Chapter Summaries

Akama gave up his claim to rule Outland after Naruk Xil told him the Army of the Light had other plans, while Thrall accepted that Prince And had been named Lord of Outland. Thrall decided to send a million Orcs to Zangarmarsh to repay a debt to Jaina, leaving Eitrigg questioning his strategy as he sought Vol'jin’s advice.

• Akama begged Naruk Xil to release him from the position of Lord of Outland and left the Black Temple accepting that he had been a pawn.
• Eitrigg told Thrall that Prince And, Anduin’s unborn son, had led the children who killed Illidan and been acclaimed Lord of Outland.
• Thrall told Eitrigg not to challenge the Army of the Light or the Burning Legion, and declared the Battle of the Black Temple a victory for the Orcs.
• Thrall ordered Eitrigg to send the million Orcs in Shadowmoon Valley to Zangarmarsh, where they could repay his debt to Jaina.
• Eitrigg met Vol'jin and asked why Thrall had passed up the chance to use the Orcs to unify Azeroth.

Vol'jin warned Eitrigg that Thrall's million Orcs had to be eliminated and instructed him to preserve Zangarmarsh for Jaina. As the Orcs entered the marsh, Gai Laya crushed dissent and fought four ambitious leaders, revealing that she could use arcane magic.

• Vol'jin explained to Eitrigg that Orc clans could not grow beyond a limit without losing their chieftain's absolute authority, and warned him not to spare any of the million Orcs.
• Vol'jin told Eitrigg to win over the Sporelings, suppress the Fungal Giants, and leave Zangarmarsh intact for Jaina's sacrifice.
• The hungry Orc army entered Terokkar Forest, where its members slaughtered the old, weak, sick, and disabled for food.
• Gai Laya insisted that the million Orcs march into Zangarmarsh in loyalty to Thrall, killed a leader who criticized him, and silenced the other Orcs.
• Four leaders with unusual powers attacked Gai Laya, but she blocked their strikes with a purple shield and bit through the Fel-powered Orc's throat.

Gai Laya forced the Orc commanders to approve Thrall’s order to march a million Orcs into Zangarmarsh, while Eitrigg and Jaina prepared to use their deaths as a sacrifice. The march began disastrously, with poisoned food killing many Orcs, and Jaina confirmed that their deaths would nourish Zang.

• Gai Laya killed Orcs who resisted Thrall’s authority and pressured the commanders into supporting the march to Zangarmarsh.
• Gai Laya told Eitrigg that the Orcs would follow Thrall, while Eitrigg privately resented her and Jaina warned that she was cunning and ambitious.
• Eitrigg told the Orcs through Gai Laya that Zangarmarsh’s creatures were edible, and many Orcs ate them and became horribly ill as nematodes emerged from their bodies.
• Gai Laya silenced the Orcs who questioned Eitrigg, and more than a hundred thousand Orcs died within three days of entering the swamp.
• Jaina explained to Eitrigg that the dead Orcs’ bodies and souls would nourish Zang and complete the sacrifice, and Eitrigg mentioned that Thrall had other plans.

Eitrigg secured the Sporelings’ help against the Fungal Giants, while Velen tried to persuade the Black Temple survivors to stop Jaina and reclaim the Heart of Zangar. The Orcs then attacked the Fungal Giants at the Spore Grove, weakened by hunger and surviving on mushrooms.

• Eitrigg told Jaina that Thrall wanted Zangarmarsh’s potential enemies eliminated, and he planned to use the Sporelings as guides before they perished.
• Eitrigg visited Sporeggar, where Elder Muxifi welcomed him and agreed to mark the Fungal Giants’ gathering places in exchange for their destruction.
• Muxifi served Eitrigg Sporeling hot pot, with several Sporelings voluntarily jumping into the boiling water as a traditional offering, and asked him to recommend him to Thrall.
• Velen defended his past actions to Imperator Mar'gok and the others, then warned that Jaina would take the Heart of Zangar and urged them to stop her.
• Velen revealed that he had given the Sporelings their intelligence, while the Fungal Giants’ migration south threatened the Spore Grove.
• Hungry and weakened Orcs charged into the Spore Grove as their battle against the Fungal Giants began.

