Chapter Summaries

Diakum defeated the Void-enhanced Deathwing by unleashing Radiant Sun and forging Ashbringer into a stronger form, then shifted into his Devourer of Worlds form and revealed Eclipse to the Void Lords. He invited the silent lords beyond the Void rift to talk as the Sunwell island retreated.

• Deathwing attacked Diakum with Void powers granted by several Void Lords, and Diakum endured the assault while preparing Radiant Sun.
• Diakum gathered the light and fire of Lordaeron, Kael'thas, and Ragnaros into a small sun that struck Deathwing and destroyed his left wing.
• Xal'atath accused Diakum of threatening the Void's dark ascension, and Diakum used Radiant Sun Enemy Breaker to pierce Deathwing's heart and defeat him.
• Diakum concentrated Radiant Sun into Ashbringer, completing its rebirth, and burned Deathwing down with a single thrust.
• Diakum shifted into his Devourer of Worlds form, drained Deathwing, and revealed Eclipse to Xal'atath and the Void Lords.
• Diakum tossed aside Deathwing's remains, signaled the Sunwell island to retreat, and invited the Void Lords to talk.

Diakum rejected the Void Lords’ invitation and prepared for their war, while Truth Hunter restored Neltharion’s sanity so he could awaken in a new body. As the Void hunt closed in, Xal'atath was cornered and forced to answer for what she had seen beneath Diakum’s veil and for K'aresh’s destruction.

• Truth Hunter explained that the Void Lords would attack Diakum, then restored fragments of Deathwing’s mind to rebuild Neltharion’s sanity.
• Diakum placed Neltharion’s spirit into the Black Corrosion World-Ender and ordered the dragons to take it to the Supreme Star Soul Temple for its hatching.
• The Overmind warned Diakum that hundreds of millions of Chaos servants and seven Void deities were advancing, while Vorolos relayed Zera’s warning that the hunt had begun.
• Diakum told the Army of the Light to dock at Draenor and said he would handle the Void’s hunt himself; Little Star then reported that Xal'atath had escaped.
• Saloras and the Nether-Stalker trapped Xal'atath and demanded to know what she had seen beneath Diakum’s true face and whether K'aresh’s destruction had brought her joy.

Arthas confronted his father, Terenas, as the Dragon King tried to escape Lordaeron City, and their battle ended with Terenas choosing death after realizing the damage his ambition had caused. White Pawn arrived too late and vowed to fight the darkness responsible for the tragedy.

• Lothar nearly defeated Terenas, but Void Essences emerged from the darkness and gave the Dragon King an opportunity to escape.
• Terenas found his ruined throne and paused to cover it with his cloak before Arthas blocked his way out of the palace.
• Terenas and Arthas fought over the throne and their broken relationship until the Holy Light dispelled the darkness and stopped Terenas from strangling his son.
• Arthas stabbed Terenas with the purified Saramani, and Terenas admitted his failures before urging his son to live freely.
• Terenas died in Arthas's arms as the Holy Light turned him to ashes, while White Pawn arrived too late and swore to fight the darkness.

As the battle for Lordaeron continued, the Vigilant prepared the leaders of several races to command the Shadow Chasing Swarm in a war against seven Void gods and their servants. Garrod Shadowsong was appointed the swarm’s War Marshal, while Dick arranged for the swarm’s eggs to be protected and promised to help the Ethereals reclaim K'aresh.

• An'she's Solar Fist suppressed the Dark Entities and Dragonborn in Lordaeron as Lothar and Kael'thas learned that several commanders had been conscripted for a coming war.
• Garrod Shadowsong left his children with Priest Sarahil and traveled to the Sunwell Floating Isle, where Anveena explained that he would command the swarm through a brain bug.
• Anveena appointed Garrod War Marshal of the Shadow Chasing Swarm and gave him authority over King Beast Agamaggan, while she would command Eranikus.
• Garrod prayed at a Moonwell, and Lady Elune directly ordered him to join and win the god war for An'she.
• Dick learned that the seven Void gods had targeted his location and asked the Nether-Stalker to shelter the Shadowstalker Bugs' eggs while the swarm fought on the Chaos Coast.
• The Nether-Stalker agreed to safeguard the eggs after Dick promised to try to help the Ethereals reclaim K'aresh once the god war was over.

