Chapter Summaries

Cariath Menethil accepted Sarodar’s offer to become a Dawn Knight and founded the Lordaeron Restoration Army on Fenris Isle. She called Lordaeron’s survivors to join her, and they began traveling north to find their queen.

• Cariath gathered Lordaeron refugees on Fenris Isle after killing a Royal Guard captain who sought to rule through her.
• Moved by the survivors’ hardship and their faith in her, Cariath trained to lead and prayed to Sarodar for power.
• Cariath agreed to abandon her faith in the Holy Light and become a Dawn Knight, then secluded herself for half a month.
• Cariath emerged transformed with divine power and ordered everyone to gather in the square.
• Cariath officially established the Lordaeron Restoration Army and raised Lordaeron’s banner on Fenris Isle.
• Lordaeron survivors and warriors answered Cariath’s call and set out northward to find her.

Princess Cariath annihilated a Forsaken force on Fenris Isle with Dawn's Light, making her deeds spark a surge of interest in the Dawn Knights. Sylvanas confronted Boss Hu over his role in the battle, then accepted his explanation about his plans for the Forsaken.

• Princess Cariath pursued the retreating Forsaken across the lake and destroyed them and their boats with her Dawn Judgment.
• The Lordaeron Restoration Army celebrated Cariath's victory, and news of her power spread across the world.
• Grand Duke Bolvar promoted Cariath as an honorary Grand Lord of the Dawn Brotherhood, and applications to become Dawn Knights surged.
• Divine Lord Sarodar issued the Dawn Knights' doctrine, and Dawn Cathedral gave each knight a holy tome that strengthened with faith.
• Sylvanas confronted Boss Hu about Cariath's attack on Varimathras's forces, and he explained his plans for the Forsaken until she reluctantly accepted them.

Princess Cariath’s restoration campaign gained support from the Alliance, the Dawn Brotherhood, and the Stromgarde Restoration Army, while the Forsaken and New Horde declared war on her. The chapter left the Northern Revival Alliance increasingly led by Dawn Knights as Cariath relied on growing numbers of Lordaeron refugees rather than divided paladin orders.

• The Argent Dawn, Fireside Valley, the Alliance, and the Forsaken responded to Princess Cariath’s restoration army, and the Forsaken and New Horde declared war against it.
• Cariath’s envoys met Prince Thoras’s Stromgarde Restoration Army, and the two groups established the Northern Revival Alliance.
• The Argent Dawn and Fireside Valley envoys objected to Cariath’s conversion to Dawn’s Light and offered only limited support, while the Dawn Brotherhood promised troops and priests.
• The Lordaeron Restoration Army accepted the Dawn Brotherhood’s aid, and the Stromgarde Restoration Army followed, making Dawn Knights increasingly prominent in the Northern Revival Alliance.
• The Scarlet Crusade and Argent Dawn tolerated Cariath’s changed faith to preserve their claims as successors to the Silver Hand Knights, while Lordaeron refugees continued joining her army.

Rend Blackhand founded the Orthodox Horde in the Burning Steppes and declared war on the Alliance, provoking the New Horde and drawing both Black Dragon factions into a proxy conflict. Boss Hu reviewed the growing chaos in the Eastern Kingdoms and left the story considering the many factions now at odds.

• Rend Blackhand announced the Orthodox Horde and gathered about a thousand Old Horde extremists to seize the Burning Steppes and invade Stormwind.
• King Varian declared all-out war on the Orthodox Horde, while Onyxia denounced Nefarian and prepared to support Stormwind with her Black Dragons and Dragonkin.
• Thrall and the New Horde declared war on the Orthodox Horde, while the Iron Horde and Grom Hellscream dismissed Rend Blackhand as a threat.
• Orgrim regretted letting the Blackrock clan settle in the Burning Steppes, and Emperor Thaurissan hoped their defeat would let the Dark Iron Dwarves capture Blackrock Spire.
• Boss Hu read a report on the Orthodox Horde and reflected on the tangled factions and conflicts in the Eastern Kingdoms.

Xuen reconsidered Pandaria’s isolation and his duty to awaken Shaohao, then met Hu Feng, whose counsel convinced him to follow his own will. Hu Feng’s projection was expelled by the mists, leaving Xuen resolved to act with unquestioned authority.

• Xuen reflected on Pandaria’s history and concluded that Shaohao must be awakened to unite the Pandaren and prepare them to face the outside world.
• Yu'lon warned Xuen that the Pandaren should choose their own path and that strength alone could not solve every problem.
• Hu Feng arrived on Kun-Lai Summit, and the mists began driving out his Titan projection.
• Hu Feng urged Xuen to value adaptability and hold fast to his convictions rather than let others influence him.
• Hu Feng’s projection dissipated, and Xuen roared from the temple’s highest point with renewed certainty.

