Chapter Summaries

During the Lightkindling Ritual, Xe'ra gathered the faith of the People of Light and routed it through Diakum to awaken An'she's resolve to protect the stars. Diakum gathered the light and hope of allies across the battlefield and struck the eclipse chains binding An'she, leaving the Sun God blazing as the fire swept across the land.

• Xe'ra struggled to bear the torrent of faith from the People of Light and redirected it through Diakum toward An'she's sacred remains.
• An'she witnessed the lives of his people and used his divine power to restore a dying sun and drive demons and undead from a threatened world.
• When the Primordial Darkness tried to extinguish the light again, An'she resolved to fight on, and Diakum prepared to kindle his body.
• Diakum called on the People of Light and his allies, including Lothar, Kael'thas, Dezco, Yrel, Varian, White Pawn, Medivh, the Nether-Stalker, and Azshara, to lend him their light and hope.
• Elune broke the barrier between the Sea of Darkness and the material world, allowing the gathered radiance to reach Diakum.
• Diakum rose with the Sunstrider Warhammer, shattered the eclipse chains binding An'she, and ignited the ancient Sun God's stellar body.

Diakum helped reignite An'she through the faith and sacrifices of the Naaru and the People of Light, then fought the Void forces as An'she rose. When the Void Will demanded that the eclipse remain in the Sea of Darkness, Diakum accepted its power and revealed he had brought the Forge of the Afterlife as another sun to help him bear it.

• Diakum reignited An'she with the Sunstrider Warhammer and the gathered faith of the People of Light, while Azshara and Medivh discussed whether faith could create new gods.
• The Naaru sacrificed themselves to heal An'she, and Diakum shielded the rising Sun God from the Void creatures attacking him.
• An'she's radiance burned the Void forces and blessed the People of Light, while Elune prepared to guide Him to His proper place in the stars.
• The Void Will demanded that An'she leave the eclipse symbol behind, and Diakum agreed to inherit it so An'she could ascend.
• The Primordial Darkness mocked Diakum as the eclipse swallowed him, but Diakum revealed the Forge of the Afterlife as another sun to help him endure its power.

Diakum sealed the Primordial Darkness and the suffering of Eclipse within the Forge of the Afterlife, then transcended his former path by creating Dawn’s Light. The People of Light returned home with new power, while Diakum left the Eclipse seal in the Sea of Darkness and prepared for the coming battle against Sargeras.

• Diakum summoned the Forge of the Afterlife and challenged the Primordial Darkness, while Queen Azshara restrained its attack with the Chains of Domination.
• Diakum struck the darkness with the Forge, destroying the surviving Eclipse Sect forces and sealing the source of Eclipse within the sun-like prototype.
• Xe'ra, Kyrestia, Yrel, Eredath, and Velen witnessed Diakum’s evolution into Dawn’s Light, as he forged a new path beyond the Sun God’s power.
• Diakum bestowed keys of power on Kael'thas and the five young heroes, then sent the People of Light home through phase gates with news of their victory.
• Diakum chose to leave the Eclipse seal in the Sea of Darkness, and Azshara agreed to help him face Sargeras when the time came.

Diakum watched the Shadow Chasing Swarm invade the Sea of Darkness and explained to the Truth Hunter why the Zerg would not betray him. He left the Truth Hunter to clean up the aftermath and returned toward High Heaven, while the Swarm’s supreme evolution and Diakum’s coming battle with Sargeras remained ahead.

• Diakum left the Eclipse sealed inside the Sea of Darkness and watched the Shadow Chasing Swarm begin its invasion of the unprotected territories of the dead Eclipse Sect Void Lords.
• Three Sacred Insects dropped incubating Zerg into an Eclipse Sect territory, where the newly hatched warriors attacked the children of the abyss.
• Agamaggan rampaged across the continent, while General Lirath Windrunner wrote home and considered taking a vacation after Agamaggan’s advancement.
• Diakum told the Truth Hunter that the Swarm would not betray him because its wars would end when supreme evolution produced a Zerg True God, and he explained that the Swarm sought both Void and Life authority.
• Diakum gave the Truth Hunter a purified Void Seed and departed for High Heaven, while the Truth Hunter declined the path of Eclipse and agreed to clean up the Sea of Darkness.

