Chapter Summaries

After High Heaven’s Faith Stairway shattered S'fraelx’s certainty and spread doubts through the Lightforged, she gathered affected warriors aboard the Xenedar to seek answers on Draenor. Lothraxion revealed that he had been acting under the Creator’s orders, then sabotaged the ship, but Diakum arrived to shield its occupants as it exploded.

• S'fraelx emerged from solitary confinement and learned from her adjutant that many aboard the fleet had visited High Heaven and lost their spiritual connection to Xe'ra.
• S'fraelx ordered the affected officers and warriors transferred to the Xenedar and headed for Draenor to seek answers from the Vigilant.
• Lothraxion appeared aboard the Xenedar, and S'fraelx confronted him after realizing he had not been assigned to the ship.
• Lothraxion said he had been serving the Creator and could not defy his mission, then transformed into golden bats and vanished as the Xenedar’s engines exploded.
• Xe'ra struggled to protect the ship, but Diakum arrived and used War Authority: Holdfast to shield the Lightforged from the blast.

Dick saved the Xenedar from destruction and guided it to a safe landing beside Oshu'gun, while Xe'ra was weakened by Lothraxion's sabotage. After Dick removed the remaining bombs, he showed Xe'ra the Eclipse Fragment and said it was An'she's first child in darkness.

• Lothraxion's bombs damaged the Xenedar as it neared Draenor, and Xe'ra used her Light to keep the ship functioning while Diakum protected it.
• Diakum caught the Xenedar before it could strike Oshu'gun, easing Gaiara and the gathered Orcs' fears.
• S'fraelx thanked Diakum for saving the Lightforged, agreed to describe the crash as an accident, and went with the wounded to Karabor Temple.
• Saloras and Oreses welcomed S'fraelx and offered to share how the Light Weaver Warband had overcome its crisis of faith.
• Diakum removed the remaining bombs and purged the Death Force from Xe'ra, then revealed the Eclipse Fragment and identified it as An'she's first child in darkness.

Xera arrived at Karabor Temple and prepared to discuss the Army of the Light’s future with Diakum, while Yrel and the Twins devised a plan to weaken the Mother of Light using Sin'dorei suffering from Magic Addiction. Yrel revealed that the Sunwell Floating Isle was already bringing the elves to Draenor, leaving the conspirators poised to carry out their plan.

• Xera arrived at Karabor Temple, where the Naaru and Eredar welcomed her, and she prepared to meet with Diakum after the prayers.
• Diakum told Nali he wanted Xera to help redirect the Army of the Light toward fighting the Void and said they only needed to hold Sargeras back to undermine the demons’ confidence.
• Yrel warned the Twins that Xera and Diakum’s disagreement could escalate, then proposed using Light Eater elves to drain Xera’s Holy Light.
• The Twins agreed to recruit Magic Addicted Sin'dorei from Quel'Thalas, and Oreses suggested turning their treatment into a source of believers for Kael'thas’s Sun State Religion.
• Yrel revealed that she had already arranged for the Sunwell Floating Isle to bring the Magic Addicted elves to Karabor Temple, and said she would proceed despite the Twins’ objections.

Zehra arrived on Draenor and offered to sacrifice her power to help Diakum fuse with An'she, but he rejected her prophecy-driven plan and revealed evidence that Death had manipulated the prophecies and inflamed the Force War. Zehra began to question her beliefs, and Diakum redirected her sacred power toward helping the hungry and the Sin'dorei suffering from Magic Addiction.

• Zehra ended her long sermon and was escorted to Aldor Temple, where Maraad and Nubodon explained that the sick Sin'dorei elves would be moved to Shattrath City.
• Yrel arrived with Light Eater elves and told Maraad and Nubodon that they had arranged for Zehra to spread the Holy Light among the Magic-addicted elves, while Lelan prepared a press release.
• Diakum asked Zehra about An'she and his plan to reignite the sun, and Zehra offered to sacrifice her power to help him fuse with An'she's divine body.
• Diakum refused Zehra's offering and argued that he had forged his own path rather than being shaped by fate or prophecy.
• Diakum showed Zehra a report taken from Nathrezim trapped in his Soul-Reaping War Scythe, revealing that the Eternal Ones had manipulated the Six Forces and that Death was driving the conflict.
• Zehra tried to transfer her sacred power to Diakum, but he sealed it away and directed it toward the hungry and the Magic-addicted Sin'dorei, who gathered outside the temple and welcomed the light.

