Recaps

Unas sealed a pact with Natasha to contain Fel residue, then chose captured Gnolls as sacrifices for Bessarius’s spell. He transferred nine Gnolls into his control and prepared to use them for the real business.

• Natasha bound a small shadow creature to Unas, which could devour Fel residue in exchange for feeding on his energy.
• Unas returned to the base with Natasha and arranged for her to stay among the Priests.
• After consulting Bessarius, Unas chose the captured Gnolls as sacrifices and brought ten of them to the cave.
• Unas killed one Gnoll and used its blood to draw the spell’s circle, then marked and enslaved nine Gnolls.
• Bessarius tempted Unas with the promise of more slaves, but Unas rejected the offer and urged him to proceed.

Unas and Bessarius used the Gnolls’ sacrificed life force to break Gunsel’s protection and mark the necromancer’s soul, but the protection’s backlash nearly extinguished his soul fire. Bessarius urged Unas to sacrifice two years of his life to save him, but Unas shut the demon away and discovered the necromancer’s soul still flickered within the skull.

• Unas carved his mark behind the necromancer’s ear and followed Bessarius’s ritual, struggling to contain the Gnolls’ incoming Fel with Holy Power.
• After learning that gentle contact made Holy Power and Fel dissolve each other, Unas used a rotating disc of Holy Power to withstand the surging energy.
• Bessarius broke the Lich’s barrier around the necromancer’s soul fire, and Unas placed his mark on it before the barrier’s remnants plunged into the blue flames.
• The necromancer began bleeding black blood as his soul fire faltered, and Bessarius said Gunsel’s protection was destroying him.
• Bessarius offered to save the necromancer if Unas sacrificed two years of life, but Unas refused and sealed Bessarius’s consciousness away.
• The necromancer’s head decayed into a skull, but Unas sensed a faint connection and saw a blue spark still flickering in its eye sockets.

Unas erased the necromancer’s mind, bound what remained of his soul, and used him to control the Overlord Spider. After covering up the deaths of ten Gnolls, Unas pressed Haikesi about his past and learned that he was searching for the vanished Spider God Shadra.

• Unas found the necromancer’s consciousness reduced to a blank point, marked it, and made him his servant.
• Unas used the necromancer as a hub to command the Overlord Spider and confirmed that the giant spider obeyed him.
• Unas and the Troll Priest burned and buried the remains, and Unas cleansed his Fel-tainted arm with Holy Power while feeding the Shadowfiend.
• Unas told the Troll Priest to claim that the ten Gnolls had tried to escape and been executed, then demanded to know why Haikesi had come to Lordaeron.
• Haikesi revealed that he had belonged to the Shadra Horde, whose people were scattered after Shadra vanished, and that he had crossed the Great Sea to search for her and rebuild his people.

Unas decided to travel into the swamp with Haikesi and Nightmoon to search for the spider god and gather black soil, while assigning the elite squad to guard the canyon. Sally Whitemane warned him about a suspicious priestess and asked to join the journey to learn Resurrection.

• Haikesi told Unas he had become a Holy Light priest but still hoped to find the spider god, and Unas agreed that they would clear the canyon together.
• Haikesi proposed that only he, Unas, and Nightmoon ride the Overlord Spider into the swamp, and Unas quietly accepted the plan.
• Unas prepared empty sacks and cleared space in his spatial bag to collect black soil, then appointed Marcus to lead the elite squad on patrol duty.
• Perella declined to join the swamp expedition, while Unas and Nightmoon discussed their journey late into the night.
• Sally Whitemane warned Unas that Natasha's identity seemed unclear, then asked him to take her along so she could learn Resurrection.

Unas, Nightmoon, and Haikesi traveled into the spider-filled canyon aboard the Overlord Spider, using Haikesi’s disguise to cross the dangerous border. When a Green-Footed Blade Spider followed them, they stopped to confront it, and Haikesi suspected it wanted to mate with the Overlord Spider.

• Unas rejected Whitemane’s warning about his choice of companions and promised to keep her close in future battles.
• Unas and Nightmoon joined Haikesi, donned spider-repellent black robes, and rode the Overlord Spider into the canyon.
• Haikesi used the Overlord Spider’s screech to frighten off territorial spiders as they crossed the dangerous border.
• Haikesi noticed a spider following them, so Unas ordered the group to stop and prepare for an attack.
• A large Green-Footed Blade Spider emerged, and Haikesi said its movements suggested it was trying to seduce the Overlord Spider.

