Chapter Summaries

The Night Elves and their allies fought Cenarius in the Emerald Dream, but Malorne chose to burn away his life rather than become corrupted by fel energy. The Loa arrived to confront the wounded Polluter, who threatened them and ordered them away from Mount Hyjal.

• Illidan, Malfurion, and Maiev led the Night Elves into the Emerald Dream to rescue Malorne, while Cenarius and his Satyr forces blocked their way.
• Maiev broke the seal on Goldrinn’s scythe, summoning Lyral Fangs of Fire and the Scytheclaw pack to tear through the Satyrs.
• Malfurion and Old Staghelm found Malorne near death, and Hamul Runetotem used Solar Storm as Malorne chose to burn away his life rather than succumb to corruption.
• Malorne charged Cenarius and wounded him before dying, while Goldrinn helped drive the Polluter back.
• Rezan, Akunda, and the other Loa confronted Cenarius, who picked up Malorne’s antlers, threatened Dazar’alor, and ordered them to leave Mount Hyjal.

Aegwynn saved Tyrande from the battle and learned that Azshara had sealed her to take her place as Elune’s vessel. Aegwynn used the Heart of Azeroth to bind Tyrande’s power, while Diakum awoke in Felwood after devouring demons and grew stronger.

• Aegwynn sent Diakum to Felwood, helped the exhausted Tyrande escape the collapsing fortress, and took the Moonlit God of War’s relics.
• Tyrande told Aegwynn that Azshara had sealed her to resist Elune’s wrath, and revealed that Azshara’s soul had entered the collapsed Well of Eternity.
• Tyrande entered hibernation and asked to be awakened for one final battle, but Aegwynn placed the Heart of Azeroth around her neck to create a new seal.
• Diakum rampaged through Felwood as the Devourer of Worlds, draining and freezing demons before he awoke in Shadow Hold.
• Diakum discovered that his devouring had raised him to Demigod: Middle Rank and increased his size, and he used the Disguise Brooch to leave the cave.

Diakum reunited with Tyrande at Mount Hyjal as the Corrupted One’s army invaded, and he shielded the defenders from its Magic Plague with Holy Light. Meanwhile, Mylune and Ysera offered Orgrim’s Orcs a route into the Emerald Dream to join the battle, and Orgrim accepted their dangerous offer.

• Diakum warned Tyrande that her Black Moon power remained unstable, while Tyrande reunited with Malfurion, Illidan, and Maiev.
• Maiev proposed using Tyrande’s power in the defense of Mount Hyjal, and a messenger reported that the Withered Demon Army had entered the mountain.
• Malfurion sent Illidan to stop the demons and ordered Maiev to empower Tyrande as the Corrupted One’s forces unleashed a lethal Magic Plague.
• Diakum transformed into a naaru and protected the defenders near the World Tree Highland with purification and a Holy Light barrier.
• Orgrim learned that the Orcs’ voyage would take too long to reach Mount Hyjal, then met Mylune and Ysera, who offered to send them through the Emerald Dream.
• Orgrim accepted the Star Soul Lord’s offer of a dangerous, potentially fatal journey into the Emerald Dream.

Corrupted Cenarius prepared to corrupt Nordrassil and reshape the Azeroth Star Soul, while Agamaggan battered the defenders near the World Tree. As the Exodar joined the battle, Tyrande and Diakum empowered Maiev and the Watchers with the Wrath of Elune, leaving them ready to defend the Kaldorei.

• Corrupted Cenarius brewed Magic Plague to corrupt Nordrassil and planned to use the World Tree to bring the Azeroth Star Soul under his control.
• Agamaggan smashed through three defensive lines before Ursol and Ursoc confronted their old friend at the fourth.
• Archbishop Nali arrived aboard the Exodar, rallied its fighters, and ordered Voros to reinforce Vigilant beneath the World Tree.
• Varian charged through a battlefield portal ahead of the other forces, prompting Lothar to vow to break his legs when they returned.
• Diakum guided Tyrande through a ritual that made Maiev the temporary Hand of the Nightsworn, able to wield the Wrath of Elune.
• Maiev donned Watcher armor and joined the other Watchers in sharing Tyrande's power as Diakum considered the possibility of a new Lesser God of Holy Light.

