Chapter Summaries

After awakening to Kil'jaeden's loss, Velen heard Lothraxion's proposal to form the Army of the Light and agreed to put it to a vote among the Eredar's leaders. He then decided the Genedar must keep moving and draw the demons' attention, while the people renamed themselves the Draenei.

• Velen awoke three days after the Genedar set sail and learned that Kil'jaeden was gone.
• Lothraxion arrived as Xe'ra's envoy, warned that Diakum might never awaken, and urged the Eredar to help build the Army of the Light.
• Velen and Hutton agreed in principle to the proposal, but Velen required a vote and made Eredar participation voluntary.
• K'ure warned that Xe'ra's aggressive methods might not suit Diakum, and Velen set aside the idea of sending him to her.
• Velen decided the Genedar would remain in the demons' sight to draw their pursuit, while Hutton proposed transferring vulnerable civilians to other ships.
• Velen said the Eredar should call themselves the Draenei and set out on their journey through the stars.

Velen and Hutton organized the Eredar starships to join the Army of the Light, while the Genedar agreed to draw the Burning Legion’s pursuit. As the exiles separated into clans and prepared to depart, Velen named the comatose Diakum a Saint, Hutton inherited the leadership seal, and Dick began training in a spiritual realm while his body underwent an unknown transformation.

• Velen convened the Eredar governors and archons, and they voted to join the Army of the Light after Admiral S'fraelx urged them to protect their own people and preserve their veterans.
• Velen announced that the Genedar would act as a vanguard to draw the Burning Legion’s attention, and the scattered ships exchanged farewells as they adopted new clan names.
• Neri reported that the Atama Crystal fragments could protect the Genedar, and Velen learned that one fragment had fused with Diakum’s heart before declaring him a Saint.
• Ms. Devenius delivered Kil'jaeden’s shattered leadership seal, and Velen interpreted it as a warning that the demons could track them and were nearing pursuit.
• Velen gave the leadership seal to Hutton, who accepted command of the Genedar’s warriors and watched the seal reform on his forehead.
• Dick remained trapped in a spiritual realm as his body transformed, chose the Harbinger of the Sun class, and began practicing against an illusory Felguard.

After Sargeras left Argus, Kil'jaeden and Sarkir reorganized the Burning Legion while secretly seeking to protect their former people. They agreed to delay capturing Eredar carrying fragments of the weakened Argus Star Soul by recruiting Annihilan, while Sarkir prepared to reshape a powerful future arrival.

• Sargeras visited the World Heart on Argus, then departed to fight the Void while his servants began building the Legion's base and restructuring its forces.
• Kil'jaeden planned reforms and a Fel fleet, while Tichondrius challenged his delays and urged him to show loyalty to Sargeras.
• Sarkir proposed inviting the Ethereals to Argus to trade their star-travel technology for the Legion's help reclaiming K'aresh.
• Sarkir gave Kil'jaeden a meditation technique and explained that Sargeras intended to destroy the Legion after the Burning Crusade, even as the Legion fought the Void.
• Sarkir revealed that Argus's Star Soul had escaped in fragments and that the Legion would need to capture three million Eredar to complete its Fel transformation; Kil'jaeden and Sarkir both refused to become executioners.
• Kil'jaeden and Sarkir chose to recruit Annihilan to hunt the Eredar and delay the killings, while Sarkir prepared to reshape a powerful figure arriving on Argus and welcomed Kil'jaeden as the Conqueror.

A mysterious three-phase Holy Light emerged from Dick's coffin, prompting Genedar’s leaders to investigate and plan for their first planetary stop and the Army of the Light’s recruitment. As Fareeya, the Twins, and others prepared to leave, Dick heard their future farewells and learned of a later crash, driving him to train harder so he could awaken in time to save them.

• Neri and Fareeya entered the sealed navigation platform and found Dick’s coffin emitting a shifting light that Velen identified as a transformation of primordial Holy Light.
• Velen and Hutton decided to move Dick’s coffin to biological storage while they observed the light, and they discussed Genedar’s planned stop on Xagaria and the Army of the Light’s invitation.
• Fareeya and the Twins considered joining the Army of the Light, while Neri refused to leave Genedar and was enveloped by a ray of dawn from Dick’s coffin.
• In his spiritual world, Dick trained with his new dawn, sun, and dusk powers and heard Fareeya and the Twins say goodbye as they left to join the Army of the Light.
• Dick heard Neri’s future accounts of their long exile, her growing loneliness, and Genedar’s crash, then resumed fighting to prepare to awaken and save his companions.

