Chapter Summaries

Deren persuaded Elune to support experiments with the Holy Light and proposed replacing the Zandalari Trolls’ Loa worship with faith in Elune. Elune approved a strike team to eliminate the Loa, though the mission had yet to begin.

• Deren proposed letting Night Elves study the Holy Light in Theramore, and Elune agreed to consider the experiment if it stayed separate from traditionalists.
• Deren suggested releasing Illidan to study the Holy Light and serve as Tyrande’s Military Deputy in Theramore, and Elune approved the arrangement.
• Deren asked whether Elune would accept Zandalari Troll believers, and she eagerly agreed to expand her faith among them.
• Deren proposed eliminating the Zandalari Trolls’ Loa and priestly class before conquering them, and Elune endorsed the plan.
• Deren named Aegwynn, Onyxia, Tyrande, and Illidan as the team for the Zandalar operation, and Elune agreed to the proposal.

Tyrande used Elune’s oracle to take Illidan from Maiev’s prison for questioning about the War of the Ancients. At the Temple of the Moon, she sent Maiev and the Watchers away, leaving Illidan alone with her.

• Maiev tortured Illidan in his cell, and he challenged her motives before crying out when she whipped his lower body.
• Tyrande arrived and told Maiev that Elune’s oracle required Illidan to be taken for questioning about the War of the Ancients.
• Maiev agreed to accompany Tyrande after learning that representatives of the Cenarion Circle would attend the inquiry.
• Tyrande healed Illidan, and Maiev’s subordinates unbound him before escorting him to the Temple of the Moon.
• Tyrande sent the Watchers away and had Maiev led off, leaving herself alone with Illidan.

Tyrande freed Illidan on Elune’s orders and asked him to help prepare the Night Elves for the war in Northrend. Their reunion was interrupted by Malfurion, who accused them of betrayal and demanded that Illidan be imprisoned again.

• Tyrande told Illidan that Elune had ordered his release so he could help protect the Night Elves from the Burning Legion and the Old Gods.
• Tyrande showed Illidan the wildflower he had preserved for over ten thousand years and asked him to become her Military Deputy and establish a New Force Army.
• Illidan accepted the role, and Tyrande gave him her necklace so they could communicate and discuss matters together.
• Tyrande explained that Malfurion had spent most of their marriage asleep in the Emerald Dream, prompting Illidan to criticize him for avoiding responsibility.
• Malfurion entered the temple, accused Tyrande and Illidan of betraying him, and insisted that Illidan be locked back in the dungeon.

Malfurion agreed to exile Illidan from Night Elf lands, while Tyrande insisted that he follow Elune’s oracle to Theramore and train under Jaina. Illidan accepted the order eagerly after learning Tyrande would visit him there, and preparations began for his departure.

• Malfurion condemned Illidan and ordered him exiled from Night Elf lands unless the Cenarion Circle permitted his return, assigning Maiev to watch him.
• Malfurion left for the Emerald Dream despite Tyrande asking him to stay, and Tyrande accused him of valuing power over family.
• Tyrande announced that Elune’s oracle required Illidan to go to Theramore and follow Jaina’s orders, while Maiev and Illidan objected to obeying a human.
• Tyrande ordered Illidan to learn human knowledge and obey Jaina, and Illidan agreed after hearing Tyrande would visit him.
• Tyrande summoned a subordinate to prepare a Hippogryph to take Illidan to Theramore.

Illidan and Maiev arrived in Theramore as Night Elf representatives, where Deren used Elune’s seal to make them accept Marshal Windsor as their teacher. Illidan reluctantly tried Holy Light and unexpectedly resonated with its power, leaving Maiev astonished.

• Illidan and Maiev landed in Theramore and decided to visit the Temple of the Moon and Lady Jaina.
• Aegwynn brought Deren into Jaina’s meeting with Illidan and Maiev, where Deren presented Elune’s seal and made them kneel.
• Deren threatened to report Illidan to Tyrande and arranged for Marshal Windsor to train both Night Elves.
• Deren and Windsor explained that Illidan could learn Holy Light through his conviction to protect others.
• Illidan held Windsor’s Holy Light, which grew brighter in response to his protective conviction, surprising Maiev.