Diakum returned to High Heavens and explained to Kyrestia why the Shadow Chasing Swarm’s campaign would not destabilize the Forces. Meanwhile, An'she chose to abandon the Light’s authority and become a sun that watched over all beings, as Lihuvim prepared to separate His consciousness from the dark aura.

• Diakum returned to High Heavens, where Kyrestia asked whether the Shadow Chasing Swarm’s war would weaken the Void and upset the balance of the Forces.
• Diakum explained that the Swarm’s campaign would purge the Eclipse Sect and consolidate Void power rather than diminish it.
• Kyrestia told Diakum that An'she had returned to the Heavenly Father Nebula but intended not to reclaim authority over the Light.
• Diakum dismissed the voices urging him to kill An'she and seize the sun’s authority.
• An'she observed Zovaal traveling through the Shimmering Flats, and Lihuvim explained that Diakum had sent Zovaal to learn from mortal suffering.
• An'she told Lihuvim that He would avoid the Forces and act as a fair sun for all life, while Lihuvim began cutting away His dark aura.

Draenor recovered from the demonic invasion as Go'el awakened to a powerful elemental blessing from An'she, prompting a dispute over where he should study. Diakum met An'she and accepted her authority to finish the coming war, while she revealed that Sargeras had a fatal flaw.

• Matron Geyah and Draenor's spellcasters examined Go'el's elemental awakening and determined that an unknown power from beyond Draenor had blessed him.
• Ms. Vilara and Warlord Mar'gok competed to recruit Go'el for the Arcane Academy and Nathrezim Academy, while Matron Geyah left Taresa to watch over him.
• Anzu and Rukhmar recognized that Go'el's blessing came from An'she, and Anzu proposed seeking a way to contact the Sun God.
• Diakum visited An'she, who entrusted him with the sun's authority of war and asked him to resolve the conflicts she had left behind.
• An'she told Diakum that Sargeras had a fatal flaw, and Diakum said he had always known.

Diakum entered the river of fate to retrieve Father Hutton, who had been trapped in a vision of Argus’s doomed past. After helping Hutton face the despair of that world, Diakum brought him back to Shattrath, where Hutton affirmed his gratitude and they prepared to welcome Jaide.

• A'dal told Diakum that Father Hutton had awakened Eonar but become trapped in the river of fate, while the six other Eredar archbishops remained in an eternal sleep.
• Diakum resonated with Hutton’s lost consciousness and entered a fate-echo of Krokuun, where Hutton had become Chief Hutton and endured twenty-five thousand years of demonic ruin.
• Chief Hutton begged Diakum to save the last Krokuun Broken, and Diakum restored them to Eredar forms and led them in an imagined assault on the Burning Throne.
• Father Hutton awoke in Shattrath, and Diakum pushed his wheelchair as they prepared to greet Jaide at the starport.
• Hutton told Diakum that his presence had saved the Eredar, and the two discussed what to eat that evening.

Velen told Vilara that the Eredar would lose their Eternal Life when Argus entered its cycle, and revealed how Sarkir and Kil'jaeden had worked toward reclaiming their homeland. Vilara proposed a decentralized cosmic nation and accepted diplomatic duties, then delivered Queen Azshara’s sealed magic sword to Velen, recognizing the sacrifice he intended to make.

• Vilara told Velen that Hutton had recovered and refused to succeed him as the Eredar’s leader, arguing that Hutton could serve as a transitional guardian instead.
• Velen warned Vilara that the Eredar’s Eternal Life would end after Argus was reclaimed, explaining that Argus’s cycle and the Eredar god of death made the change necessary.
• Velen revealed that Sarkir and Kil'jaeden’s actions, along with the Eredar’s long division, had served a shared effort to reclaim their homeland, and Vilara inferred that Sarkir had become the racial god of death.
• Vilara rejected Velen’s insistence on preserving centralized unity and proposed a cosmic nation, with Argus as a holy land and the other worlds where Eredar lived as additional homelands.
• Vilara gave Velen the sealed magic sword sent by Queen Azshara and recognized that he intended to make a final sacrifice for Eredar civilization.

