Chapter Summaries

Angela secretly helped Bael'Gar defeat Magmus, allowing Bael'Gar to reclaim leadership of the Molten Giants and turn them against the Fire Elementals. The allied forces routed the Fire Elementals and reached the Molten Core, while Unas's companions prepared to leave and rejoin the Eastern Plaguelands expedition.

• Angela used dust and Bael'Gar's cover to teleport to the magma pool, then froze Magmus with Extreme Cold Freeze as he stepped over it.
• Bael'Gar attacked the frozen Magmus, won their struggle, and claimed the Molten Giants' kingship, declaring his people free from the Firelord.
• The Molten Giants attacked the Fire Elementals, and the Dwarves and Water Elementals joined the assault; Duke Hydraxis killed the Flamewaker commander.
• The allied forces drove the Fire Elementals back to the Molten Core, where Majordomo Executus closed the gates, leaving the allies to hold the area and await a way inside.
• Rendaen led his army home after the victory, while Darian, Angela, and Erigor declined Unas's invitation to celebrate and planned to rejoin the Eastern Plaguelands expedition.

Unas arranged Flamewaker Island’s future and gave Erigor, Darian, and Angela a warning that Dathrohan was a demon in disguise as they prepared to rejoin the expedition. After seeing them off, Unas was asked to help the Night Elves investigate Spider Forest, then received Dean Du'an, whose aid he hoped to enlist.

• Unas reached agreements with Rendaen over the Molten Giants, Iron Golems, and his temporary occupation of Flamewaker Island, then dismissed most of the troops guarding the Canyon.
• Angela gave Unas a repaired Hearthstone linked to the Monastery and explained that Huoye could contact Master Omar for help with the Black Dragon’s letter.
• Unas secretly told Erigor, Darian, and Angela that Dathrohan was a demon possessing the dead paladin, and urged them to guard Lord Ashbringer and gather evidence.
• As the three set off to catch the expedition before its assault on Stratholme, Unas warned Erigor to watch Darian’s older brother, Renault.
• Nightmoon asked Unas to help investigate Spider Forest because Rose and Haikesi were unavailable, but Dean Du'an’s arrival delayed their departure.

Unas negotiated with Du'an to build a Teleportation Array linking his base to Blackrock Depths, using the Crimson Diamond as its power source. Du'an agreed to help in exchange for secondary usage rights to the gem, though Unas immediately put it to work on the array.

• Unas asked Du'an whether he could build a stable, high-capacity passage through the spatial rift to Blackrock Depths, and Du'an said he knew how to create a Teleportation Array.
• Du'an reminded Unas that he had received none of the promised Fire Crystal or Huoye after helping fight the spiders and Flamewakers, then asked for the Crimson Diamond as compensation.
• Unas refused to give away the Argent Dawn's gem but offered Du'an secondary usage rights and promised him the Fire Crystal he was owed.
• Du'an accepted the terms and asked to use the gem immediately, but Unas said he needed it to build the Teleportation Array.
• Du'an protested that Unas had tricked him, then agreed to return with his mages and begin work on the array.

Unas gave Perella the Crimson Diamond to recharge the Blood Elves’ depleted Fire Crystals and help Du’an learn to build a teleportation array. Unable to reach Rosebayne or Haikesi’s group, Unas led the Night Elves scouting through the Canyon and watched Captain Silver Shadow’s Watchers quietly eliminate a group of giant spiders.

• Unas asked Perella to assign mages to help Du’an study the teleportation array and gave her the Crimson Diamond to recharge the Blood Elves’ Fire Crystals.
• Unas rode with the Night Elves to the Red Stone Stele, then led them on foot beyond the earthen wall after finding no sign of large creatures nearby.
• The Druids and Watchers reported that a large group of giant spiders blocked the mountain pass, while Unas failed to contact Rosebayne and could only sense that she was still alive.
• Unas proposed waiting for reinforcements and then using the teleportation array to bring his troops from the Blackrock Depths, but the Night Elves remained focused on finding the Purple-robed Person.
• At Silver Shadow’s suggestion, Unas joined the group in hunting a small band of spiders, and the Watchers used coordinated ambushes to kill all eight Blade Spiders in ten minutes.

Unas left the Night Elves, visited the teleportation-array researchers, and returned to Shadowforge City, where Rendaen summoned him to a banquet. Rendaen asked him to hand over Moira and revealed he intended to kill her unborn child, leaving Unas to decide how to respond.

