Chapter Summaries

Diakum brought the Twins to the Chamber of Heart and challenged their faith in Xe'ra, arguing that the Army of the Light needed to abandon prophecy and help restore balance among the cosmic forces. The Twins’ convictions broke, and Diakum urged them to sever their connection to Xe'ra and help guide the Army of the Light back to reason.

• Velen examined the Twins and told Diakum they were rational but had taken Xe'ra’s ideals to an extreme, then left to assess the Lightforged warriors.
• Diakum told the Twins they would take part in the Eredar’s plans for salvation after they returned to normal, and brought them to the Chamber of Heart.
• Diakum showed the Twins the meeting between the Argus Lord and the Azeroth Lord, then argued that the Army of the Light fought without a clear goal and might become the next Burning Legion.
• Oreses and Saloras defended Xe'ra’s plans, but Diakum claimed Xe'ra would sacrifice herself to pass her power and burdens to him because she could not solve the cosmic crisis herself.
• Diakum explained that the Six Forces needed to be brought back into balance and urged the Twins to sever their connection to Xe'ra and help her recover.
• Saloras asked what would happen to the Burning Legion without the war, and Diakum said Sargeras had to be restrained by the other primal forces before the Legion reached its final battlefield.

Diakum converted Saloras and Oreses to the Light-Shadow Twinborn path and gained command of a Light Weaver Warband with powerful Holy Light War Authorities. After arranging the warband’s next journey and plans for equipment, he was confronted by the Twins, who confessed their longing and jealousy over his relationship with Neri.

• Diakum persuaded Saloras and Oreses that Xe'ra's prophecy was flawed and shared his Light-Shadow Twinborn path with them.
• Diakum's Lightforged Elect reached the required number, completing his Light Oath Lord advancement and unlocking warband command powers.
• Diakum used War Authority: Rally to summon Yrel, Maraad, and Onyxia, then appointed them commanders and told Maraad to recruit more Lightforged warriors.
• Diakum planned to return to Stormwind, collect Nubodon, and investigate the Magic Plague, while accepting an invitation to visit Gadgetzan and commissioning Onyxia to arrange elementium armor.
• After completing their path conversion, Saloras and Oreses kissed Diakum and told him they had missed him, while resenting that he had chosen Neri as his partner.

Diakum discussed Saloras and Oreses’s changed paths with Neri, who accepted that their feelings might develop naturally before leaving to serve as a diplomat. In Gadgetzan, Diakum secured Steamwheedle’s support for Anduin Lothar’s plans, hired him to handle Titan spoils, and drew his interest in trade among the stars and investment in the Light Weaver Faction.

• Diakum told Neri that Saloras’s darkness-related talent had awakened and that he would keep an eye on her, while Neri said she would soon become the Alliance diplomat between Azeroth and Draenor.
• Neri suspected Diakum had hidden something about the twins, but accepted that their feelings could unfold naturally and urged him to eat before the Exodar departed.
• Diakum noticed that more than two thousand Lightforged had joined the Light Weaver Warband, then went to Gadgetzan with Neri, Malin Noggenfogger, and Onyxia.
• Steamwheedle agreed to back Diakum’s invitation to support Anduin Lothar, reasoning that chaos in the Northern Borderlands could help restore the human empire.
• Diakum hired Steamwheedle to dispose of Titan technology and described the opportunities for Azerothian merchants among the stars.
• Steamwheedle asked to meet Consortium merchants and offered to invest in the Light Weaver Faction, while Diakum welcomed the investment.

Diakum uncovered a Nathrezim posing as three-year-old Jaina Proudmoore in Kul Tiras and destroyed her disguise, only to learn the real Jaina had been taken beyond Azeroth. He contacted her through a family pendant and discovered that an Ethereal named Nether-Stalker had rescued her and was keeping her safe in a distant world.

