Chapter Summaries

Illidan and Malchezaar prepared to destroy Argus’s Fel Heart, which let demons swiftly return after death, with the help of the Penitents. Diakum blessed the Penitents and promised their Eredar kin would return at dawn, as they marched toward Nathraxas Fortress for their final battle before going home.

• Illidan inspected Nathraxas Castle and confirmed that its Fel Heart connected to the Twisting Nether.
• Malchezaar told Illidan that destroying the Fel Heart would end demons’ swift rebirth, but warned that Argus’s psychic assault and Kaz’adum guarded it.
• Illidan left a Holy Crest for the hidden Penitents, and a girl touched it and summoned Diakum’s dawn incarnation.
• Diakum blessed the Penitents, promised they could return to Eredar society, and said their kin would come home at dawn.
• The female Penitent who first touched the crest led her companions out of hiding toward Nathraxas Fortress to join Illidan’s attack.

Illidan led the Penitents toward Nathraxas Fortress after Diakum gave them combat techniques and courage for their surprise attack. The Penitents stormed a Fel Lava Pool, where they fought the Legion’s Man’ari and declared that they would take responsibility for their people’s future.

• Illidan drained Malchezaar’s demonic power, turned his soul into a Legion sigil, and sentenced him to three thousand years of atonement as a prisoner.
• Diakum granted the unarmed Penitents the Argus Shadow Fist and linked their hearts to strengthen their courage for the battle.
• Illidan led the Penitents across ruined Argus toward Nathraxas Fortress, while the Penitents’ hatred for the demons occupying their homeland grew.
• Illidan killed the Fel Lava Pool’s lord and commanders, then signaled the Penitents to attack.
• The Penitents charged into the lava pool and fought the Legion’s Man’ari warlocks, with the Penitent elder and a young woman leading the assault.
• A Penitent woman denounced a Man’ari warlock as a willing traitor and declared that the Penitents had a mission they would fulfill.

Illidan and the Penitents fought into Nathraxas Hold and destroyed the Fel Heart sustaining the demons’ immortality, forcing Kaz'adum’s forces to retreat. Afterward, Diakum urged Illidan to claim Fel authority from Sargeras, and Illidan accepted the idea of becoming the Dark Titan’s enemy and continuing his hunt.

• Illidan led the Penitents into Nathraxas Hold and told them to use the terrain and their own Fel powers to defend the entrance.
• The Penitent elder revealed that he had served in the Hand of Argus Legion and fought beside Commander Diakum before refusing to become a demon.
• Illidan pierced the Fel Heart, survived Annihilator Argus’s illusion with help from a Divine Shield, and destroyed the Heart with his demon blades.
• With Kaz'adum’s Blessing of Immortality gone, Illidan fought the demon lord and threw its severed head at the remaining demons, causing them to flee.
• Illidan considered the Penitents as future Demon Hunters while Diakum explained that Illidan needed to seize Fel authority from Sargeras and ascend within the Twisting Nether.
• Illidan embraced the prospect of becoming an enemy Sargeras would have to hunt and said he would consider which path of destruction to follow.

Emperor Lothar learned that the Eredar Restoration War would begin at dawn and agreed to send five hundred guards to Argus, while Jialiya urged him to hold onto hope in Diakum. On Draenor, the Five Champions prepared to join the campaign, and Maraad and Lelan looked forward to returning to their homeland.

• The messenger angel told Lothar that the Restoration War would start at dawn and that he should bring a symbolic force of five hundred soldiers to Argus.
• Jialiya explained that the Arcane Academy would travel to Mac'Aree to help install the Everything Unification Field, and she reminded Lothar that the star sea's hope strengthened Diakum.
• General Jaide ordered the Five Champions to go to Azeroth, gather the Eredar and coordinate their allies before the angels guided them to battle.
• Yrel saw Eredar civilians and Orcs preparing for war as the Restoration Army readied itself in Shattrath City.
• Maraad and Lelan remembered their childhood in Oronaar City and resolved to return home, while Yrel declared that the Eredar could not be stopped from reclaiming Argus.

