Recaps

Hu Feng met with Kil'jaeden aboard a Burning Legion flagship and argued that his plan to conquer the universe made him an enemy of Sargeras and the Legion. He left after warning Kil'jaeden of his ambitions, then returned to demand that the Legion seize the naaru fleet's largest ship.

• Hu Feng drank Moonlight Wine while Kil'jaeden explained that he had manipulated Archimonde and arranged for Hu Feng to eliminate him.
• Kil'jaeden compared Hu Feng's ambition to conquer the universe with Sargeras's plan to destroy all life, and Hu Feng declared them mortal enemies.
• Hu Feng claimed he could eventually control the void and fel energy, making the Void Lords and demons powerless against him.
• Hu Feng left the hall, then returned and ordered Kil'jaeden to take the Burning Legion to The Storm Peaks and seize the naaru fleet's largest ship.
• Kil'jaeden agreed to the demand, and Hu Feng said he would wait on Hellfire Peninsula to receive the ship.

Hu Feng and the Night Empire wore down the Burning Legion at Kil'jaeden's Throne with Green Skin cannon fodder while the Legion's main fleet headed for the naaru fleet in The Storm Peaks. In Blade's Edge Mountains, Gruul and his armored Magnaron approached Gruul's lair as the New Horde waited to recruit the Ogres after Outland's Gruul fell.

• Adal welcomed Yrel and Velen's Draenei to Shattrath City while the Burning Legion's main fleet advanced toward The Storm Peaks.
• Hu Feng explained his scheme to Turalyon, then took her to Kil'jaeden's Throne to watch the battle.
• The Great Warlord sent waves of Green Skins against the demons, and the Night Empire's forces launched their assault after the Legion's defenses were overwhelmed.
• Gruul led more than a dozen armored Magnaron toward Gruul's lair, confusing the Ogres in Blade's Edge Mountains.
• The New Horde entered Blade's Edge Mountains and waited, planning to gather the Ogres after Outland's Gruul died.

Kil'jaeden staged the Burning Legion's attack on Tempest Keep so Titan Sargeras could claim the captured flagship and Muru. After their staged battle on Hellfire Peninsula, Hu Feng asked Kil'jaeden to capture another Naaru hidden in the Vosh'gull Crystal.

• Kil'jaeden led the Burning Legion in an assault on Tempest Keep, overwhelmed its defenders, and captured Muru.
• Liadrin agreed to buy smuggled Void Drakes from The Astral Consortium and planned to seize one of the remaining Naaru ships.
• The Burning Legion feigned a retreat to Hellfire Peninsula, where Titan Sargeras staged a battle with Kil'jaeden and claimed Tempest Keep.
• Hu Feng sent Tempest Keep through a Giant Portal to the Night Empire's home base, where Nightborne scholars would study Muru.
• Hu Feng offered Kil'jaeden a chance to withdraw half his fel fleet if he captured the Naaru hidden in the Vosh'gull Crystal.

Hu Feng forced Magnaron Gruul to fight his counterpart while Skuglok challenged Gruul, and the Blood Elves stole a naaru Energy Ship. The chapter ended with Windsor proposing that the Alliance steal one of the two remaining ships, and Hu Feng approving the plan.

• Hu Feng whipped Magnaron Gruul and ordered him to attack the other Gronn while Skuglok fought Gruul.
• Adal learned that the Blood Elves had stolen the naaru's Energy Ship during the aftermath of the Burning Legion's attack.
• The Blood Elves claimed they had seized the ship to cleanse it of Fel contamination and planned to take it to Azeroth.
• Hu Feng criticized the Blood Elves' excuse while inspecting Honor Hold, and Windsor suggested that the Alliance steal one of the remaining ships.
• Hu Feng approved Windsor's proposal and warned him to carry out the theft cleanly.

The powers of Azeroth expanded into Outland while the Night Empire and the Army of the Light argued over the Blood Elves’ stolen Energy Ship. Goblin cartels launched Shattered Hand Gladiator Season 2, leaving adventurers competing for practical flying mounts.

