Chapter Summaries

Uther rallied Bastion’s scattered Kyrian against Archimonde until his prayer summoned Xe’ra and the Holy Light Legion. After the Legion drove Archimonde away, Xe’ra began converting the Kyrian, and Uther became the first to survive Lightforging.

• Devos immediately ascended Uther and fled with her Forsworn toward Maldraxxus, leaving him to defend Bastion.
• Uther rallied the Kyrian and led them into battle against Archimonde’s invading demons.
• Uther called upon the Holy Light, and Xe’ra arrived aboard the Xenedar with the Holy Light Legion, forcing Archimonde to retreat.
• Uther persuaded most surviving Kyrian to accept Xe’ra’s guidance, but her first attempts to Lightforge them caused them to vanish.
• Xe’ra infused Uther with Holy Light, and he endured the clash with Death Power to emerge transformed.

Uther and the Kyrian joined Xe'ra's Holy Light Legion and left Bastion, while Kil'jaeden gave Archimonde a way to counter Death Power. In Theramore, Deren, Jaina, and Onyxia traveled to Dalaran to find the Windrunner sisters, then left for Quel'Thalas after Mage Mogri repeatedly tried to recruit them for experiments.

• Xe'ra Lightforged Uther and the other Kyrian, then led them aboard the Xenedar to leave Bastion.
• Kil'jaeden extracted Death Power from a Kyrian and gave Archimonde a Fel Crystal containing a method to counter its weakening effects.
• Deren, Jaina, and Onyxia decided to visit Dalaran after hearing that the Windrunner sisters had caused a disturbance in Gilneas and Prince Liam had received Elune's Blessing.
• Jaina's group arrived in Dalaran, where Mage Mogri tried to experiment on Onyxia and then Alleria, who revealed Void Shadow Energy.
• Jaina's group reunited with Sylvanas, Alleria, and Vereesa at an inn, then teleported to Quel'Thalas to escape Mogri's demands.

Alleria, Sylvanas, Vereesa, and Laras visited the ruins of Windrunner Spire and remembered their lost home. After an old elf mistook them for travelers and shared stories of the Windrunner family, they left without revealing who they were.

• Vereesa led the group through the forest toward Windrunner Spire while the sisters discussed the Goblins' Sunwell Theme Park and its businesses.
• The family found Windrunner Spire in ruins, and Sylvanas recalled the Scourge attack as they mourned their lost home.
• Deren asked Alleria what she would do if she saw her parents again, but Alleria and Sylvanas rejected the idea and the group prepared to leave.
• An old elf greeted Alleria and spoke of the Windrunner sisters, but Alleria claimed they were only travelers.
• Deren accepted the old elf's basket of wild fruit and shared it with the group before they said goodbye and continued on their way.

The group revisited Silvermoon City, where Deren's attempt to teach Elf children to fear humans led to a confrontation that Vereesa had to help resolve. As the Windrunner sisters recalled the city's past and Deren's role in saving Sylvanas, Onyxia demanded that Deren carry her too.

• Alleria explained that the sisters had avoided telling the old Elf who they were to spare themselves and him a painful reunion, while Deren revealed he had hidden gold in the old man's fruit basket.
• Deren frightened Elf children in Silvermoon City, claiming he wanted them to flee from dangerous humans, and an angry Elf father confronted him; Jaina paid compensation to settle the dispute.
• Vereesa first left Deren to handle the confrontation, then apologized by explaining his intentions to the Elf father, who remained angry and walked away with his child.
• Alleria advised Vereesa to trust her friends and consider Deren's feelings, and Vereesa reflected on his understanding relationship with Onyxia and Jaina.
• Sylvanas told her sisters that Deren had once turned her into a Chocobo and carried her during the retreat from the Undead, and Onyxia then demanded that Deren carry her as well.

Deren joined Jaina, Onyxia, and the Windrunner Sisters for a visit to Sunwell Theme Park, where a hot-spring water fight turned chaotic before the women drank and sang together. In Revendreth, Denathrius ordered Renathal to retreat and stayed behind to cover the army’s escape.

• Sylvanas invited Deren and his companions to Sunwell Theme Park, and the group agreed to visit its hot springs.
• Denathrius ordered Renathal to lead the Venthyr army toward Maldraxxus and chose to remain behind as the demons advanced on Revendreth.
• At the mixed hot spring, Vereesa pounced on Deren, and Jaina summoned a Water Elemental that Sylvanas shattered.
• Jaina summoned an Ice Elemental during the water fight, chilling the spring until Onyxia restored its heat.
• Alleria and Vereesa left to rest, while Sylvanas and Onyxia shared wine with Jaina and left Deren to return to his room.

