Chapter Summaries

Kel'Thuzad left Dalaran for Northrend and reached Icecrown Citadel, where the Lich King showed him the Scourge's creations. Awed by Lord Marrowgar's power, Kel'Thuzad pledged himself to Ner'zhul, who summoned him to the Frozen Throne.

• After the Kirin Tor Council forbade his necromantic research, Kel'Thuzad left Dalaran with his belongings and Mr. Bigglesworth.
• Kel'Thuzad sailed from Southshore to Northrend and received supplies and a warm coat pocket for his cat at Mo'aki Harbor.
• Kel'Thuzad traveled to Icecrown Glacier, where undead soldiers escorted him to Icecrown Citadel.
• The Lich King guided Kel'Thuzad through the citadel and introduced him to Lord Marrowgar, who demonstrated his Bone Storm attack.
• Kel'Thuzad vowed to serve the Lich King, and Ner'zhul summoned him to the Frozen Throne to learn true knowledge.

Thrall arrived in Stormwind City with Taresa, Grom, Sylvanas, and Chromie, and saw the unusual peace between its peoples. Sylvanas led the group through the guarded Royal District to meet Sarodar, while Alleria told them he was inside.

• Thrall and Taresa entered Stormwind City and saw Sarodar's monumental statue in Hero's Valley, while Chromie complained that the city and its history had changed.
• Thrall saw Iron Horde Orcs mingling peacefully with humans and other races, easing Taresa's fears that he would be imprisoned again.
• Sylvanas led the group through the Royal District, where guards and Nightborne Crusaders let them pass after recognizing her.
• Sylvanas told a Crusader that Grom needed to report military matters and that Sarodar wanted to see Thrall and Taresa.
• Alleria met the group in the hall and said Sarodar was inside, asking Sylvanas to keep quiet because Vereesa was sleeping nearby.

Thrall and Taresa left for Orgrimmar with the last freed Orcs, where their relationship and the New Horde’s future were settled. Meanwhile, the Cult of the Damned rose across the Eastern Kingdoms from its headquarters at Scholomance, as a disaster began to take shape.

• Thrall sailed from Stormwind toward Orgrimmar with Taresa and the last freed Orcs, ending the captivity of the remaining Old Horde prisoners.
• Thrall and Taresa confirmed their feelings, and the Orcs honored Taresa for risking her life to help Thrall gain freedom.
• Durotan and Draka rejoiced at news of their son, and Thrall’s return helped stabilize the New Horde.
• The Cult of the Damned spread through the Eastern Kingdoms, attracting followers with promises of eternal life, free supplies, and powerful medicines.
• The Barov family gave its city to the cult, making Scholomance its headquarters, where Kel'Thuzad taught its apprentices the secrets of the undead.

The Cult of the Damned’s plague ravaged Lordaeron, turning the dead into undead as Prince Arthas, Uther Lightbringer, and Jaina fought to contain the Scourge. Arthas killed Kel'Thuzad at Scholomance, but the Archmage’s final words left him uneasy as he vowed to save his people at any cost.

• The Southern Alliance cracked down on the Cult of the Damned and cut off food and water trade with the Northern Alliance, while its allies strengthened their defenses.
• A fast-spreading plague devastated Stratholme and the surrounding region, raising its victims as undead and turning the area into a Plaguelands.
• Prince Arthas, Uther Lightbringer, and Jaina led an elite army through the Plaguelands to purge the undead.
• Arthas learned that Kel'Thuzad and the Cult of the Damned had spread plague through infected grain and water sources.
• At Scholomance, Arthas drove his sword into Kel'Thuzad, who smiled and said Arthas would summon him again.
• Arthas worried over his suffering people and resolved to save them at any cost.

As the Scourge plague spread through Lordaeron, Arthas reached Stratholme and decided to massacre its infected citizens, despite Uther and Jaina’s objections. Above the city, Aeonus killed Tempestus and ordered the Infinite Dragons to leave Arthas alone while gathering plague samples for the Titan Divine Lord.

• Arthas rescued villagers in Stratholme and promised Timmy he would always protect his people.
• Pamela awoke as a ghost amid Darrowshire’s ruins and hid from wandering ghouls.
• After learning the plague had erupted in Stratholme City, Arthas led his army there and declared that killing the infected was the only way to stop it.
• Uther condemned Arthas’s plan, and Jaina reacted in shock as Arthas argued that the city’s fall would doom Lordaeron.
• Aeonus killed Tempestus for opposing the Titan Divine Lord’s plans and sent a time hunter to find a Bronze Dragon and collect Scourge plague samples.
• The Infinite Dragons abandoned Arthas and chose not to interfere with his planned massacre.

