Recaps

Unas and his allies prepared to defend the ruins after Modera’s mages retreated, while Mati'gosa worked to save Alexstrasza. The female mages planned to return with reinforcements: Master Pino’s golems.

• Fode warned Rosebayne that the mages would return, then pursued Modera with his apprentice.
• Unas, Haikesi, Mati'gosa, two Night Elf Druids, and the Blood Elf Mage Corps arrived on Magic Carpets and found Alexstrasza immobilized by ice.
• Mati'gosa began removing the cold from Alexstrasza, and Rosebayne explained the earlier battle to the newcomers.
• Unas stored Merlin’s corpse in a Spatial Bag, while the allies scouted the enemy, selected Giant Spiders for defense, and prepared barriers and attack Magic Circles.
• Modera and Rachel told the retreating mages that reinforcements were ready, and the Thorn of the Rose began creating a portal to bring Master Pino’s Iron Army.

Modera and Rachel brought Master Pino and his golem army through a one-way portal to reclaim Merlin’s legacy, despite Fode’s warnings about provoking Knight Unas. After Druids reported the reinforcements, Unas prepared to evacuate Shadra and the valuable spider eggs while still planning to fight.

• Rachel argued that Dalaran needed enough force to reclaim Merlin’s remains and notes from the Mage Tower ruins, while Fode warned that attacking Knight Unas could start a war.
• Modera insisted Fode and Arnold stay to learn the truth about Merlin’s death and defend his honor, while Fode urged her to negotiate with Unas.
• Master Pino emerged through the one-way portal and, after Modera paid him, sent more than three hundred golems and six mages through to join her forces.
• Two Nightsabers scouted the reinforcements and returned to report them to the defenders at the Mage Tower ruins.
• Huoye prepared to reinforce his mages, while Unas ordered his people to remove the spider eggs and equipment and began planning an evacuation that would protect Shadra.

Unas and Modera negotiated over Merlin’s evidence, the Mage Tower ruins, and Shadra, but neither accepted the other’s terms. Modera declared war, leaving the two armies poised to fight.

• The Thorn of the Rose prepared to advance with Golems equipped with circular saws, while Unas’s forces readied themselves for battle.
• Unas met Modera and Rachel Adams between the armies to hear Modera’s demands.
• Unas offered to give Merlin’s letters, notes, and corpse to Rhonin, but Modera and Rachel refused to bring him to the negotiations.
• Unas rejected Modera’s demands for Merlin’s legacy and Shadra, offering only the Mage Tower ruins and silence about Merlin’s crimes.
• Modera demanded Merlin’s original notes and corpse, then declared war when Unas refused to surrender the evidence without Rhonin present.

Fode brought Rhonin to the battlefield to stop the fighting between Unas's forces and Modera's mages. Rhonin halted the battle and began questioning Unas, leaving the negotiations unresolved.

• Fode decided to wait before seeking Rhonin, then withdrew into the forest with Arnold as the battle intensified.
• Modera's mages and Huoye's forces exchanged spells while Shadra's spider swarm overwhelmed the golems, and both sides suffered losses.
• Fode brought Rhonin into the battlefield, where Fode's antimagic halo stopped the incoming spells.
• Rhonin identified himself as the leader of the Kirin Tor and ordered Unas to stop the spiders; the Giant Spiders withdrew and the fighting ceased.
• Rhonin asked Unas why he trusted him, and Unas praised Rhonin's reputation before Rhonin dismissed the stories about his deeds as exaggerated.

Rhonin mediated the dispute between Unas and Modera over Merlin’s death, then rejected Modera’s attempt to conceal the evidence and vowed to expose the scandal. After Rhonin returned to Dalaran, Unas arranged to withdraw to Fairy Lake and met golem designer Pino, who grew interested in the Dark Iron golems.

• Rhonin examined Merlin’s corpse and experimental notes, identifying the body by Merlin’s appearance and the Ebola Necklace.
• Modera demanded that Unas hand over Merlin’s letters and the Mage Tower ruins in exchange for burying the evidence, but Rhonin refused and declared he would make the scandal public.
• Modera threatened to have Rhonin impeached and expelled, then returned to Dalaran to rally the other councilors.
• Rhonin took Merlin’s letters and returned to Dalaran, while Unas agreed to leave the ruins to the female mages and withdraw his forces to Fairy Lake.
• Unas spoke with Golem Master Pino, who became curious about the powerful Dark Iron golems and agreed to visit Unas’s base.
• Unas returned to the Mage Tower ruins and ordered his tired forces to leave for Fairy Lake immediately.

