Recaps

Malchezaar learned that the Argus Star Soul had returned and that Dymus was approaching Draenor, while Diakum and the Argus Lord fought the Legion’s leaders on the devastated world. After Diakum confronted the battered Sargerei, the Shaper revealed that he had summoned the Glutton and urged his former student to face it.

• Malchezaar ordered demons to reinforce the Draenor battlefield after hearing that the Argus Star Soul had returned, then suspected Sargerei was colluding with the Void when warlocks detected Dymus approaching.
• Diakum pulled Griselda Blackhand and other Orcs out of the Void vortex as Norgannon returned to Draenor with a Void creature entangled around him.
• Diakum cursed Norgannon with the Pain of Eclipse, weakening the fallen Titan as he prepared to destroy the world.
• The Argus Lord ambushed Norgannon, struck him with Khaz'goroth's Sculpting Stone Hammer, and drove Emperor's Fall through his armor.
• Diakum confronted the wounded Sargerei at Karabor Temple, but Sargerei declared that the Glutton was arriving and told Diakum to face it.

The Devourer of Worlds, Dymus, arrived in the Draenor system and trapped the Restoration Army fleet in its gravitational field. Diakum confronted his fated rival, and after Dymus seemingly shattered his solar body, an eclipse appeared that Dymus hoped would let it evolve into the Evil of Eclipse.

• Dymus tore into the starsea near Draenor, forcing General Jaide to order the Restoration Army fleet to retreat as the Void Lord's gravity dragged ships and planets toward it.
• Diakum emerged from Draenor and struck Dymus with Lightbreaker attacks, but the Void Lord absorbed the Solar Holy Flame and rapidly healed its wounds.
• Dymus recognized Diakum as a rival on the path of the Glutton, and the two began a battle with Antimatter Claws and Solar Fist.
• Diakum's power disrupted Dymus' gravitational field and allowed the trapped fleets to escape, while their continuing fight drained Diakum's energy.
• Dymus caught Diakum with a miniature black hole and hurled a fragment of a world at him, apparently extinguishing his light and shattering his solar body.
• An eclipse descended over the battlefield, and Dymus felt pain and desired to consume Diakum's power so it could become the Evil of Eclipse.

Dymus and the Void Lords drove Diakum to the brink of corruption, but he awakened his beastlike Ancient Fury and escaped the Sea of Darkness. Reigniting himself with the sun, Diakum returned to the battle and hurled it at his enemies, leaving the final struggle between him and Dymus unresolved.

• Dymus drained Diakum in Voidform and trapped him, but the Void Lords intervened to seize Diakum and drag him into the Sea of Darkness.
• A Void Lord tried to corrupt Diakum, but Diakum awakened Ancient Fury, tore free, and devoured the creature’s tentacle for energy.
• The Void Lords sent Diakum back to the battlefield, where Dymus swallowed him before he could recover.
• Diakum burst out of Dymus with a Star Soul Fragment, rushed into the sun, and absorbed enough light and heat to return beneath the world of light.
• Diakum hurled the sun at Dymus and a fleeing Eclipse Sect Lord, then killed the Lord with Ashbringer.
• The surviving Eclipse Sect big shot declared that the final toll would belong to either Dymus or Diakum.

Draenor’s armies struggled as demons and Voidwalkers flooded the world, while Matron Geyah learned that the sun’s destruction could doom all life there. In the ruins of Karabor, the dying Sarkir explained that Diakum was preparing for a journey involving the cosmic forces and hinted that Sarkir itself would become a guide in the realm of death.

• Dymus’s Voidwalkers poured through rifts across Draenor, prompting the demons to turn their attacks on the void forces as Draenor’s warriors withdrew to their cities.
• Matron Geyah learned from the elements that the sun would be extinguished and that the Naaru in Shattrath City could provide only temporary light and heat.
• The Mountain Guardian told Matron Geyah that the Exiled wanted permission to return and fight, but she refused so they could survive to preserve the orcs’ story.
• Velen and Ms. Vilara found Sarkir pinned and gravely wounded in Karabor, where Velen revealed that Sarkir served both the Dark Titan and the Eternal Ones of death.
• Sarkir told Velen that it had brought the repentant Man’ari lords to offer the Eredar a chance to form their own Demon Hunters.
• Sarkir explained that Diakum intended to rebalance the cosmic forces and embark on a final journey, while Sarkir planned to accompany him and become a guide in the realm of death.