Zera unleashed her Holy Light to help the Magic Addiction elves, prompting the Army of the Light to mistake the scene for an attack until S'fraelx calmed them. Inside Aldor Temple, Diakum explained his plan to have Zera ignite Xal'atath and help rekindle An'she, while urging Zera to stop bearing the burden of the prophecy alone.

• Zera flooded Karabor Temple with Holy Light as thousands of Magic Addiction elves consumed it, and Yrel blocked the Army of the Light from entering Aldor Temple.
• Orunas demonstrated his Light Eater Clan's Holy Light abilities, but the Lightforged Fleet still suspected that Yrel's side was restraining Zera.
• S'fraelx ordered the soldiers to stand down, and Nubodon explained that Zera was grieving rather than angry.
• Diakum told Zera that he was restraining her while using her Holy Light to try to ignite Xal'atath without destroying her consciousness.
• Diakum asked Zera to ignite Xal'atath so she could join their effort to find and rekindle An'she, and he described how High Heaven could draw the Army of the Light beyond its prophecy.

S'fraelx pledged the Lightforged Fleet to the Argus Restoration Army, while Velen and Nat Pagle foresaw a Burning Legion attack on Draenor and Azeroth involving Kil'jaeden, Sarkir, and Fallen Titans. Diakum rescued Nali and the Dark Portal guards when demons destroyed the portal, leaving Draenor cut off from Azeroth as the invasion approached.

• S'fraelx met the Argus Lord, pledged her fleet to restoring Argus, and agreed to send Lightforged ships to escort Grand Executor Hutton's fleet.
• Ishaana told S'fraelx that Velen and Nat Pagle had both foreseen demons coming to Draenor for the extinguished sun.
• Nat Pagle described a vision of Draenor's destruction, a blue-skinned demon leader, a giant attacking Shattrath, and a darkness threatening the sun; he warned Diakum that the giant and darkness were coming for him.
• Velen confirmed that the Burning Legion would attack Azeroth and Draenor simultaneously with Kil'jaeden, Sarkir, and Fallen Titans, so Nali set out to warn Azeroth.
• The Dark Portal exploded as Nali crossed it, but Diakum rescued her and the guards; he said Draenor had lost its connection to Azeroth.

After the demons destroyed the Dark Portal and severed the direct route between Azeroth and Draenor, Llane Wrynn learned that the invasion was beginning across multiple fronts. Diakum and his allies prepared alternate routes through the Emerald Dream and the stars, while S'fraelx's fleet raced toward Azeroth, hoping to arrive before the decisive battle.

• Llane Wrynn learned that a warlock possessed by a greater wraith had destroyed the Dark Portal, cutting Azeroth off from the K'ure Alliance and delaying the World Tree Tayara's recovery.
• Anzu told Llane Wrynn that demons had also attacked the Elemental Realms, that the World Mother was organizing defenses, and that the Strom'kar and Arathi Empires would share twelve Savior trials.
• Diakum directed Archbishop Nali and the Moon Goddess priests to speed Tayara's fusion with the Tear of Elune, while the Spriggan Father urged him to summon Rexxar and the Mok'Nathal druids.
• Aegwynn used the Staff of Sargeras to transport S'fraelx's fleet, but demonic interference sent it far across the starry sea; S'fraelx reported that the fleet needed about ten days to reach an ancient stargate.
• Diakum ordered the Lightforged Fleet to head for Azeroth and urged S'fraelx and her soldiers to survive the journey, promising to bring them home.

As Sarkir’s fleet attacked Draenor, Diakum rallied the clans and used the system’s sun to destroy the demon warships before empowering the World Rings. Sarkir then sent a corrupted Titan to the surface, and Diakum and Draenor’s warriors advanced to meet it as Mar'gok prepared to unleash his insect swarm.