The Council of Six debated whether to reveal Archmage Merlin’s crimes and agreed to seal the evidence and suppress news of his death. Rhonin secured permission to create a small oversight squad, though it would report its findings to the council.

• Modera and Rhonin presented opposing views on what to do about Merlin’s crimes, but most council members opposed making them public.
• Rhonin proposed an independent organization to investigate mages who had exchanged confidential letters with Merlin, prompting a heated argument.
• The Council of Six agreed to seal Merlin’s body, notes, and other evidence and to keep his death secret.
• The council also agreed to suppress information about Gunsel and permit Rhonin to establish a small oversight squad that shared its intelligence with the Council of Six.

Unas learned that Merlin had secretly backed pirates and questioned Gunsel about his criminal operations, while Rosebayne agreed to risk a dangerous procedure to restore her legs. Dalaran's mages bound everyone who knew of Merlin's crimes to a Silence Oath, and Rhonin tried unsuccessfully to recruit Huoye's group.

• Huoye told Unas that Merlin had secretly supported Edward Teach and his pirate fleet, while Gunsel said he had used the Bloodsail Buccaneers to transport test subjects.
• Unas questioned Gunsel about the pirates, learned that the Bloodsail Buccaneers had carried the subjects through Northport, and asked whether Rosebayne could be restored.
• Gunsel said he could give Rosebayne new legs but warned of lasting side effects, and Rosebayne agreed to accept the risks.
• Rhonin arrived with Dalaran's decision, and Modera led everyone who knew about Merlin's crimes in swearing a Silence Oath.
• Rhonin tried to recruit Huoye and promised to build him a Mage Tower, but Huoye and the other Blood Elves rejected the overture because of Dalaran's past treatment of them.

Rhonin agreed to take Helen to Dalaran to study and formed an alliance with Unas, while Drake was offered a place in the Kirin Tor once he finished assisting with Rosebayne’s operation. After Rhonin left, Unas worried that Modera might be searching the Mage Tower ruins for Merlin’s ring, and the next morning one of Little Red Dragon’s eggs hatched.

• Helen asked to join Rhonin’s group, and Unas encouraged Rhonin to let her study in Dalaran.
• Rhonin agreed to teach Helen, then asked Unas to lend him Huoye and heard Unas recommend Drake instead.
• Rhonin and Unas agreed to become allies and friends, and Rhonin met Drake at the research facility beneath the lake.
• Rhonin gave Drake a teleportation scroll and departed with Helen to visit the Monastery and Earl Ganis.
• Unas suspected Modera was searching the Mage Tower ruins for Merlin’s jeweled ring and decided not to use its treasures.
• The next morning, one of Little Red Dragon’s eggs hatched.

Unas used life force from his Emerald Tree to save Little Red Dragon’s weak newborn whelp. The whelp recovered enough to eat and sleep, and Mati'gosa said Alice would stay near Unas because her other damaged eggs might also need his help.

• Mati'gosa told Unas that one of the five damaged eggs had hatched, but its whelp was too weak to survive.
• Unas explained that he might restore the whelp’s life force, and Mati'gosa brought him to Little Red Dragon.
• Unas transferred life force to the whelp while replenishing his energy with food and Little Red Dragon’s blood.
• The whelp regained its strength, flew to Little Red Dragon, and later ate meat before falling asleep.
• Little Red Dragon thanked Unas, and Mati'gosa said Alice would stay near him in case her remaining damaged eggs hatched.

Mati'gosa left to aid two Blue Dragon kin in Quel'Thalas, while Unas organized care for the rescued victims and oversaw Rosebayne's risky surgery. Rosebayne survived the operation, but Gunsel could not guarantee that she would regain normal movement.

• Mati'gosa told Unas she was going north to help two of her kin, gave him a crystal for communication, and flew away after bidding farewell to the Little Red Dragon.
• The Little Red Dragon left with her Whelp and the Dragonkin to find a better place to build a nest.
• Unas and the Night Elves moved the victims from beneath the lake to a new camp five kilometers away, where Master Oakleaf and the Priests cared for them.
• Gunsel operated on Rosebayne to replace her spider lower body, while Unas, Oakleaf, and Natasha stood by to help.
• Gunsel completed the operation successfully and said Rosebayne was out of immediate danger, but he could not guarantee she would move normally after waking.