The Restoration War fleet and its allies prepared to reclaim Argus as Azeroth and Illidan coordinated a plan to bring the world to them. Argus appeared in the starfield, and the long-exiled Eredar returned home as the battle on its surface began.

• Yorin Deadeye nervously piloted the hunter ship Hellscream while Little Hellscream worried about the safety of the Mag’har warriors aboard.
• General Sfurax announced the fleet’s mission to install Titan Devices on Argus and ordered the allies to withdraw after the ground forces reached Antorus.
• Ms. Vilara explained to Jaina that Diakum’s plan would bring Argus to the fleet rather than send the Sunwell Floating Isle through a wormhole.
• Azeroth empowered the Argus Lord for its leap, while Illidan activated the Sargerite Keystone at Nath’raxas Hold.
• Argus arrived beneath a fleet of allied starships, and the Argus Lord, the Black Wolf God, and Draenor’s children descended to fight.
• The Penitents’ elder raised an ancient Vindicator battle standard and welcomed the Eredar home after twenty-five thousand years.

The Lightforged fleet landed on Argus and joined the Penitent Man'ari defending Nathraxas Hold, while Grand Executor Hutton reunited with its dying elder and promised to protect the Penitents. As the battle continued, Sargeras arrived at an empty star system and wondered where Argus had gone.

• Admiral Sfurax restored order after Argus appeared before the fleet, and the Bal and Exodar headed for Krokuun.
• Hutton spotted Penitent defenders near Nathraxas Hold and ordered the Exodar to turn back, while Yuna and the Lightforged discovered that slain demons now crumbled into ash.
• Illidan warned Yuna that the Penitents were allies, and the Lightforged joined the battle to rescue them.
• Hutton met the mortally wounded Penitent elder, accepted responsibility for the clan, and watched the elder's soul ascend to High Heaven.
• Hutton named the elder's young successor Dina and led the Penitents and Lightforged to reclaim Nathraxas Hold.
• Sargeras reached an empty star system and could not find Argus.

Hutton returned to Nathraxas Castle and recovered the Eredar’s preserved books and artifacts while Diakum reflected on his promise to return home. As the Titans installed the Everything Unification Field across Argus, Vilara prepared to visit the ruins of her old Arcane Academy, and the allied forces continued their campaign against the isolated demons.

• Hutton and Yrel reached Nathraxas Castle after the Night Warrior had cleared its demons, and Diakum led Hutton into the preserved library.
• Nali playfully scolded Yrel for interrupting her reunion with Diakum, while Diakum thanked the Eredar ancestors for waiting and promised to defend Argus against Sargeras.
• Diakum explained that he would try to stop Sargeras during Argus’s reformatting and described Aegwynn’s plan to send Azeroth, Draenor, and another planet away if he failed.
• Mimiron directed the Guardians as they installed a component of the Everything Unification Field beneath Mac’Aree while the allied armies fought the demons nearby.
• Vilara told Jaina she planned to visit the ruins of the Arcane Academy, and Jaina eagerly agreed to search for its legendary pancake recipe.
• Mimiron announced that the Will Engine was installed and ordered the workers to prepare for the next installation in Krokuun.

Diakum learned that Sargeras was accelerating toward Azeroth and prepared for their eventual clash while the war on Argus intensified. Velen arrived in the Antoran Wastes and used Frostmourne to awaken the dead Eredar, leading them against the demons.

• Diakum asked An'she to track Sargeras as the Dark Titan crossed the physical sea of stars, and An'she warned that his growing momentum could make his arrival devastating.
• Demon factions fought for the Greater Demon Lord titles in the Antoran Wastes, while Kil'jaeden battled his way toward Antorus and Hasabel's portal blockade trapped Argus in isolation.
• Velen emerged from a rift with the Twins and the Restoration Army, carrying Frostmourne and accompanied by Sarkir as the orcs and other forces watched his solemn arrival.
• Velen drove Frostmourne into the ground and summoned the Eredar dead, who rose as undead warriors and death knights to fight for their homeland.
• Velen sent the awakened dead against the demons, and Frostmourne's remnant spirit unleashed Finger of Death before agreeing to serve the Eredar people.

