Chapter Summaries

Hu Feng exposed Loken’s attempt to deceive him, captured the Keeper for research, and entered Ulduar’s antechamber to seek a lesser Titan. Yogg-Saron retreated toward his prison as Hu Feng reached the Hall of Observation.

• The Goblin engineers found and shut down the Flame Beast’s power core, and Hu Feng told Blackrock that Mimiron would establish an engineering research department in the Night Empire.
• Loken claimed that Yogg-Saron had corrupted the other Keepers and that he had come to report Ulduar’s crisis, but Hu Feng recognized his deception and pinned him down with a divine spear.
• Hu Feng ordered Loken taken to the Tower of Slumber so Nightborne scholars could study his Keeper power essence for the Iron Maiden Plan.
• Hu Feng sensed Yogg-Saron’s power weakening and detected a lesser Titan scanning Azeroth, then ordered his forces to attack a Proto-Dragon and flew toward the antechamber.
• Hu Feng destroyed XT-002 Deconstructor with Azeroth’s Vengeance and ordered his forces to preserve its body for research.
• Hu Feng entered the antechamber, melted the Iron Golems and Tinkers that attacked him, and reached the doors of the Hall of Observation.

Algalon judged Azeroth severely corrupted and sent an emergency request to the Pantheon for a second reformatting, despite Boss Hu’s warning. Boss Hu insisted Azeroth was safe under his protection, and Elune appeared as Algalon’s message sped into the universe.

• Algalon scanned Azeroth and found widespread corruption, malfunctioning Titan facilities, missing C'Thun, hidden N'Zoth, and an unusually retreating Yogg-Saron.
• Boss Hu entered Ulduar’s Hall of Observation, and Algalon discovered that the unfamiliar Titan World Soul contained both Fel Energy and pure divine power.
• Boss Hu told Algalon not to contact the Pantheon and claimed Azeroth had no problems, but Algalon refused and requested a second reformatting and an examination of Boss Hu.
• Algalon transmitted an Alpha-level emergency assessment and reported the unfamiliar Father God to the Pantheon.
• Elune appeared beside Boss Hu, who told her that Algalon had asked the Pantheon to reformat her planet egg.

Algalon learned that Azeroth had awakened and strongly distrusted the Pantheon, while Boss Hu dismissed any plan to rescue its imprisoned members. At Antorus, Sargeras ordered Kil'jaeden to find the last missing Pantheon Titans and demanded that the Felhunter matriarchs prove they could twist Titan souls.

• Algalon recognized Azeroth as the World Soul within the planet and was shocked that she had recovered from the wound left by Y'Shaarj's removal.
• Azeroth called the Pantheon bad and declared that Sarodar would help her punish them and the Void Lords.
• Boss Hu told Algalon to leave and report back, then judged the Pantheon unworthy of rescue because its remaining Titans would either die or be controlled.
• Kil'jaeden reported to Sargeras that the Burning Legion had not found Eonar, and Sargeras demanded that he locate her and Aggramar.
• The four Felhunter matriarchs pledged to prove their worth by twisting Titan souls.

News of Kael'thas's engagement to Anveena spread across Azeroth, drawing reporters to Silvermoon and turning their private ceremony into a public spectacle. Across the world, characters watched broadcasts that revealed how thoroughly entertainment and information had become integrated.

• Kael'thas announced his engagement to Anveena, and the High Elves celebrated despite giving up on restoring the Sunwell.
• Reporters and livestreamers crowded Silvermoon to question Kael'thas, who blasted a Rogue after he asked an intrusive question about Anveena.
• Thrall watched the engagement coverage before Taresa made him switch channels to programs featuring Durotan, Varian, and the Blackrock Syndicate's Murlocs.
• Grom Hellscream and Illidan reacted angrily to Murloc Benboerba impersonating them, while Maiev stopped Illidan from leaving to confront the Goblins.

While the battle for Razorscale raged outside Ulduar, Algalon chose to return to the Pantheon’s ruins and agreed to recruit surviving lesser Titans for Sarodar’s cause. After Algalon departed, Sarodar set out to capture the mad guardians for experimentation rather than execute them.

• Jaina’s Dalaran Mage Corps and the Night Elf Border Guard held Forge-Master Ignis’s army back from Razorscale’s platform.
• Algalon decided to search Ulduar for relics, then return to the World of Azeroth and join Sarodar and Father Azeroth against Sargeras and the Burning Legion.
• Sarodar asked Algalon to contact surviving lesser Titans and invite them to join a New Pantheon; Algalon agreed and departed for the cosmos.
• Elune returned to the planetary core to continue practicing her divine power after Sarodar reminded her about her daily training.
• Sarodar located the Iron Council and hurried toward the three guardians, intending to use them as volunteer test subjects.