Gai Laya led the Orcs to victory over the Fungal Giants while Eitrigg taught her how to command an army and advised against dividing her forces. Beneath Zangarmarsh, Robbie showed Krasus the river of fallen Orcs feeding Zang and declared that he would awaken it.

• Gai Laya enforced discipline as the Orcs slaughtered the Fungal Giants, suffering more than fifty thousand casualties before winning.
• Eitrigg taught Gai Laya military principles and warned her not to split her million Orcs between the Fungal Giants and the Ogres.
• The Orc army followed the Sporelings east toward the Mushroom Cave, cutting down Zang mushrooms for food as many Orcs collapsed from hunger.
• Robbie led Krasus through Zang's underground roots and revealed a river of fallen Orcs flowing deeper underground.
• Robbie said he would awaken Zang, while Krasus warned that even its remnant soul could be far more powerful than them.

Robbie and Krasus discovered a Titan palace beneath Zangarmarsh and destroyed the vengeful spirit calling itself Grond. Robbie then activated the device inside the metal heart, starting Draenor’s World Life Evolution Device.

• Robbie used the Node Key to take Krasus to a vast underground Titan palace beneath Zangarmarsh.
• Robbie and Krasus found an ancient metal heart being corrupted by Orc flesh and blood, and Krasus sensed a vengeful spirit inside it.
• Robbie summoned the spirit, which identified itself as Grond and claimed a Titan’s lightning had destroyed its body.
• Robbie used the Node Key to activate the Titan defenses, and nine pillars purified Grond’s spirit.
• Robbie inserted the Node Key into the metal heart and pressed its red button, activating the Draenor World Life Evolution Device.

Robbie and Krasus discovered that the Titans had designed Orcs to destroy civilizations, then redirected the device toward modifying the Fungal Giants. In Mushroom Cave, Gai Laya’s Orcs faced the altered Fungal Giants, and she ordered another assault while withdrawing her trusted overseer troops.

• The Titan device revealed that Orcs were created to eradicate civilizations, and Robbie refused to initiate their uplift plan.
• Robbie and Krasus forced a reassessment that classified the Orcs as substandard, prompting the device to begin modifying Fungal Giants with Orc flesh and blood.
• Gai Laya managed the Orc campaign outside Mushroom Cave as her forces suffered heavy losses while clearing out the Fungal Giants.
• New, faster Fungal Giants with steel-hard bodies emerged from deep in the cave, and Gai Laya ordered the Third Legion to attack.
• Eitrigg warned Gai Laya to keep the overseer troops from being caught in danger, and she sent them retreating as Orcs charged into the cave.

After a disastrous defeat by the Fungal Giants, Gai Laya redirected the Orcs toward the Angrath Ogre, while Imperator Mar'gok urged King Gorfis to wage a mobile war against them. The Ogres vanished from their camp and began striking the Orcs repeatedly, leaving Gai Laya's army anxious and its morale wavering.

• After the Fungal Giants routed the Orcs, Gai Laya counted just over five hundred thousand survivors, and Eitrigg urged her to recover and focus on the Lost Ones and Angrath Ogre.
• Gai Laya imposed strict discipline by killing the first Orcs who had fled, then set out to eliminate the Angrath Ogre.
• Imperator Mar'gok persuaded King Gorfis to avoid fixed battles and attack the Orcs on the move, using their shortage of food against them.
• Gai Laya's army found the Angrath Ogre camp deserted and turned its attention toward the Lost Ones.
• A subordinate suggested occupying the Ogre lands, but Gai Laya rebuked him before a scout reported that the Ogres had killed three thousand Orcs in a surprise attack.
• The Angrath Ogre continued launching concealed raids for several days, spreading fear among the Orcs and weakening their morale.

Eitrigg secured Jaina’s help so the Orcs could win a battle, then told Gai Laya that Thrall had sent their million-strong host to die. Gai Laya accepted the brutal logic of power and thanked Eitrigg as he prepared to recommend her to Thrall.