Velen and the vengeful Eredar undead advanced on Antorus while demon factions struggled to survive the assault. Kil'jaeden returned as the Conqueror to seize command of the Burning Throne, then revealed his alliance with the Toranar Swarm as it slaughtered the fleeing Destroyer Witches.

• The Restoration Army bombarded the Antoran Wastes, allowing Velen and his undead to reach the walls of Antorus.
• Hasabel and the Destroyer Witch matriarchs argued over retreating through a portal or waiting for Aggramar, while Suraya ordered Hasabel to open the gate.
• A Doom Valkyrie delivered Kil'jaeden's demand that the witches join his command, but Nora attacked her and was killed in the resulting explosion.
• Hasabel opened a portal to her homeworld, and the Mother of Night and Mother of Shadows led their followers into it before Suraya realized the destination had been overrun by the swarm.
• Osara returned wounded and warned that the Twisting Nether world was crawling with the Toranar Swarm, but an Odachi elder killed her and emerged with Kil'jaeden.
• Kil'jaeden told the Odachi elder to clear the portal chamber for use as his command center, revealing that he had given the swarm intelligence about demon planets.

Kil'jaeden trapped the demons in Antorus and ordered them to gather for a final battle against Velen's undead. As the allied forces advanced on the Burning Throne, Lothar and Kael'thas explained their interest in Velen's example, while Muradin sensed that Khaz'goroth had awakened inside.

• Kil'jaeden took Hasabel's Twisting Nether scepter and ordered the demon lords to recruit the strongest demons for a last stand at the Burning Throne.
• An Eredun lord attempted to flee through the portal, but the void swarm killed and returned it, terrifying the remaining demons.
• A Man'ari lord begged Kil'jaeden to let her join the Penitents, but he rejected her plea and sent her to gather fighters for the final battle.
• Little Hellscream questioned why Dalaran, Highmaul, and the other allied forces were fighting at Antorus, and the Sun King described the arcane forces' blessings.
• Lothar and Kael'thas discussed Velen's power and their interest in securing dignity for their peoples' dead.
• Muradin sensed Khaz'goroth awakening inside the Burning Throne, while Little Hellscream said his group still had an evil god to slay.

Argus Lord fought his corrupted counterpart at the World Heart while allies battled through the Burning Throne and freed Khaz'goroth. The Vigilant urged Argus Lord to defeat the Extinguisher and reclaim his identity and future.

• Kil'jaeden dismissed a Destroyer Witch lord's complaint about Man'ari lords fleeing and ordered her back to the front.
• The Destroyer Witch lord attacked Wilfred Fizzban, killed his summoned felguard, and negotiated an equal contract with him so he could summon her after her death.
• Argus Lord defeated Khaz'goroth and pressed deeper into the Burning Throne as the Saviors freed Khaz'goroth's Titan Soul and Blackhorn struck the fallen Titan with his Sacred Hammer.
• Ra-den took Khaz'goroth's Sacred Hammer to try to separate him from his corrupted soul, while Freya sent Blackhorn to help the Orcs subjugate Aggramar.
• Argus Lord reached the World Heart and confronted the Extinguisher, while the Vigilant promised to hold the rear and urged him to defeat his past.

Argus Lord defeated the Annihilator by using the Eye of Aman'Thul to recover from a fatal blow, then drawing on Azeroth's creation energy and reclaiming the scattered Star Soul Fragments. As Argus absorbed the Annihilator and took control of his star body, he declared that he would challenge Sargeras alongside Diakum.

• Diakum sent a Faith Incarnation to the battlefield but left Argus Lord to defeat the Annihilator himself, since only Argus could drain the enemy's Star Soul Fragments.
• The Annihilator wounded Argus Lord's construct and seemed to win, but the Eye of Aman'Thul reversed time and restored it.
• Argus Lord drew on Azeroth's creation energy, struck the Annihilator with Starshatter Slash, and beat him with Jiedenigu martial arts.
• Argus Lord revealed that he and the Annihilator would both die as their wills were erased, then began reclaiming control of his star body.
• Azshara opened a star gate that brought the Eredar People of Light to Argus, and the scattered Star Soul Fragments returned to Argus Lord.
• Argus Lord absorbed the Annihilator and declared that he would challenge the Dark Titan alongside Diakum.

