Chapter Summaries

Lothar coordinated the campaign against Kul Tiras and the Nightmare King with Antonidas, then revealed Mechagon’s upgraded mech force as the Empire’s secret vanguard. The chapter ended with Dalaran agreeing to transport the mechs, while Lothar hinted at a dangerous weapon the Light Weaver might investigate.

• Antonidas warned Lothar that Xavius was spreading nightmare outbreaks across the Empire and proposed a raid against the Nightmare King and the Naga capital.
• Lothar agreed to the plan but asked Dalaran to transport a special force instead of joining the main battlefield directly.
• Lothar and Antonidas traveled to Mechagon after the Empire fleet sailed toward Kul Tiras.
• Lothar explained that Prince Erazmin’s Mechagnomes had upgraded goblin mechs and were producing them for the Empire.
• Antonidas agreed that Dalaran could transport the mech force, and Lothar mentioned a Reorigination Bomb before warning him to forget it.

Lothar secured Gelbin Mekkatorque’s promise that the gnomes would join the war against N'Zoth, while Daelin grew weaker under N'Zoth’s influence and was drawn into N'yalotha. The chapter ended with a drunken voice in Daelin’s mind challenging the entity speaking to him.

• Gelbin Mekkatorque showed Lothar the Battle Striker T-8000, whose malfunctioning weapon nearly fired at him, and agreed to send gnomish machines to fight N'Zoth.
• Lothar told Gelbin that Ulduar would soon be liberated and promised the gnomes access to its engineering secrets and the rescue of Mimiron.
• Lord Ashvane urged the weakened Daelin to retreat to Stormsong Valley while claiming N'Zoth would protect Kul Tiras.
• Daelin noticed troubling gaps in his memories and strange guards, but used N'Zoth’s idol to ease his headaches and entered a vision of N'yalotha.
• N'Zoth’s voice told Daelin that it had prepared a trap for Lothar and called him to become the mortal ruler of the Dark Empire.
• As Daelin followed N'Zoth’s guidance into N'yalotha, a drunken voice in his mind demanded that the speaker come out and fight.

Diakum’s rapidly growing Sun God power accidentally destroyed Frosthold while he was trying to reach Muradin, forcing the Frost Dwarves to join the campaign against Ulduar. Muradin and Diakum led the displaced clan toward battle, with Muradin blaming the Saint for his unintended diplomatic success.

• Diakum’s Sun God power continued growing rapidly, and he used his expanding consciousness to observe the Keepers, dragons, and Odin’s forces preparing for the assault on Ulduar.
• Muradin urged the Frost Dwarves to join the fight, and Yogg Heart of Thunder agreed to go with him while refusing to risk the rest of his clan.
• Diakum used sunlight to tear open a path to Muradin in Frosthold, but his arrival released enough solar energy to ruin the city.
• Muradin and Diakum rode out with nearly all the Frost Dwarves, who left to reclaim their ancestral land after Frosthold became unlivable.
• Muradin accused Diakum of deliberately forcing the Frost Dwarves into the campaign, and Diakum called Muradin a diplomatic genius while insisting the destruction had been an accident.

Brann Bronzebeard and Lord Merrix met Budekrag and the Storm Peaks Earthen, seeking their help against the Titan Keepers and their knowledge of Ulduar. After learning that Val'anyr could restore Earthen bodies and create new Earthen, Merrix agreed to help recover its fragments, while Budekrag faced pressure to join the coming assault.

• Brann brought Lord Merrix and Earthen from Khaz Algar to meet the Storm Peaks Earthen, led by Budekrag.
• Budekrag explained that his people had been driven from Ulduar by Loken and were searching for Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings, before fleeing the dangerous region.
• Merrix revealed that the Khaz Algar Earthen could not reproduce or revive their dead, and asked whether the Storm Peaks Earthen's sought-after artifact could help them.
• Budekrag used a fragment of Val'anyr to remove the gemstones repairing Merrix's arm, then explained that the scepter could create new Earthen and restore their people.
• Brann urged the Earthen to join the coming attack on Ulduar, and news arrived that the Frostborn Dwarves had come with the Vigilant Saint.
• Merrix vowed to summon reinforcements and recover Val'anyr's fragments, while urging Budekrag to fight rather than flee.