Garrosh and Rexxar helped defend the Furbolg position before Rexxar warned of the Withered Demon Army’s advance on the World Tree and left with the Mag’har and Furbolg. The Shadewalkers prepared to fight the demigods for their genes, while Lothar’s forces battled beneath the World Tree and Emperor Thoradin discovered Helya might be his granddaughter.

• Gaiara used an ancient Furbolg staff to unleash Ursoc’s Whirlwind, while Garrosh and the Furbolg held their position against the demons.
• Rexxar arrived with a gathered army of beasts, helped drive back the demons, and warned Garrosh that the Withered Demon Army was advancing on the World Tree highlands.
• Garrosh led the Mag’har and Furbolg toward the World Tree, while Rexxar stayed behind and warned General Staghelm not to let the Shadewalkers contaminate the mountain.
• General Staghelm and the Overmind prepared the Shadewalkers to attack the demigods and obtain their genes, while Saloras and her sister chose to watch the battle.
• Lothar and his allies fought the Withered Demon Army beneath the World Tree, and Helya recognized Emperor Thoradin as the man her grandmother had once described.
• Helya asked Thoradin if he was the King of Stromgarde, and Thoradin declared that she might be his granddaughter before calling Lothar over to meet his little ancestor.

Diakum and the defenders faced Cenarius as it brought the Magic Plague toward the World Tree, while the druids prepared to resurrect several Wild Gods. The battle escalated into a clash of giants, and Gul'dan used the chaos to gather undead across Kalimdor before setting its sights on the Highborne.

• Illidan and Diakum discussed Cenarius's ambitions and the planned resurrection of Malorne, Ashamane, and Tortolla, while Diakum warned that the World Tree's corrupted Life Force could endanger them.
• Anzu warned Diakum that Cenarius was approaching with the Magic Plague, and Diakum transformed into a Giant of Light to charge it beneath the World Tree.
• Illidan, Maiev, Rhonin, and Khadgar joined the fight, and Lothar used the World Mother's power to grow into a giant and strike Cenarius with Strom'kar.
• Talanji questioned Bwonsamdi about Strom'kar's fearsome effect on trolls, while Bwonsamdi departed with the souls of fallen warriors.
• Gul'dan raised demon-slain corpses across Kalimdor and expanded its hidden necropolises, but Elune punished it when it tried to raise Kaldorei warriors.
• Gul'dan decided to target the Highborne and their demigods, reasoning that their ancient dead were beyond Elune's protection.

Jarod divided the demon forces while the Black Crow King’s army and the War Horde joined the fight against Cenarius. Diakum fell in battle, but Aegwynn sent him through another Light-Shadow Twinborn cycle, leaving the bear brothers to hold off Cenarius as Diakum confronted Agamaggan.

• Jarod Shadowsong split the demon army across seven approaches, and Kur'talos Ravencrest led his veterans against the Withered Druids.
• Grom Hellscream and Orgrim Doomhammer emerged from a Dream Rift with the War Horde and joined the battle alongside Hogger’s Gnolls.
• The Black Crow King gave Azuka Blade Fury a dragon-forged sword, and Azuka, Samuro, and Lantresor entered the Demon Plague Land.
• Cenarius killed Diakum after the Vigilant held the line, and Malygos took his place against the Corrupted One.
• Aegwynn used the Staff of Sargeras to swap the Devourer of Worlds with Ursoc and Ursol, then sent the bear brothers to hold Cenarius while Diakum returned in Void form.
• Diakum attacked Agamaggan with the Shadow Chasing Swarm, beginning a battle in which the swarm could feast on the Great Boar.

Diakum defeated Agamaggan by exposing the despair behind its corruption and offered it a place in the Shadow Chasing Swarm, where it accepted a chance to confront Sargerei. Before returning to battle, Diakum used the last of his strength to shape Agamaggan’s remaining warmth into a tiny boar and sent it toward Razor Hill.

• Agamaggan tried to escape Diakum’s entropy domain, but Diakum uncovered its buried fear and forced it to relive its fall into fel corruption.
• Diakum promised Agamaggan that the Shadow Chasing Swarm would help it face Sargerei, and Agamaggan accepted before dying and joining the swarm.
• Diakum left the battlefield as Dark Wind after ordering Saloras to take the tiny rock-skinned boar to Razor Hill.
• Saloras and Oreses wondered what to do with the boar, and General Staghelm suggested entrusting it to someone who cared for animals.

