Recaps

Diakum met with the Jailer in the Maw and proposed sending sinners who defiled the Holy Light there for punishment. Meanwhile, Old Gani investigated a strange plague in Suramar and discovered that the Nightborne were transforming into Troll-like undead.

• Diakum told Azshara he wanted the Maw to punish those who committed evil in the name of the Holy Light, and the Jailer agreed to discuss the proposal.
• Azshara asked to see the Runecarver while Medivh questioned her about reaching Zereth Ordus, and she offered him information and a role as her assistant.
• Bwonsamdi told Diakum that Zandalar was under attack and that something was happening in Suramar, so Diakum ordered him to keep watch.
• Bwonsamdi sent Old Gani to investigate Suramar, where Old Gani detected a dangerous plague and searched the city with Phantom Raptors.
• Old Gani found a weeping Nightborne child and realized that the undead had spread Magic Plague, causing Nightborne to transform into Troll-like undead, so he urged Bwonsamdi to send Zul immediately.

Zul revealed his plan to make Azshara Empress of the Zandalar Empire by protecting Suramar’s Nightborne as they became trolls, and Bwonsamdi agreed to help. As the Golden Fleet sailed to Suramar, Odin confronted Helya in Stormheim, where she challenged him to enter the River of Souls and face The Maw.

• Bwonsamdi pressured Zul to lead the Golden Fleet through Helya’s blockade, but Zul explained that he had been waiting for events to unfold.
• Zul told Bwonsamdi that he intended to unite the trolls under Azshara by offering her Suramar’s transformed Nightborne and the Zandalar Empire.
• Bwonsamdi agreed to support Zul’s plan and warned that Zul would likely have to die to keep Azshara from holding a grudge against his clan.
• Zul accepted his likely fate and asked Bwonsamdi for a place in his underworld palace after his death.
• The Golden Fleet set sail for Suramar under Bwonsamdi’s death blessing as Odin led the Stormforged to confront Helya.
• Helya appeared before Odin, mocked his defeat, and challenged him to enter Gorgoa and go with her to The Maw.

Odin and Hela fought over the Broken Isles until Hela dragged them into the Maw, while Daelin led his fleet against the Kvaldir. In the Maw, Diakum persuaded Zovaal to strip Hela of her death-goddess privileges before the two prepared to negotiate over their Eternal Sigils.

• Odin and Hela clashed in the waters around the Broken Isles as their armies battled, while Daelin's ships carried Sylvanas and her forces toward shore on a mission to recover Azshara's body.
• Daelin gave Sylvanas a Rebirth Medallion from her mother, and the ships witnessed Odin and Hela being swept through a rift into the River of Souls.
• Jaina reported seeing Diakum beside Zovaal in the Maw, and Daelin turned his fleet toward the Kvaldir to aid the Stormforged.
• Diakum asked Zovaal to leave Odin and Hela to their conflict but end Hela's authority over death, and Zovaal agreed to strip her privileges.
• Diakum and Zovaal raised their Eternal Sigils and prepared to discuss their competing conditions and choices.

Diakum and Zovaal negotiated over their sigils and agreed on conditions concerning the Burning Legion, the First Ones, and the cycle of life and death. When the five sigils opened a gate to Zereth Mortis, hostile constructs attacked, and a colossal Cosmic Disassembler threatened the Shadowlands and every other realm.

• Zovaal returned the Judgment heart-core to Diakum and demanded that High Heaven avoid starting wars between the Holy Light and other Forces.
• Diakum agreed to Zovaal's demand to destroy the First Ones' sepulchers and erase their traces, while asking Zovaal to free the great cycle of life and death from destiny if he reshaped reality.
• Diakum reserved his final request for Medivh and joined the five Eternal Sigils, opening a gate to Zereth Mortis.
• Constructs poured through the gate, and Zovaal warned Diakum that Force power could not harm them; Diakum destroyed them with physical strikes.
• Cosmic Disassembler Hylendus entered The Maw, and Zovaal warned Diakum that it could dismantle the Shadowlands, the material starsea, and the other Force Realms.
• Diakum called for Queen Azshara to join him and Zovaal in fighting Hylendus.

Hylendus poured into The Maw and began reclaiming mountains and living creatures as Genesis Motes, forcing Zovaal, Diakum, and Azshara to confront it. Diakum and Zovaal weakened the construct while Azshara learned the seventh-tier First Ones Runes needed to shut it down, and she collapsed from exertion after succeeding.

