Chapter Summaries

Elena’s seemingly peaceful Bavarian town was revealed to be a demon-run stage, and a Dawn Administrator arrived to enforce Earth’s protected status under a treaty between Sarodar and Sargeras. At the Vatican, the Holy Light Legion answered the Pope’s prayers and began preparing to fight Fel corruption.

• Elena lived in Eral Town, where demons had created a welcoming community and called the expanding settlement the Grand Stage.
• A Dawn Administrator exposed the town’s demonic nature, drove back its inhabitants, and confronted Varimathras over the Burning Legion’s presence on Earth.
• The Administrator showed Varimathras a treaty in which Sarodar and Sargeras designated Earth a sealed protected zone, then destroyed a Fel-corrupted human demon.
• The Pope received an answer to his prayers when Mother of Light Xe'ra sent Holy Light forces to the Vatican.
• Archangel Aletoya appeared and declared that the Holy Light Legion would eliminate Fel corruption.

Oscar prepared to marry Silver Paladin Palthris, drawing adventurers and powerful figures to Stratholme City for a lavish celebration. After failing to get protection from the Titan against Deathwing, Oscar faced the arrival of the wedding guests as another wedding invitation reached Boss Hu.

• Oscar’s wedding invitations became highly sought after, and rumors spread that Titan Divine Lord Sarodar would attend the private banquet.
• Lord Wing stole an invitation from a black-market auctioneer, set the hillside market ablaze, and was chased to Stormwind Keep, where he paid a ten-thousand-gold fine.
• Lord Wing left Stormwind furious and vowed to take his anger out on Oscar.
• Oscar begged Boss Hu for an order keeping Deathwing away, but Boss Hu refused, leaving Oscar to depart without protection.
• Boss Hu received an invitation to Kael and Anveena’s wedding, scheduled shortly after Oscar’s.
• Stratholme City prepared for Oscar’s celebration as adventurers arrived for free food and drink and his experience seminar.

Oscar’s wedding banquet brought powerful guests to Stratholme, but his procession was attacked by black dragonkin and the celebration devolved into a brawl with Deathwing. Palthris joined the ruined hall as the farcical wedding continued.

• Oscar hosted a lavish banquet attended by Sarodar, Sylvanas, the Dragon Aspects, and other powerful guests, while he snapped at Mdozno and Tirion for repeatedly calling him curious.
• Oscar traded old insults with Orgrim and Llane, who reminisced together about their past conflicts.
• Oscar rode to collect Palthris and led her procession through cheering crowds, then fought off black dragonkin who attacked near the city gates.
• Malygos and Nozdormu watched Deathwing at the banquet, and Oscar burst in and attacked him after accusing him of being behind the ambush.
• Malygos and Nozdormu interfered in the fight to help Oscar, while Palthris entered and confirmed that black dragonkin had attacked the wedding procession.
• Boss Hu scolded Deathwing and kicked him as the damaged hall filled with the brawling guests and the wedding continued.

Kael'thas and Anveena's wedding drew reporters and uninvited troublemakers to Silvermoon City, while the invited guests celebrated at Silvermoon Court. Boss Hu toured Eversong Woods with the Windrunner sisters and prepared to meet their parents, leaving the story with a rare moment of family calm.

• The High Elves prepared a small, elegant wedding for Kael'thas and Anveena after protecting Quel'Thalas from the tsunami with a runestone defense array.
• Reporters and uninvited guests gathered in Silvermoon City, where Oscar, Deathwing, and Malygos started a street fight that was worsened by a crowd surge.
• Tyrande discussed Dath'Remar's past with Kael'thas, while Elisande questioned Anveena about the nature of the Sunwell.
• Boss Hu visited Eversong Woods with the Windrunner sisters and headed to Ranger Camp to meet their retired parents.

Goblins in Orgrimmar protested their indenture contracts and poor wages after Trade Prince Gallywix’s extravagant auction purchase, setting off a wider Horde political crisis. As rival factions condemned Garrosh’s response, Gallywix returned to meet the Warchief while the Horde’s future remained uncertain.

• Exploited Goblins appealed to Warchief Garrosh for help ending their indenture contracts, but he told them to negotiate with Gallywix, whose ogre guards drove them away.
• After Gallywix spent fifty million gold on Nefarian’s dragon-whip tonic wine, Goblins marched on Warchief’s Hall and threatened to strike the military factories.
• Horde Ethereals joined the Goblins’ strike, while the Blackrock Syndicate, the Ratchet Consortium, and the Venture Company condemned Gallywix and Garrosh.
• Garrosh ordered the Kor'kron to violently disperse the protest, prompting the Frostwolf Clan, the Troll United Clans, and Thunder Bluff’s Tauren authorities to protest his treatment of Goblins.
• Trade Prince Gallywix returned to Orgrimmar to meet Garrosh as the Horde’s factions waited to see whether the Warchief would make concessions.

