Recaps

Cult of the Damned infiltrators threatened the Alliance and Horde strongholds in Borean Tundra, so Soulbinder priests from the Night Empire helped uncover them. After the priests also healed Horde soldiers, the Horde honored them with a banquet and escorted them safely back to Cendragon Island.

• Adventurers arrived in Borean Tundra and began fighting hostile forces for the Alliance and Horde.
• A Cult of the Damned follower nearly released the Scourge Plague in Valiance Keep, prompting Highlord Bolvar and Grand Marshal Garrosh to search their ranks.
• Soulbinder priests inspected Valiance Keep and Warsong Fortress, finding more than thirty cultists among the Alliance and about a dozen among the Horde.
• Highlord Bolvar ordered the Alliance cultists hanged, while the Soulbinder priests helped Horde shamans heal wounded soldiers.
• Garrosh and the Horde held a farewell banquet for the priests and arranged for Kor'kron guards to protect them overnight.
• The Horde escorted the Soulbinder priests to the eastern coast, where blue dragons carried them back to Cendragon Island.

The druids expanded their influence in the Grizzly Hills, allied with the furbolgs, and befriended the wilderness demigod Ursa and the spirit beast Great Horn. In the campaign’s second round, Little Saurfang’s Horde captured En'Kylah before Bolvar arrived, while the Night Empire’s army flew toward Ulduar to confront Yogg-Saron.

• The druids established Amberpine Lodge, allied with the furbolgs of Grizzlemaw, and helped them resist nearby enemies.
• The druids joined Ursa in battle against the Scourge, routed its forces, and delivered Cenarius’s letter to him.
• The druids befriended Great Horn and invited Hunters to compete for the chance to become the spirit beast’s companion.
• Little Saurfang led the Horde’s assault on En'Kylah, and the army captured the fortress before the Alliance arrived.
• Bolvar congratulated Little Saurfang, then watched the Night Empire’s forces head toward Ulduar to fight Yogg-Saron.
• Little Saurfang and Bolvar returned to their armies and urged them to advance toward The Gate of the Scourge.

As the battle in Northrend shifted, Sylvanas’s forces attacked the Scourge’s Floating Fortresses while Cthulhu trapped Kel'Thuzad in a terrifying illusion. Kel'Thuzad agreed to serve Sylvanas as the new Lich King, leaving the Scourge’s flagship under her control.

• A damaged Scourge Floating Fortress fell toward the Crimson Vanguard’s defensive line, while Tirion Fording let the Forgotten Ones’ undead army enter the battle and relieve the Vanguard’s pressure.
• Sylvanas sent her elite forces to seize the Scourge’s Floating Fortresses and rode a Frost Dragon toward Kel'Thuzad’s flagship.
• A Dark Ranger told Sylvanas that Varimathras had acted in Undercity and that Putress planned to interfere with a Northern Expeditionary Force faction, but Sylvanas chose not to warn them.
• Cthulhu sealed Kel'Thuzad’s flagship and pulled him into a mental illusion, where he endured horrifying visions drawn from his memories.
• Kel'Thuzad broke down and pledged eternal loyalty to Sylvanas, agreeing to become the new Lich King.

Gamon, a timid Tauren dockworker in Orgrimmar, longed for the strength to stop being bullied and prove himself. After a Firstborn of the Gods offered him power through faith in the Titan Divine Venerable, Gamon considered accepting without betraying the Horde.

• Gamon left the inn during Orgrimmar's preparations for the Horde's Tilling Moon bonfire gathering and endured insults from human soldiers.
• Gamon watched Alleria arrive with a Crusader convoy and saw Thrall welcome her and the Firstborn of the Gods.
• Gamon worked a tiring shift loading Northern Expedition supplies and unloading goods at the docks.
• The Firstborn of the Gods asked Gamon if he wanted power and promised it if he believed in his lord.
• Gamon refused to betray the Horde, but the Firstborn assured him he could still serve it, and Gamon became tempted by the offer.

Kel'Thuzad became free of the Lich King's control and joined Sylvanas, while the Forsaken absorbed his Scourge Legion and attacked New Light's Hope Chapel. In Ulduar, Loken panicked over the approaching Titan and the sealed Observer Hall, then prepared a risky move that alarmed Yogg-Saron.

