Chapter Summaries

Dick returned to Krokuun with Captain Neri and five young heroes to search for the Holy Stone, traveling to Nathraxas Castle and reuniting with his childhood friend Jaide and Governor Hutton. Hutton agreed to lead Dick toward the Holy Stone’s general location, and Dick resolved to find it despite uncertainty about whether he was the chosen one.

• Dick assembled the Holy Stone Explorers team and led them aboard a military aircraft bound for Krokuun.
• Dick and his companions arrived at Nathraxas Castle, where Jaide welcomed Dick home after thirty-seven years apart.
• Governor Hutton greeted Dick and praised his return, then learned that Dick’s mission required an immediate journey to the Petrified Forest.
• Hutton revealed that he had once guided Sarkir through the Petrified Forest in search of the Holy Stone and offered to lead Dick toward its general location.
• Dick admitted he did not know whether he was the chosen one but vowed to find the Holy Stone and seek an audience with the World Will.

Dick led Governor Hutton and the others into the Petrified Forest and found the Holy Stone beside the remains of Primordial Sorcerer Augure. He touched it to contact Argus, triggering a trial from the ancient elements and the activation of the Hand of Fate.

• Dick and Jaide led the group across the prairie to the Petrified Forest, where Governor Hutton joined them with seven shaman apprentices.
• Governor Hutton used the elemental totems to guide everyone through the forest and into a rift valley, where Dick directed them toward the hidden Holy Stone.
• The group found the Holy Stone in a sealed cave beside the skeleton of Primordial Sorcerer Augure, and Dick decided to contact the World Soul.
• Ancient elements restrained Dick with fire, frost, wind, and stone as he reached for the Holy Stone, while the others watched and Governor Hutton warned them not to resist.
• The Hand of Fate activated and freed Dick from the elements’ restraints, and he knocked on the Holy Stone and called for Argus to wake up.

Dick contacted the World Soul Argus and learned that its slow growth left the Eredar unable to withstand Sargeras, explaining Sarkir’s despair and submission. Argus showed Dick a vision of the Legion’s coming invasion, and Dick urged the World Soul to resist as he proposed a plan to save its spirit.

• Diakum entered the Holy Stone’s memories while the others waited, and the World Soul’s power transformed the cave as the Eredar bowed before it.
• Dick witnessed Augure’s history and saw Sarkir contact the World Soul, then collapse into despair after learning Argus could not mature in time to face the Burning Legion.
• Dick recognized that Sarkir had submitted to Sargeras out of hopelessness, while his own actions had disrupted the Legion’s plan to corrupt the Eredar leaders.
• Argus showed Dick a prophecy of Sargeras and the Legion approaching, confirming that the World Soul was calling for help.
• Dick vowed to fight the Burning Legion and proposed that Argus’s body could be defiled while its spirit was saved through a plan to deceive the Dark Titan.

Dick convinced the Argus Star Soul to preserve fragments of its will in the immortal Eredar so they could carry its hope away from Argus before Sargeras corrupted it. After the Star Soul chose to trust them, Dick rallied the Eredar to create Argus Hearts and prepare for the demons’ invasion.

• Dick rejected the Argus Star Soul’s offer of World Power, arguing that its blessing could not defeat Sargeras.
• Dick shared his memories of Azeroth and Argus’s future, then proposed scattering the Star Soul’s will among the Eredar so they could flee with it and preserve its chance of rebirth.
• The Argus Star Soul divided its will into fragments and entrusted them to Dick and the worshippers in the cave, granting Dick the title Hand of Argus.
• Dick told Governor Hutton and Neri that the Eredar had received a new mission and ordered them to turn the Holy Stone into wearable Argus Hearts for their warriors.

Dick broke the Holy Stone so its fragments could be turned into protective jewelry, while Governor Hutton and the Eredar prepared to seek help from the Triumvirate. Velen’s prophecy revealed the Dark Titan’s arrival in thirty days and a possible future in which Kil’jaeden became the Deceiver; the brothers then learned that the Titan was targeting Argus’s World Soul and decided to investigate in person.

