Chapter Summaries

Emperor Thoradin became Lothar’s Guardian of Kings after testing Diakum in combat and warning Lothar that he must reunite humanity through his own leadership. As Lelan left to negotiate with the dwarves over Uldaman, Aegwynn reflected on Medivh’s plans, and Diakum began considering who should wield the power of Tyr.

• Meryl explained how Emperor Thoradin died suppressing a Void horror, while Diakum revealed that Zaka'z had only been banished and could return.
• Eredath persuaded Thoradin to become a spirit bound to Strom'kar, and Diakum defeated Thoradin in their contest before Thoradin agreed to guard Lothar.
• Thoradin warned Lothar not to rely on Strom'kar to reunite the human kingdoms and asked Diakum to keep the Light Weaver Warband out of Lothar’s campaign.
• Aegwynn reported that the Bronzebeard Dwarves were excavating Uldaman, where two Titan Keepers and an army of constructs lay dormant, so Lelan departed for Ironforge with the Heart of Azeroth.
• Aegwynn admitted she had misjudged Medivh’s desire for unity, and Diakum proposed using Tyr’s remaining power in a ritual to empower someone.

Lelan traveled to Ironforge while Onyxia, Tarecgosa, and Mylune rushed to the Ruby Sanctum, where demons were attacking the Red Dragons and using the Dragon Soul to restrain Alexstrasza. The dragons rescued the survivors and confronted Zuluhed, but he still held the artifact as Alexstrasza burned him with healing dragonfire.

• Lelan arrived in Dun Morogh with Tarecgosa, Onyxia, and Mylune, and they sensed a battle at the Ruby Sanctum.
• Lelan went to Ironforge to meet the Dwarves while the three dragons flew to the sanctuary.
• Zuluhed used the Dragon Soul to restrain Alexstrasza as Brutallus attacked the Red Dragons and the demons tried to steal their eggs.
• Onyxia, Tarecgosa, and Mylune intervened, and Kalecgos led the injured dragons and their eggs out through portals.
• Tarecgosa and Mylune attacked Zuluhed, but his dream shield protected him; Alexstrasza then struck him with healing dragonfire, scorching his body.

After Onyxia defeated Brutallus in a frenzied battle, Diakum treated her and accepted the Swarm’s request for the dead dragon eggs. In Ironforge, Lelan persuaded Brann Bronzebeard to help seal Uldaman while ensuring a dwarf would join the expedition.

• Alexstrasza crippled Zuluhed and escaped, while Tarecgosa and Mylune watched Onyxia fight Brutallus under the influence of Ancient Frenzy.
• Tarecgosa and Mylune rescued the surviving red dragon eggs and brought the unconscious Onyxia to Stormwind, where Diakum treated her and estimated she would need months to recover.
• The Overmind told Diakum that the Swarm had survived a costly Aqir attack and requested dead dragon eggs to strengthen its forces; Diakum sent it the cracked eggs and directed it to contact Saloras for support.
• In Ironforge, Brann Bronzebeard praised Lelan’s travels and invited her to join the Explorers’ League, while she offered to introduce him to Warlord Mar’gok and asked him to help withdraw dwarven excavators from Uldaman.
• Brann agreed to persuade his Brother to seal Uldaman temporarily, provided the dwarves could send a representative to the operation and learn what lay beneath the ruins.

Diakum and his allies entered Uldaman to reach its sealed inner chamber and uncover the truth about the Titan Keepers. After confronting Ironaya, Diakum persuaded her to leave Uldaman and face judgment over her role in imprisoning the Star Soul.

• Fareeya's Lightforged warriors secured the Uldaman excavation site while Aegwynn located the inner chambers beneath it.
• Diakum promised Brann Bronzebeard access to the ruins' secrets and brought him along under Neri and Lelan's protection.
• Diakum broke through the sealed wall, and Yrel, Lelan, and Tarecgosa dealt with the troggs before the group continued through the Titan defenses.
• Aegwynn awakened Ironaya, and Diakum accused her and Archaedas of secretly helping dwarves and gnomes escape the Curse of Flesh.
• Ironaya recognized The Silver Hand and accepted that the group could learn Tyr's last testament; Diakum told her Tyr might be revived and asked her to face judgment before the Star Soul Lord.

Ironaya and Archaedas revealed why Tyr’s Legacy had been hidden in Uldaman, and Archaedas let Diakum’s group retrieve it. Aegwynn and the dragons uncovered Tyr’s memories, which showed the Keepers’ deception and Tyr’s guilt over the dragons’ transformation, before the chapter ended with Tyr telling Nozdormu not to revive him.