• Cthulhu's influence freed Kel'Thuzad from the Lich King's domination, and Sylvanas stopped her troops from fighting the obedient Scourge.
• Kel'Thuzad pledged his legion to Sylvanas and agreed to help her claim Frostmourne and the Frozen Throne after the Lich King fell.
• Sylvanas told Kel'Thuzad that Titan fire would erase the wills inside Frostmourne and the crown, and she accepted his request to care for Mr. Bigglesworth.
• The Forsaken absorbed Kel'Thuzad's forces, formed a fleet of Naxxramas and four Floating Castles, and attacked Balnazzar at New Light's Hope Chapel.
• Loken discovered that the Observer Hall had sealed itself as the Pantheon Observers prepared to arrive, and he devised a dangerous gamble.
• Yogg-Saron sensed that something was wrong despite withdrawing into his prison, as Loken's plan put him at risk.

Hu Feng watched the Blue Dragon Legion capture the Lost Proto-Dragon while following the Forsaken’s movements in Northrend. After Sylvanas’s use of plague weapons sparked a dispute with Tirion*Fording, both sides awaited Divine Emperor Sargeras’s arbitration.

• Malygos ordered the Blue Dragon Legion to capture the Lost Proto-Dragon, and the dragons brought it back in Arcane Energy Chains.
• Hu Feng reviewed reports that Sylvanas had moved most of her Forsaken forces to Northrend and that Varimathras and Balnazzar had rebelled in Undercity.
• The Forsaken used plague bombs in Howling Fjord, killing many Vrykul and raising them as undead, while the spreading plague cloud affected nearby allied forces.
• Tirion*Fording condemned Sylvanas’s use of plague weapons and demanded that she stop, but Sylvanas ignored him.
• Tirion*Fording requested Divine Emperor Arbitration, and the Night Empire referred the dispute to Sargeras.

Azshara joined the Eternal Night Chancellor Council and assessed the political struggle brewing in the Silver Fleet, while Hu Feng reflected on his growing bond with Elune. The chapter ended with Elune returning to the planet's core after promising not to betray Hu Feng's trust.

• Azshara joined the council, learned about the Crusaders' plans and the Death Star, and saw Elune's incarnation roaming Suramar and the Eternal Night Palace.
• Azshara recognized the danger in the Silver Fleet factional struggle, while Elisande orchestrated events and Azshara ordered the Origin Night not to get involved.
• Hu Feng told Elisande to keep watching Sylvanas and make sure she did not go too far.
• Hu Feng recalled Sargeras's explanation that he and Azeroth might be Extraordinary Twins, then reassured Elune that he would support their shared future.
• Elune asked whether she could trust and depend on Hu Feng, promised not to betray him, and returned to the planet's core.

The Forsaken destroyed their dispersive plague weapons under the Eternal Night Divine Emperor’s ruling, then wiped out the Scarlet Crusade’s last stronghold at New Light’s Hope Chapel. In Undercity, Varimathras betrayed Balnazzar, absorbed his essence, and fled as Night Empire Crusaders attacked.

• The Eternal Night Divine Emperor’s ruling required the Forsaken to destroy their large-scale plague bombs, and Sylvanas secured Storm Peaks and Zuldazar from Hu Feng in exchange for accepting the restrictions.
• The Forsaken army destroyed the Scarlet Crusade’s final stronghold at New Light’s Hope Chapel, leaving High Lord Dathrohan’s whereabouts unknown and the Crimson Vanguard as the remaining inheritor of the Scarlet will.
• Varimathras learned that Sargeras had reached a ten-year agreement with Titan Sargeras and worried that the Legion’s scattered demons would not protect him.
• Balnazzar arrived in Undercity, and Varimathras lied that the Legion’s main force would soon arrive as Night Empire Crusaders attacked.
• Varimathras bound Balnazzar, absorbed his soul essence, and escaped through a portal, leaving Undercity to the Crusaders.

After the Night Empire captured Undercity, Princess Calia traveled to negotiate the price of restoring Lordaeron while the world prepared for the battle at the Gate of the Scourge. Sargeras secured support for Sylvanas’s ascension from the Alliance and Horde in exchange for promises, and proposed that the world’s factions submit to the Night Empire if it could fight across the cosmos within ten years.