Yrel, a young Draenei miner, tried to save the Vigilant Saint’s holy coffin when orcs and demons ambushed its escort. As the orc chieftain moved to kill her, the saint rose from the coffin and stopped his axe.

• Yrel and Samara spotted Bleeding Hollow orcs preparing an ambush and Samara hurried back to Ambori Village for help.
• Yrel warned the coffin escort by setting a tree ablaze, but the orcs attacked with demons and overwhelmed the guards.
• Yrel used a bone whistle to send the thunder elephants charging through the battlefield and rode them toward safety with the coffin.
• Amokawa and an orc chieftain intercepted Yrel, and the chieftain wounded her and knocked the coffin open.
• The orc chieftain raised his axe over Yrel, but the Vigilant Saint rose from the coffin and stopped the blade with his glowing hand.

Diakum awakened from his Holy Sarcophagus when Yrel was ambushed, saved her, and slaughtered the orcs attacking them. After learning that Teron'gor had ordered the ambush and that Gul'dan was preparing to attack Karabor Temple, Diakum appointed Yrel his adjutant and led her toward the besieged guardians on Pilgrim's Road.

• Diakum awoke as an orc attacked Yrel, caught the orc's axe, shielded her, and healed her wounds.
• Diakum fought off the attackers, killed the two-headed wyvern Breath of the Moon, and captured an orc leader for interrogation.
• The orc leader revealed that Teron'gor had ordered the ambush to provoke war and that Gul'dan was gathering an army to attack Karabor Temple.
• Yrel killed the captive before Diakum finished questioning him, and Diakum accepted that they already knew enough.
• Yrel explained that Diakum's broken staff, Kazzak's Grudge, had been kept as a holy relic, then urged him to help the besieged guardians.
• Diakum learned Yrel's name, appointed her his temporary adjutant, and ordered her to charge with him toward the battle.

After Dick led the Draenei to victory over an Orc ambush, he learned that Ambori Village was under attack and prepared to reinforce it with Yrel. He began guiding Yrel toward forging her own doctrine and joining the Hand of Argus, while warning that a traitor among the Draenei had helped the Orcs.

• Dick routed the Orc ambushers, and Yrel killed the warlock before destroying his Soulstone at Dick's command.
• Dick ordered the survivors to burn the Orc corpses and build a tower of skulls to honor their fallen comrade and deter future attacks.
• Dick asked the Ranger about Archbishop Neri, then learned he suspected a high-ranking Draenei had leaked information to the Orcs and that Ambori Village might also be under attack.
• Dick ordered the wounded Ranger's unit to prepare to reinforce Ambori Village and told Yrel to arm herself, obey orders, and help rescue civilians.
• Dick challenged the Vindicator order's lengthy training requirements and offered to guide Yrel in forging her doctrine; he also accepted her as a Hand of Argus recruit and set a trial of killing thirty demons in one battle.

Dick awakened Yrel's affinity for the Holy Light and led the Draenei to rescue Ambori Village from an orc attack, nearly losing control of his power before Yrel helped turn his destructive radiance into healing light. After saving the villagers, he prepared to pursue the captives at Shadowmoon Fortress the next morning and accepted a merchant's offer to show him Ambori Village's finest weapon.

• Dick completed Yrel's Holy Light Doctrine, and the Holy Light marked her as a Light Walker.
• Dick summoned a Holy Warsteed and led Yrel and the vindicators toward Ambori Village, where they discovered Void-powered orcs attacking and capturing villagers.
• Dick and the vindicators fought through the village, and a herder used Dick's broken spear to rescue her child from an orc.
• Dick's holy power flared out of control until Yrel rushed into the light, prompting him to transform his destructive radiance into healing light across the village.
• Dick ordered the vindicators to rest and prepare to rescue the captured villagers at dawn, while Minara agreed to repair the communications device and the village prepared his equipment.
• A Draenei merchant offered Dick Ambori Village's finest weapon, and he asked to see the legendary "Village Good Sword."

Dick prepared to strike Shadowmoon Fortress, hoping to split its corrupted warlocks from the orthodox shamans rather than punish all the orcs. After Yrel learned that Samara had been captured, Dick promised to rescue her at dawn, while Draenei reinforcements raced toward Ambori Village.

