrosh retreated to Northwatch Hold and Magatha fell back to Thunder Bluff.
• The New Lightforged Orcs captured Orgrimmar, where Velen planned to destroy the Flesh-Eternal and eliminate the other Velen.
• A scout reported that the ships in Azshara's harbor had been destroyed, and the Holy Dragon roared over Orgrimmar.

Kalecgos and the Holy Dragons defeated Cho'gall's forces, and a black-robed Corrector had Cho'gall dragged into the Flesh-Eternal. Inside, Cho'gall's Velen soul met the other Velen and Jaina, before an eerie voice offered the two Velens a chance to escape if they cooperated.

• Thirty Holy Dragons led by Kalecgos attacked Orgrimmar and killed the New Lightforged Orcs accompanying Cho'gall.
• A black-robed mage stopped Cho'gall from teleporting, rejected his surrender, and had the Flesh-Eternal drag him inside.
• Grommash Hellscream and Kilrogg hoped to take command of the New Lightforged Orcs, while Baron Thalassos said he had an old friend in Ratchet.
• Aman'Thul watched and reflected that Cho'gall's presence as a counterforce had brought forth a Corrector.
• Cho'gall's Velen soul met another Velen and Jaina inside the Flesh-Eternal, where Jaina forced them to confess their sins.
• An eerie voice asked the two Velens whether they would cooperate if they could escape.

Two versions of Velen learned that fusing their souls could make them gods and accepted the treacherous voice’s secret art. Their souls merged inside the Flesh-Eternal, leaving a two-headed Draenei soul that the voice called the beginning of a god.

• The two Velens agreed that one of them had to die, but the treacherous voice offered a way to fuse their souls and share power.
• The voice claimed that souls from parallel worlds could merge into gods and proved its knowledge by naming Lisa and revealing the other Velen’s death in the Cosmic Cathedral.
• The Velens remembered how one had killed his parallel self during a Temporal Tremor ten thousand years earlier.
• The voice claimed to be Velen after becoming a god and taught the two Velens the incantation for merging their souls.
• The Velens fused inside the Flesh-Eternal, becoming a two-headed Draenei soul that the voice called the beginning of a god.

Two-headed Velen freed himself from the Flesh-Eternal, rescued Jaina from brainwashing, and recruited her, while Aman'Thul secretly manipulated them. Meanwhile, Mar'gok and Antonidas prepared for a Naaru’s arrival as Durotan’s forces and the New Lightforged Orcs readied for a looming conflict.

• Two-headed Velen gained control of the Flesh-Eternal and followed the sly voice’s instructions to find Jaina, unaware that Aman'Thul had scanned both Velens’ memories and deceived them.
• Two-headed Velen freed Jaina from her brainwashing and persuaded her to join him, threatening to devour her if she refused.
• At Light's Hope Chapel, Aman'Thul, disguised as Amado, restored his power and carefully built up the New Lightforged Orcs and their fleet.
• In Draenor, Mar'gok and Antonidas discussed Cho'gall’s defeat and the uncertain preparations to resist the Naaru, while Mar'gok refused to surrender to the Holy Light.
• At the Thunderlord Clan fortress, Durotan prepared a massive ballista and spoke of staking everything on one final chance as Draka arrived with the children.
• After more than ten million New Lightforged Orcs were expended, Oshu'gun’s enormous pyramid and underground palace were completed as a resting place for the arriving Naaru.

Mar'gok and Antonidas prepared to destroy the pyramid as the Naaru descended, while Mar'gok discovered that the Holy Light would judge Draenor’s people as potential servants or prey. As Light-Hunter Kuber crossed into Draenor, a hidden cannon fired a Shadow projectile that shattered him.

• Mar'gok and Antonidas agreed that the Holy Light ceremony was their last chance and prepared to destroy the site if it went wrong.
• Mar'gok lit the pyramid’s torch and learned that the Naaru considered most worshippers unworthy, despite promising to save the dead and living.
• The Holy Light engulfed Nagrand, compelling the Lightforged Orcs to praise it and revealing a rift through which Light-Hunter Kuber and six smaller Naaru descended.
• A concealed cannon among the mountains of Oshu'gun fired a Shadow-powered projectile, which struck Kuber and blasted him apart.

Mar'gok’s attacks failed to destroy Light-Hunter Kuber, who resurrected with his followers at the cost of more than three hundred thousand Lightforging Orcs. Meanwhile, Aman'Thul empowered Velen into a mutated Faceless One and sent him to devour the Naaru, leaving Lucas alive but fused into Velen’s transformed body.

• Mar'gok’s Rune and a Titan-like stone arm struck Light-Hunter Kuber, but Kuber and his five followers later reappeared after the deaths of more than three hundred thousand Lightforging Orcs.
• Light-Hunter Kuber condemned the Draenor World and threatened to make its people pay, while Durotan arrived above a floating island made of the Thunderlord Clan’s black bones.
• Aman'Thul appeared near the Flesh-Eternal in Orgrimmar and urged Two-headed Velen to devour the Naaru and become a god.
• Velen transformed into a gigantic Faceless One and used a Portal to reach Lucas in the Plaguelands, where he drained Lucas’s flesh and blood.
• Aman'Thul praised Velen’s transformation and ordered him to devour the Naaru, while Lucas remained alive with his body incorporated into the Faceless One.