Chapter Summaries

Diakum helped secure Telmor after the Orc assault, reunited with Lelan, and learned that Velen’s son Eredath was courting her. He committed to uniting Draenor’s peoples against the demons, and Maraad vowed to help lead the Draenei back to Argus as Diakum prepared to intervene in the war around Highmaul.

• The Krokuun Legion’s arrival ended the siege of Telmor, and the Draenei captured more than four hundred Orcs while tending to their wounded.
• Diakum visited the injured Lelan, gave her Gul'dan’s skull as an enchanted artifact, and affirmed that he regarded her and Maraad as his children.
• Maraad identified Lelan’s suitor as Eredath, Velen’s son, and Diakum suggested that Eredath and Lelan join the Hand of Argus.
• Diakum ordered Telmor’s defenses strengthened and discussed the Twilight's Hammer’s role in supporting the Warsong Clan’s attack on Highmaul.
• Diakum proposed uniting Draenor’s peoples against the demons, and Maraad vowed to make the return to Argus his life’s cause.
• Diakum prepared to confront Grom Hellscream and Cho'gall, determined to prevent Highmaul from falling.

Diakum escorted fallen Draenei warriors to the Holy Land of Auchindoun, where Archbishop Maladaar revealed that thousands of Star Soul Will Fragments had merged into a single mass. Diakum tried to contact the Argus Star Soul, which appeared before him and condemned him as an oathbreaker.

• Diakum strengthened Telmor's defenses, then escorted the fallen warriors' remains toward Auchindoun while their comrades returned with the bodies to the Holy Land.
• At Auchindoun, Diakum learned about the Immortal Defenders and heard that 1,470 warrior souls served as guardians, including the elite Immortal Caesar.
• Archbishop Maladaar showed Diakum the fused Star Soul Will Fragments, which had gathered the power of roughly thirty thousand dead Draenei and could no longer be separated or inherited.
• Diakum ordered Maladaar to seal the chamber and attempted to communicate with the Star Soul through his signet ring.
• The Star Soul appeared to Diakum and rebuked him as an oathbreaker.

Dick confronted Argus’s wounded World Soul and learned that it had gathered its fragments to resist a fel-corrupted version of itself prepared by Sargeras. He persuaded Argus to ask the Draenei whether they still remembered their oath, leaving their answer—and their chance to earn a final chance to reclaim their home—pending.

• Dick saw memories of the Draenei abandoning Argus Hearts and their homeland’s history, which explained Argus’s anger and its decision to reclaim the Star Soul Fragments.
• Dick told Argus that Azeroth could help the Draenei protect it and eventually return home, and Argus showed him the fel-forged body and destructive counterpart threatening to awaken.
• Dick urged Argus to show the Draenei the World Soul’s suffering and ask whether they still upheld the World Vow; Argus agreed but warned that Dick would have to serve as its vessel.
• The warrior spirits gave Dick their support, merged with the Argus Hearts and his ring, and entrusted him with protecting the Draenei.
• Argus made every Draenei holding an Argus Heart experience its memories and torment, asking whether they still remembered their vow and wished to return home.

Lelan and four other recruits witnessed the Argus Star Soul ask the Draenei whether they still upheld their ancient oath, and the people answered that they remained committed despite some civilians wanting a peaceful life. Diakum began merging with the Star Soul fragment as enemies prepared a coordinated assault on Auchindoun.

• Lelan used the Argus Heart to draw Maraad, Eredath, Yrel, and Nubodon into the Star Soul’s memories, where they witnessed the Draenei’s exile and heard its demand for an answer.
• Velen and many Draenei leaders, warriors, and civilians affirmed their faith, while some civilians silently chose a peaceful life; the Star Soul accepted them and departed satisfied.
• Maraad and Lelan wept after witnessing their father Malderan’s deeds, while Yrel and Eredath vowed to follow their forefathers; Nubodon sensed another strange presence.
• Diakum accepted the Star Soul fragment’s mental habitation, and the system identified him as a World Spokesperson and Mobile Argus Shrine as Maladaar kept watch outside.
• Teron'gor and Lathorn prepared separate assaults on Auchindoun: Teron'gor began summoning the demon Lycantos, while Lathorn planned to summon the Elemental Lord Murmur and use Havari as a rival claimant to Socrethar’s title.

