Chapter Summaries

Avenger Argus arrived at the Frozen Throne and demanded the Howling Fjord to establish a peaceful refuge for weak races. Sylvanas agreed to hand over the region and withdraw the Scourge Legion after apparently consulting Sarodar.

• Sylvanas’s campaign left fewer than one in ten Vrykul alive, and the Scourge took Utgarde Keep as its stronghold.
• Argus arrived at the Frozen Throne and told Sylvanas that Sarodar had given him one million gold coins to fund his plans.
• Argus explained that he wanted to shelter weak races and establish a land of peace and order in the Howling Fjord.
• Argus criticized Sarodar as a champion of powerful races while declaring that he would protect those they ignored.
• Sylvanas consulted through a mental link, agreed to give Argus the Howling Fjord, and ordered the Scourge Legion to withdraw.

Argus established Sanctuary in Howling Fjord to shelter weak races and build a new order, with Murlocs and Vrykul settling under his protection. Sanctuary began transforming Utgarde Keep into a city and Titan facility as donations poured in, though Goblin financial magnates doubted its prospects.

• News spread that Argus had claimed Howling Fjord and founded Sanctuary to protect peace-loving weak races.
• Argus created a dozen War Angels to serve as Sanctuary’s guardians and led steel constructs in rebuilding Utgarde Keep.
• Murlocs and Vrykul sought refuge in Sanctuary, and Argus incorporated the Vrykul into its military.
• Sarodar funded Sanctuary’s million-gold startup costs, while paladin groups, human nobles, the Dawn Knights, and major factions sent donations.
• Goblin financial magnates remained skeptical of Sanctuary’s economy and offered only symbolic donations.

Boss Hu and Blackrock discussed Argus’s new Sanctuary and decided to support it so Argus would remain occupied and the Night Empire could gain influence over its economy. The Sanctuary would operate under its own leaders while depending on the Empire, leaving Argus at a distance from Kalimdor’s central powers.

• Boss Hu asked Blackrock to assess Argus’s Sanctuary, and Blackrock called Argus’s vision naive but backed by his immense power.
• Boss Hu ordered Blackrock to support the Sanctuary with money and resources to keep Argus focused on it and away from the Night Empire.
• Blackrock agreed to issue a favorable assessment and move the Blackrock Syndicate into the Sanctuary’s economy.
• Boss Hu recognized that Argus had chosen independent joint governance to help disadvantaged races without joining the Alliance-Horde interest group.
• Boss Hu accepted the Sanctuary as a potential affiliated organization that could contribute labor and resources while improving the Empire’s reputation.

Queen Azshara visited the Tower of Slumber to secure places in the Ascension of the Chosen program and weighed her growing political challenges. She ordered Vashj to investigate Elisande and prepare to negotiate with Blackrock, then reached the department entrance, where two Chosen Zealots demanded authorization.

• Queen Azshara complained about the walk as the Court Elf captain led her and Vashj through the Tower of Slumber toward the Ascension of the Chosen department.
• Azshara asked Vashj about Elisande's response to their seizure of places in the new Ascension batch, and ordered her to keep investigating.
• Vashj told Azshara that Titan Sarodar was meeting Goblin leader Blackrock in the Eternal Night Palace.
• Azshara acknowledged that the Blackrock Syndicate had damaged the Azshara region and ordered Vashj to invite Blackrock to discuss cooperation.
• Two Chosen Zealots blocked Azshara's party at the department entrance and demanded pass authorization.

Queen Azshara learned that the Court Elves’ ascension would be restricted and supervised, then oversaw the creation of their distinctive Chosen forces and hierarchical Chain of Ascension psychic network. The Court Elves rejoined the Empire’s mainstream, though Crusader Inquisitors retained access to monitor their network.

• Landus told Queen Azshara that Court Elf ascendants could not become Firstborn of the Gods and would be monitored through the psychic network.
• Tyrant Vihari taunted Queen Azshara as she toured the Crusader facilities, while Queen Azshara accepted the Court Elves’ limited place in the Ascension of the Chosen.
• The first Court Elf Chosen Ones completed ascension, adopting black armor, crimson energy, and specialized forms distinct from the Crusaders’ forces.
• Queen Azshara established an independent pyramid-shaped psychic network, with herself at its peak and advancement below her determined by defeating those above.
• Crusader Inquisitors kept the authority to enter and monitor the Court Elf network, despite Queen Azshara’s protest.

Elena joined Berlin’s child defenders after refusing to flee, and she swore revenge when the bombing killed her parents. Meanwhile, the Black Cross Division withdrew toward the Alps as Sargeras chose the same blue planet as his first target, sensing that his planned destruction would not be straightforward.