Boss Hu and Elisande discussed how they had pushed the Horde toward a political crisis to test Garrosh and create a chance to reach a parallel world. As the Alliance and Zandalari halted their campaigns and refused Garrosh the Azerite Ore he needed, Garrosh felt cornered by political maneuvers but resolved to fight for the Horde.

• Boss Hu told Elisande that he had exposed the Horde’s internal opposition to test whether Garrosh could remain Warchief and help secure a path to a new parallel world.
• Elisande reported that the Zandalari had sided with the Warlord faction and were withholding Azerite Ore, leaving Garrosh supported mainly by radical Orc groups, the Kor'kron, the Bilgewater Cartel, and the Dragonmaw Clan.
• Elune said she had no opinion on the political matter, then beat Boss Hu with Titan military boxing after he called her an idiot.
• The Alliance’s Kul Tiras expedition force and Zandalar’s island fleet halted their military operations and withdrew to their prewar territories while continuing to explore unoccupied islands.
• Garrosh recognized that he was unqualified to manage the Horde’s political struggles, but refused to submit and resolved to lead the Horde back onto what he considered the right path.

As pressure mounted against Garrosh from the Alliance, the Night Empire, and the Horde’s internal opponents, a Goblin strike further disrupted the Horde and Bilgewater Cartel. An invitation from the Shaohao Dynasty to fight in Pandaria gave Garrosh a chance to rally the Horde through war, but his future as Warchief remained uncertain.

• Goblin workers struck against the Bilgewater Cartel’s indenture contracts and rallied support from other Horde groups, while Garrosh and Gallywix demanded they return to work.
• The Shaohao Dynasty invited Alliance and Horde peacekeeping forces to fight the Mantid and Sha demons in Pandaria, with Titan Sarodar serving as witness to protect Pandaren territory.
• Garrosh eagerly agreed to send Horde troops, hoping the expedition would divert internal pressure and strengthen his position as Warchief.
• The Alliance also agreed to join the expedition, and both factions began shipping troops and supplies to Pandaria.
• Gallywix restored free-citizen-level wages and offered more overtime compensation, temporarily quieting the Goblin strike while leaving indenture contracts and long hours unchanged.
• The Horde set aside its internal disputes for the coming war, though Garrosh’s opponents still expected him either to prove himself or face defeat and possible civil war.

Boss Hu left Vivianka and Queen Azshara arguing and went with Xuen to Mount Hyjal after the last Wild Demigods awakened and the entrance to the Firelands was secured. He reflected on the Night Empire's demand for the demigods' obedience and on how entrenched powers crushed those who challenged the world's rules, leaving Garrosh's struggle against the system doomed.

• Boss Hu found Vivianka and Queen Azshara furiously arguing in his private side hall and left rather than get involved.
• Boss Hu caught Xuen pouncing on butterflies, then learned that the last three Wild Demigods had awakened and the entrance to the Firelands was under their control.
• Xuen invited Boss Hu to Mount Hyjal, and Boss Hu agreed to go with him instead of playing Hearthstone.
• Boss Hu considered how the Night Empire demanded that the Wild Demigods obey unified command or leave Night Elf land.
• Boss Hu reflected that Garrosh's efforts to strengthen the Horde had provoked entrenched powers, and concluded that anyone trying to overturn the world's rules would die.

Boss Hu assigned Aviana, Tortolla, and Goldrinn roles in Azeroth before joining the assault on the Firelands. As the Druids and Rukmar fought Firelord Ragnaros’s forces, Boss Hu sent the White Tiger after a fire spider mother and flew toward Ragnaros’s palace.

• Boss Hu assigned Aviana to care for Teldrassil, sent Tortolla to guard the coast, and tasked Goldrinn with helping the Dawn Druids.
• Cenarius and the Druids attacked the Firelands, where they overwhelmed Shannox and his Lava Hounds.
• Rukmar fought three Fire Hawks and defeated them with his powerful solar flames.
• Boss Hu asked the White Tiger to subdue a fire spider mother and bring her back.
• Boss Hu flew past a lava river toward Ragnaros’s palace, intending to confront the Firelord.

After a lieutenant colonel’s Twilight-fueled attack on King Varian, Anduin saved his father and won permission to investigate the conspiracy in Stormwind City. Onyxia identified Archbishop Benedictus as the hidden mastermind and ordered Anduin kept away from the Holy Light Cathedral while she prepared to purge his forces.