Deren dealt with a drunken Vereesa, who asked him to find her parents’ souls, then woke after another drunken night with Onyxia. At the bathhouse, Jaina recruited Alleria to lead a covert Theramore unit disguised as a Commercial Crime Investigation Department, while Arch-deacon Denathrius fought Archimonde’s army in Revendreth.

• Vereesa visited Deren’s room drunk, asked whether he could help her find her parents’ souls, and playfully overwhelmed him before falling asleep.
• Deren drank heavily to hide what had happened, and a mysterious figure who had come to collect Vereesa let him drunkenly grab and fool around with her.
• In Revendreth, Arch-deacon Denathrius confronted Archimonde and fought him and the demon army with Death Power.
• Deren woke beside Onyxia and learned that Vereesa was still asleep and had been grounded by Alleria for drinking too much.
• Jaina recruited Alleria to lead a Theramore unit investigating the Orcs and the Horde, and Deren proposed naming it the Commercial Crime Investigation Department to conceal its purpose.

Arch-deacon Denathrius used Lothraxion’s betrayal and self-destruction to disrupt Archimonde’s assault before escaping. At Sunwell Theme Park, Deren accompanied Vereesa to the customs street, where they secretly eavesdropped on a Troll hunter and an elf, and Vereesa ended the night by demanding Deren carry her.

• Arch-deacon Denathrius summoned Lothraxion, who brought the Xenedar and the Holy Light Legion into the battle against Archimonde’s demons.
• Lothraxion self-destructed in holy light, destroying many demons, and Arch-deacon Denathrius escaped while Archimonde turned toward the Xenedar.
• Deren accompanied Vereesa through the Sunwell Theme Park food street after the others chose beauty treatments.
• Vereesa dragged Deren to the customs street, where they hid on a staircase and listened to a Troll hunter with an elf upstairs.
• Vereesa’s legs went numb after they left, and she made Deren carry her home.

Denathrius stole the Arbiter’s key and lured the Burning Legion to attack Oribos, where Archimonde’s forces overwhelmed its defenders. Meanwhile, Deren spent a day with Onyxia, Jaina, and the Windrunner sisters on Azeroth, while conspirators in Argus discussed their plans and the Legion’s growing command of Death Power.

• Denathrius attacked the Arbiter, took the key from its chest, and warned Roh-Tahl that enemies might follow him to Oribos.
• Roh-Tahl alerted the Attendants, but Archimonde and the Burning Legion opened a rift above Oribos and attacked, eventually overwhelming the defenders.
• Deren made breakfast for Onyxia, and Jaina arrived to join them; Onyxia and Jaina arranged for Deren to accompany them to the hot spring that night.
• Deren joined Onyxia, Jaina, and the three elven sisters on a shopping trip, where Vereesa suggested shopping alone with him and Sylvanas warned him not to encourage her.
• Archimonde ordered demons to take the Attendants’ corpses to Kil’jaeden for research after the Legion seized Oribos.
• In cages beneath Antorus, Aman'Thul and a female captive discussed the failed Shadowlands arrangement, the Legion’s spread across worlds, and their continuing Progenitor Sanctum plan.

Leras Windrunner heard Polina Sunstrider playing the harp in an abandoned garden and met her after tumbling out of an inn window. After they bonded over music and arranged to meet again, he paid Yanis for information about Polina, but ended up asking Yanis to show him around Silvermoon City.

• Leras heard Polina playing the harp and fell from the inn window while applauding, then apologized for startling her.
• Polina took offense when Leras asked whether she performed at Sunwell Paradise, but reconsidered and let him play her harp.
• Leras and Polina exchanged names, discovered each other's family ties, and spent the morning talking about music before agreeing to meet again the next day.
• An attendant named Yanis offered information about Polina for a coin, then revealed she was Polina's distant cousin and offered to take Leras to her home.
• Leras stopped Yanis and asked her to guide him around Silvermoon City, and she happily agreed.

Laras spent time with Yanis and Polina in Silvermoon City, and both women grew interested in visiting Theramore after he described its opportunities for elves. The chapter ended with Laras suggesting they ask his sisters how Polina and her ailing mother could manage the journey.

• Yanis showed Laras around Silvermoon City, shared that she was the sole survivor of her family, and explained that Polina worked to support her injured mother.
• Polina played music with Laras the next morning and invited him to lunch, where Yanis joined them.
• Yanis and Polina learned that Laras had three famous Windrunner sisters and that he planned to return to Theramore with them in a few days.
• Laras described work and support available to elves in Theramore, prompting Yanis to consider moving there and Polina to hope that her mother could receive treatment.
• Yanis revealed that Polina's mother had difficulty traveling and that they lacked the money for the journey, so Laras proposed asking his sisters for advice.