Loken watched Nightborne scholars conduct soul experiments on prisoners in the Tower of Slumber and concluded that Sarodar planned to overthrow the Pantheon and replace its old creations. The chapter ended with the Proto Iron Maiden awaiting an artificial soul, the final element needed to activate the New Pantheon’s first new-generation lesser Titan and High Guardian.

• Loken remained bound in the Soul Core Laboratory as Nightborne scholars studied prisoners, including two cooperative naaru who had become volunteers.
• The scholars forcibly extracted part of Loken’s soul essence, and Loken realized that prisoners were being used for soul research.
• Inquisitor Auriel delivered Runemaster Morgoth and Thundercaller Brondir to the laboratory as fresh test subjects.
• Seeing Ulduar’s Iron Council members, Loken concluded that Sarodar intended to replace the Pantheon’s old Guardians and lesser Titans with creations loyal to himself.
• The chapter revealed the Proto Iron Maiden, a powerful steel construct designed for the New Pantheon, which awaited an artificial soul before activation.

Sylvanas ended her confinement and returned to command the Forsaken, ordering them to join the Northern Expedition in Icecrown Glacier. Their arrival shifted the air battle in the Horde’s favor as fighting spread across the glacier, with the coalition preparing to clear the Scourge strongholds before attacking Icecrown Citadel.

• Sylvanas left the Eternal Night Palace, forced a Crusader mage to open a portal, and returned to Naxxramas.
• Kel'Thuzad briefed Sylvanas on the Northern Expedition, and she ordered all Forsaken forces to advance into Icecrown Glacier.
• Sylvanas decided to keep a Crusader adviser, but Kel'Thuzad protested the Crusaders’ killings and she sent him to deliver the advance order.
• The Forsaken fleet led by Naxxramas joined the battle and relieved pressure on the Horde’s western front, turning the air war against the Scourge.
• Saurfang and General Nazgrim rallied survivors near Ymirheim, while Alliance, Horde, and adventurers attacked Scourge strongholds across Icecrown Glacier.

As the Northern Expeditionary Allied Army prepared to attack Icecrown Citadel, battles against the Scourge intensified across Northrend. Adventurers and smugglers also took advantage of the campaign, turning Howling Fjord into a hunting ground and Scalawag Point into a thriving black market.

• Grand Lord Tirion Fording established the Argent Crusade’s camp near Icecrown Citadel and organized the Crusader’s Trial to select elite vanguards for the assault.
• Dragonkin forces breached Azjol-Nerub and fought the Undead Nerubians in brutal underground battles.
• Druids and Bearman tribes counterattacked the Frost Trolls and Undead Trolls in Grizzly Hills, while Zul'Drak’s Frost Trolls gathered survivors and drained power from their Animal Loa gods.
• The garrison in Howling Fjord recruited adventurers to hunt Vrykul and Undead Vrykul, while Goblin vendors followed the campaign to sell supplies.
• Scalawag Point’s smugglers traded Northrend goods and biological slaves, hoping the Lich King’s defeat would open the region to wider commerce.

Hu Feng fought through Ulduar’s inner hall and found Yogg-Saron retreating into his prison. He left the Old God alone for the moment and headed toward one of the guardians’ corridors.

• Hu Feng killed High Guardian Kologarn and continued from Ulduar’s antechamber into the inner hall.
• Guardian Auria charged Hu Feng with two panthers, but he disabled the beasts, bound Auria with divine power, and ordered the Crusaders to take her away alive.
• Hu Feng learned that Forge-Master Ignis was nearly defeated outside while Crusaders guarded the deactivated XT-002 Deconstructor from the Goblin engineers.
• Hu Feng looked down into the sealing prison and saw Yogg-Saron retreating, then left without approaching him further.
• Yogg-Saron resumed burrowing deeper underground after Hu Feng departed.

Boss Hu reached Spark of Thought and encountered the mad Keeper Mimiron, whose workshop was producing war machines. After Boss Hu triggered the facility’s self-destruct countdown, Mimiron ignored the danger and began testing his Flame Beast II against him.

• Boss Hu rode a rail train through Ulduar to Spark of Thought, where assembly lines were mass-producing robots and bombs.
• Mimiron recognized Boss Hu and complained that Cthulhu and Yogg-Saron were constantly bothering him.
• Boss Hu pressed a large red button, starting a ten-minute self-destruct countdown, and argued with Mimiron over who was to blame.
• Mimiron introduced the Flame Beast II and charged at Boss Hu with missiles and machine-gun fire.
• Boss Hu restrained his power and stopped the Flame Beast II with his divine shield, after which Mimiron inspected its minor damage and demanded another test.

