Chapter Summaries

Genn explained that the Northern Gate Rebellion had begun because Crowley opposed his isolationist policies, then revealed that he too had been infected with the Werewolf Curse. When the curse’s influence made him shove Mia, his family faced the possibility that he could lose control and become dangerous.

• Genn said Crowley had rebelled over the suffering beyond the Grei Main Wall, while Liam again urged his father to open Gilneas to the outside world.
• Genn told Mia to discuss giving Tess the fief of Duskbay Town as part of a marriage alliance, and described Deren, his dragon companions Onyxia and Chromie, and their offer to help Gilneas.
• Tess questioned Deren’s motives and asked how the Werewolf Curse would be treated, while Liam insisted that the infected Gilneans were still their people.
• Genn revealed a bite mark and admitted he had been infected; he said an inhibitor was suppressing the curse and instructed Liam to end his life if he became a beast.
• Genn lost control, shoved Mia, and then panicked as his family recoiled; Liam drew his sword to protect Mia and Tess, but Tess made him put it away.

Genn feared the curse might turn him into a monster, so his family comforted him and made plans to keep him contained and his infection secret. Tess then spoke privately with Liam about his future as Gilneas’s heir and began to share advice before her marriage to Kul Tiras.

• Queen Mia stopped Liam from attacking Genn and reminded him that Genn was his father, while Tess urged Genn to seek a cure or restore the cursed people’s minds.
• Mia recalled Jaina advising Liam to wear extra armor, and Liam showed that he had worn chainmail ever since.
• Genn chose to sleep alone with Liam and ordered him to lock him up with an iron chain if the curse made him dangerous.
• Liam arranged Genn’s guards and a sturdy chain while keeping the infection secret from the nobles’ spies.
• Tess privately told Liam that she would likely marry into Kul Tiras and that he would inherit Gilneas’s throne, then began offering him advice.

Tess urged Liam to prepare for his future as king while Gilneas faced a crisis, and Genn and Mia finalized plans for Tess’s marriage to Derek. Mia, Tess, Katherine, and Jaina agreed to hold the engagement ceremony that day and then address the Werewolf Curse.

• Tess told Liam to listen to Genn, use his own judgment, and prepare to rule Gilneas, while Liam admitted he would rather be a general.
• Genn sent Liam to take him to bed, and Mia praised Tess and Liam for remaining close as siblings.
• The next morning, Mia told Katherine that Genn had agreed to Tess marrying Derek and granting Duskbay Town to Tess and her descendants.
• Katherine and Jaina agreed to the marriage, and Tess said she was looking forward to marrying Derek.
• Mia proposed holding the engagement ceremony that day, and Jaina promised they would begin addressing the Werewolf Curse afterward.
• Katherine asked Jaina to notify Daelin, while Jaina said they would proceed even if he objected.

Genn announced Tess’s engagement to Derek Proudmoore and granted her Duskbay Town as a hereditary fief to secure an alliance between Gilneas and Kul Tiras. After the assembly, Liam helped his exhausted father and said he would learn to govern, while Genn began considering what further benefits Daelin might offer for the port.

• Genn announced Tess’s engagement to Derek Proudmoore and promised Duskbay Town to her descendants while keeping it Gilnean territory.
• Lord Godfrey and the other nobles applauded Genn’s decision, and Genn dismissed the assembly to prepare for the evening ceremony.
• Liam admitted he had hesitated to help Genn for fear of being scolded, then supported him and explained that Tess had urged him to learn from their father.
• Genn joined Mia and Tess as they prepared the banquet, and Tess reported that Daelin had approved the marriage but might miss the ceremony.
• Genn joked about Daelin gaining a daughter-in-law and a port, then considered how much more he might persuade Daelin to pay for Duskbay Town.

Deren and the three women prepared for an engagement banquet while discussing a plan to surprise Admiral Daelin and pressure him to accept a marriage. The group entered the banquet hall, where Derek was being readied for the ceremony, and Jaina teased Onyxia and Lezi Long about Deren's growing number of brides.

• Deren played cards with Onyxia and Lezi Long until Jaina arrived to remind them that the banquet was about to begin.
• Jaina told Deren that Daelin wanted Kul Tiras merchant ships exempted from port taxes, and Deren suggested using Derek to unsettle the admiral over the marriage.
• Jaina confirmed that the planned guest and his family had arrived without Daelin knowing, and she and Deren agreed his presence might make the admiral anxious.
• Deren and the women entered the banquet hall, where Jaina said her father had arrived and Derek was being dressed and instructed for the ceremony.
• Onyxia and Lezi Long joked about marrying Deren, and Jaina teased them by mentioning another possible bride, Jaina of Lordaeron.