• Countess Liadrin returned the Energy Ship but stayed on the Night Empire’s Floating Island and sought its support, leaving negotiations with Adal’s envoys deadlocked.
• The New Horde brought the Ogre tribes into its ranks under Rexxar and focused on consolidating its territory in Nagrand and Blade’s Edge Mountains.
• Goblin cartels cooperated to develop Zone 52 and compete with the Astral Consortium by selling mounts and offering adventurer bounties.
• The Goblins partnered with Kargath Bladefist to reopen arenas in Blade’s Edge and Nagrand and offer Void Drakes and Void Rays as Season 2 rewards.
• Shattered Hand Gladiator Season 2 began in Outland.

The Alliance advanced into Terokkar Forest while its airship fleet headed for The Storm Peaks, and the Burning Legion captured K'ure at Worshugu before handing him over to Hu Feng. After honoring their agreement, Hu Feng warned Kil'jaeden that Sargeras might not trust him, then flew back to Outland.

• The Lordaeron and Stromgarde veterans joined their respective Restoration Armies as the Alliance resumed its campaign from Honor Hold into Terokkar Forest.
• An Alliance fleet of seven airships passed through the Dark Portal and headed toward The Storm Peaks to seize valuable goods.
• The Burning Legion attacked Worshugu, killed its Light constructs, and captured K'ure under Kil'jaeden's command.
• Kil'jaeden delivered the imprisoned K'ure to Hu Feng, who agreed not to interfere with the Legion's plans or attack its fleet if it retreated.
• Hu Feng asked Kil'jaeden about contacting Sargeras, then warned him that Sargeras might distrust him and that the Legion's sacrifices could end in failure.
• Kil'jaeden rejected Hu Feng's warning, and Hu Feng flew back toward Outland while mocking the loss of Argus.

The Heklar Consortium and Steamwheedle Cartel joined forces to sell Goblin rockets in Outland and drive the Ethereals out of the market. Their aggressive advertising sparked a buying frenzy and left the Ethereals' flying mounts unsold.

• Heklar and Gazlowe agreed to cooperate in Outland, with the Steamwheedle Cartel promoting Heklar's new product for thirty percent of the profits.
• Heklar and Gazlowe launched the X-51 Void Rocket, advertising standard and premium models across Azeroth.
• Adventurers rushed to buy rockets and traveled to Zone 52 for maintenance, filling Outland's skies and undercutting the Ethereals' Void Drake and Void Ray business.
• The Goblins launched the X-52 Two-Seater Rocket, and Elisande appeared in advertisements endorsing it.
• Nobles and wealthy commoners scrambled to buy rockets as the Goblins' campaign turned Azeroth into a rocket frenzy.

The Alliance joined the Army of the Light’s assault on Netherstorm Prison and drove back the demons while claiming territory with Alliance banners. At the prison’s deepest hall, Milhouse Mana Storm fled from Prophet Skree'ath and called for help.

• The Army of the Light agreed to let the Alliance help retake Netherstorm Prison because its forces were tied down fighting the Burning Legion.
• The Alliance pushed the demons back in overwhelming numbers and planted its banners across the areas it cleared.
• Doom Prophet Darian and Wrath Prophet Socrates abandoned their forces and fled, leaving the demons in further disarray.
• Prophet Skree'ath joined the Alliance’s attack on the retreating demons, and the fighting reached the prison’s deepest section.
• Milhouse Mana Storm used Blink to escape Prophet Skree'ath and begged the approaching forces for help.

The Alliance continued attacking Prophet Skree'ath in Netherstorm Prison while Murmur's escape threw Terokkar Forest into chaos. On Hellfire Peninsula, Hu Feng reviewed research progress on Tempest Keep, the Fel Battleship, and a project to unite Light and darkness.

