Recaps

After the battle, Unas and the survivors rested before returning underwater to investigate the research institute and search for the missing dragon eggs. They found the Death and Decay was still tolerable near the entrance, but Dragon Two spotted many corpses and guards deeper inside.

• The monsters scattered after the Red Dragon’s attack, and Unas returned to shore as the soldiers finished off the remaining enemies.
• The hundred-man company suffered heavy losses, Marcus collapsed unconscious, and Natasha healed the wounded before entering Meditation.
• Unas told the Night Elves he might be able to heal Nightmoon and agreed to investigate the institute once the group had rested.
• The Little Red Dragon urged Unas to rescue her eggs, so he led the Night Elves, five soldiers, and two Dragonkin underwater in bubbles conjured by Drake.
• The group entered the research institute and found the Death and Decay grew stronger toward the central hall, where Dragon Two reported seeing many corpses and guards.

Unas and his companions found Gunsel’s forces dead or incapacitated and rescued the surviving prisoners, but they had no way to reverse the mutations. When Natasha tried to search the Lich’s Phylactery, Gunsel’s ghost appeared and vanished after Unas struck at it.

• Unas’s group found the retreating monsters and Red Dragonkin unconscious or dead, confirming that Gunsel’s forces had been wiped out.
• Unas spared Gunsel’s four mage assistants but ordered Drake to watch them, then directed the group to rescue prisoners and kill those who had mutated.
• The group moved 166 surviving prisoners into the freezer, including 58 Night Elves and 36 High Elves, but could not stop their mutations.
• Unas had Drake fetch Natasha and asked her to search Gunsel’s Phylactery for a way to open his storage artifact or reverse the mutation Potion.
• Gunsel’s ghost appeared when Natasha prepared her spell, screamed after Unas thrust his sword through it, and dissipated as the Dreadlord mocked someone.

Unas learned that Gunsel was trapped as a damaged soul inside his Phylactery and made a deal with Bessarius to enslave him and reveal the locations of his remaining Phylacteries. Gunsel opened his storage space, where Unas found the dragon egg, while the other Phylactery remained hidden at the bottom of a lake.

• Bessarius explained that Gunsel's soul had returned to the damaged Phylactery and could neither resurrect nor escape.
• Unas rejected Bessarius's offer as his first choice and asked Natasha to control Gunsel and make him open his storage Arcane Artifact.
• Natasha failed to control Gunsel's fractured, violent soul, so Unas accepted Bessarius's help on condition that he reveal the other Phylacteries.
• Bessarius enslaved Gunsel through the damaged Phylactery, and Gunsel revealed that one Phylactery was in his storage space and another lay at the bottom of the lake.
• Gunsel opened his storage space and emptied its contents onto the floor, including the Little Red Dragon's egg.

Unas recovered all of Gunsel’s Phylacteries and put the Lich under the Dreadlord’s control, ordering him to help develop an antidote for the mutations. He left Natasha in charge of the research and returned the dragon egg to the Little Red Dragon before heading for the Mage Tower and Blue Rock Pass.

• Unas learned that Gunsel’s necklace was a second Phylactery and that his black gemstone held incomplete research on Undead Resurrection, but Gunsel had no systematic knowledge of reversing mutations.
• Unas and Drake retrieved Gunsel’s third Phylactery, a ring hidden in a box inside a hibernating turtle beneath the lake.
• Unas told Natasha to supervise Gunsel, Drake, and the four assistants as they worked on an antidote, and warned her to destroy the black box if it seemed dangerous.
• Unas supplied the research team with Gunsel’s notes and alchemical materials, then left the institute in Natasha’s care.
• The Little Red Dragon examined her recovered egg, confirmed it was unharmed, and told Unas that she was beginning to trust him.

Unas spared the Seven-Headed Lizard after it survived the removal of the horse-slaying sword, then prepared to go confront the Rot Hide Gnolls threatening Liante. He and Alexstrasza returned to the Mage Tower, where Shadra had accepted the Mutant Spiders as guards.