Genn Greymane and Daelin Proudmoore argued over tax exemptions during Tess and Derek’s engagement preparations, with Jaina caught between them. Daelin abandoned his demand when Jaina returned with a newcomer, and the engagement ceremony was back on.

• Daelin demanded tax exemptions for Kul Tiras ships, while Genn refused and offered only preferential treatment at Duskbay Town.
• Genn began transforming in anger, but Onyxia’s Shadowflame burned him back to normal.
• Daelin threatened to cancel Derek and Tess’s engagement, and Jaina angrily handed Derek back to him and told him to leave.
• Jaina promised Genn she could find Tess a better candidate, prompting Daelin to stop at the door and ask who it was.
• Jaina returned with several people, and after Daelin saw the newcomer, he called the engagement agreement settled and withdrew his tax demand.

Jaina brought Varian to the engagement gathering, where his presence changed Daelin’s support for Tess’s marriage plans. Deren then told Sargathas that a spreading werewolf curse had targeted Varian, leaving her furious and ready to confront whoever was responsible.

• Jaina arrived with Varian, and Daelin shifted his support toward Derek marrying Tess after realizing Varian could become a rival suitor for Tess.
• Varian introduced Anduin, Selina, Lisha Starwind, and Valeera to the gathered Kings and guests.
• Deren welcomed Lisha, Anduin, and Selina, then asked Sargathas whether she could stand against the demigod Cenarius.
• Sargathas sent Selina and Anduin out with Valeera, while Deren worried that Selina’s shadow lessons might turn Anduin away from the Holy Light.
• Deren explained that a werewolf curse was infecting people and that he suspected a wolf-related deity was behind it.
• Deren revealed that Varian had also been targeted, and Sargathas demanded to know who dared threaten him.

At a Gilnean banquet, Lord Borr grabbed Anduin, and Valeera knocked him down to rescue the boy before the guards threatened her. Selina led Anduin through the garden to find Varian, but he vanished in the darkness.

• Lord Borr mistook Anduin for an unfamiliar noble’s child and grabbed him after Anduin refused to go with him.
• Valeera struck Lord Borr and pulled Anduin away, but Borr accused her of being an assassin and the guards surrounded her.
• Selina stopped Anduin from rushing at the guards and led him toward a side door to reach Varian.
• Selina and Anduin hurried along the dark garden path, but Anduin disappeared, leaving Selina calling for him as a shadow moved nearby.

Selina rescued Anduin from a wolf-like assassin by using Shadow magic after his Holy Light failed. With the monster subdued, Anduin reached for Selina’s hand, left shaken by the power that had saved him.

• Selina found Anduin held hostage by a wolf-like humanoid assassin and tried to keep him safe by approaching the creature.
• Selina distracted the assassin by claiming an elven guard was behind him, then struck him with a Shadow Bolt as he turned back toward her.
• Anduin’s Holy Light vanished under the strain, and he watched Selina reveal her Shadow powers and shield him.
• Selina incapacitated the charging assassin with Pain and Mind Whip, stopping his attack.
• Selina checked on Anduin, who grasped her hand as he struggled to understand how shadow had saved him when Holy Light had failed.

After Lord Borr accosted Anduin and a worgen assassin attacked, the kings confronted Gilneas’s security failures and Borr’s misconduct. Jaina suggested portraying Borr as the assassin’s inside man, leaving him disgraced and unable to appeal to the nobles for sympathy.

• Gilneas guards arrived after Selina and Anduin subdued the worgen, but Selina refused to answer their questions until she could see her parents.
• Liam learned that Lord Borr had insulted the Stormwind guests and that guards had been sent against their escorts while an assassin lurked in the garden.
• Varian reunited with Anduin, and Selina explained the incident to Sargathas as Genn apologized for the failure of Gilneas’s security.
• Lord Borr pleaded that his actions were a misunderstanding, while Genn struggled to punish him without provoking his nobles.
• Jaina followed Deren’s advice and implied that Borr had been the worgen’s inside man, causing Borr to collapse in fear.

After the engagement ceremony ended without further incident, Deren, Onyxia, and Lezi Long enjoyed the wedding banquet while Derek and Tess toasted them. Lezi Long secured Deren's promise to spend three days with her, as Sargathas observed their complicated relationship.

