Recaps

Unas led a force back to Black Furnace and discovered that the Smelting Room’s lava pool connected to an underground lava river upstream of Flamewaker Island. After crossing the river through a swarm of Lava Monsters, Unas and his companions reached the bank, while the rest of the rescue force remained behind.

• Unas returned to Shaft Gate Hall, sent the Black Furnace slaves to wait above, and led the main force down the shaft.
• Unas guided the group to the Smelting Room, where they drained the lava pool and found a passage leading to an underground lava river.
• Huoye and Angela sent Fire Elementals to scout the river, but Lava Monsters killed them after Angela’s Water Mirror revealed the route upstream of Flamewaker Island.
• Huoye gave Unas the Crimson Diamond, which created a powerful fireproof barrier, and Unas led a team through the lava passage.
• Lava Monsters attacked the team in the river, so Unas drew them away while the others rushed to shore.
• Unas escaped the monsters and reached the bank ahead of his companions.

Unas led the troops through a lava tributary, discovered it connected to the main river leading to Flamewaker Island, and found the spatial passage home still open. He chose to honor his promises to Rendaen and Windsor before returning, and Rendaen arrived to assess the enemy’s movements.

• Unas’s forces defeated the Lava Monsters and explored the tributary, where Angela and Huoye concluded that the route to Flamewaker Island lay upstream and then downstream along the main river.
• Unas led the army upstream, ordered them to eliminate the wandering enemies, and sent Fire Elementals ahead to scout the main river.
• Unas’s scouts found Flamewaker Island and confirmed that its spatial passage remained unobstructed, but Unas decided to help Rendaen and Windsor before going home.
• Unas reached level 39, learned Crusader Strike, and ordered the troops to rest while Angela used her Fire Elemental to tell the others they were safe.
• Rendaen arrived through the U-shaped crevice, and Unas took him to observe the Fire Elemental creatures moving along the lava river.

Rendaen devised a plan to drain lava from the secret passage so troops could cross, while the Water Elementals and Thorium Brotherhood arrived to help prepare for the attack. Unas and Marshal Windsor returned to the cavern beneath Venomspider Gorge, where Nightmoon welcomed Unas home, but the rest of his companions had not yet arrived.

• Rendaen learned that the Water Elementals and Thorium Brotherhood had reached Backdoor Fortress and planned to use a sealed, pump-drained pipe to clear the lava passage.
• Orphest offered the Thorium Brotherhood's smithing skills and a high-temperature solvent, while Unas and Erigor paid him ten thousand gold coins upfront for another suit of armor.
• Unas and Marshal Windsor returned through the lava river and Spatial Rift to the underground cavern beneath the crystal mine in Venomspider Gorge.
• The guards welcomed Unas, and Windsor believed Unas's account after seeing the cavern and meeting its people.
• Nightmoon greeted Unas warmly, and he introduced Windsor while explaining that his other companions would arrive later.

Unas returned to the base, ordered its forces to prepare as a reserve army for the fight in Blackrock Depths, and inspected the growing mushroom farm. He then traveled back to the forge in Blackrock Depths with Nightmoon and found the Thorium Brotherhood laying steel pipes while the elite squad waited for events to unfold.

• Unas returned to the base, heard Qiaosen's report, and ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle without requiring them to risk their lives for the Dark Iron Dwarves.
• Beryl greeted Unas, and he and Nightmoon visited the Mushroom Cave, where Master Oakleaf reported that the mushrooms could mature in less than two months.
• Unas instructed several centurions to prepare for battle, then went to the Red Stone Stele but could not reach Haikesi.
• Unas, Nightmoon, and Windsor traveled through the Spatial Rift and dodged several waves of Fire Elemental creatures on their way back to Torbjorn's forge room.
• The three found the Thorium Brotherhood laying steel pipes and met the resting elite squad, while Unas meditated to ease his mental fatigue.

Unas and the assembled forces waited in the Black Furnace as Water Elementals flooded Blackrock Depths and broke through the Dead Gate. Rendaen’s army advanced toward Shadowforge City while Duke Hydraxis led the Water Elementals into the city.

• Unas ordered the troops to prepare for battle after tremors signaled the arrival of the Water Elemental army and its enormous wave.
• Unas told Luther to bring his troops down into the Black Furnace as seawater flooded the fortress above.
• After the Water Elementals broke through the Dead Gate, Rendaen ordered the army to advance, with the Boiling Water Corps leading toward the lava river.
• Unas led his troops right toward Shadowforge City while the vanguard fought Fire Elementals near Flamewaker Island.
• Rendaen’s vanguard reached the breach beneath Shadowforge City and engaged the Fire Elemental defenders.
• Duke Hydraxis stormed into Shadowforge City with the surging seawater, scattering the defenders behind the Dead Gate.