Kil'jaeden returned to Argus injured and found his authority threatened by demon leaders who had risen after the Burning Legion's defeat. After regrouping in Mac'Aree, he learned Illidan had the Sargerite Keystone and ordered him to serve as his hunter until the war of restoration began.

• Kil'jaeden learned that demons from the Blood War Sector had defeated the Shadow Chasing Swarm and that ambitious Greater Demons were challenging his leadership with Sargeras's apparent approval.
• Hasabel opened a portal to Mac'Aree for Kil'jaeden and his Man'ari followers, then considered his warning that demons faced a changed era.
• Kil'jaeden struck Prince Mal'zak for trusting Hasabel and ordered him to gather Man'ari who still obeyed, while abandoning those who chose demonhood over their Eredar identity.
• Kil'jaeden returned to the ancient Seat of the Triumvirate, where Illidan Stormrage revealed the Sargerite Keystone.
• Kil'jaeden recognized Diakum's plan and ordered Illidan to hunt across Argus until the war of restoration began, promising him the power to strip demons of their immortality in the material world.

Azeroth began rebuilding after the demon war as its leaders debated creating an undead nation in Northrend, while the Titan Keepers dismantled the Forge of Will and prepared to remove other dangerous Titan devices. Lady Eonar reconsidered her place in the Pantheon and learned which Keepers would remain on Azeroth as she arranged for them to help Queen Azshara summon the Pantheon’s projection.

• Queen Azshara proposed that Azeroth’s dead establish an undead empire in Northrend, with Ulduar as its capital, while leaders argued over the plan.
• The Supreme Star Soul ordered earth elementals to help rebuild, and Edwin VanCleef negotiated a long-term architect contract with the Stone Mother.
• Mimiron directed Thorim, Hodir, and the other Keepers as they dismantled the Forge of Will for transport off Azeroth.
• Lady Freya told Eonar that Azeroth might grant Ulduar to the undead, and Eonar reflected on whether she belonged with the Pantheon or the forces of life.
• Eonar learned that Ra and Odin would remain on Azeroth, then instructed them to help Queen Azshara summon the Pantheon’s projection after the dismantling was complete.

Diakum explained how the Eredar would temporarily surrender their immortality so Argus could be purified, with the promise that Argus might grant it back after awakening. As the Origin Engine was dismantled, Eonar recognized the plan as a trial to unify the Eredar, while the Titan Pantheon’s own divisions threatened to surface.

• Diakum descended to the Halls of Origination and explained to Norgannon why the Eredar planned to give up their immortality.
• Eonar stopped Norgannon from exhausting himself with calculations and explained that the Eredar would treat immortality as a future reward for protecting Argus.
• Eonar condemned the Pantheon’s past pursuit of Perfect Order and left to demand the truth from Aman'Thul.
• Diakum told the Argus Lord that he would reclaim the Eredar’s immortality during purification and could judge whether to restore it after awakening.
• Azeroth offered to help Argus remember the agreement and hinted that she would take part in the Restoration War.
• As Norgannon and Golganneth dismantled the Origin Engine, Azeroth joked that Argus should call her “mother” after being purified by her power.

Diakum visited Aegwynn and learned that Medivh could safely transport the Origin Engine, then went to Stormwind to check on Lelan. He advised her to lead a Lightforged clan settling on Azeroth after she revealed that many nations had invited the Eredar to establish settlements.

• Aegwynn declined to teleport the Origin Engine because its creation energy made the journey too risky, and Diakum suggested Medivh handle it.
• Aegwynn told Diakum that Lelan faced a delicate invitation from Anduin Lothar, prompting him to travel to Stormwind.
• Diakum joined pilgrims at Northshire Abbey, preached about the Holy Light, and then went to find Lelan at her hermitage.
• Diakum found Lelan and Eredath together and asked when they planned to marry; Eredath promised to seek her hand after the Eredar returned to Argus.
• Lelan explained that Lothar and several other powers had invited her to establish an Eredar settlement, and Diakum proposed that she and Eredath lead a Lightforged clan on Azeroth.