• Unas left Captain Silver Shadow and the Night Elves, then encountered Du'an and Blood Elf mages studying a teleportation array that could not transport Molten Giants.
• Unas returned to Blackrock Depths, inspected the Iron Golems, and considered acquiring more to fight the Undead Scourge.
• Unas went to Shadowforge City and joined Rendaen's banquet, where the Dwarf officers regarded him with hostility.
• Rendaen asked what Unas planned to do with Moira, and Unas said he meant to return her to Ironforge for a reward.
• Rendaen insisted Moira's unborn child, Thaurissan's descendant, could not be allowed to live and demanded that Unas hand her over.

Unas negotiated with Rendaen over Moira, borrowed soldiers for an attack on the spiders, and discussed the future of golem production. After three days of revelry and political change, Rendaen was crowned Dark Iron King.

• Unas persuaded Rendaen to keep Moira alive under house arrest and hold her in his custody as a bargaining chip with Ironforge.
• Unas asked Rendaen for elite soldiers to attack the spiders, and Rendaen agreed to lend him several thousand.
• Unas proposed developing cheap, simple golems and secured Rendaen's promise that he could buy them if the Thorium Brotherhood produced them.
• Rendaen gained control of more than half of the Searing Gorge as Dwarf armies surrendered, while the Dark Horde sent an envoy seeking peace talks.
• Rendaen held a small coronation in the Council Hall, placed the crown on his own head, and was hailed as Dark Iron King Rendaen-Mosmar.

Rendaen crowned Unas a Holy Light Lord and rewarded him with Adamantite and territory for his role in the battle. After the ceremony, a Thorium Brotherhood blacksmith tried to negotiate a deal to forge the metal into a weapon, and Unas haggled over the price.

• Rendaen named Duke Hydraxis an Azure Lord and granted him the canal lands and underground lava river.
• Rendaen gave Unas Adamantite, named him a Holy Light Lord, and granted him Firewatch Ridge in Searing Gorge.
• Unas left the palace and met Stone Greystone and Masai of the Thorium Brotherhood, who asked about his Adamantite.
• Stone offered to forge the Adamantite into a spear, and Unas rejected his proposed fee of one tenth of the metal.
• Unas countered Stone's offer with a demand for one fiftieth of the Adamantite.

Unas suspected the Thorium Brotherhood Dwarves were trying to obtain the Mountain King's damaged warhammer and refused their deal. After returning to his new territory, he questioned Fran about the weapon, learning that it might conceal the secret of thunder but had resisted every attempt to study it.

• Stone Greystone and his assistant offered Unas twenty thousand gold coins and the damaged warhammer in exchange for accepting the one-fiftieth Adamantite condition.
• Unas grew suspicious of the Dwarves' eagerness, ended the negotiation, and left them to consider asking their guild leader to intervene.
• Unas returned to his territory and celebrated his appointment with Luther and the others, then heard Frank describe Firewatch Ridge as a barren, dangerous region that might serve as a smuggling route.
• Unas showed the damaged warhammer to his companions, who found nothing unusual, and summoned Fran to explain its history.
• Fran identified the weapon as the Mountain King's warhammer and said that, despite legends of its thunderous power, no master had uncovered its secret.

Unas assembled his troops and transported them through the new Teleportation Array to the Canyon to prepare for a campaign against the Giant Spiders. The array successfully moved all nine hundred soldiers, though its energy supply needed recharging, and Unas left the army at the Red Stone Stele front line for training before their planned march.

• Unas dismissed Fran and ordered Luther to ready the nine hundred available soldiers for the expedition against the spiders.
• Unas gave Frank money to buy Glowing Wheat and Dwarven farms, prioritizing food stocks despite rising prices.
• Unas led the troops through the Teleportation Array, which transported over five hundred people before running out of energy and needing Du'an to recharge its gems.
• The mages resumed the teleportation, and the remaining troops arrived safely in the Canyon.
• Unas marched the soldiers to the Red Stone Stele front line and held a meeting to introduce the Stormwind officers to the Argent Dawn and explain the Giant Spiders before the planned advance.

Unas coordinated the arriving troops while trying to avoid an examination for a possible demonic curse. He diverted Brother Anton by recruiting him to help establish a Chapel of Holy Light in Blackrock Depths.

• Silver Shadow told Unas that the Night Elves had hunted nearby spider groups, and Unas ordered her to stop and help Centurion Qiaosen teach the reinforcements how to fight spiders.
• Unas encountered Brother Anton, who had come to examine him for a possible demonic curse on Lord Tyrosus's orders.
• Unas showed Brother Anton his powerful Holy Light, but Anton insisted that a curse could still be hidden and pressed for an examination.
• Unas told Brother Anton that the new Dwarven king planned to build a Chapel of Holy Light in Blackrock Depths and asked him to help arrange its construction.
• Brother Anton agreed to serve as bishop of the Dark Iron Chapel, allowing Unas to put off the examination.