• Unas pulled the horse-slaying sword from the Seven-Headed Lizard, and the monster survived as morning sunlight reached it.
• Unas checked on Nightmoon and Marcus, then told Marcus he was going to deal with the Rot Hide Gnolls.
• Unas asked Alexstrasza to keep her Dragonkin away from his soldiers, and she decided to take them along on foot.
• Alexstrasza flew Unas back to the Mage Tower while the Dragonkin followed on the ground.
• Unas found that Shadra had accepted Gunsel's Mutant Spiders, which now guarded the Mage Tower.

Unas asked Mati'gosa to help him stop the Rot Hide Gnolls after learning that the Azure Eye might be needed to unlock the sealed door in the Mage Tower. At Blue Rock Pass, he found the Mutant Spiders defeated and sent Huoye and the Dwarves to reinforce the stronghold.

• Mati'gosa said the Azure Eye could help open the Mage Tower's sealed door and explained that she was searching for the stolen treasure.
• Unas asked Mati'gosa to help fight the Rot Hide Gnolls, and she agreed to travel with him, Haikesi, and Huoye.
• Mati'gosa flew the group to Blue Rock Pass, where Unas found the Mutant Spiders defeated after the defenders attacked them during their internal conflict.
• Unas learned that Luther had taken the Stormwind City troops back to reinforce the stronghold.
• Unas ordered Huoye to lead the Molten Giants, Iron Golems, and Colonel Deeprock's Dwarves to the stronghold to fight the Rot Hide Gnolls.

Mati'gosa and Unas delayed Thule Ravenclaw’s Rot Hide Gnoll army with a hailstorm and aerial attacks while reinforcements approached the stronghold. Thule realized the arriving Molten Giants, Iron Golems, and Dark Iron Dwarves threatened to turn the battle into a fight for survival.

• The army left a small garrison at Blue Rock Pass, while Huoye led the giants and Unas flew ahead with Mati'gosa to the stronghold.
• Unas and Mati'gosa found more than five thousand Rot Hide Gnolls under Thule Ravenclaw preparing to attack the stronghold.
• Thule asked the Blue Dragon to leave, but Mati'gosa answered with a hailstorm that disrupted the Gnolls’ formation.
• The Gnolls raised their shields and fired arrows and spells at Mati'gosa, who dodged their attacks and harassed them from the air.
• Thule considered retreat as Mati'gosa tired, but Molten Giants, Iron Golems, and Dark Iron Dwarves arrived behind her.

Unas routed Thule’s forces in the Canyon, then pursued the retreating Gnolls to Balnir Farmstead, where Thule prepared to make a stand. After the allied armies gathered, Sir Thomas arrived and began issuing orders, prompting Unas to question his attempt to claim command.

• Unas announced that Gunsel had been defeated and captured, but Thule ordered the Gnolls to attack and then led most of his forces in retreat when the battle turned against him.
• Unas led a counterattack that wiped out the Gnolls Thule had left behind, gained a level, and ordered the army to pursue the fleeing enemy.
• Mati'gosa harried Thule’s retreat, while the pursuing cavalry picked off scattered Gnolls bearing traces of frost magic.
• Thule withdrew to Balnir Farmstead, raised two hundred defenders as Undead, and prepared his remaining troops to fight there.
• Unas halted outside the farmstead and assembled the Stormwind City, Dark Iron Dwarf, giant, and golem forces alongside Sir Thomas and five hundred North Maple Legion soldiers.
• Sir Thomas began assigning the allied forces positions, and Unas suspected that the Paladin was trying to claim command and the credit for victory.

Unas resisted Thomas’s attempt to take command and claim credit, then tricked him into being knocked into a forest before leading the assault on the Rot Hide Gnolls. The battle began with Unas’s forces breaking through the enemy’s defenses, but the Undead slowed the giants and golems enough to force a melee.