• Dick ordered Shantok to prepare Ambori Village for refuge and announced a dawn operation against the Shadowmoon Clan, then explained his plan to find and support its orthodox shamans.
• Dena offered Dick her family's Eredar battle axe, Legacy, and a suit of T'haamar Defender's Regalia, which he accepted before she left to resize the armor.
• Yrel told Dick that Samara had been captured by orcs, and Dick promised to lead a rescue at dawn and expected reinforcements from Karabor Temple.
• A Draenei commander led hundreds of cavalry toward Ambori Village on Archbishop Akama's orders, while his adjutant warned that the attack could ruin Velen's peace negotiations.

Dick rebuked the Draenei's complacency and led a force of vindicators toward Shadowmoon Fortress to rescue captured villagers and confront the Shadowmoon Clan's warlocks. He shattered the fortress's gates with a devastating strike of Holy Light and charged inside with his troops.

• Shantok reported that Shadowmoon warlocks were summoning Void creatures, raising undead, and imprisoning dissenting Orcs, while Tenum explained the Draenei's long-standing isolation from the Orcs.
• Dick reprimanded Tenum and Shantok for failing to detect the Shadowmoon Clan's changes, then ordered the rangers to remain scouts and demanded a report on Shadowmoon Valley.
• Dick rallied more than a hundred vindicators, including Yrel and Captain Nubodon, and set out to rescue the captured villagers and attack Shadowmoon Fortress.
• Yrel warned Dick that the force faced numerous undead and was outnumbered, but Dick promised to teach the vindicators how to fight and led the charge.
• Dick summoned a blazing hammer of Holy Light that destroyed the fortress gates and the Orcs behind them, then ordered the vindicators to keep formation and advance.

Dick led the Draenei Vindicators through Shadowmoon Fortress, destroying the warlocks and undead while rescuing imprisoned Orcs and Draenei. After saving Samara from a Void sacrifice, he demanded that the warlocks open the gates to Shadowmoon Graveyard so he could speak with Ner'zhul.

• Dick charged into Shadowmoon Fortress with the Vindicators, burning through warlocks and undead as he led them around its corridors.
• Dick split the Vindicators into groups to clear the tombs, rescue prisoners, and attack the remaining warlocks.
• Yrel and Shantok freed Samara, Raekal Bloodfire, Turok, and other imprisoned Orcs, who agreed to flee with the Draenei.
• A warlock blasted Yrel and Samara, then seized Samara for a Void sacrifice, but Dick healed and rescued her.
• Dick drove off the being pursuing Samara's soul and ordered a warlock to open Shadowmoon Graveyard's gates so he could speak with Ner'zhul.

Dick led a raid on Pain Fortress, ordered Nubodon to escort the rescued civilians to safety, and entered Shadowmoon Graveyard alone to capture Ner'zhul. As Neri rushed to find him, Dick discovered Void creatures in the graveyard and summoned his Radiant Spirit, Qin Duanyu, to fight a massive Void wraith.

• Dick ordered Nubodon, Tenum, and the vindicators to evacuate the civilians while Shantok and Yrel covered their retreat, then charged toward Shadowmoon Graveyard alone.
• Raekal Bloodfire joined the retreating group, and Ael'dor spirit dragon riders arrived to drive off the Shadowmoon Orc wyverns with help from a long-range ranger attack.
• Nubodon told Archbishop Neri that Dick had entered the graveyard alone, and Neri immediately flew after him while leaving officers to assist the evacuation.
• Dick used his Holy Light to burn through the graveyard's undead and discovered that he had accidentally killed Shadana Bloodfury while clearing the area.
• Dick found Void wraiths and a huge wraith feeding on Orc souls, then summoned his Radiant Spirit, Qin Duanyu, to battle the creature.

Dick attacked Ner'zhul in the Shadowmoon Holy Land, defeated him, and exposed the spirit pretending to be Rulkan as a demon. A fel apparition then revealed itself as Corrupted Cenarius, leaving Dick stunned and questioning whether he had ended up in a different timeline.