• Sarkir’s fleet entered Draenor’s system, and Diakum arranged for the Eredar and the K'ure Alliance to hold the line while reinforcements were summoned through a business deal with the Consortium.
• Jaide left for the starport to command the Eredar fleet, while Diakum gathered Draenor’s leaders in Shattrath City to bless their World Rings.
• Diakum used the power of the system’s sun to bombard the demon fleet, destroying warships in orbit and preventing them from attacking Draenor.
• Diakum blessed the World Rings as Draenor’s leaders vowed to fight, but Sarkir sent a corrupted Titan through a fel gate to attack the world.
• Diakum grew into a giant and advanced against the Titan with Ashbringer as Draenor’s warriors prepared to fight the demons, while Mar'gok told Evergreen Father to hatch the insect egg he had brought back.

Diakum fought the fallen Norgannon, dragged him into the Sea of Darkness, and helped destroy a Void Lord in their clash. Meanwhile, Sarkir breached Karabor Temple’s defenses and confronted Velen, intent on burning the city in revenge.

• Diakum recognized Norgannon, whose Platinum Disc absorbed his attacks through its link to the Twisting Nether, and opened a rift to the Sea of Darkness to move their battle away from Draenor.
• Diakum forced Norgannon into the rift, and a Void Lord swallowed them before their combined Holy Light and fel power killed it from within.
• Diakum damaged Norgannon’s Disc of Destruction with Solar Fist, but Norgannon countered with a fel version of the same technique.
• Sarkir attacked Karabor Temple and used its knowledge of the Archon’s Seal to dismantle the defenses protecting the city.
• Velen raised Holy Word: Barrier against the orbital bombardment, and Sarkir confronted him, promising to make Karabor Temple burn in revenge for Oronaar City.

As the Burning Legion bombarded Draenor from orbit, Velen and the Arcane Academy helped unleash the Argus Lord’s power to destroy the demonic fleet. With the bombardment ended and the Eredar rallying behind their World Soul, the battle to reclaim Argus began again.

• Sarkir ordered the Legion to bombard Draenor from orbit while the Twins Archbishop sent Light Weaver Warband commanders to defend key K'ure Alliance positions.
• Velen used sun-transformed Holy Light to hold back demons at Karabor Temple as the Sunwell Floating Isle launched an energy beacon into orbit.
• Ms. Vilara sent the beacon’s coordinates to the Argus Lord, who rose beneath Tanaan Jungle and used Gogonas's Tidal Stone to unleash a cosmic storm that destroyed the Fel warships.
• Garrosh led the Mag'har into battle against the demons, while the Orcs’ Holy Light-blessed weapons turned slain demons to ash.
• The Argus Lord confronted Sarkir and declared him a traitor as the Eredar recognized their World Soul and charged the retreating demons.

Malchezaar learned that the Argus Star Soul had returned and that Dymus was approaching Draenor, while Diakum and the Argus Lord fought the Legion’s leaders on the devastated world. After Diakum confronted the battered Sargerei, the Shaper revealed that he had summoned the Glutton and urged his former student to face it.

• Malchezaar ordered demons to reinforce the Draenor battlefield after hearing that the Argus Star Soul had returned, then suspected Sargerei was colluding with the Void when warlocks detected Dymus approaching.
• Diakum pulled Griselda Blackhand and other Orcs out of the Void vortex as Norgannon returned to Draenor with a Void creature entangled around him.
• Diakum cursed Norgannon with the Pain of Eclipse, weakening the fallen Titan as he prepared to destroy the world.
• The Argus Lord ambushed Norgannon, struck him with Khaz'goroth's Sculpting Stone Hammer, and drove Emperor's Fall through his armor.
• Diakum confronted the wounded Sargerei at Karabor Temple, but Sargerei declared that the Glutton was arriving and told Diakum to face it.

The Devourer of Worlds, Dymus, arrived in the Draenor system and trapped the Restoration Army fleet in its gravitational field. Diakum confronted his fated rival, and after Dymus seemingly shattered his solar body, an eclipse appeared that Dymus hoped would let it evolve into the Evil of Eclipse.

• Dymus tore into the starsea near Draenor, forcing General Jaide to order the Restoration Army fleet to retreat as the Void Lord's gravity dragged ships and planets toward it.
• Diakum emerged from Draenor and struck Dymus with Lightbreaker attacks, but the Void Lord absorbed the Solar Holy Flame and rapidly healed its wounds.
• Dymus recognized Diakum as a rival on the path of the Glutton, and the two began a battle with Antimatter Claws and Solar Fist.
• Diakum's power disrupted Dymus' gravitational field and allowed the trapped fleets to escape, while their continuing fight drained Diakum's energy.
• Dymus caught Diakum with a miniature black hole and hurled a fragment of a world at him, apparently extinguishing his light and shattering his solar body.
• An eclipse descended over the battlefield, and Dymus felt pain and desired to consume Diakum's power so it could become the Evil of Eclipse.