Murmur’s assault shattered Auchindoun’s defenses, but Nubodon called on Draenor’s elemental lords and enslaved the sound elemental with their help and Yrel’s intervention. As Lycantos and his wolf spirits invaded, Diakum rallied the Draenei and the souls of the dead with the Light, leaving the battle against the demonic demigod underway.

• Archbishop Maladaar sent Maraad, Lelan, Eredath, and hunter-riders to interrupt the warlocks’ summoning ritual while he and Turalyon held Auchindoun.
• Murmur arrived and destroyed the Holy Land’s shield and Crystal Towers, while Captain Havari led Sargerei and Ogre forces against the Draenei.
• Nubodon summoned the elemental lords, used an ancient Argus Heart and a shaman spirit to bind Murmur, and Yrel interrupted the elemental’s attempt to self-destruct.
• Lycantos entered Draenor with a pack of wolf spirits, prompting Maladaar to rally the Auchenai as Diakum’s Holy Light awakened the dead and strengthened the Draenei wearing Argus Hearts.
• Diakum led the Draenei and Lightforged spirits into battle against Lycantos and the demons.

Diakum led the Draenei against Lycantos and his spectral wolf pack, using the Argus Heart’s power to hold them off and fighting the wolf lord himself. Lycantos escaped into the Dream of All Beings, the exhausted Draenei were rescued by hunter cavalry, and a demon hunter killed the fleeing Warbringer Lathorn.

• Diakum led Yrel and the Vindicators in a charge against Lycantos’s fel wolf pack, while the four elemental lords supported the Draenei.
• Diakum identified Lycantos as a flawed imitation of Goldrinn’s nightmare and fought him as the Argus Heart’s temporary enhancement neared its limit.
• Diakum activated Sanctified: Seraphim, badly wounded Lycantos, and drove the wolf lord to flee into the Dream of All Beings.
• Lycantos’s spectral wolves vanished into Spirit Walk, and the Draenei Vindicators collapsed from exhaustion as Jaide’s hunter cavalry arrived.
• Warbringer Lathorn tried to escape Auchindoun with stolen Deori Naaru fragments, but a demon-winged woman killed him.

Maraad, Lelan, and Eredath pursued Teron'gor into Auchindoun's Hall of Souls, where they stopped him from binding Draenei spirits but were nearly defeated. A Demon Hunter named Arantien killed Teron'gor, then agreed to join Diakum's fight against the demonic invasion.

• Maraad, Lelan, and Eredath followed the Shadow Council leader into the Hall of Souls and discovered Teron'gor imprisoning Draenei spirits in soul crystals.
• Lelan shattered the crystals while Maraad and Eredath fought Teron'gor, freeing the spirits but provoking the warlock to seize Gul'dan's Skull.
• Teron'gor captured Gul'dan's Skull and cornered the three recruits, but Arantien appeared, killed him, and bound his fleeing soul in a soulstone.
• Arantien helped Maraad, Eredath, and Lelan escape the Hall of Souls, where Diakum, Yrel, and Nubodon confronted her.
• Diakum recognized Arantien as an Illidari Demon Hunter and invited her to help fight the demons; Arantien introduced herself as Slayer Arantien and accepted his greeting.

After Auchindoun survived the demon wolf attack, Maraad and Turalyon prepared to purge the traitors within the holy land. The Vigilant introduced Demon Hunter Commander Arantien as an ally, warned of a coming invasion, and ordered an immediate sweep for demon worshippers.

• Maraad ordered the battlefield cleared, requested reinforcements, and called for a thorough investigation of traitors among the Auchenai.
• Turalyon agreed to join the Assassin Court or Judgment Court to hunt traitors and investigate why her sister Niaami had defected.
• Maraad met Arantien, who warned that the Annihilator's forces were gathering to invade Draenor and explained the Illidari's war against demons.
• Arantien proposed using Prophet Velen as bait for Kil'jaeden, but the Vigilant rejected the plan and sought an alliance with Illidan and the Illidari.
• The Vigilant revealed that the Burning Legion had targeted Azeroth and ordered Maraad to use Arantien's spectral sight to purge Auchindoun of demon worshippers before dawn.

Archbishop Neri met Arantien, the Demon Hunter whose ghost sight had exposed demon worshippers hidden in the Holy Land of Auchindoun, and learned why Dick valued her as a link to Azeroth and the Illidari. As Neri and Arantien compared their demon-hunting records, Arantien was astonished by the Draenei’s achievements and agreed to follow Neri’s command.

