Recaps

Diakum and his companions crossed Naga territory on a newly summoned Void mount and reached the ancient Moon Goddess Temple, where they encountered the spirits of its defenders. After learning they had guarded the temple for ten thousand years, Diakum told High Priestess Dejana that the Anti-Demon Crusade had won and their sacrifice had saved Azeroth.

• Archbishop Neri and Aegwynn warned that Matriarch Sasilin was using the group to reach the sealed artifact, while Neri reported that other pursuers were following them.
• Sasilin taught Diakum the Glutton's Abyssal Maw and how to summon K'ah, Abyss Walker, and Diakum accepted both gifts.
• Diakum rode K'ah through the temple's collapsed tunnels with Aegwynn, Neri, and Yrel, while Sasilin stayed behind and left an abyssal beacon on him.
• Highborne spirit soldiers surrounded the group, and their commanders accused them of trespassing and mistook them for demons.
• Dejana, leader of the Elune Sisterhood, dismissed her guards and asked how much time had passed since the Black Moon Ritual.
• Diakum told Dejana that the Anti-Demon Crusade had defeated the Burning Legion and honored the sisters as heroes, bringing a smile to her face.

Diakum and Aegwynn recruited the Nightsworn spirits for a final battle to aid Stormwind, then examined Sargeras’s dangerous relics and discovered his sealed divine construct. Diakum planned to restore the construct as armor for the Argus Star Soul, who agreed to join the fight against the Burning Legion.

• Lady Dejana and the other moon sisters agreed to leave for one final battle to help Stormwind before departing for Ardenweald.
• Aegwynn explained the destructive power of the Staff of Sargeras and entrusted it to her care, while Diakum stored the Eye of Sargeras.
• Diakum, Aegwynn, Neri, and Yrel entered the sealed chamber as Aegwynn sent the Maiden of Valor to confront her corrupted creation, the Maiden of Vigilance.
• Diakum identified the chained construct as a divine body capable of bearing a Titan soul and announced that Draenor’s engineers would restore it.
• The Argus Star Soul accepted Diakum’s offer to rebuild the construct as war armor and vowed to fight the Burning Legion alongside its children.

Diakum rejected Sargerei’s offer of help and refused to cooperate with Death, then learned that his next path led to the Chamber of Heart and an Old God. As he fought the demons left behind by Sargerei, he and the Argus Star Soul suspected that Death had also harmed Azeroth’s Star Soul; meanwhile, Kil'jaeden told Sargerei that he was no longer the Enlightener.

• Neri led Yrel out of the temple and warned her that a Greater Demon was inside with Diakum, telling her to keep what she saw secret.
• Sarkir revealed that he had secretly created a crack in the Titans’ Everything Unification Field and offered Diakum information and a truce with Death, but Diakum rejected him and accused the Eternal Ones of manipulating fate.
• Diakum destroyed Sarkir’s projection, and the demons it had suppressed charged him as the Light and Void warned him not to trust Sarkir.
• Diakum and the Argus Star Soul identified the Chamber of Heart as their next objective and worried that Sargerei’s past contact with Azeroth’s Star Soul may have involved Death’s corruption.
• Kil'jaeden told Sargerei that he had ceased to be the Enlightener when he abandoned that title.

Druids, Naga, and ancient warriors converged on the Tomb of Sargeras, where Diakum and Lady Aegwynn captured intruders and prepared to send the spirits of the Anti-Demon Crusade to Stormwind. As Stormwind’s defenders struggled against the Horde and its growing undead army, a mysterious light appeared in the night sky.

• Archdruid Elerethe Renferal discovered Sargeras’s divine body and ordered her druids to summon the Wild Gods, but Diakum and Lady Aegwynn bound them.
• Vashj tried to summon Grand Magister Elisande, but Lady Aegwynn reversed time to stop her and Diakum knocked her unconscious.
• High Priestess Dejana and the ancient Anti-Demon Crusade warriors arrived, drove back Sasilin and the Naga, and prepared to teleport to Stormwind.
• Captain Yasa Moonstrike reunited with her daughter Nasa, and the two joined hands as the teleportation began.
• In Stormwind, Lothar, Daenerys, and Major Windsor fought the Horde and its undead, but the deathly power kept spreading.
• Lothar asked the Holy Light to reveal Stormwind’s fate, and a voice told him to look up as a light appeared in the sky.