• The Night Empire’s Crusaders captured Undercity after Varimathras’s forces seized it, while Varimathras escaped and Apothecary Putress remained hidden and unaware.
• The Lordaeron Restoration Army celebrated the liberation of Tirisfal Glades, and Princess Calia traveled to Kalimdor to negotiate with the Night Empire over reclaiming the region.
• The Silver Dawn, Crimson Vanguard, Alliance, and Horde weighed their positions on Lordaeron’s restoration, with Tirion supporting it and Bridget accepting only nominal ties for her forces.
• As the Alliance, Horde, Argent Crusade, and Crimson Vanguard prepared to attack the Gate of the Scourge, Bolvar received a vision of his fate and agreed to support Sylvanas’s ascension if she remained under Sargeras’s control.
• Little Saurfang agreed to support Sylvanas’s ascension if the new Scourge stayed out of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor, and Sargeras promised to make him a free Death Knight.
• Sargeras offered the Horde a ten-year pact: if the Night Empire could wage war across the cosmos, the Horde would become its autonomous fief, and the Alliance would face the same condition.

The Alliance and Horde began their assault on the Gate of the Scourge, where Arthas confronted their leaders and the battle was disrupted by Putress’s plague bombs. Calia forced the gate to remain open before Sylvanas captured Putress and ordered his traitors killed.

• Arthas attacked Little Saurfang with Frostmourne, but the Titan Divine Venerable’s power saved him and hurled him back to the Horde.
• Calia charged Arthas with Dawn’s First Light, and Jaina joined the fight as Arthas threatened to turn them into Death Knights.
• Putress launched plague bombs that harmed both living and undead forces, forcing Calia and the Northern Expeditionary Force to defend themselves with Dawn light.
• Calia retreated with Jaina and jammed Dawn’s First Light into the Gate of the Scourge to keep it from closing.
• Sylvanas confronted Putress, shot him with a shadow-charged arrow, and ordered her forces to kill the traitors and deliver Putress and his confidants to Cthulhu.

The Alliance and Horde opened the Gate of the Scourge after cleansing the plague, while Sylvanas witnessed the horrifying punishment Cthulhu inflicted on Putress and his apothecaries. The chapter ended with Sylvanas warning Kel'Thuzad not to give her a reason to send him back into Cthulhu’s Call.

• The red dragonflight cleansed the plague around the Gate of the Scourge while the Alliance and Horde purged nearby undead and engineers forced the gate open.
• Tirion returned Dawn's Glow to Calia, who said she felt no pity or hesitation toward the Lich King.
• Sylvanas saw Putress and his apothecaries disappearing as their souls remained trapped in Cthulhu’s Call, and Kel'Thuzad warned her not to enter it.
• Sylvanas entered the Call and watched an apothecary endure a distorted nightmare of his family before asking Cthulhu to let her out.
• Sylvanas told Kel'Thuzad not to give her a chance to send him back to Cthulhu, leaving him trembling in fear.

Kruuz fought his way to becoming a Greenskin Boss in northern Hellfire Peninsula and prayed to Gog for a war machine. Hu Feng’s divine power answered the prayer by creating a Mog Mech, leaving Kruuz and the other Green Skins convinced that more violence would earn Gog’s favor.

• Kruuz led his Boyz into a chaotic battle between Scrap Trucks, killed the enemy Boss, and took command of the defeated Boyz.
• Kruuz’s followers built a Waaagh! Tower and prayed to Gog and Mog for a Gog Mech.
• Hu Feng felt a prayer reach him, and his divine power returned to him more concentrated.
• The Boyz’ gathered will summoned a crude robot, which Kruuz named Big Beauty and called a Mog Mech.
• Kruuz used Big Beauty to claim territory, while other Green Skin Bosses decided they needed to kill more to earn a divine gift.

Hu Feng returned to Eternal Night Palace as a Warden leadership dispute drew Sylvanas into a growing factional struggle. Cenarius warned the Night Elves to stay out of it, while Maiev and Illidan discussed the danger and traded insults.

