Chapter Summaries

Unas defeated the Undead and made their surviving forces line up to be killed, while accepting Mage Garon’s surrender for the moment. He left Garon and the Overlord Spider in Haikesi’s care to help with the journey through the canyon.

• Unas confirmed that the Undead had stopped resisting and ordered them to gather near the collapsed bell tower.
• Unas killed the remaining Undead one by one, raising his experience to 93% of his current level.
• Whitemane warned Unas about indulging in slaughter, and he teased her until she screamed and ran away.
• Unas questioned Mage Garon, who claimed to be an independent necromancer studying giant spiders, and decided to keep him alive temporarily.
• Unas let Haikesi study the Overlord Spider and handed him Mage Garon so the Troll could command the spider.

After the battle, Unas camped in the town with his wounded troops and questioned the captured necromancer, Gallon-Master, about his loyalty and plans. With Bessarius's help, Unas discovered that Gallon believed the Lich Gunsel would come to rescue him.

• Unas accepted Liante's suggestion to stay overnight, ordered a scout to report back, and sent his exhausted troops to rest in a wealthy district of town.
• Haikesi reported that the Overlord Spider was only a mindless corpse, but he could make other spiders believe it was alive; Unas planned to use it for their journey to the marsh.
• Unas challenged Gallon-Master about why he clung to life, suspecting the necromancer might try to escape or betray them.
• Unas consulted Bessarius, who recognized Gallon-Master as a former subordinate of the missing Lich Gunsel.
• With Gallon-Master complying under threat, Bessarius searched his soul and learned that he expected Gunsel to come rescue him.

Unas sealed Bessarius away, returned to base, and grew stronger after clearing out Undead. He dealt with the last venomous spiders near the base but postponed the swamp expedition until he could control the necromancer.

• Unas rejected Bessarius's offers of Necromancy and further sacrifices, then sealed the demon inside his body and kept the necromancer's head in a bag.
• On the return journey, Unas ordered the necromancer to gather more than two hundred skeletons and Zombies, killed them for experience, and reached level 27.
• Unas learned Corrosive Seal and Blessing of Might, then returned safely to base, where soldiers had begun calling him the Undead Executioner.
• Unas inspected the mushroom farm excavation and crystal mine before learning that Haikesi had found two more venomous spiders near the base.
• Unas and the elite squad killed the remaining spiders, but Unas refused to lead an expedition to the swamp until he had complete control over the necromancer.

Unas oversaw the first logging expedition and learned that the Orc laborers depended on their warrior lord for protection. When Natasha arrived, she failed to control the Undead mage or break the Lich’s memory seal, leaving Unas to consider how to face the Lich directly.

• Unas escorted the logging crew to a Druid-marked site and ordered them to cut only the designated trees.
• Unas questioned Carlos and learned that the Orc laborers shared their food with Lord Naj'entus in return for protection from other Orc clans.
• Unas used Blessing of Might to help the Orcs push their loaded carts up the steep slope, then went to meet Natasha.
• Unas asked Natasha to erase some of Evan’s memories and break the Lich’s seal on the Undead mage’s memories.
• Natasha used Mind Control on the Undead mage but failed to overcome the Lich’s powerful spell, which injured them both.
• Unas accepted Natasha’s need to recover and resolved to deal with the Lich rather than destroy the evidence.

After failing to wake the necromancer, Unas asked Natasha how Warlocks resisted Fel corruption and decided to use a Shadowfiend to gain access to shadow power. Natasha warned that it could eventually devour him, but Unas chose to go ahead and let it attach to his left arm.

• Natasha's second attempt to wake the necromancer failed when pain briefly roused him before he fell back into a coma.
• Unas told Natasha he might use Fel to control the necromancer, and she agreed to keep his plan secret and explain what she knew about Warlocks.
• Natasha explained that Warlocks used shadow to consume the Fel traces in their bodies, but warned that excessive Fel could cause irreversible demonic transformation.
• When Natasha refused to teach Unas a shortcut to using shadow, she offered to summon a Shadowfiend that would let him use shadow while gradually draining his energy.
• Natasha warned that the Shadowfiend might eventually devour Unas, but he accepted the risk and chose to have it attach to his left arm.

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.