Recaps

Unas and Gordon pursued the fleeing Dreadguard through a forest, where a supernatural mist separated the group and trapped Gordon in a vision of Stratholme and Arthas. Unas awakened from his own vision in time to evade Gordon’s attack, but Gordon remained under the spell and charged him again.

• Whitemane lost her sense of the Dreadguard, and Gordon ordered Earl to lead the soldiers back while he, Unas, Darian, and Whitemane continued the pursuit.
• A white mist appeared, and Gordon discovered that Unas, Darian, and Whitemane had vanished; he then rode toward cries for help and found himself in a vision of burning Stratholme, facing Arthas.
• Gordon attacked Arthas in the vision, while Unas woke in bed, remembered his transmigration, and broke free of his own illusion.
• Unas returned to the forest just as Gordon thrust his greatsword at him, and he dodged the attack with an acrobatic leap.
• Unas blocked Gordon’s next strike with Verigan’s Fist and realized Gordon’s cracked sword might give him an advantage, but Gordon charged again.

Unas, Whitemane, and Darian fought the Dreadguard after its nightmare spell turned Gordon and Darian against their companions. They drove the demon into the woods and pursued it, while Whitemane stayed behind to tend to Gordon despite her broken thigh.

• Unas broke Gordon's greatsword and struck him with Verigan's Fist, while Darian warned him of the Dreadguard's fireball.
• Whitemane bound and dispersed the fireball, then used a word of power to knock Gordon unconscious.
• Darian shot the Dreadguard and charged after it as it fled into the woods.
• Whitemane told Unas to help Darian, and Unas rode after him on Black Wind.
• Darian told Unas that he had hit the demon and suggested they track its sulfur smell.

Unas and Darian tracked the Dreadguard into the woods, where it ambushed them and nearly killed Darian. An unseen archer helped break the demon’s hold over Unas, and Unas killed it before rushing to see whether Darian could be saved.

• Unas and Darian searched for the Dreadguard, but a magical trap exploded beneath Darian’s warhorse, Starsteed.
• The Dreadguard seized Darian, stabbed him with Firekiss, and used purple beams to freeze Unas in place.
• An unseen archer shot the Dreadguard with a frost-covered arrow, freeing Unas and disrupting the demon.
• Darian stabbed the Dreadguard in the chest as it transformed into two bats, and the archer shot one down.
• Unas learned Hammer of Justice, stunned the remaining bat, and smashed the fallen Dreadguard’s head.
• Unas took Firekiss and ran to Darian, hoping he could still be saved.

Unas was rescued by the Undead Dark Ranger Enya Xingyu, then faced Whitemane’s accusations after Darian died. He resurrected Darian in exchange for Whitemane agreeing to be his girlfriend, and the group set off back to camp.

• Enya Xingyu recovered her arrow and warned Unas that he would not thank her for long before vanishing into the woods.
• Whitemane found Darian dead and accused Unas of causing his death, then agreed to his demand to be his girlfriend if he resurrected her brother.
• Unas cast Resurrection and healed Darian’s fatal wound, bringing him back to life.
• Whitemane acknowledged that Unas was favored by the Holy Light and promised to honor their agreement.
• Unas summoned Black Wind, and the group used three horses to carry Darian, Whitemane, and Gordon back to camp while Unas walked.

Unas joined the Argent Dawn’s assault on the island as Tyrosus’s forces pushed Bessarius’s army back. Bessarius unleashed a ritual that summoned eighteen Infernals, scattering the knights and leaving Unas fleeing without his horse.

• Unas returned to the lakeside, handed command of the reserves to Earl, and advanced with them onto the island.
• Unas joined Erigor as the reinforcements strengthened the Argent Dawn’s attack and Tyrosus reached the hill below Bessarius.
• Bessarius cast Scorching Hell, sacrificing the battlefield’s dead to gather Fel and summon eighteen Infernals.
• Tyrosus ordered the knights to scatter as the Infernals’ meteor strikes devastated the battlefield.
• Unas’s horse was struck down, so Erigor pulled him onto his mount and carried him beyond the barrage; Erigor said Angela had already returned because her mana was exhausted.