• Unas refused Thomas’s orders and invited him onto Mati’gosa to view the enemy formation from the air.
• Unas kicked Thomas from Mati’gosa, and Mati’gosa struck him into a forest when he pursued them with Wings of Vengeance.
• Unas told Thomas’s soldiers that Thomas had gone after enemies in the forest, then ordered a concentrated frontal assault.
• Bael’Gar led the Molten Giants through the Undead’s crude fortifications, while the Rot Hide Gnolls struggled to stop them.
• The Undead delayed the giants, so Unas led the human and Dwarf army around the giants and golems to attack the enemy’s left flank.

Unas and the Argent Dawn drove into Thule’s forces, but metal-armored Skeleton Warriors and Thule’s attack on Mati'gosa turned the battle. Two Dalaran mages arrived on golden Gryphons, dispelled Thule’s magic and Mati'gosa’s curse, and forced Thule to retreat as Unas led the allied army forward.

• Unas led the Dwarves and humans into the enemy ranks and charged Thule’s elite Gnolls, Abominations, and metal Skeleton Warriors.
• Colonel Deeprock and his Dark Iron Dwarves helped free Unas from the Skeletons, while Thule used a Raging Tornado and Bone Spear to weaken Mati'gosa.
• Two Dalaran mages arrived on golden Gryphons and used an Anti-Magic Circle to dispel the tornadoes and clear Mati'gosa’s fatigue curse.
• Thule split his forces and retreated with half of them as the Argent Dawn’s army surged against the Gnoll rearguard.

Unas and Mati'gosa returned to the Mage Tower, where they met the two Dalaran mages investigating Merlin's corpse and explained how Merlin's experiments had been exposed and he had died. The mages believed Unas's account after inspecting the Anti-Magic Room, but Forde warned him that killing Merlin could have serious consequences.

• After the Undead were wiped out, Unas learned that the Dalaran mages had flown to the Mage Tower and hurried there with Mati'gosa while ordering his army to pursue Thule Ravenclaw and the fleeing Gnolls.
• At the tower, Unas and Mati'gosa found the two mages examining Merlin's corpse with Rosebayne and the surrendered assistants; Rosebayne had admitted them after moving the spiders aside to avoid a fight.
• Forde Hanas introduced himself and his apprentice Arnold, and Unas recounted Merlin's experiments and the events that led to Merlin's death.
• Forde and Arnold inspected the Anti-Magic Room and accepted Unas's account, then Forde questioned why Unas had killed Merlin instead of imprisoning him there.
• Unas said Merlin had been too dangerous to leave alive because he might have had unknown ways to threaten them.

Unas and Forde agreed to investigate Merlin’s private quarters before the Kirin Tor could suppress the truth about him. They broke through the magically sealed door, but the tower began to collapse as Unas entered Merlin’s study and rushed to gather its contents.

• Forde warned Unas that the Kirin Tor Council might cover up Merlin’s crimes, then agreed to remain neutral and help investigate.
• Forde and his apprentice could not break the nine interlinked seals by ordinary means, so Forde prepared an Anti-Magic Circle to weaken the door briefly.
• Unas let Mati’gosa strike him repeatedly to charge Reckoning, then joined her and Arnold in preparing their strongest attacks.
• Forde weakened the seal, and Mati’gosa, Arnold, and Unas shattered the magic door and the wall behind it.
• The Mage Tower began to shake, and Unas entered Merlin’s study and stuffed its books, papers, and objects into his bag.

After Merlin’s Mage Tower collapsed, Unas and the others recovered evidence of Merlin’s crimes and uncovered a dispute over who would control his estate and records. Unas kept the experimental reports and letters, then arranged for Fode and his apprentice to go to Fairy Lake while he returned to Balnir Farmstead.