Diakum the Saint invoked the Holy Light’s Hand of Fate, empowering Stormwind’s defenders and bringing ancient elven warriors into the battle as the city faced the Horde’s final assault. The counterattack spread across the battlefield, while Varian Wrynn fought to protect the wounded and Yrel arrived to help him.

• Daenerys rescued Lothar and Major Windsor as Lady Aegwynn dropped a shattered temple onto the battlefield, and Diakum survived the impact beneath his Divine Shield.
• Diakum activated the Hand of Fate and spread the Holy Light’s blessing across Stormwind, then called the Anti-Demon Crusade to battle.
• High Priestess Dejana summoned Elune’s Starfall, and Lothar led Stormwind’s warriors in a countercharge alongside the ancient elves.
• Warden Master Nasa Moonstrike killed Morgus and helped bring down his demon dragon, while Gaiara confronted Dia Darkwhisper and challenged her to a Mak'gora.
• Varian Wrynn killed an Orc while defending the wounded, then followed Diakum’s guidance as Yrel crashed into the street and charged the attackers.

Stormwind’s defenders launched a desperate counterattack while Khadgar opened a portal for Bolvar Fordragon’s assault on Fenris Wolfvein. Tirion Fordring received Ashbringer from Diakum the Saint, slew the fel dragon Lethon, and joined King Llane’s push to retake the city.

• Bolvar Fordragon, General Lirath, and the elves prepared a portal-assisted strike against Fenris Wolfvein as King Llane held the Harbor District.
• Khadgar opened a portal, and Bolvar led the knights through it to attack Fenris’s command post.
• Lord Lethon attacked the portal, but Sylvanas, the mages, and Tirion Fordring’s cannon shot disrupted its assault before Khadgar cast the portal’s magic into the sky.
• Diakum the Saint named Tirion Fordring Stormwind’s Ashbringer and lent him the holy blade, which he used to drive Lethon into the sky and kill the fel dragon.
• King Llane led Stormwind’s warriors in a counterattack, while Fordring returned Ashbringer to Diakum before being sent back to fight until dawn.

Bolvar Fordragon killed Fenris Wolfvein during the retreat from Stormwind, while Alonsus Faol helped defend Northshire Abbey and drove Zuluhed away. Zuluhed escaped with stolen royal remains and the Holy Book, planning to forge a Death Knight warband, while King Llane remained threatened by Kargath Shattered Hand.

• Lirath wounded Fenris Wolfvein's felwolf, and Bolvar Fordragon stopped Fenris's escape by fighting him beneath the collapsing Blue Recluse Tower.
• Bolvar killed Fenris Wolfvein with Fenris's own Raider warblade, though Fenris's blade also pierced Bolvar's armor and left him dying.
• Zuluhed led an assault on Northshire Abbey, but Alonsus Faol fought him with a sword and Holy Light until Zuluhed fled.
• Faol learned that Orcs and their Kobold and Gnoll allies had stolen King Baratheon's remains and the abbey's Holy Book, while Medivh's ashes remained protected by Diakum's Seraphim.
• Zuluhed recovered the stolen relics and remains, then withdrew to his Shadow Tower to forge a Death Knight warband and anticipated Kargath Shattered Hand's assassination attempt against King Llane.

After Stormwind’s forces drove the Horde from the city and Goldshire, Lothar returned to investigate the missing and dead warriors while Daenerys took command at Goldshire. Kargath then attacked King Llane in Stormwind Keep, leaving him unconscious and trapped in a poison-induced nightmare that only the Emerald Dragons might be able to end.