The Argent Dawn battled Bessarius as the Dreadlord used decoys, venom, and explosive Gargoyles to keep Tyrosus from reaching it. With the Paladins’ aerial assault faltering, Sylvanas Windrunner offered Tyrosus her help.

• Tyrosus led a charge through the Felguards, but Bessarius trapped him with a bat clone and killed or wounded nearby warriors with its venomous mist.
• The Argent Dawn rallied as the enemy’s spells waned, and Priests banished three Infernals while the vortexes above grew larger.
• Tyrosus, Pulhart, and Korfax attacked Bessarius from the air, but its barrier and self-destructing Gargoyles forced Korfax and Pulhart to return to the ground.
• Tyrosus fought Bessarius alone as the Dreadlord evaded him until an unseen Sylvanas Windrunner offered to help.

Tyrosus joined forces with Sylvanas and the Banshees to attack Bessarius, who was driven from the sky and forced to flee. Bessarius tried to break through Pulhart and Korfax, but the Banshees caught him again as his attack left him rigid.

• Sylvanas offered Tyrosus help in exchange for Lordamere Lake, then attacked Bessarius with the Banshees’ song.
• Bessarius lost control of his summoned gargoyles, which turned back and exploded around him, allowing Tyrosus to strike him with the Arcanite Reaper.
• Bessarius used his substitute-death trick and invisibility to escape, but Sylvanas disrupted the Banshees’ song and exposed his true body.
• Bessarius fled toward the hill, but Pulhart and Korfax intercepted him while Tyrosus pursued from behind.
• Pulhart threw his shield and retreated, while Korfax used Divine Shield to counter Bessarius’s attack; Bessarius was left rigid and the Banshees caught him again.

Tyrosus and Korfax nearly killed Bessarius, but the Dreadlord detonated his Fel energy and escaped as bats. Tyrosus survived his fall, and Erigor and Unas joined the fight as the Argent Dawn routed the enemy and pursued the remaining bats up the hill.

• The Banshees bound Bessarius, allowing Tyrosus and Korfax to strike him, but Bessarius exploded and escaped as bat clones.
• Tyrosus shot down most of the bats with Holy Wrath, then collapsed from exhaustion and fell to the ground.
• Erigor and Unas helped treat Tyrosus, who ordered the soldiers to keep fighting; a Priest arrived to heal him.
• Erigor and Unas rode into battle separately, with Unas summoning a forbidden Skeletal Warhorse.
• The Banshees disrupted Bessarius's control over his forces, and most enemy troops surrendered or stopped fighting.
• Erigor learned that the remaining bats had hidden beneath a boulder on the hill, then he and Unas charged up the mountain path.

Unas fought with Pulhart’s forces to seize the mountain summit and helped wipe out Bessarius’s Felguards. After discovering Bessarius was hiding in a deep hole, Pulhart questioned captives and ordered a descent into the lair.

• Unas joined the assault on the mountain path, and Pulhart’s Power of Justice smashed through the retreating Felguards.
• Unas reached level 23 during the fighting, and his desperate attacks helped him become the first soldier to reach the summit.
• The Argent Dawn forces joined Tyrosus’s battered group and killed the remaining Felguards, while Unas discovered that Bessarius was likely hiding beneath a boulder.
• Pulhart ordered the hole sealed and questioned captives, learning from Marcus Thornton and Yomode Stonebrow that the hole was Bessarius’s lair and that dwarves had helped survey its tunnels.
• Pulhart kept Yomode and ordered torches prepared so the soldiers could enter the hole and pursue Bessarius.

After Pulhart withdrew from the cave because it was too narrow for him, Erigor led a smaller group inside to hunt the weakened Bessarius. At a fork with no clear clues, the soldiers split into two groups, and Unas chose the left passage for his.

• Pulhart retreated from the cave and assigned Erigor to pursue Bessarius with a smaller group.
• Erigor led the soldiers and dwarves deeper underground, where they reached a chamber with two passageways.
• Yomode Stonebrow could not determine which passage was more likely to lead to Bessarius, and Hans warned that splitting up could be dangerous.
• Erigor divided the soldiers into two groups and put Unas in command of one.
• Unas chose passage number one, the left-hand opening, for his group.