After the research institute was evacuated, Unas arranged for its former assistants, strengthened his ties with the Thorium Brotherhood, and reorganized Blue Rock Pass for winter. He recognized Luisa among the new settlers, but she recoiled when he approached and did not seem to remember him.

• Rosebayne woke three days after her operation and quickly regained her ability to walk with crutches.
• Unas assigned the former mage assistants to the Mage Corps or the Monastery, while Drake left for Dalaran.
• Unas brought Master Pino to Blackrock Depths, where Pino agreed to design Iron Golems for a patent fee.
• Unas oversaw construction, settlement, and military reforms at Blue Rock Pass as winter approached.
• Unas recognized Luisa, the girl who had lent him her cloak, among the new settlers and asked if she remembered him.

Unas reunited with Luisa, who had lent him a protective robe in the Whispering Gardens, and she asked him to take her away from Lordaeron. Their conversation unfolded while Unas remained troubled by the planned journey from Blackrock Depths, and the chapter ended with him trying to learn more about Luisa’s family and skills.

• Unas reminded Luisa that she had lent him the spider silk robe in the Whispering Gardens and promised to repay her kindness with food.
• Luisa offered Unas the robe and asked to travel with him to Stormwind City, or anywhere far from Lordaeron.
• Unas considered the thousands of freed human slaves who wanted to return home and the Dwarves who wanted to send civilians and envoys to Ironforge.
• Unas explained that Luisa could not simply join the journey, then asked what work she could do and whether he could help find her relatives.
• Luisa said she could paint, play music, embroider, and weave, but she did not answer when Unas asked her family name.

Unas agreed to settle Luisa in Blackrock Depths after she refused to stay in the Canyon, though Natasha’s investigation revealed that Luisa and her companion were concealing their identities. The story left Luisa headed toward a new home under surveillance.

• Luisa pleaded with Unas to take her away from Lordaeron, and he offered to send her to Blackrock Depths to help build a church.
• Luisa revealed her talent for the Holy Light, and Unas agreed to take her to Shadowforge City after finishing his work.
• Natasha reported that 112 refugees had arrived and identified Luisa and her companion Gail as suspicious.
• Natasha told Unas that Luisa’s mind had an unusually strong magical barrier, suggesting she came from an important family.
• Unas ordered Natasha to watch Luisa and Gail closely and eliminate them if they showed signs of unusual activity.

Unas tried to keep Luisa and Gail from joining the expedition to Blackrock Depths, but Gail claimed they were husband and wife, leaving Unas heartbroken. Natasha later questioned whether he believed their story.

• Luisa asked Unas to let Gail accompany her to Blackrock Depths, but Unas insisted Gail should stay in the Canyon and farm.
• Gail declared that he and Luisa were husband and wife, and Luisa silently nodded when Unas asked if it was true.
• Unas agreed to send them underground, then returned to his tent distressed over his feelings for Luisa.
• Natasha visited Unas and asked whether he truly believed Luisa and Gail had become husband and wife.

Unas learned that Marshal Windsor had reached the Redridge Mountains and was heading to Stormwind City to assassinate the Black Dragon disguised as Countess Prestor. Unas prepared to leave in three days after arranging help to decipher an intercepted dragon-language letter, while Redbrow and Stonebrow prepared to return to Ironforge.

• Natasha told Unas that Gail and Luisa did not seem like a married couple and that Luisa appeared to be a virgin, then promised to keep watch on them.
• A wounded soldier from the Redridge Mountains Border Guard delivered Unas two letters from Marshal Windsor, including an intercepted message written in dragon language.
• Unas learned that Windsor had taken elite scouts to Stormwind City to assassinate the Black Dragon disguised as Countess Prestor.
• Huoye proposed seeking help from a Red Dragon to decipher the letter, and Unas ordered him to contact Rhonin, Omar, and Du'an.
• Unas ordered Stormwind City to prepare to leave in three days, and he agreed to let Redbrow take Dwarf civilians back to Ironforge.

