Chapter Summaries

Unas captured the Overlord Spider and led his forces through a costly battle at Blue Rock Pass, then stopped the advance to recover and limit casualties. When he was roused, the spider swarm had retreated, leaving Unas to wonder whether it was a trap.

• Unas drove Firekiss into the Overlord Spider and exploded fire energy inside its abdomen, gravely wounding it as the assault team bound and captured it.
• The Orcs, Trolls, and Blood Elf mages held off the spider swarm while Unas recovered, then he returned to battle and helped slaughter the Giant Spiders on the rubble pile.
• Unas halted the morning offensive when his Holy Power ran out, and his forces held their position behind a fire that separated them from the swarm.
• Unas ordered the wounded Overlord Spider treated and guarded, then meditated with the mages while the fire burned.
• A subordinate called Unas from meditation to report that the spider swarm had retreated, and Unas saw the battlefield empty and suspected a trap.

Unas met Mati'gosa and Alexstrasza, two dragons who had helped scatter the Giant Spiders and offered him an Overlord Spider. Alexstrasza revealed that her eggs had been stolen and asked Unas to help find them in the Spider Forest.

• Unas found that the Giant Spiders had abandoned Blue Rock Pass and scattered through the surrounding forest.
• Mati invited Unas to meet her companion, and he went to the hill with Huoye, Perella, and several Elf rangers.
• Mati revealed that she was the Blue Dragon Mati'gosa, while her companion Alexstrasza was a Red Dragon; they had captured the last Overlord Spider and offered it to Unas.
• Alexstrasza explained that her dragon eggs had been stolen from her nest, and that she and Mati'gosa had tracked them to Venomspider Gorge before losing their trail in the Spider Forest.
• Mati'gosa explained that the dragons had killed the swarm's leader, causing the spiders to panic, fall into disarray, and retreat from Blue Rock Pass.
• Alexstrasza asked Unas to help locate her eggs in the dangerous Spider Forest.

Unas joined forces with Mati'gosa and Alice to search for the stolen dragon egg and the Purple-robed Person, who might be connected to both. After Alice refused to carry him, Mati'gosa agreed to fly him to rescue Haikesi, while Unas sent his Elves to retrieve the frozen Overlord Spider.

• Unas thanked Mati'gosa and Alice for helping the Argent Dawn and agreed to help find the thief who stole the dragon egg.
• Unas asked the dragons to carry him to rescue his subordinate, but Alice refused and accused him of being an enemy of red dragons because he carried Firekiss.
• Unas pretended he would destroy Firekiss, then put it away after Mati'gosa argued that he needed the sword for their cooperation.
• Mati'gosa agreed to carry Unas to rescue Haikesi, while Alice insisted that Unas would not ride on her.
• Unas told Huoye and Pereira to bring people to retrieve the still-living frozen Overlord Spider, then left with the dragons.

Unas and Mati'gosa arrived to rescue Rosebayne, Haikesi, and five Druids from a swamp siege by the Seven-Headed Lizard and mutant spiders. The dragons and Unas wounded the Swamp Lord, but Mati'gosa became trapped, and Unas attacked again to free her.

• Unas rode Mati'gosa to the swamp after Rosebayne sent him a desperate plea for help.
• The Seven-Headed Lizard and mutant spiders surrounded Rosebayne, Haikesi, the five Druids, and the remaining spider forces.
• Mati'gosa and Alexstrasza attacked the enemies from the sky, while the Overlord Spider grabbed one of the lizard's necks on Rosebayne's command.
• Unas pierced one of the Seven-Headed Lizard's heads with a spear as Mati'gosa bit through another neck and crushed a third head.
• The Seven-Headed Lizard caught Mati'gosa by the hind leg and struck her neck with ice, while Unas escaped its jaws using Wings of Vengeance.
• Unas returned under Divine Protection and swung a greatsword at the lizard head biting Mati'gosa.

Unas and his allies fought the Seven-Headed Lizard and the mutated spiders in the swamp, then fled as enemy reinforcements approached. They escaped by air, leaving the Overlord Spider behind, while the Purple-robed Person’s possible connection to the monsters remained unresolved.