Lelan convinced Helya that Brunnhildar’s Shieldmaidens would be better used against N’Zoth in Kul Tiras, but Helya first challenged the Thunder God’s Bride and won the Vrykul over. The chapter ended with Helya leading Brunnhildar’s warriors to Snowflow Plains, where Lelan smugly greeted her foster father and the Bronzebeard Brothers.

• Lelan watched the fighting at Snowflow Plains while Helya and her followers challenged Brunnhildar’s Shieldmaidens to recruit them.
• Helya defeated Brunnhildar’s warriors and earned their cheers, then Lelan urged her to join the more dangerous war in Kul Tiras instead of fighting at Ulduar.
• Helya confronted the Thunder God’s Bride, denounced her devotion to Thorim, and prepared to fight her with Truthguard.
• Diakum led the Frost Dwarves and Earthen against an Iron Dwarf stronghold, but their small force struggled to advance across Snowflow Plains.
• Helya arrived at Snowflow Plains with Brunnhildar’s Vrykul riding Proto-Dragons, while Lelan greeted her foster father and showed off her diplomacy to the Bronzebeard Brothers.

Lothar prepared the Imperial advance into Drustvar and ordered a secret strike on the Storm Temple while the Stonewall Brigade readied its mechs for an airborne assault on Butcher's Harbor. The chapter left Colonel Maxwell consecrating his mech before the first operation began.

• Lothar rallied his commanders, shared news of the battle at Ulduar, and ordered the Seventh Legion and Waycrest forces to secure Drustvar within two days.
• Pasonia told Lothar that Ashvane forces and Void creatures held both routes into Tiragarde Sound, so he sent Fordring and Waycrest toward Guard Territory and chose to lead the attack on Butcher's Harbor himself.
• Lothar ordered Pasonia to leave Shaw in Tiragarde Sound and take Jorachi to Stormsong Valley to guide a surprise force in a strike against the Storm Temple.
• Blackmoore and Maxwell assembled three hundred improved goblin mechs beneath Dalaran for an airborne operation against Butcher's Harbor.
• Maxwell ordered the pilots to consecrate their mechs, then sprinkled holy water over his Tiger mech and pledged to fight the Void alongside it.

Dalaran and the Strom'kar Empire's forces captured Butcher's Harbor and Sharp Point Dock with the help of Steel Knights, while Lothar learned their pilots needed recovery and reinforcements. In Boralus, Lord Ashvane and a Void-aligned officer planned to stall the Imperial Army until the ritual in Stormsong Valley summoned N'yalotha's reflection into the material world.

• Dalaran bombarded Butcher's Harbor's command post, while SI:7, Ravenholdt assassins, the K'xir, and The Uncrowned helped the Seventh Legion launch its attack.
• Colonel Maxwell led the Steel Knights in defeating the void creatures, and Lothar arrived after the port had been captured with no mech losses.
• Maxwell told Lothar the pilots needed rest and mental soothing after enduring the creatures' curses, then suggested recruiting Goblins, Gnomes, or Dwarves as pilots.
• Lothar ordered the Steel Knights sent to relieve Sharp Point Dock and promised to solve the pilot shortage.
• Lord Ashvane learned that the Imperial Army had rapidly seized key positions, while a cold officer revealed the plan to delay Lothar until the Stormsong Valley ritual awakened N'yalotha's reflection.
• Lord Ashvane agreed to stall for time and ordered the Storm God's most powerful servant summoned outside Boralus to confront the Imperial Army.

Lothar’s Imperial Army advanced toward Boralus while preparing for N'Zoth’s expected arrival, and a Qiraji champion emerged in Hearthstone County. The Mechagnomes’ remotely controlled Titan guardian Taloc helped the Steel Knights bring down the ancient enemy, leaving Lothar to point to engineering as the Empire’s future.