• Progenitors poured from Zereth Mortis and attacked the Mawsworn, while Hylendus disassembled parts of the Mountains of Pain and a drake cavalry unit into Genesis Motes.
• Diakum ordered the pursuing forces back to the Sanctum of Domination, and Medivh raised a barrier to keep them away from Hylendus.
• Zovaal warned Azshara that Zereth Mortis could produce more constructs like Hylendus, then taught her the seventh-tier rune sequence needed to break its defenses.
• Diakum damaged Hylendus and grappled with it, but the construct struck him down and began draining his energy.
• Zovaal struck Hylendus with a seventh-tier rune sequence, and Diakum pinned it down again after the blow released stored Genesis Motes.
• Azshara entered Hylendus's reclamation port and triggered another seventh-tier rune sequence, shutting it down before Diakum carried her away to recover.

Diakum discussed Queen Azshara’s coma and the First Ones Runes with Medivh, then brought Phantom Phosphor to the Runecarver to forge powerful but fragile armor and a sword. Azshara and Medivh’s attempts to record the runes left them incapacitated, while Diakum prepared to seek materials and take the next step toward confronting his destined enemy.

• An astral mage explained that Azshara had fallen into a coma from the overwhelming knowledge of the First Ones Runes, and Medivh estimated she might awaken within a day.
• Medivh urged Diakum to study the runes as a route toward becoming a true god, and Diakum agreed to pursue them while warning future Lesser Gods to take responsibility for cosmic threats.
• Medivh found Azshara awake and muttering rune formulas, began recording them, and collapsed from the strain; the Nether-Stalker also studied the formulas and became paralyzed.
• Diakum brought Phantom Phosphor to the Runecarver, who explained that he could use it to reinforce suitable weapons and armor into immensely powerful but short-lived creations.
• Diakum freed the Runecarver’s hands but refused to restore his memories or release him, warning him to act honorably in the Shadowlands and promising to use the Runecarver’s weapon against him if he did not.

Diakum and the Jailer led their allies into Zereth Mortis to confront the First Ones’ design, while the Winter Queen and the Primus prepared to join them. The chapter left Odin struggling to keep Helya alive in the River of Souls as the Primus set out for the coming war.

• The Runecarver forged Diakum a fragile creation-artifact weapon and armor, which Diakum sent ahead rather than bringing to Zereth Mortis.
• Diakum and the Jailer opened the gate with the five Eternal Sigils and led their chosen allies into Zereth Mortis.
• Lady Moonberry and Willow Wisp helped Marasmius summon the Winter Queen into the Maw, where she healed Odin and continued to the Sanctum of Domination.
• Odin dragged the dying Helya through the River of Souls toward her nest while protecting her from the frenzied dead.
• The Winter Queen freed the Runecarver from the Jailer's seal, restoring his memories and the Primus's power.
• The Primus accepted his Warstaff and agreed to accompany the Winter Queen to Zereth Mortis.

Diakum and Zovaal attacked the Forge of the Afterlife in Zereth Mortis, where Diakum’s power synchronized with the device and let him make it vanish into an eclipse-like darkness. After explaining that he had sealed the Forge away rather than destroyed it, Diakum agreed with Zovaal to delay their approach to the Sepulcher of the First Ones and let the Eternal Ones resist first.

• Azshara, Medivh, and the Nether-Stalker resonated with the Legacy Chord in Zereth Mortis until Diakum and Medivh broke the effect and Azshara proposed splitting up to seek the cipher device.
• Zovaal led Diakum and the Mawsworn toward the Forge of the Afterlife while Diakum flew ahead to fight the progenitors and First Ones’ guardians.
• Diakum’s Holy Light gave way to shadow as Zovaal’s Chains of Domination pulled at the Forge, and Diakum’s eclipse-like Voidform severed the Attendants of the Gods’ control and made the Forge disappear.
• Diakum killed an Attendant of the Gods prophet who called him An’she and The Seventh, then told Zovaal he had sealed the Forge away to keep it from falling into another’s hands.
• Zovaal accepted Diakum’s explanation, and they agreed to pause before entering the Sepulcher of the First Ones so the Eternal Ones could first demonstrate their resolve to resist.