Lightforged Little Hellscream fought to evacuate the Mag'har as a dying Void Lord crashed into Tiange Lake and unleashed a wave of corruption across Nagrand. As Matron Geyah and Gorosh summoned the exiled wolf-riding clans back to Draenor, Kargath Bladefist arrived with his demon-slayers.

• Little Hellscream and Samuro fought through demons and void creatures while learning that Highmaul was under siege and Draenor would lose its sun.
• A sun-struck Void Lord fell into Tiange Lake, corrupting the water and opening rifts that poured void creatures into Nagrand.
• Little Hellscream reached Garadar, rescued Taresa and Go'el from a Faceless One, and learned that Matron Geyah had gone to the lake to confront the fallen Void Lord.
• Little Hellscream found the elemental lords trying to bury Tiange Lake while Matron Geyah and Gorosh summoned wolf-riding exiles from across the stars.
• Kargath Bladefist appeared in a fel-powered city with hundreds of thousands of demon-slayers and prepared to lead them back to Draenor.

Diakum fought Dymus in a desperate battle, but Dymus sacrificed the Star Soul it had been digesting to swallow him. As darkness fell across Draenor, Xe'ra flew toward the heavens, determined to ignite An'she herself.

• Diakum battered Dymus with the dying sun, forcing the Devourer of Worlds to choose between retaining the Star Soul and surviving the final strike.
• Dymus released the undigested Star Soul to stop Diakum's attack, then engulfed Diakum in its dark storm and swallowed him.
• Ashbringer crashed beside Yrel at Karabor Temple, and she realized Diakum was still alive because the divine weapon remained intact.
• Xal'atath warned Xe'ra that Diakum would soon die in Voidform, while Xe'ra said igniting the sun was a responsibility shared by the People of Light.
• Xe'ra defied Xal'atath and Velen, transformed into a golden meteor, and declared that she knew how to ignite An'she.

Trapped inside Dymus's stomach sac, Diakum attempted to unite Holy Light and Void into a new stage of his Path. Xe'ra sacrificed herself to transform Xal'atath into a Lightforged Entropic Demon, proving that eclipse-born darkness could be ignited; Diakum then realized a nearby place might provide another source of fuel for An'she.

• Dymus swallowed Diakum and drained his light and heat, leaving him trapped in the stomach sac with only the Shadowed Heart to delay his death.
• Diakum studied his final volume of the Light and Shadow Canon and resolved to unite light and shadow through a dynamic balance he called Light-Shadow Symbiosis.
• After the Shadowed Heart ran out of energy, Diakum drew on the suffering of An'she's eclipse, but the conflict between Holy Light and Void nearly overwhelmed him.
• Xe'ra crashed into the stomach sac, and Diakum gathered her shattered crystal body while explaining his plan to survive and travel to the Shadowlands.
• Xe'ra sacrificed herself and poured her sacred energy into Xal'atath, transforming the Eclipse Fragment into a Lightforged Entropic Demon and proving Diakum's plan could ignite eclipse-born darkness.
• Diakum realized a nearby place might contain dead Naaru husks that could serve as fuel for An'she.

Xe'ra sacrificed herself to ignite Xal'atath's Eclipse Fragment and ascended to the High Heavens through the Faith Stairway. Before entering, she called the People of Light to unite in a holy war against the Void and reclaim An'she.

• Xe'ra recognized that her Army of the Light had been manipulated into spreading chaos, and she chose to sacrifice herself to set it back on course.
• Diakum helped Xe'ra ignite the Eclipse Fragment, and her return to the High Heavens appeared as a revelation to the People of Light across the stars.
• Xe'ra climbed the Faith Stairway, passed its trials, and shared her teachings and powers with her followers.
• Kael'thas, Staghelm, Lirath, and others witnessed the revelation as the High Heavens opened its gates to Xe'ra.
• Xe'ra declared war on the Void and called the People of Light to join the Solar Expedition to ignite the sun and reclaim their dawn.