• As Merlin’s tower collapsed, Unas and the others escaped with salvaged belongings while Rosebayne and the Mutant Spiders searched the rubble for the underground floors.
• Unas secretly kept a ruby ring and a large box from Merlin’s bedroom, while Fode and the other mage examined the recovered books and objects.
• The group found experimental records documenting Merlin’s experiments on living people, confirming his crimes alongside the testimony of the victims beneath Fairy Lake.
• Fode claimed Merlin’s estate for Dalaran’s custody, but Unas insisted on keeping the original experimental records because he feared they might be destroyed.
• Unas took the letters Fode had set aside and agreed to destroy them after reading, but put them in his backpack instead.
• Unas sent Fode and his apprentice toward Fairy Lake with written authorization, then set off with the Blue Dragon toward Balnir Farmstead.

After the victory over the Rot Hide Gnolls, Unas planned Canyon’s defenses and tried to keep the Stormwind soldiers and Dwarf reinforcements. He then learned Merlin’s ruby ring contained the deadly Finger of Death spell and asked Huoye to bind it to him.

• Liante reported that Thule Ravenclaw had escaped, while the allied forces had nearly destroyed the Rot Hide Gnolls.
• Unas dismissed Sir Thomas’s threat to accuse him of attacking an ally after the Blue Dragon broke Thomas’s leg.
• Unas offered the Stormwind City soldiers land and provisions if they stayed in Canyon, but Luther said they planned to return home.
• Unas planned to fortify Canyon, relocate residents to Blue Rock Pass, and turn the old stronghold into a mushroom-growing base, while keeping the Dwarves to help build.
• Unas showed Huoye Merlin’s ruby ring, and Huoye discovered it held the Finger of Death spell.
• Unas ordered Huoye to make the ring recognize him as its new master so he could use the spell.

Unas claimed Merlin’s ruby ring and discovered a vast inheritance, which he shared with Huoye while hiding anything that could identify it as Merlin’s. They also found Pafeman, a magically gifted man Merlin had created as a backup body, and decided to keep and educate him.

• Unas claimed the ruby ring, found Merlin’s wealth inside, and realized that Dalaran’s mages might try to seize anything linked to Merlin.
• Unas lent Huoye Spellbooks and gave him more than a hundred mana gems, trusting him to keep Merlin’s possessions secret.
• Unas and Huoye opened a sealed box in Merlin’s bedroom and found a living man named Pafeman, who said Merlin had created him as a backup.
• Unas considered killing Pafeman, but Huoye examined his magical talent and persuaded Unas to spare him.
• Huoye agreed to disguise Pafeman and educate him, while Unas warned that he would show no mercy if anything went wrong.

Unas freed Pafeman from Merlin’s control and entrusted him to Huoye as a mentor, then arranged food supplies and investments for the Dark Iron community. He learned that the Thunder Spear would be delayed because marauders had stolen essential ores, and offered to help find replacements.

• Unas told Pafeman that Merlin was dead and that he was free, while Huoye became his mentor and helped him disguise himself.
• Unas visited Frank, delivered several hundred thousand gold, and instructed him to secure enough Glowing Wheat and prepare for a possible shortage of mine workers.
• Frank explained that he had invested much of the previous funds in wheat fields, which would soon be planted and harvested.
• Unas visited the Thorium Brotherhood to have his damaged Judgement Armor repaired and learned that marauders had stolen ores needed for the Thunder Spear.
• Unas asked Orphest for a list of missing materials and offered to search Merlin’s and Gunsel’s stores for them.

Unas sought Giant Fir’s advice about using the life essence in his body, then helped Giant Fir form a new seed from the remains of its tree. After swallowing the tree core, Unas formed a miniature Essence of Life and discovered that he could rapidly heal wounds.