Boss Hu exposed Mimiron's act of madness and recruited him to help rebuild the Pantheon with new war machines. Mimiron agreed to move his workshop and technology to the Tower of Slumber.

• Mimiron unveiled VX-001 and Mimiron's Head, but Boss Hu destroyed the helicopter-headed machine and confronted him about pretending to be insane.
• Mimiron dropped his act, then admitted his self-destruct device was under control; Boss Hu beat him until he behaved.
• Boss Hu told Mimiron that Sargeras had destroyed the Pantheon and that he needed Mimiron's engineering skills to rebuild it.
• Mimiron agreed to develop war machines for the New Pantheon and asked for a larger laboratory.
• Boss Hu ordered Mimiron to pack up his equipment and production lines and report to the Tower of Slumber.

Boss Hu welcomed Mimiron's departure and planned to use his new research department to push Blackrock back toward military innovation. After learning that Avenger Argus was nearing Azeroth, Boss Hu feared they would become enemies and decided to contact Sargeras for help.

• Boss Hu reflected that Mimiron's research department could challenge the Blackrock Syndicate and pressure Blackrock to resume developing war machines.
• Titan Argus contacted Boss Hu and said he would reach Azeroth's star system in a few cosmic months.
• After Argus signed off, Boss Hu worried that Argus's devotion to order would make him view Boss Hu as a fallen Titan and fight him.
• Boss Hu decided he needed to prepare for a confrontation without putting the still-growing Azeroth in danger.
• Boss Hu chose to contact Sargeras, believing the former enemy might become his ally.

Boss Hu asked Sargeras how to deal with Aggramar and learned a forbidden method for accelerating his birth by absorbing the essence of other Titan World Souls. Sargeras gave him the coordinates of a Void-corrupted World Soul and agreed to travel with him to destroy it.

• Boss Hu contacted Sargeras, who finished cleaving a planet apart before hearing him out.
• Boss Hu asked for Aggramar's weaknesses, but Sargeras said Aggramar could only be defeated through superior strength.
• Sargeras revealed a forbidden method that would accelerate Boss Hu's birth by devouring and refining the essence of other planetary cores, preferably those of Titan World Souls.
• Boss Hu refused to harm Azeroth, and Sargeras gave him coordinates to a Titan World Soul more than halfway corrupted by the Void Lords.
• Sargeras agreed to accompany Boss Hu, who asked him to take him to the corrupted World Soul.

Boss Hu advanced through Ulduar toward Yogg-Saron’s sealed prison while studying Sargeras’s method for refining divine essence. He reached the Maddening Core as Dar'k'vis and Cthulhu kept Yogg-Saron’s champion occupied.

• Boss Hu returned to Ulduar’s inner hall, where the Night Elf Border Guard and Dalaran Mage Corps had established defenses against the remaining mad Keepers.
• Boss Hu spoke briefly with Jaina, then entered the ruined Descent into Madness corridor leading to Yogg-Saron’s prison.
• Boss Hu summoned General Dar'k'vis and ordered him to attack the Faceless Ones and Twilight cultists guarding the corridor.
• Dar'k'vis battled General Vezax, and Cthulhu empowered Dar'k'vis with six tentacles after Boss Hu remarked that the champions were evenly matched.
• Boss Hu told Dar'k'vis to cripple Vezax without killing him, then descended the stairs and reached the Maddening Core.

Hu Feng confronted the freed Yogg-Saron in Ulduar and offered him amnesty in exchange for serving Azeroth. In the Barrens, King Saurfang found an Orc patrol slaughtered by Night Warriors and hurried to warn Thrall before the incident sparked a wider conflict.

• Hu Feng watched Yogg-Saron retreat into his prison and pretend to be dead, then stabbed the exposed flesh with Azeroth's Vengeance.
• Yogg-Saron revived when Hu Feng offered amnesty and agreed to hear his terms for surrender.
• Hu Feng planned to recruit Yogg-Saron alongside Cthulhu to monitor the other Old Gods and support Azeroth.
• King Saurfang found an Orc patrol killed by Night Warriors who had carved bloody eye symbols into the warriors' chests.
• King Saurfang ordered his soldiers to return to Orgrimmar so he could report to Thrall before Garrosh's radicals escalated the incident.

Boss Hu fused the Beast of a Thousand Throats with Yogg-Saron, freed Yogg-Saron from the Void Lords’ control, and bound him to Titan Sarodar. Yogg-Saron reclaimed Ulduar and began working with Cthulhu to monitor Azeroth for other Old Gods.