Unas and his companions fought a Green-Footed Blade Spider that attacked the Overlord Spider, killing it with Nightmoon's help. After the spider poisoned Unas, he used Cleanse, and Haikesi said several more casts would remove the poison.

• Unas tried to drive the Green-Footed Blade Spider away, but it approached and climbed onto the Overlord Spider.
• Unas attacked the female spider while Nightmoon waited for an opening, but its bladed legs shattered his Sacred Shield and wounded him.
• Nightmoon blinded the spider, and Haikesi used the Overlord Spider to pin it down.
• Unas stabbed the pinned spider with Firekiss and burned its internal organs, killing it and gaining experience.
• Haikesi treated Unas's venomous thigh wound, and Unas cast Cleanse; Haikesi said seven or eight more casts should remove the poison.

After escaping a Blade Spider, Unas, Haikesi, and Nightmoon reached a cave where they planned to spend the night. While Unas and Haikesi kept watch, a half-woman, half-spider creature approached the Overlord Spider.

• Nightmoon warned Unas that another spider was approaching, so the group fled on the Overlord Spider and escaped pursuit.
• Haikesi explained that Flame Spiders and Ghostweaver Spiders were the canyon’s other dangerous spider varieties, and Unas sent Nightmoon ahead to scout for them.
• The travelers reached their planned cave at dusk, where Nightmoon rested while Unas and Haikesi took turns keeping watch outside.
• Unas and Haikesi climbed a nearby tree and kept watch through the night as the Overlord Spider guarded the cave.
• Haikesi woke Unas and pointed out a naked blonde figure approaching the Overlord Spider, and Unas realized it was a monster with a human upper body and a giant spider’s lower body.

Unas and his companions survived an encounter with a mysterious half-spider creature whose legs resembled those of Shadra, then continued toward the swamp. At Blue Rock Pass, Unas assessed the Argent Dawn’s plan to fortify the canyon and considered sealing it with a collapse.

• Unas ordered the Overlord Spider to attack the Beauty Spider, but she dodged both assaults and vanished.
• Unas, Nightmoon, and the Troll hid until dawn, then searched for the Beauty Spider’s trail and discussed her possible connection to Shadra.
• Unas and his companions resumed their journey and reached Blue Rock Pass without further trouble.
• Unas examined the narrow canyon and doubted the Argent Dawn could safely build a fortress there while spiders were nearby.
• Unas considered collapsing the pass to block the spiders, but doubted even Dalaran’s earth Archmages could manage it.

Unas and Nightmoon searched the swamp for high-quality black soil to bring back to Master Oakleaf, but their first digging site flooded. After a crocodile meal, they ventured deeper into the swamp and encountered another Overlord Spider, leaving Unas and the Troll bracing for a confrontation.

• Nightmoon led Unas and the Troll past the forest edge into the swamp to find better black soil.
• Unas filled more than eighty bags before underground water flooded the pit, forcing the group to abandon the site.
• Haikesi returned with a giant crocodile, and the three ate and packed the remaining meat before continuing deeper into the swamp.
• The Troll sensed hostile attention, and the group turned to face another giant Overlord Spider approaching them.
• Unas told the Troll to imitate the stranger's roar and mouth-spike gesture, but the spider noticed the puppet's dry spike and began inspecting it as Unas readied Firekiss.

Unas, the Troll, and Nightmoon trapped and attacked the living Overlord Spider by exploiting its attempt to feed on the Puppet Spider. Unas disabled one of its hind legs with Firekiss, and the spider’s struggles weakened.

• Unas’s attack on the living Overlord Spider failed, and it knocked him into a pool while defeating the Puppet Spider.
• Unas and the Troll pretended the Puppet Spider was dead, luring the living spider into feeding on it.
• The Troll clamped the Puppet Spider’s mouth shut around the spider’s head and forelegs while Nightmoon blinded its eyes.
• Unas repeatedly struck the joint of the spider’s right hind leg with Firekiss until he cracked it and poured fire energy into the wound.
• The spider’s hind leg went limp, and its struggles grew feebler as Unas exhausted the energy in the Fire Ring.

Unas fought to finish the wounded Overlord Spider, but a half-human, half-spider woman took Nightmoon and Haikesi hostage in exchange for the creature. After the hostages escaped and the spider woman fled, Unas and his companions found the battlefield empty and feared the Overlord Spider would return to attack their base.

