Chapter Summaries

Diakum led the allied armies through the Scarab Wall and toward the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, while his Lightforged fleet arrived to bombard the Qiraji stronghold. The chapter ended with Diakum advancing toward the collapsing temple to confront C'Thun.

• Sandfury Trolls, Loa, Kaldorei, Tauren, and Mag'har fought the Qiraji swarm as Diakum burned through the enemy ranks with Holy Light.
• Garrod Shadowsong told Shandris Feathermoon that Diakum had a larger plan and likely intended a decisive strike against the Old God.
• Old Staghelm struck the Scarab Gong, opening the Scarab Wall, and Diakum killed Ossirian the Unscarred as the allied forces charged into the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj.
• Archbishop Saloras brought Light's Judgment and its escort ships into Azeroth after Archbishop Neri called for support.
• Light's Judgment bombarded the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, and Diakum advanced toward the collapsing stronghold as the Qiraji fled.

The Army of the Light arrived at the Qiraji battlefield and joined the assault, while Diakum reunited with his former disciple Tramon and descended toward C'Thun. Saloras and Oreses unleashed their powers against the swarm, then set out to reach Diakum as Saloras warned that his battle with C'Thun could leave him lost to the Void.

• Yrel watched Light's Judgment strike the battlefield, then followed Maraad and the Mag'har to join the Army of the Light's assault squads.
• Fareeya welcomed Maraad and Yrel, and the Lightforged charged through the Qiraji forces with support from war mechs and escort ships.
• Garrosh admired the Lightforged's warriors and told Gaiara that their power showed what Mag'har soldiers should strive to become.
• Tramon reunited with Diakum, who appointed him as his assault adjutant and explained that they needed to kill C'Thun to earn Argus the right to meet his sister.
• Saloras and Oreses arrived beside the Three Auspicious Treasures, and Saloras's Mind Storm wiped out a unit of insects while Zul lost his voodoo avatar.
• Saloras told Oreses that Diakum had begun the Lightless Ritual and might fall into the Void, then hurried with her sister to bring him back.

Diakum defeated Fankriss and entered the depths of Ahn'Qiraj, leaving Tramon and the Army of the Light to face the temple’s other defenders. After defeating Ouro and bypassing the twins who tried to stop him, Diakum headed toward C'Thun, where the Lightless Ritual awaited.

• Diakum incinerated Fankriss and the explosive insects, then entrusted Tramon with the Flame Blade and ordered him to lead the others away from the battle with C'Thun.
• Tramon assigned Fareeya and Barat to hunt Princess Huhuran and sent the others to confront the Twin Emperors, while Fareeya’s group joined forces with Farodis and the demigod spellcasters.
• Imira offered Garrosh a solar battle axe powered by a Naaru’s bombardment, and Garrosh volunteered to use it against the Twin Emperors.
• Diakum defeated Ouro with a Mental Storm, but Saloras and Oreses blocked his path and warned that entering the Lightless Ritual could cost him his life.
• Diakum summoned Bwonsamdi, Zul, and Talanji, suppressed the twins’ connection to the Holy Light, and pushed past them toward C'Thun’s temple.

Diakum entered C'Thun's prison to begin the Lightless Ritual, determined to face the Void without abandoning his purpose. After shattering C'Thun's dark shell with Holy Light, he revealed the Old God's true body and began the next stage of the battle with Void allies.

• Diakum rejected Shadow Word's warnings and explained that he had entered the darkness to stop tragedies and clear C'Thun from the path between Argus and Azeroth.
• Diakum reshaped his body with Curse of Flesh to increase his agility, then received Holy Light's remaining blessings before opening C'Thun's prison.
• Diakum fought C'Thun as a Giant of Light and used Taeshalach Swordsmanship and Primordial Fire to shatter the Old God's dark shell.
• Diakum's Giant of Light form collapsed and Ashbringer fractured, but C'Thun's tentacles emerged to reveal that its true body remained intact.
• Diakum entered Voidform with Twilight Hammer and Kazzak's Soul Resonator Staff, then summoned Faceless Ones and K'xir to fight C'Thun.