• Dick smashed the Holy Stone, and Governor Hutton estimated that its fragments could produce tens of thousands of pieces of jewelry.
• Dick assigned the Five Young Champions to prepare the fragments and sent Jaide to fetch craftsmen and tools from Nathraxas Castle.
• Velen used the Atama Crystal to interpret a prophecy, and Kil’jaeden saw a vision of himself ruling as the demon Deceiver.
• A vision of the Dark Titan declared that he would arrive in thirty days, and Velen identified him as the enemy threatening Argus.
• Talgas relayed Captain Neri’s report that the Dark Titan sought the World Soul, and Kil’jaeden ordered the Teleportation Court to prepare for him and Velen to investigate.

Dick and the Eredar leaders prepared Argus to resist the Dark Titan’s arrival in thirty days, forging Argus Heart artifacts and planning both a defense and a civilian evacuation with Naaru help. The chapter ended with Sarkir executed, though his ghost remained as the Dark Titan drew nearer.

• Governor Hutton and the jewelers completed the first Argus Heart, which Dick examined and wore as a World Artifact.
• Velen and Kil'jaeden wore Argus Hearts, contacted the World Soul, and received its power and a warning that the Dark Titan would arrive in thirty days.
• Kil'jaeden ordered mass production of Argus Hearts and began gathering legions, while Velen chose to seek Naaru aid and arrange an evacuation.
• Dick urged the Grand Executors to protect Argus while saving civilians and preserving Eredar civilization through the Naaru’s starships.
• Kil'jaeden ordered Sarkir’s execution, and Sarkir was beheaded after asking what answer Dick would bring him.
• Sarkir’s ghost survived as shadowed forces continued their mission in the abyss beneath the Light.

Velen secured K'ure's promise to summon naaru ships to evacuate the Eredar, while Dick urged the young defenders to treat exile as a mission to eventually reclaim Argus. A disguised Nathrezim infiltrated the Holy Stone cavern, and after Dick and Diakum defeated it, Dick warned that the Legion had discovered the Argus Heart and would soon attack Krokuun.

• Velen asked K'ure to call the naaru across the stars for evacuation ships, and K'ure agreed to seek help while warning that their ships might not save everyone.
• Velen brought the Atama Crystal to speed the naaru's call, and a beam of light rose from Mac'Aree as a signal to their allies.
• Dick told Neri and the young heroes that the Eredar must return to Argus someday, then gave them Argus Heart relics and charged them with helping other worlds resist the Burning Legion.
• Neri challenged Dick to offer a solution, and he urged the Eredar to build alliances and preserve their resolve during exile.
• Dick and Diakum exposed and defeated the disguised Nathrezim Sasoval the Corrupter in the Holy Stone cavern, with Neri and the defenders helping trap it.
• Dick ordered the camp searched for spies and called for Captain Jaide and Krokuun's hunter cavalry, warning that the Legion had discovered the Argus Heart and would attack sooner than expected.

Dick led the Hand of Argus against a demon force in the Petrified Forest, using the Argus Hearts to strengthen the defenders and secure a decisive victory. As he prepared for a greater invasion, Doom Lord Kazzak chose to lead the next assault on Krokuun himself.

• Dick identified the demons gathering in the Petrified Forest as a vulnerable vanguard and assigned the defenders roles to destroy the portals and target demon commanders.
• The Twins and shamans began a coordinated spell assault, while Dick led the vindicators into battle and the Argus Hearts amplified the warriors' strength.
• Dick killed a wrathguard and defeated the fel lord, inspiring the vindicators to rout the demons as Jaide's cavalry attacked the portals and spellcasters.
• Dick ordered the survivors to hunt down the fleeing demons, cleanse the fel energy, and request reinforcements from Governor Hutton.
• On Mardum, Doom Lord Kazzak learned of the defeat and decided to invade Krokuun personally after Tichondrius urged him to destroy the Eredar's forging effort.

Doom Lord Kazzak gathered the Legion’s forces to crush Diakum’s warriors in Krokuun, while Dick’s exhausted Hand of Argus prepared to retreat with the Holy Stones. When Kazzak attacked, Argus empowered Dick, who crippled the Doom Lord and rallied his warriors to charge.