• Diakum arranged goblin funding and elementium steel for the Light Weaver faction, then met Neri aboard the Exodar after she acquired a Deceiver's Orb.
• Nubodon told Diakum and Maraad that Kul Tiras was beset by the Magic Plague, demon worshippers, a vanished naval fleet, and rising undead.
• Diakum tracked a sulfurous presence to Proudmoore Fortress and exposed the Dreadlord Mel'tranix, who had been impersonating Jaina, before destroying her.
• Queen Katherine recalled that Jaina had disappeared from her sight during a visit to Arom's Stand, and Chromie's time reversal confirmed that demons had taken the real girl beyond Azeroth.
• Diakum used Jaina's family pendant to contact her and learned that Nether-Stalker had rescued her from the demons and was sheltering her in a distant world.
• Diakum urged Jaina to trust Nether-Stalker and invite the Ethereal to meet the Light Weaver, promising that it would bring her home.

Daelin prepared to strike the Doom Prophets in Drustvar while Queen Katherine took the Third Fleet and Kul Tiras’s noble families to Stormwind. Diakum arranged a base for the Lightforged, then rushed with Lothar to investigate the Emerald Dragonflight’s crisis, as Zuluhed drained Ysera and Eranikus confronted him.

• Diakum returned Jaina’s pendant to Daelin and warned him that demons were infiltrating Kul Tiras.
• Daelin ordered a campaign against the Doom Prophets in Drustvar and sent Katherine and Tandred with the Third Fleet to Stormwind.
• Diakum negotiated with Lothar to station the Light Weaver Warband at Northshire Abbey and dock the Exodar near Thunder Falls.
• Tarecgosa reported that Mylune had fainted and that the Emerald Dragonflight’s guardian power was being drained, so Diakum and Lothar left to investigate.
• Zuluhed used the Dragon Soul to drain Ysera while demonic green dragons opened a fel portal in the Temple of Atal’Hakkar.
• Eranikus seized Zuluhed, ordered him to leave with the Dragon Soul, and declared that he still had one final task to complete.

Mylune revealed that Eranikus had trapped Ysera and was draining her power, prompting Diakum to launch a Lightforged assault on the sunken Temple of Atal’Hakkar. Eranikus explained that he meant to free Ysera from Titan authority, sent her into the Dream with Zuluhed, and stayed behind to face the incoming forces.

• Mylune woke from a nightmare and told Diakum that Eranikus was using the Dragon Soul to drain Ysera’s guardian power.
• Diakum ordered the Exodar and the dragons to intercept Eranikus, while Yrel invited Lothar to join the operation as a Lightforged War Mech pilot.
• Eranikus gave Zuluhed purified Devolution Spores and instructed him to use them with the Dragon Soul to strip Ysera of her Titan-granted authority.
• Ysera awoke and asked Eranikus why he was tormenting her, and he claimed he had betrayed the dragons to free them from the Titans and return them to Azeroth’s World Mother.
• Eranikus opened a rift into the Dream and ordered Zuluhed to take Ysera through it, while he stayed behind to delay Diakum and the Lightforged.

Zuluhed tried to use the Dragon Soul to strip Ysera of her dream authority while Diakum and the Lightforged attacked the Black Morass. The battle ended with Eranikus defeated, the demon dragons retreating north, and Diakum preparing to sentence him to the Sinner’s Cage.

• Zuluhed opened the dream rift to pull Ysera inside, while Eska and Xal'atath prepared to exploit her loss of dream authority.
• Diakum stormed the Temple of Atal'Hakkar, forcing Zuluhed to flee into the rift and drawing Eranikus into battle outside.
• Diakum fought Eranikus as a Giant of Light, while Lothar and the Lightforged fought the demons and Onyxia and an ice-armored dragon attacked the demon dragons.
• Eranikus ordered his demon dragons to withdraw north and join the Legion after the Lightforged resistance overwhelmed them.
• Diakum defeated Eranikus and told him that his crimes would send him to the Sinner’s Cage, then asked him to leave last words for his daughter.

As Lightforged forces stormed the Temple of Atal'Hakkar, Jin'do and Mandokir tried to escape by reviving Hakkar, Soulflayer, while secretly bargaining with Bwonsamdi. Diakum confronted the resurrected god, and the chapter ended with the Gurubashi leaders claiming they had helped defeat the threat and asking Lothar to let them go.