Diakum fought C'Thun in the Lightless Ritual, drawing on Argus’s power and the Twilight Hammer to badly wound the Old God before C'Thun swallowed him. Inside C'Thun, Diakum chose to activate Ancient Frenzy and absorb three Crowns of Light, leaving his fate uncertain.

• C'Thun struck Diakum with a Twilight Eye Beam that threatened to drive him mad, so Argus burned its remaining will to empower him.
• Diakum unleashed Twilight That Severs All Things, blasting away much of C'Thun’s body, but C'Thun swallowed him after the attack left him weakened.
• Shadow Word revealed that the Void sovereigns had planned for C'Thun to devour Diakum and be destroyed from within.
• Argus warned Diakum that Ancient Frenzy would corrupt him if he devoured an Old God while enraged.
• Diakum said he had planned for this possibility, absorbed the three Crowns of Light, and activated Ancient Frenzy inside C'Thun.

Diakum fought C’Thun while the Void Lords watched, but his Naaru bloodline stopped his body from being forcibly corrupted. Trapped in a trial within his own mind, he discovered that Light-Shadow Twinborn meant choosing how to use any power, then extinguished the Holy Light’s last spark and prepared to create his own light.

• Diakum’s Ancient Frenzy drove him to devour C’Thun’s Void Authority, while C’Thun could not call for help from the Void Lords or summon a demigod.
• Shadow Word and the Void Lords realized Diakum was resisting corruption because his Naaru bloodline was rapidly awakening, though they believed he could still fall into despair and become a Void Herald.
• Diakum awoke in his gray mental world and reviewed the insights in his holy covenant, searching for the answer to his Light-Shadow Twinborn trial.
• Diakum realized that his identity and choices mattered more than whether he wielded the Holy Light or the Void, and he wrote a final verse in his Light-Shadow Sacred Pact.
• Diakum thanked the Holy Light, extinguished its last spark within himself, and declared, “Let there be light!”

Diakum emerged from C'Thun's corpse as a Devourer of Worlds, then awakened his power as a Radiant Holy Spirit who could wield both light and shadow. He left the ruined Temple of Ahn'Qiraj with the Twilight Hammer and Ashbringer, while the Void Lords warned that they would keep waiting for him to fall.

• C'Thun lay dead as Diakum's Dark Cocoon fed on its remains and the Twilight Hammer gorged itself on the Black Blood Pool.
• The cocoon opened, revealing Diakum as an infant Devourer of Worlds, and the Void Lords discussed his future rivalry with Dymus.
• Shadow Word touched Diakum to awaken him, but Diakum's Holy Light erupted and dispersed the shadows around him.
• Diakum transformed into a Radiant Holy Spirit, purified the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, and chose to spare Shadow Word after learning what it was.
• The Void Lords warned Diakum that he would face the temptations of both light and shadow and predicted he would eventually join them.
• Diakum answered that he would serve the Holy Light even if he fell into darkness, accepted the Void Lords' applause, and departed with the Twilight Hammer and Ashbringer.

Diakum collected C'Thun’s remains, chose the name Light Weaver for his new faith faction, and considered building a Void-aligned swarm. He found the trapped dragons Mylune and Alestrasza in the ruined temple and offered Alestrasza help with a rescue plan for black dragons.

• Diakum returned to C'Thun’s remains and gathered materials to craft equipment for his allies and the Lightforged.
• Diakum reviewed his new demigod abilities, chose Grand Lord of Holy Oaths as his Mythic Class, and named his Faith Faction Light Weaver.
• The Holy Light and Void factions reacted with suspicion to Light Weaver, while Diakum waited in vain for new followers to join.
• Shadow Word urged Diakum to use the Curse of Flesh to build a Void-aligned swarm, and Diakum considered creating a Queen of Blades or Great Devourer.
• Diakum entered the collapsed temple with his fifty sword-bearing guards, found Mylune and Alestrasza trapped by C'Thun’s curse, and offered Alestrasza help with a black dragon rescue plan.

Diakum returned as a newborn humanoid Naaru after defeating C'Thun, and he declared victory in the War of the Shifting Sands. He invited the leaders and demigods to remain in Silithus for a matter concerning the world's fate, while Chromie prepared Tarecgosa for a journey to meet Azeroth's Star Soul.

