Chapter Summaries

Diakum and Archbishop Neri repelled a Dragonmaw raid on Shattrath, then learned that Velen’s son Eredath had been taken to Skyreach and demanded as ransom for Diakum. Diakum set out to rescue Eredath and Maraad while Velen’s prophecy revealed that Medivh had entered Draenor’s conflict.

• T'laan survived a Dragonmaw attack on Shattrath, and Diakum killed Nekros Skullcrusher while pursuing the raiders.
• A messenger told Diakum and Neri that Velen had summoned them and that Commander Yura had gone missing while pursuing an injured Dragonmaw warlord.
• At T'uurem, Velen told Diakum that Arakkoa had captured Eredath and demanded Diakum in exchange, threatening to burn Eredath to death.
• Diakum concluded that Eredath had earned a reprieve by impressing the Arakkoa and decided to travel to Skyreach to rescue him and find Maraad.
• Velen gave Diakum a drawing from a prophecy, and Diakum recognized its raven emblem as a sign that Medivh had become involved in the war.

Archbishop Neri rescued the badly injured Yura with help from Rexxar, who agreed to travel with Diakum and the K'ure Alliance. At the Spires of Arak, Diakum divided the group to search for Maraad and Eredath while investigating the region’s hidden powers.

• Neri found Yura alive in an Orc camp after Yura killed Dragonmaw warriors and fel-corrupted wyverns, then carried her toward T'uurem with Rexxar escorting them.
• Diakum healed Yura enough to stabilize her and invited Rexxar to join the search for Velen's kidnapped son and the missing Maraad.
• Rexxar accepted Diakum as a worthy alpha beast and said he wanted to hear the World Heart of Draenor to find his place in the world.
• Diakum, Neri, Yura, Rexxar, Yrel, and Nubodon reached the Spires of Arak, where Rexxar sensed watchers and an unsettling force in the wilderness.
• Diakum assigned the group to search separate areas for Maraad and Eredath, including the Skettis and Veil Akraz crow nests, Skyreach, and the Curse Pool.
• Diakum watched the distant Skyreach and suspected that Eredath and Maraad had drawn the attention of the Spires' opposing powers of light and darkness.

Gul'dan cleared Zangara Marsh for the Warsong Clan and offered the Red Scourge spores to Corrupted Cenarius, who tasked him with finding the Heart of Life in Gorgrond. A mysterious visitor then tempted Gul'dan with power and knowledge from another world, leaving him determined to open a Dark Portal to Azeroth.

• Grom Hellscream established a hidden Warsong base in Zangara Marsh so his wolf riders could strike Talador and threaten T'uurem.
• Gul'dan gave Corrupted Cenarius the Red Scourge spores, and Cenarius recognized their potential as a weapon before ordering Gul'dan to find the Heart of Life in Gorgrond.
• A mysterious visitor appeared in Gul'dan's tent, warned him that Demon Ascension would make him a servant of power, and showed him visions of another world's artifacts and knowledge.
• The visitor urged Gul'dan to prepare a passage to his world and bring the Demon Blood Horde there if the War Horde failed against the Draenei.
• Gul'dan accepted the visitor's offer and identified the Dark Portal to Azeroth as his next goal.

Eredath endured torture in Skyreach while challenging the Arakkoa sun priests’ teachings, and his words began to unsettle their apprentices. Malderan fought repeated deaths in a Blood Rain Illusion until the Argus Heart drew the attention of a powerful rescuer, who drove Anzu away and pulled Malderan free.

• Eredath argued that the Arakkoa sun priests had twisted their scripture and should help their beastlike sun god awaken, but the priests punished him and threw his sympathizers from Skyreach.
• Malderan fought corrupted Arakkoa in a blood-soaked illusion and realized he had to purify Lady Kara’s shadow crystal to escape.
• Malderan challenged the radiant Arakkoa warrior, died twice, and returned to fight again as a sinister voice warned that he had only nine lives left.
• Malderan activated the Argus Heart and summoned an ancient Eredar warrior, causing the hidden demigod to sense a much stronger Holy Light approaching.
• Anzu cast Malderan out of the illusion, and Yrel caught him on a wind drake as his elder shouted for Anzu to reveal his true form.

Diakum and his companions discovered that the Arakkoa’s sun god, Rukhmar, had been resurrected as a soulless creature and set out to capture her. They wounded her to draw Anzu out of hiding, and Diakum charged into the shadowstorm to confront the enraged raven demigod.