• Unas asked Giant Fir whether the life essence in his body could restore Nightmoon’s lost youth, but Giant Fir could not tell.
• Giant Fir explained that Unas needed to swallow the tree core to gather the life essence into a core, and asked him to first take it to its main body.
• Unas and Mati'gosa traveled to the ruins of the Chuyun Fir, where Giant Fir gathered its remaining origin into a crystal seed and entered a long slumber.
• Unas swallowed the tree core, causing the green dots in his body to gather into a miniature Essence of Life in his abdomen.
• Unas cut his finger with a dagger and watched the wound heal almost immediately, realizing he had gained Giant Fir’s regenerative ability.

Unas used the Life Essence inside his Emerald Tree to heal Nightmoon, whose injuries from Death and Decay had left her unconscious and aged. Nightmoon woke after her arms were restored, and Unas continued treating her other damaged areas while the antidote for the people beneath Fairy Lake remained unfinished.

• Unas arrived at Fairy Lake and learned that no new information had come from the people working on an antidote.
• Oakleaf told Unas that Nightmoon had briefly awakened but might remain permanently injured, so Unas offered to treat her with the Life Essence inside him.
• Unas channeled Life Essence through Nightmoon's hand and restored much of the skin on her arm, but he had to stop when he reached his limit.
• Unas became intensely hungry after using the Emerald Tree and ate Oakleaf's provisions between repeated treatments.
• Unas and Oakleaf restored Nightmoon's arms, and Nightmoon awoke; after hearing that her people were still in danger, she agreed to let Unas treat the rest of her damaged areas.

Unas checked on Nightmoon and the lake-bottom research, where Gunsel had developed three possible antidote formulas. Gunsel then privately asked whether Unas could resurrect others, hoping to learn about the Art of Rebirth, but Unas refused.

• Unas finished healing Nightmoon's visible injuries and told her to rest while he went to inspect the lake-bottom cave.
• A soldier reported that the Tauren Centaur remained alive in the dungeon, and Unas ordered him to keep watch.
• Unas found Gunsel, Natasha, Drake, and two Dalaran mages working on three potential antidotes that could reverse the mutation.
• Gunsel told Unas he had taught Drake the formulas, then asked to speak with him alone.
• Gunsel asked whether Unas could resurrect others and requested to know about the Art of Rebirth, but Unas laughed and refused to help him.

Gunsel tried to persuade Unas to help perfect the Art of Rebirth, which could restore Undead to life by combining Gunsel’s spell with Unas’s Resurrection. Unas remained suspicious of Gunsel’s motives, and the chapter ended with Gunsel claiming he wanted to atone for his past sins.

• Unas rejected Gunsel’s proposal to share the secret of Resurrection and argued that reviving a few Undead would not defeat the Scourge or undo the harm Gunsel had caused.
• Gunsel explained that a rebuilt life-force supply system could power the Art of Rebirth and claimed it might eventually restore Undead in large numbers.
• Gunsel offered to teach Unas his Rebirth Spell, while Unas admitted he could not learn magic and did not want to try.
• Gunsel proposed using the Menmarri Gem, which could fuse spells, to combine his Rebirth Spell with Unas’s divine Resurrection.
• Gunsel said the last Menmarri Gem was believed to be with the High Elf royal family, and Unas considered asking Huoye and Perella about it.
• Unas questioned what Gunsel hoped to gain, and Gunsel claimed he wanted to atone for his sins by saving living beings.

Unas forced Gunsel to help heal King Kong and restore Rosebayne, promising to revive the Scourge’s victims before bringing the Lich back to life. He took control of King Kong and the Seven-Headed Lizard, leaving both former subordinates recovering under his command.

• Unas demanded that Gunsel heal King Kong and restore Rosebayne, and Gunsel agreed while asking to be the first test subject if they found the Menmari Gem.
• Unas refused to make Gunsel the first test subject and promised to revive him only after all the Scourge’s victims had been brought back to life.
• Unas took Gunsel to the dungeon, where Gunsel said King Kong would recover within a week with a potion and enough food.
• Unas used his blood to become the master of King Kong’s Charm Crystal, then had soldiers clear the cell so the Tauren Centaur could recuperate.
• Unas transferred control of the Seven-Headed Lizard to himself and implanted several additional Charm Crystals to strengthen his hold over her.