Medivh, the Nether-Stalker, and Empress Azshara struggled against Zereth Mortis’s All Things Chord while Azshara prepared a device to reveal the First Ones’ creation secrets. Their first two performances failed, leaving them one attempt to succeed.

• The Nether-Stalker warned Medivh that the Broker scholars were being assimilated by Zereth Mortis, and Medivh used a burst of noise to briefly awaken them.
• Medivh urged the Nether-Stalker to study its Truth Shroud formulas, then joined it in answering Azshara’s call to inspect her cipher interpretation device.
• Azshara assigned the three of them separate cipher syllables and explained that they needed three performances to make the fourth syllable resonate and reveal the truth of creation.
• The Nether-Stalker insisted on participating despite its limited resistance to mistakes, and the three began playing to the tune of “Highborne Elegy.”
• Medivh’s incorrect note ruined their first attempt, and the fourth syllable’s uncontrolled resonance disrupted their second performance.
• Azshara promised to match the fourth syllable’s rhythm herself and ordered Medivh and the Nether-Stalker to try once more.

Azshara, Medivh, and the Nether-Stalker completed the Chorus of All Things in Zereth Mortis and received knowledge from the First Ones. Guided by Pokopok, they found the Creation Platform, and after Diakum demonstrated it, Azshara and the others gathered to decide who would use it first.

• Azshara, Medivh, and the Nether-Stalker completed twelve cycles of the Chorus of All Things and received knowledge tailored to each of them.
• Diakum revealed that he had guided their performance and warned Azshara that the First Ones had recognized them and granted them the possibility of surpassing their limits.
• Azshara found Pokopok, a lively creation of the First Ones, and played music for it until it led the group to a hidden valley.
• Pokopok guided Azshara and the others to the Creation Platform, which Diakum explained could create objects from a user's clear intention and suitable materials.
• Diakum used the Creation Platform to make popsicles, then warned Azshara not to take anything from Zereth Mortis before departing.
• Azshara and the others gathered around the Creation Platform, and she asked who wanted to use it first.

Diakum and Medivh entered the Genesis Keystone as Zovaal went to help the Primus and Winter Queen fight the Eternal One prototypes. Medivh then encountered Chief Architect Lihuvim, while Lihuvim addressed Diakum as An'she and questioned what had become of his cosmic radiance.

• The Jailer sealed the Sepulcher entrance and entered alone, only to find Diakum had arrived ahead of him.
• Diakum told Zovaal that Queen Azshara had deciphered the Chorus of All Things and planned to collapse Zereth Mortis by disrupting its resonance.
• Medivh arrived with a resonance device and invoked the group's outstanding request, demanding that Zovaal help his siblings defeat the prototypes.
• Diakum challenged Zovaal to protect the Shadowlands after his own possible defeat, and Zovaal went to the Eternal Ones production workshop.
• Medivh told Diakum about the wishes made by himself, the Nether-Stalker, Azshara, and Ve'nari before they entered the Genesis Keystone.
• Chief Architect Lihuvim revealed a cosmic laboratory, questioned Medivh about his soul's radiance, and then greeted Diakum as An'she.

Diakum met Lihuvim, who explained An'she’s sacrifice and offered to help if Diakum supplied a research subject. Meanwhile, the Primus and Winter Queen reached the Eternal Ones’ forging workshops and prepared to face their new prototypes, determined to end the cycle of replacement.

• Lihuvim recognized Diakum as An'she’s inheritor and offered to perfect his soul, but Diakum refused and asked about An'she.
• Lihuvim explained that An'she had sacrificed himself to contain the Sea of Darkness and that Mu'sha had kept him trapped between Radiant Sun and Eclipse.
• Lihuvim offered to solve Diakum’s problems in exchange for research cooperation, then agreed to hear Diakum’s plan if he found another suitable test subject.
• Roh-Kalo and the Attendants of the Gods fell defending the Eternal Ones’ forging workshops, allowing the Primus and Winter Queen to reach them.
• The Primus and Winter Queen opened four workshops, and the Primus said the new prototypes would replace them as the pair prepared to fight and end the cycle.

Primus and the Winter Queen fought four Eternal Ones Prototypes in Zereth Mortis as Elune, the Jailer, Diakum, and Kyrestia joined the battle. The chapter ended as the three Eternal Ones charged the prototypes and Sarkir arrived to help.