Boss Hu traveled back through time with Aeonus while Brox Saurfang was sent ten thousand years into the past. Brox was captured near Black Rook Hold, unaware that he had arrived in the War of the Ancients era.

• Boss Hu learned that Brox Saurfang and a team of Orcs had investigated a temporal disturbance near Azshara, while Krasus and Rhonin had been sent back to the War of the Ancients.
• Boss Hu said farewell to Turalyon, Elisande, Alleria, Sylvanas, Vereesa, and Elune before leaving with Aeonus.
• Brox Saurfang arrived alone near Black Rook Hold after the temporal disturbance killed the rest of his reconnaissance team.
• Night Elf soldiers captured Brox and took him to Black Rook Hold, where he tried to explain that he wanted to reach Suramar and contact the Horde embassy.

Hu Feng traveled back to the eve of the Great Sundering, where he met Krasus and Rhonin before heading to Eldorei to approach Queen Azshara. He planned to speak with her while leaving the Dragon Egg rescue and the others’ mission to their own course.

• Hu Feng arrived in the past alongside Krasus and Rhonin, then told them he would not help with their investigation.
• Krasus gave Hu Feng a record of Blue Dragon Egg storage locations so Hu Feng could save the eggs destined to die.
• Hu Feng reminded Krasus and Rhonin to contact his past self in Suramar and persuade the Highborne to join the Resistance Army.
• Hu Feng toured Eldorei and observed that Queen Azshara was preparing to open the Fel Portal beside The Well of Eternity.
• Hu Feng rented a room in the capital and prepared to contact Queen Azshara, who had previously tried to approach him.

Boss Hu tormented Azshara in a dark illusion after she resisted his orders, then showed her a vision of her future. The chapter ended before the vision was revealed.

• Azshara watched the portal being stabilized and struggled with the news that Sarodar had ordered her to delay its progress and request a demon-summoning spell from Sargeras.
• Azshara resisted Sarodar's commands, so Boss Hu dragged her mind into an illusion and tortured her with darkness and threats about Sargeras.
• Boss Hu summoned Void tendrils to assault Azshara's mind, then resumed the torment when she begged him to stop.
• Boss Hu told Azshara he had a vision of her future, and an image flooded into her dazed mind.

Queen Azshara was marked and tormented by Sarodar, who ordered her to seek god-level demon-summoning and control knowledge from Sargeras. She obtained the knowledge while hiding her true purpose, though Sargeras remained unaware that she acted for the Titan World Soul within Azeroth.

• Azshara awoke from Sarodar’s terrifying vision and ordered Valosen to have Dath'Remar subtly slow the portal’s progress.
• Azshara saw Sarodar’s Eye of Truth on the wall, and its power dragged Vashj into an illusion before Sarodar punished Azshara and warned her to control her Head Maid.
• Sarodar ordered Azshara to ask Sargeras for knowledge of god-level demon summoning and demon control without revealing anything.
• Sargeras dismissed Azshara as a mortal insect but gave her the requested knowledge, unaware that she sought it on behalf of the Titan World Soul hiding in Azeroth.

Queen Azshara received Titan Demon Guards and considered whether to accept Sarodar’s offer to escape her destined transformation into a Naga. She delayed making her choice while hoping Sargeras would still fulfill her dream, as Boss Hu struggled with the growing divisions among the elves.

• Sargoth brought two elite Titan Demon Guards to Queen Azshara and said more warriors and a commander would soon arrive.
• The Eye of Truth praised Azshara’s obedience and showed her a future in which she became a powerful member of the Night Empire, followed by a vision of her transformation into a Naga.
• Azshara considered breaking the dark golden Crystal Ball to create a Shaqi avatar that would bear her dark emotions and cruel fate, but chose to wait and see whether Sargeras would defeat Sarodar.
• Azshara worried that Sarodar’s promised Night Empire would leave her only a minor feudal lord among the Court Elves.
• Boss Hu lamented the many class divisions among the elves and recognized that they were no less divided than the Horde.

As the War of the Ancients unfolded, Hu Feng protected Blue Dragon eggs in Northrend and learned that they would become part of Sathrovarr’s clan. Meanwhile, Krasus, Rhonin, Malfurion, Tyrande, Brox, and Illidan traveled toward Cenarius’s grove, where Brox and Illidan traded insults.

