Chapter Summaries

Hekso oversaw the construction of Little Chubby, a gigantic bomb intended to help defend Azeroth against the Void Lord. On Outland, Boss Hu showed the weapon to Sargeras and admitted that Argus was coming to Azeroth, warning that he would kill him if they could not agree.

• Hekso used the Eternal Night God-Emperor's approval to begin building a colossal bomb in The Blasted Lands with Goblin, Draenei, and Highborne specialists.
• The bomb, named Little Chubby, combined Goblin explosives, an Arcane crystal infused with Dawn's Light, divine power, and Azeroth's wrath, alarming factions across Azeroth.
• Boss Hu showed Sargeras a crystal projection of Little Chubby and declared that he would defend Azeroth from harm.
• Sargeras questioned Boss Hu about his influence over Azeroth and warned that Argus, a loyal supporter of Aman'Thul, would not peacefully accept his methods.
• Boss Hu admitted that Argus was on his way to Azeroth and said he would kill him if they could not coexist, then declared his loyalty to himself and Azeroth.

Sarodar and Sargeras discussed their opposing plans to defeat the Void Lords, with Sargeras offering the Burning Legion and Azeroth to persuade his kin to join him. Sarodar remained committed to conquest and technology, though he admitted that Sargeras’s offer and reasoning deeply affected him.

• Adal recognized Sargeras beside Sarodar, while the Resistance Army trusted Sarodar and the Legion’s high-ranking demons celebrated Sargeras’s return.
• Sargeras criticized the Resistance Army’s strength as he and Sarodar surveyed it from the Night Empire’s Giant Floating Island.
• Sarodar defended mortal technology and argued that it could make ordinary soldiers powerful enough to defeat enemies across the universe.
• Sargeras offered Sarodar command of the Burning Legion, ownership of Azeroth, and any resources he needed if he joined the fight against the Void Lords.
• Sarodar admitted that he had come to understand Sargeras and found his offer tempting, but he still believed in conquering worlds and building a Dawn Legion.

Boss Hu and Sargeras negotiated a ten-year truce, with Boss Hu promising to defeat the Burning Legion and prove his convictions. Sargeras revealed that Azeroth had a third possible future as an ally, and the chapter left Boss Hu resolved to protect her.

• Boss Hu invited Sargeras to abandon his convictions and join the Night Empire, but Sargeras refused.
• Sargeras agreed to give Boss Hu ten years to prove himself, demanding that he join the Burning Legion’s cause if he failed.
• Boss Hu promised to lead the Dawn Legion to Argus and destroy the Burning Legion.
• Sargeras explained that Azeroth could become an ally because she favored and depended on Boss Hu, and that she might become an exceptionally powerful Titan.
• Sargeras urged Boss Hu to devour Azeroth and take her power, but Boss Hu refused and affirmed that Azeroth must live.

The Resistance Army fought the Void invasion across Hellfire Peninsula while Boss Hu and Sargeras argued over their past and the battle’s cost. As Dimensius the All-Devouring joined the fighting, Sargeras urged Boss Hu to keep his legion in the battle and accept its losses.

• Sargeras explained basic Titan knowledge and divine-power techniques to Boss Hu, who blamed him for his own lack of education.
• Sargeras confronted Boss Hu over his past dealings with Queen Azshara and the Burning Legion, while Boss Hu mocked him and suggested he fight the Void Lords.
• Void creatures poured into Hellfire Peninsula, and the Resistance Army defended the Dark Portal and Hellfire Citadel while destroying Void rifts.
• Prince Halamed, Kil'jaeden the Deceiver, and Naaru Adal attacked Dimensius the All-Devouring, as another Void Lord emerged nearby.
• Sargeras noticed Boss Hu was preparing to join the battle and told him to hold steady, dismissing the legion’s deaths as insignificant.

Hu Feng and Sargeras joined forces against the Void, with Hu Feng using his power to turn the battle and lure out Void Lord Zazhan. Zazhan appeared to confront him, but a vision showed that she and the other Void Lords would eventually be defeated, leaving her to flee into another world.

• Hu Feng rejected treating the mortal soldiers as expendable and empowered the Resistance Army as its forces counterattacked the Void creatures.
• Hu Feng split the Void against itself, devouring Void creatures while Sargeras agreed to help him draw out and fight a Void Lord.
• Sargeras appeared on Hellfire Peninsula and slaughtered Void creatures while Hu Feng taunted the hidden Void Lord.
• Void Lord Zazhan sent an essence incarnation to confront Hu Feng, intending to kill and corrupt him.
• A vision showed Zazhan that she and the other Void Lords would be defeated, and that she would begin an escape journey to another world.

