Chapter Summaries

Diakum transformed into a Radiant Holy Spirit and defeated Kazzak, but the Doom Lord detonated itself and swept him into a fel explosion. Anzu rescued the exhausted Diakum and demanded that he repay the favor by helping save Rukhmar.

• Hutton organized the K'ure Alliance's counterattack while Nubodon released Murmur to unleash sonic attacks on the demons.
• Velen stayed behind to protect the civilians as Eredath led warriors into battle, and Akama brought reinforcements from Karabor Temple.
• Diakum activated Hand of Fate, entered the Radiant Holy Spirit state, and overwhelmed Kazzak with devastating holy-light attacks.
• Diakum dragged Kazzak away from the city, severed its arms, and struck its neck with a massive blade of holy light.
• Kazzak detonated itself after Diakum pierced its skull, and the fel blast swept Diakum away as Jaide raced to find him.
• Anzu carried the injured Diakum out of the blast cloud and told Jaide that Diakum owed him a favor for saving his life.

The K'ure Alliance defeated the demon assault on Shattrath City, while Orgrim Doomhammer accepted his duty to lead the Horde and rescued Blackhand from the battlefield. Blackhand acknowledged his failure and offered Orgrim the title of Great Chieftain.

• The K'ure Alliance killed Doom Lord Kazzak and Abyssal Warlord Magtheridon, forcing the demons to retreat from Shattrath City before they collided with the Evergreen Father's Spriggan army.
• Orgrim Doomhammer learned from Oronok Torn-heart that Lycantos had chosen him as the next Great Chieftain, and Kargath urged him to save Blackhand and lead the Horde.
• Orgrim agreed to become Great Chieftain, then rode with Kargath toward Shattrath City as Kargath revealed that Gul'dan was building a gate to another world.
• Garrosh Hellscream attacked Blackhand during the retreat, but Orgrim arrived on a two-headed drake, rescued Blackhand, and escaped with him as ghost wolves covered their flight.
• Blackhand accused Orgrim of rebellion, but Orgrim explained that he had to protect the Horde and repay Blackhand's kindness by sparing him.
• Blackhand admitted that he had failed the Horde and invited Orgrim to take his title and become a more worthy Great Chieftain.

Orgrim consolidated control of the Felblood Orcs and prepared to evacuate Draenor before the K'ure Alliance could turn against them. After learning the Dark Portal needed a vast supply of fel energy, he planned to power it with a Greater Demon and secretly intended to leave Gul'dan behind as an additional sacrifice.

• Orgrim took the King of Clans' throne, learned that Kaz and Hulkan had fled to the Seat of Glory, and ordered the captured Gul'dan brought before him.
• Orgrim assigned Zuluhed to reform the Shadow Council, ordered Eitrigg to bring back the Thunderlord and Blackrock forces, and declared that the clans must unite and leave Draenor.
• Orgrim revealed that fel radiation would eventually make him one of the Felblood Orcs and said he would lead them to a new world; he also took command of the Warsong Clan until Grom awoke.
• Gul'dan explained that the Dark Portal required a massive fel sacrifice, and Orgrim proposed using a Greater Demon from the Seat of Glory to power it.
• Oronok permitted Gul'dan to use the corpses of cowards and enemies to create an undead army, while Orgrim ordered preparations to enslave the Greater Demon.
• Orgrim secretly told Zuluhed to copy Gul'dan's ritual so they could power the Dark Portal without sacrificing their people, then leave Gul'dan behind to die.

After waking from the battle with Kazzak, Diakum learned that he had reached the threshold of Demigod advancement and chose to help Lightforge the gravely injured Maraad. The ritual healed Maraad’s body and sent his mind into a trial of virtue, where he charged at Lord Jaraxxus as Diakum watched over the process.

• Diakum awoke after several days of recovery and found that his strength had advanced to the Demigod threshold, though he still needed to improve his Agility and master his class paths.
• Neri told Diakum that the battle had devastated Shattrath and its allies, and that demons were corrupting Nataan Jungle.
• Neri explained that Maraad was near death, so Diakum volunteered to lead his Lightforging ritual despite his own weakness.
• Neri gave Diakum the newly upgraded Doom Lord’s Soul-Imbued Staff, and he joined Velen and Ishaana at Maraad’s bedside.
• Diakum entered his Seraphim form and began Lightforging Maraad, healing his wounds while connecting their minds through the Holy Light.
• Diakum’s spiritual trial placed Maraad before Lord Jaraxxus and other foes, and Maraad seized Naru’s Hammer and charged into battle.