• The Lightforged attacked the ruined temple, forcing its trapped cultists to retreat to the lower levels as they searched for a way out.
• Jin'do and Mandokir secretly appealed to Bwonsamdi, who ordered them to revive Hakkar and prepare the Gurubashi trolls for Zul's plans in exchange for sparing their lives.
• Jin'do and Mandokir forced Atal'ai trolls to sacrifice themselves, giving Soulflayer enough blood and souls to revive in its skeletal Wind Serpent body.
• Lothar and the Lightforged broke into the ritual chamber as Soulflayer unleashed its blood plague, while Diakum blocked the attack and charged after Hakkar.
• Bwonsamdi revealed that he had hired Diakum to kill Hakkar, and Diakum pursued the god as Old Anzu told him that Goldrinn had answered and Eska possessed Xal'atath.
• Jin'do and Mandokir betrayed Prophet Jammal'an and the Atal'ai trolls, then told Lothar they had been working for Bwonsamdi and asked to leave.

After the demons’ arrival worsened the crisis in the Northern Borderlands, Lothar arranged for King Llane to be Lightforged by Voros, while Diakum helped Mylune choose a stronger dragon form. Llane awoke reborn in the Light, but the chapter ended with news that demons had razed Dragonblight Harbor in Gilneas.

• Lothar explained that the troll lords had voluntarily left him their weapons and valuables, then discussed the demon threat in the Northern Borderlands with Diakum.
• Diakum and Maraad proposed that Voros Lightforge Llane, and Lothar recognized that humanity might gain its own Lightforged warriors through the Naaru’s bond with the kingdom.
• Mylune resolved to rescue Ysera and, after considering the green dragons’ weakened state, asked Diakum to give them stronger combat forms; she chose the Thunder Pole Dragon template.
• At Northshire Abbey, Voros Lightforged King Llane, who awoke strengthened and accepted his sword and shield from Lothar.
• Commodore Windsor arrived with a bloodstained letter, and Lothar learned that demons had destroyed Dragonblight Harbor in Gilneas.

King Llane and Lothar organized a refugee rescue and rallied support for uniting humanity under the Arathor Empire after demons devastated the Northern Borderlands. In Gilneas, the wounded Genn urged Mia to take their people to Stormwind and support Lothar, then encountered a white giant wolf that offered him power.

• Archmage Alexis explained that a cursed Gilneas messenger had exploded, revealing demons had infiltrated the royal city, and reports confirmed widespread attacks across the Northern Borderlands.
• Lothar reported the fall of Alterac City, the destruction of Tarren Mill and Southshore, and severe losses in Stromgarde, Lordaeron, and Dalaran.
• Llane promised refuge for displaced people, while Lothar arranged evacuation through Menethil Harbor and proposed uniting humanity under the Arathor Empire; Muradin and Kurdran pledged support.
• Genn awoke badly wounded in the ruined Gilneas capital and learned that Lord Crowley’s reinforcements had temporarily driven the demons back.
• Genn told Mia to take the people of Gilneas to Stormwind and tell Lothar that Gilneas supported rebuilding the empire if he reclaimed their homeland.
• A white giant wolf appeared beside the collapsed Genn and offered power to him and his people.

Diakum summoned Old Gani to learn how to use Faith Power and enlisted the Loa to deliver evacuation warnings across the Northern Borderlands. In besieged Lordaeron City, Benedictus received a vision urging him to become the Holy Light’s eyes, blade, and torch and step into the Vigilant’s light.

• Garona urged Khadgar to contact Dalaran, but Khadgar explained that demonic interference had cut off communication and the city’s Violet Barrier signaled a grave crisis.
• Khadgar wanted to go to Dalaran to help evacuate civilians, but Garona insisted he stay to coordinate the Dark Portal and receive reinforcements from Draenor.
• After returning to Stormwind, Diakum summoned Old Gani and traded ownership of the city’s garbage heaps for instruction in using Faith Power to aid believers fighting demons.
• Khadgar asked Old Gani to deliver evacuation letters to Dalaran and villages across the Northern Borderlands, offering his broken Purple Fir Staff as payment.
• Benedictus prayed for the Holy Light to protect demon-besieged Lordaeron City, then saw a winged Seraphim appear and call him to serve as its eyes, blade, and torch.

Diakum possessed Bishop Benedictias and Old Chen to fight demons ravaging Lordaeron City, while urging them to lead its people to Stormwind. Benedictias and Old Chen set out to save the city’s survivors, and Old Chen agreed to help in exchange for a return to Pandaria.