Rendaen’s forces breached Shadowforge City with a flood of seawater while Unas and his companions entered through the breach, freed gladiators, and headed toward The Grim Guzzler to find Firekiss. At the bar, they encountered Plugger and a Succubus, and Unas asked to pass through the back door.

• Duke Hydraxis’s Water Elementals captured a Dead Gate and flooded Shadowforge City, weakening the Fire Elementals and aiding Rendaen’s assault.
• Unas contacted the Blood Elf mage on Flamewaker Island, then entered Shadowforge City behind the Dark Iron Dwarves.
• Rendaen led the main force against the city defenders while the slave army spread out to free slaves.
• Guided by Nightmoon, Unas freed more than two hundred human and Dwarf gladiators from the arena, and they joined his party.
• Unas’s party reached The Grim Guzzler, where Plugger and a Succubus teleported away from their attacks; Unas asked Plugger to let them through the back door.

Unas and his soldiers passed through Plugger’s bar and reached weapon merchant Fran’s fortified home in the wealthy district. A girl named Anxi arrived under a white flag and offered peaceful surrender on behalf of Master Butler.

• Unas paid Plugger in gems so his seventeen hundred people could pass through the bar, and they each took a drink.
• Unas followed Selena to the back door, where a steel combat golem let the group through.
• Unas led his soldiers through the wealthy district to Fran’s fortified residence without being attacked by the slave owners.
• As Unas prepared to break down Fran’s iron gate, a girl named Anxi came out carrying a white flag.
• Anxi told Unas that Master Butler would meet any demands if they could coexist peacefully.

Unas’s forces captured Fran’s home, freed its slaves, and searched unsuccessfully for the hidden vault containing Firekiss. After the vault’s magic lock blocked them, Unas redirected his anger toward Blackbeard’s nearby residence.

• Unas learned from Anxi that Fran had fled to the Imperial Palace and left Firekiss hidden in his vault.
• Fran’s household sent gold and a letter asking to remain neutral, but Unas demanded surrender and threatened to drown the defenders.
• Huoye and Angela broke the fortress’s defenses, and Fran’s butler surrendered along with more than two hundred guards.
• Unas’s troops freed the slaves and looted Fran’s home, but Angela and Huoye could not open the vault’s magic lock.
• Unas arranged for the weakened gladiators to rest at Fran’s home, then agreed to lead the attack on Blackbeard’s residence.

Unas and his soldiers raided Blackbeard’s home, broke into his vault, and seized his wealth. He spared Blackbeard’s life but let the former slaves brand him and his family in revenge, while Darian objected to the treatment of the children.

• Huoye heated Blackbeard’s gate and Angela cooled it, allowing Unas’s soldiers to break in and defeat the defenders.
• Blackbeard surrendered and opened his vault, where Angela and Huoye examined the magical lock while Unas questioned him about its security.
• Unas looted the vault’s gold, silver, and jewels, burned Blackbeard’s property records and slave contracts, and ordered his family dragged out.
• Unas branded Blackbeard’s forehead with the family emblem, then invited the former slaves to brand the other family members as well.
• Darian objected that the children were innocent, but Unas rejected his appeal to chivalry and said no one was innocent.

Unas’s forces looted the wealthy district, captured the West District barracks, and grew into a slave army of more than ten thousand before returning to support Rendaen. With Angela’s water magic helping Unas’s soldiers attack the city guards through the steam-filled commoners’ district, the allied forces began pushing toward victory.

• Unas’s group looted more than a dozen slave-owning households, freed over a thousand slaves, and learned that the Water Elementals were winning while Rendaen remained encircled.
• Unas and the other slave army leaders captured the West District barracks, freed thousands more slaves, and assembled an army of more than ten thousand.
• The slave army chose to support Rendaen and marched back into the commoners’ district, where seawater and steam made fighting increasingly difficult.
• Unas asked Angela to clear the steam, and she used an Ice Barrier to cool the area before her group attacked the city guards from behind.
• Angela and Huoye combined their magic with Unas’s assault, while Rendaen ordered an all-out attack that pushed the allied forces toward victory.