Dymus and the Void Lords drove Diakum to the brink of corruption, but he awakened his beastlike Ancient Fury and escaped the Sea of Darkness. Reigniting himself with the sun, Diakum returned to the battle and hurled it at his enemies, leaving the final struggle between him and Dymus unresolved.

• Dymus drained Diakum in Voidform and trapped him, but the Void Lords intervened to seize Diakum and drag him into the Sea of Darkness.
• A Void Lord tried to corrupt Diakum, but Diakum awakened Ancient Fury, tore free, and devoured the creature’s tentacle for energy.
• The Void Lords sent Diakum back to the battlefield, where Dymus swallowed him before he could recover.
• Diakum burst out of Dymus with a Star Soul Fragment, rushed into the sun, and absorbed enough light and heat to return beneath the world of light.
• Diakum hurled the sun at Dymus and a fleeing Eclipse Sect Lord, then killed the Lord with Ashbringer.
• The surviving Eclipse Sect big shot declared that the final toll would belong to either Dymus or Diakum.

Draenor’s armies struggled as demons and Voidwalkers flooded the world, while Matron Geyah learned that the sun’s destruction could doom all life there. In the ruins of Karabor, the dying Sarkir explained that Diakum was preparing for a journey involving the cosmic forces and hinted that Sarkir itself would become a guide in the realm of death.

• Dymus’s Voidwalkers poured through rifts across Draenor, prompting the demons to turn their attacks on the void forces as Draenor’s warriors withdrew to their cities.
• Matron Geyah learned from the elements that the sun would be extinguished and that the Naaru in Shattrath City could provide only temporary light and heat.
• The Mountain Guardian told Matron Geyah that the Exiled wanted permission to return and fight, but she refused so they could survive to preserve the orcs’ story.
• Velen and Ms. Vilara found Sarkir pinned and gravely wounded in Karabor, where Velen revealed that Sarkir served both the Dark Titan and the Eternal Ones of death.
• Sarkir told Velen that it had brought the repentant Man’ari lords to offer the Eredar a chance to form their own Demon Hunters.
• Sarkir explained that Diakum intended to rebalance the cosmic forces and embark on a final journey, while Sarkir planned to accompany him and become a guide in the realm of death.

Lightforged Little Hellscream fought to evacuate the Mag'har as a dying Void Lord crashed into Tiange Lake and unleashed a wave of corruption across Nagrand. As Matron Geyah and Gorosh summoned the exiled wolf-riding clans back to Draenor, Kargath Bladefist arrived with his demon-slayers.

• Little Hellscream and Samuro fought through demons and void creatures while learning that Highmaul was under siege and Draenor would lose its sun.
• A sun-struck Void Lord fell into Tiange Lake, corrupting the water and opening rifts that poured void creatures into Nagrand.
• Little Hellscream reached Garadar, rescued Taresa and Go'el from a Faceless One, and learned that Matron Geyah had gone to the lake to confront the fallen Void Lord.
• Little Hellscream found the elemental lords trying to bury Tiange Lake while Matron Geyah and Gorosh summoned wolf-riding exiles from across the stars.
• Kargath Bladefist appeared in a fel-powered city with hundreds of thousands of demon-slayers and prepared to lead them back to Draenor.

Diakum fought Dymus in a desperate battle, but Dymus sacrificed the Star Soul it had been digesting to swallow him. As darkness fell across Draenor, Xe'ra flew toward the heavens, determined to ignite An'she herself.

• Diakum battered Dymus with the dying sun, forcing the Devourer of Worlds to choose between retaining the Star Soul and surviving the final strike.
• Dymus released the undigested Star Soul to stop Diakum's attack, then engulfed Diakum in its dark storm and swallowed him.
• Ashbringer crashed beside Yrel at Karabor Temple, and she realized Diakum was still alive because the divine weapon remained intact.
• Xal'atath warned Xe'ra that Diakum would soon die in Voidform, while Xe'ra said igniting the sun was a responsibility shared by the People of Light.
• Xe'ra defied Xal'atath and Velen, transformed into a golden meteor, and declared that she knew how to ignite An'she.