Velen warned that Lightforging could connect mortals to Naaru minds and lead to fanaticism, while Diakum completed Maraad’s ritual and learned about his Chosen and growing Naaru divinity. Yrel revealed that K’ure had secretly Lightforged her, and Diakum prepared to put her through a Trial of Virtue.

• Velen told Yrel, Eredath, Nubodon, and Lelan that Lightforging risked mental assimilation and that the Army of the Light had destroyed doomed worlds through Light Burial.
• Velen said Diakum would perform no more Lightforging rituals himself and that Lady Kara would handle any future ones.
• Maraad won the final mental trial, and Diakum received notices confirming Maraad as his Chosen and warning that Naaru divinity was assimilating his mind.
• Yrel revealed that K’ure had Lightforged her before her death, leaving holy markings on her body and causing her strength to grow.
• Diakum offered to guide Yrel through a Trial of Virtue so she could become his true Chosen, and she readily agreed.

The Final Curse Lord's Soul-Imbued Staff gained enhanced destructive powers after devouring a Greater Demon's soul for the third time. Doom Lord Kazzak remained sealed within it, defeated and available for transformation into a long-term servant through the infusion of another force.

• The four Elemental Lords of Draenor blessed the Final Curse Lord's Soul-Imbued Staff, strengthening its offensive, defensive, healing, and enhancement spells.
• The Final Curse Lord's Soul-Imbued Staff slew and devoured a Greater Demon's soul for the third time, sealing the Doom Lord's ferocity and brutality within it.
• The Final Curse Lord's Soul-Imbued Staff gained Fear Oppression Aura, Doom Curse, and the ability to unleash Animate Hellfire after multiple executions.
• Doom Lord Kazzak admitted defeat and submitted to Diakum, accepting service even if it meant becoming Lord Sargeras's enemy.
• Kazzak's weakened soul remained available for refinement through other forces, with Holy Light and Void infusions offering different servant forms.

The K'ure Alliance leaders learned that Orgrim Doomhammer had taken control of the War Horde and planned to lead the Green Skins away from Draenor. They rejected his request for safe passage and prepared to attack the Orcs, while Durotan accepted that his people would not welcome the Green Skins home again.

• Diakum proposed leading an expedition into Tanaan Jungle, where demons were spreading Fel contamination, and Samuro reported that the jungle's creatures had begun fighting the demons alongside the Spriggans and Bleeding Hollow Orcs.
• Samuro reported that Blackhand's banner had been replaced, and Griselda Blackhand revealed that Orgrim Doomhammer had defeated Blackhand in Mak'gora and offered to take the War Horde off Draenor.
• Gaiara, Mar'gok, the Talon King, and the Draenei leaders rejected Orgrim's request to spare the Green Skins, with Velen warning that the Horde might be building a way to escape.
• Diakum, the Talon King, and Mar'gok proposed an assault through Tanaan Jungle, using Rukhmar's Breath and a magical launch platform to strike the War Horde's fortress, and Griselda urged the Alliance to mobilize.
• Durotan told Hutton that he believed Orgrim was trying to save his people, but Hutton warned that Draenor would never welcome the Green Skins back.
• Durotan accepted that the Green Skins would face either death or exile and prayed that their ancestors' spirits would guide them.

Diakum’s force pushed through Tanaan Jungle as the K’ure Alliance prepared to stop the Green Skins from fleeing through a Dark Portal. The chapter ended with Medivh agreeing to use forbidden power to teleport as many Orcs as possible, while Diakum faced Blackhand and the portal began to activate.

• Diakum and the Lightforged veterans destroyed demon-forging camps as Yrel and Maraad discussed why the K’ure Alliance mattered beyond the Vigilant’s individual power.
• Lantresor told Diakum that Orgrim had enslaved a Greater Demon and was using it to help open the Dark Portal, so Diakum sent him to warn the Wizard Chieftain and the Talon King to bombard the site.
• Blackhand confronted Diakum in the jungle and declared that he would protect his clan, while Diakum challenged him to fight.
• Orgrim demanded that Gul’dan open the Dark Portal immediately, but Gul’dan said it needed three more days; Orgrim’s forces then seized Gul’dan and used him in the extraction ritual.
• Orgrim used a raven insignia to contact Medivh, who agreed to use forbidden power to open the unfinished portal for three hours and told Orgrim to gather as many elite warriors as possible.