• The Alliance and Army of the Light inspected Milhouse Mana Storm's prison record, then watched him attack Skree'ath with a Pyroblast that barely hurt the worm.
• Prophet Skree'ath created three copies of himself, and the Alliance attacked all of them rather than trying to identify the real one.
• The Shadow Council summoned Murmur in Auchindoun, but Murmur killed Master Wor'gor, escaped, and attacked fighters from both sides across Terokkar Forest.
• Murmur retreated after Kil'jaeden's projection weakened him, then summoned Sound Elementals that attacked anyone they encountered.
• The Alliance established a stronghold near Shattrath, while the Horde built a fortified checkpoint at the Terokkar Forest–Nagrand border and stationed Ogre troops there.
• Hu Feng reviewed the accelerated reverse-engineering of Tempest Keep and the Fel Battleship, and the Nightborne began studying the naaru for the Light-Dark Unity Templar project.

After a Void Lord discovered Outland and threatened to descend, Titan Sargeras warned its inhabitants, prompting the factions to halt their fighting and prepare for survival. The New Horde killed Prince of Nodes Shafal and destroyed his summoned void creature, while The Astral Consortium worried that Dimensius the All-Devouring would arrive next.

• A Void Lord's eye appeared over Outland, and Hu Feng realized that the Old God he had killed had revealed the location of a Titan Soul.
• Titan Sargeras announced that a Void Lord would soon descend, and the factions stopped fighting to unite against the threat.
• Kil'jaeden and Adal joined forces to kill Sound Lord Mimir after he continued spreading chaos.
• Prince of Nodes Shafal fled to Nagrand with the Ethereum Avengers, but the New Horde turned on him after Void Duke Pandemononus began summoning void creatures.
• Warlord Saurfang killed Shafal, and Horde shamans and druids destroyed Pandemononus before the Horde captured or executed the remaining Avengers.
• Prince of Nodes Halamed contacted the Alliance and the Army of the Light to assess whether The Astral Consortium should flee Outland ahead of Dimensius the All-Devouring.

As Outland’s peoples gathered in Hellfire Peninsula to face the Void Lords, Hu Feng and Kil’jaeden opened a passage into the Endless Abyss and freed Sargeras. Sargeras agreed to join Hu Feng against the Void Lords, though neither trusted that their alliance would last.

• The Alliance, New Horde, Army of the Light, and Arakkoa gathered their forces and civilians in Hellfire Peninsula as the Titans prepared for a final battle.
• Kil’jaeden built a portal with the Night Empire’s help and brought his true body to Hellfire Peninsula.
• Hu Feng empowered Kil’jaeden as he tore open a fissure into the Endless Abyss, where Sargeras struggled against the abyss’s pull.
• Sargeras escaped through the collapsing fissure and confronted Hu Feng, questioning why he had been freed.
• Hu Feng urged Sargeras to unite against the Void Lords, and Sargeras agreed to fight alongside him.

Heklar oversaw the construction of Little Fatty, a colossal bomb designed to help Azeroth fight the Void Lords. Hu Feng showed the weapon to Sargeras, declared his allegiance to Azeroth, and vowed to kill Argus if he opposed him.

• Heklar led Goblin, Draenei, and Highborne workers in building a divine-power bomb and launch turret in The Blasted Lands.
• The Eternal Night Divine Emperor named the bomb Little Fatty, and its design shocked the factions of Azeroth.
• Hu Feng showed Sargeras Little Fatty and declared that Azeroth belonged to him and that he would defend her.
• Sargeras called Hu Feng a strange, corrupting kin and said he looked forward to seeing whether Hu Feng could save the universe.
• Hu Feng said he would kill Argus if Argus refused to accept his methods, then declared that he was loyal only to himself and Azeroth.

Hu Feng and Sargeras discussed their opposing plans for defeating the Void Lords and reached a temporary agreement. Sargeras gave Hu Feng ten years to prove that his Dawn Legion and mortal technology could defeat the Burning Legion, after which Sargeras would join him if he succeeded.