• The nobles returned to the banquet hall after guards arrested the werewolf assassin and his alleged accomplice, and Prince Liam oversaw renewed security.
• Lezi Long and Onyxia eagerly ate and drank after the engagement ceremony concluded, while Onyxia prepared food for Deren.
• Derek and Tess toasted Deren, and Tess thanked him for his suggestion to Jaina and mentioned her father's interest in future cooperation.
• Onyxia grew anxious when Tess approached Deren, and Lezi Long teased her before Onyxia stuffed roast meat into Lezi Long's mouth.
• Onyxia apologized to Lezi Long and offered to have Deren fulfill her terms, so Lezi Long demanded that he spend three days with her, and Deren agreed.
• Selina asked Sargathas what Deren, Onyxia, and Lezi Long were playing, and Sargathas told her she would understand when she grew up.

Genn interrogated the captured werewolf assassin, Ivar Bloodfang, and learned that the Wolf Cult had sent him to disrupt the marriage alliance with help from an unknown insider. Deren urged Genn to explain how the curse, rebellion, and infiltration began, and Genn prepared to reveal Archmage Argus’s role.

• Genn brought Deren, his companions, Varian, and Daelin to the dungeon to question the captured werewolf.
• When the werewolf broke its chains and lunged at Genn, Onyxia sent it flying and Deren told the guards to restrain it with thicker chains.
• Ivar Bloodfang identified himself as leader of the Bloodfang Werewolves and said Lalel, the Head Wolf of the Wolf Cult, had ordered the palace infiltration to sabotage the marriage alliance.
• Ivar revealed that an unknown insider supplied information and that he had been sent to retrieve orders at a designated place and time.
• Genn admitted the werewolf curse and Darius Crowley's rebellion had overwhelmed him, and Deren asked how the trouble began, especially regarding Archmage Argus.
• Genn recognized Argus as the source of the events and, after Deren gave permission, prepared to explain what the mage had done.

Genn recounted how Argus summoned werewolves to fight the Scourge, only for the creatures to turn on the survivors and spread their curse through Silverpine Forest. Deren and the others suspected a deity in the Emerald Dream was behind the outbreak, while Ivar revealed that the villages beyond the Grei Main Wall had all become werewolves.

• Genn told Deren and the others that Argus summoned werewolves to defeat the Undead, but they attacked the humans and infected soldiers who retreated beyond the Grei Main Wall.
• Genn explained that Darius Crowley rebelled after Genn refused to save the people north of the wall, and he said Argus had remained at what was now called Shadowfang Keep.
• Daelin and Varian offered troops to destroy the werewolves, while Deren questioned how Argus had reached the Emerald Dream and summoned them with arcane magic.
• Berisha said Deren's theory about a power within the Emerald Dream guiding Argus could work, but she could not believe a deity was responsible; the others then discussed the threat of a demigod.
• Genn asked Ivar how many werewolves had retained their sanity, and Ivar said everyone in Pyrewood Village, Ambermill, and Shadowfang Keep had been transformed and begged them to kill the werewolves.
• Genn fell silent, unable to decide to kill every werewolf, knowing that he too was cursed and would transform.

Deren questioned Ivar about how the Werewolf Curse spread and concluded that a demigod was gaining control over Gilneas through the werewolves. He outlined purification and destruction as options for dealing with the infected, while Genn hesitated over the choice; Deren then hinted that another method might be possible.

• Deren learned from Ivar that only Head Wolf Lalel and his subordinates could spread the curse, and that infected people transformed faster and survived more often than before.
• Deren explained that the curse was taking hold more efficiently because the demigod behind it had grown familiar with controlling Gilneas, a land overlooked by the other gods.
• Deren told Genn that the infected could be destroyed or purified after Lalel's death, with purification preserving their sanity as werewolves and removing the risk of spreading the curse.
• Daelin urged Genn to destroy the werewolves, but Genn hesitated because he had also been cursed.
• Deren said there was one more method they could try.

Deren brought Alexstrasza to examine Ivar and learned that the Werewolf Curse could not easily be reversed, though its spread could be stopped. Genn chose to protect the cursed Gilneans, and the group turned to eliminating Head Wolf Lalel and his followers.

• After Chromie fetched Alexstrasza, she examined Ivar and identified a powerful bloodline curse infused with the Moon Goddess's energy.
• Alexstrasza said restoring established werewolves would be difficult, but she could stop the curse from spreading and might restore those recently infected.
• Deren asked Genn whether the cursed werewolves of Gilneas should be purified or destroyed, and Ivar revealed that the infected could work as humans by day and became werewolves at night.
• Genn decided that the cursed werewolves were still his subjects and revealed that he too had been infected, while Berisha agreed to help restore their reason through the balancing ritual.
• Deren said the group now needed to eliminate Head Wolf Lalel and his werewolf subordinates.