Unas arranged for Nightmoon and several Watchers to accompany him to Stormwind City while leaving the Canyon's construction and cultivation in trusted hands. He negotiated with Haikesi over the Troll's return to Tanaris, then reviewed the mages' preliminary findings on a dragon-language letter as Helen reported her progress in Spell Architecture.

• Unas ordered Qiaosen, Liante, Feniel, and Colonel Deeprock to oversee the Canyon, and asked Nightmoon to travel with him to Stormwind City.
• Haikesi asked to return to Tanaris with Shadra, but Unas refused to let Shadra leave the Canyon and offered to help Haikesi rebuild his tribe and prepare for revenge.
• Unas agreed that Haikesi could return to Tanaris once the Night Elves' warship arrived, and told him to teach Rosebayne to communicate with Shadra while he was away.
• Du'an and Rhonin arrived to study the dragon-language letter, and Helen later told Unas that the mages had reached preliminary conclusions.
• Helen praised Rhonin's Spell Architecture lessons, and Unas encouraged her by saying Lordaeron's reconstruction would need her skills.

Unas and the mages discovered that a magically encrypted Draconic letter could only be read with Black Dragon materials and the aura of a Black Dragon. Unas chose to seek dragon scales without provoking Nefarian, while Alexstrasza insisted she could defeat him herself.

• Omar explained that the letter contained an incantation but required Black Dragon materials to bypass its restriction.
• Omar suggested gathering shed scales from Blackrock Spire, where Nefarian and his Black Dragons lived.
• Unas rejected an attack or dangerous infiltration and proposed that Rhonin and Omar post a bounty in Dalaran for dragon scales.
• Unas decided to consult Rendaen about the Dark Iron Dwarves' knowledge of the Old Horde.
• Alexstrasza loudly offered to bite Nefarian to death, and the others kept quiet rather than challenge her boast.

Valas arrived after receiving Alexstrasza’s distress signal, and Unas explained the situation to him. After recognizing Rhonin and reading the secret letter, Valas proposed luring a Black Dragon out of Blackrock Spire so they could trap it and obtain the spellcasting materials they needed.

• Another Red Dragon crashed outside the cave, and Unas stopped the guards from attacking when he saw it was Valas.
• Alexstrasza confronted Valas for arriving late, while Unas defended his role in recovering her eggs and nourishing her Whelps.
• Valas introduced himself as Vaelastrasz, then recognized Rhonin by the Tear of Life and thanked him for saving the Red Dragon Queen.
• Unas explained their predicament to Valas, who read the secret letter but offered no new insight.
• Valas proposed drawing a Black Dragon out near Blackrock Spire and trapping it for its body parts.

Unas discouraged the group from confronting Nefarian directly and arranged for Vaelastrasz and Alice to escort refugees through Searing Gorge. He then obtained a suit of rumored dragon-scale armor from Rendaen and agreed to contact Half-Face using a secret route into Blackrock Spire.

• Du'an questioned whether the group could defeat Nefarian, and Rhonin warned that a prolonged fight could draw out Blackrock Spire's army.
• Alice urged the group to confront the Black Dragons, while Vaelastrasz warned that Nefarian was stronger than either of them.
• Unas withheld what he knew about Nefarian's experiments and urged everyone to find another plan.
• Unas asked Vaelastrasz and Alice to escort refugees to Ironforge through Searing Gorge, and Vaelastrasz agreed.
• Rendaen gave Unas a black cuirass rumored to be made from dragon scales and asked him to contact Half-Face.
• Rendaen offered Unas a secret route to Blackrock Spire's upper levels so he could seek Half-Face's help.

Unas sent Nightmoon and three other Watchers with Vaelastrasz to infiltrate Blackrock Spire, then rushed to pursue the attackers who had kidnapped Luisa. He caught sight of their red bats at sunset and began an aerial chase.

• Master Omar and the dragon scholar identified the armor Rendaen had given Unas as a forgery, so Unas assigned Nightmoon and three Watchers to seek Black Dragon scales or teeth and contact Half-Face at Blackrock Spire with Vaelastrasz accompanying them.
• After sleeping for several hours, Unas woke to a warning that refugees had been attacked at the waystation and raced there on King Kong.
• Unas found soldiers killed by poisoned arrows and helped Natasha save Gail, who pleaded for someone to rescue the kidnapped Luisa.
• Gail told Unas that two attackers had taken Luisa southwest on enormous red bats, so Unas launched himself with Wings of Vengeance and used a Hang Glider to pursue them.
• Unas spotted the two bats near the setting sun after gliding more than thirty times, and the aerial chase began.

