Chapter Summaries

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.

Unas and the rescued people retreated from the island under Pulhart’s protection while the Forsaken let them pass. The column reached the opposite shore, where Sylvanas arrived and asked Pulhart to clear the entrance so she could enter the island.

• Pulhart told Unas how Uther made Resurrection forbidden and warned him to keep his own ability secret.
• Unas decided to resurrect people discreetly and planned to remind Darian and Whitemane not to reveal his secret.
• After the corpses were cremated, the Argent Dawn column departed across the ice causeway with Unas guarding the women and children.
• Pulhart and several Paladins stood guard at the bridgehead while the column passed through the Forsaken ranks.
• Once the rearguard was beyond the Forsaken’s attack range, Sylvanas and her Dark Rangers rode up to Pulhart.
• Sylvanas asked Pulhart to clear the entrance so she could enjoy the island’s night scenery.

After negotiating the Forsaken’s withdrawal, Unas woke to discover that Bessarius’s remnant soul had possessed his body through the Dreadlord’s curse. Their lives were linked, leaving Unas unable to remove the demon without risking his own death.

• Pulhart agreed to lead his people a kilometer away while Sylvanas promised to return every captive.
• Unas taunted Nathanos by calling for Enya Xingyu and promising her a gift, drawing Sylvanas’s amused attention.
• Unas woke from a dream of Bessarius’s voice and realized the Dreadlord was speaking from inside his chest.
• Bessarius explained that his curse had linked their souls and allowed his remnant soul to possess Unas.
• Unas threatened to kill them both with Holy Power, then stopped when Bessarius screamed and concluded that the demon was trapped inside him.

After a sleepless night worrying about the Dreadlord inside him, Unas reunited with Gordon, Darian, and Whitemane. Darian helped Unas and Whitemane reconcile, leaving their grudge behind as the Argent Dawn Knights prepared to depart.

• Sylvanas returned Pulhart's detained medical and logistics camps, and the exhausted army stopped to camp in Galen County.
• Unas kept his possession by a Dreadlord secret and packed to leave with the group.
• Unas greeted the recovered Gordon, Darian, and Whitemane, then startled Whitemane by hugging her and provoking an awkward argument.
• Whitemane's agreement to date Unas for one day came to light, and Unas offered to call it off.
• Darian urged Unas and Whitemane to set aside their prejudices, and they apologized and clasped hands.

Unas struggled to hide the limits of his Resurrection spell when Whitemane insisted on staying beside him to learn it. Meanwhile, Tyrosus assessed the expedition’s gains and losses as the Argent Dawn marched back toward the monastery, with a conflict over Tyr’s ruins looming.

• As the army marched, Unas explained Resurrection’s drawbacks to Darian, Gordon, and Whitemane and asked them to keep its limits secret.
• Whitemane asked Unas to teach her Resurrection, and he admitted he could use the spell but did not know how to teach it.
• Whitemane decided to stay beside Unas to learn, and he joked about tuition while privately worrying about her being an Inquisition prosecutor.
• During a rest, Tyrosus reviewed the battle report and concluded the Argent Dawn would need to retake Tyr’s ruins from the Forsaken.
• Tyrosus considered the expedition’s prisoners, captured supplies, and heavy casualties, then set off with the army toward the monastery.

Unas shared a camp with his companions, returned Firekiss to Gordon, and learned how deeply Gordon blamed himself for the soldiers who had died. As Gordon left to seek rest and training, Bessarius offered to help Unas with Gordon and Whitemane, leaving Unas uneasy about how much the demon knew.

• Unas shared dried meat and wine with the vanguard, while Whitemane warned him to avoid the Dark Ranger and Unas found himself drawn to Whitemane.
• After Darian and Whitemane went to rest, Unas showed Gordon the recovered family sword Firekiss.
• Gordon blamed himself for Darian's near death and the deaths of Qiao, Jella, Hal, Hake, and seven vanguard soldiers, then said he would seek a Holy Light mentor after returning to the monastery.
• Gordon said he would try to purify the demon's enchantments on Firekiss and hurried back to his tent.
• Bessarius offered to help Unas with Gordon and Sally Whitemane, making Unas realize the demon had been listening to events around him.

