Chapter Summaries

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.

Diakum and the Kaldorei learned that the Magic Plague was driving infected elves toward despair, while the Thousand-Eyed Demon lured them into the Void by restoring their elven appearance. As the Kaldorei prepared to seek a cure, Diakum faced a new temptation to use the Curse of Flesh to save the transformed elves.

• Vastann Staghelm told Diakum that the Thousand-Eyed Demon had offered to restore his form, but he had refused and feared other warriors would defect.
• Fandral Staghelm arrived, comforted his degraded son, and ordered the Kaldorei to open dream paths to bring Spriggan sages from Elwynn Forest to help stop the plague.
• Neri sent word that Void cultists were conducting sacrifices at Southwind Village, so Diakum, Aegwynn, and Master Lathorius went there to intervene.
• Diakum and Neri defeated a Void-blessed insectoid lord and discovered that deserter guardians had regained elven bodies by embracing the Void.
• A captured cultist urged infected elves to choose between becoming Dark Trolls or joining the Void, and Lathorius feared the plague would affect all elves.
• Shadow Word tempted Diakum to learn the Curse of Flesh and use it to save the newly transformed elves, leaving him to consider his response.

After learning that the Magic Plague was turning elves into Dark Troll, Rastakhan and his court debated how Zandalar should respond. Zul planned an expedition to Silithus to confront the danger there and seek an alliance with the Kaldorei, leaving with Princess Talanji and the Sandfury Clan tasked with preparing an army and a divine sword.

• Zum'rahn recounted how the Magic Plague had transformed the Shifting Sands Guardian in Silithus into Dark Troll, prompting Zandalar's nobles to celebrate and propose welcoming the elves back into the empire.
• Zum'rahn warned Rastakhan that the plague had infected Kaldorei cities across Kalimdor and could produce Dark Troll elsewhere within twenty days.
• Princess Talanji urged Rastakhan to invite the Dark Troll back, but Zul warned that a crude edict could offend the elves and proposed sending an expedition to Silithus instead.
• Rastakhan ordered Zul to lead the mission with a Golden Fleet vanguard and promised the Sandfury Clan a new island home if the Qiraji were defeated.
• Talanji joined Zul's expedition, and Zul ordered Zum'rahn to assemble thirty thousand warriors and secure The Lash for the princess.
• After Zum'rahn left to prepare, Zul told his disciples that he could not read fate but had seen a storm approaching, and ordered them to ready the Golden Fleet.

Kur'talos Ravencrest deciphered the Zandalari inscriptions, realized the trolls wanted an alliance against the Qiraji, and warned the other elven factions that Magic Plague could transform elves into Dark Trolls. Farodis and Anasterian then urgently sought Diakum's help securing Spriggan healers, fearing the plague could bring down the Phoenix Dynasty.

• Kur'talos compared the Zandalari war inscription with his old diary and concluded that the Qiraji were remnants of the Aqir Empire, whose ancient god threatened both trolls and elves.
• After receiving Lathorius's report about the Void-powered transformation of Dark Trolls into elves, Kur'talos recognized that the trolls were proposing an alliance against the shared enemy.
• Kur'talos decided to warn the other elven factions about the transformation risk and sent urgent letters to their leaders.
• Farodis contacted Diakum in Silithus and demanded Draenor's coordinates after learning that advanced Magic Plague could turn elves into Dark Trolls.
• Diakum told Farodis that Spriggans were distributing a cure and that the Book of Medivh could eventually enable their arrival in greater numbers.
• Anasterian pledged Quel'Thalas's support for Diakum's mission and asked him to secure full Spriggan aid once the Dark Portal was established, warning that the Phoenix Dynasty risked collapse.

Diakum and his allies realized the Magic Plague threatened the Magic-addicted High Elves and Highborne far sooner than the Kaldorei, while Bwonsamdi revealed new troll reinforcements and warned Diakum about the Shadowlands. In Quel'Thalas, Anasterian mobilized his court to recover the Book of Medivh and secure aid, while Farodis prepared to seek Diakum's help against the plague.