• Unas dodged a Green-tailed Spider's silk attack, then found Haikesi bound and Nightmoon poisoned by the beautiful spider woman.
• The spider woman demanded the live Overlord Spider and threatened Haikesi, but Unas refused and ordered Haikesi to let go.
• The Puppet Spider released the Overlord Spider, which flung the spider woman and Haikesi from its back and wounded the woman as she fled.
• Unas freed Haikesi, and Haikesi gave Nightmoon medicine that helped her recover from the paralytic poison.
• Unas, Nightmoon, and Haikesi returned to the battlefield and found the Invisible Spider dead, the Overlord Spider gone, and the Puppet Spider still present.
• Haikesi warned that the Overlord Spider would seek revenge and might threaten the base, while Unas resolved not to let it or the spider woman escape.

Unas and his companions captured the injured Rosebane Sunstrider and tracked the Overlord Spider to a cave in the Swamp. Rosebane revealed that she was a High Elf who could control spiders and offered to help tame the Overlord Spider.

• Unas, Nightmoon, and Haikesi caught the wounded Beauty Spider and bound her before pursuing the Overlord Spider.
• The trio followed the Overlord Spider's trail into the Swamp and found it had taken shelter in a cave piled with bones.
• Nightmoon said the cave likely belonged to a Six-Headed Lizard and suggested they wait for it to return and confront the spider.
• Rosebane woke and introduced herself as a former High Elf, offering to investigate the cave and help them.
• Rosebane claimed she could control spiders and tame the injured Overlord Spider, while Unas considered whether to trust her.

Unas and Nightmoon learned how Rosebayne was transformed into a spider-bodied elf and escaped captivity, and discovered her history closely matched Beryl’s. Rosebayne explained why she had followed them and tried to claim an Overlord Spider, leaving the mystery of the purple-robed figure and the abducted elves unresolved.

• Rosebayne sent a swarm of small spiders into the cave and explained that she could tame docile spiders but needed to weaken fiercer ones first.
• Rosebayne said a purple-robed figure had transformed her, then recounted how pirates abducted her and other High Elves during a pleasure trip from Sunsail Anchorage.
• Unas and Nightmoon realized Rosebayne’s abduction resembled Beryl’s, suggesting someone had deliberately brought elves to Lordaeron.
• Rosebayne described escaping an underground cell with the help of spiders she controlled, after they poisoned armored guards and stole their keys.
• Rosebayne said she had followed Unas and Nightmoon to claim an Overlord Spider, and Unas rejected her justification for trying to take it.

Nightmoon revealed that she and Oakleaf were investigating the Purple-robed Person, whom Rosebayne also sought. After learning that Quel'Thalas had fallen and the High Elves had become Blood Elves, Rosebayne grieved, then turned to hear what her spiders had discovered.

• Nightmoon told Unas that she and Oakleaf had been sent to investigate the abduction of Elves and believed the Purple-robed Person was their target.
• Nightmoon explained how the investigation led them from the pirate slave market to Lordaeron and then to Venomspider Gorge, where Beryl’s story renewed their hope.
• Unas accepted Nightmoon’s apology, and Nightmoon said she believed Rosebayne was a victim and the Purple-robed Person was their common enemy.
• Rosebayne asked whether Prince Kael’thas and her people were searching for her, and Unas explained Quel’Thalas’s fall and the Blood Elves’ plight.
• Nightmoon comforted Rosebayne, who regained her composure and said her spiders had returned with information.

Unas agreed to help Rosebayne control the Overlord Spider and oppose the man in purple, but secretly used a master-servant contract to make her his slave. After Rosebayne obeyed his first order, the group prepared to go after the Overlord Spider.

• Rosebayne told Unas that her little spiders had found the Overlord Spider, and Unas decided they would attack it that night.
• Unas agreed to help Rosebayne control the Overlord Spider and join her and Haikesi in opposing the man in purple, on the condition that she help him eliminate the spiders and secure the canyon and forest for the Argent Dawn.
• Rosebayne accepted Unas's demand to swear an oath, and Unas secretly used Bessarius's instructions to bind her to him with a master-servant contract.
• After the contract took effect, Rosebayne felt an oppressive pressure from Unas and obeyed when he told her to leave half her spiders guarding the cave.
• Unas had Haikesi treat Rosebayne's wounds, then prepared to follow her spiders to the Overlord Spider while Bessarius celebrated his new control over her.

Unas and his allies weakened the Overlord Spider so Rosebayne could try to tame it, but she failed repeatedly. After Bessarius explained that Unas could support her will, the group prepared for another attempt.