• Hu Feng and Sargeras surveyed the allied army, and Sargeras mocked its strength while acknowledging the promise of Hu Feng’s modified Crusaders.
• Hu Feng argued that mortal technology could surpass individual power and persuaded Sargeras to consider the potential of weapons like the Little Fatty bomb.
• Sargeras offered Hu Feng control of the Burning Legion and Azeroth if he joined the Legion’s campaign to burn the universe.
• Hu Feng and Sargeras recognized that neither would abandon their convictions and agreed that their forces would not fight or search for Azeroth for a time.
• Sargeras granted Hu Feng ten years to defeat the Burning Legion and prove his plan; if Hu Feng succeeded, Sargeras would help destroy the Void Lords, but if he failed, Hu Feng would join Sargeras.

As Void creatures poured into Outland, Hu Feng and Sargeras prepared to draw out a Void Lord and attack it together. Hu Feng flew into the fighting as bait, and a Void Lord appeared to confront him.

• Hu Feng and Sargeras argued over Titan knowledge, their past conflict, and Hu Feng’s plans for his soldiers.
• Dimensius the All-Devouring appeared, prompting Halamed, Kil'jaeden, and Adal to attack while the alliance defended Outland.
• Hu Feng rejected Sargeras’s view that soldiers were expendable and joined the battle, devouring and assimilating Void creatures.
• Hu Feng told Sargeras he would lure out a Void Lord so they could attack it together.
• Sargeras manifested as a towering Titan Phantom and challenged the Void Lords, drawing countless eyes to appear in the Void.
• Hu Feng mocked the Void Lord, which recognized him as the escaped world-soul and threatened to corrupt him.

As the god-tier battle began in Outland, Azeroth’s citizens watched the new Goblin Television, including a live broadcast of Hu Feng fighting a Void Lord. The broadcast cut out as the Void Lord emerged, while viewers switched to other programs and the war continued.

• The Heklar Consortium and Steamwheedle Cartel launched crystal-based televisions that quickly became popular across Azeroth.
• A gnome reporter livestreamed the coalition army’s battle in Outland and interviewed Hu Feng as he fought the void creatures.
• Hu Feng cleaved a fleeing void creature in two, advertised Elisande’s magic course, and then sent the reporter away as a Void Lord began to emerge.
• The void disrupted the broadcast, leaving viewers unsure whether the gnome reporter had escaped.
• Viewers switched through programs featuring Varian, Suramar’s magic course, Durotan Frostwolf, an Old God cult, and Oscar Sparkdrill.

Hu Feng, Sargeras, and Adal fought the Void Lord’s avatar in Outland. Hu Feng used Void Energy hidden within his Dawn Divine Power to damage and drain the avatar, but the weakening Void Lord began preparing its ultimate attack.

• The Void Lord manifested an avatar over Outland, and Hu Feng struck it with a blast of Void Energy.
• Sargeras revealed himself and attacked the Void Lord, while Adal joined the battle with Holy Light.
• Hu Feng and Sargeras assaulted the avatar together as Adal shielded Hu Feng from its mental corruption.
• Hu Feng concealed Void Energy inside a beam of Dawn Divine Power and used it to destroy the avatar’s essence and draw it into himself.
• Sargeras attacked the weakened Void Lord, which roared and began unleashing its ultimate move.

Hu Feng disrupted the Void Lords’ rift, turning their attempted reinforcements into a salted fish and absorbing much of the void essence. When a Void Lord incarnation attacked him, a white scroll pulled him away, while Sargeras finished off the weakened enemy and the allied war reached its final stage.

• The Void Lord summoned other Void Lords through a rift, but Hu Feng interfered with it and drew in a salted fish instead of their incarnations.
• Hu Feng absorbed much of the void essence, and the Void Lord realized the Titan Soul had become a major threat.
• The Void Lord spent his remaining power on an attack against Hu Feng, but a bird, peach blossoms, and a white scroll made Hu Feng vanish from the universe.
• Sargeras continued attacking the depleted Void Lord incarnation until it dispersed, and the Void Lord warned that its true bodies would come for them.
• The war between the mortal allied forces and the void creatures entered its final stage.