• Lothar explained to White Pawn that N'Zoth was waiting to manifest Ny'alotha in Kul Tiras and lure in the Vigilant Saint, while he waited for the real battle to begin.
• Khadgar warned Lothar that a powerful Void creature was appearing in Hearthstone County, so Lothar ordered Blackmoore and the Stonewall Brigade to retreat.
• Yenajz, N'Zoth’s Warbringer and an ancient Qiraji champion, emerged and destroyed a Steel Knight with a Twilight Arrow.
• Lothar ordered Dalaran to drop the Mechagnomes’ Big Guy, and Taloc emerged from its cargo container to fight Yenajz alongside the Steel Knights.
• Erazmin remotely controlled Taloc, which grappled Yenajz before shutting down, allowing the Steel Knights and Colonel Maxwell to attack the Qiraji champion.
• The Steel Knights killed Yenajz, and Lothar told White Pawn that the victory proved engineering would shape the Empire’s future.

King Daelin was taken to the Storm Temple for a Void coronation while secretly seeking help from an invisible friend. Admiral Daelin and the Arathi forces prepared to attack the temple, where they hoped to rescue him and stop N'Zoth’s plan.

• King Daelin’s guards diverted him from Boralus to Stormsong Valley, where N'Zoth’s servants planned to crown him as their Void King.
• During the carriage ride, Daelin used a hidden paper and pencil to contact an invisible friend and asked for help before the ceremony began.
• At the Storm Temple, Daelin played along with Queen Fuyaxi and the assembled monsters while calling for the sun as his friend had advised.
• The invisible friend told Daelin that the temple held powerful Void forces and that the Arathi rescuers were on their way.
• Aboard the war airship, Admiral Daelin and the Arathi commanders resolved to storm the temple and fight the Eclipse Sect in the name of An'she.

King Daelin resisted N'Zoth’s attempt to make him the king of Ny’alotha, accepted Diakum Zastinus’s help, and completed the coronation. As the city began merging with Kul Tiras, Arathi forces and assassins attacked the Storm Temple, and another Daelin arrived to join the battle.

• Daelin saw through the Storm Temple’s illusions after Diakum Zastinus repaired his mind and urged him to complete the coronation to save Tandred and Kul Tiras.
• Daelin took the Abyssal artifacts, crowned himself king of Ny’alotha, and learned that Diakum had chosen him as a warden for a prison in the Sea of Darkness.
• N’Zoth realized Daelin had been listening to Diakum instead of its whispers, and Daelin rejected N’Zoth’s control as his memories returned.
• Daelin called on the sun and revealed N’Zoth as the Arathi people fired Holy Flame shells into the Storm Temple.
• Pasonia, Jorachi, and Master Garona led the assassins’ assault, while Arathi battle priests fought the Eclipse Sect and another Daelin arrived from a teleportation spell.

N'Zoth exchanged Kul Tiras with the waking dream, trapping the Arathi assault force in the Storm Furnace while the Dark Empire emerged in the material world. Admiral Daelin took up the Abyssal Trident to rescue his son and people, while Lothar and Shandris's forces confronted the nightmare in different parts of the dream.

• N'Zoth began binding Ny'alotha to Kul Tiras, and the Arathi warriors fought Void creatures as the worlds started to exchange places.
• King Daelin warned the admiral that Tandred and Boralus's civilians were trapped in the dream, then vanished into a rift to reach them.
• Admiral Daelin took the Abyssal Trident despite Kairon's warning and fought the Void forces gathering in the Storm Furnace.
• King Daelin explained that Daelin needed to escape the Storm Furnace and summon the Sea Sovereign and their warships from the Sea of Darkness.
• Daelin and the Arathi warriors attacked the Sleepless Cabal leaders Zaxasj and Fasoul, while Lothar realized the Dark Empire had appeared in the material world.
• Shandris Feathermoon and druids emerged from Dream Rifts to confront Xavius, who was shocked by their arrival.

The druids and Zandalar forces invaded the Waking Dream to destroy Il'gynoth, whose nightmare roots were keeping Azeroth asleep, while allies prepared to attack N'Zoth in reality. After Baku and Shandris defeated Xavius's shadow, the true Xavius sensed danger as Dalaran appeared above Nazjatar, leaving him to decide whether to flee or face N'Zoth's impending defeat.

• The druids joined Talanji, Krag'wa, Torga, and other allies in the Waking Dream to find and destroy Il'gynoth, while Krag'wa warned that it had to be killed in both the Dream and reality.
• Talanji promised Torga that defeating Il'gynoth could help him become a World Holy Spirit, then launched him across the battlefield with Rezan's help.
• The advancing forces exposed Il'gynoth, and Xavius summoned Naga reinforcements while planning to let them avenge Il'gynoth after the invaders killed it.
• Xavius taunted Shandris Feathermoon, but Baku ambushed and restrained him, and Shandris ordered her Moon-Worshipper contract demon to finish him quickly.
• Xavius awakened in Nazjatar and saw Dalaran part the sea above his city, recognizing that demigods were preparing to attack N'Zoth and wondering whether to escape.