• Lothar led the exhausted soldiers in reclaiming Goldshire after the Horde retreated, then hurried back to Stormwind to discuss the missing warriors with King Llane.
• Lothar appointed Daenerys a colonel and left her and Major Windsor to stabilize Goldshire and command its defense.
• The Ranger General reported Bolvar Fordragon’s death, and King Llane comforted Varian before telling him that Bolvar had killed the Horde chieftain Fenris Wolfvein.
• Kargath Bladefist launched an assassination attempt on Llane, but Pasonia Shaw and Garona stopped him; Pasonia lost her hand and severed Kargath’s arm, while Llane took a poisoned knife meant for Varian.
• Elerethe Renferal examined the unconscious Llane and warned that the poison had trapped his mind in a nightmare, so his rescuers needed help from the Emerald Dragons.

Diakum left Stormwind after King Llane survived an assassination attempt, learned of a possible way to help Tyrande, and received a spectral tiger from Dejana. Meanwhile, Goldrinn began planning to expand his worgen pack as Lycantos prepared for their conflict.

• Diakum diagnosed King Llane's nightmare toxin, purified the dagger, and told Lothar that the druids would seek help from the green dragons.
• Diakum learned that the mysterious captive had been delivered to Velen and Hutton beneath Tayara, then discussed a possible way to aid Tyrande with Dejana.
• Dejana and the ancient spirits departed at dawn, leaving Stormwind a battle standard and Diakum a spectral Frost Saber that became his legendary mount.
• In a forest near Stranglethorn Vale, Lycantos taunted Goldrinn about the strength of their rival worgen packs and warned that he would soon focus on their struggle.
• Goldrinn forced the Holy Light from Bolvar Fordragon and considered expanding its pack northward to fight the demons threatening the former Arathor Empire.

Varok Saurfang split the Blackrock forces between taking Moonbrook and preparing to ambush the sick Kul Tiras fleet as it landed in Westfall. When Rend Blackhand’s Orcs attacked the wounded sailors’ camp, Fina Goldsword fought to protect Prince Derek Proudmoore, while Gaiara escaped with him and called Griselda to Westfall.

• Varok Saurfang ordered Maim Blackhand to seize Moonbrook without harming its farmers, while Rend Blackhand joined him in hiding near the coast to ambush the Kul Tiras fleet.
• Prince Derek Proudmoore and Master Thomas Zelling discussed the Magic Plague, the threat of doomsday cults, and the political consequences if King Llane’s cure was real.
• Fina Goldsword treated her half-brother Derek and told him Stormwind had won at great cost, while explaining that the cure was elsewhere and help might come from Draenor.
• Gaiara warned Fina that the sick sailors were close to losing their minds, but Rend Blackhand’s Orcs soon attacked the camp and tried to capture its occupants.
• Fina fought Varok Saurfang as Gaiara fled with Derek, but Rend Blackhand intercepted them and wounded Derek.
• Gaiara sent an elemental message to Griselda, saying she had found her brother near Long Beach in Westfall and urging her to bring the Dark Hand to claim her inheritance.

Griselda freed Rend and warned him and Maim to survive by following Varok rather than seeking honor or revenge, while Varok assigned them to capture farms in Westfall. Back in Stormwind, Griselda chose to remain in the war as Gaiara prepared to search Kalimdor for the missing Mag'har.

• Griselda freed Rend, told him Orgrim was using fanatical Orcs as disposable soldiers, and warned him to keep himself and Maim alive and leave the Stormwind Kingdom.
• Varok stopped Rend from attacking Griselda, accepted Fina from her, and ordered Rend and Maim to capture farms in Westfall and manage prisoners.
• Rend realized Varok had kept his children from drinking demon blood and accused him of having betrayed the War Horde long ago.
• Griselda returned Fina to Stormwind, where Colonel Daenerys thanked her for saving the half-elf.
• Gaiara teased Griselda about her injuries and urged her to help retrieve the missing Mag'har from Kalimdor, but Griselda chose to stay and fight in the war.