• Neri, Diakum, Yrel, Maraad, and Rexxar concluded that the High Elves and Highborne would transform into Dark Trolls faster than the Kaldorei because Magic Addiction had weakened their bodies.
• Shadow Word told Diakum that he might use the Curse of Flesh to give the transformed elves another chance, and Diakum returned to practicing the void divine arts.
• Bwonsamdi reported that Zandalari forces and the Sandfury Clan were heading toward Silithus, celebrated the return of the ancient Dark Troll tribe, and warned Diakum that a Gurubashi hex master had joined the Orc warlocks in the Black Morass.
• Bwonsamdi cautioned Diakum that the Shadowlands had watched the Eredar for a long time and that their immortality might provoke the powers governing life and death.
• Anasterian dispatched Salorian and Sanguinar to recover the Book of Medivh, while Kael'thas reported that Daval Prestor would provide the grimoire and had identified locations of missing pages.
• Farodis told Kael'thas to travel with his fiancée, take a Spriggan natural seed, and seek an Arcan'dor fruit, then prepared to meet Diakum and ask him to help save the High Elves and Highborne from the Magic Plague.

Diakum struggled to learn Flesh Remolding before meeting Farodis and three powerful Highborne leaders, who sought help against the Magic Plague. As he negotiated a practical plan with Toserin and General Staghelm, the Troll Empire prepared to join the war, deepening tensions over the fate of the elves.

• Diakum failed to reshape a mutant bug properly, and Shadow Word urged him to study the Qiraji and use the Void with clear purpose.
• Yrel told Diakum that Farodis had arrived with Prince Toserin, Dean Elya Blue Moon, and Lady Sundaralar, who gathered to discuss the Magic Plague.
• Lady Sundaralar reported that the Lightforged were based in her city, aiding her people and preparing to attack Drak'Tharon Keep with General Ristalan.
• Toserin asked whether the Spriggans could protect all infected Highborne, and Diakum warned that some might still become Dark Trolls.
• Toserin said the elves needed to obtain the secret of fallen shaping for themselves, and Diakum proposed private talks while cautioning him not to confuse the Void with the Old Gods.
• Diakum told Farodis that the Troll Empire would support the war, prompting Farodis to reject any troll claim over the Dark Trolls; Diakum then took Toserin and General Staghelm aside to discuss cooperation.

Diakum offered the Highborne a Void Ascension Ritual to protect elves from the Magic Plague, while Toserin agreed to help complete it but withheld judgment. Staghelm chose to undergo the dangerous path of Light and shadow to reclaim his elven form, and Diakum prepared to meet C'Thun.

• Diakum rejected Shadow Word's plan to use the Spriggans to force Azeroth's factions into unity and focused on finding a faster way to combat the Magic Plague.
• Toserin examined Diakum's proposed Void Ascension Ritual, agreed to help complete it, and said the Highborne would discuss whether to accept it.
• Toserin told Diakum that Elisande had isolated Suramar behind its night shield and refused to join the effort to save the other elves.
• Diakum explained that the Void ritual could protect infected elves before they transformed, while Staghelm would need the more dangerous Curse of Flesh to regain his elven appearance.
• Staghelm rejected becoming a Dark Troll, crushed Yrel's mirror, and then chose to take hold of the Twilight Hammer and enter the path of Light and shadow.
• Shadow Word told Diakum that C'Thun wanted to speak with him, and Diakum agreed to meet the Thousand-Eyed Demon before the coming conflict.

Diakum rejected C'Thun’s offer and declared war on the Old God, which was corrupting Azeroth’s World Soul. As Oreses’s Lightforged fleet traveled to support him, she suspected Diakum was being drawn toward darkness, while her companions defended him and prepared for battle.