As the Void War began in Outland, Azeroth’s inhabitants eagerly watched the first broadcasts on the Goblins’ new magical televisions. A live report from the battlefield showed Sarodar fighting and joking with a reporter before a Void Lord emerged, while viewers elsewhere channel-surfed through a variety of programs.

• The Blackrock Syndicate and Bilgewater Cartel released magical televisions, which quickly sold across Azeroth in standard and premium editions.
• A Gnome reporter broadcast live from Outland as the Azeroth Allied Forces battled the Void, then interviewed Sarodar.
• Sarodar promoted Elisande’s magic course while splitting a Void monster, prompting Sargeras to demand that he return to the fight.
• A gigantic Void creature began to emerge, and the reporter’s signal cut out as he fled.
• Azeroth’s viewers switched among programs featuring Varian Wrynn, Durotan, and other guests as the war continued.

The Void Lord’s essence avatar descended on Outland and fought Boss Hu, Sargeras, and Naaru Adal. Boss Hu used Void energy hidden inside his Dawn Divine Power to wound the avatar and drain its essence, but the Void Lord prepared a final attack.

• The Void Lord condensed an essence avatar over Outland and threatened the unborn Titan World Soul.
• Boss Hu struck the avatar and called Sargeras into battle, while Naaru Adal joined them with Holy Light.
• Sargeras attacked with Dark Boiling One as Adal burned away Void tendrils and shielded Boss Hu’s mind.
• Boss Hu and Sargeras flanked the Void Lord, and Adal’s Holy Light helped Boss Hu approach through the corruption.
• Boss Hu struck the avatar with Dawn Divine Power concealing Void energy, then used a Void passage to drain its essence as Sargeras attacked.
• The weakening Void Lord roared and began preparing its ultimate move.

Hu Feng interfered with the Void rift, causing the Void Lord’s summoned power to become the Supreme Salted Fish while absorbing much of the Void essence. The Void Lord tried to kill Hu Feng, but a mysterious scroll whisked his incarnation away, leaving Sargeras to destroy her weakened incarnation as the battle on Outland entered its final stage.

• The Void Lord opened a rift to summon other Void Lords, and Hu Feng interfered with it while absorbing Void essence.
• The Supreme Salted Fish descended through the rift, confusing the Void Lord and the assembled fighters as the other Void Lords disappeared.
• The Void Lord charged Hu Feng with her remaining power, but a bird, peach blossom petals, and a phantom scroll removed his incarnation and broke the Void’s lock on him.
• Sargeras attacked the weakened Void Lord, who warned that the Void would return before her incarnation scattered into Void energy.
• The war between the mortal Resistance Army and the Void creatures entered its final stage.

After helping defeat Dimensius in Outland, Sarodar was transported to Pandaria by Flower Birds Wind Moon and met the August Celestials and Emperor Shaohao. He discussed Sargeras’s ten-year truce and the Pandaren’s eventual return, which depended on restarting the Nalak’sha Engine.

• Kil'jaeden, Naaru Adal, and Prince Halamed defeated Dimensius while the Burning Legion and Mortal Alliance forces cleared the remaining Void creatures from Hellfire Peninsula.
• Flower Birds Wind Moon transported Sarodar from Outland to the Terrace of Eternal Spring, where he reunited with Xuen the White Tiger and met the other August Celestials.
• Sarodar told the Celestials that he and Sargeras had defeated a Void Lord incarnation and that Sargeras had agreed to leave Azeroth alone for ten years.
• The Red Crane asked whether the Night Empire could prepare Azeroth to face the enemy within that time, and Sarodar said Azeroth’s peoples would unite to fight.
• Emperor Shaohao met Sarodar, who showed the Celestials and emperor an illusion of the Night Empire and offered the Pandaren opportunities to establish embassies and exchange teachings.
• Xuen explained that the Pandaren could not yet dispel Pandaria’s mists because the Nalak'sha Engine was charging, and Sarodar offered to help restart it.

Boss Hu negotiated with Sargeras over the return of the Titan’s belongings and Legion commanders, keeping the female Eredar while agreeing to give up several other assets. After the bargain was settled, Sargeras prepared to leave, while Boss Hu sought more succubi for the empire’s bachelors.

• Flower Birds Wind Moon teleported Boss Hu and Xuen the White Tiger to Outland, where Sargeras arrived and declared that the Burning Legion would leave for ten years.
• Sargeras demanded his divine eyes, Kazzak, Zakuun, and the female Eredar, threatening to reveal Boss Hu’s thefts if he refused.
• Boss Hu bargained with Sargeras and ultimately agreed to return everything he demanded except the female Eredar.
• A few days later, Boss Hu returned Sargeras’s divine eyes and released Kazzak and Zakuun, but kept Sargeras’s Titan body in the Tomb of Sargeras.
• Boss Hu joined the eredar sisters, then asked Sargeras to send succubi to the empire and quickly withdrew his request for Felhunters.