The Eredar clans gathered on Draenor as they prepared for the Restoration War, while Mar'gok raised Highmaul into a floating city and sought to recruit the Mok'Nathal. The chapter ended with Leoroxx drinking Mar'gok's experimental potion, accepting the burden of leadership and the possibility that his people would return to the Ogre Empire.

• Nineteen Eredar Star Sea Clans arrived on Draenor, and more than a hundred were expected to join the Restoration War, though the expedition's departure had not been announced.
• A violent tremor revealed that Mar'gok had lifted Highmaul into the sky, and Jaina reported that Mok'Nathal half-orcs were guarding something inside it.
• Vilara suspected Mar'gok was trying to free the Mok'Nathal from their bloodline shackles, and she ordered Jaina to copy Lelan's paper on their origins as punishment for her confusion.
• Mar'gok prepared a potion intended to grant the Mok'Nathal temporary fertility and urged Leoroxx and Rexxar to join the Ogre Empire.
• Leoroxx pushed Rexxar aside, drank the potion, and accepted responsibility for the Mok'Nathal's future, while Rexxar realized his father had entrusted him with their leadership.

Garrosh brooded over his relationships with Gaiara and Griselda while visiting his father’s grave, then told Yorin Deadeye what had happened. His worries became reality when Blackhand announced that his daughter was pregnant, and Matron Geyah called for Garrosh to answer for it.

• Garrosh imagined ways to defeat Mar'gok and Diakum the Saint, then told his father’s tombstone that he would join the war on Argus and seek greater strength.
• Garrosh agonized over his drunken night with Gaiara and Griselda, fearing that he might become a father before he was ready.
• Yorin Deadeye found Garrosh skipping training, pressed him to explain his troubles, and learned about the two women.
• Yorin urged Garrosh not to worry, arguing that neither woman had shown signs of pregnancy and that he need not choose between them.
• Blackhand appeared at the edge of a rift and threatened to kill Garrosh after learning that his daughter was pregnant.
• Matron Geyah shouted for Garrosh to return and answer for what he had done to her granddaughter.

The Mag'har elders agreed to make Garrosh Khan and test his leadership in the Eredar Restoration Expedition, while preparing Go'el to lead them later. In the Nataan Jungle, Black Pawn awoke with fewer memories and accepted that his final battle would make him a weapon of vengeance.

• A Bleeding Hollow elder urged the clans to surrender power to younger leaders and endorsed Garrosh as the Mag'har's true leader.
• Drek'Thar warned that Garrosh was impulsive and Lightforged, revealed that Go'el had been chosen by An'she, and proposed testing Garrosh in the coming war.
• The elders agreed to name Garrosh Khan and establish a Mag'har Royal Court, then Matron Geyah demanded that he give Black Pawn an honorable Orc ending after the expedition.
• Black Pawn woke in the Nataan Jungle, found that he had lost more memories, and read the names he had carved into his arm.
• Black Pawn took up his battle axe, accepted his role in Tayara's revenge, and prepared to face his final battle.

Queen Azshara began a ritual to reach the ruins of the Pantheon, using the Loa as power sources and Medivh to chart the constellations. She discovered that opening the Pantheon meant ascending into its realm, then learned a secret about Sargeras that she intended to use against him.

• Azshara prepared Dazar'alor's throne hall for the ritual and assigned Medivh to align the celestial markers with Etraeus's guidance.
• Azshara summoned Diakum for protection, and he sent Yrel with Ashbringer to guard the ritual.
• Medivh placed the constellation markers while the Loa supplied energy, allowing Azshara to connect with the Pantheon and realize she was ascending rather than bringing it down.
• Diakum severed a portion of Azshara to leave a marker in the material world and advised her to let the Titan Souls bear the Cosmic Repulsion.
• Azshara entered the Pantheon ruins, discovered Sargeras's weakness, and declared that she would sentence him to eternal destruction.

Azshara opened the Pantheon, sending an Arcane Chord across the cosmos that renewed the Arcane Path and restored the Titan Souls. She then confronted Eonar and Norgannon about Arcane Zereth and demanded the Titans help her punish Sargeras, leaving Norgannon to decide whether Aman'Thul or Sargeras would be imprisoned.

