Chapter Summaries

As Stormwind prepared for a Gnoll and Orc assault, Diakum promised to seek a cure for the Magic Plague and agreed to empower human warriors through the Holy Light. The chapter ended with Fenris Wolfvein ordering Hogger to storm Stormwind and sending the Blacktooth Grin Clan to seize Westfall.

• Stormwind evacuated Goldshire, sent civilians to Northshire Abbey, and prepared to defend the city while King Llane and his commanders discussed the Magic Plague and Kul Tiras's infected fleet.
• Diakum urged King Llane to seek aid from Kul Tiras and promised to bring back a Spriggan sage within fifteen days; Shadow Word encouraged Diakum to use the crisis to advance his goals.
• General Lirath and Archbishop Neri reported that Hogger had united the Gnolls, the Orcs had received weapons from goblins, and Orgrim Doomhammer had sent forces toward the Burning Steppes.
• Aegwynn warned Diakum that the Tomb of Sargeras seal would release in thirty-six hours, and Anduin Lothar and King Llane chose to become Holy Light warriors alongside Stormwind's soldiers.
• Anduin Lothar reported that Stormwind lacked food and that Westfall's routes were blocked, so Fenris Wolfvein ordered the Blacktooth Grin Clan to attack Westfall from the sea and Hogger to assault Stormwind directly.

Major Windsor and the defenders repelled a Gnoll assault and slew an attacking demon dragon, but the losses drove Stormwind’s warriors to prepare for a Holy Light consecration. Varian Wrynn, barred from becoming a paladin, touched Flame Blade and awakened a faint flame, suggesting his power as a warrior was beginning to emerge.

• Major Windsor rallied his soldiers, killed the Gnoll warlord with Dwarven explosives, and helped drive the attackers from his section of Stormwind’s wall.
• A demon dragon and Dragonmaw Orcs struck the wall, but General Lirath Windrunner, Alleria, Khadgar, and Windsor brought the dragon down; Windsor’s adjutant died from his wounds.
• Khadgar took over the wall as elven Farstriders arrived, and Windsor went to Stormwind Cathedral, where Lothar gathered the warriors for Diakum’s consecration ritual.
• Natalie Seline chose to become a Holy Light knight, while King Llane refused Varian permission to join the battle and sent him to prepare for a mission to Draenor.
• Varian pleaded with Diakum to let him touch Flame Blade again, and a faint flame rose from the sword when he placed his hand on it.

Varian Wrynn awakened the Blademaster inheritance, while Diakum consecrated Stormwind’s warriors as paladins. At Stormwind’s walls, Daenerys and Sylvanas fought Hogger and the invading Orcs until Lothar’s paladins arrived to face a new army of death knights and corpses.

• Varian Wrynn activated the warrior inheritance in the Blademaster’s Blade, and Dick sent him with Tila Saran to Draenor carrying a fragment of Naaru Kara.
• Diakum consecrated more than six hundred warriors, guiding them onto individual Holy Light paths shaped by their vows.
• Hogger led the Gnolls in taking part of Stormwind’s wall, where Daenerys fought him and Sylvanas shot down the Orcs climbing up.
• Millhouse Manastorm and Khadgar struck the attackers with spells, while Daenerys drew the Barbarian Lord Battleaxe and forced Hogger to flee.
• Dragonmaw warlocks unleashed Hellfire as death knights and a horde of corpses approached Stormwind, and Lothar led the newly ordained paladins onto the walls.
• Lothar returned Daenerys’s Phoenix Warblade, and the two agreed to remain comrades-in-arms as they faced the enemy.

Chromie urged the powerless Tarecgosa to help defend Stormwind while Diakum rested, distributed weapons, and prepared to leave for the Tomb of Sargeras. After arriving at the Broken Shore, Diakum found Yrel’s Shal’dorei converts feeding on Holy Light and decided they could become warriors with proper discipline.

• Chromie recorded the emergence of the Holy Light and Death Force, then pushed Tarecgosa to use her remaining casting talent to defend Stormwind.
• Diakum explained to Neri that he had consecrated new human paladins and worried whether Stormwind could survive without him.
• Griselda Blackhand offered Diakum four weapons, asked to study the Blademaster inheritance, and left with the Flame Blade; Diakum suspected she planned to deal with Rend and Maim herself.
• Neri took the Stringsong Longbow and set out with Gola and Holy Sun to fight on Stormwind’s battlefield while Diakum rested.
• Aegwynn questioned Yrel about the Shal’dorei’s Holy Light conversion as the elves fed one another motes of light.
• Diakum and Neri arrived at the Broken Shore, where Diakum kicked away Runas as he tried to feast on Diakum’s Light and decided the Light Eaters needed discipline, not punishment.

Diakum led Aegwynn, Yrel, and Neri into the Tomb of Sargeras, where he sought help from the Naga to reach an ancient battlefield and deal with the group following them. Elsewhere, Xal'atath tempted the Arakkoa warlock Eska to embrace the Void and become a new dark sun.

• Aegwynn and Diakum discussed the escalating conflict in Stormwind and the danger it foretold, then sent magic-addicted Nightborne to Karazhan to assist Moroes and train under Yrel.
• Aegwynn opened a portal to the Tomb of Sargeras, where Diakum noted that several factions were watching their expedition and chose a route toward people who needed help.
• Diakum used the Twilight Hammer to make a group of Deep Sea Murlocs summon their Matriarch, Sasilin, and she agreed to guide him through Naga territory.
• Sasilin offered Diakum Naga maidens and joked about his reputation as the Holy Gun, prompting Neri to intervene before Diakum told Sasilin to lead them to an ancient battlefield and handle their pursuers.
• Xal'atath spoke through a dark dagger to Eska, promising to cure his clan and help fulfill his wish to resurrect the Sun God if he embraced the Void.

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.