• Shandris Feathermoon watched the battle's aftermath from the Tempest Keep as the Qiraji ruins were transformed by the clash of light and shadow.
• Yrel, Maraad, and the Lightforged sang hymns as they shared in Diakum's revelations, while the Twins recognized that he had discovered a new path between light and shadow.
• Diakum returned in a radiant humanoid Naaru form, embraced Neri, and announced that C'Thun had been slain and the Qiraji defeated.
• Diakum asked Zul, Talanji, the elves, and the demigods to remain in Silithus, then summoned the Twins for a private talk.
• Chromie told Tarecgosa that Mylune and Alestrasza had joined the Dragon Travel Group and could not leave Silithus because of Diakum's shadow marks.
• Chromie told Tarecgosa to prepare for the journey to the Chamber of Heart and the meeting with Azeroth's Star Soul.

Diakum confronted Saloras and Oreses about their devotion to Xe'ra, but they defended the Army of the Light's methods and insisted he was the prophesied Light-Dark Child. After postponing their disagreement until they could meet Azeroth’s Star Soul, Diakum began cleansing Onyxia’s Void corruption and preparing to reshape her body.

• Diakum, Neri, and the Five Little Powerhouses urged Saloras and Oreses to break their connection to Xe'ra, while the Twins defended the Army of the Light’s forced Lightforging of dissenters.
• Saloras and Oreses revealed that Xe'ra had identified Diakum as the prophesied Light-Dark Child, and Diakum agreed to show them the consequences of their choices by meeting Azeroth’s Star Soul.
• The Twins refused to sever their connection to Xe'ra and left, while Diakum told the others to prepare for the meeting and promised the Shifting Sands Guardians a Shadow Ascension ritual.
• Diakum asked Neri to take Onyxia to a sealed hangar so he could cleanse her before bringing her to the Star Soul.
• Onyxia misunderstood Diakum’s order to transform, then revealed her dragon form as Diakum prepared to remove her Void corruption and offered her a choice of new appearances.

Diakum reshaped Onyxia into a powerful Nergigante-like black dragon and prepared to Lightforge her, while Shadow Word urged him to take a larger role directing Azeroth’s dragons. At Cenarion Hold, General Vastann Staghelm emerged transformed back into an elf, and his relieved family and the Shifting Sands Guardians celebrated.

• Onyxia chose a melee-focused Creature Template, and Diakum purified her corruption and rebuilt her body into a spiked Nergigante with a hidden Ruiner Nergigante form.
• Shadow Word encouraged Diakum to oversee the dragons and recruit Deathwing, while explaining that he would become the Void Herald as Ren'dorei followed his path.
• Onyxia awoke in her new body, agreed to be Lightforged, and startled Neri with her altered appearance.
• At Cenarion Hold, Old Staghelm waited anxiously as General Vastann Staghelm emerged from the ritual restored to an elf’s body.
• The Shifting Sands Guardians knelt in gratitude, and the Highborne leaders recognized that the Ascension Ritual had succeeded.

After unlocking paired Void Herald and Light Oath Lord classes, Diakum appointed the Burning Legion as his followers’ enemy and the Shifting Sands Guardians became Shadewalkers. He blessed their first demon hunt, then the Guardians planned to gather more recruits in the Broken Isles while Diakum prepared to meet the Star Soul Lord.

• Diakum unlocked the Void Herald and Light Oath Lord classes, then declared the Burning Legion the Shadewalkers’ enemy and ordered them to hunt demons.
• Vastann Staghelm led the Shifting Sands Guardians to Un'Goro Crater, where they killed a succubus and her felhound and offered the demon’s soul to Diakum.
• Diakum answered the Guardians’ summons, blessed them with the Eye of Truth, and learned that granting blessings consumed his Faith Power.
• Staghelm and his commanders decided to seek the Ren'dorei in the Broken Isles and grow the Shadewalker Cult after reporting to General Feathermoon and the Black Crow King.
• Aegwynn told Diakum that the path to the Chamber of Heart had opened, and he summoned his allies to meet the Star Soul Lord.

The chapter detailed Diakum’s Mythic Class [Void Herald], Radiant Holy Spirit, and Devourer of Worlds traits, along with the state of his Light Weaver faction. It left him warned to consider his enemies and complete his faction’s regulations, while his Devourer form remained a danger to the universe.