Unas helped the mages test three antidotes for the mutations at Fairy Lake, with one potion reversing an Orc’s mutation but causing side effects in a Troll and a Gnoll. Archmage Modera arrived with the Thorn of the Rose, and Unas challenged her group after they circled the lake instead of landing.

• Unas sent the injured Seven-Headed Lizard back to the Swamp and arranged to preserve Gunsel’s corpse.
• Natasha announced that the mages had made samples of three antidotes, and they tested them on an Orc, a Troll, and a Gnoll.
• Fode told Unas that Archmage Modera was coming to inspect the situation at Fairy Lake.
• The Orc’s mutation was reversed, while the Troll and Gnoll suffered harmful side effects, so the mages continued refining the antidotes.
• Unas prepared soldiers and Mati'gosa to welcome Modera, who arrived with the Thorn of the Rose and circled the lake without landing.
• Unas insulted Modera’s group and demanded that they land, prompting a woman among them to challenge his standing as a Paladin.

Fode tried to calm a confrontation between the Kirin Tor mages and Unas’s party, but the mages kept probing for a reason to challenge Unas. Unas recognized their scheme and withdrew into the lake, leaving Modera and Rachel frustrated and Avril boasting.

• Avril attacked Arnold with a fire spell after he insulted her, but Arnold reflected it until Rachel dispelled it and apologized.
• Fode introduced himself and Arnold to Modera, who ordered the mages to land and speak with them.
• Rachel questioned Mati'gosa about her presence, and Mati'gosa defended Unas as someone who acted justly.
• Avril mocked Unas’s titles, and Unas realized the mages were trying to provoke him into a fight.
• Unas told Fode to explain events to the mages, sent his soldiers back to camp, and plunged into the lake.
• Avril celebrated Unas’s departure while Rachel silently criticized her sister.

Unas tried to convince the Dalaran mages that Merlin had been involved in the horrific experiments, but Rachel and Modera remained wary and demanded further proof. When the mages flew to inspect the collapsed Mage Tower, Unas summoned Huoye and the Blood Elf mages to reinforce him before they arrived.

• Fode presented Rachel, Modera, and the Thorn of the Rose with Merlin's copied notes and evidence of the experiments, but Rachel demanded to see the originals.
• Avril accompanied Fode beneath the lake, examined the victims and mutated monsters, and heard Gunsel confess to his crimes and blame Merlin.
• Unas showed Avril Merlin's original notes, but she questioned whether Merlin had written them and returned to report to Rachel and Modera.
• Unas refused to go ashore, and Rachel and Modera declined to enter the lake, leaving the female mages to fly off and inspect the collapsed Mage Tower.
• Unas ordered Drake to contact Huoye and asked Mati'gosa to gather the Blood Elf mages and bring them to the Mage Tower.

Fode, Modera, and the Thorn of the Rose confronted Rosebayne beneath the Mage Tower ruins, and a fight broke out after Alexstrasza attacked the mages. After spiders overwhelmed the area, the Dalaran group freed Alexstrasza only partially and withdrew.

• Fode, Modera, and the Thorn of the Rose arrived at the collapsed Mage Tower, where Rosebayne refused them entry without the Warden's orders.
• Alexstrasza attacked the mages, and Modera trapped her in an Extreme Cold Cage before Rachel Adams sealed her inside a block of ice.
• Rosebayne and Shadra summoned swarms of spiders, forcing the mages to defend themselves against waves of venom, spines, and webs.
• Modera asked Fode to negotiate, and Fode and Rachel Adams descended after the group agreed to partially free Alexstrasza.
• Rachel Adams thawed Alexstrasza while leaving her muscles stiff, then the mages regrouped and flew away.