• Unas, Nightmoon, and Haikesi attacked the injured Overlord Spider, while the Puppet Spider helped hold it down.
• Unas battered the Overlord Spider with his silver hammers until it lost consciousness, and Rosebayne began her taming spell.
• Rosebayne's first attempt failed, and the Overlord Spider fled deeper into the cave before Unas chased it into a dead-end cavern.
• Unas and the Puppet Spider subdued the weakened Overlord Spider again, but Rosebayne failed five more times as her mental strength dwindled.
• Unas called on Bessarius for advice, and the demon told him that his will could support Rosebayne's during her next attempt.

Unas helped Rosebayne subdue the Overlord Spider by supporting her mentally, while Haikesi’s ritual tipped the struggle in her favor. Afterward, the group rested in the cave, where Unas examined a mysterious stone pillar and asked Nightmoon her age.

• Unas connected his mind to Rosebayne’s and strengthened her spirit as she tried to subdue the Overlord Spider.
• The Overlord Spider resisted fiercely, but Rosebayne held her ground with Unas’s support.
• Haikesi scattered ritual powder and danced, giving Rosebayne enough support to break the stalemate and subdue the Overlord Spider.
• Unas celebrated Rosebayne’s success and thanked Haikesi for helping.
• The exhausted group stopped to rest, and Unas asked Nightmoon about a stone pillar marked with patterns resembling writing.
• Nightmoon angrily said she did not remember her age after Unas asked how old she was.

Unas and his companions tried to escape the Six-Headed Lizard’s lair through a swarm of Three-Headed Lizards, but the beast ambushed them as they neared the forest. With Rosebayne falling behind, Unas turned back to hold off the pursuers and ended the chapter clinging to the wounded Six-Headed Lizard.

• Unas gathered black soil while the beautiful spider warned that many Three-Headed Lizards were approaching the cave.
• Unas, Nightmoon, Rosebayne, and Haikesi rode the weakened Overlord Spiders out of the cave and found the entrance surrounded by lizards.
• Nightmoon warned that the Six-Headed Lizard was hiding in the bog or pool, so the group forced a route east through the encirclement.
• The Six-Headed Lizard emerged from the bog and attacked as the lizards closed in, but Unas and Nightmoon fought their way out toward the forest.
• When Rosebayne slowed and the Six-Headed Lizard gained on them, Unas sent Haikesi ahead and turned back to cover the retreat.
• Unas charged the Six-Headed Lizard on the Puppet Spider, drove his spear into one of its necks, and clung to the beast as it thrashed.

Unas fought to escape the Six-Headed Lizard, whose water attacks injured him and whose jaws nearly crushed him. Nightmoon teleported them to safety, leaving Unas to realize she had transported them about a thousand meters in an instant.

• Unas fled the Six-Headed Lizard on his Skeletal Warhorse, but the beast unleashed water pillars that battered him and broke the horse's ribs.
• The Six-Headed Lizard caught Unas and swallowed him, forcing him to activate Invincible and fire his double-barreled firearm down its throat to escape.
• As Unas fled with Invincible nearly spent, Nightmoon appeared and called him toward her.
• Nightmoon embraced Unas, silently cast a spell, and teleported them away while the Six-Headed Lizard destroyed the abandoned Bone Horse and searched the woods.
• Unas and Nightmoon fell into a forest about a thousand meters away, and Unas realized Nightmoon had performed a remarkable teleportation.

After Nightmoon saved Unas from the Six-Headed Lizard, the group recovered in the forest and planned their next steps. Unas and Haikesi went to gather soil while Nightmoon and Rosebayne set out to scout the Purple-robed Person’s dungeon, leaving Unas to mourn the loss of his Skeletal Warhorse.

• Nightmoon explained that rescuing Unas had damaged her Blink Ring, and Unas thanked her for saving his life.
• Unas and Nightmoon reunited with the Troll and the exhausted Rosebayne, then rested overnight while the Troll kept watch.
• The next morning, Nightmoon proposed investigating the Purple-robed Person’s dungeon, while Unas argued that they were not ready to confront him.
• Unas arranged for Haikesi and him to gather soil near the swamp while Nightmoon and Rosebayne scouted the dungeon, with both groups due back before dark.
• Unas and Haikesi returned to the battlefield and found the Skeletal Warhorse shattered, prompting Unas to resolve to settle the score with the Six-Headed Lizard once he was stronger.

Unas returned from the Swamp with 357 bags of Black Soil after finding no clear route to the dungeon, and he brought Rosebayne and the Overlord Spider to a cave near the Red Stone Stele. Back at the outpost, he went to report the harvest to Master Oakleaf while a mage from the Monastery waited to see him.