• After Maiev left the Wardens, the Chancellor's Council rejected her recommendation of Sana and promoted Cordana, splitting the force between Cordana's younger supporters and Sana's old guard.
• Cordana sought Sylvanas's support, and Sylvanas backed her before the Chancellor's Council, helping secure Cordana's leadership.
• Sylvanas and Cordana recommended Fandral Staghelm's son Valastann for a senior Silver Fleet post, winning Fandral's favor and drawing more people toward Sylvanas's faction.
• Heklar stopped funding Sylvanas and endured the faction's public criticism without appealing to the Chancellor's Council.
• Cenarius advised Malfurion and Tyrande to keep the Druids and Moon Priestesses neutral, while Garrond received Maiev's instruction to record Sylvanas's agents and continue his duties.
• Illidan read Garrond's letter and warned Maiev that Sana had secured her position; Maiev told Illidan to stay out of imperial politics, and they exchanged insults.

Sargeras returned from Northrend and summoned Eternal Night Palace’s officials as Sylvanas was captured and brought to face judgment for her schemes. The chapter ended with Sargeras taking his throne and threatening the trembling court, while Sylvanas knelt before him.

• Alleria angrily rebuked Sylvanas for plotting against Turalyon and involving Fandral’s son, then ended their call.
• Crusaders overwhelmed Naxxramas, and a Firstborn of the Gods ordered Sylvanas to return to Eternal Night Palace under escort.
• Sylvanas saw that her followers had defected and that her Forsaken were being subdued, then was brought before the court and made to kneel.
• Sargeras arrived in the Assembly Hall, ordered Sylvanas to crawl aside, and commanded a Firstborn of the Gods to slap himself for challenging Heklar.
• Heklar cleared Sargeras’s path and served as a step to the throne, after which Sargeras sat down and warned the court that he would show no mercy.

Hu Feng punished the officials behind the Silver Fleet incident and nearly ordered Sylvanas executed, but Heklar’s intervention redirected the crackdown toward the conspirators. Sylvanas was confined to the Eternal Night Palace, where she apologized to Turalyon and reconciled with Hu Feng.

• Fandral Staghelm admitted his guilt, and Hu Feng ordered the execution of the Dawn Druids involved in the Silver Fleet matter while sending Cordana Felsong and the implicated Wardens to prison or execution.
• Hu Feng ordered the execution of Sylvanas’s recent aides and messengers, then declared that Sylvanas had violated imperial law and should be executed.
• Heklar argued that Sylvanas had been manipulated by traitors, so Hu Feng ordered the Crusaders to investigate and execute those involved in the Silver Fleet incident, while confining Sylvanas and placing the Forsaken under temporary management.
• Hu Feng promoted Heklar to viscount and appointed Cenarius to the Chancellor’s Council before adjourning the meeting.
• Sylvanas apologized to Turalyon, and Hu Feng comforted her while warning her to stop targeting Turalyon and building a faction around herself.

The Silver Fleet scandal ended with the Night Empire executing lower-ranking personnel and replacing them swiftly, while the Divine Emperor spared Sylvanas after Heklar pleaded for her. The chapter then surveyed factional politics in the Horde and Alliance, leaving Stormwind’s nobles as a powerful class the royal family could not simply eliminate.

• The Night Empire arrested and executed mid- and lower-ranking personnel involved in the Silver Fleet incident, while officials quickly filled their vacancies.
• Heklar pleaded for Sylvanas, giving the Eternal Night Divine Emperor an excuse to spare her and settle her mistakes as family matters.
• Thrall inspected the Horde’s factions and found its internal frictions manageable, though he lacked the authority to rule as the Divine Emperor did.
• The chapter described the competing factions among Ironforge’s Dwarves and noted that Mekkatorque’s Gnomes remained united.
• Stormwind’s King Varian and Highlord Bolvar tolerated rival noble factions because the kingdom depended on nobles to maintain stability and development.

Azshara questioned how to earn Sargeras’s trust, while Fashqi urged her to reconsider love and sincerity. In Hellfire Peninsula, Kruuz’s Greenskins accidentally awakened Hu Feng’s power as Gork, and he left them to prove themselves as his followers.