Argus reclaimed his Titan body and chose to join Diakum in confronting Sargeras before the Dark Titan could threaten their allies. As the two departed for the star sea, the fight to reclaim Argus continued, while Black Pawn entered Aggramar’s temple to face him.

• Argus rejected Diakum’s warning about losing his perfected star body and decided to fight Sargeras alongside him, hoping to split Fel Force from the Dark Titan and leave a path for a new force of destruction.
• Argus gave his divine construct to Azeroth and departed with Diakum for the star sea, while Azeroth blessed them and urged them to return safely.
• Argus crushed the demons attacking the Burning Throne, and Yrel, Neri, Fareeya, and the undead renewed their assault as Sarkir urged Velen to answer a summons.
• Diakum and Argus discussed the trials faced by Star Souls and considered how Aman'Thul’s protection may have left the Pantheon’s Titans unprepared for hardship.
• Black Pawn entered the Cosmic Flame Temple beneath Khaz'goroth’s Hammer and approached Aggramar, who turned to meet the invaders with Taeshalach.

The Sons of Draenor and their allies battled the fallen Titan Aggramar, sacrificing themselves to weaken him and make a final strike possible. As Black Pawn regained his clarity and prepared to die, Varok and Garrosh helped open the way for his attack, leaving Aggramar facing Draenor’s long-awaited revenge.

• Black Pawn blocked Aggramar’s opening blow, and Brox interrupted the Titan’s sword combo so Little Hellscream and the other Orcs could attack.
• Blackhorn shielded Black Pawn while the warriors wounded Aggramar, and the wild nature’s visions began restoring fragments of the Titan’s forgotten past.
• Aggramar burned Black Pawn and many Orcs, while Anzu and Rukhmar intervened; Rukhmar gouged out Aggramar’s eye, and Samuro cut his neck before Little Hellscream rescued him.
• Mar’gok completed his Divine Arcane Rend and tore off Aggramar’s arm, while Black Pawn rose again and resolved to spend his life on one final attack.
• Varok and Garrosh charged Aggramar to create an opening as Black Pawn approached with his burning Oak Axe and prepared his execution strike.

Brox and the forces of Draenor killed Aggramar, and Brox chose a peaceful death rather than an immortal return to life. Aggramar reawakened among the Pantheon and joined the effort to seal Aman'Thul, as the Dreamweaver declared that the Pantheon's era had ended.

• Brox, Garrosh, and the warriors of Draenor overwhelmed Aggramar, while Drek'Thar and Ner'zhul's ancestral spirits bound the Cosmic Flame elementals and Blackhorn carried Taeshalach away.
• After Aggramar died, Blackhand tried to claim Brox for Maldraxxus, but Neri declared that Brox belonged in Ardenweald, where the Winter Queen could restore him to life.
• Brox entrusted the withered Oak Axe to Little Hellscream, who understood that Brox wanted him to end his life; Little Hellscream granted him a warrior's death.
• Aggramar awoke in the Pantheon and learned that the Titans were suppressing Aman'Thul to seal him within the Pantheon.
• The Dreamweaver told Aggramar that Sargeras would face defeat and repentance, and that the Pantheon's era had ended.

Azshara, Medivh, the Nether-Stalker, and Iridikron fought the fallen Aman'Thul in the Pantheon to stop him from escaping to Arcane Zereth. They collapsed his gateway and captured him, then demanded he explain his connection to the First Ones before they prepared to face Sargeras.

• The queen trio and Iridikron attacked Aman'Thul while the Titan Souls sealed the Pantheon around them.
• Azshara and Medivh realized Aman'Thul was recovering his reason and planned to let him attempt to open a gateway so they could disrupt his casting.
• Aman'Thul cast a self-purification spell as Azshara, Medivh, and the Nether-Stalker recorded his cipher sequence.
• Aman'Thul opened a golden door to Arcane Zereth, but the queen trio disrupted the Chorus of All Things and began collapsing the gateway.
• Iridikron pulled Aman'Thul back with the Black Corrosion Sword, saving him from being destroyed along with the collapsing door.
• The queen trio confronted the dazed Aman'Thul and demanded the truth about the First Ones before they prepared to face Sargeras.