Xe'ra entered the unfinished High Heavens and learned how faith could shape its growth, while Diakum prepared to face the Shadowlands and endure Dymus's devouring as he refined his Light-Shadow path. The chapter left Diakum's soul crossing into the Shadowlands, his body continuing into the darkness, and Xal'atath setting out to shine a sun for the beings he had defeated.

• Xe'ra passed through Heaven's Gate, discovered the High Heavens were still under construction, and learned she could help shape them through faith.
• Diakum explained that Xe'ra could guide her followers through oracles and promised that Heaven's Gate would open in the Sea of Darkness during the War of Light and Darkness.
• Diakum described how Dymus's devouring and the Pain of Eclipse were refining his Light-Shadow path, then prepared to send his soul into the Shadowlands.
• Diakum urged Xal'atath to return a sun to the beings whose suns he had extinguished, and she left to carry out his request.
• Diakum's soul was swept into a rift of the Shadowlands while his body continued walking into the darkness, sustaining a nascent cycle of light and shadow.

General Staghelm interpreted Diakum's holy war as a way to redirect the People of Light's fanaticism and saw the Vigilant leave a weapon behind before his connection to his followers vanished. As Diakum's followers struggled with his absence, Yrel and Maraad chose to die in battle so they could support his mission and learn whether he had reached his destination.

• General Staghelm reasoned that the Faith Stairway would test the People of Light and redirect their fanaticism toward the goal of igniting the sun.
• Diakum appeared to the Shadow Hunters, told them to hold fast and wait for his return, then vanished as their connection to him was severed.
• General Staghelm found Diakum's Cursed Maw in the form of a scythe and resolved to lead the Shadow Hunters against the demons with it.
• Saloras lost control after sensing Diakum's absence, and Archbishop Nali struck her and ordered her to keep fighting until he returned.
• Yrel gave Ashbringer to Maraad, charged into the darkness, and died in a Divine Storm; Maraad realized she was supporting Diakum's mission.
• Maraad handed Ashbringer to Nubodon and charged after Yrel, asking him to resurrect them at the last possible moment so they could bring back news.

Argus went berserk after losing Diakum’s presence and, empowered by Azeroth, defeated Norgannon before racing after Dymus. Xal'atath stopped him from attacking the Devourer, revealing that Diakum was alive and willingly undergoing an ascension trial.

• When Diakum’s aura vanished, the Argus Lord panicked and blamed Norgannon for his child’s apparent death.
• The Argus Lord called on Azeroth, whose creative power empowered him as he battered Norgannon and drove the Godslayer Spear into him.
• With Draenor’s roots binding Norgannon, Argus decapitated the fallen Titan and pursued Dymus, while Tayara’s roots captured Norgannon’s recovering Titan Soul.
• Argus found the Lightforged Fleet attacking Dymus, which was struggling to suppress the eclipse pain caused by its attempt to seize Eclipse’s authority.
• Xal'atath halted Argus and explained that Diakum had survived and was choosing death as part of his own path to ascension.

As Draenor plunged into the Darkest Night, the Orc clans fled toward Shattrath while arguing over whether to abandon their world or endure its final trials. The Argus Lord returned with a sun fragment, while Sarkir accepted death and prepared to complete the last stage of his plan for the Eredar.

• Lantresor led the Righteous Blade Clan toward Shattrath with the migrating Mag'har, as Gaiara warned that Draenor would soon freeze and Little Hellscream insisted the Orcs should stay and become Lightforged.
• Gaiara revealed that the Green Skins offered the Mag'har refuge on five worlds, but Little Hellscream rejected leaving Draenor; Lantresor told them the chieftains would decide their people's fate together.
• Samuro reported that the Argus Lord had returned with a sun fragment to hold back the cold, and said the Vigilant had begun the final stage of his ascent to godhood.
• At Karabor Temple, Sarkir watched the Argus Lord return and pleaded to be sent on the final road he had chosen.
• The Argus Lord denounced Sarkir as an eternally exiled betrayer and struck him down with Thunderblade, destroying the ruins as Sarkir accepted his death and his role in completing Eredar civilization.

Xal'atath became Draenor's reluctant, immortal protector, while Argus began repairing the world and resolved to improve his combat skills. In Oribos, Diakum attacked the Eternal Arbiter, but Yrel and Maraad arrived and caught him there.