• Unas escaped the Seven-Headed Lizard’s attacks with help from the Overlord Spider and two Thunder Ravens, who carried him to Rosebayne, Haikesi, Oakleaf, and the surviving Druids.
• Alexstrasza and Mati'gosa joined forces against the Seven-Headed Lizard while Unas learned that mutated spiders had attacked Rosebayne and Haikesi without warning.
• Unas suspected the Purple-robed Person had created the mutated spiders and was also the dragon egg thief, possibly controlling the Swamp Lord.
• As the dragons and their allies weakened and more mutated spiders approached, Unas called for Mati'gosa to evacuate them and decided to leave the dying Overlord Spider behind.
• Unas and Haikesi rode Mati'gosa away with the Druids, while Alexstrasza carried Rosebayne in her claws and the enemies watched them escape.

After the retreat from the Spider Forest, Unas and his allies planned to hunt the weakened Seven-Headed Lizard while preparing Blue Rock Pass for a possible attack. The next morning, Unas began mobilizing the forces and placed Rosebayne in Mati'gosa's care.

• The group landed outside Blue Rock Pass, and the injured little red dragon flew to Stone Cave to recover while Rosebayne grieved for her lost spiders.
• Unas thanked Mati'gosa and promised to send scouts into the Forest before attacking, while he and the others discussed the Purple-robed Person's experiments and the dangerous presences in the Forest.
• Unas agreed that the Druids and Elf Rangers would search for the weakened Seven-Headed Lizard, and he asked Mati'gosa to shelter Rosebayne.
• After returning to Blue Rock Pass, Unas told his subordinates about the dragons and Rosebayne, and they began preparing the pass for battle.
• Unas ordered the Iron Golems to defend the Forest side, the Dark Iron Dwarves to build a stone wall, and the soldiers to hunt Giant Spiders and capture them alive for Rosebayne.

Unas helped Rosebayne subdue three Overlord Spiders while the army searched the Swamp and hunted monsters without drawing out the Seven-Headed Lizard or the Purple-robed Person. After reaching level 43, Unas was warned that the Night Elves might act on their own, so he called a meeting at Dragon Mound.

• Unas and his guards brought a frozen Overlord Spider to Rosebayne, and Unas helped her subdue it.
• Rosebayne subdued the other two Overlord Spiders, then commanded more than ten Giant Spiders over the next three days.
• Unas and his troops hunted lizards and giant crocodiles in the Swamp, but the Seven-Headed Lizard never appeared.
• Unas reached level 43 after killing more than a hundred monsters and upgraded Sacred Shield.
• Nightmoon warned Unas that Captain Silver Shadow might lead the Night Elves on their own expedition, and Unas summoned them to Dragon Mound for a discussion.

Unas arranged supplies for the Dwarves building defenses at Blue Rock Pass, then met with the Night Elves, dragons, Druids, and others to plan how to find the Purple-robed Person. The group agreed to target the forest’s three suspicious locations, while Unas proposed a diversion and a strike by their strongest fighters instead of risking his army in the forest.

• Unas learned that Sanders-Deeprock’s Dwarves needed an architect, construction tools, and food, and promised to provide them.
• Unas sent Raphael to Shadowforge City with ten chests of gold to arrange tools, an architect, and food with Stonebrow and Frank.
• At Dragon Mound, Unas showed the group a map marking a lake, the mutated spiders’ web-covered command center, and a strange woodland as possible hiding places of the Purple-robed Person.
• Mati'gosa, a young Druid, and Perella each argued for a different target, but Unas stopped the debate and said all three locations would be pursued.
• Unas proposed moving half his army forward as a feint while the strongest fighters infiltrated the forest and attacked the Purple-robed Person.

Unas led the group on a night assault against the Evil Woodland, where mutated trees attacked them with poisonous black venom and barbed vines. Oakleaf was poisoned and left behind with Nightmoon and Ashina, while the remaining fighters pressed deeper into the woodland and became trapped in a desperate battle.