The Corrupted Cenarius fought past Azeroth’s defenders and reached Nordrassil, while Malfurion prepared the World Tree’s final strike. The Kaldorei surrendered their immortality to detonate the tree and attack the Polluter, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Cenarius summoned Felhounds to overwhelm the Wild Gods, but Rezan charged it with World Power and Bwonsamdi resurrected Rezan’s corpse to explode against it.
• Ysera arrived in a powerful silver-green dragon form and fought Cenarius while Tyrande struggled to join the battle.
• Malfurion sent the Archdruids into the Dream to restore the Wild Gods, asked Staghelm to revive Malorne, and sounded the evacuation warning.
• Aegwynn teleported the other defenders away as Ysera drew Cenarius from the World Tree, but Cenarius returned and poured Magic Plague over Nordrassil.
• Malfurion sounded the horn a second time, detonating Nordrassil and sacrificing the Kaldorei’s immortality to strike Cenarius.

The World Tree’s destruction killed Cenarius’s demonic form, but he emerged reborn in Death Force armor and fought Diakum as another world began opening above Mount Hyjal. Garrosh was mortally wounded protecting Gaiara, and Griselda tried to save him by replacing his heart with a Naaru remnant.

• The World Tree and the Miniature Well of Eternity exploded, and Illidan returned to protect Malfurion from the destructive wave; Tyrande shielded them with Black Moon Light.
• Diakum absorbed the blast’s energy and returned to the Holy Light, while the K'ure Alliance survivors saw Mount Hyjal’s highlands reduced to a vast pit.
• Cenarius emerged from his ruined body as an Abyssforged War King, and Diakum confronted him with the broken Ashbringer as a gate to another world opened above Mount Hyjal.
• Garrosh was fatally wounded while shielding Gaiara, and Griselda used her Heart-Ripping Dagger to replace his shattered heart with the Heart of Fury, urging him to survive.

Grom Hellscream drank Mannoroth’s blood and fought the Abyssforged Cenarius, while Garrosh returned from death and joined the battle. After Garrosh used Gorehowl to finish Cenarius, Grom offered his son the chance to kill him and inherit the Warsong Clan’s future.

• Orgrim called Grom back as the Orcs struggled free of the explosion’s destruction, and Black Pawn ordered them to wait while he and Lycantos prepared for the coming battles.
• Grom told Black Pawn he intended to die after defeating Cenarius, then drank Mannoroth’s blood and transformed into a powerful fel demon.
• Garrosh rose after Griselda and Gaiara revived him, sensed the battle calling him, and charged toward the World Tree Highlands.
• Garrosh cut down a black bird-man, seized its deathly chain, and freed Grom when the creature’s allies tried to drag him away.
• Grom struck Cenarius with Gorehowl, but Cenarius knocked him down and began to flee before Garrosh caught the axe and destroyed the Abyssforged creature.
• Cenarius’s spirit burned away, and Grom picked up Garrosh’s Doom Axe and challenged his son to kill him.

Garrosh defeated Grom in the Gorehowl inheritance duel, and Grom died after refusing the fel’s offer to save him. As the Mag'har, the War Horde, humans, and wolf packs prepared for battle, the chapter ended with the mortal war beginning beneath Mount Hyjal.

• Garrosh and Grom fought to the death, while Orgrim told Durotan that the War Horde would leave Azeroth for the sea of stars and gave Doomhammer to Gaiara.
• Lycantos’s Black Wolf hunting pack arrived to face Goldrinn’s pack, as Lothar and the humans prepared to fight alongside the Mag'har.
• Gorehowl accepted Garrosh as its wielder, and Garrosh shattered Grom’s Doom Axe during their duel.
• Garrosh killed Grom, who rejected the fel’s offer and died in his son’s arms after urging him to surpass him.
• Durotan and Orgrim rallied their forces as Goldrinn and Lycantos clashed, and the humans, orcs, and other warriors charged into battle.

After the World Tree fell, Goldrinn and Lycantos led their wolf packs into a savage battle while the other survivors withdrew. As Lycantos nearly killed Goldrinn and challenged its freedom, Goldrinn embraced its wildness, activated Ancient Frenzy, and charged back into the fight.