Garrod Shadowsong and Shandris Feathermoon linked their minds to the Shadow Chasing Swarm to command it in a war against the servants of seven Void deities. As the swarm fought to destroy a corrupted world-fragment, Diakum prepared a strategic weapon for a counterattack and resolved to enter the battle himself.

• Anveena connected Garrod and Shandris to the swarm will through brain bugs, and Shandris quickly began directing the insects in battle.
• Garrod warned Shandris against being assimilated by the swarm will and revealed that the commanders' true objective was to destroy a continent-sized remnant of a Void-corrupted world.
• Anveena told the commanders that seven Void deities were besieging the Chaos Coast, and Shandris abandoned one hive before redeploying her consciousness to continue fighting the Moon-Eater sea serpent.
• Aegwynn offered to summon Tyrande and the Nightsworn to help Diakum, but Diakum refused and asked her to send the hatching Black Corrosion World-Ender to the battlefield.
• Diakum said the swarm's counterattack would build momentum for his entrance, and declared that Azeroth itself was challenging the Sea of Darkness.

White Pawn and the other reserve commanders joined the Shadow Chasing Swarm’s desperate battle against the Void forces, while Anveena led a strike against the enemy’s Fleshheart Continent. Just as the swarm’s position collapsed, Deathwing’s arrival transformed its survivors into Black-Scourge Ravagers, and Diakum unleashed an Extinction Order against the enemy.

• White Pawn took command of a devastated theater and sent the dwindling swarm forces into a brutal battle against the advancing Faceless Ones.
• Jarod told White Pawn that the Queen of Blades was attacking the Fleshheart Continent, and White Pawn used baneling bugs to hold the line while Anveena prepared her strike.
• Anveena detonated the Sha energy nodes, bringing the Fleshheart Continent crashing down onto the swarm’s territory and badly damaging its Mental Network.
• Deathwing arrived and spread Frenzied Dragon Spores over the surviving Shadow Chasing Swarm, transforming its dragon-gene-bearing bugs into Black-Scourge Ravagers.
• Diakum activated his decisive weapon and issued an Extinction Order against every Void creature on the battlefield that did not belong to his side.

Neltharion and the Shadowstalker Bugs turned the battle in the Sea of Darkness into a counterattack, while Diakum entered the Void deities’ trap armed with Ashbringer and the Solar Fist. Nali and Aegwynn recruited Tyrande to rescue him, and Tyrande prepared to enter the fight as the chapter ended.

• Neltharion led the Black Corrosion Dragons against the Void forces, killing a Qiraji general and devouring the fallen enemies.
• Korven celebrated the swarm’s recovery as Agamaggan, Shekzeer, and the injured Overmind survived the continent’s collapse and gathered biomass for the next phase of the war.
• Diakum praised Anveena, reforged Ashbringer with solar fire, and transformed his five Golden Little Angels into the Five Angels of High Heaven before entering the Sea of Darkness.
• The seven Void deities attacked Diakum together, but he answered with the Solar Fist and Ashbringer’s blazing power.
• Nali and Aegwynn found Tyrande, who agreed to help Diakum and entrusted Aegwynn with maintaining her seal as she prepared to fight.

Diakum fought seven Void deities in the Sea of Darkness, shifting into his Devourer of Worlds form and nearly being destroyed before Tyrande and the Nightsworn arrived. He returned to the light after devouring the Abyssal Creator, while a visitor arrived at the dead Terokkar Rift to answer an invitation to exterminate evil gods.

• Diakum battled the Void deities in his Solar Incarnation, but their combined attacks and mental corruption overwhelmed his defenses.
• Diakum transformed into the Devourer of Worlds and began devouring the Abyssal Creator as the other Void deities tried to destroy him.
• The Void deities tore apart Diakum's Voidform, but two dim golden chains kept him from falling completely into the Void.
• Tyrande and the Nightsworn broke the Void blockade and attacked the Void deities, giving Diakum time to consume the Abyssal Creator and return to the light.
• A giant visitor entered the dead Terokkar Rift after accepting an invitation to exterminate evil gods.