• Ironaya led Diakum’s group through Uldaman and explained that Loken’s forces had hunted the remaining lucid Keepers, while Archaedas forged Stone Colossi for a desperate last stand.
• Diakum confronted Archaedas with the truth about the Titans’ deaths, and Archaedas opened the way to Tyr’s Legacy and admitted that Tyr had chosen suicide rather than be revived.
• Aegwynn took the Disc of Norgannon and gave Tyr’s silver disc to the dragons, who viewed his memories of Odin concealing the truth about Galakrond and ordering Tyr to guide the Proto-Dragons into the Pantheon’s order.
• Tyr’s memories showed him blessing the Dragon Kings at Odorus and warning them not to investigate Galakrond’s corruption or the missing history of the Titans’ arrival.
• The dragons saw Tyr tell Nozdormu that neither side in the Titan civil war represented order, then confess that he had misled the dragons and ask them not to revive him.

The dragons heard Tyr's final memories, confirming that the Keepers had deceived them and that Tyr died defending Azeroth. Diakum and Aegwynn prepared to turn Tyr's remaining power and Archaedas's stone army toward Azeroth's defense, while Archaedas vowed vengeance on Yogg-Saron and Loken.

• The Dragon Matriarchs listened to Tyr's recorded apology and learned that he had hidden the Titans' experiments and the purpose of the Everything Unification Field from the dragons.
• Chromie and Tarecgosa decided to keep Tyr's Platinum Disc from Alexstrasza and Malygos until the dragons had survived the demons and the Dragon Soul threat.
• Diakum had Archaedas extract Tyr's arcane power from The Silver Hand and place it in Titanforged Runes, while the warhammer became a Holy Light relic.
• Diakum and Aegwynn arranged for Archaedas's stone army to aid the assault on Ulduar and asked it to forge weaker World Heart artifacts for mortals.
• After hearing Tyr's memories, Archaedas agreed to serve Azeroth and vowed to help kill Yogg-Saron and Loken.
• Aegwynn told Diakum that Azeroth had named him her Honor Guard and asked him for his Argus Heart.

After Uldaman’s investigation, Brann Bronzebeard learned that most of the secrets he had uncovered were too dangerous to share, while Talondris faced the prospect of leaving the ancient facility and joining the Dwarves in Ironforge. Diakum received the Heart of Azeroth and left with the Eredar, and Talondris began teaching Brann how to safely explore Titan facilities.

• Lelan warned Brann Bronzebeard to conceal the dangerous secrets of Uldaman, and Brann resolved to record and investigate them through the Explorers' League.
• Chromie explained the Lifti to Brann, and Talondris clarified the snakemen’s origins before recounting how the Curse of Flesh drove the Earthen and mechanical Gnomes from Uldaman.
• Brann showed Talondris the emblem his ancestor Modimus Anvilmar had carried and invited her and her companions to make their home in Ironforge, but Talondris asked for time to decide.
• Diakum emerged with a Heart of Azeroth ring and offered the Eredar a chance to become Azeroth’s Saviors, while Saloras and Oreses discussed why ancient Eredar could not accept the oath before Argus was reclaimed.
• Diakum led the Eredar out of Uldaman and promised Brann that the Titan facilities would be stored safely, with access for Gnome engineers.
• Archbishop Neri scolded Brann for repeatedly reaching toward dangerous objects, and Talondris ordered him to bring paper and learn Titan facility safety rules.

General Lirath Windrunner brought Khadgar the Book of Medivh, and construction of the Dark Portal advanced as the allies prepared for war. Diakum sent Neri back to Draenor, then found Saloras and Oreses waiting for him aboard the Exodar.

• General Lirath Windrunner arrived at Northshire Abbey with the recovered Book of Medivh, and Khadgar used it to study the Dark Portal’s secrets.
• Lirath and Salorian Dawnbreaker told Khadgar that Dragonborn Knights, including Osma Garithos, were fighting in Lordaeron, challenging his belief that Dragonborn did not exist.
• Diakum gave the Silver Hand Holy Hammer to Sir Tirion Fordring, while Grand Duke Alexandros Mograine showed Fordring a Naaru crystal intended for the Ash Knights’ own holy blades.
• Diakum told Neri that Lothar could reclaim the human kingdoms and rebuild the empire, and Neri departed for Draenor with Old God materials for weapons and armor.
• Saloras and Oreses confronted Diakum in his cabin, saying they needed his help to reconnect with themselves after their long absence from the world.

Diakum discussed the dangers of fanaticism and magical corruption with Saloras, then helped the Twins resume their evening together. At the Nexus, Malygos planned a response to the Dragon Soul and the Legion while Kalecgos prepared to search for Tarecgosa, unaware that Princess Little Star had decided to rescue her first.