• Unas agreed with the Night Elves and Mati'gosa to attack the Evil Woodland, and Alexstrasza arrived after Unas demanded that she join the group's planning.
• Unas, the Druids, the Watchers, and the dragons flew to the woodland at night, where Oakleaf tried to communicate with a pine tree and was drenched in poisonous black liquid.
• Silver Shadow treated Oakleaf and said he would survive but remain unconscious; Unas ordered Ashina to guard him, and Nightmoon stayed with them as the others continued onward.
• The group burned a path through the mutated trees, then shielded themselves from a barrage of black venom that gathered into living clumps before dying.
• Huoye's fire failed to defeat the spotted trees, and countless poisonous barbed vines surrounded the group, starting a desperate battle.

Unas and his companions fought the vine monster and searched the dark forest, where moving trees and spiders trapped them and the enemy captured several Elves. After the dragons helped defeat the monster, the suspected Purple-robed Person offered to release a path to the forest’s center if Unas came to save his companions.

• Silver Shadow and the Watchers pursued the vines dragging Rudel, while Unas later found Rudel transformed into a vine puppet and killed him after he trapped Masa.
• Masa guided Unas and Natasha through the forest using the Watchers’ marks, but moving trees erased their trail and a vast web blocked the sky.
• Masa revealed that spiders attacked him above the treetops, so Unas had Natasha use Shadowform to locate the scattered group; they hurried back after discovering their companions were in danger.
• Unas found Andrew dead and controlled by vines, destroyed his body, then reached the battlefield as Mati'gosa fought the octopus-like vine monster and Alexstrasza struggled in the spiders’ web.
• Unas freed Alexstrasza, and together they burned a path through the webs; the two dragons defeated the vine monster and revealed it was a giant spider.
• The suspected Purple-robed Person spoke from the forest and promised to open a path to its center if Unas came to save his captured companions.

Unas led the battered group into the forest after the Purple-robed Person opened a path, and they burned their way to the woodland’s center. There they found the Purple-robed Person beside the captured companions and faced the giant Blade Spider tree, while Alexstrasza and Masa confronted him about the stolen dragon eggs and missing Night Elves.

• Unas agreed to follow the Purple-robed Person’s invitation and reassured Masa that they would rescue the captives.
• Unas ordered the group to burn the trees, and Huoye and the Red Dragon set fires while the Blue Dragon froze the fire-resistant spotted trees so the flames could destroy them.
• The group advanced through the cleared forest to a giant fir covered in blade-like spider legs.
• The Purple-robed Person appeared among the branches beside the unconscious, vine-bound Perella, three young Druids, and three Watchers; Silver Shadow was missing.
• The Purple-robed Person proposed a game, and Alexstrasza accused him of stealing her dragon eggs while Masa asked whether he was buying Night Elves.

Unas led the force through two major battles against the Giant Spiders, reached level 30, and chose the Reckoning talent before helping drive back the survivors. He attempted to stop a Flame Spider with Korfax, but it began to self-destruct as Unas shielded them from the blast.

• Unas killed Giant Spiders, reached level 29, learned Blessing of Sanctuary, and reorganized the force as the survivors withdrew.
• Qiaosen's rear force joined Unas's troops, and Angela and the mages trapped the swarm in ice while bombarding it with spells.
• Unas reached level 30, chose Reckoning, and used its stored power to kill an Ironclad Spider and the swarm's apparent leader.
• Rosebayne and Haikesi disrupted the spiders beyond the ice wall, but a scarlet Flame Spider led a renewed attack and began melting through the wall.
• Unas and Korfax flew over the wall to attack the Flame Spider; Korfax wounded it but failed to kill it, and Unas raised his shield as it self-destructed and hurled ice shards toward them.

Unas and Masa fought their way through the Mutated Giant Fir’s poisoned chambers, where the vines captured them and the white worm attacked. After they were dragged into a corrosive pool, Unas struggled to save himself and Masa, who transformed into a deformed creature.