• Primus and the Winter Queen fought the Conquest, Absolution, Rebirth, and Dutifulness Prototypes while Elune's moonlight protected the Winter Queen and helped Primus damage Absolution.
• Chief Architect Lihuvim discussed leaving Zereth Mortis with Diakum, while Medivh declined its offer of help and asked Diakum to recover the Conquest Prototype's remains for Sindane.
• Diakum opened Heaven's Gate and summoned Kyrestia to support the battle, while the Jailer bound the prototypes and joined Primus and the Winter Queen.
• Primus, the Winter Queen, and the Jailer charged the prototypes together as Kyrestia blessed the battlefield and Sarkir arrived with King's Sorrow.

Sarkir joined the Eternal Ones’ battle against the Absolution Prototype, then left to decipher the First Ones Cipher while Diakum prepared for his final duel. As Azshara’s plan to collapse Zereth Mortis advanced, she and Medivh debated the Seventh and whether she should seek to become the Eighth.

• Sarkir arrived with King's Sorrow, and Sire Denathrius used the sword to help the Eternal Ones fight the Absolution Prototype and Dutifulness Prototype.
• After the battle turned in the Eternal Ones’ favor, Diakum left them to their final moments, and Sarkir went to study the First Ones Cipher.
• Sarkir warned Diakum about the powerful being that had taken a small part of him, then cautioned him against controlling the future as a god.
• Diakum sensed that Azshara had begun disrupting the Chorus of All Things and headed to the Sepulcher’s highest point for his final duel.
• The Nether-Stalker reported that Azshara’s interference would collapse Zereth Mortis within an hour, while Azshara studied a creation poem about the Seventh.
• Medivh told Azshara that the Seventh would mark a new beginning, and Azshara wondered whether becoming the Eighth could open new paths to godhood.

The Eternal Ones destroyed their replacement Prototypes, but Zovaal rejected the Primus’s offer to return and continued toward his confrontation with Diakum. Medivh helped Sin'dane claim part of an Eternal One vessel for her path to godhood, while Zovaal arrived at the Creator's Grand Design Temple prepared to die for his ideal.

• The Winter Queen killed the newly born Prototype with help from Elune’s Black Moon of War, while the other Eternal Ones held off the remaining Prototypes.
• Zovaal left the manufacturing chamber despite the Primus urging him to stay, and Denathrius mocked the Eternal Ones who remained behind.
• Medivh brought Sin'dane into the chamber to claim part of an Eternal One vessel, advising her to choose the newly born vessel’s power so she could wield both life and death.
• Sin'dane decided to follow Medivh’s advice and take the newly born vessel’s power, aiming to become a mechanics-focused Lesser God.
• Zovaal entered the Creator's Grand Design Temple and told Diakum that he had come to face him, accepting that only one of them would survive.

Diakum and Zovaal clashed over their opposing visions of how to bring peace and perfection to the cosmos. Diakum survived Zovaal’s killing blow through Light-Shadow Twinborn rebirth and gained the upper hand, leaving the Jailer caught in his attack.

• Diakum merged the Sunstrider Warhammer and Twilight Hammer with his light-and-shadow powers, then challenged Zovaal’s belief that he could create a perfect order by removing freedom.
• Zovaal revealed that he planned to erase his own emotions and selfhood after reshaping reality, becoming an impartial Arbiter who would bear everyone else’s flaws.
• Diakum and Zovaal began their duel, and Zovaal unleashed the Chains of Domination while Diakum countered with Eclipse.
• Zovaal bound Diakum with a hidden chain and cut off his head with Zovastam, but Diakum’s spirit body dispersed and then rebirthed with light and shadow swapped.
• Diakum struck Zovaal with a barrage of attacks and drew him into a storm of light and darkness, declaring that Zovaal had lost.

Diakum defeated Zovaal and revealed that Azeroth’s resistance had doomed the Jailer’s attempt to remake reality. He judged Zovaal to live countless mortal lives until he understood the order he sought, then rejected Zovaal’s prediction that he too was destined to become a martyr.