Unas and Rendaen’s forces defeated the city defense troops, while Duke Hydraxis’s Water Elementals routed the Fire Elementals in the north. Rendaen took control of Blackrock Depths and turned to its remaining threats as Unas urged him to focus on the Dark Horde, the Imperial Palace, and the Molten Core.

• Unas and Angela joined Rendaen’s main force, and Rendaen learned that Unas’s group had looted the wealthy district.
• A messenger reported that General Angerforge had surrendered, and Rendaen sent the general to order the remaining city defense troops to lay down their arms.
• Duke Hydraxis’s forces defeated the Fire Elementals, while the Boiling Water Corps withdrew to the underground breach and faced a standoff with pursuers from the Molten Core.
• Rendaen took control of Blackrock Depths, incorporated the surrendered troops, blockaded the Imperial Palace, and arranged for Water Elementals to channel floodwater into an underground canal.
• Marshal Windsor left with twenty Stormwind soldiers to retrieve a letter from the Redridge Mountains, while Unas urged Rendaen to focus on Blackrock Depths’ major threats instead of administrative chores.

Unas urged Rendaen to attack the Imperial Palace before threats from the Dark Horde and Molten Core could grow, but Rendaen refused to wait for his siege engines. Unas led the freed humans to the Black Furnace and mines, then secured the hidden tunnel while the Water Elementals prepared to become Boiling Water Elementals.

• Unas warned Rendaen that delaying an assault on Thaurissan could let the Dark Horde and Fire Elementals undermine their victory, but Rendaen insisted on waiting for siege engines.
• Rendaen told Unas that Duke Hydraxis planned to transform his followers into Boiling Water Elementals to attack the Molten Core.
• Unas took more than three thousand freed humans to the Black Furnace and nearby mines, put Frank in charge of mining, and assigned Luther and the soldiers to guard the mines and Smelting Room exit.
• Unas scouted the passage beyond the Black Furnace and found the Fire Elementals focused on the breach beneath the city and the Water Elementals' seawater flood plan.
• Unas ordered the group to block the U-shaped tunnel with rubble, then settled with them in the Smelting Room to rest.

Unas went to The Grim Guzzler with Erigor and Darian, where Dark Iron Dwarf officers confronted him over the wealth he had looted. The Succubus, Plugger, the bar guards, and an iron combat golem intervened as the dispute threatened to become a fight.

• Unas set out for the city with Erigor and Darian after Angela insisted that Darian accompany them.
• At The Grim Guzzler, Darian resisted entering, but Erigor dragged him inside.
• Plugger welcomed Unas and offered his signature brew, while Selena teased the Paladins and showed she knew Unas's name.
• A drunken Dwarf officer demanded that Unas pay the officers' tab, and Unas insulted him and rejected the demand.
• The Dwarf officers rose to fight, but Selena shattered a thrown mug with her whip as the guards and iron combat golem moved to intervene.
• Plugger ordered everyone involved in the disturbance to leave the bar.

Unas paid Plugger for information about demon curses and true names, hoping to find a way to deal with Bessarius. Plugger explained that high-ranking demons had true names but could not tell Unas how to discover or control one, leaving him without a solution.

• After the Dwarf officers left, Unas asked Plugger to show him the cellar and questioned him about Fel and demons.
• Unas gave Plugger diamonds in exchange for information, and Plugger said killing the demon that cast a prophetic curse was the best way to remove it.
• Plugger explained that a demon could be completely controlled through its true name, which he had created for Selena using the True Name Dictionary.
• Plugger said high-ranking demons such as Dreadlords generally had true names, but discovering one required prophecy, detection, and divination skills.
• Unas asked how to control a high-ranking demon without those methods, but Plugger could offer no other way, leaving Unas still searching for a means to deal with Bessarius.

Unas bought Plugger’s black necklace, which could sense his missing mentor’s matching necklace within a hundred kilometers, then stayed overnight at the bar after drinking with Erigor and Darian. The next morning, Unas discovered that the woman in his bed was a Twilight cultist, offered her a chance to leave the cult, and departed with his companions.

• Plugger offered to sell Unas his necklace after refusing to leave the Grim Guzzler and help search for his mentor, and Unas bargained him down to five thousand gold.
• Unas asked Plugger how he had suppressed the Fel, and Plugger said resisting its temptation and drinking wine had helped him.
• Unas returned to the bar’s main room, where Erigor teased him and Selena continued to fluster Darian before Plugger opened the Hundred-Year Golden Elixir.
• Unas woke beside a scantily clad woman, learned she was a Twilight cultist, and offered her a gold coin and a way to leave the cult.
• Unas found Erigor asleep and Darian exhausted, then the three washed up, paid for their drinks and lodging, and left the bar.