• Archbishop Saloras and Oreses told Xal'atath that Xe'ra had bound her to help anyone in need for eternity as punishment for her past deeds.
• Xal'atath rose into the sky and spread enough light and heat to halt Draenor's deadly chill, bringing relief to the Orcs, Arakkoa, and Naaru.
• Argus left the leaders to repair Draenor with Khaz'goroth's Hammer and asked them to send warriors to teach him how to fight.
• Diakum burst into Oribos and struck the Eternal Arbiter with an Ultra Flying Kick, unleashing a storm of Light and Void that flipped the city upside down.
• Yrel and Maraad emerged from the storm of souls and called out to Diakum, interrupting his attempt to escape.

Diakum rescued Yrel and Maraad from the Shadowlands, warned them of the dangers ahead, and arranged a rendezvous with Rafaam. Meanwhile, Aegwynn returned to a frozen Draenor and decided to move the planet into Azeroth’s orbit as a battle moon.

• Diakum explained the Arbiter’s Heart and discussed Bastion’s troubled Kyrian with Yrel and Maraad while they waited in the in-between realm.
• Diakum sent Yrel and Maraad back to the material world with a warning that the death faction might join the war, and told them the gates of High Heaven would one day welcome the People of Light.
• Diakum greeted Rafaam as the Broker Bazaar sailed through the storm toward their planned rendezvous.
• Aegwynn returned to Draenor, discovered that Shadowmoon Valley had frozen after the sun vanished, and saw Xal'atath filling in as its replacement.
• Aegwynn decided to move Draenor near Azeroth as a battle moon so the planet could receive sunlight and its warriors could reinforce the fight against Kil'jaeden.

Yrel and Maraad returned from the Shadowlands, while the leaders of Draenor agreed to move their world to Azeroth and join its war against the Burning Legion. Aegwynn began the first of several planetary teleports, leaving Draenor on its journey toward the Azeroth Starfield.

• Yrel told the Lightforged that Diakum had appeared surrounded by harmonious Light and Shadow, and Saloras concluded that he had achieved Light-Shadow Symbiosis.
• Yura reported that Aegwynn had returned and planned to take Draenor’s forces to Azeroth, while Nali prepared to perform the Black Moon Ritual as a precaution.
• Aegwynn persuaded Vilara that Draenor needed Azeroth’s sun and promised to teleport the planet there despite her exhaustion.
• Little Hellscream, Terokk, Nalagor, Mar’gok, and Velen supported going to Azeroth, and Drek’Thar agreed to ask the Mag’har Orcs to join them.
• Aegwynn, the Argus Lord, and the elemental and World Tree powers prepared Draenor for a series of teleports, with the journey expected to take five to seven days.
• Aegwynn drove the Staff of Sargeras into the Elemental Throne and began the first teleport, carrying Draenor and its orbital fleets away from the dead star system.

Kil'jaeden's invasion threw Azeroth into chaos through starship raids, undead armies, Naga attacks, and assassinations while he gathered his forces beyond the Twisting Nether. Illidan revealed that Diakum's seal on the Sargerite Keystone had vanished and stepped through a portal to begin a secret counterattack.

• Kil'jaeden's forces destroyed seven Eastern Continent cities with starship bombardments as the undead and Naga attacked across Azeroth.
• The Scourge and Helya's fleet drove the Broken Isles toward collapse while Pandaria faced fierce battles against undead and Naga forces.
• Illidan and Vastann Staghelm discussed guarding the Chamber of Heart and keeping the demons from discovering its location.
• Illidan told Vastann that Oturis would act as his decoy while he carried out a hidden plan to strike the Burning Legion.
• Illidan revealed that Diakum's Holy Light seal on the Sargerite Keystone had dispersed, opened a portal to a demon world, and departed to launch his counterattack.

Diakum examined the Shadowlands’ anima and learned more about the Mawsworn, then discussed the danger posed by Broker efforts to uncover the First Ones’ secrets. The Nether-Stalker delivered the Primus’s War Sigil, and Diakum revealed that he also possessed the Arbiter’s Judgment Sigil.