Diakum defeated and killed Blackhand, then delivered the Great Chieftain’s remains to Griselda as the Mag'har Orcs faced an imminent assault. Lycantos warned Diakum that the Holy Light was eroding his humanity, while Blackhand entered Maldraxxus and eagerly began a new life of war.

• Blackhand fought Diakum but was overwhelmed and killed, while Lycantos’s wolves were driven from the battlefield.
• Diakum spoke with Lycantos, who pleaded for the green-skinned orcs and warned that the Holy Light was turning Diakum into a being estranged from his humanity.
• Griselda mourned her father, received Blackhand’s skull and weapons, and vowed to prove herself against her brothers as chieftain.
• An Arakkoa reported that the Alliance was ready to attack, and Diakum ordered the assault on the War Horde’s stronghold and Dark Portal to begin.
• Lycantos guided Blackhand’s soul to Maldraxxus, where Blackhand planned to rebuild the Horde after surviving its deadly welcoming trial.

The K'ure Alliance launched its final assault on Orgrim Doomhammer’s fortress, but Medivh’s attempt to teleport the Horde away unleashed a catastrophic spatial force that lifted the entire fortress from Draenor. As the city began its violent journey between worlds, Diakum raised a barrier and urged the Alliance warriors to escape and meet him in Stormwind.

• Rukhmar’s Breath destroyed the Dark Portal, prompting Medivh to promise Orgrim that he could still teleport the Horde and demand his obedience.
• Diakum and the K'ure Alliance attacked the fortress while Orgrim and his warriors fought to defend it; Garrosh, Yrel, Nubodon, Brox, and others joined the battle.
• Medivh began a dangerous ritual using Tanaan Jungle’s energy, but a mysterious voice spoke through him as the collapsed portal reopened in a fel vortex.
• The fortress tore free from the ground and rose into the sky as Draenor’s space and foundations buckled, leaving Diakum and Orgrim uncertain what had caused the disaster.
• Diakum cast Holy Word: Barrier and told the K'ure Alliance warriors to flee after landing and rendezvous with him in the Stormwind Kingdom.

As the Horde fortress was teleported through the Dark Portal, the resulting energy threatened to shatter Draenor, and Ner'zhul and the ancient Life Progenitor sacrificed themselves to save the world. The survivors named the transformed Life Progenitor Tayara, while the K'ure Alliance leaders faced the question of what to do with the Green Skins left behind.

• Mar'gok escaped the city with the K'ure Alliance warriors he could reach, while Anzu's ravens carried others away as the fortress entered the Dark Portal.
• Mar'gok, Drek'Thar, Terokk, Hutton, and the other ring bearers tried to stop the Tanaan Jungle from collapsing, but Ner'zhul merged with the four elements and plunged into the magma to quell the energy below.
• Nalagor called upon Draenor's Heart of Life, and the ancient Life Progenitor sacrificed the jungle's trees and its own remaining power to grow into a World Tree that absorbed the destructive backlash.
• After the energy subsided, Nalagor declared that the Life Progenitor had become Tayara, and Mar'gok and Terokk thanked the tree for saving them.
• Drek'Thar asked about those swept away with the fortress, and Mar'gok said some city fragments had fallen into the sea while Vigilant likely protected the people who teleported.
• Terokk warned that the battle was not over because Green Skins remained trapped in the jungle, and the leaders debated whether to kill them all.

After the War Horde's fortress fell into Azeroth, the Draenei and Mag'har survivors scattered across the unfamiliar world through random teleportation. Diakum reached Lakeshire and sought Stormwind's leaders, while Ashbringer landed in the garden of Grand Duke Mograine, whose family took its arrival as a holy revelation.