• Star Hunter, Malfurion, and Nightsworn emerged from the ruins and found Goldrinn and Lycantos battling amid the chaos.
• Illidan urged Malfurion not to interfere, and Tyrande led them away to help the survivors and face the dangers left by the World Tree's fall.
• The Black Wolf pack fought the Scytheclaw Pack as Goldrinn, weakened by earlier battles, began losing to Lycantos.
• Lycantos told Goldrinn that they were the same wolf and demanded to know whether Goldrinn had a master.
• Goldrinn rejected Elune's restraint, awakened Ancient Frenzy, and chose to remain a wild beast.
• Goldrinn and Lycantos charged at each other again, treating one another as sustenance rather than fighting for victory.

Orgrim led the War Horde’s retreat toward a Star Gate while Lothar and his allies pursued, and the fighting left the orc forces scattered. With many warriors still trying to escape, Orgrim chose to stay behind and face Lothar as the chapter ended.

• Kael'thas led the Quel'dorei to aid Lothar’s pursuit, while Headmistress Blue Moon withdrew with her students and Toserin prepared to discuss the Black Crow King’s negotiations.
• Bolvar and Lothar’s forces pursued the War Horde, and Orgrim split his wolf riders into small groups to improve their chances of escaping.
• Gilnean wolfmen trapped Rend and Maim’s Blacktooth Grin Clan, but Hogger’s gnolls broke through the encirclement and helped most of the orcs escape.
• Orgrim asked Hogger to shelter scattered orcs and gave him the Great Chieftain’s insignia before fleeing toward the Star Gate as Lothar and Helya closed in.
• Kargath poisoned Helya while defending Orgrim, allowing Orgrim to reach the hilltop where Eitrigg and other orc warriors held the Star Gate.
• Orgrim refused to leave before the remaining War Horde warriors, and many orcs followed him into battle as he charged toward Lothar with the Battle Standard.

Anduin Lothar defeated and killed Orgrim Doomhammer, ending the battle between Stormwind’s forces and the War Horde as the Orcs fled through the star gate. Diakum’s group cleaned up the battlefield left by the wolf gods and prepared to travel into the sea of stars, with Velen guarding Stormwind.

• Lothar and Orgrim fought a fierce duel while Kael'thas’s Quel'dorei attacked the retreating Orcs and tried unsuccessfully to disrupt the star gate.
• Lothar defeated Orgrim with Strom'kar, killing him and breaking Quel'Serrar, while the surviving Orcs were captured or escaped through the star gate.
• Goldrinn and Lycantos died after their battle, and Diakum, Saloras, Oreses, and Nali burned the battlefield and secured the wolf gods’ remains.
• Diakum gave Nali an Anima Orb containing Cenarius’s power to help strengthen her, then said his group would travel into the sea of stars.
• Nali reported that Velen was defending Northshire Abbey, and Diakum said Velen would eventually have to face Kil'jaeden.

After the War Horde escaped through the stargate, Lothar turned toward the demons and diplomacy while Hogger gathered stranded Orcs and began building a Gnoll kingdom. Hogger and Rend set out for Winterspring Valley with plans to claim the Black Morass and expand into Blackrock Mountain.

• Kargath escaped through the closing stargate after exchanging threats with Lothar, who refused Kael'thas's offer to pursue the Green Skins and focused instead on the remaining demons and the Northern Borderlands.
• Kael'thas explained that Strom'kar had changed shape because it recognized Lothar, while Yrel summoned Lothar to meet Vigilant and told the warriors the Exodar would soon depart.
• Hogger recruited stranded Orcs on Mount Hyjal and found Rend guarding his gravely wounded brother, Maim; he sent for help, and Rexxar healed Maim with nature magic.
• Rend gave Rexxar the ashes of fallen Orc warriors and asked him to return them to Draenor, while Rexxar agreed to help and warned Rend to respect nature.
• Hogger planned to take his followers through Winterspring Valley, recruit the Woodpaw Gnolls, and establish the Black Morass as the Gnoll Kingdom's capital; Rend proposed seizing territory at Blackrock Mountain and working with the Dwarves.