• Diakum’s Void Herald traits replaced Shadow Word with Twilight, empowered his spells and followers, and allowed him to establish a Void faction.
• Diakum’s Light Weaver faction had Lightsworn and Shadewalker branches, 557 Shifting Sands Guardians, and several unfinished leadership, ritual, and doctrine decisions.
• The class evaluation advised Diakum to consider his most dangerous enemy and warned that Xal'atath might be spying on him.
• Diakum’s Radiant Holy Spirit traits gave him vast Holy Light power and authority, while fatal damage could turn him into a Devourer of Worlds.
• Diakum’s Devourer of Worlds form could absorb energy, transform onlookers into Void creatures, and grow by devouring worlds, but doing so would draw the hostility of powerful beings.

Diakum activated the Heart of Azeroth and reunited Azeroth with the weakened Argus Lord, then used their power to recover some of Argus’s scattered will fragments. After sensing that Azeroth was weakened by arcane, Void, and death forces, Diakum resolved to help her.

• Diakum told the Five Young Champions that they could join his Holy Light faction and ordered them to escort A'dal the Exalted and its followers to Draenor while keeping the Eredar’s secret weapon hidden.
• Diakum entered the Chamber of Heart with Aegwynn and the others, absorbed its lingering Void Entropy, and found the Heart of Azeroth in the remains of the Titan Guardian Vanir.
• Diakum placed the Heart of Azeroth in the Titan Console, allowing Azeroth to contact and begin healing her brother, the Argus Lord.
• Diakum asked Azeroth to help recover Argus’s scattered will fragments, then used the Argus Hearts as a network to locate and retrieve some of them across the Star Sea.
• Diakum sensed that Azeroth remained dangerously weak and said he would help her withstand the arcane, Void, and death forces afflicting her.

Chromie chose to abandon the Bronze Dragonflight’s Titan-serving timeline and seek forgiveness from Azeroth, while the Star Soul revealed that a hidden death-force threat in Pandaria was draining her life. Azeroth gave Chromie and the dragons one final chance to serve as her guardians and help free her.

• Chromie decided to resign from the Bronze Dragonflight, leave the Titans’ timeline, and invite her kin to join her in serving Azeroth.
• Azeroth healed Argus with her World Power, then manifested before the gathered Eredar and asked them to find the death-force evil draining her life.
• Azeroth identified the hidden rift in Pandaria as the source of the threat and ordered Diakum and his allies to remove it.
• Chromie revealed herself, apologized to Azeroth, and asked to become her true guardian, but Azeroth rebuked the Bronze Dragons for serving the Titans and preserving their order.
• Diakum defended Chromie and proposed rebuilding a dragon force loyal to Azeroth, including guiding the Incarnate Dragons and restoring Chromie as a Time Guardian.
• Azeroth agreed to give the dragons one final chance to serve her, warning that she would never forgive another betrayal.

Azeroth revealed the Titans’ control over her and the dragons, then chose Magna Aegwynn as her new World Spokesperson and gave her the Heart of Azeroth. As Aegwynn began a painful transformation, Azeroth prepared to meet the troll and elf leaders, while the Loa hurried across the desert to seek her recognition.

• Azeroth severed Chromie from the Titans’ timeline network and gave her true authority over time, while explaining that the Titans had tried to impose Order on her and planned to destroy life they deemed defective.
• Azeroth told Diakum that Azshara had once been her spokesperson but had betrayed her, then chose Magna Aegwynn to serve as her new World Spokesperson.
• Aegwynn accepted the role, took the empowered Heart of Azeroth, and began the painful process of transforming her body to bear the World Power alone.
• Diakum urged Azeroth to meet the troll and elf leaders, and she questioned whether she could trust him before he promised to prove his intentions through his actions.
• The Loa sensed Azeroth’s awakening and rushed toward her manifestation, while Pa'ku, Zul, and Talanji prepared to pay homage to the World Will.

Azeroth’s World Soul reprimanded the elves for past and present harms, then praised the Zandalari trolls and granted them Azerite and recognition as World Guardians. The trolls and Loa left empowered, while Kur'talos faced the prospect that the Kaldorei might have to give up their World Tree’s Eternal Life.