Arthas ordered the slaughter of Stratholme’s people, then failed to kill Mal’Ganis, who escaped to Northrend and drew the prince into pursuing him. In Stormwind, Hu Feng warned Llane and Lothar that the Lich King sought a living vessel and revealed that they had been his first choices.

• Arthas dismissed Uther and watched Jaina leave, then led his soldiers into Stratholme to kill its inhabitants.
• Arthas fought through the burning city to City Hall Square, where he found Mal’Ganis beside a necromantic tower and vast stores of plague grain.
• Mal’Ganis blocked Arthas’s attack and fled to Northrend, and Arthas vowed to hunt him there after seeking his father’s approval.
• Hu Feng showed Llane a report about Stratholme, then explained that Kil’jaeden had made Ner’zhul the Lich King and that Ner’zhul wanted Arthas as a body.
• Hu Feng told Llane and Lothar that the Lich King had first wanted one of them, but his protection of them forced Ner’zhul to choose Arthas instead.

Arthas launched an expedition to Northrend as the Scourge crisis spread panic and upheaval across the kingdoms. While Lordaeron struggled with refugees and internal troubles, Vivianka’s victory over the worgen brought her an unwanted noble title in Duskwood.

• Arthas gained King Terenas’s approval and led an expeditionary army to Northrend to seek revenge on Mal'Ganis.
• Kul Tiras withdrew its fleets from Lordaeron, while Gilneas left the Northern Alliance, sealed its border behind Genn's Wall, and abandoned its people in Silverpine Forest.
• Lordaeron conquered Alterac but inherited ruined lands and a flood of refugees, while the Syndicate formed and began raiding southward from the Arathi Highlands.
• The undead plague and worgen ravaged Duskwood, and the Green Dragons sealed Sunwood Forest valley against outsiders.
• Vivianka and her followers defended Duskwood Orchard Town from the worgen, earning her a noble title and fief that she reluctantly accepted after her subordinates agreed for her.

The Draenei faced extinction as Gul'dan's Fel Orcish Horde ravaged Draenor, while Prophet Velen discovered that the world's timeline and cosmic connections had gone awry. In Azeroth, Hu Feng sensed a desperate call from another timeline but had no way to answer it.

• Gul'dan used the blood of a dying Pit Lord to empower the Orcish Horde, and its Fel orcs swept across Draenor, attacking the Draenei and the arakkoa.
• Prophet Velen found that he could no longer foresee the future, while the Elemental Lords weakened and the Naaru fell silent.
• Turalyon prayed to the Holy Light for help, but no one answered as the Draenei suffered slaughter and enslavement.
• Hu Feng sensed a desperate call from another space and timeline, realized he might miss an important chance, and struggled to find a way to respond.

Aonus, an Infinite Dragon, entered Iron Horde territory to seek an audience with Hu Feng and offered Scourge plague research and samples. Hu Feng heard Aeonus’s case for altering history to aid mortals, but left the Infinite Dragons’ fate undecided while Aeonus declared him the world’s greatest hope.

• Aonus revealed himself over Elwynn Forest and was escorted to Stormwind City by Iron Horde Dragon Riders.
• Aonus encountered Onyxia in Stormwind Keep, and they recognized each other as a Black Dragon and an Infinite Dragon.
• Aonus presented Hu Feng with a report and live samples of the Scourge plague extracted in Stratholme.
• Hu Feng said he had considered wiping out the Infinite Dragons, but agreed not to interfere in their conflict until he could identify the flaw in Aeonus’s reasoning.
• Aeonus explained that the Infinite Dragons sought to change history and strengthen humanity, then told Hu Feng that he was the greatest hope for protecting the world.

Boss Hu followed a mysterious call into a collapsing timeline and took over the body of a Draenei warrior in Auchindoun. He discovered that Soulbinder Tu'ranni had called for help, then set out with her to activate the city's magical barrier while unable to use his true powers.

• Boss Hu traced the call to a flawed timeline and entered it through a dream.
• He took over a middle-aged Draenei warrior's body as Fel Orcs prepared to attack Auchindoun.
• Boss Hu learned that he could return to his own world if his temporary body died, but that the timeline would soon collapse.
• He recognized Soulbinder Tu'ranni as the source of the call and joined the warriors assigned to protect her while she activated Auchindoun's barrier nodes.
• Tu'ranni sensed a strange connection with Boss Hu as the group rode toward the first energy node.

