Chapter Summaries

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.

Varimathras and Bessarius began forcibly infusing Unas with Fel to transform his body into a demon, hoping to take control of him. Unas's Finger of Death failed to kill Varimathras, leaving him restrained and apparently without a way to resist the transformation.

• Unas refused Varimathras's offer to submit, while Varimathras revealed that Luisa was important and handed her safely to a subordinate.
• Varimathras and Bessarius agreed to use another method, and Undead soldiers prepared a Magic Circle to summon five Felhounds and a Fel Behemoth.
• The Felhounds restrained Unas and began channeling Fel into him, extinguishing his Holy Power as his body started to change.
• Unas used Finger of Death from Merlin's Ruby Ring against Varimathras, but a death-warding barrier left the demon unharmed.
• Unas stored the Ruby Ring before the Undead could take it, then gave up struggling as Bessarius explained that corrupting his Holy Light would produce greater power for the demon to possess.

Unas resisted Bessarius’s attempt to turn him into a demon by sacrificing his offerings and the Emerald Tree to Sargeras, gaining overwhelming Fel power. His transformation ended with him emerging as a lord-level demon, while Varimathras watched in shock.

• Unas saw Luisa captured and renewed his resolve to survive and keep his promises.
• Unas sacrificed the marked offerings, causing seventeen Orc Warriors and several Gnoll and Troll leaders in Venomspider Gorge to burst into flames, but the will from the abyss demanded more.
• Unas sacrificed the Emerald Tree, and a torrent of Fel overwhelmed the power supplied by the five Felhounds.
• Varimathras and Bessarius debated killing Unas or letting his transformation continue, and Varimathras withdrew with his forces while leaving demons behind to test him.
• Bessarius’s voice briefly disrupted the will of destruction, and Unas released the excess Fel in a blast that completed his Metamorphosis.
• Unas flew into the moonlight, and Varimathras realized that he had become a lord-level demon.

Unas transformed into a Demon Lord and defeated Varimathras, who tried to bargain for his life by revealing that his hostage, Luisa, was Arthas's sister and the last surviving heir of Lordaeron. Varimathras explained how he learned her identity and how he had outmaneuvered Nathanos, while Unas considered the information.

• Unas's transformation elevated him to Demon Lord, and he attacked Varimathras with overwhelming speed and strength.
• Varimathras escaped by splitting into bat clones, but Unas hunted down nearly all of them and tracked the last one into the Forest.
• Varimathras seized Luisa and offered to submit, but Unas dismissed his value until the Dreadlord revealed her royal identity.
• Varimathras explained that an Undead survivor had exposed Luisa's identity after his forces intercepted her escorting squad.
• Varimathras had leaked the secret to Nathanos, who sent spies to capture Luisa, then intervened and took her for himself.

Unas forced Varimathras and Bessarius to surrender portions of their true names and learned that their plan to conquer Lordaeron depended on Princess Menethil. The chapter ended with Varimathras explaining that her royal bloodline could rally the people and help her reclaim the throne.

• Unas rejected Varimathras’s offer of a contract and demanded his true name or death.
• Varimathras surrendered one-third of his true name, and Unas gained control over him.
• When Bessarius resisted, Unas ripped out and crushed his own heart until Bessarius surrendered nearly half of his true name.
• Unas regenerated his heart and ordered Varimathras to explain his plan for conquering Lordaeron.
• Varimathras revealed that Princess Menethil’s bloodline could rally Lordaeron’s people and help her reclaim the throne.

Unas and Varimathras discussed a plan to seize control of Lordaeron and learned they needed to act before Sylvanas allied with the Horde. When Varimathras tried to turn Luisa into a puppet, her magical mental barrier rebuffed him, and Unas watched as she begged him for help.

• Varimathras proposed using Princess Menethil to unite the human forces in Hillsbrad, then overthrow Sylvanas and claim Lordaeron.
• Unas warned Varimathras that Sylvanas would soon join the Horde, and Varimathras admitted he had less than a thirty percent chance of staging a coup immediately.
• Unas ordered Varimathras to prevent Sylvanas from allying with the Horde and promised him territory and troops if his plans succeeded.
• Varimathras explained two ways to control Luisa and began trying to destroy her consciousness so he could make her a puppet.
• Luisa's mental barrier reflected Varimathras's attacks, injuring him, and she fled toward Unas as Varimathras tore open her top.