With Stormwind weakened by war and the Magic Plague, Lothar organized a defensive perimeter and sought aid from Draenor. When Katrana Prestor arrived with supplies, Diakum recognized the danger she posed as Onyxia and set out to abduct her, while she prepared a charitable debut in the city.

• Lothar learned that the Orcs had occupied Moonbrook, captured farmers and Kul Tiras sailors, and spread the Magic Plague through Stormwind.
• Lothar postponed retaking Elwynn Forest, ordered the fleet to Stormwind Harbor, established a defensive perimeter, and asked Diakum to seek reinforcements and refuge options through Draenor.
• Diakum advised Lothar to prepare for the Dark Portal and warned him about the danger of the Magic Plague and demonic influence in the Northern Borderlands.
• Lothar learned that Katrana Prestor had arrived with weapons, supplies, and medicine, and Diakum went to meet her with Yrel and Rexxar, intending to take her to Draenor by force.
• Onyxia planned to exploit the plague and Stormwind’s need for aid to gain influence, marry into the royal family, and seize the throne; she decided to enter the city with food and medicine despite the warning.

Diakum infiltrated the Prestor Family’s ship, subdued Lady Katelina, and captured her before purifying the family’s criminal followers. After Bwonsamdi revealed a threat involving Hakkar and the Blood Plague, Diakum accepted a job connected to the Loa’s debt and planned to take Onyxia to Draenor for Lightforging.

• Rexxar sensed the Prestor servant’s dangerous nature and stayed behind while Diakum and the others boarded the merchant vessel.
• Lady Katelina used Mind Control on Diakum, but he revealed his true form, struck her with Gurubashi’s Crazy Blood Moon, and captured her.
• Neri identified the Prestor Family’s followers as criminal Polluters, and Diakum executed them, summoning Bwonsamdi to collect their souls.
• Bwonsamdi demanded thousands of souls in overdue fees, then offered to forgive Diakum’s remaining debt if he helped recover Hakkar’s anima and stop the Blood Plague.
• Rexxar delivered the unconscious Onyxia to Chromie and Tarecgosa, and Yrel invited them to accompany Vigilant to Draenor for Onyxia’s Lightforging.
• Tarecgosa agreed to go with Yrel, while Chromie eagerly prepared to see Draenor and record the changed timeline.

Aegwynn and Diakum prepared to take Varian and a group of allies to Draenor, while arranging plans to fight C'Thun's corruption and investigate a threat connected to the Naga. Orgrim continued shaping the Horde and met with an eerily changed Grom, who agreed to visit the Dark Iron Dwarves with Kargath.

• Aegwynn reported finding a hidden Chamber of Heart beneath Silithus and said C'Thun was corrupting the World Soul; Diakum planned to coordinate with the Kaldorei and the Black Crow King.
• Varian arrived as Stormwind's envoy, and Lothar gave Diakum the Lion's Horn as a gift for the K'ure Alliance before Aegwynn opened a portal to Draenor.
• Diakum warned Lothar that the imprisoned Naga matriarch's sudden offer of help might draw out a dangerous evil linked to the Forerunner, and advised him to arrange a secret ambush.
• Orgrim received word that the siege of Stormwind had failed and Fenris had died, then asked Malkorok to deliver a peace proposal to the Dark Iron Dwarves and offered him command of the Kor'kron.
• Orgrim visited the newly awakened Grom, who said he wanted an axe and intended to confront the Dark Iron Dwarves; Kargath joined him, while Orgrim reflected that Grom had become far more dangerous.

The Dreadlords sent Gul'dan to Icecrown Glacier, where they crowned him with the Crown of Domination and gave him Frostmourne so he could raise an army of the dead for their hidden master. As the Dreadlords spread across Azeroth to prepare for the Legion's invasion, Gul'dan began raising corpses and discovered the sword's spirit wanted to kill Diakum Zastinus.