Unas left Brother Anton in charge of building a chapel in Shadowforge City, then collected the Judgement Armor from the Thorium Brotherhood. After accepting the armor but paying the full price, he agreed to hear the Brotherhood explain the secret of Thunder Hammer, while warning them not to lie.

• Unas appointed Brother Anton to oversee the chapel's construction and returned to Shadowforge City.
• A Thorium Brotherhood Dwarf led Unas to the guild headquarters, where Orphest presented the finished Judgement Armor.
• Stone Greystone and his assistant apologized for deceiving Unas and explained they had bought a set from Old John and altered it for him.
• Unas inspected and donned the armor, then paid the remaining five thousand gold coins despite Orphest waiving the balance.
• Orphest offered to reveal the secret of Thunder Hammer, and Unas agreed to listen if the Brotherhood told him the whole truth.

Unas negotiated with Orphest and Stone over the damaged Thunder Hammer, trading it for concessions from the Thorium Brotherhood. The talks ended with Stone proposing to combine his research with Unas’s Adamantite spear commission by attempting to forge a Thunder Spear.

• Stone explained that the Mountain King’s Thunder Hammer used rare metal to trigger electrical energy, and Orphest said the Brotherhood needed more of the metal for research.
• Unas demanded mass-produced puppets at cost and an Adamantite spear from Stone in exchange for the warhammer; Orphest agreed to use the gold coins on the floor as payment for the spear.
• Unas asked for the Brotherhood’s research results and half the extracted rare metal, but Orphest refused both requests.
• Unas sought to borrow the Brotherhood’s siege vehicles, but Orphest said only King Rendaen could authorize their use.
• Stone proposed using Unas’s Adamantite spear commission as a test piece for Thunder Hammer research and forging a Thunder Spear instead.

Unas secured a contract with the Thorium Brotherhood and brought Dwarven reinforcements and Iron Golems to Flamewaker Island, where the group tried to teleport Bael'Gar to the Canyon. After the attempt failed, Bael'Gar offered to split his body into pieces so the Molten Giants could be transported, and the group began testing his method.

• Stone promised to forge Unas's Thunder Spear and agreed to compensate him if more than one part in a thousand of the adamantite was lost; Unas signed Orphest's contract and handed over the adamantite and damaged warhammer.
• Unas arrived at Flamewaker Island, where the awakened Molten Giants had grown stronger, and later welcomed Thunderaan Deeprock and twenty-five hundred Dwarven reinforcements.
• The Blood Elf mages successfully teleported the Dwarves and seventy-eight Iron Golems to the Canyon, then Du'an explained that he was researching a Magic Circle to control the weather in Farshire.
• The mages failed to teleport Bael'Gar, so he proposed splitting his body apart to make the journey possible; Unas chose to prioritize moving the giants over Du'an's research.
• Bael'Gar began separating his limbs at the joints, causing golden-red liquid to flow from his shoulders as his arms and legs broke away.

Unas and the mages successfully teleported all sixty-two Molten Giants to the Canyon and restored their strength with the Crimson Diamond. The giants advanced to the front lines, where Bael'Gar chased off two Thorn Spiders and set part of the woods ablaze as the battle drew near.

• The mages teleported the severed parts of all sixty-two Molten Giants from Flamewaker Island to the Canyon, working until nearly midnight.
• Bael'Gar swallowed the Crimson Diamond, recognized it as the Fire Source Stone, and recovered inside a Stone Cocoon overnight.
• Unas found the Dwarf reinforcements and Iron Golems positioned orderly at the front, but received no response from Haikesi or Rosebayne.
• Huoye and the rested mages used the Crimson Diamond to replenish the energy of all sixty-two giants by nearly noon.
• The Molten Giants crossed the earthen wall and stationed themselves outside the front lines as Giant Spiders gathered nearby.
• Bael'Gar chased two Thorn Spiders into the woods, trampling trees and starting a fire, prompting two Druids to ask Unas to stop it.

Unas led the army through the woods to attack the Giant Spiders, accepting the destruction of the forest as necessary to the war and his plans for farmland. The army won a decisive victory at the mountain pass, but the two Druids worried about the widespread damage to the woods.

• Unas rejected the Druids’ plea to transplant the trees and set out with the recovered giants, golems, Dwarves, and humans.
• Thunderaan Deeprock pledged loyalty to Unas after explaining his danger in Blackrock Depths, and Unas assigned half the Dwarves to fight alongside the humans.
• The Molten Giants and Iron Golems broke through the spiders’ defenses, and Unas led Argent Dawn’s cavalry in a charge as the spiders began to flee.
• Unas ordered his forces to pursue and exterminate the spiders, using fire and smoke to drive them from the woods.
• The army reported 274 Giant Spiders killed, negligible human and Dwarven casualties, and two Iron Golems destroyed.
• The troops celebrated their victory while the two Druids worried that the battle had burned many trees and that more woodland would be destroyed.