Dalaran’s spellcasters, Kael'thas, Malfurion, and Tyrande launched an assault on Nazjatar to reach N'Zoth’s true body while Lothar’s forces fought in the Waking Dream. Meanwhile, Daelin escaped the Storm Furnace and summoned his corrupted flagship, Sea Sovereign, before leaping aboard to tame it.

• Dean Elya Blue Moon used the Tidal Stone to part the sea and expose Nazjatar, while the gathered heroes prepared to fight their way toward the Circle of Stars.
• Kael'thas gave Malfurion and Antonidas fragments of the Sun God's divine remains to protect them from Void spells, and the group descended toward the city.
• Malfurion warned that Xavius had likely fled Nazjatar, and Kael'thas explained that the Holy Light would help Lothar’s army withstand N'Zoth in the Waking Dream.
• Tyrande revealed herself as the Nightsworn and promised to hold back the Sea of Darkness while the others advanced to kill N'Zoth.
• Daelin and his exhausted soldiers killed their way out of the Abyssal Maw and reached the black-water shore in the Waking Dream.
• Daelin summoned Sea Sovereign from the sea, then charged aboard as its corrupted cannons fired at him.

King Daelin entrusted the Shadowkin in Proudmoore Fortress to Lothar and went to rescue Tandred, while Lothar prepared to hold off N'Zoth's forces. At Boralus’s docks, Admiral Daelin arrived with the Arathi priests, and King Daelin sent them to join Lothar before facing the sailor alone.

• King Daelin explained to Lothar that the Shadowkin were Boralus residents transformed by the Void and that N'Zoth had exchanged N'yalotha with the material world.
• King Daelin entrusted the Shadowkin to Lothar and left to save Tandred, while revealing that the other Daelin was also on his way.
• King Daelin weakened the Void’s influence around Lothar’s warriors and urged them to fight, then the Shadowkin rushed out of Proudmoore Fortress to follow their king into battle.
• Lothar ordered the troops to establish a defensive line at Proudmoore Fortress as N'Zoth’s huge, many-headed watchdog charged into the city.
• Admiral Daelin arrived at the docks aboard the Sea Sovereign with the Arathi priests, and King Daelin sent the priests to aid Lothar before meeting the admiral alone.

Kairon and the Arathi priests raced to light sacred braziers while Admiral Daelin and King Daelin sailed the Sea Sovereign to rescue Tandred from N'Zoth's fleet. As the Exodar reached corrupted Kul Tiras, Saloras prepared a weapon of mass destruction, and Jaina discovered her father and brother were fighting in the dream.

• Kairon led the Arathi priests toward Proudmoore Fortress, while General Stittek stayed behind to gather soldiers and aid the valley's people.
• Admiral Daelin and King Daelin sailed the Sea Sovereign into the dark waters and found Tandred commanding a fleet of undead ships.
• The two Daelins fought Tandred's fleet, while N'Zoth's other Daelin encouraged Tandred to defend Kul Tiras.
• Yrel saw N'Zoth's corruption spreading across Kul Tiras, but Saloras stopped her from firing the Exodar's main cannon because the dream and reality were bound together.
• Saloras and Oreses prepared a weapon of mass destruction, and Jaina revealed that her father and brother were fighting in the Black Sea Surface and begged to stop them.

Jaina, Arthas, and Yrel entered the Waking Dream to help Lothar and rescue their family and allies while the Exodar attacked Ny'alotha. The Origin-Returning Bomb purified the city center, and the Lightforged and Helya's warriors began their ground assault as the battle against N'Zoth continued.