• Unas and Masa charged into a cavern, killed its little monsters and vines, and Unas burned the blue flowers that were producing the poisonous gas.
• The vines dragged Unas and Masa into the pool, where Unas killed the giant white worm and rescued the Druid before the vines captured them again.
• Unas consulted Bessarius about the poison, but refused the demon’s offer to transform his body temporarily.
• The vines hauled Unas into a second hollow filled with corrosive white liquid, where he found Masa badly injured and fought off the green monsters.
• Masa survived the corrosive pool and attempted to transform, but his body became a deformed mix of a leopard, a bear, and a Treant.

Unas reached the Essence of Life with the injured Masa, but the Purple-robed Person arrived and froze them before they could stop him from reconnecting Giant Fir to its source of power. The chapter ended with Unas trapped and the Purple-robed Person preparing to kill him and Masa.

• Masa told Unas that Giant Fir was feeding prey to giant worms and using their eggs and Sourcewood Spirits to sustain the Essence of Life.
• Unas used Bessarius's Fel transformation to escape the venom pool, climb through Giant Fir, and reach the Essence of Life, though the spell cost him five years of life.
• Unas subdued the Sourcewood Spirits, returned to human form, and found five giant red dragon eggs arranged around the emerald tree.
• Unas cut the Essence of Life's connecting stems and tubes, then learned that the imprisoned consciousness inside it was Ofclausid, Giant Fir itself.
• The Purple-robed Person attacked from concealment, froze Unas in the pool, interrupted Masa's treatment, and reconnected the Essence of Life to Giant Fir.
• The Purple-robed Person revealed himself as an Undead and prepared to kill Unas and Masa.

Unas killed the Purple-robed Person’s clone, drained the Heart Tree to heal himself, and escaped Giant Fir’s collapsing body after destroying its brain and leveling up. He reunited with the others as they learned a swarm of Mutant Spiders was approaching, and the group fled by air with the Blue Dragon.

• Unas broke free of the ice, used Wings of Vengeance to kill the Purple-robed Person’s clone, and learned from Bessarius that the real one was still alive.
• Unas collected the dragon eggs, drained the Heart Tree’s sap and life force to heal, and freed Giant Fir’s consciousness from the tree.
• Unas placed Giant Fir’s core against its brain, then cut the brain open after hearing the Purple-robed Person threaten his subordinates; he gained two levels, but Giant Fir’s body began collapsing.
• Unas escaped through a hollow in Giant Fir’s crown and signaled Mati'gosa, who told him the hostages were safe but Alice had been captured in a sneak attack.
• Unas reunited with the Argent Dawn members, learned Masa was dead, and ordered everyone to retreat when Nightmoon reported at least a hundred Mutant Spiders approaching.
• Ashina arrived with the poisoned Oakleaf, and Huoye used Levitate to help the group and the dragons fly away from the forest.

After escaping Evil Woodland with five Red Dragon eggs, Unas saved Oakleaf by drawing the poison out of his body and resurrecting him. He then confronted Bessarius over the Fel inside his heart and learned that the Purple-robed Person’s Phylactery might help them find someone who could separate their souls.

• The Purple-robed Person found his giant sequoia destroyed and realized that a vital object was missing.
• Unas returned to Dragon Mound with Mati'gosa and the others, recovered five Red Dragon eggs, and left them with the exhausted Blue Dragon to protect.
• Unas and Natasha drained Oakleaf’s poison into nearby livestock, then Unas used Redemption to revive him.
• Unas confronted Bessarius about the Fel vortex in his heart, and Bessarius proposed seeking the Purple-robed Person’s help with the Soul-splitting Technique.
• Unas examined the black box from the sequoia and learned from Bessarius that it was a Phylactery belonging to a Lich.
• Unas sent the Shadowfiend to attack Bessarius’s Fel vortex, but stopped when Bessarius offered to help deal with the Purple-robed Person.

Unas questioned the giant fir and the Lich’s Phylactery, then had Natasha search it for the Purple-robed Person’s memories. Natasha uncovered that the Lich was Gunsel Arcanus, whose search for rebirth had led him to join Merlin Firestone’s experiments on living subjects.