Unas led his army through the Canyon, burning woodland and driving out spiders as he advanced toward Blue Rock Pass, while the Druids protested his methods. After reaching camp and leveling up, he was confronted by Master Oakleaf and the two Druids he had barred from seeing him.

• Unas ordered the guards to remove the two protesting Druids, but Nightmoon persuaded him to let them leave with the Watchers.
• Unas resumed the march, burning woodland and destroying scattered spider swarms before making camp twenty kilometers from the pass.
• Unas leveled up, gained twelve attribute points, and upgraded Divine Storm to Lv3.
• Unas learned that Blue Rock Pass was too narrow for his giants and worried that Rosebayne and Haikesi might be trapped because he still could not contact them.
• Master Oakleaf arrived at Unas's camp with the two Druids, and Unas suppressed his anger when he saw them arguing with the guards.

Oakleaf proposed turning old trees into Treants to help the army fight through the forest, but Unas refused to wait a week and sent the Druids away. The next day, Unas pushed the army forward until he learned the Night Elves were using spells to stop his soldiers from setting fires, and he went to confront them.

• Oakleaf arrived at Unas's camp with two young Elves, whom Unas threatened with lashes for causing a disturbance before Oakleaf ordered them to stay outside.
• Oakleaf told Unas that four more Druids would arrive soon and proposed transforming suitable old trees into Treants to aid the fighting.
• Unas rejected Oakleaf's plan because it would take a week, insisting that the army could not afford to delay its advance.
• After Oakleaf left, Unas marched his troops before dawn and drove them hard through the forest as they fought more spiders.
• A scout told Unas that the Night Elves were casting spells to stop the army from setting fires, and Unas went to confront them.

Unas agreed to stop burning the woods in exchange for three hundred Treants after Oakleaf demonstrated a Treant’s farming benefits. At Blue Rock Pass, the army met a mass of Giant Spiders, and Bael'Gar began fighting three Overlord Spiders.

• Oakleaf and four other Druids turned a plane tree into a weak Treant that could speed up the growth of nearby crops.
• Unas bargained with Oakleaf for three hundred Treants, then ordered the army to stop burning trees and assigned Dwarves to protect the Druids.
• Unas’s army reached Blue Rock Pass by dusk, where Giant Spiders bombarded the advancing Molten Giants and Iron Golems with venom, spines, and flames.
• Unas ordered a probing attack as the giants and golems fought back and advanced through the spiders’ ranged assault.
• Three Overlord Spiders leaped from the enemy ranks, and Bael'Gar launched his strongest attack, forcing them to scatter.

Bael'Gar drove the Overlord Spiders back at Blue Rock Pass, while Unas captured one and sent the Druids to rescue Rosebayne and her companion. The next morning, Unas began a new assault to widen the pass so the Iron Golems could advance.

• Bael'Gar crushed and crippled one Overlord Spider, then hurled it into the swarm and sent the remaining spiders retreating.
• Unas ordered the captured Overlord Spider bound and secured, then sensed Rosebayne and the Undead Mage Skull asking for help.
• Oakleaf and the other Druids transformed into Thunder Ravens and flew northeast to find Rosebayne.
• Unas camped at the narrowest stretch of Blue Rock Pass and prepared to continue the battle without Rosebayne's spider legion.
• The next morning, Unas's forces bombarded the spiders and cliffs with fire magic and explosives, burying many spiders beneath rubble.
• Unas led Orcs, Trolls, and Ogres in an assault toward the rubble blocking the pass.

Unas led the assault through the spider-held valley, breaking through two barricades of rubble and facing the Overlord Spider. After his allies intervened when the beast pinned him down, Unas survived in a hollow beneath its body, but remained trapped as his Divine Shield faded.

• Unas charged across the first rubble mound with Divine Storm and helped the nonhuman force slaughter the spiders defending it.
• The Blood Elf mages and demolition team blasted a second stretch of the valley while Unas and his troops repelled the spiders’ counterattack.
• Unas led the force over the second rubble mound and fought the Overlord Spider, wounding one of its hind-leg joints with his Hammer of Righteousness.
• The Overlord Spider pinned Unas beneath its body, and Ogres, Orcs, Trolls, and Blood Elf mages attacked it to keep it from crushing him.
• Unas survived the collapse of his Divine Protection and Divine Shield by squeezing into a hollow in the rubble beneath the Overlord Spider.