• The Night Elf Resistance Army and Suramar’s Highborne joined forces against the Burning Legion, while the Five Great Dragon Aspects created the Dragon Soul.
• Nozdormu urged Malygos not to lose hope as Neltharion became fixated on the Dragon Soul and heard ancient whispers.
• Hu Feng found a hidden cavern of viable Blue Dragon eggs, protected the eggs with divine magic, and took some to replenish Malygos’s flight in the future.
• Hu Feng realized the eggs would later belong to Sathrovarr’s clan, including an egg carrying Sathrovarr’s male descendant, and gave that egg special protection.
• As the group traveled through Val’sharah, Brox complained about the food, and Rhonin and Illidan provoked him by calling him a Horde pig.
• Brox and Illidan exchanged insults while Krasus watched them helplessly.

Dulin Shinedrill left Ironforge to escape his famous brother Oscar’s shadow, but Deathwing’s Cataclysm swept him into an unexpected encounter with Lucien and Matteck. After Dulin boasted about defeating Deathwing, the two companions told even more extravagant stories of their own victories, leaving Dulin awed by their power.

• Dulin left Ironforge to become a legendary adventurer and make a name for himself apart from Oscar.
• Deathwing’s attack during the Minor Cataclysm tossed Dulin across the Wasted Lands, where he lost consciousness.
• Dulin woke in a tent and boasted to Lucien and Matteck that he had fought Deathwing and driven him away.
• Lucien claimed he had shrunk the world, pulled Deathwing from the sun, and thrown him to Kalimdor.
• Matteck revealed his Saint-tier aura and claimed he had killed Deathwing with a knife after pursuing him on a flying motorcycle.
• Dulin believed Lucien and Matteck were far stronger than he was and realized he still needed more training.

Hu Feng witnessed Brox sacrifice himself to help bring the War of the Ancients to its decisive end, then oversaw Queen Azshara's choice to abandon her fantasies and prepare for a long slumber. He assigned Vashj a future mission alongside Illidan and promised to restore her Night Elf form once it was complete.

• Hu Feng sensed the fallen Titan World Soul Argus and watched Brox mount a Dragon before leaping into the Fel Portal.
• Brox sacrificed himself for Azeroth, earning Illidan's salute and a fist-to-chest salute from Hu Feng.
• Hu Feng urged Queen Azshara to accept the outcome as Malfurion used the Dragon Soul to blast the portal and make its collapse inevitable.
• Queen Azshara smashed her Crystal Ball and endured the painful separation of her negative emotions, which formed Dark Azshara and went to sleep.
• Vashj agreed to accompany Dark Azshara into the sea, and Hu Feng instructed her to gather followers and join Illidan when the time came.

The Great Sundering began as the Burning Legion was expelled and the old world was swallowed by the sea. Boss Hu sealed Queen Azshara in an underground palace to sleep for more than ten thousand years, then left with Aeonus as events continued along history’s course.

• The Well of Eternity erupted, the Burning Legion was forced back to Argus, and Archimonde was sucked through the collapsing portal.
• Vashj witnessed Azshara’s transformation into a naga and became her chief general as the palace flooded.
• Boss Hu brought Queen Azshara into a hidden underground palace stocked with supplies, loyal elves, demon troops, and luxuries.
• Boss Hu told Azshara he would awaken her in about ten thousand years, and she fell into a deep slumber after asking why he had not answered her prayers.
• Boss Hu sealed the underground palace beneath a magically grown tree, then departed with Aeonus as Suramar rose and the Resistance Army withdrew toward Darkshore.

Boss Hu returned from his time-traveling excursion, learned that little had changed, and went to awaken Queen Azshara from her long-preserved sleep. After revealing that the Azshara who sank with the palace had been a sha-energy incarnation, he entered her sleeping hall with his companions.

• Aeonus bowed to Boss Hu and returned to the flow of time, while Elune questioned Boss Hu about his travels and was beaten into silence.
• Elisande told Boss Hu that Vashj had joined Illidan's forces with the Deep Sea Naga, and that no one had found Queen Azshara's underground palace.
• Boss Hu ordered the divine-powered tree in Darkshore transformed, and it awakened as a dark-gold Treant before the palace gates were exposed.
• Sylvanas joined Boss Hu, Elisande, and the others at the underground palace, where Elisande recognized its royal-era decorations.
• Boss Hu told Elisande that the Azshara who had sunk into the sea was a sha-energy scapegoat, then led the group toward the real Queen Azshara's sleeping hall.

Queen Azshara awoke after ten thousand years of sleep and recognized Sarodar, kneeling before him as his former servant. On the way to Eternal Night Palace, she insulted the palace and Sarodar’s wives, leaving the group angered by her arrogance and the ancient elven prejudices she embodied.