The Burning Legion began withdrawing from Outland after failing to destroy the world, though Sargeras’s return made the expedition a success by another measure. As the demons departed, their Felhunters clashed with Boss Hu’s Eredar, while the allied forces held position and Naaru Adal decided to remain in Outland.

• The Burning Legion prepared to withdraw from Outland, leaving the Dark Portal intact after its failed campaign, while Sargeras’s return gave the Legion a major victory of its own.
• Boss Hu and Sargeras watched the Eredar sisters and Tyrant Vihari fight four Felhunter matriarchs, and Boss Hu tried to get Kil'jaeden to lend him a Garrosh Annihilator and its engineer, Gingaros.
• Sargeras refused to hand over the Legion’s war machines and ordered Kil'jaeden to count them to prevent Boss Hu from stealing any.
• The Felhunters disengaged and withdrew through a portal to Antorus as the Eredar sisters traded insults with them, and elven warlords restored order among the allied troops.
• Naaru Adal and the Holy Light Legion stayed in Outland rather than pursue the retreating demons, and Adal decided to remain stationed there by the Dark Portal.

After the Burning Legion withdrew, Outland’s factions divided up their territories and resumed their rivalries. The chapter leaves the Alliance and New Horde facing off across fortified borders in Shadowmoon Valley.

• The Holy Light Legion returned to Shattrath City, while the New Horde, Alliance, Cenarion Circle, Goblins, and ethereals settled into their respective regions of Outland.
• The Resistance Army disbanded without celebrating its victory, and the factions resumed claiming territory after the Burning Legion departed.
• The Alliance built a wall along the border between Shadowmoon Valley and Terokkar Forest, while the New Horde raised a fortress and spiked walls nearby.
• Garrosh Hellscream led New Horde troops beneath the Alliance walls and traded insults with Alliance soldiers, continuing the border clashes.

The New Horde expanded its influence in Blade's Edge Mountain but clashed with the Gnomes, while the Night Empire consolidated control over Hellfire Peninsula. It left Magtheridon imprisoned and tormented by Nightborne scholars, with Elisande keeping the Fel Orcs dependent on the Empire for demon blood.

• The New Horde obtained Void Rays in Blade's Edge Mountain after the Fel Orc clans refused to sell Void Dragon eggs.
• Rexxar led Blade's Edge Mountain's Ogre tribes in expanding Horde territory, and Millhouse Manastorm destroyed part of a Horde checkpoint before escaping.
• The Gnomes left Blade's Edge Mountain and returned to Hellfire Peninsula to look for a site for an engineering outpost.
• The Night Empire demolished Honor Hold and Thrallmar, drove the Fel Orcs from Hellfire Citadel, and forced Velen's Draenei to leave the Temple of Taha'mat.
• The Nightborne scholars subjected Magtheridon to repeated experiments while the Legion mistakenly believed he was dead.
• Elisande ordered the Crusaders to keep supplying demon blood to the Fel Orcs, maintaining the Empire's control over their survival.

Illidan realized that he missed Maiev after she returned to Azeroth, while Maiev struggled with her own feelings and sought advice from Turalyon. Encouraged to follow her heart, Maiev decided to go to Illidan.

• After Maiev left Outland, Illidan felt increasingly lonely and admitted he was reluctant to let her go.
• Maiev returned to Azeroth and buried her unease by overseeing the quiet Watcher prison.
• When the Void War reached Azeroth, Maiev worried about Illidan and questioned why she kept thinking about him.
• Maiev visited Turalyon at the Soulbinder cathedral, where Turalyon advised her to seek Illidan instead of hiding her feelings.
• Maiev thanked Turalyon and left, resolved to act on her feelings.

Anzu the Raven God received legal control of the Auchindoun ruins and the Skettis Arakkoa territory from Boss Hu, while hoping to survive Seth’s curse. Boss Hu and Xuen discussed the fate of Outland and the Pandaren’s return before Maiev Shadowsong and her Watchers arrived through the Dark Portal.

• Anzu worried about Seth’s curse and awaited Boss Hu’s judgment after leading the Sethekk Arakkoa in the Void War.
• Boss Hu granted Anzu and his Arakkoa legal control of the Auchindoun ruins and the Skettis territory in Terokkar Forest.
• Xuen questioned the weakness of Outland’s Wild Demigods, and Boss Hu explained that Anzu was the last one remaining.
• Boss Hu told Xuen to choose a place in Azeroth for a shrine or temple where the returning Pandaren vanguard could settle.
• Maiev Shadowsong rode a Hippogryph through the Dark Portal toward Shadowmoon Valley, followed by another group of Watchers.