• Diakum outmatched Zovaal in hand-to-hand combat and knocked him onto the Creator’s Holy Platform, where Zovaal activated the Grand Blueprint.
• Zovaal tried to use the cosmic Energy Well to reshape reality, but Azeroth’s furious power struck him and withdrew, extinguishing the Blueprint’s energy.
• Diakum broke through Zovaal’s Chains of Domination, severed his arm, and explained that the First Ones had left the future’s choice to living beings and Azeroth.
• Zovaal accepted that his plan had failed and asked Diakum to kill him, but Diakum used the Arbiter Heart-Core’s Judgment power to sentence him to countless mortal lives.
• Diakum cast Zovaal’s soul into the star-sea to begin his mortal journey, and Zovaal warned that Diakum was also preparing to sacrifice himself.
• Diakum denied that martyrdom was his path, saying that people were still waiting for him.

Diakum uncovered how the First Ones had seeded the cosmos with worlds that might eventually birth world-souls, then joined Azeroth in destroying the Grand Design’s reality-reshaping power. He left the collapsing Sepulcher, convinced that the remaining Zereth sites still had to be destroyed.

• Diakum claimed the Jailer’s weapons and Chains of Domination as spoils, then sensed Zereth Mortis beginning to collapse.
• Diakum realized the Grand Design’s Energy Wells connected worlds created as potential incubators for world-souls and concluded the First Ones had shifted from rigid control to a more dynamic system.
• Azeroth told Diakum that Argus and K’aresh were also connected to the Grand Design, while Diakum warned that the remaining Zereth sites had to be destroyed.
• Diakum asked Azeroth to reactivate the Grand Design, then rejected its tempting power and let the world-souls’ resistance destabilize it.
• Diakum recited scripture and left the collapsing temple, heading into the Sepulcher as yellow sands swept across the sky.

Medivh and the Nether-Stalker watched Zereth Mortis collapse while Azshara secretly arranged for Pokopok to smuggle the Creation Platform into the cosmos. As the group escaped, Azshara was summoned back to her own time, and Diakum urged her to reclaim her empire and open the door for an army of the dead.

• Medivh admitted he would have used the First Ones' Grand Design to kill Sargeras and master its power, while the Nether-Stalker confessed he would have wished to regain his former curiosity.
• Azshara created a magical cap for Pokopok, appointed it guardian of the Creation Platform, and concealed it inside the machine so it could be found in the future.
• Azshara left the spire with Medivh and the Nether-Stalker as Zereth Mortis collapsed, but suddenly weakened and collapsed before they escaped through the gate.
• Medivh determined that Azshara was being summoned rather than suffering a soul collapse, and the Primus realized Frostmourne's power of Domination was pulling her spirit away.
• Diakum told Azshara to act cautiously after returning, reclaim her empire, and open the door for the army of the dead waiting to return to the sea of stars.

Kil'jaeden's invasion of Azeroth and Draenor suffered escalating losses as three distinct Swarms, a Night Warrior, and other defenders revealed new powers. In Suramar, the Magic Plague and Elisande's purge sparked a political revolt, with Etraeus calling for council rule and Queen Azshara's awakening.

• The Saviors Swarm evolved and counterattacked across Azeroth, while Kil'jaeden learned that the Swarm was incubating an Insect Saint: Leviathan in Kul Tiras.
• Kil'jaeden discovered a third Swarm on Draenor, blessed by the White Lady, and ordered his fleet to launch a final offensive using Garothi Worldbreakers.
• A Black Corrosion World-Ender transformed the Shadow Realm Swarm into a mad dragon swarm and destroyed three Garothi Worldbreaker formations, while Archbishop Nali's Night Warrior power devastated the formations on Draenor.
• Kil'jaeden recognized that the other cosmic forces were entering the war and ordered a fel ritual, a report to the Dark Titan, and a full conscription of the Twisting Nether.
• Elisande ordered the slaughter of supposed Troll spies in Suramar, but Oru'ruel and Lord Etraeus insisted they were plague-stricken elves and demanded that the city accept outside help.
• Etraeus declared temporary council rule, urged Suramar to seek aid from the other elven branches, and called for Queen Azshara to be awakened.

As Elisande lost Suramar’s support, a shadowy visitor persuaded her to see Queen Azshara as the true threat and consider using the undead to kill her. After Etraeus told Elisande that Azshara would soon return changed, Elisande remained doubtful and prepared to defend herself.