• The fortress crashed into the Black Morass, and Oronok Torn-heart ordered the Black Wolf God's wolves to help the K'ure Alliance warriors escape.
• Lelan teleported Yrel, Maraad, and their injured companions away from the fortress, scattering them across Azeroth, including Northrend.
• Lantresor, Samuro, and Garrosh rescued Mag'har Orcs, Sunfire Arakkoa, and Ogres before teleporting to the Bloodhoof Clan's Elemental Holy Land in Desolace.
• Yrel and Lelan found themselves near a vast city of purple light after arriving in another part of Azeroth.
• Diakum awoke in a crater beside Lakeshire and told Lieutenant Windsor that he needed to speak with Stormwind's leaders, then discovered Ashbringer was missing.
• Grand Duke Mograine found Ashbringer in his scorched garden and ordered the news spread as a sign of the Holy Light's favor toward his family.

After escaping the ruined Orc fortress, Gul'dan tried to reach Karazhan but was hunted down by Garona and Nazgrel. They killed him and destroyed two soulstones, but a disguised Nathrezim recovered another soulstone hidden in Gul'dan's staff and planned to send him to Argus for a reward.

• Gul'dan fled across the Black Morass, intending to seek refuge with Medivh at Karazhan and claim the reward promised by The Shaper Sargerei.
• Garona spotted Gul'dan and abandoned her plans to find her family so she could kill him while he was weak.
• Nazgrel followed Gul'dan's trail with Black Scar and Thunderlord warriors, hoping to use his death to secure the rebuilding of the Black Scar Clan.
• Nazgrel and Garona attacked Gul'dan together, killed him, and smashed two soulstones they found on his body.
• A Thunderlord wolf rider revealed himself as a Nathrezim, recovered a hidden soulstone from Gul'dan's broken staff, and prepared to take Gul'dan's soul to Argus.

Diakum arrived at Stonewall Keep and discovered that his companions had been scattered across Azeroth and Ashbringer had been taken to Tirisfal. An Infinite Dragon named Aionus tried to recruit him, but Diakum turned against it after learning the Bronze Dragons had moved his sword.

• Diakum waited at Stonewall Keep, worried that he could not find Ashbringer or contact Maraad and Yrel.
• General Gavinrad and Mayor Solomon met Diakum, but Aionus froze everyone in the fortress except him.
• Diakum used shadow power and Mind Control to question Aionus, who identified him as a potential Infinite Dragon recruit and revealed that he had arrived about two years before the Dark Portal opened.
• Aionus showed Diakum that Lelan’s mass teleportation had scattered the Lightforged across Azeroth, including Yrel and Lelan near Suramar and Maraad and Nubodon in Silithus.
• Aionus revealed that Ashbringer had fallen into Grand Duke Mograine’s garden in Tirisfal after the Bronze Dragons interfered with its path.
• Diakum rejected Aionus’s threats and prepared to strike it with the Twilight Hammer.

Diakum killed and purified an Infinite Dragon, then confronted how the Holy Light had shaped his personality and how wary he remained of the Void. After the Holy Light approved his Light-Dark Twinborn trial, he set out to gather the scattered K'ure Alliance warriors.

• Diakum killed the Void-corrupted Infinite Dragon Aionus and purified its remains with sacred flames.
• The Argus Star Soul warned Diakum that the Holy Light had changed him and that he stood close to losing himself in it.
• Shadow Word challenged Diakum to examine his distrust of the Void and accept the shadows as part of his path.
• Diakum admitted the Holy Light had altered him and prayed to pursue the Light-Dark Twinborn trial without hiding his doubts.
• The Holy Light activated the trial, stripping Diakum's power unless he called upon it and warning him against Void temptations.
• Diakum put away the Twilight Hammer and began collecting the dragon's spoils while planning to gather the scattered K'ure Alliance warriors.

Chromie investigated the timeline upheaval caused by Diakum Zastinus, recognized him as the timeline’s central figure, and decided to observe him rather than interfere. After Diakum surprised her in the Redridge Mountains, the Argus Star Soul tried to speak with her, and Chromie fainted.

• Chromie reviewed the altered Dark Portal opening and learned that the Bronze recruits had tried to correct Diakum’s fate, while the Infinite Dragon Aionus had entered the timeline.
• The recruits reported that Diakum had killed Aionus and Doom Lord Kazzak, and Chromie identified Diakum as the timeline’s historical fulcrum whose death could cause its collapse.
• Chromie sent the recruits away to report their mistakes and study temporal theory, then chose to take over their posts and observe the timeline.
• Chromie found Aionus’s ashes in the Redridge Mountains and concluded that Diakum’s power involved the Void despite his service to the Holy Light.
• Diakum revealed himself and said the Argus Star Soul wished to speak with Chromie, but she fainted at the mention of a Titan servant.