• Yrel and the spirit dragon rescued Maraad from Sethe’s illusion, while Diakum fought Anzu and returned with Anzu’s Storm Feathers.
• Maraad told Diakum’s companions that Eredath had been captured by high-ranking Arakkoa and described the sun god’s flight path.
• Diakum explained that Rukhmar had been resurrected without her soul, and he led the group into battle when she appeared above the stone pillar.
• Diakum, Neri, Rexxar, Yrel, Maraad, and Yura weakened Rukhmar and restrained her, while the high-ranking Arakkoa attacked them.
• Neri warned that Anzu was protecting Rukhmar, and the wounded goddess drew him into battle as Diakum entered the shadowstorm to face him.

Diakum defeated Old Anzu’s resistance and explained that Rukhmar could return if Draenor’s connection to the Emerald Dream was restored. Anzu agreed to consider helping protect Draenor, while Neri’s group prepared to head for Skyreach to rescue Eredath and recover the Golden Sunfire Ring.

• Neri and Rexxar’s companions helped Diakum defeat Old Anzu, and Diakum stopped the battle to question him about the forged extortion letter.
• Diakum revealed that Medivh had drawn Anzu into the scheme by promising to resurrect Rukhmar, then persuaded Anzu to discuss Draenor’s fate in his nest.
• Neri led the others toward Skyreach to rendezvous with Garona and Nubodon, rescue Eredath, and retrieve the Golden Sunfire Ring for the K'ure Alliance.
• Maraad, Yrel, Yura, and Neri discussed the Holy Light-like flames wielded by Rukhmar and whether the Arakkoa were connected to the Holy Light.
• Diakum warned Anzu that the Orcs and demons threatened the Arakkoa, and Anzu admitted he had been preparing a solution with the Scroll Keepers.
• Diakum explained that Rukhmar could be reborn if Draenor’s connection to the Emerald Dream returned, then challenged Anzu to protect the world for her sake.

Diakum convinced Anzu to help the demon-resistance coalition by promising to restore the Arakkoa’s rightful Talon King, Terokk, and purge his curse through Lightforging. As Neri’s group prepared to rescue Eredath and support Skyreach’s rebels, they learned the Talon King would return before dawn, and Reshad revealed that two figures would come back from time.

• Diakum urged Anzu to investigate the Evergrowth Woods and condemned him for neglecting the Arakkoa, prompting Anzu to explain the factions’ decline and reveal Terokk’s corrupted soul.
• Anzu agreed to join the coalition if Diakum could remove Sethe’s curse, and Diakum used his Dark Archon form and the Twilight Hammer to consume the Void curse and proposed Lightforging Terokk.
• Garona told Neri and the others that Eredath was being tortured by Skyreach’s sun priests, who planned to sacrifice him, while civilians and priest apprentices secretly supported his teachings and planned a rescue.
• Neri’s group discussed contacting Skyreach’s rebels, but Yrel warned that the Arakkoa’s divisions and the ongoing Orc attack on Talador left little time to find a leader they could unite behind.
• Nubodon relayed Diakum’s order to send two Sunfire Kaliri eggs to Karabor Temple and prepare to liberate Skyreach with the returning Talon King before dawn.
• Reshad explained that the eggs were sacred to Arakkoa birth, while Neri and Yura recognized Diakum’s plan to Lightforge Terokk; Reshad then announced that two noble figures would return from time.

Reshad explained how Talon King Terokk and Princess Lacey had been betrayed and prepared for rebirth, while Anzu and Naaru Kara Lightforged them in new bodies. As a coup began in Skyreach, Terokk and Lacey arrived to join the struggle, and Terokk pledged the Arakkoa’s support to the K'ure Alliance.

• Reshad recounted Terokk and Lacey’s tragic history, then sent their eggs through Nubodon’s astral gate to Karabor Temple and revealed the locations of the Sunfire relics and Rukhran.
• Naaru Kara Lightforged Terokk and Lacey’s eggs with Anzu’s help, while Anzu blessed them with his Life Force and pledged to support Draenor against the demons.
• Garona told Dick that Eredath was being tortured at Skyreach, and Dick sent a team to rescue him before dawn while waiting for a signal to begin the Arakkoa’s coup.
• Neri and Yura planned to retrieve the Sunfire Gold Relics, while Dick explained that the fallen Arakkoa would lead the revolt and discussed seeking Draenor’s Heart of Life.
• Terokk and Lacey arrived at Skyreach after being reborn, and Terokk thanked Dick and promised that the Arakkoa would remain allies of the Draenei under his rule.

