Chapter Summaries

Lucas met Velen after the two Flesh-Eternals fused, while Durotan and Mar'gok's forces failed to defeat Light-Hunter Kuber in Nagrand. Velen arrived as a Faceless One and revealed that he could devour Kuber, but the chapter ended with Kuber asking for terms and Velen saying he wanted to stop being a clown.

• The two Flesh-Eternals fused into a two-headed Faceless One, and Velen learned that Lucas served Tirion Fordring.
• Aman'Thul's portal brought Velen and Lucas to Nagrand as Durotan's forces attacked Light-Hunter Kuber.
• Mar'gok ordered the Lightforging Orcs to abandon the Holy Light, and Durotan rammed Kuber with the floating island after blocking the pyramid's light.
• Kuber survived the explosion, restored himself with light and heat, and exposed Mar'gok's hidden destruction circle.
• Velen appeared as a giant Faceless One and told Kuber that he could devour him by exploiting the Naaru Noble's weak will.
• Kuber recognized Velen and asked for terms, and Velen said he no longer wanted to be a clown.

Velen refused to accept the Naaru essence Kuber offered and attacked him, seeking to devour the Naaru noble instead. Their struggle moved into a contest of wills on Kuber’s homeworld, Polat, where Velen was trapped in darkness but revealed that he could produce light.

• Kuber sacrificed a Naaru and offered its essence to Velen, explaining that the Army of the Light treated ordinary Naaru as spellcasting materials.
• Velen attacked Kuber, devoured nearly a hundred thousand Lightforging Orcs to repair his body, and dragged Kuber into his maw.
• Kuber invoked Polat, shifting their contest of wills to his destroyed homeworld, where light was essential for survival.
• Velen shaped his will into Hydross the Unstable, while Kuber took the form of a glowing creature from Polat.
• Kuber extinguished the surrounding creatures’ light and immobilized Velen, but Velen said he could glow too.

Velen and Light-Hunter Kuber fought in an underwater contest of wills while Kuber recounted how betrayal and loss had led him to destroy his planet. Kuber revealed that he had also been deceiving Lucas, whose will appeared as Grom Hellscream and charged at Velen.

• Velen and Kuber exchanged poisonous water bolts and ice attacks beneath the sea, and Velen gained the advantage.
• Kuber told Velen that his people’s escape plan had failed because their elders secretly bargained with the Army of the Light.
• Kuber described how his lover was executed, how he escaped into the furnace, and how he destroyed the planet’s core in revenge.
• Kuber revealed that he had told his story to deceive Lucas, who had joined the contest of wills.
• Lucas’s will took the form of Grom Hellscream, who raised his axe and charged at Velen.

Lucas caused Velen to lose the contest of wills, allowing Kubor to unleash the Age of Holy Light across Draenor, but Yrel’s plan with Naaru K’ure’s technique ultimately destroyed Kubor. Aman'Thul then began preparing to unite Azeroth with a force of Holy Dragons.

• Lucas defeated Velen in the contest of wills, then died believing he had saved Azeroth.
• Kubor began spreading holy light across Draenor, controlling its inhabitants and declaring the Age of Holy Light.
• An approaching ball of holy light pursued Kubor, mixed foreign energy into him, and shattered him.
• Yrel confirmed Kubor’s death aboard the stealthed Tempest Keep, crediting Naaru K’ure’s technique.
• Aman'Thul learned of Kubor’s death and decided to unite Azeroth, then inspected Red Dragon eggs infused with holy light beneath Light's Hope Chapel.
• Aman'Thul spoke to Tirion Fordring beside an adult Holy Dragon and anticipated creating a Holy Dragonflight.

Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Magatha planned to invade Kalimdor for food until Jaina arrived with a way to feed their forces and demanded leadership. They accepted her temporary command, built a portal and shipyard, and received Pandaren provisions along with Lightforging Orcs.

• Garrosh, Sylvanas, and Magatha agreed to expand into Kalimdor and slaughter its inhabitants to supply their armies.
• Jaina arrived in a new body with Taran Zhu and Chen Stormstout, offering Pandaren from the Vale of Eternal Blossoms as food in exchange for becoming leader of the allied forces.
• Jaina warned that Holy Dragons would attack any advance into Stonetalon Mountains and said the armies should unite to attack the Plaguelands instead.
• Magatha and Sylvanas supported Jaina, and Garrosh agreed to her leadership while retaining command of the Lightforging Quilboar.
• The factions built a permanent Portal to the Vale and a Shipyard in Durotar; once the Portal opened, ten thousand Pandaren entered Orgrimmar to be slaughtered, accompanied by many Lightforging Orcs.

Jaina revealed her plan to use New Lightforged Orcs and rebuild the Peace Dove to draw Alliance races into her army. Meanwhile, Velen faced the Army of the Light over Kuber’s death and accepted a chance to atone by spreading the Holy Light across Azeroth.