• Eitrigg pleaded with Jaina for one victory for the Orcs, and Jaina gave him the Horn of Courage while warning that someone was aiding the Angrath Ogre.
• Gai Laya sounded the horn and led the Orcs in a surprise assault that destroyed the Daggerfen Lost Ones’ camp.
• Eitrigg told Gai Laya that Thrall had ordered the million Orcs into Zangarmarsh to die, and warned her that questioning Thrall was forbidden.
• Gai Laya concluded that Thrall could act without restraint and recognized the appeal of wielding such power.
• Eitrigg offered to recommend Gai Laya to Thrall, and she thanked him while he considered retiring.

Gai Laya led five hundred thousand Orcs to die in Serpent Lake to satisfy the Savior, then faced a Sporeling attack with Eitrigg. As her forces collapsed, Eitrigg summoned Jaina and insisted that she save Gai Laya along with him.

• Gai Laya told Eitrigg she would follow the rules and do what Lord Savior liked, then persuaded the Orcs to charge into Serpent Lake and drown while trying to kill the Swamp Hydra and Vashj's Naga.
• Robbie and Krasus watched the Orcs die, and the Sporelings, Fungal Giants, Ogres, and Draenei of Telredor gathered to recover their bodies for food.
• Gai Laya kept her elite troops and traveled with Eitrigg toward Shattrath City, but Sporelings attacked their camp that night and overwhelmed the demoralized Orcs with poison darts.
• Gai Laya and her followers fought to protect Eitrigg as their comrades fell, and she was wounded and weakened by poison.
• Eitrigg summoned Jaina, who denied causing the attack, and asked her to rescue him and Gai Laya; he declared that Gai Laya was the one he loved most and that he would give everything for her.

Eitrigg brought Gai Laya to Orgrimmar after rescuing her, where she learned that the Horde had erased the deaths of millions of Orcs and credited a fabricated Black Temple victory to Thrall’s celebrated warriors. As Thrall prepared a victory banquet, Eitrigg put Gai Laya forward to take over his role in spreading propaganda.

• Jaina’s apparition opened a portal to Shattrath, and Eitrigg and Gai Laya escaped as Sporelings overwhelmed the supervising troops.
• Eitrigg comforted Gai Laya, who blamed herself for the million Orcs who died in Zangarmarsh, and told her that he had written to Thrall about her.
• Eitrigg and Gai Laya traveled to Orgrimmar, where he explained that he had invented the false story celebrating Thrall and three hundred warriors for defeating Illidan.
• Gai Laya recognized that the celebrated warriors had taken credit for her comrades’ sacrifices, while Eitrigg warned her never to mention the dead to Thrall.
• Dranosh Saurfang appeared to recover miraculously from his supposed wounds, and the crowd resumed cheering after being told the healing proved he was blessed.
• Eitrigg secured Gai Laya a place at Thrall’s victory banquet and decided it was time for her to take over his propaganda work.

Eitrigg learned that Gai Laya was to be served as the banquet’s main course and rushed to warn her, but his fear of Thrall kept him from speaking plainly. Gai Laya revealed that she admired Thrall and wanted to become like him.

• Eitrigg asked Vol'jin to look after Gai Laya if he lost Thrall’s favor, and Vol'jin promised to help.
• As the victory banquet guests gathered, Eitrigg hid to watch Thrall before leaving for his secret palace.
• Eitrigg discovered that the Pandaren chefs planned to cook the Blue Dragonflight-powered ingredient he had recommended, and learned it was Gai Laya.
• Eitrigg hurried to Gai Laya’s dressing room but struggled to warn her because he feared Thrall.
• Gai Laya told Eitrigg she had resolved to become like Thrall, the peerless hero she admired.

Eitrigg tried and failed to dissuade Gai Laya from seeking power at Thrall’s side, then returned to his duties as Thrall’s adviser. At dinner, Thrall arrived as the chieftains and representatives waited, and the Troll chefs brought in living Tauren as walking dishes.