• Unas spoke with the weakened Chuyun Fir, promised to take its tree core back to the fallen tree body when the area was safe, and learned that a consciousness remained inside the black box.
• The Lich spoke from the box, and Bessarius guessed that the Purple-robed Person was Gunsel Arcanus, a former Scourge Lich.
• Unas summoned Natasha and Huoye; they identified the black box as a Phylactery, and Natasha probed it for the clone’s memories.
• After sorting through Gunsel’s memories, Natasha learned that he had been an Archmage of Dalaran who became a Frost Lich and sought to become human again.
• Gunsel’s memories revealed that Merlin Firestone recruited him to help with rebirth research, then drew him into experiments that progressed from human corpses to living subjects.

Natasha revealed Gunsel’s history, his three Phylacteries, and the prisoners and dragon egg hidden beneath Fairy Lake. Unas and his allies learned where to strike next, but postponed their raid while they considered how to rescue the captives without suffering heavy losses.

• Natasha explained how Gunsel had betrayed Merlin, controlled Shadra with a Phylactery, experimented on Rosebane Sunstrider, and hidden another Phylactery in the Seven-Headed Lizard at Fairy Lake.
• Natasha told Unas that Gunsel held a dragon egg and two or three hundred prisoners beneath Fairy Lake, while Merlin and Shadra were at the Poison Spider Research Institute.
• Unas gathered his allies at Dragon Mound, where Alice learned that her five recovered eggs were weakened and that her last child was at Fairy Lake.
• Mati'gosa confirmed that Unas possessed Gunsel’s Phylactery, and Natasha revealed that Gunsel had hired dragon hunters and bought ballistae to use against the dragons.
• Unas’s allies debated how to attack Fairy Lake and rescue the prisoners, but Unas dismissed the meeting and asked the dragons to recover their strength before the raid.

Unas led the army into Blue Rock Pass and staged a fighting retreat to keep Gunsel’s Mutant Spiders engaged while preparing a raid on Fairy Lake to rescue captives. Before they could act, a report arrived that Rot Hide Gnolls had seized Balnir Farmstead, and Knight Thomas Thompson had ordered Unas to reinforce the front.

• Unas ordered the army to withdraw into Blue Rock Pass as Swamp Lizards and Mutant Spiders gathered, while Mati'gosa carried the recovering Red Dragon to safety.
• For three days, humans and Dwarves fought a retreat through Blue Rock Valley against the Mutant Spiders, losing five Iron Golems.
• After the Red Dragon and Master Oakleaf recovered, Unas and his subordinates planned a raid on Fairy Lake to free the captives without letting the spider swarm intercept them.
• A messenger reported that Rot Hide Gnolls had captured Balnir Farmstead and could threaten the Poison Spider outpost and Farshire.
• Unas read Knight Thomas Thompson’s order to reinforce the front and told his subordinates that they needed to decide what to do.

Unas and his allies faced a possible attack by the Rot Hide Gnolls while the Mutant Spiders threatened their forces, so they chose to strike at the spiders’ stronghold and free Shadra from Gunsel’s control. They reached the heart of Poison Spider Forest by dragon and landed amid the Mutant Spiders’ attacks.

• Liante took Feniel’s men and three hundred Dark Iron Dwarves back to defend the stronghold, while Unas later ordered additional Orc, Troll, and Dwarf troops to join them.
• Natasha revealed that Thule Ravenclaw, a Scourge necromancer and former friend of Gunsel, might have brought the Rot Hide Gnolls in as reinforcements.
• Unas proposed a direct assault on the Mutant Spiders’ stronghold to free Shadra, and the group agreed to attack after dark with Rosebayne accompanying them.
• The two dragons flew to the center of Poison Spider Forest and used their breaths to clear the Mutant Spiders’ ranged attacks.
• The Red Dragon killed a huge Scorpion-tailed Spider, while the Blue Dragon shielded the group as Unas and the others leapt down and gathered on the ground.