Windsore began teaching Illidan and Maiev the Holy Light, but their confessions revealed Maiev’s obsessive desire to dominate Illidan. Deren explained his plan to Vereesa before Onyxia arrived and took him home, where Chromie was waiting.

• Windsore asked Illidan and Maiev to confess their deepest obsessions as the basis for learning the Holy Light.
• Illidan declared his devotion to Tyrande, while Maiev confessed that she wanted Illidan to kneel, call her Queen, and beg for her favor.
• Illidan threatened Maiev, but Windsore stopped the pair from fighting and began explaining the Holy Light.
• Vereesa joined Deren outside, and he told her he had arranged for Night Elves to learn the Holy Light to prepare for future threats.
• Onyxia startled Vereesa into leaving, then brought Deren home, saying Chromie had returned and was waiting for him.

Tyrande visited Illidan in Theramore to inspect his mastery of the Holy Light and learned that Maiev had mastered it too. The visit ended with Maiev declaring her intent to conquer Illidan, provoking Tyrande's fury.

• Deren agreed to try Jaina's nourishing soup, and Jaina told him Tyrande was coming to inspect Illidan's progress.
• Tyrande arrived at the Temple of the Moon and found Illidan waiting outside with Maiev.
• Illidan showed Tyrande the Holy Light and explained that it had restored his body and eyes while giving him powers against Fel Energy and the Undead.
• Tyrande said she would bring Night Elf volunteers to study the Holy Light, and Illidan explained that faith and conviction allowed people to summon it.
• Maiev revealed that she wanted to conquer Illidan, and Tyrande angrily called her a lunatic.

Deren asked Jaina about Illidan and Maiev, who had stayed in Theramore to teach the Night Elf volunteers about the Holy Light. During a lesson, Maiev challenged Illidan to a sparring match, and their close-quarters fight ended with them falling together, leaving the students gossiping and Maiev quietly watching Illidan.

• Jaina told Deren that Illidan and Maiev were leading Night Elf students in studying the Holy Light.
• Illidan struggled to teach the Sisterhood of Elune volunteers until Maiev stepped in and demonstrated how conviction could call upon the Holy Light.
• Maiev said her conviction was to conquer Illidan and challenged him to a match, but Illidan insisted the Holy Light was meant for protection.
• Maiev attacked Illidan during the lesson, and the two sparred with the Holy Light while their students watched.
• Maiev rushed into Illidan's embrace, and he twisted their fall so he landed beneath her and cushioned her impact.
• The students crowded around and gossiped as Illidan helped them both up, changed the subject, and Maiev leaned against the wall watching him.

Maiev’s attempt to ambush Illidan ended with her caught in his trap, and the two resumed teaching the next day as if nothing had happened. Irritated by the attention Illidan received from the elf students, Maiev went shopping and bought a drug and antidote from a Goblin, leaving her intentions unclear.

• Maiev sneaked into Illidan’s room to attack him, but Illidan caught her in specially made ropes.
• Illidan freed Maiev after she promised not to attack him again, and she hurried back to her room.
• Illidan and Maiev taught the Night Elf students together, with Maiev helping him improve his lessons.
• Maiev grew irritated by the female students’ interest in Illidan and went shopping in Theramore.
• Maiev paid a Goblin for a drug that could weaken an elf and its antidote.

Vereesa’s report of an elf buying knockout drugs led Sylvanas and Jaina to investigate a suspected elf-trafficking gang, though Chromie found no evidence of danger on the Timeline. When the group joined the Rangers’ arrest two nights later, they discovered the supposed target in an embarrassing encounter with an egg.

• Vereesa told Sylvanas that an Elf had bought knockout drugs intended for elves, prompting Sylvanas to form a task force and request Jaina’s Mage Corps.
• Sylvanas and Jaina asked Deren for advice, and Chromie checked the Timeline but found no suspicious arrivals or upcoming elf kidnappings.
• Deren advised them to watch the Elf who bought the drugs, and Sylvanas agreed to monitor her while Jaina promised to bring Deren and the dragons to the arrest.
• Two nights later, Jaina teleported Deren, Onyxia, and Chromie to the arrest scene, where they found the Queen riding an egg as the Elf Rangers looked on in shock.