Unas’s party encountered Enya Xingyu in Banshee form, who told him there were many people at the end of the middle branch. Choosing to rescue them, Unas led his team into the middle opening, but they found another chamber with five paths and no sign of the captives.

• Unas detected an enemy approaching and ordered the Argent Dawn soldiers to aim at the left tunnel.
• Enya Xingyu appeared as a Banshee, stopped the soldiers with her scream, and told Unas she had found no trace of Bessarius but had seen many people at the end of the middle branch.
• Stonebrow told Unas that human women and children had been taken into the caves, and Unas suspected Bessarius intended to consume them.
• Unas let the group vote, and most chose to rescue the captives rather than return to Erigor.
• Unas led the group into the middle opening, where they found an empty chamber with five paths and no clear route forward.

Unas led his company through branching caves, choosing a passage after interpreting a mushroom and glowing moss as signs from someone seeking help. Meanwhile, Allen prepared an undead ambush for the intruders, but watched in alarm as they retreated before reaching it.

• Stonebrow showed Unas a Purple Lilac Mushroom that had grown instantly, and Unas chose the passage where they found it.
• Unas noticed glowing moss beside another cave entrance and led the company through it, believing someone was guiding them toward the prisoners.
• Allen recalled how his mentor drew him into the Cult of the Damned and how he helped overthrow the lord who had wronged his family.
• Allen became Bessarius's cook and mess hall manager, preparing prisoners' souls for the Dreadlord and hiding from the approaching enemies.
• Allen sent undead subordinates to ambush the intruders, but they suddenly stopped and retreated, leaving him to wonder whether they had discovered his trap.

Unas led his soldiers into the dungeon, fighting through the Undead and discovering the imprisoned women and children. A prisoner recognized Luogeluomaxiduo and called out to him.

• Unas detected around a hundred Undead, raised Sense Undead to Lv2, and ordered his soldiers to block the passage with rocks.
• Unas and his men charged through the iron gate and defeated the Undead guarding the torture chamber.
• Allen watched the battle through his subordinates' eyes, recognized Unas as a Paladin, and retreated deeper underground.
• Unas found an iron grate in the floor, opened it, and led his soldiers down into a dungeon filled with silent prisoners.
• A prisoner called out, saying Luogeluomaxiduo had finally come.

Unas freed the prisoners and led them out of the dungeon, where he met Beryl Bladesong, a Night Elf seeking revenge on a necromancer. He agreed to help her find the necromancer, and Beryl led him toward the target.

• Unas opened the cages, calmed the prisoners, and told them the Argent Dawn Knights had defeated the Dreadlord.
• Unas led the weak prisoners toward the surface while the Undead remained behind the intact stone wall.
• Beryl returned to Unas and used nature magic to locate the necromancer she wanted to kill.
• Beryl asked Unas to help her take revenge for the people the necromancer had tortured, and he agreed.
• Beryl introduced herself as a sixty-two-year-old from Darkshore and led Unas toward the necromancer.

After recounting how pirates and Bessarius’s forces had tormented her, Beryl led Unas’s group after the necromancer to avenge her fellow captives. Korfax joined the pursuit, and the group ventured into an ancient, mural-lined passage while continuing to search for their target.

• Beryl told Unas how she had been abducted, sold, imprisoned by Bessarius, and had used Nature Spirits to help Unas before resolving to avenge her murdered fellow captives.
• Beryl sensed people following them, and Unas waited in a defensive position until Hans arrived with Korfax and his soldiers.
• Korfax criticized Unas for risking his soldiers but agreed to help pursue the necromancer, and the two groups continued together.
• Hans told Unas that Korfax was nicknamed “Brute” and often ignored orders, while Korfax’s sudden cough silenced their whispered conversation.
• The group reached smooth cave walls covered in writing and murals depicting a giant defeating monsters, and Unas wondered what the ancient site had to do with Bessarius’s tunnels.

Unas's group entered a great hall where Korfax attacked Dreadlord Bessarius and Unas rode to help Erigor's besieged party. Unas kept necromancer Allen occupied while his allies fought the Undead, but Bessarius summoned Allen toward him.