• Yrel led Jaina, Arthas, and the landing pod’s fighters through Ny'alotha’s defenses toward a gateway to the Waking Dream, where Jaina hoped to save her family and Arthas pledged to help.
• After Yrel entered the dream battlefield, Archbishop Saloras ordered the Origin-Returning Bomb deployed and sent the Lightforged and Helya's War Bear Legion to prepare for ground combat.
• The Origin-Returning Bomb released Titan energy that erased the Void creatures and corruption across Ny'alotha’s main city, leaving a purified ruin.
• Archbishop Saloras ordered the Lightforged to advance beyond the cleared zone, while Helya led her Vrykul Shieldmaidens into battle against N'Zoth's servants.

In the Waking Dream, Daelin, Jaina, Yrel, and their allies fought N'Zoth’s forces while Tandred was manipulated into attacking his fathers. After the group survived the confrontation, N'Zoth’s true form appeared in Boralus as the battle against the Old God reached its climax.

• Lothar’s forces held their ground against Dreagis in Boralus while the fleet led by Daelin and the admiral rammed Tandred’s ship to reach him.
• Tandred attacked the two Daelins under N'Zoth’s influence, stabbing King Daelin before Jaina and Yrel interrupted the attack and broke the Old God’s control.
• The admiral offered to merge with King Daelin to save him, but King Daelin’s wound stopped weakening him, and he recovered enough to reunite with Tandred.
• Yrel urged the group to return to the fight as Boralus began splitting apart, and N'Zoth’s spiritual body burst into the city.
• The group saw N'Zoth emerge onto the battlefield, while Yrel inferred that the allied strike on Nazjatar was progressing and that the Old God faced attacks in both the dream and reality.

N'Zoth's spiritual form overwhelmed the Imperial army and tried to corrupt Lothar, but Talanji and the druids returned after destroying Ignis and helped awaken Azeroth. Empowered by World Mother, the four Saviors attacked N'Zoth, and Lothar delivered the final blow.

• N'Zoth appeared in the waking dream, shattered warriors' minds, and drove the Void spawn into a renewed assault on the Imperial army.
• N'Zoth drew Lothar into a vision of its Dark Empire and nearly corrupted him, but Talanji revived him with a strange remedy.
• Talanji and the wounded druids returned after killing Ignis and purifying the World Dream, then urged Lothar to awaken World Mother.
• Lothar called to Azeroth, who awoke, saw N'Zoth, and ordered the Saviors to destroy it.
• Azeroth empowered the four Hearts of Azeroth; Rhonin bound N'Zoth, Khadgar blocked its escape, Talanji pierced it with a Godslayer Spear, and Lothar struck the final blow.

A-chan shattered N'Zoth’s spiritual body in the Waking Dream, healed the warriors, and helped drive the Void Lords away while Lothar vowed that the Saviors would invade the Sea of Darkness. In Nazjatar, Neptulon and the Nightsworn cleared the way for the demigods, and N'Zoth learned that Yogg-Saron had already died as Kael'thas entered its prison.

• A-chan blasted N'Zoth’s spiritual body apart, purified its remnants, and restored the minds and strength of the warriors in the Waking Dream.
• A-chan revealed the Void Lords lurking in the Sea of Darkness, and Lothar declared that the Saviors would one day march into their territory.
• The Void Lords withdrew, and A-chan turned her power toward Nazjatar to strike N'Zoth’s weakened physical body.
• Neptulon’s water elementals battled the Naga while the Nightsworn guarded the entrance to N'Zoth’s prison and drove off invading Void Demigods.
• N'Zoth begged Yogg-Saron for help, but Diakum replied that Yogg-Saron had died before N'Zoth as Kael'thas entered the Circle of Stars.

Diakum took control of the Halls of Lightning, defeated Loken, and imprisoned his will after extracting Yogg-Saron’s corruption. Yogg-Saron threatened to destroy the world with a verification code, but Diakum dared him to act as the Keepers advanced toward its prison.

• Diakum entered the Halls of Lightning alone while the Keepers and Dragonflights assaulted Ulduar.
• Diakum transformed the Iron Vrykul into flesh-and-blood Vrykul, sent the Flame Giant Volkan to the Firelands, and bypassed Loken’s defenses without killing the creatures in his way.
• Diakum confronted Loken, condemned him for his crimes, and defeated him with Ashbringer.
• Diakum sealed Loken’s will in a crystal and pulled Yogg-Saron’s presence out of it.
• Yogg-Saron threatened to activate a verification code that could destroy the world, but Diakum challenged it to try as Freya’s cries echoed through Ulduar.