• After repeated demon defeats, Tichondrius explained that Argus Heart artifacts and the World Soul’s blessings had strengthened the Eredar, so Kazzak ordered a massive assault on Krokuun.
• In the Petrified Forest, Neri reported severe casualties, and the Twins told Dick that cultists had sacrificed their former neighbors; Dick then prepared to withdraw with the Holy Stones.
• Kazzak emerged from a Fel Well, bombarded the camp with Hellfires, and led the demons in a charge against the Hand of Argus.
• Dick called upon Argus, whose power surged through him and blasted away Kazzak’s sword, claw, and part of its wing.
• As Dick prepared to lead the counterattack, an errant World Power beam destroyed the Dreadlord Banaszar and sent Tichondrius fleeing.
• Dick raised his elemental warhammer and ordered the Hand of Argus to charge Kazzak.

After the Hand of Argus defeated Doom Lord Kazzak, Governor Hutton ordered the survivors to evacuate Krokuun as fel corruption spread through the land. Dick revealed that the Eredar carried fragments of Argus’s Star Soul with them, giving their survival meaning, and he and Hutton said farewell to their homeland before leaving.

• Governor Hutton arrived on the devastated battlefield, where Jaide mourned the fallen and gathered their Argus Hearts into a bag of Eredar Relics.
• Jaide led fresh recruits back into battle, while Hutton found the unconscious Dick and learned that World Power had exhausted him rather than caused fatal injuries.
• Hutton told Neri that Admiral S'fraelx's fleet would evacuate the last people of Krokuun, and Neri asked him to hide the fallen Hand of Argus soldiers in the caverns.
• Dick woke in Nathraxas Castle and discovered his character card showed he was near legendary advancement but weakened by Soul Weakness and Self-Discipline.
• Dick told Neri that the Argus Hearts carried fragments of the Star Soul, and that every Eredar who escaped Argus could help preserve their world's soul and hope for its recovery.
• Dick helped Hutton pack Krokuun's records, and they touched an ancient altar and promised that they would return to their homeland.

Dick led newly trained Vindicators from Mac’Aree to reinforce Kil’jaeden’s defense of the Antoran Wastes, while Velen struggled with whether to stay and die beside his brother or survive to lead the Eredar diaspora. The chapter ended as Dick and Malderan prepared to defend the flank against a fresh demon assault.

• Dick completed a victory parade in Mac’Aree, then sent the Five Young Elites to rest and urged them to say farewell to their families before the Eredar were scattered among different worlds.
• Oreses gave Dick Augure’s heirloom chest, and he assigned the sisters Augure’s skull and Archimonde’s Skull to turn into artifacts.
• Velen told Dick that the naaru fleet could evacuate millions but not everyone, and that Kil’jaeden intended to remain on Argus with his soldiers until the end.
• Dick urged Velen to resist fate, survive, and lead the Eredar who escaped Argus; Velen considered his advice after Dick left for the front.
• Dick arrived in the Antoran Wastes, delivered Argus Hearts to Kil’jaeden’s forces, and reunited with Malderan, who had been fighting on the front lines.
• A horn announced a demon attack, and Dick and Malderan hurried to defend the flank.

Dick led the Hand of Argus reinforcements into the demon assault on the Antoran Wastes, using his new combat staff and battle-priest skills to help turn the fighting. When the main front began to collapse and the demigod Zakuun appeared, Dick prepared to face him despite Malderan’s warning that the fight could kill him.

• Dick rode with Malderan toward the battlefield and led his rested reinforcements in a cavalry charge, supported by the Hand of Argus casters and the World Soul’s blessing.
• Dick’s combat staff cursed nearby demons and unleashed Doomfire Rain after he killed more than ten, while he defeated a Wrathguard Punisher and learned new paladin and priest skills.
• A Doomguard warlord named Azzinoth ambushed Dick, but Divine Shield protected him, and Dick and Malderan killed the demon together.
• Dick healed the warriors as the Hand of Argus and Mac'Aree Garrison Legion pushed back the demons, but General Elodus burned himself with World Power and Kil'jaeden’s roar revealed that the main battlefield was near collapse.
• Dick and Malderan moved to reinforce the main front, where the demigod Zakuun emerged from a Fel Well and challenged Dick; Malderan offered to face it instead, but Dick insisted he would go.

After the Eredar evacuated the Antoran Wastes, Dick led a defiant memorial that summoned radiant spirits to fight beside the survivors. The Naaru fleet arrived to evacuate Argus, while Velen sent Kil'jaeden away and prepared to defend Mac'Aree with Dick.