• Eitrigg warned Gai Laya that Thrall would eat her, but she admired Thrall and hoped to earn the honor of dining with him.
• Eitrigg asked Gai Laya to leave Orgrimmar with him, but she rejected him and sent him away.
• Eitrigg started to tell Gai Laya the truth again, but instead ordered a guard to increase patrols around her and went to prepare for Thrall’s dinner.
• Vol'jin asked Eitrigg whether he had failed with Gai Laya, and Eitrigg said his heart hurt but he would be fine after that night.
• Cairne Bloodhoof, Vol'jin, Lor'themar, and the Undercity representative attended dinner, where Thrall arrived and Troll chefs brought in living Tauren as dishes.

Jaina's apparition tortured Thrall, divided him into two bodies, and forced Eitrigg to choose between his love for Gai Laya and protecting Thrall's reputation. Eitrigg killed Gai Laya and returned to Vol'jin, while Jaina watched from above Orgrimmar.

• Jaina's apparition carved at Thrall with the Soulblood Blade while a vine kept him alive, and Gai Laya and Eitrigg watched helplessly.
• Jaina split Thrall's flesh and soul into a second Thrall, turned the new one into a squirrel, and ordered Eitrigg to decide what to do with the original.
• Jaina used the vine to repair Gai Laya's heart, then warned Eitrigg that revealing the night's events would damage Thrall's dignity.
• Eitrigg offered Gai Laya the choice of killing Thrall or dying, and when she could not kill Thrall, he twisted her neck and killed her.
• Eitrigg carried Thrall back to the chieftain's tent, told Vol'jin to burn Gai Laya's body, and walked away into the night.
• Jaina watched Eitrigg from above Orgrimmar and declared that love was too fragile to withstand a test.

Robbie and Krasus returned through time after learning that Jaina could resurrect Thrall, while Velen bargained with Azeroth’s leaders to avoid being exposed as a Burning Legion collaborator. In Rustwater Port, Naruk Xil confronted a mysterious man and revealed that he was Medivh.

• Robbie found a piece of Thrall’s flesh infused with Holy Light and death, and he and Krasus concluded that Jaina would resurrect Thrall before returning through a portal opened with a Time Beacon.
• Khadgar, Mar'gok, Anachronos, Durotan, and Velen debated Velen’s collaboration with the Burning Legion, and Velen offered them the coordinates of habitable planets in exchange for their silence.
• The four leaders accepted Velen’s deal, and the group traveled through a portal to Thunder Bluff, where Chen Stormstout and Taran Zhu faced off.
• A mysterious human man spent his days indulging in Rustwater Port’s private club, favoring Lightforged female Orcs and driving away anyone who tried to investigate him.
• Naruk Xil appeared before the man and told him he could choose a different life because he was Medivh.

Medivh negotiated with Naruk Xil, accepting the Army of the Light’s offer of a Naaru Core and agreeing to help restore Thrall to power. Back in the present Timeline, Medivh declared that Stormwind’s land would belong to the Orcs.

• Medivh demanded Thrall’s soul in exchange for giving Azeroth to the Army of the Light, and Naruk Xil said they had created a new Thrall after failing to find the original soul.
• Naruk Xil recounted how his disciples imprisoned him for three thousand years and how he later sold his civilization to the Army of the Light, earning promotion to a Naaru.
• Naruk Xil gave Medivh the Holy Light’s Heart, and Medivh consumed it, gaining immense Power of the Holy Light.
• Medivh reluctantly agreed to help Thrall rise to power and proposed giving him land from Booty Bay to Lordaeron.
• Robbie returned to Stormwind City, where Vanessa maintained the usual routines as life improved and taxes fell; that night, Medivh announced that the Kingdom of Stormwind had ended and its land belonged to the Orcs.

Medivh fled Stormwind City after Kel'Thuzad canceled his Holy Light and then went to Ironforge to demand that the Dwarves serve the Orcs. Aemora tried to negotiate, but Medivh rejected her offer and struck Muradin down, leaving Ironforge under threat.