• C'Thun appeared to Diakum in Silithus, offered him power and Qiraji forces, and ordered him to leave the Qiraji Empire’s territory.
• Diakum refused C'Thun’s bargain, accused it of corrupting Azeroth’s World Soul, and challenged it to war.
• Oreses learned that her fleet would reach Azeroth soon and that Diakum was preparing to fight an Old God.
• Oreses questioned whether Diakum’s trial against C'Thun meant he was approaching corruption, but A'dal told her to trust him.
• Oreses warned five commanders that they might have to fight Diakum if darkness claimed him, and Fareeya and Imira rebuked her.
• The commanders planned to deploy to Azeroth, establish psychic defenses, and fight C'Thun’s insect swarm alongside Diakum.

Diakum reassured Archdruid Staghelm that General Staghelm could still turn back from the Void, then awaited reinforcements for the coming battle against C’Thun. When Garrosh and Cairne Bloodhoof arrived with plague-stricken Tauren refugees, Diakum healed Dezco, whose followers recognized him as An’she’s messenger, while the Holy Light and the Void continued vying for his allegiance.

• General Staghelm told his father he had chosen the shadows to seek a way to cure his afflicted people, and Diakum said the general could still return to the light.
• Old Staghelm explained that the Moon Guard, Watchers, Druids, and Moon Priestesses would support the war, while Diakum said Draenei reinforcements were on their way and warned that a demonic invasion could follow the Magic Plague.
• Diakum reshaped a Qiraji worker bug into Zergling One, which attacked its former nest and died after killing three soldier bugs.
• Garrosh, Gaiara, and Cairne Bloodhoof arrived with Tauren refugees after undead Centaur drove them from Desolace, where the living Centaur were also joining the Burning Legion.
• Diakum healed the plague-stricken Dezco and other Tauren with the Holy Light, and Dezco declared Diakum An’she’s messenger as his followers knelt before him.
• The Holy Light answered Diakum’s reassurance with a brighter radiance, while Shadow Word urged him to defeat C’Thun and embrace the Void’s path to creation.

At Cenarion Hold, druids discussed the spreading demon threat before Old Staghelm rescued Rexxar from a nightmare rift. Rexxar emerged with a wounded brown bear who was revealed to be a druid warrior trapped since the War of the Shifting Sands, while Hamul Runetotem received an invitation to follow Rukhmar as a Sun Druid.

• Broll Bearmantle warned Old Staghelm that demons threatened Felwood and Mount Hyjal, while Hamul Runetotem reported demonic corruption in Desolace.
• Hamul and Old Staghelm sensed a disturbance in the Emerald Dream and found Rexxar trapped near a Dream Rift, guarded by Halasa and Rukhran.
• As Hamul watched Rukhran, a crow representing Rukhmar invited him to become a Sun Druid in Azeroth.
• Old Staghelm entered the nightmare rift and helped Rexxar escape C'Thun's realm after Rexxar rescued a wounded brown bear.
• Old Staghelm recognized the bear as a druid warrior trapped since the War of the Shifting Sands, and said she trusted only Rexxar.
• Hamul told Old Staghelm that he had received an invitation to follow the path of the Sun Druid, leaving his senior brother astonished.

Rexxar joined the campaign against the Qiraji after taming a bear who had once been an elven Archdruid, while Diakum prepared to lead the army and guide the Highborne’s planned shadow ascension. The Qiraji broke through the Scarab Wall, and Zul revealed that Zandalar faced an even more dangerous Old God imprisoned beneath Talanji’s father’s throne.

• Rexxar woke beside the brown bear he had rescued, named her Misha, and agreed to fight alongside the druids against the Qiraji.
• Diakum explained to Neri that Misha was an Archdruid transformed by C’Thun’s nightmare, then accepted the Highborne leaders’ plan to make him the beacon for their shadow ascension.
• Diakum gave Neri the fleet’s positioning beacon, and Staghelm led the Kaldorei, trolls, and allied forces toward the Scarab Wall.
• Chromie and Tarecgosa discussed the altered timeline, and Tarecgosa reported hearing a faint, pained voice in Silithus.
• C’Thun empowered the Qiraji and sent the Twin Emperors, flying swarms, and corrupted Anubisath giants through the crumbling Scarab Wall.
• Zul and Talanji learned of the Qiraji assault, and Zul said the Old God imprisoned beneath Talanji’s father’s throne was more dangerous than C’Thun.