• Unas and the Troll filled their spatial bag with Swamp Black Soil, and Unas learned Blessing of Wisdom to help Rosebayne recover mental power.
• Unas reunited with Nightmoon and the Troll, then led the party out of the Swamp despite Nightmoon's failure to locate the dungeon.
• Unas left Rosebayne and the Overlord Spider in a cave near the Red Stone Stele, refused the Troll's request to stay, and returned with the others to the outpost.
• A messenger told Unas that Doan-Norwid, a student of Arcanist Doan, had repeatedly asked to see him, but Unas postponed the meeting to visit Master Oakleaf.
• Unas found Master Oakleaf teaching mushroom cultivation in cave four and reported that the party had brought back 357 bags of Swamp Black Soil.

Unas returned to the outpost, rejected the Mage Academy representative’s demand for a share of the crystal mine, and ordered preparations for an offensive against the spiders. To strengthen his forces, he used Fel to enslave the nonhuman prisoners, then armed and trained them for battle, despite the damage to his own arm.

• Unas stored the Black Soil with Oakleaf, then told Nightmoon about Oakleaf’s doubts concerning the Purple-robed Person and heard that the Mage Academy wanted a share of the crystal mine.
• Unas dismissed the Mage Academy’s representative, citing Tyrosus’s letter granting him authority over the mine negotiations.
• Unas assured Perella and Huoye that the crystals would first serve Blood Elves suffering from Mana Addiction, then ordered an offensive in three days and requested a corps of Elf mages.
• Unas ordered the outpost to prepare for war and decided to use the prisoners as part of his attacking force.
• Unas sacrificed a Gnoll and used Fel to enslave the Orc Warriors and the other nonhuman prisoners, suffering damage to his left arm in the process.
• Unas publicly claimed he had negotiated with the prisoners, armed and trained them, and watched the outpost accept his control of them as war preparations continued.

Unas weighed a risky plan to move the Red Stone Stele behind spider lines, then focused on negotiating with Dean Du'an and recruited Helen Ganis as the army’s Arcane advisor. Helen agreed to stay after seeing the Blood Elves’ suffering, while Whitemane stormed away but appeared unlikely to leave.

• Unas considered sending prisoner companies with the Red Stone Stele five kilometers behind enemy lines to draw the spiders’ attention while the main force advanced.
• Whitemane introduced Helen Ganis, an intermediate fire mage, who apologized for Doan-Norwid and praised Unas for rescuing women and children from the demon’s dungeon.
• Unas invited Helen to stay as his Arcane advisor, and she accepted despite Whitemane’s warnings and their argument with Unas.
• Helen told Unas that Dean Du'an wanted three tenths of the elemental crystals in exchange for Mage Academy supplies, and Unas planned to negotiate for better terms and military support.
• Unas introduced Helen to Arenas Fireleaf, whose lesson on Blood Elves suffering from Mana Addiction made Helen want to return to the Monastery; Unas persuaded her to stay and promised to handle the matter.

Unas showed Helen around the stronghold and recruited her to join the Blood Elf mage corps while reporting on their movements. After drilling his troops, he rode to welcome Erigor, Du'an, Angela, and Helen’s father, Earl Ganis, who had arrived at the stronghold.

• Whitemane decided to stay, and Unas told her to stop making remarks that could undermine his command.
• Unas toured the stronghold with Helen, who met Beryl and resolved to help the refugees by fighting alongside him.
• Unas assigned Helen to train with Huoye and send him weekly reports on the Blood Elves’ activities.
• Unas drilled his four hundred troops, then learned that Erigor, Du'an, Angela, and Earl Ganis had arrived to see him.
• Unas greeted the visitors at the gate, introduced himself to Earl Ganis, and sent a guard to escort the group into the stronghold.

Unas negotiated with Erigor, Du'an, Angela, and Earl Ganis for help in a battle to expand the Argent Dawn's territory and secure crystal mining. Helen chose to stay with Unas, and Angela began considering how to support his campaign.

• Erigor told Unas that the regiment could not join his battle but that members of the Brotherhood could support him, and Unas asked him to help persuade Angela to join.
• Unas told Erigor he planned to extend Argent Dawn territory in the canyon by five kilometers and asked Angela to help fight the spiders.
• Earl Ganis demanded that Helen return home, but Helen declared she would stay with Unas and used Invisibility and Blink to evade her father.
• Du'an agreed that the Blood Elves could receive priority for crystals used to treat Mana Addiction, while Unas insisted that defeating the spiders was necessary to protect mining.
• Angela asked Unas how she could help in the battle, and he said she and the others could follow the army and kill spiders while withdrawing if they felt threatened.