After defeating Dimensius, Hu Feng was transported to Pandaria, where he explained his alliance with Sargeras and discussed Azeroth’s future with the Four Celestials and Emperor Shaohao. The Pandaren welcomed the prospect of reconnecting with the wider world, but their return remained delayed by the mists and the sacrifice Shaohao would need to make.

• Kil'jaeden ordered the Burning Legion not to attack Azeroth’s allied forces and accepted Sargeras’s ten-year agreement to leave Azeroth and the Night Empire alone.
• Flower-Bird-Wind-Moon pulled Hu Feng from Outland to the Terrace of Endless Spring, where he reunited with the White Tiger and met the other Celestials.
• Hu Feng told the Four Celestials that he and Sargeras had defeated a Void Lord’s essence avatar and that Sargeras had agreed not to threaten Azeroth for ten years.
• The White Tiger asked whether Hu Feng’s empire could prepare Azeroth for future enemies, and Hu Feng said the empire and Azeroth’s peoples would be ready.
• Shaohao joined Hu Feng and the Celestials for a banquet, where Hu Feng showed the Night Empire and offered Pandaren the choice to settle in Alliance or Horde lands and exchange martial and magical arts.
• The White Tiger explained that Shaohao would have to sacrifice his body to disperse Pandaria’s mists, and Hu Feng offered to seek another way.

Hu Feng returned to Outland with Sargeras, and the two haggled over the return of Sargeras’s eyes and commanders as the Burning Legion prepared to withdraw. Mediana and Sok'reth fought Kil'jaeden, who escaped, while the allied forces remained in Outland after the Legion’s defeat.

• Hu Feng and Sargeras returned to the Floating Island, where Sargeras announced the Legion would leave Outland and demanded his eyes, Kazak, and Zakuun back.
• Hu Feng negotiated with Sargeras and returned the Eyes of Sargeras, Kazak, and Zakuun in exchange for Sargeras keeping quiet about the stolen ships.
• Mediana and her succubi attacked Kil'jaeden, while Sok'reth joined the battle and confronted him with his Eredar forces.
• Hu Feng and Sargeras watched without intervening as Kil'jaeden fought Mediana and Sok'reth, then fled to the Legion’s fleet.
• Adal healed the wounded and chose to remain stationed in Outland after the Burning Legion withdrew.

After the Void war ended, the factions returned to Outland and divided its lands while competing for territory. The Night Empire tightened its control over Hellfire Peninsula and kept Malthael as a captive test subject, while Elisande maintained pressure on Illidan's Fel Orcs.

• The naaru returned to Terokkar Forest, the New Horde secured Nagrand and Blade's Edge Mountains, the Alliance joined Illidan Fury in Shadowmoon Valley, and the druids traveled to Zangarmarsh.
• The Alliance and New Horde claimed territory and built opposing walls along the Shadowmoon Valley and Nagrand border, where Garrosh Hellscream's soldiers traded daily insults with Alliance guards.
• Rexxar expanded Horde control across Blade's Edge Mountains, drove out the gnomes, and Milhouse Mana Storm destroyed part of a Horde checkpoint before fleeing.
• The Night Empire claimed Hellfire Peninsula, demolished Honor Hold and Shattrath City, and forced Velen's Draenei and the Fel Orcs to relocate.
• The Night Empire took Malthael from Hellfire Citadel and subjected him to repeated experiments, while the Crusaders continued delivering demon blood to the Fel Orcs in Shadowmoon Citadel under Elisande's orders.

After Maiev left Illidan in Outland, both struggled with loneliness and feelings they could not admit. Turalyon urged Maiev to follow her heart, and Maiev resolved to return to Illidan.

• Illidan missed Maiev after she returned to Azeroth and questioned whether his feelings betrayed his long-standing love for Tyrande.
• Maiev felt out of place in peaceful Azeroth and worried about Illidan during the Void War.
• Cordana Felsong noticed Maiev's unusual emotional state as Maiev obsessively thought about Illidan.
• Maiev visited Turalyon at the Soulbinder cathedral and listened to her story about Sargeras.
• Turalyon advised Maiev to seek Illidan rather than risk regretting her hesitation, and Maiev decided she knew what to do.