• A Hellfire smashed Mireidal’s statue in the cathedral square as demon worshippers and Half-Demons attacked the people and guards.
• Diakum took control of Benedictias, destroyed the Hellfire, and demonstrated Holy Light combat techniques while telling him he had ten days to use borrowed power and guide survivors toward Stormwind.
• Benedictias regained control, flew through Lordaeron City, and slaughtered demons attacking its residents.
• Diakum possessed Old Chen and led the tavern’s civilians outside, using Holy Light-infused martial arts to burn demons and kill a Doom Lord.
• Old Chen agreed to help Benedictias escort the city’s people to Stormwind after Diakum promised to take him back to Pandaria.

Diakum established the Light Weaver Faction’s faith leadership and prepared to protect Quel'Thalas as demons spread across the Northern Borderlands. In Lordaeron, Bishop Benedictus urged King Terenas to evacuate civilians, while Lord Daval offered the king dragon power for his knights and revealed the Prestor Family’s secret.

• Diakum appointed Oreses to manage the Lightsworn Faction and Saloras to lead the Shadewalker Faction, then planned to send a Faith Incarnation to Quel'Thalas.
• Saloras teased Diakum about Neri’s jealousy, disrupting his attempt to perform another Divine Descent.
• Bishop Benedictus pressed King Terenas to evacuate Lordaeron’s civilians to safety, but the king postponed his decision until the next day.
• Lord Daval handed Benedictus a purified Shadow Eye, claiming it was a dangerous artifact given to him by the Quel'Thalas elves.
• Lord Daval told King Terenas that the Prestor Family were dragons and offered to let a Dragonborn mage empower the kingdom’s knights.

Diakum discovered that the Magic Plague had suddenly spread through Quel'Thalas and suspected traitors were weakening the kingdom before a demonic assault on the Sunwell. He empowered Liadrin to reach the Sunwell, while Farodis revealed that the High Elves had prepared to expose the traitors and defend their homeland.

• Diakum saw the Ban'dinoriel barrier repel Hellfire meteors and found many newly infected elves being treated in Fairbreeze Village.
• Diakum made Liadrin his temporary God Chosen, warned her that traitors might be targeting the Sunwell, and ordered her to go there.
• Vandelor gave Liadrin his silver warhammer and encouraged her to accept the mission, even if she had to destroy the Sunwell to prevent a catastrophe.
• Liadrin told Lor'themar Theron about Diakum's warning, and they set out to seek Alleria's permission to reach the Sunwell.
• Farodis told Diakum that the gathering of Grand Magi was a trap to expose demonic spies and that Quel'Thalas had a hidden defense against any Greater Demon that came through the Sunwell.

Alleria, Liadrin, and A-Qiang arrived at Quel'Danas as the Sunwell was prepared to reinforce Quel'Thalas's barrier, unaware that the ritual was also a trap for demon-summoning traitors. The demons corrupted the Sunwell and invaded, but Dath'Remar Sunstrider restored its core and trapped them, leaving Liadrin urged by the Vigilant to join the battle.

• Alleria led Liadrin and A-Qiang to the Silvermoon Council, where the Grand Magi revealed that Farodis had set a trap for demon traitors and planned to use the Sunwell ritual to confront them.
• Gina Goldsword armed Liadrin and urged her to serve Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider after the battle.
• Dar'Khan Drathir and more than thirty traitors corrupted the rising Sunwell core with fel energy and opened a portal for the Burning Legion.
• Kuruul, Vica, Betug, and Azgalor led demigod demons through the portal and attacked the elves as Farodis fought them.
• Farodis called for Dath'Remar to shut the portal, and Dath'Remar restored the Sunwell core, trapped the demons, and attacked them with Flame Strike.
• The Vigilant revealed to Liadrin that Dath'Remar had bound himself to the Sunwell as an arcane holy spirit and told her to join the fight.

Quel'Thalas's spellcasters fought the trapped demons inside the Sunwell while Dath'Remar confronted the traitor Dar'Khan and Diakum executed fallen Eredar. As the battle reached its climax, a fel portal reopened and Illidan Stormrage returned to Azeroth.