After the public scandal involving Illidan and Maiev, Tyrande confronted Jaina and Deren about the Night Elf students’ disrupted Holy Light studies and Illidan’s feelings. Deren persuaded Tyrande that Illidan and Maiev’s marriage could bring the Wardens to the Sisterhood of Elune’s side, and Tyrande agreed to support it.

• Tyrande protested to Jaina that the High Elf Rangers’ raid had endangered her people, while Jaina explained that the Rangers had mistaken the guard camp for a criminal hideout.
• Deren proposed having Marshal Windsor teach the new Night Elf students and urged Tyrande to consider Illidan and Maiev’s relationship.
• Tyrande admitted she worried about Illidan’s feelings, but rejected the idea of him marrying Maiev because she feared Maiev would hurt him.
• Deren suggested that Illidan marrying Maiev could draw the Wardens into the Sisterhood of Elune’s faction and possibly help reconcile Illidan with Malfurion.
• Tyrande consulted the Goddess, agreed to facilitate the marriage, and thanked Deren before leaving.
• Jaina praised Deren’s solution, and he explained that Maiev’s marriage to Illidan could shift the Wardens’ political allegiance.

Tyrande persuaded a despairing Illidan to marry Maiev, explaining that she needed the Watchers’ support. After Illidan left, Tyrande and Maiev began negotiating the wedding as a political transaction.

• Tyrande visited Illidan and reassured him that Maiev’s assault was not his fault.
• Tyrande urged Illidan to marry Maiev so she could secure the Watchers’ support, and Illidan agreed for Tyrande’s sake.
• Tyrande brought Illidan to Maiev, who eagerly accepted the marriage.
• Tyrande sent Illidan away and admitted to Maiev that she wanted to negotiate the terms of the wedding.
• Maiev recognized Tyrande’s political motive and invited her to name their prices.

Deren attended Illidan and Maiev’s wedding with Onyxia, Chromie, and Jaina, where he met the ill-tempered Malfurion. After the uneventful ceremony, Deren left quickly, wary of Malfurion’s reaction to his role in the marriage.

• Onyxia objected when Jaina arrived and announced she would attend the wedding with Deren, but Deren calmed Onyxia and checked that Jaina had arranged security.
• Chromie joined Deren, Onyxia, and Jaina, and Jaina teleported the group to the wedding venue.
• Deren met Tyrande and Malfurion, greeted the Archdruid, and privately wondered why Malfurion spent so much time sleeping in the Emerald Dream.
• Deren ate and drank at the wedding, then asked Jaina to open a portal so he could leave before Malfurion learned about his involvement in Illidan and Maiev’s marriage.

At breakfast, Jaina brought Theresa to Deren while Aegwynn secretly met a white-haired Jaina from another Timeline in Theramore. The visitor learned how this Timeline had changed and was allowed to stay as a quiet observer, though Aegwynn warned that she could disrupt its fate.

• The guests joked about Illidan declaring that his heart belonged only to Tyrande, while Malfurion silently endured the teasing.
• Jaina brought Theresa to breakfast because Aegwynn had gone out, and Onyxia eagerly held the child.
• Aegwynn followed a cloaked woman through the Theramore marketplace and revealed that she knew the woman was another Jaina.
• Aegwynn explained that the bomb had been detonated early, half of Orgrimmar had been destroyed, and many people, including Daelin and Jaina's brother, were alive in this Timeline.
• The white-haired Jaina chose to stay in Theramore, and Aegwynn warned her to avoid contact with its people so she would not disrupt the Timeline.

Chromie’s Timeline viewing was interrupted by an unexplained burst, while Aegwynn met a future, white-haired Jaina who called herself Despairer. Despairer explained that the Heart of Azeroth let her travel between Timelines and search for something it needed.

• Chromie watched Illidan and Maiev’s intimate brawl through Time Magic, until her staff suddenly flashed and blasted her away.
• Aegwynn stopped Jaina from investigating a cloaked figure near the Mage Tower and led the visitor away from Theramore.
• The cloaked figure revealed herself as Despairer, a white-haired Jaina from another Timeline, and said she wanted to see her child.
• Aegwynn warned Despairer to stay away from the Mage Tower and offered her a recording crystal containing images of the child.
• Despairer told Aegwynn that she had learned Time Magic while facing future crises and revealed that the Heart of Azeroth enabled her Timeline travel.