• Elena defied her parents and joined a group of boys and girls defending a ruined Berlin intersection with an 88mm gun.
• Elena killed a man fleeing Berlin for betraying his convictions, then learned that her parents had died in a bombing and vowed revenge on the Soviets.
• A million Soviet troops encircled Berlin as the SS and engineers began destroying weapons at the Kummersdorf proving ground, leaving the engine-less Maus II untouched for the moment.
• The Black Cross Division withdrew from Greater Berlin toward a secret Alpine bunker, and Aletoya arrived to ask the young man whether he was ready to return to the future.
• Sargeras selected the blue planet as his first target and prepared to make Sarodar understand his beliefs, though visions made him suspect the journey would not go as planned.

Boss Hu discovered that Sargeras planned to destroy the Solar System and persuaded him to spare it, then took him to Earth after finding something unusual about its timeline. The two disguised themselves and descended into a war-torn Europe for what Boss Hu called an entertainment carnival.

• Boss Hu joined Sargeras aboard a Fel warship and realized their destination was the Solar System.
• Boss Hu urged Sargeras to spare the Solar System, but Sargeras reminded him that he had granted Azeroth ten years before resuming his destruction plan.
• After scanning Earth and discovering something interesting about its timeline, Boss Hu changed his attitude and persuaded Sargeras to visit the planet.
• Boss Hu created an MP-40 with seemingly endless ammunition and instructed Sargeras to disguise himself as a human.
• Boss Hu selected a landing site in Europe, and the two descended through the atmosphere as war raged below.

A black-haired young man and Aletoya concealed the Black Cross Division’s bunker before leaving the past, while Red Tide’s forces prepared to return to their parallel world. At Kummersdorf, Boss Hu and another armored officer cleared the SS guards and confronted an engineer beside the Maus II.

• The black-haired young man and Aletoya sealed the bunker, sensed two Titans in Germany, and left the era.
• Soviet forces advanced on Berlin in overwhelming numbers as the Battle of Berlin approached.
• Red Tide received production data, prepared to return with his soldiers, and warned a captured demon to tell Stanley to keep Hell’s forces away.
• Boss Hu and another German armored officer killed the SS guards at Kummersdorf and found an engineer beside the Maus II.
• Boss Hu told the engineer to put down the bomb and not harm his Maus II.

Boss Hu modified a Pz.Kpfw. 38 with a 150mm cannon and set off toward Berlin, where Soviet forces had begun their final assault. In the ruins, Elena was left alone after her young defenders were killed and prepared to face the advancing Soviet troops.

• Boss Hu replaced the Pz.Kpfw. 38's 128mm gun with a 150mm cannon, powered it with a divine-energy crystal, painted it black, and headed toward the battlefield with Sargeras.
• The Soviet Red Army encircled Berlin and began its final assault as German forces sent civilians and children to defend the city.
• Elena and her young companions used an 88mm cannon to destroy an advancing IS-2 tank, then shot its surviving crew.
• After Elena's group ran out of shells, she and the others fought Soviet troops with rifles as another IS-2 approached.
• The Soviet tank destroyed the 88mm cannon and Elena's companions, leaving Elena alone as Soviet soldiers advanced.

Boss Hu and Sargeras rescued Elena from Soviet troops with their supernatural Pz.Kpfw. 38 and took her aboard as they continued across Greater Berlin. Elena challenged Sargeras and questioned whether they were gods, while the tank headed southeast toward Bavaria.

• As Elena prepared to shoot herself, Boss Hu and Sargeras burst into the intersection in their Pz.Kpfw. 38 and blasted the Soviet troops and an IS-2 tank.
• Boss Hu invited Elena aboard, and she said her family was dead before joining them on the tank.
• Elena argued with Sargeras over whether fighting for her beliefs was foolish, repeatedly provoking his anger.
• Elena questioned whether Boss Hu and Sargeras were gods, pointing out the tank's impossible speed and endless ammunition.
• Boss Hu drove the Pz.Kpfw. 38 through Greater Berlin toward Bavaria, where their journey would end and begin.

The black Pz.Kpfw. 38 terrorized Soviet and Allied forces around Berlin before breaking out and disappearing, leaving its impossible speed and origins a mystery to the public. Inside the tank, Elena and Sargeras argued over their route to Bavaria, and Elena shot Sargeras before confronting him with an MP-40.