• Rulkan urged Ner'zhul to support Gul'dan's war against the Draenei, while Dick and the Guardians of Kings broke into the chamber.
• Dick fought Ner'zhul and destroyed the undead he summoned with the Divine Adjudicator and Holy Light.
• Dick defeated Ner'zhul without killing him, and the false Rulkan revealed her contempt for the orcs.
• Dick recognized the voice behind Rulkan as Commander Kil'jaeden and challenged him to appear.
• A demon emerged as Corrupted Cenarius, proclaimed himself leader of the Deathblight Legion, and left Dick wondering whether he was still in the Azeroth universe.

Dick confronted Corrupted Cenarius and rescued Ner'zhul, learning that the Burning Legion was manipulating the Orcs into war against the Draenei. After reuniting with Neri, Dick left Ner'zhul to travel to Ambori Village and took Neri to watch the sunset, determined to finally complete their long-delayed date.

• Corrupted Cenarius revealed that he had hunted Eredar exiles for the Burning Legion and threatened Dick, who challenged him to come to Draenor and fight.
• Dick healed Ner'zhul and urged him to help stop Gul'dan and unite the world's peoples against the Legion; Ner'zhul resolved to bear responsibility for his past mistakes.
• Dick encountered Neri in Shadowmoon Cave, and the two embraced after their long separation before agreeing to take Ner'zhul to Ambori Village.
• Neri flew ahead with Ner'zhul while Dick fought the corrupted Orcs at the cave entrance, then he rejoined her after defeating them.
• Dick revealed that he had heard Neri speaking outside his sarcophagus and asked about the words she had left unfinished when the Genedar crashed.
• Dick invited Neri to watch the sunset and finish their postponed date, and she accepted as they rode away together.

Dick and Neri reunited on a secluded cliff in Fallen Moon, confessed their enduring feelings, and spent the night together. Neri explained the Draenei’s isolation and the fate of their allies, while Dick revealed visions that pointed them toward Azeroth and warned that the Twins and Fareeya might need saving.

• Dick led Neri through Fallen Moon to a cliff overlooking the sunset, where she questioned how he knew so much about Draenor and the Shadow Council.
• Neri confessed that she had missed Dick throughout their long exile, and the two embraced and spent the evening together.
• Neri explained that the Genedar’s crash had cut the Draenei off from other clans and left them focused on rebuilding, while Velen had lost his prophetic gift protecting them.
• Neri told Dick that Eredath served in the Krokuun Legion, Fareeya had become the Crescent Blade, and the Twins had become archbishops of the Army of the Light.
• Dick revealed that the Holy Light had shown him visions of different histories and that Azeroth might hold a way to save Argus; he also warned that Zera’s influence could endanger the Twins and Fareeya.
• Neri recounted her battles and scars, including the survival of Askarra and the Odachi’s resistance to the Burning Legion, before she and Dick reunited again during the night.

After reuniting with Neri, Dick learned from Yura about the Burning Legion’s forces and the Draenei leadership’s divisions over the orc threat. He planned a covert campaign against the Shadow Council while ordering Yura to escort villagers and orc civilians to Karabor and recruit Maraad for a secret operation.

• Yura welcomed the battered Neri back to Ambori Village and helped her bathe while teasing her about Dick.
• Dick shared leftovers with Yura, who described Corrupted Cenarius, its demon commanders, and Sargerei’s control of the Man'ari.
• Yura explained that Othaar and other Archbishops had opposed Neri’s push to act against the orcs, leaving her isolated.
• Dick ordered Yura to escort Ambori’s villagers and Chieftain Ner'zhul to Karabor, report directly to Velen, and conceal Dick’s resurrection from everyone else.
• Dick told Yura to deliver a secret recruitment assessment to Maraad and said he and Neri would target the Shadow Council and Gul'dan before the war began.

Dick and Ner'zhul planned a campaign against Gul'dan's forces and uncovered the threats of the Dark Star and the undead ritual in Shadowmoon Valley. Dick promised to resolve the crisis at Oshu'gun and asked Ner'zhul to unite the Orcs and Draenei, leaving their alliance undecided.

• Yura escorted Ambori Village's civilians toward Karabor Temple while Yrel prepared to join the defenders' meeting.
• Dick introduced Ner'zhul as a military advisor, and Ner'zhul identified the Land of Bones and a nearby elemental site as targets of Gul'dan's schemes.
• Ner'zhul warned that Gul'dan might summon the Dark Star to destroy Karabor, and Neri recognized it as the fallen Naaru Kara.
• Dick ordered the defenders to destroy the necromantic ritual at the Land of Bones before confronting Gul'dan's plans.
• Ner'zhul demanded a solution to the suffering caused by the Naaru K'ure at Oshu'gun, and Dick revealed his Naaru nature and promised to help after the Shadowmoon campaign.
• Dick asked Ner'zhul to help forge peace between the Orcs and Draenei and unite Draenor's peoples against the Burning Legion.