• The Eredar completed their evacuation of the Antoran Wastes after suffering devastating losses, and Neri asked Dick whether they could still win.
• Dick delivered a fierce memorial address for General Elodus and the fallen, rallying the survivors to keep fighting.
• Radiant spirits appeared after the memorial, granting Dick new abilities and joining the living through protective contracts.
• The Naaru fleet arrived at Argus and began evacuating civilians, while Velen explained that a second fleet would soon arrive.
• Dick urged the commanders to distribute veteran warriors among the evacuation ships and volunteered to take over Mac'Aree's defense.
• Velen ordered the Chosen of the Holy Light to escort Kil'jaeden aboard a ship, leaving Velen and Dick to lead the remaining defense.

Dick led forces to rescue civilians trapped in the Arcane Academy while demons infiltrated the evacuation shelters, and Velen expanded a Holy Light barrier over Oronaar City. With the first evacuation vessels only partly filled and the next batch three days away, Velen vowed to hold the city until every Eredar escaped.

• Dick charged into the Arcane Academy, routed demons, and split his troops to rescue civilians as the Naaru ships prepared to evacuate them.
• Dick appointed Vilara governor of the refugees aboard the Pure Light, gave her an authority seal and an Argus Heart pendant, and instructed her to protect the people and preserve their history.
• Dick exposed a succubus disguised as a woman in the shelter, reassured the child Yuna about her parents fighting at Antoran, and gave her a short sword before returning to battle with Neri.
• Velen expanded a vast Holy Light barrier over Oronaar City, destroying demons and protecting the shelters while the first evacuation vessels loaded civilians.
• Talgas warned Velen that the next Naaru vessels would not arrive for three days, and Velen vowed to defend the city until the last Eredar boarded.
• Velen sent Talgas to protect Kil'jaeden during the evacuation, while choosing to remain despite his wife and child still being at the Seat of the Triumvirate.

As the Dark Titan reached Argus and demons renewed their assault on the evacuation, Kil'jaeden chose to return to the battlefield after learning Velen had sacrificed his own future to protect him. Kil'jaeden and a growing band of warriors landed at the Seat of the Triumvirate, where his return rallied the Eredar as the battle continued.

• Kil'jaeden broke Velen's seal aboard a Naaru ship and argued with Hutton, who urged him to remain with the evacuating Eredar and fulfill his duty as their leader.
• An Arcane Mage reported that fel energy was spreading across Argus and that slain fel demigods had returned near the Seat of the Triumvirate; the Dark Titan's arrival also forced the Naaru ships to flee the star system.
• A Naaru shared Xe'ra's prophecy with Kil'jaeden, revealing that either he or Velen would become the Dark Titan's adjutant, and Kil'jaeden resolved to return to Argus so Velen could survive.
• Hutton joined Kil'jaeden, and nearly a hundred warriors, including the young acolyte Akama, volunteered to accompany them in an escape pod.
• Velen's forces fought demons around the Seat of the Triumvirate as Kil'jaeden's escape pod crashed into the battlefield, crippling Doom Lord Kazzak.
• Kil'jaeden emerged and rallied the Eredar to keep fighting, while Diakum advanced on the wounded Kazzak.

Dick used the Ata'mal Crystal and an empowered Hand of Fate to bolster the Eredar, but Sargeras's arrival unleashed demon ascensions and Red Maw, forcing a desperate retreat. Velen nearly died saving Kil'jaeden, who sent him toward the Naaru ship and stayed behind with Talgas and his warriors to face the demons.

• Kil'jaeden returned to the battlefield, killed Kazzak, and ordered Dick to escort the civilians and protect Velen while the Eredar withdrew.
• Dick invoked the Hand of Fate, healed Velen, and took control of the Ata'mal Crystal, freeing Lura to empower the Eredar and drive back the demons.
• Sargeras's influence triggered demon ascensions, Red Maw attacked Lura, and Tichondrius ambushed Dick before Dick and the Guardians of Kings drove him off.
• Kil'jaeden and Velen reunited their forces and attempted to reach the Naaru ship, but Velen nearly died shielding them from three ascended Mo'arg who detonated themselves.
• Kil'jaeden gave Velen to the Chosen of the Holy Light and ordered Talgas to escort him to safety, but Talgas refused to leave Kil'jaeden behind.
• Kil'jaeden handed Velen the Argus Heart, raised his Battle Standard, and stayed with Talgas and the remaining warriors to fight the demons.