• The Mooncounty Family defected after its sisters contracted the Magic Plague, and commoners gathered at Nightwell Fortress to beg Queen Azshara for help.
• Vashj sent the Queen’s Guard into the market district to shield the infected Nightborne, while Etraeus declared his loyalty to Azshara and Elisande lost her authority.
• A shadowy figure calmed Elisande and urged her to identify Azshara as her real enemy and use the undead to assassinate the sleeping Queen.
• Elisande hesitated over betraying Azshara, but the shadow argued that she could regain control by helping the undead enter the city and then appearing to save it.
• Etraeus found Elisande speaking alone and told her that Azshara’s spirit was in the Shadowlands and that the Watchers could bring her back at midnight; Elisande responded with a pale smile.

Toserin led the Scourge into Suramar after the Nightwell shield fell, while Vashj discovered Elisande’s plan to infect the sleeping Azshara with the Magic Plague. As Toserin attacked Nightwell Fortress, Sylvanas and Liadrin defended the fleeing civilians, and Toserin struck Sylvanas down and threw her into the sea.

• Toserin led the Scourge through Suramar after its shield collapsed, intent on reaching Nightwell Fortress and delivering Frostmourne to Azshara.
• Vashj sent Varo'then to defend the market district while Sylvanas stayed to help protect the fortress and its bridge.
• Vashj found the Queen's Guards defeated and learned that Elisande had tried to infect Azshara with the Magic Plague to turn her into a Troll.
• Toserin broke through the defenders at the bridge while Sylvanas and Liadrin fought to protect the civilians fleeing toward the fortress.
• Toserin stabbed Sylvanas with Frostmourne and cast her into the sea after she spat at him.

Sylvanas survived Frostmourne’s fatal wound when her Rebirth Medallion burned away death’s influence, but she sensed the sword racing toward Azshara and urged Liadrin to stop it. Toserin broke through the defenders and stood over the sleeping queen, raising Frostmourne as he called it her coronation.

• Sylvanas’s Rebirth Medallion revived her and drove away Frostmourne’s deathly power, though the sword had taken part of her soul.
• Sylvanas warned Liadrin that Toserin was nearing Azshara and insisted they go after him; Liadrin revealed she had borrowed a relic that could summon her patron.
• Zul and the Golden Guards confronted Toserin while Princess Talanji moved Azshara from the Nightwell, but a demon’s attack let Toserin press onward.
• Liadrin summoned Diakum’s radiant incarnation with the severed-hand relic, and it clashed with Frostmourne’s sword spirit.
• Toserin broke through the defenders, froze Princess Talanji, and raised Frostmourne over the sleeping Azshara, calling it her coronation.

Azshara awakened after Frostmourne pierced her heart, reclaimed control of the Nightwell, and sent Remornia to destroy the invaders threatening Suramar. As her people began to rally, Vashj brought Elisande to the Queen and was summoned to her side.

• Gul'dan used Toserin to deliver Frostmourne to Azshara, but Bwonsamdi held the blade back while Talanji struck Azshara awake.
• Azshara healed her wound, removed Frostmourne's Domination power, and Remornia severed the Lich King's control of the sword.
• Azshara ordered Remornia to slaughter the enemies in Suramar, and the blade tore through the undead and demons as the elves counterattacked.
• Azshara restored the Nightwell barrier, trapping the invaders inside the city and blocking more from entering.
• Vashj brought the defeated Elisande to Azshara, who called her beloved maidservant to come closer.

Azshara reunited with Vashj and judged Elisande and Toserin for Suramar’s decline, promising to cure the Nightborne’s Magic Addiction and plague. Zul and Talanji then urged her to abandon rebuilding the elven empire and rule the Zandalar Empire, claiming trolls were destined to evolve into elves.

• Azshara accepted Vashj’s transformed combat form and thanked her for protecting her over ten thousand years.
• Azshara restored the Vigilant incarnation’s connection to Diakum, who urged it to go to Northrend and open the Veil of Life and Death with the Helm of Domination.
• Azshara restrained Elisande and Toserin and condemned them for failing to protect Suramar and its people.
• Elisande and Toserin accused Azshara of causing the empire’s ruin, while Toserin warned that the Magic Plague was rapidly changing the Nightborne.
• Azshara promised to cure the Magic Plague and Magic Addiction and make Elisande and Toserin help atone to their subjects.
• Zul argued that the Magic Plague could redeem the elves, and Talanji urged Azshara to rule the Zandalar Empire as Zul claimed trolls were fated to evolve into elves.