Unas managed the mines and led five hundred human soldiers to Rendaen’s siege of the Imperial Palace. The siege vehicles damaged the gates but stalled before they could break through, leaving Orphest’s technicians to repair them under fire.

• Unas left the management of the Black Furnace and three mines to Frank, emphasizing that securing their position and building ties with Dwarven merchant guilds mattered more than profit.
• Rendaen ordered Unas to bring the human army to the Imperial Palace, where twenty thousand troops gathered to attack the gates.
• Unas brought five hundred soldiers, who were placed at the rear of the army, and accepted their position as spectators.
• Rendaen’s three siege vehicles withstood the defenders’ attacks and repeatedly rammed the palace gates, cracking the granite.
• The siege vehicles stalled, and Orphest sent four Gnome technicians with repair equipment to fix them under the protection of Rendaen’s soldiers.

Rendaen’s attempt to recover the disabled siege engines turned into a costly battle when Geddon appeared as a towering Fire Elemental and devastated his troops. Angela’s Water Mist helped Boyle and the Boiling Water Elementals defeat Geddon, but both sides suffered heavy losses and Geddon escaped into the palace.

• Rendaen’s repair team failed to reach the buried siege engines, so he ordered a charge force to retrieve them instead.
• The enemy unleashed fire dragons that became Fire Elementals, and Geddon appeared as a giant fire monster, forcing Rendaen’s troops to retreat.
• Boyle and the Boiling Water Elementals attacked Geddon while Dwarves on both sides tried to influence the elemental battle.
• Rendaen asked Angela for help, and she cast Water Mist to strengthen Boyle and weaken Geddon.
• Boyle grappled with Geddon as the fire giant self-destructed, leaving both elementals badly injured and several Boiling Water Elementals unable to reassemble.

Angela helped the Dwarves breach the palace gate, but the assault stalled against the Ironrage Army’s defenses until the Mole Machine squads caused chaos inside. The Ironrage Army retreated to the second gate, where a Molten Giant appeared and blocked the pursuers.

• Angela maintained a fog spell that concealed the siege vehicles, and Boyle gave her a crystal that could summon his clone once.
• The siege vehicles broke through the palace gate, and Angela turned the fog into rain as Rendaen’s troops attacked through the breach.
• The assault stalled under heavy resistance, and repeated breakdowns left the siege vehicles useless.
• Mole Machine suicide squads broke into the palace, disrupting the Ironrage Army; Rendaen led his guards forward, forcing the enemy to retreat in formation.
• A Molten Giant appeared at the second gate and stopped the advancing Dwarves, while the Ironrage Army sent troops to hunt down the suicide squads.

Unas, Huoye, and Angela tried to stop the Molten Giant by overloading its damaged body with energy from the Crimson Diamond. As the giant shattered, its true self awakened as Bael'Gar, king of the Molten Giants, and Huoye realized the spell had gone wrong.

• Rendaen ordered his army to retreat from the Molten Giant and offered a reward to anyone who could kill it.
• Huoye proposed using the Crimson Diamond to flood the giant's damaged body with Fire Elemental energy, and Angela confirmed that the giant's condition supported his theory.
• Unas gave Huoye the gem, and Huoye channeled a powerful beam of energy into the giant while Rendaen rejected a mage's accusation that the group were spies.
• The Molten Giant's consciousness awakened and identified itself as Bael'Gar, king of the Molten Giants, as its restraints began to loosen.
• The giant's body cracked and broke apart, and Huoye shouted for help interrupting the spell when he realized something was wrong.

Bael'Gar awakened from the destroyed Molten Giant and revealed that he opposed Ragnaros, then agreed to fight alongside the Water Elementals. Rendaen ordered his army to attack the next gate, leaving the battle against Ragnaros’s servants about to begin.

• Bael'Gar emerged from the Molten Giant’s shattered body and leaped through the Dwarven army toward Huoye and the Crimson Diamond.
• Huoye explained the failed spell to Rendaen, and Unas apologized for acting without informing him.
• Bael'Gar told Boyle that Ragnaros had stripped him of his power and sealed his memories, and that the broken spell had restored his consciousness.
• Boyle demanded that Bael'Gar prove his allegiance by helping defeat the Firelord’s servants at the next gate, and Bael'Gar agreed.
• Rendaen ordered his troops to break through the gate within an hour.