• Neri and Yura arrived at the Holy Land of Auchindoun, where Neri’s spirit Dire Wolf Gola detected faint sulfur and led them to Arantien overseeing the capture of demon worshippers.
• Maladaar explained that Arantien had helped capture fourteen infiltrators and identified Dena’s trading company as a cover used by the Sargerei.
• Neri apologized after learning Arantien was a blind Demon Hunter who sensed demons through her inner demon, and Arantien agreed to help investigate corruption in Karabor.
• Dick told Neri that Arantien could connect the Draenei to Azeroth and the Illidari, and asked her to befriend Arantien while keeping that purpose secret.
• On the journey to Karabor, Neri and Arantien compared their tattoos and demon kills, and Neri described Dick’s legendary victories against demons.
• Arantien conceded that she had underestimated Neri and the Draenei, praised Dick’s achievements, and offered to follow Neri’s command as a demon hunter.

Great Chieftain Blackhand accepted a dream summons from Black Wolf Lycantos and received the Annihilator’s power for himself and the Saurfang brothers. He ordered Gul'dan to extend the blessing to the other chieftains and prepared for war against the Draenei, while Orgrim Doomhammer remained wary of Gul'dan and the Shadow Council.

• Blackhand’s insomnia and recurring summons led Orgrim Doomhammer to ask Gul'dan to investigate, and Gul'dan declared the summons a benevolent invitation from a higher being.
• Blackhand agreed to enter the dream with Brox "Blood Axe" and Varok Saurfang as his companions, while Gul'dan conducted the soul-linking ritual.
• In a moonlit forest, Blackhand approached the giant wolf and showed it memories of his courage and sacrifices for the Blackrock Clan.
• Black Wolf Lycantos offered Blackhand and his warriors the Annihilator’s pack power and challenged him to prove himself by conquering Draenor and eventually facing Goldrinn.
• Blackhand awoke with a wolf mark and a spirit companion, then ordered Gul'dan to prepare the same ritual for the other chieftains and to ready his Bloodrage Potion.
• Orgrim accepted the black flames of fury but resolved to watch Gul'dan closely and consider seeking advice from his brother Durotan.

Dick and his companions traveled to meet Ner'zhul, who proposed that Dick challenge the Burning Blade chieftain to prevent the clan from joining the Horde's war. After they reached Garadar, Dick discovered that Draenor's timeline had changed: Draka and Durotan's eldest child was a daughter named Gaiara, while their next child was expected to be Go'el.

• Diakum explained that the vanished ghost wolves belonged to the Annihilator and would return when the time was right.
• Dick outlined plans to seek allies among the Arakkoa, while Maraad and Eredath investigated the mysterious force behind their history.
• Nubodon warned that the Trial Arena was dangerous, but Dick chose to follow Ner'zhul's arrangements and meet him there.
• Ner'zhul revealed that Old Dal Triple Bloodblade intended to lead the Burning Blade Blademasters into the Horde's war, and urged Dick to defeat him in the Blade Trial and claim the chieftainship.
• Ner'zhul transported the group to Garadar, where Gaiara attacked Dick before Lelan recognized her as Draka and Durotan's daughter.
• Dick learned that Gaiara was a girl and that Draka was expecting another child, whom she and Durotan planned to name Go'el.

Ner'zhul and Diakum tried to unite Orc clans and resolve the crisis at Oshu'gun before Blackhand launched a war against the Draenei. After Zargrel arrived gravely wounded, Dick worked to save him while Lelan went to hunt the assassin, and Draka recruited Griselda and her Valkyries to help.

• Diakum forgave Gaiara for attacking him and told Ner'zhul that her arrival had shifted Draenor's fate.
• Ner'zhul explained that Matron Geyah and Draka had agreed to help, warned that Blackhand was summoning the clan chieftains, and urged the group to go to Oshu'gun quickly.
• Gaiara and Garrosh nearly fought until Griselda arrived with her Valkyries and the wounded Whiteclaw chieftain Zargrel, then accused Garadar of sheltering Draenei.
• Garrosh and Gaiara defended the Draenei from Griselda's warriors, but Ner'zhul restrained the fighters and Draka knocked them down.
• Dick identified Zargrel's wound as demon venom and began healing him, while Lelan took Yrel and Nubodon to search for the assassin.
• Draka freed Griselda and told her to help capture Zargrel's assassin, promising that they could fight the Draenei if they proved responsible for the ancestral spirits' troubles.