Terokk led the Arakkoa of the Midnight and the kaliri in a surprise assault to reclaim Skyreach, while Diakum fought through the Sun Sect’s defenses to stop its superweapon. The battle reached Skyreach’s upper levels as Viryx prepared Rukhmar’s Breath, and Diakum entered the Sun Temple after defeating Master Ranjit.

• Diakum urged Terokk to unite the arakkoa under the names Sunfire Arakkoa and Arakkoa of the Midnight, and Lacey supported opening Skyreach to Anzu’s people.
• Terokk summoned tens of thousands of Arakkoa of the Midnight, while kaliri joined his forces and Lacey sent them to warn Skyreach’s residents.
• Terokk’s forces reclaimed Skyreach, where the Talon King ignited the Sun Sect’s battle standard and led the assault as Diakum joined him as Hand of the King.
• Viryx rallied the Sun Sect and ordered its warriors to defend the temple while she prepared to activate Rukhmar’s Breath.
• Terokk shattered a Sunfire Guardian as the battle spread across Skyreach’s platforms, while Diakum advanced toward the Sun Temple to seize Rukhmar’s Breath.
• Diakum defeated Master Ranjit with charged holy chakrams and Ashbringer, spared him, and entered the Sun Temple while shaping a wheel of holy light.

Neri, Yura, and Rexxar raided Skyreach’s treasury, freed Rukhran from the Sun Cult’s control, and tried to save two injured Sunlight Eagle hatchlings as the city’s ancient weapon fired. Below, Eredath insisted on joining the effort to stop Rukhmar’s Breath, and Garona followed to protect him for her mother’s sake.

• Neri and Yura found the Golden Sunfire Ring and Sunlight Eagle eggs in the treasury while Rexxar fought outside.
• Rexxar freed Rukhran by linking their souls, and the Dread Raven Lord rescued him, Neri, and Yura when Rukhmar’s Breath shattered the platform.
• Yura discovered that two eggs had cracked, and Rexxar told her and Neri to link their souls to the hatchlings to keep them alive.
• Eredath explained that Rukhmar’s Breath was an ancient weapon and urged his companions to stop it from firing again.
• Eredath convinced Maraad and Yrel to take him toward Skyreach’s heights, and Garona followed to keep him from dying and hurting her mother.

Diakum and the Arakkoa fought to end Rukhmar’s destructive influence and stop Viryx from firing Rukhmar’s Breath at Skyreach. The Talon King saved the city with Eredath’s help, while Diakum gained Rukhmar’s Solar Blessing after the false Sun God fell.

• Viryx crawled toward Rukhmar’s Breath while the resurrected Rukhmar fought Diakum to defend Skyreach.
• Diakum asked Anzu for permission to destroy Rukhmar, and Anzu agreed after Diakum promised to reveal where the true Rukhmar had gone.
• Eredath tried to persuade Viryx to stop, but Garona stabbed her and Maraad knocked her from the platform as she activated Rukhmar’s Breath.
• Eredath locked the weapon’s controls, and Terokk destroyed its core; Diakum protected Skyreach with a Holy Word: Barrier as the blast consumed Rukhmar.
• Terokk called on the Arakkoa to lay down their weapons, while Diakum carried the burned Eredath to safety and mourned Rukhmar with Anzu.
• Diakum received the legendary talent Rukhmar’s Solar Blessing and the enhanced Solar Storm skill.

Diakum helped Terokk plan Skyreach’s recovery and prepared to pursue the false Talon King Ikiss, while Eredath recovered from his ordeal and confessed his hidden ties to Kil'jaeden. Eredath chose the priesthood, but Diakum invited him to become a practitioner of both Light and shadow, leaving him facing a new calling.

• Diakum told Maraad and Yrel that Eredath had survived but could no longer fight as a guard, and reassured Garona that Lelan would not abandon him.
• Diakum declined to claim Rukhmar’s remains and discussed with Terokk the escaped Sun Priests, the threat of Ikiss, Skyreach’s religious future, and the coming World Artifact.
• Terokk agreed to send his daughter against Ikiss and promised Skyreach’s warriors would support the war against the Demon Blood Horde, while Diakum accepted the danger of seeking Draenor’s Heart of Life.
• Eredath told Diakum that he had hidden his contact with Kil'jaeden, his invitation to return to Argus, and his resentment toward Velen after his mother’s death.
• Eredath vowed to become a priest and protect his people’s faith, and Diakum offered to guide him as a Light-Dark Twinborn who could work in both Light and shadow.