Rendaen's forces breached the council chamber's defenses and pushed into the royal quarters, where Thaurissan's Fire Dwarves emerged as a desperate obstacle. Unas fought through the royal quarters and found a room packed with Fire Dwarves, suggesting an important location lay ahead.

• Rendaen's troops overran the Ironrage Army's last defense at the council chamber and found it empty.
• Rendaen learned that Thaurissan had transformed palace servants and guards into Fire Dwarves, but ordered his forces to keep advancing and sent Dark Iron Mages to locate the ritual.
• Unas and the other Paladins led squads into the royal quarters, where they encountered Fire Dwarves.
• Unas killed more than thirty Fire Dwarves while searching the rooms, but found no useful information from the elderly servants.
• Unas discovered a room packed with Fire Dwarves and attacked with Bladestorm, Hammer of Righteousness, and Crusader Strike.

Unas discovered that the Dwarves were transforming into fire creatures, while Thaurissan completed his own evolution into a flame avatar. Thaurissan then unleashed the transformation potion’s effects across the palace and sent Argelmach’s iron puppets to reclaim the kingdom.

• Unas reached level 40, chose Ardent Defender, and learned Fire Resistance Aura before finding a magic circle surrounded by palace servants.
• Unas’s group found the dead mage overseeing the circle, and Natasha used his spirit’s memories to learn that Thaurissan planned to transform the Dwarves into more powerful beings.
• The dead mage and the rescued servants suddenly began transforming into fire Dwarves, so Unas ordered his soldiers to kill them before the change was complete.
• Thaurissan revealed that the Seven Dark Iron Sages had sacrificed themselves to help him become a flame avatar, with the Firelord’s incarnation performing the ritual.
• Thaurissan activated a potion that transformed fallen soldiers, surrendered troops, and palace servants, then ordered Argelmach and his three hundred iron puppets to reclaim the kingdom.

Unas discovered that Thaurissan’s forces had turned the dead into Fire Dwarves and deployed a hidden army of lightning-wielding Iron Golems. He returned to Rendaen with warnings, while Huoye remained in Bael'Gar’s grasp and the battle outside continued.

• Unas and Natasha watched a dead Dark Iron Mage transform into a frenzied Fire Dwarf, which Unas quickly smashed.
• Unas learned that thousands of fallen soldiers and Bedchamber servants had become Fire Dwarves, and his group encountered Iron Golems that struck him with lightning and forced them to retreat.
• Unas warned allied groups about the golems while helping them fight Fire Dwarves, then met Darian and learned Bael'Gar had abducted Huoye.
• Unas and Darian’s group returned to the Council Hall, where Rendaen asked how many Iron Golems they had seen.
• Rendaen said they would have to delay the golems until their energy ran low and revealed that he had more than a hundred sets of Ground Dragon and Whelp hide armor to resist lightning.

Rendaen and the Dwarves used dragonhide armor to withstand the iron golems’ lightning and charged into battle. Unas joined the fight, destroyed several golems, and activated Invincible when a group prepared to strike him with lightning.

• Rendaen equipped his guards with dragonhide armor and led them toward the iron golems after learning the Fire Elemental army had attacked below the city.
• The dragonhide armor protected most of the Dwarves from the golems’ lightning, and Rendaen fought the golem commander in close combat.
• Unas charged into the battle line and destroyed a golem by shattering its energy core with Hammer of Righteousness.
• Unas disabled more golems by attacking their joints and used his dragonhide shield and hammer to interrupt another golem’s lightning attack.
• Surrounded by golems preparing a volley of lightning, Unas activated Invincible and switched to a dual-hammer stance.

Unas and Rendaen disabled the puppet commander and used its confused forces to lure the iron puppets into the council hall and destroy them. As Thaurissan realized the puppets were rapidly disappearing, he prepared to attack the rebels himself.

• Unas and Rendaen battered the puppet commander until it could no longer control the other puppets, then withdrew when the remaining machines stopped advancing.
• Unas and Rendaen devised a plan to lure the puppets one at a time by drawing them toward the council hall and breaking their line of sight.
• Rendaen's sharpshooters baited the puppets into the hall, where the Dwarves killed them with almost no further casualties.
• Rendaen ordered his forces to lure two or three puppets at a time because he feared Thaurissan would soon notice their losses.
• Thaurissan saw warnings that the puppet forces were dwindling, failed to reach their commander, and decided to attack the rebels personally.