Sarkir was resurrected by his loyal Man'ari followers and went to confront Dick as the survivors fought to reach the Genedar. Dick stayed behind to save the others, and Sarkir prepared to question him while Sargeras appeared in the distance.

• Sarkir’s followers restored him from his soulstone and returned his skull to his body beneath the Temple of Lura.
• Dick and the wounded survivors defeated Red Maw and tried to cross the battlefield to the Genedar, using the Ata'mal Crystal and Holy Light to clear their way.
• Lura sacrificed itself to protect the group from a demonic barrage, but Sarkir intercepted them and shattered the Ata'mal Crystal.
• Dick agreed to stay with Sarkir in exchange for the others’ safe passage, and Sarkir let Neri lead the survivors toward the Genedar with the relic fragments.
• Sarkir opened a Fel Rift, faced Dick, and demanded his answer to the Dark Titan’s question as Sargeras appeared in the distance.

Sargeras offered the Eredar a chance to join the Burning Legion, and Kil'jaeden pledged their loyalty to save his people. Dick resisted Sargeras’s summons and began advancing to legend before challenging Sarkir, while Neri rallied a rescue party aboard the Genedar.

• Sargeras halted the demons and showed the Eredar the Void’s threat, then offered them a choice to join his crusade.
• Kil'jaeden asked Sargeras to spare his people, pledged his loyalty, and accepted fel corruption; Talgas and many Eredar followed him.
• Dick resisted Sargeras’s mental summons with the aid of the Holy Light, began his Mortal-to-Legend advancement, and challenged Sarkir to a final duel.
• Aboard the Genedar, Fareeya and the others grieved for Dick until Neri urged them to return using the escape pods.
• Malderan joined Neri’s rescue mission, and the group set out to bring the Hand of Argus back.

Dick used the Brilliant Star to defeat Sarkir and completed his legendary advancement, but Sarkir’s final fel explosion nearly killed him. Malderan sacrificed his life to save Dick, who was carried away in a Naaru escape pod as Kil'jaeden stopped Tichondrius from attacking it and sent a declaration of war after them.

• Dick struck Sarkir with the Brilliant Star, breaking through his fel shields and forcing the Enlightener to fight seriously.
• Dick endured Sarkir’s curses, demons, and attacks, then used a charged Brilliant Star to ignite Sarkir and complete his legendary advancement.
• Dick charged Sarkir again, pierced his heart with the Naaru fragment, and tore off his skull, but Sarkir destroyed his own torso in a fel explosion.
• Malderan used Divine Intervention to shield Dick from the explosion, sacrificing his life as Neri and the others carried Dick toward a Naaru escape pod.
• Tichondrius ordered a fel cannon to shoot down the escape pod, but Kil'jaeden killed the Morg engineer and forbade further attacks on the departing Eredar.
• Kil'jaeden ordered Talgas to deliver a declaration of war to the escape pod’s occupants.

After the Eredar escaped Argus, the survivors learned that Malderan had sacrificed himself to save Dick, who lay grievously wounded and protected by the remains of the naaru Lura and another sacred object. As the refugees began mourning their losses and preparing for their future, Jaide vowed that the Eredar would return to reclaim their homeland.

• Ishana examined Dick and learned from Neri that Malderan had died saving him, while Kil'jaeden and other warriors had joined the demons in a suspected bargain for the refugees' escape.
• Neri confided her fear and exhaustion to Saloras and Oreses, who discovered she was injured and helped her to the infirmary.
• Ishana recognized the crystals fused around Dick as Lura's remains, and K'ure found that an unknown sacred object near Dick's heart caused holy flames that prevented anyone from treating him.
• Neri told Malderan's wife that he had died saving Dick, and the woman explained that her husband had believed Dick was destined to save the Eredar; Saloras and Oreses comforted Maraad and Lelan.
• Hutton and Jaide visited Dick, and Jaide vowed to protect their people and lead them back to reclaim Krokuun.