Diakum and his allies attacked the Fallen Arakkoa and their leader Ikiss, who had summoned Sethe’s cursed power in an attempt to end the curse on his people. After Diakum purified Sethe and the recruits defeated Ikiss, Eredath embraced his path as a Shadow and Discipline Priest; the group prepared to return to Talador.

• Garona reported that Ikiss’s followers were collecting Sethe’s cursed remains and preparing a summoning ritual in Sethekk Hollow.
• Diakum warned Princess Lacey that Ikiss’s attempt to free the Arakkoa of the Midnight could instead corrupt them, then sent Garona to find the ritual’s source.
• Diakum led his recruits in destroying fallen rituals around the valley while Eredath wrestled with whether to use shadow magic.
• Garona located Ikiss, who had summoned Sethe’s skeletal form, and Diakum charged in to purify the cursed demigod as the recruits fought Ikiss.
• Ikiss attacked Lacey with a curse, but Eredath intercepted and contained it with shadow power before affirming his commitment to both shadow and Light.
• Diakum emerged with Sethe’s purified Shadow Eye, gave it to Eredath to help him forge a staff, and announced that they would return to Talador.

Diakum secured Arakkoa support for the fight for Shattrath and learned that the Bloodmane Tiger-Men might join the K'ure Alliance, while a mysterious raven tied to a Dark Titan watched him. The chapter ended with Grom Hellscream challenging the Alliance to Mak'gora after capturing Draenei, prompting Diakum to confront him.

• Reshad and Princess Lacey told Diakum that Terokk had sent Arakkoa forces to support Shattrath, and they asked him to approve Eredath's role in rebuilding the Sun faith.
• Diakum encouraged Yrel to seek an Arakkoa-forged weapon and explained how Maraad's devotion strengthened his Holy Light.
• Garona introduced Kalash Goldmane, who revealed that Eska and other Fallen Arakkoa had joined the Orcs and asked to move his clan to Talador.
• Kalash spotted a purple-eyed raven watching the group, and Diakum's holy strike failed to harm it before it flew away.
• Anzu told Diakum that a powerful god inhabited the raven and had forced him to help the mysterious visitor.
• Maraad reported that Grom Hellscream had captured Draenei and demanded Mak'gora, and Diakum set out to face him.

Diakum learned the War Horde was attacking several Draenei strongholds and planned to awaken Draenor’s hidden Life Force, then received a blazing Sunwing mount from Anzu. After discovering a danger in Shattrath City, he returned in time to stop Grom Hellscream from killing Velen and challenged Grom himself.

• Anzu told Diakum that the War Horde had split its forces to attack Shattrath City, Karabor Temple, and Shadowmoon Valley, and Diakum issued orders to reinforce the cities and mobilize the ogres.
• Diakum revealed that Draenor’s plants could awaken to fight the demons and identified the Spriggans’ Holy Land as essential to the alliance’s plans.
• Anzu granted Diakum the Sunwing appearance, and a warning about evil jars being carried toward T'uurem made Diakum hurry back to Shattrath with his companions.
• Velen met Grom outside Shattrath to secure the release of captured Draenei and fought him in a duel, initially landing powerful blows before Grom’s Gorehowl shattered Velen’s barrier.
• Diakum arrived during Grom’s killing strike, protected Velen, and challenged Grom to fight him while Velen returned to the city with urgent news.

Gul'dan persuaded the Dragonmaw Clan to spread an enhanced Red Scourge plague across Draenor, while Warsong orcs rejected his plan and rode to Grom Hellscream's aid. Diakum fought Grom in a deadly duel as Dragonmaw riders moved to attack Shattrath and other Draenei settlements, leaving the duel's outcome unseen.

• Gul'dan urged the High Warlords at T'uurem to attack Shattrath with plague jars, but a Warsong Warlord rejected the plan and led his warriors toward Grom.
• Gul'dan told Zuluhed that the Polluter had empowered the plague and instructed the Dragonmaw to spread it across Draenor; Gul'dan then left through a Shadow Gate.
• Zuluhed sent Nekros and other Dragonmaw leaders to bomb Shattrath, Karabor Temple, and other settlements while Anzu secretly listened to their plans.
• Diakum and Grom continued their duel, and Grom activated his Death Wish as Diakum transformed into a Seraphim of Retribution.
• Diakum and Grom charged into a blinding clash whose outcome remained hidden, as Nekros's riders arrived above Shattrath and found its barrier raised.
• Nekros redirected one squad to attack Diakum with plague jars and ordered the other riders to target Auchindoun and other Draenei settlements.