• Diakum and Saloras discussed how faith factions could become fanatical and how Void energy was destabilizing new Shadewalker recruits.
• Saloras rejected her Shadow Word’s scheme to sabotage Neri, and Diakum showed her a plan to address the dangers of powerful forces.
• Oreses returned and urged Diakum and Saloras to continue their sparring session.
• Kalecgos told Malygos that an Orc wielding the Dragon Soul had stolen at least a hundred red dragon eggs and harmed Alexstrasza.
• Malygos sent Sindragosa to consult Alexstrasza and planned to seek the Kaldorei’s aid against the coming Legion war.
• After seeing a recording of the strange dragons at the Ruby Sanctum, Malygos assigned Kalecgos and Se'anniegosa to find Tarecgosa, while Princess Little Star secretly decided to rescue her herself.

Stellagosa traced Tarecgosa’s trail, but Black Dragons ambushed and imprisoned her with several injured Green Dragons. Tarecgosa arrived with Amygos, rescued them, and planned to take them to Thunder Falls for treatment.

• Stellagosa found Tarecgosa’s icy scale in the corrupted ruins of Ruby Sanctum, sealed the Greater Demon’s remains with frost, and followed the scale south.
• Tarecgosa sensed Stellagosa tracking her and decided to meet her clan instead of continuing to hide, while Imira received an invitation to Nar’thalas Academy.
• Black Dragons chased Stellagosa into an ambush at Blackrock Mountain, wounded her, captured her, and took her dragon whistle.
• Stellagosa awoke imprisoned alongside several tortured Green Dragons and learned that Amygos was missing and the Black Dragons planned to use her as an experimental specimen.
• Amygos brought Tarecgosa to the cave, where she defeated the Black Dragons outside, freed Stellagosa and the Green Dragons, and said she would take them to Thunder Falls for healing.

Diakum discussed the dragons’ plans to rescue Ysera and destroy or secure the Dragon Soul, then authorized Saloras to remake fallen black dragons and appointed Yrel as a Lightforging Artisan. At Blackrock Spire, Orgrim rejected a mysterious guest’s attempt to recruit the War Horde, while learning that Gorehowl had been reforged and the Greater Demon had been found.

• Diakum healed Stellagosa and warned Tarecgosa that Lothar and the dragons might cooperate against Zuluhed and the Dragon Soul, while Tarecgosa insisted they first rescue Ysera.
• Stellagosa revealed that the black dragons planned to join the orcs, serve their arriving Prince, and turn her into a chromatic dragon; she asked to meet the World Mother and apologize.
• Saloras proposed rebuilding captured black dragons’ minds with Void power before Lightforging them, and Diakum approved the plan and appointed Yrel a Lightforging Artisan to teach her the consequences of using that power as punishment.
• A hooded human urged Orgrim Doomhammer to join an attack on Stormwind and rent an abandoned palace, but Orgrim refused and sent him to Zuluhed with a letter of introduction.
• Grom Hellscream killed a guard who threatened Orgrim, and the mysterious guests departed after promising an apology gift.
• Orgrim told Grom that Gorehowl had been reforged and that they had found the Greater Demon that supplied their demon blood.

Orgrim prepared the War Horde to cross the Dwarven Kingdom and hunt Mannoroth the Destroyer, while Grom received a reforged Gorehowl blessed by the Fire Lord. After Kargath won his seventh arena streak, Orgrim said they would soon leave for the real battlefield as the human mages began calibrating the Dark Portal.

• Orgrim explained that he had agreed to cooperate with Emperor Thorisson so the War Horde could pass through the Dwarven Kingdom and reach Mannoroth, warning Grom about the demon’s influence and the need to save Gorehowl for the Polluter.
• Thorisson II finished reforging Gorehowl on an ancient anvil, but Grom rejected the Fire Lord’s proposed new name and absorbed the Flames of Sulfuras into the axe.
• Kargath returned from defeating Lord Rhyolith in the arena and demanded that Thorisson forge him a fist blade, then asked Orgrim when they would leave.
• Orgrim told Kargath they would depart once his weapons were ready and revealed that the human mages were calibrating the Dark Portal.

The K'ure Alliance sent its Draenor Expeditionary Force through the Dark Portal to Azeroth, where Stormwind’s leaders assigned the newcomers to battlefields against the Green Skins. As the armies set out, Mar'gok sought a place in the Guardian selection and offered Lothar an alliance between their empires.