Deren and his allies used the Scythe of Elune to lure Head Wolf Lalel away from Shadowfang Keep by restoring the worgen villagers’ sanity. As Lalel charged toward Burnwood Village, Deren’s group prepared to face him while the villagers fled.

• Deren and the gathered leaders decided to use Berisha and the Scythe of Elune as bait rather than attack Shadowfang Keep directly.
• Deren, Berisha, and their allies arrived at Burnwood Village, where Ivar gathered the worgen villagers for the ritual.
• Berisha used the Scythe of Elune to calm the villagers and free them from the worgen’s bloodlust.
• Lalel sensed the Scythe’s power from Shadowfang Keep and roared that he would hunt down those using it.
• Deren ordered Ivar to lead the villagers toward the Grei Main Wall as Lalel approached with a large force of worgen.
• Berisha asked whether she could speak with Lalel about Avril’s death, while Deren’s group prepared for the coming encounter.

Deren and his allies confronted Head Wolf Lalel at Burntwood Village, where Lalel revealed that he had caused Avril’s death to force Berisha to forge the Scythe of Elune. As Onyxia and Chromie fought off the werewolves, Lalel’s forces nearly reached Berisha before Deren’s reinforcements arrived.

• Lalel recognized Berisha and admitted that he had made Avril die before her eyes to ensure she forged the Scythe of Elune.
• Deren said Lalel had walked into a trap, but Lalel ordered his werewolves to attack and reclaim the Scythe.
• Onyxia and Chromie slaughtered the attacking werewolves while Lalel summoned Archmage Argus to hinder them with spells.
• Several werewolves broke through toward Deren and Berisha, but Deren said reinforcements were coming as Berisha prepared to fight.
• Jaina teleported in with Admiral Daelin Proudmoore, Varian, and others, who cut down the werewolves threatening Deren and Berisha.

The reinforcements overwhelmed the worgen, while Jaina and Varian blocked Head Wolf Lalel’s escape and Valeera killed Argus. Berisha prepared to avenge Avril, but Deren ordered Onyxia to restrain her, leaving Lalel alive.

• Genn agreed to pay Onyxia, Lezi Long, and Sargathas three thousand gold coins each for their help.
• Varian and Daelin cut down the worgen while Jaina disrupted Argus’s spells and prevented him from teleporting away.
• Lalel ordered Argus to cover his escape, but Jaina brought Varian to intercept the fleeing Head Wolf.
• Valeera emerged from Stealth after killing Argus and took valuables from his body, including the Book of Ul.
• Berisha confronted Lalel with the Scythe of Elune, but Deren told Onyxia to restrain her before she could take revenge.

Deren questioned Lalel about the Wolf Cult, the Werewolf Curse, and the Scythe of Elune, then offered him a chance to serve Elune instead of returning to the Emerald Dream. Lalel accepted after Deren showed him the Moon Goddess Seal and agreed to reveal everything that had happened in Gilneas.

• Deren stopped Berisha from attacking Lalel and questioned him about the Wolf Cult, learning that it gathered faith for a powerful being and that Shadowfang Keep was empty.
• Deren deduced that the Scythe of Elune had been made to steal Elune's divine power and enable the Werewolf Curse to affect her followers; Lalel confirmed his reasoning, and Berisha wept after learning she had been used.
• When Berisha dropped the Scythe of Elune, the Bronze Dragon took it, claiming to safeguard the historical artifact.
• Deren urged Lalel to abandon his master and serve Elune, and Lalel reconsidered after learning that his failure would bring punishment.
• Deren showed Lalel the Moon Goddess Seal, and Lalel pledged loyalty and agreed to tell Deren everything that had happened in Gilneas.

Avril revealed that he had served Godrin and helped Lalel conspire to obtain the divine power in Elune's staff, shattering Berisha's belief in their love. After Varian challenged Avril, Godrin appeared and addressed him.

• A ghost wolf attacked Lalel as he was about to reveal the truth, and the wolf transformed into Avril's ghost.
• Avril admitted serving Godrin, and Berisha realized that their romance and the attack involving the Scythe of Elune had been part of a conspiracy.
• Berisha turned to leave, and the Black Dragon knocked her unconscious before Avril could approach her.
• Avril threatened Deren and his companions in the Wolf God's name, so Deren invited Varian to challenge him.
• Avril said Godrin had forbidden him from fighting Varian, then summoned Godrin's phantom, which told Varian it had been waiting for him.