Recaps

Hu Feng allied with Sargeras to repel a Void Lord, then used the ten-year truce to consolidate the Night Empire’s power in Outland. As the Alliance and New Horde established rival territories, Maiev reunited with Illidan and Hu Feng began building the Silver Fleet and its first Death Star.

• Hu Feng arranged for Kil'jaeden to capture Tempest Keep and K'ure, while the Alliance, New Horde, and Army of the Light expanded their campaigns across Outland.
• A Void Lord threatened Outland, so Hu Feng and Sargeras joined the allied forces and defeated its essence avatar before Hu Feng vanished and the mortal war entered its final stage.
• Hu Feng and Sargeras agreed to a ten-year truce, and Hu Feng returned to the Celestials, where he promised to prepare Azeroth and offered Pandaren a chance to settle among the Alliance or Horde.
• The Burning Legion withdrew from Outland, while the Night Empire took Hellfire Peninsula and the Alliance, New Horde, and other factions established rival territories across the continent.
• Maiev left her post to find Illidan, and after attacking him in Shadowmoon Valley, she said she would stay in Outland to supervise him.
• Deathwing established a laboratory and dragon-worshippers in Outland, while Hu Feng warned the White Tiger that naaru could become Entropy Demons and revealed he had captured two for experiments.
• Kael'thas and his allies advanced against the Scourge, while Kael'thas considered marrying Anveena and Illidan reflected on his feelings for Tyrande.
• The Night Empire recruited and trained Silver Fleet crews, began assembling its first Death Star on Sargeras Planet, and Hu Feng named it Azeroth's Retribution.

The factions prepared for war against the Lich King as the Argent Crusade, the Horde, the Alliance, and the Night Empire launched their Northrend campaigns. They established footholds across the continent, but the Forsaken’s plague attacks strained their alliances and Kel’Thuzad prepared to strike the Crimson Vanguard.

• The Forsaken and their allies defeated Darkan at Deatholme, while Sylvanas sent Kol'tira and Saurfang toward Andorhal.
• Hu Feng and the Four Great Dragons strengthened their alliances, while the Night Empire’s factions prepared for the campaign against the Lich King.
• The Silver Dawn and Silver Hand joined as the Argent Crusade, and the freed Knights of the Ebon Blade allied with Oscar’s Stratholme.
• At Karazhan, Hu Feng proposed landing in Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord and coordinating the factions’ Northrend operations.
• The Alliance, Horde, Argent Crusade, and Night Empire fleets sailed for Northrend, where undead forces attacked the Alliance near Borean Tundra and Garrosh led the Horde’s counterattack.
• The factions built strongholds across Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord, while the Forsaken attacked Vrykul settlements with Plague Bombs and worsened tensions with their allies.
• Hu Feng met Malygos on Cendragon and promised to return Sindragosa, while Kel’Thuzad ordered attacks on the Crimson Vanguard near Wyrmrest Temple and the Scarlet Crusade at New Light’s Hope Chapel.

Sylvanas and the Forsaken faced judgment as the Night Empire advanced through Northrend and Hu Feng uncovered Ulduar’s secrets. After learning that Elune was Azeroth’s World Soul, Hu Feng began building a new order of guardians and constructs.

• Soulbinder priests uncovered Cult of the Damned followers in Valiance Keep and Warsong Fortress, and Bolvar ordered the Alliance cultists hanged while the Horde escorted the priests safely home.
• The druids allied with the furbolgs and fought the Scourge, while Little Saurfang captured En'Kylah and joined Bolvar in advancing toward The Gate of the Scourge.
• Cthulhu broke Kel'Thuzad free of the Lich King’s control, and Kel'Thuzad pledged his legion to Sylvanas and agreed to help her claim Frostmourne and the Frozen Throne.
• Sylvanas’s plague bombs caused conflict with Tirion, and Sargeras ruled that the Forsaken must destroy their large-scale plague weapons in exchange for control of Storm Peaks and Zuldazar.
• The Forsaken defeated the Scarlet Crusade at New Light’s Hope Chapel, Varimathras betrayed Balnazzar and fled Undercity, and Night Empire Crusaders took the city.
• Putress’s plague attack disrupted the assault on the Gate of the Scourge, but Sylvanas captured him and his followers, and the Alliance and Horde later purged the plague and opened the gate.
• Hu Feng punished those involved in Sylvanas’s Silver Fleet factional schemes, confined Sylvanas, and appointed Heklar and Cenarius to positions of influence before sparing Sylvanas as family.
• Hu Feng explored Ulduar, discovered Elune was Azeroth’s World Soul, and began planning to replace the Pantheon’s old guardians with loyal creations, including the unfinished Iron Maiden.

Hu Feng subdued Yogg-Saron, gained power from other worlds, and prepared a new divine body as the Northern Expedition advanced on Icecrown and Lordaeron was restored. The arc ended with Nozdormu sensing that Sarodal’s timeline was overtaking the predetermined future.

• Sylvanas ordered the Forsaken to advance into Icecrown Glacier while Tirion organized trials to choose the elite vanguard for Icecrown Citadel.
• Hu Feng recruited Mimiron to develop war machines, then enslaved Yogg-Saron and ordered him to serve Sargeras and monitor Azeroth.
• Sargeras took Hu Feng and Elune to other worlds, where Hu Feng absorbed a corrupted Titan Soul and Elune gained a permanent avatar from another world-soul.
• Hu Feng returned to Outland with Sargeras, and the Burning Legion opened a branch office to relay warnings about Void threats.
• Princess Calia and Jaina led the assault into Icecrown Citadel, where Calia’s artificial Naaru Essence burned the undead in the entrance hall.
• Sargeras sealed Icecrown Citadel with dawnlight while Hu Feng rebuilt Lordaeron City, and Calia crowned herself Queen of Lordaeron.
• Hu Feng harvested divine iron to craft a Divine Body, while succubi signed contracts with the Night Empire and Heklar’s Consortium recruited them for a television program.
• Calia welcomed Thrall and negotiated with Lordaeron’s allies as Nozdormu sensed that Sarodal’s timeline was consuming the predetermined timeline.