• Durotan questioned whether Mar'gok's Dark Portal was safe, while Velen delivered a farewell speech and the Draenor army prepared to cross.
• Mar'gok left his All-Seeing Ring in Draenor's care, then led the Ogre contingent through the portal with Durotan and the other allied forces.
• Archbishop Yula learned that a young Draenei had shaken off his attendants and returned to Azeroth, and she ordered a message sent.
• Llane and Lothar welcomed the expeditionary force; Durotan demanded an immediate campaign, then Gaiara learned her brother had been born and returned through the portal.
• Mar'gok and Durotan received orders to lead forces to Sunlight Forest and Westfall, while Gaiara's returning Orcs were allowed to go home.
• After seeing the undead fighting in Sunlight Forest, Mar'gok asked Lothar to let him compete to wield Atiesh and offered the Gorian Empire's support for Lothar's restoration cause.

Lothar and Diakum reached Tranquil Garden Town and learned that Bolvar Fordragon and Gavinrad had joined the Worgen, while the Bloodfang Pack had become the town’s protectors. Diakum found the gravely wounded Gavinrad and began to Lightforge him, but Goldrinn intervened until the Argus Star Soul stepped in to restrain the White Wolf God.

• Mar'gok froze the river at Jerod Wharf so his ogres could cross, then sent tiger-man scouts into Sunlight Forest, where they encountered Orc hunters and demon wolves.
• Lothar, Diakum, and Mar'gok fought through wolf-infested forest and reached Tranquil Garden Town, where Duke Eberlock told them that the Bloodfang Pack had repeatedly saved the town and that many humans had joined it.
• Duke Eberlock revealed that Bolvar and Gavinrad were with the Bloodfang Pack near Roland's Grave, and Diakum and Lothar set out to find them.
• Anzu told Diakum that Gavinrad was badly wounded and refused Goldrinn's treatment, so Diakum planned to rescue him while Lothar confronted Bolvar.
• Lothar called Bolvar out of the valley, drawing him and the Worgen away, while Diakum slipped into the mine and found Gavinrad gravely wounded beside a wooden Holy Light icon.
• Diakum healed Gavinrad and began the Lightforging ritual, but Goldrinn interrupted; the Argus Star Soul then pulled Goldrinn into a mental realm and overpowered him.

Lothar confronted Bolvar and the Bloodfang Worgen at Roland's Grave, while Diakum negotiated with Goldrinn over the Worgen's fate and the Scytheclaw Druids. The chapter ended with Goldrinn agreeing to let humans establish Lightforged Fangs in exchange for Diakum restoring the Scytheclaw Druids' sanity, though Diakum asked when the Moon Goddess's Scythe would be delivered.

• Lothar tried to bring Bolvar and the Bloodfang Worgen back to Stormwind, but Bolvar insisted that the pack belonged in the forest.
• A beam of Holy Light rose from Roland's Grave, and Bolvar led most of the Worgen toward it while several civilians chose to follow Lothar.
• Gavinrad, newly Lightforged, fought Bolvar as Goldrinn's fury overtook the pack, and Diakum intervened to stop the conflict.
• Lothar and Diakum argued that Goldrinn should work openly with humans, while Goldrinn explained that his past shrines had turned thousands of Night Elves into mad Scytheclaw Worgen.
• Diakum proposed using the White Lady's moonlight to temper Worgen rage, but Goldrinn rejected that aid and demanded that Diakum restore the Scytheclaw Druids' sanity without Lightforging them or seeking Elune's help.
• Goldrinn granted humans the right to establish Lightforged Fangs, and Diakum accepted his terms before asking when the Moon Goddess's Scythe would arrive.

Bolvar and the werewolves agreed to return to Stormwind, while Diakum explained how they could control their forms and prepare to fight the undead. He then contacted Talgas through a demon blade to ask about the Burning Legion’s plans for Azeroth, and ended up eyeing a dying Old God as food.

• Lothar and Gavinrad persuaded Bolvar to lead the werewolves back to Stormwind, and Diakum exchanged Bolvar’s demon blade for a Lightforged weapon.
• Diakum advised Altaia to learn emotional control and told Gavinrad that the Moon Goddess’s Scythe could help werewolves regain human forms, while warning that overwhelming fury could make the change permanent.
• Gavinrad learned that he would eventually leave Stormwind’s army to join the Light Weaver Warband as leader of the Lightforged Fangs.
• Anzu told Diakum that Chen Stormstout had been returned to the Wandering Isle, and Diakum asked Anzu to stand guard while he contacted the demon blade’s creator.
• Diakum projected himself to Talgas, who described the Legion’s campaign against an Old God, and Diakum admitted that the creature looked delicious.