Garrosh and Griselda fought while the Draenei and Orcs watched for the assassin who had attacked Chieftain Zargrel. The group captured Garona, but she nearly killed Griselda; Dick saved Griselda and told Lelan that she must guide Garona out of the darkness.

• Griselda taunted Garrosh about his family, provoking him into a fierce sparring match that she won.
• Lelan, Nubodon, Yrel, Gaiara, Griselda, and Garrosh exposed and attacked the assassin hiding near the healing tents.
• Garona wounded Griselda and nearly died herself before Lelan recognized her as her daughter and Nubodon confirmed her identity.
• Dick healed Griselda and promised she would become a leader, while Garona remained trapped in the darkness surrounding her.
• Dick told Lelan that she had to become Garona’s guiding light and help her choose to escape the darkness.

Lelan, Gaiara, and Garrosh entered Garona’s mind with Yorin’s help and uncovered Gul’dan’s role in the Bladefist Clan’s destruction. Their revelation reached the Orc leaders, who began preparing to work with Diakum to stop the war, while Garona’s rescue remained underway.

• Dick reassured Gaiara that Lelan could handle Garona, and Gaiara went into Lelan’s tent to help her.
• Gaiara brought Yorin Deadeye to help Lelan enter Garona’s mind, and Yorin agreed after Lelan gave him Gul’dan’s skull.
• Yorin, Lelan, and Gaiara entered Garona’s mental world with Garrosh, where they saw memories of the Bladefist Clan’s destruction.
• Zargrel told Geyah, Ner’zhul, and Draka that Gul’dan had arranged his assassination and warned that the Frostwolf Clan faced pressure to join Blackhand’s Horde.
• Gaiara and Garrosh reported that Gul’dan’s Shadow Council had staged the Bladefist Clan tragedy and framed the Draenei, prompting Ner’zhul to call for Diakum’s help in preventing war.

Diakum led the Draenei and Orcs to Oshu'gun to uncover the truth about the suffering ancestral spirits and save the Naaru K'ure. The group discovered the Orc ancestors had willingly sacrificed themselves to protect K'ure from Void corruption, and they began a joint effort to save them.

• Lelan told Diakum that Garona remained weak and asked to be confined while they searched for the Overmind Orb; Diakum left that mission to Lelan, Gaiara, Garrosh, and Jorin.
• Diakum warned Draka that if peace failed, he would strike at Blackhand and the War Horde, while urging the Orcs to protect their world and help save K'ure.
• The procession reached Oshu'gun, where Jaide threw Garrosh in a wrestling match before Diakum explained that Gul'dan had framed Jaide and the Krokuun Legion.
• Grand Executor Hutton arrived with a key to the Genedar and armor and a half-finished weapon for Diakum; he and the Orc leaders entered the ship to investigate K'ure.
• Inside the navigation chamber, Ner'zhul discovered that the Orc ancestral spirits had willingly given their essence to protect K'ure from the Void's corruption, disproving Gul'dan's claims.
• Diakum called on the Shamans to soothe the spirits and asked Yrel to assist him in purifying K'ure.

Ner'zhul and the others learned that the Orc ancestors had willingly sacrificed themselves to sustain K'ure, their friend, after the Naaru saved Draenor during the Genedar's crash. As Diakum and Yrel began to heal K'ure, its final memories and farewell revealed the truth behind the ancestors' bond, while Draka stopped Griselda Blackhand from attacking and urged her to choose peace.

• Ner'zhul explained that the ancestors had sacrificed themselves to prevent K'ure from becoming a second Dark Star, while Zargrel rejected Griselda Blackhand's attempt to justify war against the Draenei.
• Ner'zhul and Hutton considered whether K'ure's presence had enabled Orc spirits to linger in the living world, and Draka realized the revelation threatened Blackhand's justification for war.
• Griselda Blackhand reached for her weapon, but Draka seized her wrist and urged her to stand for peace; Matron Geyah reminded her of the honor behind Mak'gora.
• Diakum began purifying K'ure with Holy Light, and Yrel insisted on helping as the Orc shamans prepared to withdraw the ancestral spirits from the healing.
• Ner'zhul contacted the ancestors, and Rulkan revealed that they had befriended K'ure after it protected Draenor and had sacrificed themselves to help it resist the darkness.
• K'ure thanked Diakum and his friends, asked him to protect its children, and delivered its final blessing before its light went out.