Unas pursued the kidnappers through the air, killed one bat Knight, and wounded the other before the surviving kidnapper poisoned him with an arrow in the forest. After purging the poison, Unas hid from the nearby archer and waited, fearing reinforcements would arrive before Alexstrasza.

• Unas abandoned his Hang Glider, used Wings of Vengeance, and survived two Black Arrows with Divine Shield.
• Unas shot the bat carrying the captive and killed the other Knight with a Flame Slash and sword strike, while feeling an unfamiliar bloodlust.
• Unas tracked the wounded bat into the forest, where a hidden attacker wounded his ear with a poisoned arrow.
• Unas used Cleanse, Holy Light, the Shadowfiend's tentacles, and the Emerald Tree's Life Essence to contain the poison, then put on his helmet and took cover.
• Nathanos the Blightcaller remained hidden in a tree, waiting for his subordinates to arrive, while Unas searched for him and worried about Alexstrasza's delay.

Unas used Bessarius’s Curse Vision to locate Nathanos and Luisa, then struck Nathanos and escaped the encirclement with Luisa. After his Holy Power ran low and he continued on foot, Bessarius caused him sudden heart pain to keep the pursuers on his trail.

• Unas detected the Forsaken’s reinforcements and pretended to retreat while Nathanos prepared to ambush him.
• Bessarius taught Unas an incantation that transformed his vision, allowing him to see Nathanos and the sack containing Luisa.
• Unas used Light Wings to pierce Nathanos through a tree and blast him away, then retrieved Luisa and flew through a gap in the encirclement.
• Unas dodged the pursuers’ arrows with Curse Vision but ran out of Holy Power and had to continue on foot with Luisa.
• Bessarius seized Unas’s heart with pain because he wanted the pursuers to keep chasing him.

Unas endured Bessarius’s pain-inducing manipulation, then used Sargeras’s Sight to ambush the Forsaken pursuing him. After killing three attackers, he faced the remaining nine as Nathanos hesitated to advance.

• Bessarius caused intense pain in Unas’s chest and demanded that he kill for its amusement, then stopped the pain as the pursuers approached.
• Unas hid Luisa and used Sense Undead and Sargeras’s Sight to track the encircling Forsaken.
• Unas threw javelins at the advancing enemies, wounding several and fatally striking one.
• Unas charged the left flank and killed three Forsaken with his sword, shield, and Cross Flame Slash.
• Nathanos the Blightcaller gathered the surviving nine Forsaken and held back, trying to understand how Unas had detected them.

Unas resisted Bessarius’s control by hurting himself, but Varimathras captured him and joined forces with Bessarius. Nathanos realized Varimathras had betrayed Sylvanas and was left to face the Dreadlord’s next move.

• Bessarius caused Unas intense chest pain and ordered him to attack the Forsaken, but Unas struck his own chest until the pain eased.
• Bessarius summoned newcomers who fought the Forsaken, giving Unas a chance to flee before Varimathras trapped him in a net and pinned him down.
• Nathanos’s outnumbered troops lost their fight against the unfamiliar Undead, who captured six of his subordinates.
• Varimathras arrived with Unas and Luisa, mocked Nathanos’s loyalty to Sylvanas, and declared that she could not learn what had happened.
• Varimathras asked Nathanos whether he knew how the Dreadlord had learned his movements, then ordered Hal and Hake to stop pretending to be dead.

Unas was captured by Varimathras, who forced Nathanos and his followers to submit or die. With the Little Red Dragon lured away, Unas’s attempt to save himself failed, and Varimathras threatened Luisa to make him surrender.

• Hal and Hake revealed they had betrayed Nathanos and explained that they had served as his drug-trial subjects.
• Unas tried to distract Varimathras and appeal to Hal and Hake, but Varimathras revealed he had lured the Little Red Dragon away.
• Hal and Hake killed Nathanos, and Varimathras forced the surviving ranger recruits to choose between death and submission.
• Varimathras offered Unas power and eternal life, but Unas refused and survived the demon’s attack because Varimathras would not kill him.
• Varimathras exposed Luisa and threatened to kill her, leaving Unas distressed and trapped.