Dick led the Draenei to attack the corrupted Burial Grounds, where Ner'zhul discovered Gul'dan had desecrated the ancestral chieftains and learned that Gola needed saving. Dick arranged for Neri to track the void-corrupted spirit beast, while he warned Ner'zhul that the Orcs faced a grim future and declared his intent to defy fate.

• Dick and Ner'zhul led the Draenei to the Burial Grounds, where Void power had turned dead Orcs and animals into tormented spirits and the corruption threatened to spread toward Ambori Village.
• Dick ordered Neri to investigate the Soulbinders and Star Soul Will Fragments at Auchindoun, then planned to reorganize the Assassin Court and Judgment Court to strengthen Draenei security.
• Yura secretly gave Maraad Dick's order and an Argus Heart tail ring, and Maraad agreed to escort Ambori's villagers covertly to safety while investigating the desecration of the Vigilant Holy Sarcophagus.
• Dick and Neri's forces defeated the Shadowmoon warlocks and cleansed the Burial Grounds, where Ner'zhul discovered Gul'dan had desecrated the remains of Shadowmoon chieftains.
• Matriarch Omra's spirit asked Ner'zhul to find and save her void-corrupted hunting companion Gola, so Dick persuaded Neri to track the ghost wolf and bond with it.
• Ner'zhul asked Dick about the Orcs' future, and Dick predicted a grim fate before declaring that he would fight fate again.

Gul'dan ordered Kilrogg Deadeye to hunt the resurrected Vigilant Saint while preparing his own plans against the Draenei. Kilrogg secretly arranged for his clan's children to flee, and Maraad and Yura exposed and killed a warlock carrying a letter addressed to “Socrethar.”

• Gul'dan learned that the Vigilant Saint had resurrected, defeated the Shadowmoon Clan, and captured Ner'zhul, then agreed to help his Draenei ally eliminate the Saint in exchange for the Horde's interests.
• Gul'dan recruited Kilrogg Deadeye to hunt the Vigilant Saint and promised the Bleeding Hollow Clan a chance to lead the assault on Karabor Temple.
• Kilrogg ordered his trusted warlord to take his son Jorin and the clan's children to Nagrand, warning that his vision of his destined death had disappeared.
• Kilrogg told his warlord that he suspected Gul'dan had framed the Draenei for the Bladefist Clan's destruction, but said the Orcs would fight the Draenei over land and survival regardless.
• Maraad and the Vindicators stopped a disguised Draenei merchant, who attacked them with Shadow Fury and prepared Soul Fire; Yura shot him, and Maraad finished him off.
• Maraad found a letter addressed to Socrethar, which Yura identified as meaning “Eternal One,” and she told him he had passed the Hand of Argus recruit trial.

After Yura killed a high-ranking warlock, Dick reconciled with Maraad and assigned him to rebuild the Hand of Argus while preparing to hunt Gul'dan. When Gul'dan's plan enraged Draenor's elements and unleashed catastrophic disasters across Shadowmoon Valley, Dick led the Draenei toward the gathering elemental power to intervene.

• Yura praised Maraad's role in enabling her lethal shot, and Dick learned that Maraad and his sister regarded him as a father figure because of their mother's wishes.
• Dick apologized to Maraad for surviving Malderan's sacrifice, and Maraad reaffirmed his faith in Dick before rejoining the Hand of Argus.
• Dick appointed Maraad and Yrel to recruit and train young Draenei, then ordered Maraad to protect Ner'zhul and help stop Gul'dan's Elemental Destruction plan.
• Neri returned with the Void-tainted Dire Wolf Gola, and Dick gave her soulstones and explained that he wanted to use Gola to search the Akaran Spires for a hidden demigod.
• The elements erupted in fury as Ner'zhul warned that Gul'dan's plan was nearing completion, and earthquakes, storms, and magma devastated Shadowmoon Valley, swallowing Yrel's home village.
• Dick led the Vindicators toward the gathering elemental power and prepared to show the elements why the Draenei had come to Draenor.