Hu Feng and Turalyon defended the first energy node from a fel orc assault, and Hu Feng’s desperate resolve summoned Xuen the White Tiger. With Xuen’s help and Turalyon’s healing and support, Hu Feng turned the battle around and slaughtered the attackers.

• Turalyon activated the first energy node while Hu Feng and the Draenei warriors formed a defensive line against the approaching fel orcs.
• Hu Feng fought the attackers and was wounded, while about one-third of the Draenei defenders fell and Turalyon continued casting Holy Light.
• Hu Feng’s anger strengthened his connection to his Titan form, and Xuen the White Tiger appeared when Hu Feng invoked White Tiger Descent.
• Xuen tore through the fel orcs and lent Hu Feng power, allowing him to fight as a Windwalker Monk.
• Turalyon shielded and healed Hu Feng, boosted his speed with Feather of Light, and used Mind Control to make an attacker kill himself.

Hu Feng and the White Tiger discussed the Pandaren and their plans before joining Turalyon at the next energy node. When fel orcs and warlocks overwhelmed the Draenei defenders, the White Tiger merged with Hu Feng, enabling him to defeat the attackers while Turalyon completed the node.

• Hu Feng told the White Tiger he would help the Pandaren when Pandaria returned to Azeroth, and Turalyon joined their conversation without learning his name.
• The next day, Hu Feng fought fel orcs and warlocks at the second energy node while the White Tiger attacked from the shadows.
• After fel curses injured Hu Feng and the Draenei defenders fell, the White Tiger merged with him and lent him its power and martial techniques.
• Hu Feng used Chi attacks and Windwalker techniques to kill the remaining fel orcs as Turalyon completed the second energy node.
• Turalyon healed Hu Feng, who stopped her and left with her while the White Tiger remained merged with him to conserve its energy.

Hu Feng stayed behind to hold off the Fel Orc army so Turalyon could escape to Karabor Temple, then died after unleashing his final attack. In an erroneous timeline, Turalyon grieved the loss of his fundamental Holy Light energy and the unnamed clansman, while the Twisting Nether began consuming the world.

• After Auchindoun fell, Hu Feng asked Turalyon for the way to Karabor Temple and rode with her toward Shadowmoon Valley while the Fel Orc army pursued them.
• At the strategic pass, Hu Feng sent Turalyon onward and asked her to give him some of her fundamental Holy Light energy; she did so and promised to wait for him at Karabor Temple.
• Hu Feng and Xuen the White Tiger fought the Fel Orcs to buy Turalyon time, and Xuen returned to his true body as Hu Feng prepared his final attack.
• Hu Feng unleashed Rising Dragon Strike, destroying his Draenei body and many Fel Orcs before his Titan Will returned to his own timeline.
• In the erroneous timeline, Turalyon recovered at Karabor Temple, realized her fundamental Holy Light energy had vanished, and mourned Hu Feng as the Twisting Nether began devouring the world.

Boss Hu prepared an invasion of an alternate Draenor to rescue Turalyon and destroy its fel orc horde. As his army and floating fortress assembled, Turalyon prayed for help in besieged Karabor Temple and felt an unknown spell lock onto her.

• Boss Hu sensed the primordial Holy Light guiding him back to the timeline where Turalyon and the Draenei were trapped at Karabor Temple.
• Boss Hu summoned the Holy Crusaders of Truth, the Iron Horde, and the Night Elves to prepare for war.
• Boss Hu oversaw construction of a one-way Dark Portal and a floating fortress armed with Titan energy cannons.
• Boss Hu told the Iron Horde that their enemies were fel orcs from another timeline, and they eagerly prepared to fight them.
• Boss Hu resolved to invade the alternate Draenor and punish the fel orc horde rather than let them disappear with the timeline.
• Turalyon prayed for the Draenei's salvation and felt an unknown spell lock onto her.

Hu Feng’s divine power transformed into Dawn’s Light, empowering his followers as Azeroth prepared the Dawn Expedition into Draenor. In the wrong timeline, Tu'ranni became the first Dawnlight Draenei and defended Karabor Temple, but the Draenei remained close to extinction.

• Hu Feng gained a new insight, and his Titan divine power changed into a sharp, cruel dark-golden Dawn’s Light.
• Titan Sarodar’s followers across Azeroth gained dark-golden energy and new abilities, including the Nightborne, Highborne, High Elves, and Iron Horde orcs.
• The Southern Alliance, the New Horde, and Elemental Lord of Air Ertan pledged forces to the Dawn Expedition, and Hu Feng ordered two floating islands built for the campaign.
• At besieged Karabor Temple, Soulbinder Tu'ranni became the first Dawnlight Draenei and used her Dawnlight Railgun to destroy Fel Orcs attacking the city.
• Tu'ranni remained worried because she could not save the Draenei alone, and the god had not resurrected her unknown compatriot.