• Green Skins in Elwynn Forest confirmed that Diakum had left Azeroth, prompting Tichondrius and the Dreadlords to begin their plan.
• Tichondrius and the Dreadlords carried Gul'dan's soul in enchanted ice to Icecrown Glacier, crowned him, and gave him the Sword of Sorrow, also called Frostmourne.
• Gul'dan used his new power to raise corpses across Azeroth, including centaurs in Desolace, trolls in the Sandfury burial pits, and pirates in the South Seas.
• Gul'dan helped Zuluhed's ritual by restoring King Baratheon Wrynn to his body and secretly told him to serve his true master.
• Tichondrius ordered Gul'dan to raise the dead in Northrend against Diakum's Lightforged, then sent the other Dreadlords to spread plague, recruit Satyr, and seize Titan artifacts.
• Gul'dan spoke with Frostmourne's sword spirit, who identified itself as the executioner of Diakum and proposed that they join forces to kill him.

Diakum returned to Karabor Temple and brought the cured Magic Plague crisis, a captured Onyxia, and a mysterious construct before Naaru Kara. Kara purified Onyxia and agreed to gather more naaru for the construct, while Diakum accepted three Crown of Light crystals to aid his coming journey into the Void.

• Father Hutton welcomed Diakum and Varian, then arranged for the Spriggans to help spread the Magic Plague cure and scheduled an alliance conference.
• Rexxar led the Cenarius Order druids toward the World Tree with a branch of Nordrassil as a diplomatic gift, while Diakum and Neri brought Onyxia to Naaru Kara.
• Onyxia tried to escape, but Tarecgosa knocked her back and Kara bound and purified her; Diakum planned to use the Curse of Flesh before attempting her Lightforging.
• Kara said that at least four naaru were needed to purify the mysterious construct, and Diakum asked her to recruit allied clans while keeping it from the Army of the Light.
• Kara gave Diakum three Crown of Light crystals to strengthen his Light-Dark Twinborn transformation, then learned that Yrel's elf clan survived by eating Holy Light and urged Diakum to guide her properly.

Diakum and Velen planned to unite Draenor and Azeroth against the Burning Legion, while Varian negotiated the Spriggans’ help against the Magic Plague. The chapter ended with Diakum proposing that the Spriggans bring Tayara’s seeds and war beasts to Azeroth, giving them a foothold there and Stormwind new allies.

• Velen agreed to purify Sargeras's Original Gundam with Tayara's help, and Diakum asked the K'ure Alliance to support a future campaign alongside Azeroth.
• Diakum argued that the Spriggans would readily join the campaign because they upheld the Vengeance Oath against the Titans.
• Nalagor offered Stormwind a cure for the Magic Plague in exchange for an oath that its cured people would fight beside the Spriggans against the fallen Titans.
• Varian pledged Stormwind's support, and Diakum assured Khadgar that the Spriggans could safely help Varian grow to adulthood.
• Diakum proposed bringing Tayara's seeds and Spriggan war beasts to Azeroth, and Nalagor prepared to show Varian the army.

Diakum persuaded Anzu to consider bringing the Arakkoa’s bird network to Azeroth and helped Shisali Crow earn a Dread Raven form, while plans advanced to send Spriggans and Tayara’s seed to Stormwind. After a major victory against the Burning Legion fleet, Diakum learned that Tayara had revived Black Pawn with a seed in place of his heart and decided to examine him.

• Anzu showed Diakum his lavish double nest and explained that he was preparing it for Rukhmar’s eventual resurrection.
• Diakum explained how Tayara’s seed might connect Draenor to the Emerald Dream and proposed that Anzu build an intelligence network in Azeroth; Anzu agreed to discuss the plan with Terokk.
• Shisali Crow passed Anzu’s storm-ring challenge and received a powerful Dread Raven form while retaining her Stormcrow form.
• Varian persuaded the Spriggans to travel to Stormwind and bring Tayara’s seed to Azeroth, while Anzu agreed to visit Azeroth with Princess Lacey and other Arakkoa.
• Archbishop Haluta reported that the Illidari and Mag’har had defeated a Burning Legion fleet, and Akama told Diakum that Tayara had revived Black Pawn with a seed replacing his heart.
• Diakum decided to meet Black Pawn that night and find out what had happened to him.