• Diakum declined the Mythic Anima Orb because its power did not match his path of light and shadow.
• The Nether-Stalker warned Diakum that the Mawsworn were powerful soldiers backed by Zovaal and the anima-producing Torghast.
• The Nether-Stalker described Broker investigations into the First Ones’ mysteries and urged Diakum to visit their Holy Land and destroy dangerous knowledge.
• Diakum agreed to consider visiting the Holy Land if it could help ignite the sun.
• The Nether-Stalker showed Diakum the vault guarded by Hylbrand and delivered the Primus’s War Sigil, which the group had recovered from Korthia.
• Diakum revealed that he had the Judgment Sigil too and said the fate of those seeking the sigils depended on his mood.

Diakum uncovered the Primus’s warning that Zovaal sought to use the Eternal One sigils to reach Zereth Mortis and reshape reality, then gathered allies to secure the remaining sigils. The chapter ended when Lich Baron Medivh arrived at the Veiled Market and asked whether Diakum’s arrival meant he would return home.

• Diakum broke the seal on the Primus’s sigil, and its memory revealed Zovaal’s plans for the five sigils and Zereth Mortis.
• Diakum hid the Primus’s sigil and persuaded the Broker relicsmiths to help secure the sigils before Zovaal could claim them.
• So'leah confronted the Nether-Stalker, then agreed to gather Broker cartels after learning about the First Ones’ power and the group’s two sigils.
• So'leah lowered the Veiled Market’s defenses, and Diakum warned her that she was using her artifact incorrectly.
• Medivh arrived with the liches and greeted Diakum, asking whether he was about to return home.

Medivh revealed his alliance with Margrave Sin'dane and laid out his theory that the Primus was manipulating events to break the Shadowlands' Destiny Order. The chapter ended with Rafaam reporting that relic crafters had stolen treasures and Diakum proposing a heist of Castle Nathria.

• Medivh revealed that Margrave Sin'dane and the Ritual Court served him under an agreement that he would help her ascend to godhood.
• Medivh, Diakum, and the Nether-Stalker discussed the Primus's artifacts and concluded that the Primus's message might be bait designed to draw everyone toward the First Ones' power.
• Medivh speculated that the Primus had engineered Zovaal's rebellion to overturn the Shadowlands' Destiny Order and secure his own freedom.
• Margrave Sin'dane and Diakum argued that the Primus and other Eternal Ones sought freedom from the order that governed their lives.
• Rafaam reported that relic crafters had stolen the Arbiter's core and sigil and fled to Revendreth.
• Diakum proposed moving Castle Nathria to the material world and staging a heist, and Rafaam eagerly agreed.

Medivh explained how Zovaal’s rebellion and the anima famine had pushed the Shadowlands’ destiny system toward collapse, while Diakum insisted his goal was to restart the cycle of life and death rather than impose a new order. They planned to confront Zovaal in the Maw and reach Zereth Mortis, with Azshara already rampaging through Torghast and apparently proving difficult for the Jailer to stop.

• Medivh described how Denathrius’s anima hoarding strengthened Zovaal and how the Arbiter’s shutdown sent every incoming soul into the Maw.
• Marquis Sindane read Primus’s account of Zovaal’s rebellion, his judgment by the other Eternal Ones, and Primus’s creation of Torghast and Domination to imprison him.
• Medivh concluded that the Eternal Ones had begun undermining destiny and warned that death was about to break free of its constraints.
• Diakum said he intended to restart the great cycle, then agreed with Medivh to recruit an army and confront Zovaal in the Maw before going to Zereth Mortis.
• Medivh reported that Azshara had repeatedly raided Torghast for anima research and that Zovaal’s warriors had failed to stop her, suggesting they should leave her a place on the journey.

Diakum and Medivh built alliances across Maldraxxus and prepared for the coming conflict, while Diakum traveled to the House of the Chosen. There he exposed Blackhand’s use of his name but turned the deception into a promise of a future campaign against demons.