Iridikron held the corrupted Aman'Thul captive while Azshara and the Titan Souls confronted him about his obsession with shaping Azeroth into a perfect answer for the First Ones. Norgannon sealed Aman'Thul, who warned that the pursuit of perfection could turn them into tyrants and promised they would meet again.

• Iridikron used the Black Corrosion Sword to drain and restrain Aman'Thul as Norgannon bound him with arcane chains.
• Aman'Thul explained that he had pursued Perfect Order to provide the First Ones with an answer, and Eonar rejected his justification for treating life as an experiment.
• Norgannon accused Aman'Thul of sacrificing countless lives to prove himself to the First Ones, while Azshara revealed that he intended to reshape Azeroth, the Seventh, according to his blueprint.
• Medivh suggested that the First Ones had given Aman'Thul freedom by abandoning their pursuit of Perfect Order, but Aman'Thul said the theory lacked evidence.
• Norgannon began the sealing ritual, and Aman'Thul's fel-corrupted body collapsed as his soul warned the arcane walkers that their pursuit of perfection could make them tyrants and vowed they would meet again.

Azshara and the Pantheon prepared to turn their arcane power into a weapon while Diakum and Argus waited to confront Sargeras. The Dark Titan arrived as Diakum readied the Dawn God-Sword for battle.

• Norgannon began sealing Aman'Thul in a prison dimension, while Azshara reported to Diakum that the Pantheon had captured the cipher to Arcane Zereth Holy Land.
• Azshara agreed to alter the Pantheon's energy circuits so its power could wound Sargeras, and she sat on Aman'Thul's throne to shape the required arcane energy.
• Diakum promised to hold the line until Azshara and the Pantheon arrived, while she warned him not to risk dying in a reckless attack.
• Diakum and Argus waited in a distant starfield as Sargeras's destructive presence gathered around them, and Diakum helped Argus steady himself for the fight.
• Sargeras arrived with Gorribal, and Diakum prepared to meet him with the Dawn God-Sword.

Diakum and Sargeras fought a destructive first exchange that shook worlds across the galaxy, while Kil'jaeden resisted the fel summons by seeking out Velen. Diakum broke through Sargeras's armor and blinded his left eye, but Sargeras pushed him into a second phase, leaving their final fight unresolved.

• Diakum charged Sargeras with a disguised Glass Sword, and their clash of Holy Light and fel energy caused cosmic upheaval across many worlds.
• Kil'jaeden resisted the fel-driven madness with thoughts of hope and Velen, then tore through the undead battle line until Velen arrived to face him.
• Diakum returned to the fight after Argus withdrew, and he wounded Sargeras with Heaven's Reckoning while Sargeras repeatedly struck the same point in Diakum's Glass Armor.
• Sargeras shattered the Glass Armor and drove Gorribal into Diakum's heart, but Diakum's Glass Sword pierced Sargeras's Fel Heart before Sargeras stopped it.
• Diakum drew Ashbringer and blinded Sargeras's left eye, but both entered more dangerous second phases as Diakum prepared to fight all out.

Diakum fought Sargeras through a series of light-and-shadow attacks that cracked the Dark Titan’s body, but Sargeras drew on Arcane power to overcome Diakum’s shifting phases and spatial defenses. After Sargeras pinned and seemingly killed him, Diakum remained in the disordered battlefield and prepared to fight on.

• White Lady strengthened Diakum with moonlight as he faced Sargeras without his Glass Armor’s full protection and recognized the deadly weakening effect of Gorribal’s strikes.
• Diakum combined the sun and eclipse, using their powers to wound Sargeras and exploit the extreme heat and cold to crack his body.
• Sargeras resisted Diakum’s illusions, repaired his body with time magic, and used a sure-hit attack to shatter Diakum and reduce his remaining health.
• Sargeras invoked Arcane power to destroy the battlefield’s spatial defenses, pinned Diakum, and pierced him with Gorribal.
• Diakum reappeared in the disordered space, took up the further-cracked Yumivols, Cosmic Blade, and vowed to defeat Sargeras.