• Princess Talanji wanted the trolls to reach Azeroth before the elves, but Zul told her to stay devout and let their rivals make mistakes.
• Azeroth condemned the Highborne and High Elf leaders for the Well of Eternity’s destruction and their continued dependence on magical power.
• Azeroth rebuked Kur'talos and the Kaldorei for Nordrassil’s drain on World Power and the dangers hidden in their Eternal Life.
• Azeroth praised the Zandalari for guarding against Titan-made threats and defeating the Aqir, while warning them against division and past alliances with a tyrant.
• Diakum gave Zul Azerite crystals and announced that the Zandalari would be recognized as World Guardians, with a Star Soul Spokesperson to visit them.
• The Loa celebrated their new access to the Emerald Dream and Azerite, while Rezan urged them to earn recognition as Guardian Holy Spirits.

Farodis explained his plan to reduce elven Magic Addiction through generations of mixed ancestry, while Diakum helped the Black Crow King turn Nordrassil into a target for the coming demonic invasion. In the Chamber of Heart, Tarecgosa pledged herself to Azeroth’s Star Soul and regained her ley-line powers, while the other dragons were sent to investigate the Titans’ actions.

• Farodis told Diakum that his experiments showed half-elves suffered less severely from Magic Addiction and that he planned to integrate the High Elves with the Arathor people, even if Quel'Thalas lost its autonomy.
• Diakum advised the Black Crow King to let the demons target Nordrassil, and the king accepted the plan and promised that the Kaldorei would fight beside Diakum’s alliance.
• The Black Crow King gave Diakum the sentient sword Saramani, which Diakum planned to give to Varian Wrynn, and Diakum explained that he guided Varian and Yrel because of their future roles.
• Onyxia denounced the Titans before Azeroth’s Star Soul, while Mylune and Alestrasza struggled to accept the truth about the Titans’ treatment of Azeroth.
• Azeroth’s Star Soul told the dragons to seek evidence of the Titans’ actions, and Tarecgosa pledged to become its guardian and persuade other dragons to join her.
• Azeroth’s Star Soul restored Tarecgosa’s ley-line authority, then fell asleep as Onyxia welcomed her to their side and suggested she ask Diakum for a new appearance.

Diakum transformed Tarecgosa into a Velkhana form and sent Shadow Word with newly shaped Shadewalker eggs into the Sea of Darkness to lead a swarm. After Aegwynn revealed the Forge of Origination’s world-resetting power, Diakum realized it might restore Argus and save his homeland.

• Tarecgosa asked Diakum to change her appearance, and she chose the Velkhana form to better use her new powers.
• Diakum shaped Qiraji eggs into a new Shadewalker swarm and persuaded Shadow Word to become its Overmind.
• Shadow Word entered an egg, and Diakum sent it and the Qiraji Royal Eggs through a rift into the Sea of Darkness.
• Aegwynn told Diakum that the Titans’ failsafe device could format the world and had once created the deserts of Silithus and Tanaris.
• Diakum recognized the device as the Forge of Origination and declared that it could restore Argus if activated within its corrupted world-core.

Velen and the Draenei leaders learned that the Titans’ Forge of Origination could cleanse Argus by resetting its corrupted world and Star Soul, and they unanimously approved a plan to move the Titan machinery there. The chapter ended with Hutton setting out to find Eonar while Diakum prepared to clear Azeroth’s Titan installations after repelling the demons.

• Velen and the Draenei leaders traveled through Aegwynn’s unstable portal to meet Diakum and hear his discovery about the Forge of Origination in Uldum.
• Diakum explained that the Forge could reset a corrupted world and Star Soul, but safely moving it to Argus would require Titan expertise and other components of the planetary system.
• Velen revealed that Eonar was the last Titan Soul still free, and Neri explained that formatting Argus could erase the fel corruption imposed on its Star Soul.
• The Draenei leaders unanimously approved the plan to save Argus, and Hutton volunteered to search the stars for Eonar with a starship and warriors.
• Diakum said Freya might help locate Eonar and that he would first have to address the demons, Ulduar’s Titan Guardians, and the Forge of Will on Azeroth.
• Yrel urged the Draenei to strike the Titan installations, and Diakum agreed to begin the rescue effort after they repelled the demonic invasion.