• Boss Hu teleported the Beast of a Thousand Throats into Ulduar and fused it with Yogg-Saron while inscribing enslavement runes in Yogg-Saron’s mind.
• Yogg-Saron was reborn under Titan Sarodar’s control, and his power restored Ulduar while transforming its halls with flesh and tentacles.
• Yogg-Saron’s tentacles hurled the trapped soldiers, mages, Keepers, and steel constructs into the plaza, where his madness overwhelmed many of them.
• Jaina recognized that the Dalaran mages who flew back into Ulduar were likely Twilight cultists seeking to rejoin Yogg-Saron.
• Boss Hu ordered Yogg-Saron to help Cthulhu monitor Azeroth and forbade him from draining the planet’s essence.

The Argent Tournament coalition prepared for the coming assault on Icecrown Citadel as the Alliance and Horde planned to support Sylvanas as the next Lich King. After Ulduar, Sarodar announced he would return to Planet Sarodar to accelerate the hatching of his Titan form, while Azeroth’s major factions advanced plans for spaceflight technology.

• News of the victory at Ulduar lifted the Northern Expedition coalition’s morale, and the lifting of the Saronite ban brought the ore into widespread use.
• Faceless Ones emerged from a northern Saronite mine and attacked Utgarde Keep, turning it into a fortress of tentacles and fanged maws.
• Adventurers and soldiers gathered at the Argent Tournament Grounds to attempt Champion’s Trials ahead of the Grand Crusader’s Trial.
• The Alliance and Horde prepared to back Sylvanas as the new Lich King after the Lich King’s defeat, despite Tirion Fording’s likely opposition.
• Sarodar announced that he would return to his planetary egg to accelerate the hatching of his Titan form.
• The Night Empire, Alliance, and Horde pursued spacecraft research, while poorer factions struggled to fund their own projects.

Radicals from the fixed-destiny timeline sparked conflict between the Night Empire and the Horde, forcing their leaders to negotiate at Thunder Bluff. As the fixed-destiny timeline neared fusion with the Sarodar timeline, Deathwing accepted N'Zoth’s invitation to join with him.

• Night Warriors and Horde radicals launched attacks across Ashenvale and The Barrens, defying orders from their leaders and deepening factional tensions.
• Thrall sent King Saurfang to retrieve the Horde infiltrators, while Elisande dispatched the Crusaders to find and punish the Night Warriors; Jarod Shadowsong sealed the Night Elf Great Wall.
• Tauren mediators hosted Night Empire and Horde leaders at Thunder Bluff to address the radicals and prevent their conflict from spreading.
• The fixed-destiny timeline began withering toward fusion with the Sarodar timeline, while Sarodar’s Infinite Dragons disrupted history to hasten its collapse.
• Deathwing sensed that his world was about to be erased and agreed to N'Zoth’s proposal to join him in the depths of the Endless Sea.

Oscar arrived at the Argent Tournament camp, where his crude flirting got him struck by Palthris and a ruined soup earned him the anger of Old Chen. After winning Palthris a seat at Benboerba’s show and her agreement to dinner, Oscar began telling her an adventure story as the Northern Expedition enjoyed a brief respite.

• Oscar arrived at the Argent Tournament and publicly slapped Palthris on the butt while trying to flirt with her, so she blasted him with Holy Light.
• Old Chen grabbed Oscar and demanded payment after Oscar and Mr. Fat Worm ruined his pot of soup.
• Tirion promised Palthris he would speak seriously with Oscar, but Palthris hurried off to watch Benboerba’s performance.
• Oscar offered Palthris a seat at the show, and she accepted his dinner invitation so she could focus on the performance.
• Oscar and Palthris shared Thunder Ale at the Central Grand Tavern, where Oscar began telling her about his past adventure with Dust Maker.

Oscar Flashdiamond passed the Argent Tournament’s first Champion’s Trial and fought through the second, but a Black Knight’s interruption led him into a deadly battle. After Oscar defeated the intruder, Palthris sent him flying with Holy Light.

• Oscar rode Mr. Fat Worm into the arena and defeated three Horde champions by unseating them from their mounts.
• Oscar and Mr. Fat Worm overcame the Argent Crusade soldiers in the second trial, and Oscar prepared to face Palthris.
• A Black Knight interrupted the trial and challenged the Argent Crusade, so Oscar declared that the intruder would be his trial.
• Oscar used death-frost and Shadow abilities to destroy the Black Knight, including his spirit form.
• Oscar resumed flirting with Palthris, who blasted him away with Holy Light.