• Medivh attacked Stormwind City with a Holy Light Orb, but Kel'Thuzad's prohibition dispelled it and the Holy Light's Heart inside Medivh went out.
• The Praise of Queen Azshara music frightened Medivh into fleeing, and Robbie predicted that he would target Ironforge.
• Robbie, Kel'Thuzad, and Vanessa discussed Ironforge's politics and unusual magic beneath the city, then realized the Dwarves' reverence for their ancestors might be useful.
• Aemora urged Muradin Bronzebeard and Falstad Wildhammer to negotiate with Medivh and give up land to protect the Dwarves.
• Medivh arrived in Ironforge and demanded that it become an Orc city and rear base, with the Dwarves forging weapons and armor for the Orcs.
• When Aemora offered to share Ironforge, Medivh called her a half-breed and declared the Dwarves would be slaves; Muradin rose to oppose him, and Medivh knocked him down with a glance.

Medivh threatened the Dwarves of Ironforge until the Furnace Soul of Mountain King Modimus Anvilmar intervened and drove him away. After Medivh escaped to a Burning Legion base and learned Kil'jaeden wanted him dead, he traveled to Silithus, where a voice accused him of harming its daughter.

• Medivh demanded that the Dwarves surrender Ironforge and threatened to burn the city, so Aemora knelt and agreed to his decree.
• Anvilmar emerged from Ironforge's forge, used Mana Burn against Medivh, and declared that Ironforge would be his burial ground.
• Medivh escaped with the aid of a Titan relic, and Anvilmar declared Magni Bronzebeard a traitor forbidden from entering Ironforge.
• Muradin Bronzebeard questioned Aemora about why she had concealed that her father was alive.
• Medivh fled to a Burning Legion base, where a Dreadlord told him Kil'jaeden had ordered his death but offered to discuss a deal.
• Medivh traveled to Silithus and followed a mysterious voice, which accused him of causing misery and harming its daughter.

Medivh repeatedly attacked Magni Bronzebeard before Naruk Xil brought them together to awaken Thrall and plan his return to power. Thrall and Magni began recruiting in Silithus, and Magatha Grimtotem joined them after escaping prison.

• Medivh found Magni Bronzebeard in the Titans Ruins and attacked him three times, but Magni's diamond soul reformed each time before he escaped underground.
• Magni met Naruk Xil at the Naaru's tent, and Naruk Xil took the unconscious Thrall and Magni to meet Medivh.
• Naruk Xil explained that Magni would serve as Azeroth's Spokesman and work with Thrall to unite the Orcs, while Medivh agreed to cooperate and learned that Thrall's treasury was hidden in Silithus.
• Naruk Xil revived Thrall, who remembered his wedding to Agna but had forgotten what followed, and told him that Azeroth needed him to save it.
• Thrall and Magni began recruiting followers in Silithus; Peace Doves and adventurers arrived, and Magatha Grimtotem later joined them after escaping prison in Orgrimmar.

Chen Stormstout and the others persuaded Velen to stay at the Temple of the White Tiger, then watched a recording showing Jaina's apparition killing Thrall. The group feared Thrall's return and discussed how his legacy had shaped Azeroth, while Anachronos remained silent about the Caverns of Time's past support for him.

• Khadgar and Anachronos separately told Chen Stormstout and Taran Zhu about Velen's promised planet, prompting them to welcome Velen while arranging to keep him in Pandaria.
• Taran Zhu, Khadgar, Anachronos, Imperator Mar'gok, and Durotan pressured Velen to stay at the Temple of the White Tiger, and Velen reluctantly agreed.
• A guard brought Chen Stormstout an image gem, and Khadgar verified and played its recording for everyone.
• The recording showed Jaina's apparition cutting into Thrall's flesh and soul, creating two identical Thralls before turning one into a squirrel and taking him away.
• Anachronos identified Jaina as a visitor from the future, and Khadgar feared Thrall would return; Taran Zhu described Thrall as Azeroth's greatest hero and warned that he could make lies become accepted truth.
• Chen Stormstout and Khadgar condemned Thrall's years as Warchief, while Anachronos stayed silent about the Caverns of Time having supplied Thrall with Orc soldiers.