Diakum battled the Void Gods in the Sea of Darkness while the Shadow Hunters evacuated precious insect eggs from the collapsing continent. He lured the Void Gods through a rift to Sargeras, who slaughtered them, then left Diakum and Tyrande to escape as the Wraith was thrown back into the fight.

• Diakum refused Elune’s call to retreat, joined Tyrande against the Void Gods, and used power from Argus and Azeroth to pursue the Void God he countered most effectively.
• Diakum provoked the Void Gods into attacking recklessly, then called on Holy Light to blast through the Wraith’s domain and seize its Void heart core.
• Diakum entered Devourer of Worlds form and consumed the core’s energy before fleeing through a rift, while Tyrande kicked the suspicious Abyssal Prophet into it after him.
• The Void Gods and Tyrande emerged in the Terokkar Rift, where Sargeras was waiting and began killing the Void Gods with Gorribal and fel fire.
• Diakum and Tyrande escaped through the closing rift, and Diakum tossed the captured Wraith into Sargeras’s reach as a tip for his help.

After the deaths of seven Void gods, Diakum lost his Void Authority for betraying the Void and prepared the Shadow Chasing Swarm to leave the collapsing Swarm Continent. The Truth Hunter gave him a fragment of Earth-Warder authority, and Diakum departed for the material world as the Eclipse War continued.

• Tyrande and Diakum descended to the Swarm Continent as Dick explained that the Dark Titan had killed six Void gods and that he had devoured the Abyssal Creator.
• The Void condemned Dick for selling out its interests, stripped his Void Authority, and marked him and the Shadow Chasing Swarm as traitors.
• Tyrande left to restore her seal, while Diakum stayed behind as the collapsing continent's swarms raided the territories of the fallen gods.
• Shekzeer offered to leave with Diakum, but he told her to return to the Overmind and care for the swarm as he waited for a guest.
• The Truth Hunter gave Diakum a black stone tablet containing weakened Earth-Warder authority, and Diakum split it so the swarm could study and use its power.
• Shekzeer departed with the tablet, and Diakum escaped to the material world as funeral bells rang for the fallen gods and the Eclipse War continued.

Velen arrived at the Sunwell floating island and discovered that Diakum could not awaken because the Holy Light and Void were struggling over him. As thousands underwent Lightforging to ease the imbalance, Diakum revealed High Heaven to Velen and asked him to help ignite the sun.

• Velen examined the unconscious Diakum and diagnosed an imbalance between his Holy Light and shadow, so he organized a mass Lightforging to help awaken him.
• Vilara told Velen about An'she and the Sun God's inheritance, prompting him to agree that the Sunwell floating island should travel to Quel'Thalas to check on Kael'thas.
• Velen, Vilara, and Yrel arranged for thousands of believers, including Dragonborn chosen by Uther, to undergo Lightforging and Diakum's Trial of Virtue.
• During the ritual, Diakum brought Velen to High Heaven, a vacant realm he believed An'she had left as a contingency against the Eclipse Age.
• Diakum summoned the faint vision of angels and the High Heavens Gate, then invited Velen and the other leaders of the People of Light to help ignite the sun.

After recovering from the Lightforging ritual, Diakum helped arrange the Empire’s recovery and the rescue of Tandred while struggling with his falling Void Authority and an impending Light-shadow imbalance. He decided to devour Xal'atath as an experiment into whether a corrupted Naaru could return to the Light.

• Diakum awoke after the ritual, accepted Nali and the Twins’ worried embrace, and thanked everyone who had helped save him.
• Lothar discussed the new Strom'kar Empire’s delayed coronation and plans to train its officials and priests among the Eredar.
• The Sunwell Floating Isle departed for Quel'Thalas carrying the seriously wounded, while Derek agreed to support the Shadewalkers’ search for Tandred with his First Fleet.
• Daelin refused to return to Kul Tiras as king and chose to remain a sailor, though he agreed to help rescue Tandred.
• Diakum discovered that his Void Authority had fallen to zero and that his Holy Light was recovering too quickly to maintain balance.
• Diakum took the Blade of the Black Empire and began devouring Xal'atath, calling her Lightforged Xal'atath as he started his experiment.

Diakum devoured most of Xal'atath’s power and questioned her about An'she, learning that the Sun God was dead and that reigniting him could upset the balance of the Six Forces. Diakum preserved Xal'atath’s remaining will as an eclipse fragment, then learned that Kael'thas had seen something and might be refusing to wake.