• Medivh and Sindane explained their plans to bring the House of Eyes and Stradama into their alliance, while Blackhand had already secured the House of the Chosen and would be provoked into war with Gamal’s Construct Sanctum.
• Diakum asked the Nether-Stalker to establish an academy studying the First Ones’ secrets, then said Rafaam could cause trouble for Denathrius while he headed toward Revendreth to ignite the sun.
• Diakum arrived at Medivh’s Floating City, where his Holy Light frightened the liches, and Medivh said he would return to his mother.
• Blackhand planned future invasions with the House of the Chosen until Diakum arrived and the demon-slaying warriors recognized the Vigilant, kneeling before him.
• Diakum bestowed the Ashbringer’s legacy on the demon slayers, and Blackhand challenged him to lead them back to the material world.
• Diakum declared that the Primus had joined their campaign against the Burning Legion and promised the dead warriors an age of conquest.

Diakum rallied Maldraxxus’s demon-hating dead and discussed a campaign against the Burning Legion with Great Chieftain Blackhand, while preparing his rune sword and pursuing the Primus’s rescue. The chapter ended when Devos arrived at the House of the Chosen and demanded to see Diakum.

• Diakum’s speech and the Primus-forged rune sword inspired the House of the Chosen to prepare for a holy war against demons.
• Great Chieftain Blackhand told Diakum that Maldraxxus could raise a vast army, and Diakum proposed joining forces with other death legions and allies to defeat even Sargeras.
• Diakum sent Blackhand to find Heirmir the Bonesmith, then explained that the Primus’s disciple and the other sigils would be needed to open the way to Zereth Mortis and rescue the Primus.
• Heirmir discussed modifying Diakum’s rune sword and confirmed that the Primus had forged Frostmourne and the Helm of Domination.
• Devos confronted the House of the Chosen’s guards, knocked aside a warrior’s halberd, and demanded to meet Diakum Zastinus.

Diakum asked Heirmir to turn the Primus’s rune sword into a torch warhammer that could store light, then faced Devos after she attacked the House of the Chosen. He guided her to High Heaven’s Faith Stairway and urged her to recover the self she had abandoned during Ascension.

• Diakum told Heirmir he wanted to borrow the rune sword as a light-storing torch warhammer, and he drew a cross-shaped design for her.
• Blackhand reported that Devos had stormed the House of the Chosen, and he ordered his warriors to subdue her.
• Blackhand’s necromancers brought the wounded Devos to Diakum, who healed her and guided her consciousness to the Faith Stairway.
• Diakum explained that Devos’s doubts came from abandoning her past and urged her to climb the stairs and find the girl she had been before Ascension.

Diakum examined Bastion’s rigid system of ascension and decided to travel there to recruit the Forsworn as guides for High Heaven. After helping Devos recover her sense of self, he agreed to support her return to Bastion but required her to prove she could govern it before he helped remove the Firstborn.

• Diakum and Xera discussed how Kyrian ascension stripped souls of their individuality and how Valkyr were altered Kyrians.
• Diakum explained that he planned to learn Bastion’s ascension methods and recruit Devos and the Forsworn to guide souls in High Heaven.
• Diakum left with Devos after she completed the Faith Stairway trial and recovered her memories and sense of self.
• Devos denounced the Firstborn’s rule and asked Diakum to restore her fellow Kyrians and help them transform Bastion into a paradise.
• Diakum agreed to take the Firstborn away but told Devos to write a feasibility report for rebuilding Bastion before he would support her plan.

Diakum received a consecrated cross warhammer from the Bone Smith and flew with Devos to Bastion, where they found a rebellion against Kyrestia’s control of the Kyrian. Devos asked Diakum to lead them in making Bastion a true home rather than a beautiful prison.

• The Bone Smith finished Diakum’s cross warhammer, blessed his journey, and explained that she would help Blackhand only after he conquered the Construct Sanctum and recovered Marquis Gamal’s Construct Core.
• Diakum promised to join the Bone Smith in rescuing the Primus, then left Maldraxxus with Devos for Bastion while avoiding Oribos and the Brokers.
• Diakum and Devos secretly arrived at the Fortress of Loyalty, where thousands of black-winged Kyrian and candidates had gathered to oppose Kyrestia’s demands that they erase their pasts.
• Devos explained that Kyrestia’s pursuit of destiny had turned Bastion into a hollow paradise and asked Diakum to lead those resisting her rule.
• Diakum told Devos to stand and continued sketching Bastion’s scenery.