• The Allied and Soviet forces investigated the black Pz.Kpfw. 38 and failed to explain its extraordinary combat power and speed.
• The black tank destroyed Soviet units and Allied tanks, then broke out of Greater Berlin and vanished.
• Decades later, hidden groups uncovered the truth behind the ghost tank and traced the demon's origins.
• Elena told Sargeras that he had taken the tank the wrong way and demanded control as they headed toward Bavaria.
• Elena shot Sargeras with divine-power bullets, then drew an MP-40 when he turned on her.

Elena, Boss Hu, and Sargeras witnessed Germany’s surrender before reaching Bavaria, where Boss Hu built Elena a home and garden. Boss Hu returned to Azeroth, while Sargeras chose to stay with Elena for a while.

• By the fire, Elena challenged Sargeras’s contempt for mortals and shared how she had fought for her beliefs after losing her parents.
• After Soviet troops raised the red flag over the Reichstag on April 29, Germany surrendered on May 9, ending World War II.
• In Bavaria, Elena decorated the black Pz.Kpfw. 38 with wildflowers as it traveled through the peaceful countryside.
• Boss Hu used divine power to build Elena a wooden house and flower garden, then told her he and Sargeras had to leave Earth.
• Sargeras said he would stay in Bavaria with Elena, while Boss Hu departed for Azeroth aboard the Fel warship with the tank.

Boss Hu oversaw disputes between the Alliance and Horde as the Pandaren and other powers expanded their influence and secured Azerite deposits. King Saurfang arranged for Zandalar to store its Azerite rather than send it to Orgrimmar, exposing the Horde’s internal division as Princess Talanji struggled to reform her council.

• Boss Hu handled accumulated decrees and heard routine complaints about Alliance and Horde territorial disputes.
• Pandaren became a mainstream people, and interest in their martial arts drew outsiders to train as Monks at the White Tiger Temple.
• The Pandaren discovered an Azerite deposit in the Krasarang Wilds, while Kul Tiras and Zandalar also found veins on their islands.
• Alliance diplomats asked Aegwynn to lower the price of Kul Tiras’s Azerite, while King Saurfang negotiated with King Rastakhan and Princess Talanji over Zandalar’s supply.
• King Saurfang ordered Zandalar to store its Azerite instead of transporting it to Orgrimmar, and the Zandalari ministers accepted his authority.
• King Saurfang urged Princess Talanji to replace the Zanchuli Council, but she could not risk a purge while Zandalar was still recovering from Zul’s betrayal.

Princess Talanji and King Saurfang agreed to keep Zandalar’s Azerite in Zandalar and block Bilgewater Cartel miners while Garrosh’s political opponents maneuvered against him. The Tauren ambassador and Fandral Staghelm asked Aegwynn to help the Alliance impose a blockade that would undermine Orgrimmar’s prosperity.

• Princess Talanji told King Saurfang that Zandalar would withhold its Azerite and prevent Bilgewater Cartel Goblins from entering.
• Garrosh learned that Zandalar could not deliver Azerite and responded to Alliance mining on the islands by ordering the Horde to fight for island supremacy.
• Trade Prince Gallywix recognized that Garrosh was politically and economically isolated, while Gazlowe continued serving him for profit.
• Fandral Staghelm and a Tauren ambassador met Aegwynn in Boralus to discuss admonishing Garrosh.
• Aegwynn agreed to hear the proposal, and the Tauren ambassador called for a complete blockade to make Orgrimmar’s prosperity collapse.

The Horde's racial tensions deepened under Garrosh as more non-Orcs withdrew from Orgrimmar, while the Night Empire kept watch. Across Azeroth, Thrall's forces battled the Old God-controlled elementals, and the Druids advanced their campaign against the Firelands and prepared to awaken Aviana.

• The Night Empire's intelligence reported growing disputes in the Horde, as Garrosh's Orc radicals alienated other races and more trolls left Orgrimmar for the Echo Isles and Zul'Gurub.
• Stone Mother Sserath broke with the Old Gods and supported Thrall, while Earth and Stone Elementals joined the Earth Ring and ended their earthquakes across Azeroth.
• Thrall led the Earth Ring and Elemental Legion against Neptulon, whose head was controlled by Deep Sea Terror Ezhumat, as Water Elementals attacked the Maelstrom to unleash a world-spanning tsunami.
• The Druids and adventurers pressed Ragnaros's forces back toward the Firelands, while Cenarius persuaded Tortolla to join the Night Empire's work tending Kalimdor's forests and coasts.
• The Druids prepared to awaken Aviana after finding her giant egg and placing it beneath Nordrassil for hatching.

The Night Elf Border Guard pushed through Gilneas’s forests to find Velinde Starsong’s corpse, which the Moon God’s Scythe controlled, while Genn Greymane’s royal army drove Lord Godfrey’s rebels from Gilneas City. With Gilneas’s defeat of the rebels nearly certain, Genn committed to the Southern Alliance, and Godfrey’s delegation resumed negotiations with Queen Cariath.