After Maiev Shadowsong left the Night Empire with her followers to find Illidan Stormrage, Elisande stripped her of her position, but Boss Hu intervened and ensured the Watchers would not be punished. The chapter ended with Deathwing fleeing through the Dark Portal, apparently escaping Alexstrasza, as Boss Hu called out to him.

• Elisande stripped Maiev Shadowsong of her authority and declared the Watchers who left with her rebels, but Vivianka conveyed Boss Hu's ruling that they should be left alone.
• Elisande appointed Cordana Shadowsong to command the Watchers, while Cordana struggled over how to judge Maiev's departure.
• Boss Hu ordered Maiev's departure treated as a voluntary withdrawal and imposed a one-gold-coin fine, which Elisande sent to him.
• Boss Hu explained Illidan Stormrage's devotion to Xuen the White Tiger and defended him as someone who had sacrificed himself for his people and loved ones.
• Deathwing burst through the Dark Portal carrying his belongings and shouted that he had escaped Alexstrasza, and Boss Hu called him over.

Deathwing fled Azeroth for Outland after Alexstrasza repeatedly destroyed his experiments while trying to save him. His escape triggered catastrophic waves that wrecked ships across the seas, and Boss Hu directed him toward Netherstorm.

• Deathwing blamed Boss Hu for revealing his hiding place to Alexstrasza and demanded compensation.
• Alexstrasza repeatedly burned Deathwing's experiments as she urged him to return to Wyrmrest Temple and accept help.
• Deathwing packed his laboratory and flew from the Maelstrom toward the Dark Portal, triggering tsunamis and tornadoes that wrecked ships and fleets across Azeroth.
• In Hellfire Peninsula, Xuen criticized Deathwing, who threatened him before Boss Hu calmed Deathwing and sent him toward Netherstorm.
• Boss Hu activated Path of the Celestial as Deathwing flew away with his belongings.

Naaru Adal watched the Holy Light Legion lose its remaining Tempest Keep ships to the Blood Elves, the Alliance, and finally Deathwing. After learning that Deathwing was a notorious world-destroying mad Dragon, the Legion gave up trying to reclaim the Botanica, leaving its fleet completely carved up.

• Naaru Adal lamented that the Burning Legion, the Blood Elves, and the Alliance had taken the Holy Light Legion's Tempest Keep ships.
• The Alliance used a staged demon-clearing operation in the Shadow Labyrinth to keep control of the prison ship and drive the Holy Light Legion soldiers away.
• Deathwing and his dragon descendants occupied the Botanica, and Deathwing declared that all living things in Outland would submit to him.
• The Holy Light Legion asked the Azeroth Allied Forces about Deathwing and learned he was a powerful, notorious world-destroying mad Dragon.
• Naaru Adal's fleet was declared completely carved up, and the Azerothian robbers celebrated.

Deathwing established a laboratory in Outland, drawing Dragon Worshippers and the Holy Light Legion into a growing conflict near Netherstorm. The chapter also described how the Alliance had divided into three political blocs, while the Horde remained united under Thrall.

• Deathwing converted Botanica into the Destroyer's Laboratory and sent his Black Dragonflight to capture creatures for his experiments.
• The Dragon Worshippers reunited with Deathwing, established a nearby stronghold, and took the name the Destroyer's Dragon Worshippers.
• Shattrath City's army marched into Netherstorm to confront the Dragon Worshippers, while Velen's Draenei sought territory nearby and the Blood Elf Dawn Knights watched from their Mana Forges.
• The chapter described the Alliance's elf, human, and Holy Light factions, along with the Lordaeron Restoration Army's ties to the Night Empire and Tauren.
• The Horde was described as more united than the Alliance, with its members supporting Warchief Thrall.

Boss Hu discussed the naaru’s virtues and dangers with the White Tiger, then Illidan reunited with Maiev at the Black Temple. Maiev chose to remain in Outland to watch over Illidan, who realized he had found something more precious than his old devotion to Tyrande.

• Boss Hu explained that Adal and the naaru aided anyone in need, but warned that naaru could turn into Void Entropy Demons when their Holy Light was exhausted.
• The White Tiger agreed that naaru were uncertain allies, and Boss Hu revealed he had captured two of them for experiments at the Tower of Slumber.
• Illidan returned to the Black Temple after slaughtering demons and realized the flower he had preserved as a symbol of Tyrande’s memory had withered.
• Maiev approached Illidan with a Vengeful Spirit’s attack, and he blocked her strike with his Warglaives.
• Maiev said she would stay in Outland to supervise Illidan, and he accepted her presence while warning her of the dangers ahead.