• A lieutenant colonel tried to stab King Varian with a Twilight-charged dagger, but Anduin protected him with Power Word: Shield.
• The lieutenant colonel transformed into a Faceless One, and Varian killed it with his artifact greatsword.
• Garona returned to guard Varian, and Anduin gained permission to investigate the attack and its accomplices.
• The Night Empire denied that Cthulhu or Yogg-Saron had any part in the assassination attempt, while others blamed N'Zoth.
• Onyxia named Archbishop Benedictus as the mastermind and ordered her agents to summon Anduin and keep him from entering the Holy Light Cathedral.

Onyxia revealed that Archbishop Benedictus served N'Zoth, prompting Anduin and Stormwind's rulers to surround the Holy Light Cathedral. The attack exposed a conflict among the Twilight priests, and Benedictus escaped while Onyxia bargained for a seaside estate.

• Onyxia told Anduin that Benedictus was behind the threat, and Anduin chose to trust her and alert Stormwind's rulers.
• Varian's troops surrounded the Cathedral District, and Varian, Bolvar, Anduin, and Onyxia confronted Benedictus outside the Holy Light Cathedral.
• Benedictus emerged in Twilight vestments and declared his loyalty to N'Zoth, while Onyxia mocked him.
• Twilight's Hammer infiltrators revealed themselves among the fallen priests and attacked, disrupting Benedictus's forces.
• Benedictus vanished to escape, and Onyxia demanded a seaside estate in exchange for helping locate him.

The Alliance uncovered Benedictus’s Twilight cult and prepared to attack the Twilight Citadel, while Varian approved an expedition to Pandaria led by Turalyon with Anduin as its ambassador. The Horde also prepared to send an expeditionary force, though Garrosh’s limited control over its armies and his feud with Saurfang shaped who could join.

• SI:7 agents discovered a hidden chamber beneath the cathedral containing Twilight fanatics and explosives intended to destroy the Holy Light Cathedral, confirming Benedictus’s guilt.
• Onyxia revealed that Benedictus was in the Twilight Highlands, where the concealed Twilight Citadel and its forces were launching attacks against the Wildhammer Dwarves.
• Varian approved Bolvar’s deployment of the Seventh Legion to the Twilight Highlands, and Ironforge sent steam tanks and gryphon riders to support the assault.
• The Alliance postponed its plans for Pandaria, but Varian agreed to send Turalyon’s army with Anduin serving as observer and diplomatic ambassador.
• Garrosh chose Nazgrel to lead the Horde expedition and excluded Little Saurfang, while Grand Warlord Saurfang’s faction retained control over most Horde forces.

Titan Sarodar baited Ragnaros into emerging from his lava pool and fought him with overwhelming strength. As Ragnaros kept regenerating and attacking, he began considering Sarodar’s offer to join his company and abandon the Old Gods.

• Titan Sarodar waited beside Ragnaros’s lava pool, taunting him and flicking cigar ash into it until the Firelord erupted in rage.
• Ragnaros emerged and attacked Sarodar, but the Titan’s divine body endured his blows while Azeroth's Vengeance repeatedly severed Ragnaros’s limbs.
• Sarodar offered Ragnaros a well-paid job, but Ragnaros continued smashing at the divine power shielding the Titan.
• Sarodar mocked the Elemental Lords for switching allegiances, while Ragnaros considered breaking ties with the failing Old Gods.

Ragnaros surrendered and the Fire Elementals joined Sarodar International Corporation, ending their fight with the Druids. Meanwhile, Shamans established a class hall at the Maelstrom, while the Druids pursued plans to build their own at Moonglade.

• Boss Hu repeatedly chopped off Ragnaros's regrown arms until Ragnaros agreed to join Sarodar International Corporation and oppose N'Zoth if contacted.
• Ragnaros ordered the Fire Elementals to stop fighting, turning the former enemies into allies of the Druids.
• The Dawn Druids planned to study Fire Elemental power and sought Thrall's help in persuading Stone Mother Sserath to share the power of earth elementals.
• Shamans gathered at the Maelstrom, which developed from a temporary base into their permanent class hall.
• Cenarius sought a Blackrock Syndicate loan to develop Moonglade into a Druid class hall, with plans to invite the Green Dragonflight and establish an Emerald Dream portal.

Xuen the White Tiger crushed Queen Spider Anka the Arachnid’s resistance and brought her unconscious body to Sarodar, while the Firelands’ new rulers organized their oversight and assignments. The Druids were left dreading that Sarodar would force them to deal with another spider colony.