• Dawn Druids urged the Night Elf Border Guard to destroy the Worgen and search the forest for the Moon God’s Scythe, while Orthodox Druids favored gentler methods.
• Druid scouts found Velinde Starsong’s corpse among a vast pack of Worgen, and the Moon God’s Scythe transformed her into a giant Worgen after spotting them.
• The Night Elf army intensified its assault and tightened its encirclement around the Scythe’s position.
• Genn Greymane’s royal army and rational Worgen pushed Lord Godfrey’s rebels out of Gilneas City, forcing Godfrey to retreat toward Seacliff.
• Genn accepted the Southern Alliance’s support as Gilneas faced severe economic losses from the tsunami and abandoned hopes of rejoining the Northern Alliance.
• Godfrey’s delegation met Queen Cariath and began another round of negotiations as Lordaeron considered using the rebels as a proxy and buffer.

At the Eternal Night Palace, Boss Hu defended his private Pz.Kpfw. 38 to Elune before approving special forces to support the Druids' hunt for the Moon God's Scythe in Gilneas. The Hekso Goblin mercenaries set off, and one left a walking bomb with an elf huntress on the roadside.

• Imperial officials discovered Boss Hu's Pz.Kpfw. 38 on the plaza and learned it was a rare tank he had brought back from an excursion with Sargeras.
• Elune called the tank ugly, but Boss Hu insisted it was a beautiful, one-of-a-kind luxury vehicle.
• Boss Hu and Elune discussed the Druids' efforts to recover the Moon God's Scythe and their special request for support in Gilneas.
• Boss Hu approved the Hekso Flamethrower Explosion 2.0 Special Composite Unit, sponsored by the Blackrock Syndicate, to aid the war against the wild Worgen.
• A Goblin mercenary told a white-haired elven huntress to keep a walking bomb that had fallen from his truck.

After Nefarian’s defeat, Boss Hu claimed the Blackwing Cult’s creatures and research, then turned the victory into a scheme involving the auction of Nefarian’s body parts. The chapter ended with Blackrock preparing to launch the Night Empire’s next move in its campaign to persuade Warchief Garrosh.

• Malygos explained that Chimera was made from the blood of the five dragonflights and that Malorakk had been a human alchemist before Nefarian transformed him.
• Boss Hu ordered Malorakk sent to the Crusader’s Tribunal and Chimera taken to the live experiment lab.
• Onyxia told Boss Hu that Stormwind wanted Nefarian’s head, and Boss Hu agreed to give it to Varian and Bolvar while reserving the rest for cooking.
• An auction in Suramar sold wine brewed with Nefarian’s dragon penis, and Trade Prince Gallywix won it for fifty million gold coins.
• Blackrock told Boss Hu that Gazlowe had bought the bait, and Boss Hu authorized the Blackrock Syndicate’s news media to begin the Night Empire’s next persuasion campaign against Garrosh.

After World War II, Elena befriended Sargeras while he stayed on Earth, but she refused his offer of power and chose to remain in Bavaria. As Sargeras departed, Fel corruption spread through the town, where the first Human demons possessed the villagers.

• Elena questioned Sargeras about his war against the other Titans and challenged his arrogance as they shared roasted lamb.
• Elena asked whether Sargeras missed his family, then told him she intended to help rebuild her shattered country rather than join the Burning Legion.
• Sargeras left Earth aboard a Fel warship after Elena said farewell and kissed his cheek.
• Elena became an unofficial nun at the rebuilt church, while the priest was secretly possessed by a demon.
• Black smoke possessed every villager overnight, and the Human demons spread out to seek new hosts as Fel corruption began to spread.

Elena confronted the demons Sargeras had sent to Earth and forced Varimathras to return stolen souls and end his possessions. The demon hunters left town believing they had dealt with the threat, but the town’s demons killed them, revealing that Elena remained alone amid the infestation.

• Elena helped two demon hunters exorcise the demon possessing the town priest, but suspected the demons were connected to Sargeras.
• Elena summoned a Hell Trader at a crossroads, and Varimathras arrived after recognizing her as someone Sargeras had ordered the demons to protect.
• Varimathras subdued the hidden demon hunters, then agreed to return stolen souls, cancel contracts, and stop possessing people when Elena demanded it.
• Varimathras let Elena take the demon hunters away but took the coins from her wallet as payment.
• The two demon hunters woke at Elena’s manor and tried to leave town, but the priest, the driver, and the townspeople revealed themselves as demons and killed them.