• Unas detected Undead ahead and led his group through a stone-paved tunnel into a vast hall, where they found Bessarius, guarded by Felguards, and Allen directing Undead against Erigor's group.
• Beryl recognized Allen and tried to charge him, but Unas gave her a sword and ordered her to defend herself while he went after the necromancer.
• Korfax charged the Felguards, and Unas rode toward Allen with Beryl clinging to his back; Allen blinked away from Unas and struck his hammer with a Frostbolt.
• Hans led the soldiers in an attack on the Undead surrounding Erigor, while Unas circled Allen and harassed him with Judgment to keep him from directing the fight.
• Bessarius called Allen to him, and Allen reluctantly retreated toward his demon master.

Unas and Beryl brought down Allen, but Bessarius devoured him and then faced a charge from the Undead. The chapter left Unas’s plan in jeopardy when the Dreadlord raised Allen’s corpse.

• Unas urged Beryl to use the spore she had planted in Allen’s boot, and she knocked him off balance just as he prepared to Blink.
• Unas stunned Allen with Hammer of Justice and nearly crushed him with the Bone Horse, but Bessarius pulled him away and devoured him.
• After Allen died, Unas noticed the Undead had gone berserk and ordered his allies to open their formation so they could charge Bessarius.
• Unas confirmed that the Undead were targeting Bessarius, but the Dreadlord raised Allen’s withered corpse with the command, “Awaken, my servant.”

Unas and the soldiers cornered the weakened Dreadlord Bessarius, but his dying curse ensnared the hall in a mind-affecting spell. Unas resisted the spell and killed Bessarius, only to be struck by the curse and collapse as a golden light entered his chest.

• Unas and Erigor led the soldiers past the Undead civil war to surround Bessarius, whose weakened forces were destroyed in a fiery blast.
• As the soldiers closed in, Bessarius cursed that whoever killed him would die with their heart shattered, then cast a spell that left nearly everyone in the hall dazed.
• Unas recognized the spell, resisted it, and rushed toward Korfax before deciding to attack Bessarius instead.
• Bessarius tried to stop Unas with his curse and offered him eternal life, but Unas activated his silver shield and smashed the Dreadlord's skull with his hammer.
• Bessarius's curse pierced Unas's shield and caused his heart to hurt, but a point of light entered Unas's chest before he lost consciousness.

Unas woke after surviving the Dreadlord’s curse, learned that his level-up had restored his shattered heart, and received Bessarius’s horns as spoils. The celebration ended when enemies attacked the far shore, where the wounded camp and several of Unas’s companions were stationed, and Korfax led the survivors to rally for battle.

• Unas awoke in Beryl Bladesong’s arms and discovered that killing the Dreadlord had raised him to Paladin level 25 and restored his heart.
• Beryl told Unas that her healing spell had brought him back to life and declared that she would become a Druid.
• Korfax and Erigor brought Unas Bessarius’s horns, and Unas lent one to each of them.
• A warning announced an enemy attack on the far shore, where Lord Tyrosus, Gordon, and Darian and his sister were at the wounded soldiers’ camp.
• Korfax rallied the people on the hilltop and led them down to prepare for battle.

Pulhart negotiated with Sylvanas after the Forsaken seized the Argent Dawn's camps and took Lord Tyrosus hostage. He agreed to withdraw from the island before dark in exchange for the return of their people, while Unas left humiliated by the Banshee Queen's victory.

• After the Forsaken took the rear camps and captured Lord Tyrosus, a rider told Pulhart they wanted negotiations on the lake.
• Pulhart led thirteen Paladins and Unas across the ice causeway to meet Sylvanas and her Dark Rangers.
• Sylvanas claimed Tyrosus had promised her the lake in exchange for helping defeat Bessarius, and said she would return the prisoners if the Argent Dawn withdrew.
• Pulhart bargained for time to evacuate the wounded and agreed to withdraw before dark.
• Korfax called Pulhart a coward and punched him, but Pulhart kicked him off the causeway and led the others back to the island.
• Sylvanas laughed as Unas looked back at her and vowed to wipe the smile off her face someday.