Neri and Draenor’s leaders debated how to aid Diakum and resist the Burning Legion as the Illidari arrived with a plan to unite worlds against the threat. Meanwhile, Ashbringer’s influence turned Grand Duke Alexandros Mograine into a fervent demon-slayer who founded the Ashen Crusade.

• Yura urged Neri to leave Tayara and resume leading the Rangers, while Neri admitted she feared for Diakum’s mental state and regretted his sacrifice to the Holy Light.
• The Bishop Council debated finding Azeroth’s coordinates and restarting the Dark Portal, but Arantien and Terokk warned that Draenor’s demon threat made opening it dangerous.
• Oturis arrived with Illidari reinforcements, revealed a demon fleet was approaching Draenor, and proposed an astral ambush and a lasting alliance with the K’ure Alliance.
• Oturis disclosed that the gnome mage Millhouse Manastorm had accidentally appeared aboard the Fel Hammer and could provide precise Azeroth coordinates to help reopen the Dark Portal.
• Grand Duke Alexandros Mograine touched Ashbringer, swore a Demon Slaughtering Oath, and declared the creation of the Ashen Crusade, prompting Fairbanks to summon Archbishop Alonsus Faol.

Diakum questioned Chromie about the Bronze Dragonflight and learned that the Titan Keepers controlled access to Azeroth’s star soul, while he and Argus began planning how to reach her. Meanwhile, Garona captured Khadgar in the Black Morass and prepared to interrogate him about Medivh.

• Chromie awoke in Lakeshire, recognized Argus as a star soul, and assured Diakum that the Bronze Dragonflight would not hunt him on the sealed timeline.
• Chromie explained that only the Titan Keepers could ordinarily permit contact with Azeroth’s star soul, then asked to stay with Diakum and hear his story.
• Diakum and Argus discussed the Titans’ influence over Azeroth, a possible way to reach her, and a plan to draw the guardian Dragonflight to their side.
• Garona captured Khadgar, Medivh’s apprentice, while he investigated the Black Morass, and threatened to interrogate him as an enemy.

Diakum traveled with General Gavinrad’s scouting party to the Black Morass, warning them about the orcs and the dangers ahead. There, he exposed Magna Aegwynn, who asked about the fallen city and Medivh, and declared that he intended to arrest her son.

• Diakum introduced Chromie, disguised as a gnome bard, to General Gavinrad and rode with the Stormwind knights toward the Black Morass.
• On the journey, Gavinrad described Stormwind’s border troubles and praised Medivh and Karazhan, while Chromie challenged the kingdom’s confidence in its isolation.
• At the marsh, Diakum warned the knights about the orcs, their wolf riders, and the shadow wolves, gave Gavinrad a signal gun, and blessed the scouting party.
• Diakum used mental guidance to put Lieutenant Windsor to sleep, then confronted a hooded figure who had followed them through the marsh.
• Diakum identified the figure as Magna Aegwynn and said that Medivh had committed crimes against his world and that he intended to arrest him.

Diakum confronted Aegwynn over Medivh’s role in bringing the War Horde to Draenor, and she agreed to help resolve the damage and guide him to the Tomb of Sargeras. Before they could leave, a Blue Dragon attacked Garona and Khadgar, and Diakum arrived in Voidform as the confrontation began.

• Chromie eavesdropped as Diakum told Aegwynn how Medivh had brought the War Horde and hundreds of thousands of Demon Blood Green Skins into the Black Morass.
• Aegwynn acknowledged that Medivh had acted on his own plans and promised to speak with him at Karazhan and help send the fortress and Green Skins back to Draenor.
• Diakum asked Aegwynn to take him to the Tomb of Sargeras for the Dark Staff, and he offered the K'ure Alliance’s help against demons in exchange.
• Chromie, Aegwynn, and Diakum sensed an eruption of Arcane energy, and Diakum flew toward the fighting after the world-soul identified a K'ure Alliance warrior nearby.
• A Blue Dragon attacked Garona and Khadgar, and Diakum arrived on Sunwing in Voidform as Garona realized her grandfather had entered the fight in a dangerous mood.