Diakum negotiated with Talgas over the Burning Legion’s plans for Azeroth and a possible meeting between Kil’jaeden and Velen, then purified the Plunder Blades. In Stormwind, Stellagosa reunited with Kalecgos and proposed turning the contest for the Staff of the Guardians of Tirisfal into a way to recruit champions against the Dragon Soul.

• Talgas told Diakum that Kil’jaeden would not send his main forces to Azeroth, while Mannoroth would invade the Eastern Kingdoms and Cenarius would target the Kaldorei in Kalimdor.
• Diakum agreed to arrange a meeting between Kil’jaeden and Velen near the end of the invasion, while Talgas promised to share intelligence about Eonar only when the meeting took place.
• Talgas gave Diakum the Plunder Blades as advance payment, and Diakum dispelled the projection and purified the blades with holy flames.
• Kalecgos scolded the injured Stellagosa for running off, then introduced Prince Korialstrasz and explained that they had come to recruit human champions against the Dragon Soul.
• Stellagosa suggested that Kalecgos and Korialstrasz use the upcoming contest for the Staff of the Guardians of Tirisfal to gather powerful human spellcasters and make the event a grand competition.

Bolvar returned to Stormwind and joined King Llane’s counterattack plans, but Zuluhed launched an assault on the keep with the Dragon Soul. Diakum and the defenders drove Zuluhed away and turned his defeat into a public call to arms, while a new hunt for him began.

• Bolvar returned to Stormwind Keep, revealed his werewolf form, and agreed to fight alongside Llane’s army in Elwynn Forest.
• Bolvar sensed Green Skins near the Mage Quarter, and Diakum warned that Zuluhed’s real target was the king and Lothar.
• Zuluhed entered the keep through a dream portal, summoned demons, and attacked Llane and Lothar with the Dragon Soul.
• Diakum resisted Zuluhed’s nightmare breath, transformed demons into Void creatures, and struck Zuluhed with the Twilight Hammer, exposing his charred, undead body.
• Zuluhed fled to his Shadow Tower, while Diakum said the Sea of Darkness would claim his soul and proposed using his head to rally Stormwind’s counterattack.
• Millhouse told a young red-haired mage that the dragonflights were offering rewards and blessings to those who killed Zuluhed or recovered the Dragon Soul.

Khadgar brought Rhonin to Karazhan to join the trial, where a Fate Rift showed Rhonin both a disastrous future and a peaceful life with Vereesa Windrunner. At a gathering, the leaders revealed that the raid’s real goal was to rescue Ysera and recover or destroy the Dragon Soul.

• Khadgar persuaded the reluctant Rhonin to join the trial and brought him to Karazhan, where Moroes and the Nightborne attendants outfitted him in fine robes and gave him a staff and Dragon Scale sword.
• Rhonin looked into the Fate Rift and saw visions of his death and a happy future with Vereesa Windrunner, whom he then spotted at the banquet.
• Diakum explained that the trial would pit spellcasters against the Shadow Council, while Aegwynn and the others emphasized that rescuing Ysera was the mission’s priority.
• Kael'thas warned that the Dragon Soul was too dangerous to keep, and Lothar said he and Archbishop Faol would lead the Ash Knights in clearing the way.
• Diakum offered the Order Rune as an additional reward and urged the gathered participants to earn merit as guardians.

Llane and Lothar’s allied army counterattacked the Green Skins in Elwynn Forest, while Lycantos and Orgrim set the War Horde’s next phase in motion. The assault reached the Tower of Azora, where Mylune opened a path into the sealed Dream and competing groups entered to seek the power of the Guardians of Tirisfal.

• Llane and Lothar led a coalition army out of Goldshire, and Bolvar’s wolves routed Hogger’s Gnolls as the humans advanced toward the Green Skin positions.
• Lycantos told Orgrim that the humans’ unity fulfilled Medivh’s pact, and Orgrim ordered Eitrigg to hold Redridge Mountains while summoning Thorisson to arrange the War Horde’s passage through the Dwarven kingdom.
• Alexandros Mograine and the Ash Knights clashed with Death Knights as Kurdran’s gryphon riders, the Midnight Raven God’s birds, High Elf dragonhawks, and Princess Lacey’s harpies attacked the Green Skins from the air.
• Princess Lacey allowed the harpies to capture wounded Green Skin Orcs for breeding, provided the clans followed her cleanliness and child-rearing rules.
• Mylune tore open a rift into the sealed Dream, and Lothar led the Ash Knights through as spellcasters, Garrosh’s group, Mar’gok, and Kael’thas’s party followed.
• Khadgar urged Rhonin to perform well in the contest, telling him that morality, character, and will would determine whether he qualified.