• Xuen the White Tiger entered Anka’s valley, froze the Flame Spiders, and climbed onto the web to confront Queen Spider Anka the Arachnid.
• Xuen unleashed snow and repeated bolts of Fission Lightning until Anka was overwhelmed and passed out.
• Cenarius teased the shrunken Ragnaros, who angrily tried to attack him with his tiny hammer.
• The Dawn Druids assigned colleagues to study Fire Druids and established a permanent portal outside the Firelord’s palace.
• Xuen brought Anka’s limp body to Sarodar and joked that the Titan had gained another spider colony, leaving the Druids fearful of more spider mounts.

The fire mage lords feared Sarodar would force them to adopt Flame Spiders as mounts, adding to their resentment over the Highborne’s reputation for riding giant spiders. The chapter ended with Deathwing fleeing Crusaders who were pursuing him to investigate his property.

• The fire mage lords learned that Sarodar had brought back Flame Spiders from the Firelands and expected him to breed and promote them as mounts.
• The chapter described how Arcane Spiders had spread from Suramar to Amber Spiderweb Valley and become popular with Night Elf adventurers.
• The fire mage lords camped out in Suramar and begged Sarodar to give them a different kind of mount.
• Deathwing publicly denounced Sarodar in Netherstorm, then fled Crusaders who chased him while he dragged the Botanica along in chains.

As Suramar’s mages protested the planned giant-spider mounts, the God-Emperor attended a roadside victory banquet and watched Xuen lose a drinking game to Azshara. Vivianka thanked him for saving her and the world, and they returned to find out how Xuen’s contest had ended.

• The God-Emperor refused to explain why giant spiders would become mounts and dismissed the mages protesting the decision.
• Xuen drank with Azshara at Suramar’s roadside stalls, while the God-Emperor watched and teased him as he lost round after round.
• Vivianka arrived and questioned whether the roadside stalls were truly the gods’ idea of a high-end gathering venue.
• Walking along Crystal Avenue, Vivianka told the God-Emperor she regretted her past accusations and thanked him for stopping Sargeras and saving her world.
• The God-Emperor reassured Vivianka, joked that she should call him Dad, and led her back to the stalls to check on Xuen.

Boss Hu was chased through Eternal Night Palace by a deadly giant snail, while the Night Elf Border Guard and Goblin mercenaries attacked the wild Worgen in northern Gilneas. The elves and Goblins began burning the forest to destroy the Worgen’s cover.

• Boss Hu fled the giant Pandarian snail after it pursued him through the Assembly Hall, and the Lightforged Val'kyr raised a squirrel killed in the chase as an undead battle squirrel.
• Velinde Starsong, controlled by the Moon God's Scythe, abandoned the wild Worgen’s ineffective human-wave attacks and led them in defensive guerrilla warfare.
• The Night Elf Border Guard waited for reinforcements before deciding to destroy the forest sheltering the Worgen.
• The Blackrock Syndicate's Goblin mercenaries arrived on metal three-wheelers and began setting the forest ablaze with Arcane flamethrowers and incendiary bombs.
• The spreading wall of fire filled the forest with smoke and flames, making the Worgen’s hiding places and guerrilla tactics untenable.

The night elf army advanced through the forest after goblin flamethrowers and Druids drove a devastating blaze through the wild Worgen. Elune appeared to confront the Moon God's Scythe, and the chapter ended with Velinde Starsong silent before her creator.

• Hekso mercenaries' fire spread across the forest, and goblin soldiers and Druids helped direct the blaze against the wild Worgen.
• After the fire weakened, the night elf army advanced through the charred forest and surrounded Velinde Starsong and the surviving Worgen.
• The Moon God's Scythe tried to escape, but Elune's moonlight stopped it and Elune appeared to confront it.
• Argus arrived in a divine projection, greeted Azeroth, and left after Elune said she was handling a private matter.
• Elune approached Velinde Starsong and asked what she should do with her former creation, and Velinde lowered her head without answering.

Elune spared the Moon God's Scythe and placed it under Sarodar’s command, where he forced it to obey and assigned it to oversee forest security and raise a Worgen force. After the scythe left, a giant Pandaria snail smashed into Sarodar again, and he tried to redirect it to Argus.

• Elune spared the Moon God's Scythe and ordered it to serve her fellow Titan, Sarodar.
• Sarodar inspected the scythe, marked it with his divine power, returned Velinde Starsong’s corpse vessel, and ordered the scythe to create Worgen and protect the Empire’s forests.
• Sarodar burned the scythe when it tried to ask Elune a question, demanded its loyalty, and warned it that his staff would devour it if it disobeyed.
• Sarodar summoned Origin of Divine Power, Azeroth Binder of Magic, which threatened to eat the scythe if it caused trouble.
• A giant Pandaria snail burst into the chamber and rammed Sarodar, who tried to send it through a portal to Argus.
• The snail ignored Sarodar and continued killing creatures as he shouted for help.