After returning Lothar’s repaired Lion’s Roar Battle Armor, Diakum joined the elves in witnessing Malorne’s resurrection and received a powerful moonlit mount from the Wild God. The chapter ended with Diakum and Illidan preparing to meet Kil’jaeden.

• Diakum returned the restored Lion’s Roar Battle Armor to Lothar, who planned to rebuild the human empire without relying on Diakum’s help.
• Old Staghelm invited Diakum to Malorne’s resurrection ceremony and described the growing dangers in the Emerald Dream and the elves’ proposed cooperation with troll Loa Priests.
• Illidan told Diakum that Tyrande planned to enter a long slumber, and Diakum suggested Azshara’s seal might offer a solution to her condition.
• Malfurion and the druids resurrected Malorne, who gave Diakum the mythic mount Lost Keeper, capable of fighting, traveling through dreams, and dispelling illusions.
• Illidan told Diakum that Legion ships had entered the star system, and the two set out to meet Kil’jaeden.

Dreadlord Tichondrius lured Governor Toserin into a trap and arranged for his capture, while messages about the Dreadlord’s location drew the Light Weaver Warband and the Illidari toward Timbermaw Hold. The Illidari set out to investigate, unsure who was manipulating the demon hunters and why.

• Master Lathorius led Governor Toserin away from camp to a secret meeting near Timbermaw Hold, where Toserin recognized the disguised Black Crow King as an impostor and exposed the ambush.
• Tichondrius revealed himself and attacked Toserin with several Dreadlords, aided by the assassin Akali, then ordered Gul'dan to prepare Frostmourne for the captured elven leader.
• Yrel discovered a letter claiming Tichondrius had murdered Toserin and planned to infiltrate the Highborne, so she urged Maraad and Nubodon to protect the elven leaders and hunt the Dreadlord.
• A San'layn warned Master Arantien that Tichondrius and other Dreadlords were at Timbermaw Hold, prompting Arantien and the Illidari to leave camp and pursue them.
• Arantien suspected someone was using Tichondrius as bait to bring the Light Weavers and Illidari together, but she did not know who had sent the San'layn.

Kur'talos learned that Toserin had been murdered, while the Lightforged and Illidari trapped Tichondrius in Timbermaw Hold. Gul'dan's betrayal sent Tichondrius to the Shadow Chasing Prison, where the Overmind offered Eranikus a chance at redemption and reunion with Ysera.

• Kael'thas told Kur'talos that Toserin had been killed by dreadlords and warned him that demons might exploit the death to divide the elves.
• Kur'talos sent Kael'thas to the Broken Isles to help secure the three-race meeting, then summoned Malfurion Stormrage and Lady Maiev privately.
• Yrel, Maraad, and their allies surrounded the dreadlords in Timbermaw Hold, while Elya Blue Moon sealed their rift to the Twisting Nether.
• Tichondrius realized Gul'dan had betrayed it, and Gul'dan revealed that the Vigilant would imprison it in the Shadow Chasing Prison.
• Tichondrius arrived in the prison and met Mephistos and Eranikus, while the Overmind urged Eranikus to join the swarm and seek redemption with Ysera.

Diakum returned to Stormwind and warned Velen that Kil'jaeden might be taking charge of the Legion's invasion, prompting them to prepare for a fleet ambush. At Mount Hyjal, Lothar arranged Orgrim Doomhammer's secret survival with Durotan, who vowed to step down and serve the humans as a mercenary.

• Diakum reached Northshire Abbey, recounted the Battle of Mount Hyjal to Velen and Faol, and heard that Stormwind's forces were close to reclaiming their territory.
• Diakum told Velen that an Illidari-reported Legion scouting fleet might signal Kil'jaeden's involvement, and Velen insisted on joining the planned ambush.
• Lelan and Eredath examined Diakum's severed crystal arm and the Nightsworn blade sealed with it, while Lelan proposed assembling a complete holy avatar from his limbs.
• Daenerys told Lothar that Helya and her companions had been jailed after killing a son of Malorne and resisting the druids who caught them.
• Durotan and Griselda agreed that Orgrim Doomhammer would be officially declared dead and his name would not resurface.
• Durotan announced he would relinquish his chieftainships and serve under Lothar as a mercenary, while Griselda promised the Mag'har would become allies of the Human Empire.