• Garrosh realized Jaina controlled the New Lightforged Orcs, and she announced she would rebuild the Peace Dove to recruit humans and Dwarves as provisions.
• Aman'Thul recognized Velen and offered him a chance to atone for attacking Light-Hunter Kuber by preaching the Holy Light, with former Argent Crusade members supporting him.
• Velen prayed to the Holy Light and was drawn into a memory of the Polat Planet, where the elders accused him of betraying them after he drew the marked card.
• Velen defended himself by claiming that Light-Hunter Kuber was an Unclean One, then agreed to accept punishment and spread the Holy Light across Azeroth.

Velen was reborn as Weite, a Pandaren raised as food in Pandaria, and tried to figure out how to spread the Holy Light among his people. After winning praise for his speeches and arguing that Pandaren stood above Orcs, he considered becoming a dinner ingredient to reach Taran Zhu or Jaina.

• The Holy Light sent Velen’s soul into Weite, an educated Pandaren who was being raised as food for distinguished guests.
• Weite delivered a speech celebrating the Pandaren’s status as Azeroth’s most delicious ingredients, earning applause from the crowd.
• At a gathering of Pandaren sages, Weite argued that Pandaren history and civilization placed them above Orcs.
• Weite decided that persuading Taran Zhu or Jaina might let him spread the Holy Light among the Pandaren.
• After two sages were chosen as Garrosh’s dinner, Weite considered becoming an ingredient to gain access to Taran Zhu and Jaina.
• The sages began debating Pandaren traitors, and one elder proposed creating an enforcement force.

Velen used the Law Enforcement Force proposal to arrange a secret attack on Qionghua Lake, hoping the resulting chaos would let him escape the guarded Vale of Eternal Blossoms. After fewer than a hundred Jinyu routed the Pandaren and caused massive casualties, he urged Taran Zhu to consider the Holy Light, while the sages falsely celebrated a victory and debated how to cook Jinyu.

• The Vale of Eternal Blossoms sages formed a Law Enforcement Force, and Velen volunteered to take their proposal to Taran Zhu after its leader was chosen by lot.
• When Taran Zhu refused to act on the proposal, Velen lied to the force’s leader that Sect Master Zhu had approved a secret attack on Qionghua Lake.
• Fifty Pandaren attacked Qionghua Lake, but the Jinyu killed them and then charged into the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, where panic caused more than a hundred thousand casualties.
• Taran Zhu learned that fewer than a hundred Jinyu had attacked, and Velen warned that more might come before suggesting the Path of the Holy Light and the Holy Light Edict.
• The sages claimed that thirty million Jinyu had attacked and that the Pandaren had won easily, then began debating how to cook Jinyu.

Velen’s attempt to turn the Vale of Eternal Blossoms Pandaren into an army ended in disaster, while Jaina’s Peace Dove secretly expanded across the Kingdom of Stormwind. The chapter left Vanessa’s Followers preparing to use Robbie’s latest Holy Light research against Jaina’s plan.

• Taran Zhu received Velen’s weakened Holy Light Edict, converted the Vale Pandaren, and approved a war against the Shado-Pan Monastery after Velen urged the sages to attack.
• Taran Zhu led an expedition that lost its vanguard, drowned more than a hundred thousand Pandaren, and lost over a hundred thousand more to the cold before retreating without reaching the monastery.
• The Vale Pandaren celebrated their supposed victory, while Velen recognized his failure, prayed for forgiveness, and was ordered by the Holy Light to go to the Kingdom of Stormwind and assist Jaina’s operation.
• At Lunarfall, Vanessa’s Followers learned from Whitemane that the Peace Dove had quietly spread throughout the Kingdom of Stormwind, and Robbie proposed using the team’s latest research.

Velen went undercover in Stormwind City as Cyrus to investigate the Peace Dove, where he learned Jaina planned to enslave humans through a corrupted form of the Holy Light. After discovering Archbishop Benedictus was spreading this Unholy Holy Light, Velen planned to enlist Genn Greymane’s help and traveled to Gilneas.

• Velen arrived in Stormwind City disguised as Cyrus and followed a Peace Dove messenger to a basement meeting.
• Maiwen Anluofu drained the messenger’s soul shard, then told Velen that Jaina planned to make Stormwind’s people slaves and food for Orcs.
• Maiwen asked Velen to help eliminate Archbishop Benedictus, who had returned to Stormwind.
• At Benedictus’s sermon, Velen sensed that the Holy Light entering the congregation was corrupted and resolved to stop its spread.
• Velen decided to seek help from Genn Greymane, whose ambitions included Stormwind’s throne, and an uninvited guest arrived in Gilneas City.