• Azshara completed the ritual to open the Pantheon, and her Arcane Chord awakened mages across Azeroth and beyond, including Mar'gok.
• Elya Blue Moon and Farodis returned to the Arcane Path, defying Death's curse and threat of being cast into The Maw.
• Norgannon returned to the Pantheon and sat on the Dreamweaver Throne, drawing on Arcane Force to recover his strength.
• Azshara offered the Titan Souls a route to new bodies through Arcane Zereth and argued that the Pantheon was connected to it, unsettling Eonar.
• Azshara rejected the Titans' plan to seal Sargeras and proposed changing the Pantheon's resonance into an attack, with Diakum creating an opening.
• Azshara offered the Titans a choice between imprisoning Aman'Thul or Sargeras, while telling Eonar to prepare a divorce agreement; Norgannon said other Titan Souls had to return before the mechanism could be activated.

After Azshara asked the returned Titans to bear Cosmic Repulsion, Eonar renounced her former life and ordered the Star Saints to end the Alpha Program and help restore the civilizations it had destroyed. As Sargeras headed toward Argus, Kil'jaeden challenged him to destroy the Void stronghold in the Dim Light Cosmic Domain first, and Sargeras turned toward it.

• Eonar decided to sever her ties with Aman'Thul, return her arcane power, and enter rebirth beneath Elune's moonlight after making Aman'Thul answer for the civilizations he had destroyed.
• Eonar ordered the Star Saints to terminate every active Alpha Program, and she asked Laeglon to guide her future efforts to restore the ruined civilizations.
• Norgannon and Eonar acknowledged the Pantheon's responsibility for the destruction and warned against repeating its mistakes.
• Sargeras heard Kil'jaeden's plea as he traveled toward Argus, and Kil'jaeden urged him to attack the Void forces in the Dim Light Cosmic Domain.
• Sargeras remembered the first Void-corrupted Star Soul he had destroyed, then drew Gorribal and changed course toward the Dim Light Cosmic Domain.

Kil'jaeden explained why Sargeras would be drawn to the Dim Light Cosmic Domain, giving Illidan five days to sever the Legion’s link to Argus’s Star Soul. He then prepared to lead his forces into the Antoran Wastes, while Illidan went to Krokuun and Man'ari commander Arashius was sent to seek surrender among the Eredar.

• Kil'jaeden convinced Illidan that Sargeras would travel to the Dim Light Cosmic Domain because he could not risk facing a powerful enemy with other threats waiting in the shadows.
• Kil'jaeden ordered Illidan to sever the demons’ connection to the Argus Star Soul within five days and asked the Illidari to accept Malchezaar’s Man'ari as penitents who would hunt demons for three thousand years.
• Illidan departed for Krokuun, while Kil'jaeden announced that he would return to the Antoran Wastes and fight the Greater Demon Lords who sought his death.
• Kil'jaeden ordered Arashius to find Akali and send her after the Man'ari lords who had ignored his summons, then spared Arashius because he still identified as an Eredar.
• Kil'jaeden led his army toward Antoran, and Arashius survived to seek surrender from Grand Executor Hutton in Krokuun.

Eredath and the Five Greats reached Auchindoun as Velen prepared to sacrifice himself and become one of the Eredar’s Gods of Death. Velen bid farewell to his son, took up Frostmourne, and entered death, leaving Eredath to tell their people that the prophet was dead.

• Eredath hurried to Draenor after receiving a summons from Velen, and the other four of the Five Greats met him in Shattrath City.
• The group found Auchindoun sealed, left their artifacts outside, and entered as the dead gathered around the soul platform.
• Maraad and Yrel tried to stop Velen from approaching Frostmourne, but Diakum restrained them and explained that Velen had chosen his path.
• Sarkir punished Yrel with a chilling assault after she condemned the sacrifice, and Samara used the Holy Light to comfort her.
• Velen confessed his regrets to Eredath, apologized for his failings as a father, and explained that he would protect their people as a God of Death.
• Velen sent Eredath away to tell the Eredar that the prophet was dead, then grasped Frostmourne and stepped into death as Diakum watched.