• Diakum questioned Xal'atath while devouring her power, asking about her origins and An'she.
• Xal'atath revealed that the First Ones created An'she and Mu'sha, and that An'she had died after being gravely wounded in the Sun-Moon War.
• Xal'atath warned Diakum that reigniting An'she could be as disastrous as the Eclipse Age, but confirmed that reviving her might theoretically allow him to revive the Sun God.
• Diakum absorbed nearly all of Xal'atath’s Void power and preserved her remaining will in a Naaru crystal made from his little finger.
• Saloras told Diakum that Kael'thas was speaking incoherently and might be unwilling to wake after seeing something.

Kael'thas's Sunwell returned to Quel'Thalas, but the Sin'dorei still faced Magic Addiction and he became trapped in an illusion revealing his ancestors' sun worship among the Dark Trolls. After escaping, he proposed researching ways to draw usable energy from sunlight and vowed to challenge Suramar over the Arcan'dor.

• Diakum entered Kael'thas's illusion with Queen Lanathel, Vilara, and other witnesses to discover what had trapped him.
• The group witnessed ancient Dark Trolls worshipping the Sun Dragon Mother Shibala, and Vilara identified the Sunstrider elves as descendants of those sun worshippers.
• Vondelor rejected the revelation that elves had Dark Troll ancestors, while Vilara urged the Sin'dorei to accept their origins and use them to establish the Sun State Religion.
• Kael'thas admitted he had been considering whether sunlight could be transformed into energy to ease the Sin'dorei's Magic Addiction, and Diakum agreed that it might work with a suitable medium.
• Kael'thas ordered research into solar divine arts and declared that the Sin'dorei would seek their share of the Arcan'dor, even if reclaiming it from Elisande required a Holy Tree War.

Kael'thas and the priests began developing Solar Divine Arts while Diakum discussed how cautiously the Sun God should be introduced to believers. Nali chose to become the first Eredar moon believer, and Diakum later learned that his actions had plunged the Sea of Darkness into turmoil and attracted the attention of Death.

• Kael'thas quickly returned to work on Solar Divine Arts with Vondelor and the other Holy Light priests.
• Vilara proposed involving Aldor priests, but Diakum insisted that worship of An'she remain restricted until the Sun God's Radiance of Ten Thousand Suns was rekindled.
• Diakum showed Vilara his ambitious Divinity School student roster, including Arthas, Calia, Liadrin, Talanji, Li Li, and Hamul Runetotem, and she warned him against scandals with students.
• Nali asked Argus for guidance, became the first Eredar to worship the moon, and received a moonlight mark; Velen assured her that the sun's radiance would protect her.
• Diakum visited the Nether-Stalker's Void Rift and learned that the deaths of seven Void gods had triggered factional struggles across the Sea of Darkness.
• The Nether-Stalker warned Diakum that Death had taken a strong interest in him and might seek to make him a champion.

Diakum inspected the battered Shadow Chasing Swarm, approved its recovery and Anub'arak's new earth powers, and refused its request to conquer the Nerubians of Aki'kahet. Meanwhile, Sargerei debated sending Diakum to the Shadowlands, and the Mother of Light redirected her fleet toward Draenor to find and protect him.

• Shekzeer reported the swarm's losses and recovery, and Diakum examined the Overmind's egg and the nearly thousand new eggs.
• Shekzeer showed Diakum the surviving Anub'arak, whose earth powers had grown through the Earth Tablet, and Diakum approved the swarm's development.
• Anub'arak asked to conquer Aki'kahet, but Diakum refused and said Anveena would eventually make use of the Nerubians there.
• Diakum questioned Xal'atath about Chromatus, and she explained that studying it could help the swarm oppose the power of Order before asking what he intended to do.
• Sargerei argued with a Greater Demon sovereign about inviting Diakum to the Shadowlands, then considered how sending him there could keep him from interfering in the material world.
• The Mother of Light redirected the Army of the Light fleet toward Draenor so it could find and protect Diakum, whom she believed held the key to opening High Heaven.