After failed negotiations, Pulhart ordered the Paladins to withdraw from the island with Bessarius's food and weapons. As Unas and Erigor prepared to leave, Erigor suggested the Dark Lady had a purpose for the island and asked Unas whether he had heard of Tyr.

• Pulhart ordered the troops to withdraw before dark and gather supplies from Bessarius's granary and armory.
• Unas found his badly injured brown horse, failed to heal it with Holy Light, and put it out of its misery.
• Erigor invited Unas to inspect the armory, but they found only ordinary garrison weapons among the captured supplies.
• Erigor warned Unas to show conviction in public because the Inquisition might be watching.
• Erigor said the Paladins would return to the island and asked Unas if he had heard of Tyr.

Erigor told Unas that the underground ruins were likely Tyr's Tomb and that the Forsaken would have to be fought to reclaim the island. The two searched a weapons cave, where Unas collected an assortment of arms and found a shotgun before Erigor stopped him from firing it by the lake.

• Erigor explained that the underground hall and its silver-armed statue suggested the ruins were Tyr's Tomb, which Bessarius had likely tried to uncover.
• Erigor and Unas discussed the coming conflict with the Forsaken and joked about Unas's reluctance to fight Sylvanas.
• An officer led Erigor and Unas to a cave of better weapons after Erigor bribed him with gold.
• Unas collected many weapons from the cave, then found a black double-barreled shotgun and ammunition in a box.
• Unas headed to the lakeshore to test the shotgun, but Erigor reminded him that the island was under martial law, so he put it away.

Unas used his spatial backpack to speed up the Argent Dawn’s grain haul, earning the soldiers’ admiration as the slayer of the Dreadlord. He was then summoned to negotiate with Sylvanas after the Dark Lady threatened to throw more wounded prisoners into the icy lake unless the Argent Dawn withdrew.

• Unas and Erigor collected provisions, but the upright granary official stopped them from taking more than their share of the officers’ food.
• Unas used his spatial backpack to carry hundreds of bags of grain at once, impressing Erigor and the soldiers.
• The granary official recognized Unas as the hero who had killed the Dreadlord and thanked him for helping the army finish before dark.
• After the sun set, Sylvanas threw another prisoner into the icy lake and threatened to keep doing so until the Argent Dawn withdrew.
• Pulhart sent for Unas after a Dark Ranger refused to negotiate with anyone except a black-haired, black-eyed Paladin.
• Erigor asked why the Dark Ranger wanted Unas specifically, and Unas suspected his bad luck with romance had caught up with him.

Unas negotiated with Enya Xingyu on the ice bridge, where she agreed the Argent Dawn Knights should withdraw before Blue Child appeared. After giving him an Elven shortsword, she left, and Unas called after her that they would meet again.

• Pulhart told Unas to negotiate with Enya Xingyu and stall for time.
• Unas met Enya Xingyu on the ice bridge, and they exchanged awkward compliments and conversation.
• Enya Xingyu told Unas that her deadline for the Argent Dawn Knights to withdraw was before Blue Child appeared.
• Enya Xingyu gave Unas an Elven shortsword in exchange for his bouquet of wildflowers and hurried away.
• Unas shouted his name after Enya Xingyu and said they would meet again.

Unas returned to the Argent Dawn camp after negotiating with Sylvanas and revealed to Pulhart that he could use Resurrection. Pulhart warned him about the spell’s limits and the consequences of choosing whom to revive, then left the deeper reasons Uther forbade it unexplained as the fallen were cremated.

• Unas told Pulhart that Sylvanas’s conditions were settled and that the Blue Child would appear in a little over an hour, and Pulhart ordered the Paladins to prepare to leave.
• The Argent Dawn gathered to burn the fallen, while Unas carried supplies and listened to Pulhart’s eulogy.
• Unas privately told Pulhart that he could use Resurrection, that he had already revived Darion Mograine, and that he hoped to revive more soldiers.
• Pulhart explained that Resurrection required an intact body and a recent death, and warned Unas that choosing some of the 289 fallen to revive could anger the others’ families.
• Pulhart began to explain why Uther had stopped using Resurrection, but postponed the rest as he and the officers lit the funeral pyre.