Velen forced King Greymane to cooperate with his plan to pressure the Cathedral of Light and expose Benedictus, then took him toward Stormwind. At Menethil Harbor, a mysterious tall figure entered the inn where they were resting.

• Maiwen Anluofu secured Velen a recommendation to see King Greymane, but Velen waited seven days without an audience.
• After learning that crowds had waited for years to see the king, Velen stormed the palace, beat Greymane, and healed him while threatening to repeat the assault for seven days.
• Greymane fled to Dusk Bay Town, but Velen tracked him down and compelled him to agree to travel to Stormwind.
• Velen and Greymane flew to Menethil Harbor to begin a plan to unite nobles against the Cathedral of Light and establish Benedictus's guilt.
• While Greymane cautiously studied Velen at an inn, a tall figure entered with the scent of the sea.

Kel'Thuzad exposed Velen's manipulation and captured Greymane, while Jaina ordered Peace Dove to activate its Holy Light network across Stormwind. The city dismantled the Magic Circles before dawn, and Jaina declared that she would send the Lightforging Orcs to destroy the Kingdom of Stormwind.

• Kel'Thuzad told Greymane that his teacher could have helped prevent Prince Liam's murder, then revealed that Velen was being used by Jaina.
• Velen attacked Kel'Thuzad with Holy Light but fled after his magic proved ineffective, and Greymane agreed to help stop Peace Dove.
• Jaina ordered Peace Dove's branches to begin their operation before dawn, and Maiwen Anluofu rallied the Stormwind leaders to prepare the Magic Circles.
• Peace Dove activated the Circles, creating a vast net of Holy Light over Stormwind and enchanting some members, while guards arrested the conspirators.
• Robbie and Vanessa watched as Stormwind's mages dismantled the Circles before dawn, and Maiwen fled to Booty Bay.
• Jaina said Stormwind had lost its chance at redemption and threatened to send the Lightforging Orcs to destroy the kingdom.

Garrosh followed the Pandaren’s plan to attack the Bael Modan Digsite, hoping to undermine Jaina without confronting her directly. After Jaina tracked down General Tavenblade, he revealed that the site hid a cavern whose curse transformed living creatures into other beings.

• Garrosh took out his anger on his Worg, then learned from the Pandaren that Jaina’s order to attack Stormwind was a trap that could expose him to the unclean Holy Light.
• The Pandaren told Garrosh to seize the Bael Modan Digsite and drive out the Dwarves, knowing Jaina would hear of the raid and investigate.
• Garrosh sent Lightforging Quilboar to attack the digsite, killing more than half the Dwarves as General Tavenblade escaped to Dustwallow Marsh.
• Jaina found Tavenblade in the marsh and questioned him about what the Dwarves had uncovered.
• Tavenblade told Jaina that the Tears of the Moons had turned a worker into a Trogg and that a cavern’s curse had transformed a deer into a young Thunder Lizard.

Garrosh used the Bael Modan Digsite to lure Jaina with a fabricated story about seven-colored Life Crystals while testing the cavern’s power on Quilboar. Jaina entered the cave herself, discovered the deception, and was trapped with a mysterious presence in the mist.

• Garrosh sent Quilboar into the cavern, where they emerged transformed into a Rhinotaur and a Magnataur, and he claimed the cave contained Life Crystals that could change creatures’ forms.
• Garrosh told the Quilboar that collecting gems of all seven colors would preserve their sanity, while secretly feeding Jaina’s spies a false account of the cavern.
• Jaina dismissed Garrosh’s warning and sent two Water Elementals into the cave, but their connection to her vanished.
• Jaina entered the cavern with a Hearthstone and saw gray mist instead of gems, realizing Garrosh had deceived her.
• A voice spoke from the mist, recognized a familiar scent on Jaina, and she found that the cave entrance had disappeared.

Jaina was transformed into a female Pandaren and trapped in an endless cycle of labor and slaughter at a Pandaren breeding farm. After realizing she could not escape alone, she joined the Peace Dove, whose members served Queen Jaina against Taran Zhu.

• Jaina’s magic failed, and a powerful muscular Pandaren transformed her into a vicious-looking female Pandaren and took her to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
• The muscular Pandaren sent Jaina to the breeding farm and told her to save herself and the Pandaren race.
• Jaina was forced to work as a farmer, beaten by overseers, and repeatedly sent to the slaughterhouse, only to wake again as a Pandaren.
• Jaina realized she was trapped in an endless cycle and despaired over how she could change the Pandaren’s fate.
• A female Pandaren invited Jaina to join the Peace Dove, and its leader announced that the group served Queen Jaina against Taran Zhu.

Jaina took control of a secret Pandaren group, taught its members the Holy Light, and helped them overthrow Taran Zhu, but Garrosh kept the Vale of Eternal Blossoms sealed. She remained trapped and woke to find herself an ordinary farmer again, beginning another cycle.