• Azshara admitted to Fashqi that Sargeras’s ruthless nature and affection for Sylvanas left her unsure how to win his favor.
• Fashqi suggested that Sargeras trusted Sylvanas because she sincerely loved him, prompting Azshara to reconsider her approach.
• Kruuz prayed for wisdom to understand a crashed Fel Battleship, and Hu Feng discovered that the Greenskins’ collective faith had strengthened his divine power.
• Hu Feng appeared before Kruuz, empowered the Greenskins to dismantle the wreck, and created additional Greenskins to help them build a battleship.
• The Greenskins’ crude battleship crashed and exploded, killing many of Kruuz’s followers, but Hu Feng still challenged Kruuz to prove his clan could join Gork’s empire.
• Hu Feng returned to Eternal Night Palace and declared Gork his divine title, while Alleria dismissed the name as nonsense.

The Alliance and Horde air forces defeated the Scourge flyers but lost most of their airships, leaving survivors trapped near Imleheim. Adventurers reinforced the survivors and allowed the main armies to resume their planned advance, while Wyrmrest Temple approved a dragonkin assault on the spider kingdom.

• The Alliance and Horde air forces destroyed the Frost Dragons and gargoyles, but ten airships crashed and their survivors were surrounded near Imleheim.
• Saurfang organized the Alliance survivors west of Imleheim, while General Nazgrim led the Horde survivors east of the town.
• Bolvar and Little Saurfang hired adventurers, who reached the crash sites, strengthened the survivors' defenses, and encircled Imleheim.
• The survivor camps sent word that they could hold their positions, so the Alliance and Horde main forces resumed their planned routes.
• Wyrmrest Temple approved a full-scale attack on the spider kingdom, and several days later dragonkin legions marched west toward its entrance.

Hu Feng explored the Halls of Stone in Ulduar, where Yogg-Saron-corrupted Titan Constructs attacked his forces, and registered himself at a console, which mistakenly recorded his name as Sarge. He recovered a Titan Life Forge blueprint and found a completed Life Forge beyond the hall, guarded by Iron Vrykul.

• Hu Feng entered the Halls of Stone with Jaina and the Crusaders, and they fought the corrupted Iron Giants and Iron Dwarves.
• Hu Feng agreed to let Jaina and Theramore's mages study Suramar's magic, then went deeper into the hall.
• Hu Feng registered at a control console, which recorded his name as Sarge, and copied the Titan Life Forge blueprint into a crystal.
• Hu Feng killed the crazed Sorrowful Saint and returned to find the Crusaders and mages had cleared the central hall.
• Jaina and the Firstborn of the Gods opened a sealed door, revealing a completed Life Forge guarded by Iron Vrykul.

Hu Feng seized Ulduar’s Life Forge and ordered its relocation, then began a battle to break into Ulduar’s main area. Meanwhile, Auriel launched the Iron Maiden Project at the Tower of Slumber, a secret effort to create artificial souls and loyal godlike constructs.

• Hu Feng killed Sculptor Sjonir and ordered the Life Forge and its Iron Vrykul moved to the Tower of Slumber.
• Jaina received permission to take a projection device from Ulduar for Dalaran to study.
• The Night Empire and Dalaran forces entered Ulduar and attacked the steel constructs guarding its plaza while Hu Feng directed the assault from Heklar’s Walking Throne X-001.
• Hu Feng sent a written plan to the Tower of Slumber, making the Iron Maiden Project a top research priority.
• Auriel briefed Nightborne scholars on the Iron Maiden Project’s requirements, including creating a growing artificial soul for a Lesser Titan-level construct.

Loken tried to drag Yogg-Saron out of his prison to escape punishment, while the Old God fought to stay inside and Algalon inspected Azeroth. At Ulduar Plaza, Hu Feng confronted Mimiron's Flame Beast as the allied forces advanced.

• Loken overloaded the core prison's defenses and strengthened the chains to drag Yogg-Saron out, but Yogg-Saron resisted and cursed him.
• Algalon appeared in the Hall of Observation and summoned a projection of Azeroth, making Loken fear his actions would be discovered.
• Yogg-Saron attacked Loken with maddening illusions, but Loken turned his back and hauled on the chains anyway.
• The Night Empire and Dalaran forces destroyed Ulduar Plaza's towers while the Iron Horde bombed the Iron Golems and giants.
• Mimiron's Flame Beast smashed through the gate to the antechamber corridor, and Hu Feng flew forward to confront it.