• Dath'Remar defeated Dar'Khan's defenses, and Liadrin carried out the Vigilant's sentence by burning away his demonic half and exiling his remaining soul to the Sea of Darkness.
• Diakum took control of Liadrin as a Seraphim and incinerated Vica, while Kuruul escaped through death and Azgalor continued attacking.
• The Sunwell's fel portal reopened, and the wounded Betug rushed into it, only for an unseen blade to sever his head.
• Illidan Stormrage strode through the portal wielding Moon Blades, and he thanked Dath'Remar for bringing him back to Azeroth.

After the High Elves defeated the demons at the Sunwell, Diakum warned Illidan about the coming invasion and arranged for Liadrin to protect Anveena. The chapter ended with Khadgar reporting that Dalaran had been destroyed.

• The High Elves gathered the fallen demons’ sigils as sacrifices, while Illidan warned Diakum that Kil’jaeden and Mannoroth were preparing a far greater invasion.
• Diakum cautioned Illidan against awakening the Nightsworn and promised to join the Illidari in a future assault on Mardum.
• Diakum and Dath'Remar agreed that Anveena should leave the Sunwell after the invasion, and Liadrin accepted responsibility for escorting and guarding her.
• Diakum withdrew from Liadrin’s body, and the exhausted priestess accepted the golden crystal ball tied to Anveena’s fate.
• Khadgar arrived at Stormwind Cathedral and told Diakum that Dalaran was gone.

Antonidas revealed that Dalaran had sealed itself behind the Violet Barrier to contain a Fel Well and prevent demons from overrunning the Northern Borderlands. Aegwynn arrived, destroyed the rift, and prepared to transport Dalaran and its people to safety while the mages organized a rescue for Lordaeron’s residents.

• Antonidas explained to Ansirem that Dalaran had sacrificed itself to contain the demons, while its Grand Magi endured two days of suppressing the Fel Well.
• Ansirem warned Antonidas that demon cultists had infiltrated the city and that at least one-tenth of its mages had joined the Burning Legion.
• Aegwynn arrived with Meryl Winterwind, Lelan, and Eredath, then agreed to seal the Fel Well and transport Dalaran and its people to the Stormwind coast.
• Antonidas asked Aegwynn to make room for residents fleeing Lordaeron, and she agreed to carry around 150,000 people.
• Aegwynn collapsed the Fel Well with a strike that badly wounded Mannoroth, then ordered Kael'thas to gather people needing help for transport within six hours.
• Meryl told Lelan that Aegwynn had become a Greater life-form, and the group began preparing portals and discussing the sealed sword they were bringing to Marshal Lothar.

As Lordaeron prepared to evacuate civilians and the royal family to Stormwind, King Terenas sent Arthas and Jialiya away as their people’s future leaders while he stayed to defend the city. Lord Daval gave Terenas a Dragon Power Potion, and the king drank it, gaining dragonlike strength and ordering more potions for his warriors.

• Jialiya woke Arthas and explained that Antonidas had arranged for Lordaeron’s civilians and royal family to flee to Stormwind.
• Terenas appointed Benedictias as Archbishop and Uther as leader of the exiles, then told the nobles to choose whether to leave or stay.
• Terenas entrusted Arthas with Lordaeron’s heirloom emblem and responsibility for leading the exiles, while Jialiya took him away for Stormwind.
• After saying farewell to his children, Terenas received a Dragon Power Potion from Daval and drank it.
• Terenas gained dragonlike power, declared that Lordaeron would adopt the dragon as its emblem, and ordered Daval to make potions for his warriors.

Aegwynn teleported Dalaran and more than two hundred thousand refugees from the Northern Borderlands to the waters near Stormwind, while Deathwing secretly helped and advanced his plans. In Stormwind, Lothar met the spirit of Emperor Thoradin, who demanded that he kill 999 demons before inheriting the throne.

• Aegwynn agreed to teleport Dalaran and its gathered civilians after Kael'thas and Bishop Benedictus pleaded for their safety.
• Deathwing helped sever Dalaran from the earth veins and ordered Nefarian to prepare more potions and retrieve his artifact.
• Dalaran arrived in the sea between Stormwind and Westfall, and King Llane welcomed Princess Jialiya, Prince Arthas, and the refugees.
• Archbishop Faol reunited with Benedictus, while Old Chen received a ride home from Anzu and gifts from Diakum.
• Emperor Thoradin appeared beside Strom'kar and told Lothar he must personally kill 999 demons to prove himself worthy of inheriting the throne.