Diakum survived the Dragonmaw Clan’s magic plague attack and defeated Grom Hellscream in their Mak'gora, while uncovering Grom’s hidden concern for his son. Grom miraculously survived and was carried away as the Black Wolf God’s chosen, while Diakum confronted Medivh over his interference in Draenor.

• Nekros bombarded the battlefield and Shattrath with plague jars, but Diakum was immune, the city’s Naaru's Shield held, and Grom killed Nekros with Gorehowl.
• Diakum explained that he intended to punish those responsible for the plague himself, then challenged Grom to finish their Mak'gora; Grom resumed fighting with renewed fury.
• Grom burned through his life force in a fierce battle, but Diakum’s Ashen Judgment defeated him, shattered Gorehowl, and left both combatants badly wounded.
• Anzu revealed that a demigod’s Life Force sustained Grom, and Diakum heard Grom’s dying plea to save Garrosh from the Red Scourge; Diakum said Grom had once secretly entrusted his son to Matron Geyah.
• Diakum and Medivh wagered over whether Grom would seek revenge or leave the War Horde, and Diakum condemned Medivh for risking Draenor to manipulate fate.
• The Warsong Clan carried Grom away alive, and the Annihilator Black Wolf regarded him as its chosen warrior while Diakum returned to Shattrath.

Diakum confronted the Red Scourge outbreak in Shattrath, comforted the infected, and received Kil'jaeden's Leader's Mark from Hutton before setting out to seek a cure. As demons attacked Auchindoun's Holy Land, Diakum turned to confront the Demon Prince Peroth'arn.

• Rexxar warned Diakum that the Dragonmaw Clan had spread the contagious Red Scourge across Talador and infected Draka.
• Velen reported that infected Draenei were rapidly becoming Broken, while Diakum entered the quarantine zone and used the Holy Light to treat and encourage the patients.
• Diakum discovered that Hutton had been infected, and Hutton passed Kil'jaeden's Leader's Mark to him and urged him to protect the K'ure Alliance.
• Diakum sent Rexxar to Nagrand to hurry the World Rings' elemental blessings and planned to take them to the Heart of Life for a cure.
• Anzu warned Diakum that demons were attacking Auchindoun's Holy Land, so Diakum flew there as Peroth'arn led the assault on its defenses.

Diakum defeated the demon forces attacking Auchindoun and interrogated the captured demon prince Peroth'arn about Azeroth’s history and survivors. After Peroth'arn revealed the state of the Night Elves, High Elves, and other peoples, Diakum offered him a choice between surrendering to Arantien or being sent away by the Void.

• Peroth'arn challenged Diakum and was badly wounded by his Solar Storm, while Garona, Maraad, Eredath, and Yrel captured or fought the other attackers.
• Diakum restrained Peroth'arn and learned that Azshara had survived the War of the Ancients and was believed to be sleeping in Suramar.
• Peroth'arn recounted the War of the Ancients, including the survival of Tyrande Whisperwind, the Stormrage brothers, and other figures, and described Xavius’s betrayal.
• Peroth'arn explained that Kur'talos Ravencrest governed the Kaldorei, while Dath'Remar Sunstrider led the High Elves and Suramar was ruled by Toserin and Elisande.
• After Peroth'arn shared what he knew about Azeroth’s peoples and demigods, Diakum released his Holy Light restraints but used the Void to offer him a choice between surrendering to Arantien or being sent away.

Arantien led the defense of Karabor Temple as Lycantos's demon wolves and Mogor's Felblood Orcs attacked, while the Draenei and their allies fought back. The Hand of Argus veterans were Lightforged and charged into battle, and Arantien confronted Mogor as he tried to flee.

• Arantien tracked the demon wolves in Karabor's outer district, identified the dark spirit worgen leading them, and warned the defenders about their abilities.
• Arantien flew into the sky to stop Mogor's wyvern riders from dropping plague jars, while Anzu's raven flock and the Arakkoa attacked the Orcs from above.
• Mogor dropped plague jars into the outer city, but the ravens and Arakkoa destroyed the wyvern riders and helped protect the Draenei.
• Ristalan led thirty Hand of Argus veterans through the Naaru's shield, where their Lightforging and Argus Hearts made them legendary demon slayers who cut through the wolves.
• Mogor fled from the veterans, but Arantien landed in his path and asked where he planned to run.