After the war, Hu Feng granted Anzu's Arakkoa lands in Outland, while Maiev abandoned her post to seek Illidan and was officially treated as having left the Wardens. The chapter ended with Deathwing emerging from the Dark Portal carrying bundles as he fled from his mate.

• Hu Feng granted Anzu's people legal claim to their stronghold in Auchindoun and the Skettis region, allowing Anzu to focus on Sethe's curse.
• The White Tiger discussed Outland's fallen Wild Gods with Hu Feng and considered where to build a shrine in Azeroth.
• Maiev Shadowsong rode toward Shadowmoon Valley, followed by her former Warden companions, after leaving her post to find Illidan.
• Elisande removed Maiev as Warden leader, and Hu Feng ordered that her departure be treated as voluntary and her fine reduced to one gold coin.
• The White Tiger spotted Deathwing roaring out of the Dark Portal with bundles hanging beneath him as he fled from his mate.

Deathwing established a laboratory in Outland and drew several factions into a standoff around it. Hu Feng discussed the Naaru’s dangerous transformation with the White Tiger and revealed that he had captured two Naaru for experiments.

• Deathwing renamed the Ecosystem Ship the Destroyer's Laboratory, began experiments on Outland creatures, and established the Destroyer Dragon-Worshippers nearby.
• Shattrath City's army set up a nearby base to attack the Dragon-Worshippers, while Velen's Draenei sought to expand their territory and influence.
• The chapter described the Alliance's competing factions and Adal's efforts to spread the Holy Light through open aid and healing.
• Hu Feng told the White Tiger that Naaru could become shadow-based Entropy Demons if they exhausted their Holy Light, making them unreliable allies.
• Hu Feng revealed that he had captured two Naaru for experiments and promised the White Tiger a tour of the Tower of Slumber laboratory.

Kael'thas, Sylvanas, and Alleria led an allied force toward Deatholme to reclaim the Ghostlands from the Scourge, while Kael'thas and Anveena's romance continued. In Outland, Illidan realized his feelings for Tyrande had changed when Maiev returned to his side.

• Kael'thas told Alleria that his forces were studying the captured naaru spaceship, and Sylvanas teased him and Anveena about their relationship.
• Kael'thas said he would consider marrying Anveena after the Outland expedition and explained that the High Elves were seeking a way to separate her soul from the Sunwell's essence.
• Kael'thas, Sylvanas, Alleria, Anveena, and their allied troops advanced toward Deatholme to fight the Scourge.
• Illidan noticed that the flower he had kept to preserve his memories of Tyrande had withered and wondered whether he had betrayed his old feelings.
• Maiev attacked Illidan, then said she would stay in Outland to supervise him, and Illidan welcomed her presence despite their sharp exchange.

The Night Empire began recruiting and training the first Silver Fleet crews while construction started on its first Death Star, Azeroth's Retribution. The fleet remained a prototype, but the Empire had begun preparing for its expansion into space.

• The Night Empire raised a special Silver Fleet flag and launched recruitment drives across its towns, drawing fanatical crowds and applicants.
• Bronze Dragon ambassadors and New Horde representatives watched the mobilization in Suramar and discussed whether the Empire might threaten other nations.
• The Empire selected elven recruits, Draenei Crystal Technicians, and Soulbinder priests for fleet service and began training them at the Tower of Slumber.
• Crusader instructors told the recruits to learn to operate warships, the Death Star, and ship-mounted energy cannons rather than serve as infantry.
• Engineers and Arcane Golems began assembling the first Death Star's skeleton on Sargeras Planet, and Hu Feng named it Azeroth's Retribution.
• Hu Feng told Elune that the larger moon he had given her counted as compensation, and Elune stopped demanding repayment.