• Sylvanas accused Sarodar of flirting with Queen Azshara, and he defended saving her as an exchange for the demonic knowledge she had obtained for him.
• Queen Azshara woke, insulted Sylvanas, then remembered Sarodar and knelt before him in fear.
• Queen Azshara treated Sarodar’s wives with disdain on the journey to Eternal Night Palace, while Elisande and the others formed an alliance against her.
• Queen Azshara called Eternal Night Palace a garbage heap and criticized Sarodar for marrying Sylvanas.
• Sarodar ordered Queen Azshara to apologize to Sylvanas, and Elisande explained that discrimination had been common among elves in the era of the Well of Eternity.

Boss Hu assigned Queen Azshara and the Court Elves of Origin Night to settle in the Azshara region under the Night Empire’s laws and oversight. Queen Azshara accepted while privately planning to win his favor, and the Holy Crusaders of Truth were set to monitor her people.

• Queen Sylvanas, Alleria, and Vereesa warned Boss Hu not to get involved with Queen Azshara, and he assured them he would not.
• Elisande told Boss Hu to handle Queen Azshara carefully before returning to Suramar.
• Queen Azshara entered the private chamber and secretly resolved to earn Boss Hu’s trust and make him fall in love with her.
• Boss Hu ordered Queen Azshara and the Court Elves of Origin Night to settle in the Azshara region as subjects of the Night Empire.
• Boss Hu warned Queen Azshara that disobedience would bring execution and eternal torture, and said the Holy Crusaders of Truth would monitor her people.

Queen Azshara struggled to regain influence after her return, but the Court Elves' arrogance alienated the other elven groups, and the Empire's subjects quickly lost interest in her. During the journey to settle in Azshara, Landus and the Crusaders brutally suppressed a clash with Azshara's royal guards, leaving the queen chained before the prisoners as an execution was ordered.

• Queen Azshara returned with Origin Night, which joined the Night Empire as a fief, while her followers became known as the Court Elves.
• The Court Elves insulted the High Elves and Night Elves, prompting complaints to the Eternal Night Prime Minister Council and renewed calls from the Satyr demons to join the Empire.
• The Eternal Night God-Emperor announced that the elven Queen Azshara and the Naga Queen Azshara were two versions of the same person, explaining that he had changed the former's fate.
• Queen Azshara found that the world showed little interest in her return and that the Night Empire's loyalty centered on God-Emperor Sarodar.
• Landus led the Crusaders in purging Court Elf royal guards after they clashed with them, then had Queen Azshara chained on a platform to witness the aftermath.
• Landus demeaned Queen Azshara and ordered the prisoners executed.

Queen Azshara was forced by Landus and the Crusaders to confess and submit before continuing toward the Azshara region. In Ironforge, Magni Bronzebeard learned that his daughter Moira had eloped with Emperor Thaurissan and was pregnant, then considered a human envoy’s scheme to bring the Dark Iron Dwarves into the Alliance.

• Landus made Queen Azshara kneel and confess her mistakes, and the Origin Night members and Demon Guards were forced to confess as well.
• Landus dragged Queen Azshara to her feet and warned that the new empire’s rules would punish both foolishness and excessive cleverness.
• Magni Bronzebeard learned from Moira’s letter that she and Emperor Thaurissan had fallen in love and eloped.
• Magni tried to persuade Thaurissan to join the Alliance through their marriage, but Thaurissan refused.
• Magni learned that Moira was pregnant and became furious, while Kurden and the human envoy urged him to consider the political opportunity.
• The human envoy shared Lady Onyxia’s plan for Moira to rule as regent after Thaurissan’s death, and Magni decided the scheme could bring the Dark Iron Dwarves into the Alliance.

Boss Hu used Sargeras’s demon-summoning method to forcibly enslave two demons from the Burning Legion. The Eredar Twins arrived in Azeroth as his captives, while Kil’jaeden realized the threat and resolved to warn the Legion.

• Boss Hu activated the summoning array with Gul'dan’s help and sent his will through the Twisting Nether to search for demons.
• Kil'jaeden recognized Sargeras’s summoning method and realized that the mysterious Titan on Azeroth was using it.
• Boss Hu’s will swept through Antorus and selected Queen Saralath and Olesseth, forcibly forming enslavement contracts and pulling them through a Fel Portal.
• Kil'jaeden mourned the loss of the Eredar Twins and worried that the Titan could seize more Legion members, so he decided to spread a warning.
• Boss Hu asked Gul'dan about the method, then told him mortals could not use it without being drained and left incapacitated.