Dick purified K'ure, who sacrificed itself rather than become a threat to Draenor, and inherited its naaru legacy. The chapter leaves Dick newly advanced as an Archon and Yrel charged with carrying on K'ure's creed.

• K'ure accepted purification by Dick's Holy Light, while Yrel withdrew and fought the Void creatures attacking the navigation platform.
• K'ure chose Yrel as its heir, and Dick named her Yrel, Hand of K'ure, before K'ure's crystal body shattered and its darkness was purified.
• Dick absorbed K'ure's core, gaining Naaru's Legacy and advancing his Priest class into the legendary Archon path, with Light and Dark forms and warnings about sanctification and faith.
• A Void Lord sent Dick a message mocking his choice, and Dick saw that the Archon's Seal had replaced the mark on his forehead.
• Dick gave Yrel his Mark of Naaru's Blessing and told her to continue K'ure's work, then advised her to make the purified Naaru fragment into a weapon.

Diakum and the Orcs and Draenei purified K’ure, then fought off Void-twisted Orcs who had come to disrupt its funeral. After K’ure’s death, Diakum proposed the K’ure Alliance to unite Draenor’s peoples against Blackhand’s Horde and the Burning Legion, and several Orc leaders pledged to join the fight.

• The ancestral spirits warned that Void-twisted Orcs were approaching Oshu’gun, and Garrosh led the Garadar Orcs into battle alongside Jaide’s Draenei riders.
• Geyah and Hutton explained that the pale attackers were corrupted outcasts who served the Void, while Ner’zhul fought beside Zargrel and learned that Rulkan had forgiven him.
• K’ure completed its purification and died, causing the white ghosts to lose the Twilight’s call and flee.
• Draka, Zargrel, and Geyah pledged their clans’ support for peace with the Draenei, while Ner’zhul urged the chieftains to oppose Blackhand’s Horde.
• Diakum proposed the K’ure Alliance to defend Draenor from the Horde and demons, and Garrosh, Zargrel, Draka, and Ner’zhul supported preparing for war.

Yrel learned that her oath had made her the representative of Draenor-born Draenei and left her responsible for reconciling with the radical Sargerei. After Draka entrusted Gaiara to Dick’s guidance and the Draenei presented him with armor and an unfinished greatsword named Ashbringer, Ner'zhul proposed tempering the weapon at Vahalor while confronting the Burning Blade Clan.

• Lelan and Nubodon explained to Yrel that her oath and blessing had made her responsible for leading Draenor-born Draenei and dealing with the radical Sargerei.
• Draka asked Dick about Gaiara’s fate, then entrusted her daughter to his care and guidance while she returned to Frostfire Ridge.
• Draka warned Dick that she expected danger on her return, and Dick cautioned her that the Annihilator could threaten the Orcs through their dreams.
• Old Hutton and Jaide gave Dick the Guiding Light armor and an unfinished greatsword forged from the last of their Celestial Gold.
• Dick named the unfinished sword Ashbringer and said he would temper it through battle.
• Ner'zhul suggested that they go to Vahalor, the Burning Blade Clan’s holy site, to temper Ashbringer while addressing the clan’s threat.

Orgrim concealed his continued contact with Durotan and planned to investigate the danger in Frostfire Ridge, while Blackhand gathered the Orc chieftains to begin a war against the Draenei. Grom Hellscream drank Gul'dan's Bloodrage Potion, and an observing raven revealed its interest in using Draenor's coming catastrophe to serve its own plans.

• Blackhand ordered Orgrim to lead guards to Frostfire Ridge, subdue the Frostwolf Clan, and deal with the Orcs at Garadar, while Orgrim privately read Durotan's warning against the ceremony and the potion.
• Orgrim suspected that Griselda's capture and the situation in Nagrand concealed a danger, and he decided to investigate Frostfire Ridge despite lying to Blackhand about his contact with Durotan.
• Grom Hellscream confronted Blackhand for recalling him from the campaign against the Gorian Empire, and Blackhand promised him the vanguard role in the assault on Shattrath and a later Mak'gora.
• Gul'dan urged Grom to drink the Bloodrage Potion and kill Diakum Zastinus, while Grom mocked Gul'dan and asked what price the potion demanded.
• Blackhand invoked the black wolf spirit and declared war, and Grom drank the potion before the assembled Orc chieftains followed suit.
• A black raven watched the blood-drinking ceremony and considered using the Orcs and Draenor's looming disaster to test the strength of its distant homeland.