Unas questioned Bessarius about its offer to teach him Fel magic and learned that the demon wanted to raise Tyr from the dead. Bessarius revealed that Tyr’s Tomb required three human bloodlines to unlock, though it did not know where to find them.

• Bessarius urged Unas to pledge loyalty to Sargeras, offering power and ways to heal Joseph Gordon and make Sally Whitemane submit to him.
• Unas pretended to consider the offer but declined to provide a sacrifice or learn magic for now.
• Unas asked whether Bessarius had excavated Tyr’s Ruins, and Bessarius admitted it sought Tyr’s corpse to resurrect him as a weapon.
• Bessarius said the Dark Lady also wanted something from the tomb, which was protected by a powerful seal.
• Bessarius revealed that the key to opening Tyr’s Tomb was three human bloodlines.

Unas learned that opening Tyr's tomb required the bloodlines of three founding houses, while the Argent Dawn returned with spoils and met its relief force at Balnir Farmstead. The handover ended in conflict when Major Herod demanded the nonhuman captives be abandoned, leaving Pulhart to continue protecting them at Venomspider Gorge.

• Bessarius told Unas that Tyr's tomb was sealed until the blood of Houses Menethil, Nicholas, and Valdemar was brought together, but the missing Princess Calia Menethil made that difficult.
• Unas considered Bessarius's other secrets and wealth, then ended their midnight conversation and returned to his tent.
• A Gryphon Rider delivered news of the relief force, and Pulhart ordered the Argent Dawn to hurry to Balnir Farmstead before noon.
• Pulhart met Major Herod and the North Maple Legion at Balnir Farmstead as the forces gathered for the handover.
• Herod condemned the nonhuman captives and ordered them abandoned, but Pulhart refused and said the Argent Dawn would take them to Venomspider Gorge.
• Herod rode away with his troops, while Pulhart worried about the heavy cost of protecting the nonhumans.

Unas escorted Beryl, Stonebrow, and the other captives to the Argent Dawn outpost in Venomspider Gorge, where Stonebrow reunited with his cousin Dugal Redbrow. The overcrowded outpost was short on food, leaving Unas worried about how its people would survive.

• Unas arranged for Beryl to join the escort to Venomspider Gorge and promised to stay until she was settled.
• Unas, Beryl, Stonebrow, and the other captives reached the gorge and met the outpost party led by a High Elf ranger and a human knight.
• Stonebrow reunited with his younger cousin, Dugal Redbrow, who led the Dwarves at the outpost.
• Dugal Redbrow told Stonebrow that the outpost had many wounded and was nearly out of food.
• Unas saw that the outpost housed around two thousand people and realized the new arrivals would worsen its food shortage.

Unas brought Beryl to the outpost’s clinic to meet Master Oakleaf, hoping she could learn Druidism there. They met his apprentice Wendy Nightmoon, who welcomed them into the hut after Beryl reunited emotionally with another Night Elf.

• Unas learned that Holsa Oakleaf was a Cenarion Circle Druid who had settled at the outpost and become its healer.
• Unas and Beryl joined the queue outside Oakleaf’s hut, where a worried woman mistook Beryl for a healer and pleaded for help.
• Wendy Nightmoon came out, embraced the tearful Beryl, and used a spell to put Auntie Marcy to sleep.
• Wendy introduced herself as Oakleaf’s apprentice and invited Unas and Beryl into the hut to meet the master.

Unas and Beryl met Sabula Haikesi, a desert Troll who worshiped the Holy Light and had been pardoned by Alexandros Mograine. After Master Oakleaf introduced him, Haikesi explained how he became a healer and settled in Venomspider Gorge, leaving Unas intrigued but still wary of Trolls.

• Unas raised his silver hammer to defend Beryl when a Troll entered Master Oakleaf’s cottage.
• Sabula Haikesi showed Unas that he wielded the Holy Light and explained that he was a desert Troll visiting his friend Oakleaf.
• Holsa Oakleaf arrived, eased the tension, and introduced Haikesi as a Troll pardoned by Alexandros Mograine.
• Haikesi told Unas and Beryl how he had studied the Holy Light, been banished instead of executed, and later become a healer in Venomspider Gorge.
• Unas heard Haikesi’s story and wondered whether the Troll was unusually noble, while remaining skeptical.