Diakum accepted Illidan’s invitation to discuss an assault on Mardum and allowed Brox Heart of Hatred to join the future expedition to Argus. After returning to Azeroth, Diakum learned that the Army of the Light fleet and the Twins Archbishop were on their way, then prepared to address the Magic Plague and travel to Kalimdor.

• Oturis invited Diakum to join the Illidari’s planned attack on Mardum, and Diakum agreed to meet Illidan before committing to the operation.
• Oturis offered the demon starship and pilot training, while Diakum requested pilots but preferred an Ethereal vessel.
• Brox Heart of Hatred confessed his guilt over the orcs’ corruption and asked to join Diakum’s future expedition to Argus, and Diakum accepted him.
• Diakum and the others returned safely through the Dark Portal, while Varian and the druids remained on Draenor.
• Anzu complained about the harpies’ behavior, and Diakum suggested that Princess Lacey’s priests and sages teach them.
• Neri reported that the Army of the Light fleet, led by the Twins Archbishop and carrying two thousand Lightforged, was approaching Azeroth, and Diakum set out to address the Magic Plague and travel to Kalimdor.

Spriggans treated Stormwind’s Magic Plague and offered to plant a World Tree seed that would empower the land while binding humans to nature. Lothar agreed to the planting and chose to face the plague’s Trial of Life, but news arrived that Green Skins were attacking Goldshire and Stormwind’s ancestor had demanded to see him.

• Spriggans distributed medicinal soup in Stormwind, and Dick explained how their Seeds of Nature and holy water could cleanse the Magic Plague.
• Nalagor asked Lothar’s permission to plant the World Tree seed in Northshire Abbey and described how it would strengthen the land and make its forests defend themselves.
• After hearing the risks and benefits, Lothar agreed to the planting so the land could help resist the Green Skins.
• Nalagor offered Lothar a choice between standard treatment and enduring the spores’ Trial of Life in exchange for nature’s blessing and an oath to join a future expedition to Argus; Lothar chose the trial.
• Kurdran reported that Green Skins were attacking Goldshire and that Stormwind’s ancestor had summoned Lothar.

Diakum and Lothar reached Goldshire, where the resurrected King Baratheon warned that he would soon lead the undead against Stormwind and revealed that they were the Burning Legion’s vanguard. After Baratheon departed, Diakum explained that Lothar could only give his foster father release; elsewhere, Anzu urged Bolvar Fordragon to summon Goldrinn and take his pack into Elwynn Forest.

• Kurdran Wildhammer discussed Grim Batol, the Magic Plague, and the Spriggans’ Seeds of Nature with Diakum as they rode toward Goldshire.
• Lothar and Diakum arrived at Goldshire, where King Baratheon confronted Lothar and condemned him and Llane for failing to protect the kingdom.
• Baratheon warned that the undead were awakening as the Burning Legion’s vanguard, told the defenders to flee, and revealed that the Shadow Tower was guarded by liches and worse threats.
• Baratheon departed across Crystal Lake, and Diakum told Lothar that Apocalypse would torment Baratheon until Lothar found a way to release him.
• Anzu appeared to Bolvar Fordragon in Sunlight Forest, urged him to summon Goldrinn, and directed his hunting pack toward Elwynn Forest to evade Lycantos’s wolves.

Turalyon ordered cremations in Goldshire as the undead threat grew, while Dathrohan arranged an evacuation from the plague-stricken Northern Borderlands. Diakum’s party left Stormwind for Silithus, and Aegwynn appeared before the Black Crow King with warnings about the Magic Plague and a foreign Saint before forcing her way out of Eldre’Thalas.