Hu Feng led the Azeroth Allied Forces through the Dark Portal to invade another Draenor timeline. As the Draenei faced imminent defeat at Karabor Temple, Tu'ranni's plea was answered by a force tearing into their world.

• Alleria gave Hu Feng a ring of Pandaren delicacies and urged him to return safely.
• Hu Feng opened the Dark Portal to the collapsing Draenor timeline and rallied the Azeroth Allied Forces to invade in the name of Azeroth.
• The Fel orcs and warlocks attacked Karabor Temple while Tu'ranni and the Soulbinders defended the Draenei and treated the wounded.
• Tu'ranni prayed for help as Prophet Velen lay gravely wounded and the Draenei's last stronghold neared collapse.
• A tremendous energy surge tore through the sky above Karabor Temple as something forced its way into the world.

Sarodar led the Dawn Legion and Azeroth’s allied forces through a rift into Draenor, launching a devastating assault on the fel orc tribe in Shadowmoon Valley. The fel orcs collapsed under attacks from the Black Dragon Riders, Nightborne, Alliance, and New Horde.

• Sarodar opened the spatial rift with three floating islands and sent Black Dragons and Storm Dragons to attack the fel orc tribe.
• The floating islands fired dark-golden beams into the fel orc camp, while Black Dragon Riders strafed survivors with machine guns and Shadow Flame.
• Sarodar announced the Dawn Legion’s arrival, and Nightborne Spellblades landed and charged the fel orcs.
• Boss Hu descended and attacked the fel orcs with whips of divine power, seeking revenge for his slain main account.
• Lothar led the Alliance expeditionary force into one flank as Nazgrel led the New Horde against another, leaving the fel orc tribe collapsing on three fronts.

Boss Hu's forces conquered Karabor Temple and confronted the Draenei leaders, while he revealed to Turalyon that he was the man she had loved and had returned to save her. The world of Draenor was nearing destruction, and Socrethar began plotting to secure his own escape and power.

• Soulgrinder Skugrok and two Iron Gorons slaughtered the fleeing fel orcs with cannons, armored fists, and harvested souls.
• Boss Hu descended into Karabor Temple's plaza, where Archbishop Socrethar and Soulbinder Tu'ranni's gathered Draenei faced him.
• Turalyon asked Hu Feng to take back the power he had granted her, condemning his invasion and mourning the man she believed dead.
• Hu Feng told Turalyon that Draenor and its timeline were about to be destroyed, then revealed that he was the man she had known and had returned to save her.
• Turalyon embraced Hu Feng and wept as the onlookers watched, while Socrethar decided to seek the Titan's favor and escape the doomed world.

Azeroth’s allied forces invaded Draenor and divided into factions that raided, enslaved, and captured its inhabitants and resources. Gul'dan and Warchief Blackhand fled toward Frostfire Ridge while the invaders spread across the world.

• Retsen, Kanrethad, and Sinfeir brutalized fel orcs in a village, demanding enslavement contracts and taking their souls.
• Gul'dan and Warchief Blackhand led the remaining fel orc Horde north toward Frostfire Ridge as the invaders looted Nagrand.
• The Iron Horde and New Horde sought fel orcs who could be purified, with Warchief Durotan aiming to recruit them into the New Horde.
• The Night Elves and Highborne headed for the Arakkoa Peaks to seize technology, while the Holy Crusaders of Truth went to Gorgrond to capture Magnaron Giants.
• Supreme Marshal Lothar led the Azeroth Allied Forces on a looting campaign as soldiers stocked up on enslavement contracts and supplies.
• Elemental Lord Ertan led his elemental army and the four Skettis wind dragons toward the Elemental Throne to challenge Draenor’s Elemental Lords.

Boss Hu investigated Prophet Velen’s suspicious death and concluded that Archbishop Socrethar had killed him to seize power and gain Fel Energy. Socrethar signed a slave contract with Sarodar, received divine power and pure Fel Energy, and was ordered to recruit Draenei willing to undergo Fel infusion.

• Boss Hu considered who benefited from Prophet Velen’s death and identified Archbishop Socrethar as the likely killer.
• Boss Hu summoned Socrethar and confronted him with a slave rune contract.
• Socrethar admitted killing Velen to gain power and Fel Energy.
• Socrethar signed the contract, binding his soul to Sarodar in exchange for power.
• Sarodar named Socrethar his Eredar Grand Lord and ordered him to gather Draenei willing to accept Fel Energy infusion.