• Jaina won over the fake Peace Dove members, replaced their overseer, and taught them the Holy Light, growing the group to over five thousand.
• Garrosh learned that several Pandaren carried Holy Light energy and, guided by his mysterious lord, ordered an intensified search for Jaina.
• Jaina sent five thousand members under Jiyun Fengzi to attack Taran Zhu's palace, and Taran Zhu fled when they arrived.
• Garrosh told Jiyun Fengzi that Jaina had authorized the Peace Dove to govern the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, leaving Jaina's escape plan thwarted by the guarded passes.
• Jaina woke to find herself an ordinary farmer again and realized she was still caught in the cycle.

Jaina found that the Pandaren of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms remained trapped in an endless cycle, while Garrosh moved to eliminate Sylvanas by ordering her to attack the Kingdom of Stormwind. After a mysterious black-robed figure intervened, Sylvanas learned she was expected to defeat Garrosh with his help.

• Jaina studied the Pandaren and realized she could not free them from their repeated deaths and forced lives as food.
• Garrosh dismissed Taran Zhu, approved Jiyun Fengzi’s rule over the Vale, and ordered that the kneeling leader be served as food if he fainted.
• Garrosh ordered Sylvanas to lead the Lightforging Centaurs against the Kingdom of Stormwind, and his forces forced her to advance after she tried to delay.
• Sylvanas’s army destroyed the Undead at Raven Hill, but Garrosh’s troops arrived and forced her to continue toward the Kingdom of Stormwind.
• As Sylvanas prepared to flee, a black-robed figure stopped her, revealed that he had chosen Garrosh over her, and offered to help her defeat him.

Sylvanas defeated Garrosh with secret help from the Black-Robed Man, who took Garrosh to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms and trapped him in a Pandaren laborer’s body. After enduring repeated cycles of forced labor and death, Garrosh found Jaina and asked her to help him escape, but she had lost hope.

• Sylvanas led an elite force into Garrosh’s camp, overwhelmed his soldiers, and took control while the Black-Robed Man removed Garrosh.
• The Black-Robed Man sent Garrosh into the Vale of Eternal Blossoms as a Pandaren, where overseers forced him to work under threat of torture and death.
• Garrosh repeatedly died from the brutal conditions and returned as a Pandaren, eventually resigning himself to the farm labor.
• Garrosh recognized Jaina among the workers and visited her at night after she had been sent to the slaughterhouse and returned.
• Garrosh asked Jaina to work with him to escape, but Jaina said she had tried everything and had given up hope.

Garrosh and Jaina burned the granaries in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, hoping hunger would drive the Pandaren to revolt. Sylvanas recalled Taran Zhu to restore order, but his brutal solution left Garrosh and Jaina shaken.

• Garrosh and Jaina decided to burn every granary in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, and Jaina planted delayed-burst Fireballs in them.
• More than a hundred granaries burned, leaving the Pandaren leaderless and hungry as Jiyun Fengzi disappeared.
• The Pandaren prepared to fight their way out of the Vale, but Sylvanas summoned Taran Zhu after hearing of the chaos.
• Taran Zhu proposed blaming Jiyun Fengzi and forcing half the Pandaren to die by lottery, and Sylvanas agreed to restore him as their leader if he succeeded.
• Taran Zhu returned, executed a man presented as Jiyun Fengzi, and sent those who drew death into the slaughterhouse.
• Garrosh and Jaina watched the Pandaren accept Taran Zhu's plan, and Garrosh's confidence faltered.

Garrosh was served as food at Sylvanas's banquet, where she negotiated with Saurfang and Zul'jin over the Ogres' entry into Azeroth and the Tauren's fate. After Rom Wildtotem betrayed Magatha and Sylvanas imprisoned her, Saurfang offered a way to cure the Blood Elves' Mana Addiction, leaving Sylvanas to consider the Ogres' proposal.

• An overseer told Garrosh he had been chosen as food for Sylvanas's honored guests, and he seized the chance to bathe before being served alive.
• Saurfang and Zul'jin arrived, and Saurfang bit off Garrosh's right hand before Sylvanas joined the banquet.
• Saurfang asked Sylvanas to let Imperator Mar'gok move Highmaul through Theramore toward Lordaeron, while Zul'jin said Durotan's clans were also entering Azeroth.
• Magatha rejected Sylvanas's demand that the Tauren become food, but Rom Wildtotem sided with Sylvanas and helped her have Magatha arrested.
• Sylvanas offered to open the Holy Light's Gate and supply meat if Imperator Mar'gok was sincere, and Saurfang promised an alliance and a cure for Mana Addiction.
• Zul'jin explained that Ogres had discovered an antidote to Mana Addiction through their research on Draenei, and Sylvanas doubted the claim.