Trapped inside Dymus's stomach sac, Diakum attempted to unite Holy Light and Void into a new stage of his Path. Xe'ra sacrificed herself to transform Xal'atath into a Lightforged Entropic Demon, proving that eclipse-born darkness could be ignited; Diakum then realized a nearby place might provide another source of fuel for An'she.

• Dymus swallowed Diakum and drained his light and heat, leaving him trapped in the stomach sac with only the Shadowed Heart to delay his death.
• Diakum studied his final volume of the Light and Shadow Canon and resolved to unite light and shadow through a dynamic balance he called Light-Shadow Symbiosis.
• After the Shadowed Heart ran out of energy, Diakum drew on the suffering of An'she's eclipse, but the conflict between Holy Light and Void nearly overwhelmed him.
• Xe'ra crashed into the stomach sac, and Diakum gathered her shattered crystal body while explaining his plan to survive and travel to the Shadowlands.
• Xe'ra sacrificed herself and poured her sacred energy into Xal'atath, transforming the Eclipse Fragment into a Lightforged Entropic Demon and proving Diakum's plan could ignite eclipse-born darkness.
• Diakum realized a nearby place might contain dead Naaru husks that could serve as fuel for An'she.

Xe'ra sacrificed herself to ignite Xal'atath's Eclipse Fragment and ascended to the High Heavens through the Faith Stairway. Before entering, she called the People of Light to unite in a holy war against the Void and reclaim An'she.

• Xe'ra recognized that her Army of the Light had been manipulated into spreading chaos, and she chose to sacrifice herself to set it back on course.
• Diakum helped Xe'ra ignite the Eclipse Fragment, and her return to the High Heavens appeared as a revelation to the People of Light across the stars.
• Xe'ra climbed the Faith Stairway, passed its trials, and shared her teachings and powers with her followers.
• Kael'thas, Staghelm, Lirath, and others witnessed the revelation as the High Heavens opened its gates to Xe'ra.
• Xe'ra declared war on the Void and called the People of Light to join the Solar Expedition to ignite the sun and reclaim their dawn.

Xe'ra entered the unfinished High Heavens and learned how faith could shape its growth, while Diakum prepared to face the Shadowlands and endure Dymus's devouring as he refined his Light-Shadow path. The chapter left Diakum's soul crossing into the Shadowlands, his body continuing into the darkness, and Xal'atath setting out to shine a sun for the beings he had defeated.

• Xe'ra passed through Heaven's Gate, discovered the High Heavens were still under construction, and learned she could help shape them through faith.
• Diakum explained that Xe'ra could guide her followers through oracles and promised that Heaven's Gate would open in the Sea of Darkness during the War of Light and Darkness.
• Diakum described how Dymus's devouring and the Pain of Eclipse were refining his Light-Shadow path, then prepared to send his soul into the Shadowlands.
• Diakum urged Xal'atath to return a sun to the beings whose suns he had extinguished, and she left to carry out his request.
• Diakum's soul was swept into a rift of the Shadowlands while his body continued walking into the darkness, sustaining a nascent cycle of light and shadow.

General Staghelm interpreted Diakum's holy war as a way to redirect the People of Light's fanaticism and saw the Vigilant leave a weapon behind before his connection to his followers vanished. As Diakum's followers struggled with his absence, Yrel and Maraad chose to die in battle so they could support his mission and learn whether he had reached his destination.

• General Staghelm reasoned that the Faith Stairway would test the People of Light and redirect their fanaticism toward the goal of igniting the sun.
• Diakum appeared to the Shadow Hunters, told them to hold fast and wait for his return, then vanished as their connection to him was severed.
• General Staghelm found Diakum's Cursed Maw in the form of a scythe and resolved to lead the Shadow Hunters against the demons with it.
• Saloras lost control after sensing Diakum's absence, and Archbishop Nali struck her and ordered her to keep fighting until he returned.
• Yrel gave Ashbringer to Maraad, charged into the darkness, and died in a Divine Storm; Maraad realized she was supporting Diakum's mission.
• Maraad handed Ashbringer to Nubodon and charged after Yrel, asking him to resurrect them at the last possible moment so they could bring back news.