Vereesa watched Illidan and Maiev fight during her patrol, then learned from Chromie that the Bronze Dragon had secretly watched their battles inside their room. After dinner, Vereesa returned to Deren's house and joined Chromie in secretly viewing scenes from the Timeline.

• Vereesa and the Rangers saw Illidan and Maiev burst from a barracks room and fight, with Maiev demanding that Illidan call her “Queen.”
• Vereesa returned to her patrol while the Rangers gossiped about the couple's fight.
• At dinner, Vereesa told Chromie what she had seen, and Chromie revealed that she had already watched the couple inside their room.
• After leaving with Sylvanas, Vereesa secretly returned to Deren's house and watched Timeline scenes with Chromie.

Varian and Anduin arrived in Theramore with Lisha Starwind, whose past encounter with Deren left her terrified when she saw him again. The welcoming procession was interrupted when two nearly naked fruit sprites fell from the sky into the guard camp.

• Jaina told Deren and Onyxia that Varian was visiting Theramore, and Onyxia remained inexplicably uneasy despite their reassurances.
• Varian arrived with Anduin, Lisha Starwind, and royal guards, and Lisha recognized Deren as the man who had threatened her before.
• Deren and Varian met and traded teasing remarks before Jaina led the visitors into the city.
• Anduin admired Theramore's many elves and called Lisha "Aunt Starwind."
• Two nearly naked fruit sprites crashed into view at the guard camp, and Varian covered Anduin's eyes.

At Varian’s welcome banquet in Theramore, Onyxia’s strange, distracted behavior culminated in her casting an unknown spell at him. Jaina tackled her, but the spell struck Jaina, and Deren found two Jainas lying on the ground beside an unconscious Onyxia.

• Jaina told Varian that Onyxia and Deren would attend the banquet, and Varian agreed to meet them.
• Onyxia grew increasingly anxious on the way to the banquet, while Deren tried to reassure and distract her.
• Sylvanas escorted Deren and Onyxia to the VIP lounge, where Deren explained that Onyxia was nervous about her history with Varian.
• At the banquet, Onyxia became even more absent-minded after Varian arrived, then rose and walked toward him.
• Onyxia cast an unfamiliar spell, and Jaina tackled her, but the spell struck Jaina.
• Deren saw Onyxia unconscious on the ground beside two Jainas.

Onyxia’s spell split Jaina into two people, and neither Aegwynn nor the Star Soul could undo it. Deren summoned Chromie to examine the spell, but she also could not restore Jaina, leaving the group without a solution.

• Onyxia woke with no clear memory of casting the spell, while Sylvanas examined the two weakened Jainas and arranged for everyone to move to a lounge.
• The original Jaina woke timid and frightened, while the duplicate awoke with amnesia and nearly cast a Frost Nova before Aegwynn stopped her.
• Deren explained that Onyxia’s spell appeared to have reenacted Varian’s historical splitting, and Aegwynn confirmed that she had previously discussed such a spell with him.
• At Deren’s house, Jaina consulted the Star Soul, which could not reverse the advanced life-creation spell, so Deren asked Onyxia to summon Chromie.
• Chromie examined the Timeline and said neither Time Magic nor her own power could undo the spell, prompting Aegwynn to suspect the spell’s high authority had another source.

After Jaina split into two people, Deren and his allies struggled to find a way to reunite them and keep Theramore running. Aegwynn brought White-haired Jaina from the main Timeline to temporarily govern, while Deren decided to reenact Varian’s path in hopes of restoring the two Jainas.

• Deren explained that Oni’s spell had split Jaina into two people, and Aegwynn restrained the duplicate when she tried to escape.
• Chromie failed to find a way to reunite the Jainas, while Deren worried that Theramore would suffer without Jaina’s leadership.
• Aegwynn returned with White-haired Jaina, who agreed to temporarily manage Theramore in Jaina’s name.
• Deren introduced White-haired Jaina to Onyxia and Chromie, then discussed following Varian’s path to reunite the two present-day Jainas.
• Deren asked Aegwynn to watch the Jaina who kept trying to flee and planned to find Valeera and Bearskin to reenact the arena story.