Jaina struggled with her overwhelming Arcane Academy workload until Imira taught her a time-magic shortcut, and she reunited with Arthas after rescuing him from a crab. Meanwhile, Gul'dan planned to exploit Suramar's vulnerability to the Magic Plague and ordered Toserin to attack the Drakkari and harvest their Loa.

• Jaina lamented her many assignments, and Imira showed her a scroll about using time acceleration and reversal to make time for recreation.
• Jaina rescued Arthas from a magma-spewing crab that had dragged his father's urn underwater, then helped him reunite with Jialiya.
• Gul'dan welcomed Toserin back with captured souls and ordered him to lead undead reinforcements to Kul Tiras to secure a stronger fleet.
• Gul'dan proposed using the Magic Plague to weaken Suramar and asked whether Toserin would return to his people if ordered.
• Toserin warned Gul'dan that Suramar's elves would resist any threat to Azshara, but Gul'dan planned to exploit their lack of experience with the plague.
• Gul'dan ordered Toserin to slaughter Drakkari Trolls before the Zandalari arrived and to make colossi from the dead Loa.

Dick warned Nali against becoming a Night Warrior, but she remained determined to protect their people, while Old Gani brought news that Bwonsamdi was in danger. In Ashenvale, Shandris Feathermoon discovered that Baku the Moon-Eater had been drawn to her and tried to recruit the stranded serpent to Elune’s cause.

• Dick found Nali bearing the Moon Goddess’s mark and urged her not to risk the Night Warrior’s dark wrath, but she insisted that the Eredar needed another Lesser God to protect them.
• Old Gani delivered Bwonsamdi’s key and a plea for help, revealing that Bwonsamdi was under threat in Ardenweald after helping Azshara.
• Dick told Old Gani to warn the Golden King that the Shadewalker Cult would help with the threat beneath his throne, and ordered the Nazmir Swamp sealed for the Swarm’s cleansing.
• Shandris Feathermoon heard a voice drawing her toward Lake Mystral, but Sarahil struck her awake as a giant serpent emerged from the lake.
• Baku the Moon-Eater explained that the Swarm Mind had linked him to Shandris Feathermoon and that the Void had cast him out, so Shandris and Sarahil offered him a place among Elune’s allies.

Diakum used the Scythe of Elune and the shared will of Gilneas’s worgen to help them overcome their beastly instincts and return to human form. After the ceremony, Anveena began deploying her Saviors Swarm in Nazmir and prepared to investigate the Nerubian kingdom of Aki’kahet.

• Diakum, Genn, and the druids prepared Gilneas for the ritual while Faol and Malfurion agreed that moon priests could help guide the worgen.
• Malfurion explained that the Black Wolf God Lycantos had taken Lyral Fangs of Fire beyond Azeroth and hinted that Goldrinn had secretly blessed someone during the Battle of Lordaeron.
• Diakum raised the Scythe of Elune, linked the minds of the worgen and city leaders, and led them through spiritual trials to confront their beastly natures.
• Godfrey became human again, and Genn accepted Lothar’s welcome as the people of Gilneas celebrated their return to humanity.
• Anveena brought insect eggs to Nazmir and appointed Princess Talanji to oversee the Saviors Swarm while she traveled to investigate Aki’kahet and its Nerubians.

Anveena and Talanji scouted Aki'kahet, where Anveena planned to use the Nerubians’ dealings with N’Zoth to bring them under the Saviors Swarm. While Anveena investigated a vast Holy Light crystal buried inside Azeroth, Talanji followed Rezan’s lead toward the hidden Haranir.

• Anveena and Talanji observed the City of a Thousand Threads and agreed that the K’aheti Nerubians were too well-defended for a direct assault.
• Anveena proposed claiming the K’aheti as heirs of the Aqir Empire and planned to exploit their tensions with N’Zoth by arranging the death of one of his messengers.
• Anveena left with the Shadow Hunters to inspect a Holy Light wonder, while Talanji stayed behind and followed Rezan’s directions to an abandoned Goblin excavation site where hidden Haranir were watching her.
• Anveena discovered a city-sized crystal radiating light and heat inside Azeroth’s core, and the Shadow Hunters reported that it showed ancient memories dating back before the Dark Empire.
• Anveena ordered the Shadow Hunters to contact Diakum and Aegwynn, wondering whether Azeroth knew about the crystal inside her.