• Turalyon ordered Goldshire’s dead cremated and sealed their ashes after wraiths had risen from them.
• Dathrohan told Turalyon that Ash Knights would evacuate families from the Northern Borderlands and recruit priests to aid Stormwind.
• Turalyon gave Dathrohan letters for Bishop Benedictus and urged him to avoid drawing attention during the evacuation.
• Diakum, Yrel, Neri, and Rexxar departed Stormwind for Silithus after Lothar asked them to return once the danger passed.
• Master Lathorius reported the Magic Plague’s spread and signs of demon worship to the Black Crow King in Eldre’Thalas.
• Aegwynn warned the Black Crow King that a cure was in Stormwind and a foreign Saint would aid the Kaldorei, then shattered the palace’s spatial seal with the Staff of Sargeras when he tried to detain her.

Diakum entered plague-stricken Gadgetzan to meet the goblin leaders and secure supplies and investment for the rebuilding of the human empire. Malin Noggenfogger chose to use most of Diakum’s seeds to save infected goblins, and Diakum left him to negotiate the city’s recovery and the supplies for a campaign in Silithus.

• Aegwynn accompanied Diakum’s party across Tanaris as he explained that he wanted to assess Gadgetzan’s plague and approach Steamwheedle about investment and trade.
• At Gadgetzan’s gate, Diakum revived the infected guard with a nature seed, and the guard, Malin Noggenfogger, offered to serve as his financial officer and arrange a meeting with the city’s leader, Revilgaz.
• Diakum gave Malin a bag of seeds and ordered him to rescue infected goblins driven into the desert; after struggling with the choice, Malin used the seeds to save them and his giant companion.
• Diakum’s group watched Malin’s decision through Aegwynn’s magical image, and Diakum said he had trusted Noggenfogger’s character from the start.
• Revilgaz received Diakum’s group after a seed saved him, agreed to contact Steamwheedle, and heard Diakum’s requests to curb the Venture Company and support the rebuilding of the Arathor Empire.
• Diakum asked Gadgetzan to provide supplies for two thousand people heading to Silithus, then gave Malin more seeds to negotiate the deal and urged the goblins to use them to help the afflicted quickly.

Diakum’s group left Gadgetzan after Malin Noggenfogger discovered that concentrated Kaja’Cola could restore goblins whose minds the Magic Plague had damaged, earning Diakum a promised share of the profits. As they approached Silithus, Diakum’s power returned, and Maraad warned him to prepare for drastic changes at Cenarion Hold.

• Diakum signed the supply contract Malin Noggenfogger arranged with Revilgaz and urged Malin to use rescued goblins to build a chamber of commerce rather than trap them in lifelong debt.
• Diakum suggested testing Kaja’Cola on goblins suffering intellectual degeneration, and Malin later reported that a concentrated potion restored their ability to speak.
• Diakum and Malin negotiated a one-fifth share of the potion’s dividends for Diakum as the group prepared to leave Gadgetzan.
• Diakum stopped Yrel from drinking Kaja’Cola after explaining that its Kaja’mite radiation was dangerous to other races, while Malin celebrated his discovery.
• Diakum’s thirty-day period of weakness ended as the airship crossed toward Silithus, and Yrel delivered Maraad’s warning about drastic changes at Cenarion Hold.

Diakum and his companions arrived at Cenarion Hold, where Magic Plague had transformed the Shifting Sands Guardians into Dark Trolls and driven many to despair. After discovering seventeen elves missing and suspecting the Old Gods were exploiting their anguish, Diakum rushed to General Staghelm’s quarters, only to find the general alive and confused after waking from a potion-induced sleep.

• Noggenfogger feared something had happened to Cenarion Hold, but Rexxar confirmed the fortress was safe and the airship landed.
• Maraad told Diakum that Magic Plague had caused the Shifting Sands Guardians to regress into Dark Trolls, and Diakum comforted an elf who had broken down over the change.
• Diakum gave the infected elves magic seeds, then realized the Old Gods might be using their despair and ordered the fortress sealed and its missing patrol members found.
• Maraad reported that seventeen Guardians, including a commander, were missing, so Diakum sent Aegwynn and Neri to Southwind Village while he hurried to General Staghelm’s quarters.
• Diakum broke down the locked door and found Staghelm apparently dead beside an empty potion bottle, but the general woke from the potion’s deep sleep and asked what had happened to his door.