Hu Feng exposed Loken’s attempt to deceive him, captured him for Keeper research, and advanced into Ulduar while the Night Empire and Dalaran attacked. He entered the Antechamber to find a Lesser Titan as Yogg-Saron retreated toward his prison.

• Heklar’s engineers shut down the Flame Beast, and Hu Feng warned Heklar that Mimiron’s technology was more advanced.
• Loken claimed Yogg-Saron had escaped and corrupted Ulduar’s other Keepers, but Hu Feng impaled him and ordered his essence studied for the Iron Maiden Project.
• Hu Feng sensed Yogg-Saron’s weakening power and the presence of a Lesser Titan, then ordered the armies to attack a Proto-Dragon as he flew toward the Antechamber.
• Hu Feng destroyed XT-002 Deconstructor by piercing its mechanical heart and told the assault forces to guard its body for Mimiron.
• Hu Feng entered Ulduar’s Antechamber and melted the attacking Iron Golems and Iron Dwarves as he sensed the Lesser Titan’s location.

Observer Algalon assessed Azeroth as severely contaminated and requested that the Pantheon re-originate the planet, but Hu Feng revealed that the Pantheon had been destroyed and that Azeroth herself resented it. The chapter ended with Elune angrily denouncing the Pantheon and the Void Lords while Hu Feng stood beside her.

• Algalon scanned Azeroth, found its defenses compromised and Old God activity alarming, and confronted Hu Feng when he entered the Celestial Planetarium.
• Hu Feng told Algalon not to contact the Pantheon, but Algalon sent an Alpha Code recommending Azeroth’s re-origination and requesting an examination of Hu Feng.
• Hu Feng summoned Elune and told her that Algalon had asked the Pantheon to re-originate her World Egg.
• Algalon recognized Elune as the World Soul within Azeroth and realized that she had recovered from the damage caused when Aman'Thul removed Y'Shaarj.
• Elune called the Pantheon and the Old Gods her enemies, and Hu Feng promised to help her punish them.

In 1936 Shanghai, Hu Feng died after crushing a relic rather than surrendering it, and its dark-gold energy rebirthed him in another time and place. Thousands of years later, he woke in a temple as a Spirit Binder, where Iron Saint Joan of Arc awaited his orders.

• Hu Feng and Tiezi fled Shanghai with a dark-gold relic while Japanese and foreign pursuers attacked them, and Tiezi died at the wheel.
• Hu Feng found his fiancée and The Englishman waiting at the escape pier, then crushed the relic instead of letting them take it.
• The dark-gold energy entered Hu Feng, sent his consciousness through a starry void to a horned figure, and engulfed him and his attackers in flames.
• Thousands of years later, Elune and Sargeras discussed Hu Feng's arrival on Azeroth, where Spirit Binders grew stronger.
• Hu Feng woke in a temple, drew his altered Borchardt C93 pistol, and heard Iron Saint Joan of Arc announce that she awaited orders.

Hu Feng let Algalon leave to investigate the Pantheon and recruit surviving Lesser Titans, then turned his attention to Ulduar’s captured guardians and the experiments at the Tower of Slumber. The chapter ended with the Iron Maiden awaiting an artificial soul that could make her the first Lesser Titan loyal to Sargeras alone.

• Hu Feng accepted Algalon’s decision to travel to the Pantheon and asked him to spread word about a New Pantheon rising in Azeroth.
• Algalon departed for the cosmos, while Hu Feng sent Elune back to continue practicing her divine power.
• Hu Feng scanned Ulduar for Yogg-Saron and the corrupted guardians, then set off to capture and make use of them.
• At the Tower of Slumber, Loken watched Nightborne scholars conduct experiments on prisoners’ souls and realized Hu Feng intended to replace the Pantheon’s old guardians and constructs with loyal creations.
• Inquisitor Auriel delivered Runemaster Morthael and Stormcaller Brondir to the laboratory as new test subjects.
• The chapter revealed the Iron Maiden, a powerful steel lifeform awaiting an artificial soul to complete her creation.