Denathrius freed Zovaal in the Maw and sent the Jailer’s army to Maldraxxus to fight the Burning Legion. At the Theater of the Chosen, Draka, Devos, and Renathal struggled against demons that endlessly resurrected, while the other Maldraxxus houses remained on the sidelines.

• Denathrius told the imprisoned Zovaal that the Burning Legion had invaded the Shadowlands and urged him to unite the remaining forces in Maldraxxus.
• Denathrius gave Zovaal the Arbiter’s key, restoring part of his power and breaking his chains.
• Zovaal summoned the Maw’s army and led it through a spatial rift toward Maldraxxus.
• Devos and Prince Renathal led the Kyrian Forsworn and Venthyr alongside Maldraxxus forces as Archimonde and Kil’jaeden’s demons overwhelmed them with endless reinforcements.
• Draka reinforced Marquis Kraxus and helped him defeat the Abyssal Lord Malocnosa, then ordered her war fortress to fire on the regrouping demons.
• Draka asked Devos’s Forsworn to protect the forces behind them as the House of the Chosen continued fighting without support from the other houses.

Zovaal’s forces overwhelmed the Burning Legion in Maldraxxus, prompting most of its houses to pledge loyalty while Archimonde escaped. Back in Azeroth, Deren relaxed with Onyxia and Jaina at a hot spring, where their massage session was interrupted by the spying Vereesa.

• Zovaal led The Maw’s army into Maldraxxus and battled Archimonde as Marquis Kraxus ordered his troops to retreat.
• Denathrius persuaded the houses of Maldraxxus to join Zovaal, while Devos and the Kyrian Forsworn also pledged their support.
• Zovaal’s anima-powered forces weakened the demons, and Archimonde fled through a rift as his army fell into disarray.
• After the demons were defeated, the great houses of Maldraxxus pledged loyalty to Zovaal, while Denathrius watched him with a hidden smile.
• At the Sunwell Theme Park hot spring, Deren massaged Onyxia and Jaina, and Onyxia massaged him in return.
• Vereesa followed the group after their bath, admitted she had wanted to see what they were doing, and returned to her room with them.

The Jailer sent a Maw vanguard through a rift to Argus, where Archimonde and Kil'jaeden fought it off using fel energy and began studying captured soldiers. In Silvermoon City, Laras introduced Yanis and Polina to his sisters and asked to bring them to Theramore, while Alleria urged her younger sisters to let him manage his own relationships.

• The Jailer opened a rift to the Twisting Nether and sent a Maw vanguard to attack Argus.
• Archimonde and Kil'jaeden discovered that Maw soldiers turned slain demons' souls into anima, then used Fel Contamination Shells and Archimonde's fel force field to defeat the vanguard.
• Archimonde gave captured Maw soldiers to Kil'jaeden for study as the Jailer and Denathrius discussed overcoming fel energy and conquering the Twisting Nether.
• Laras introduced Yanis and Polina to Sylvanas, Vereesa, and Alleria and asked to take them to Theramore so Polina could seek help for her mother.
• Alleria stopped Sylvanas and Vereesa from investigating or interfering with Laras's new friends, then suggested they tour Silvermoon City with them.

Deren and Jaina met Kael'thas and learned that the Burning Legion was trapped in a devastating war in the Twisting Nether. After returning to Theramore, Deren revealed his plan to help the Windrunner Sisters find their parents' souls, while Laras began a new life with his companions.

• Alleria brought Laras's two elf companions to join Jaina's group, and Jaina agreed to bring them along with Polina's sick mother.
• Kael'thas led Deren, Jaina, and their companions to meet Anasterian, who described the Legion's war against a death realm and said he planned to live in seclusion while Kael governed Quel'Thalas.
• The group returned to Theramore, where city officials took Polina's mother to seek healing and Laras left with his companions.
• At home, Deren told Onyxia he had promised Vereesa to try to retrieve the Windrunner parents' souls from the Shadowlands.
• Onyxia said Chromie had been sent on a mission because the Timeline was unstable, and the family gathered to prepare dinner.

Chromie learned that Nozdormu was monitoring the altered Timeline, then got tricked into agreeing to write him a report before deciding Deren could write it for her. In Theramore, Deren tried to keep his morning with Anveena from raising Sinestra’s suspicions, but Chromie appeared just as Anveena teased him in the kitchen.

• Nozdormu questioned Chromie about the Shadowlands connecting to the Twisting Nether and warned her not to reveal Timeline secrets or interfere in mortal affairs.
• Nozdormu demanded a report of at least one hundred thousand words, negotiated Chromie down to ten thousand, and then told unseen Creators that the Timeline was normal.
• Nozdormu consulted a gold coin that represented Azeroth and agreed to keep the dragons uninvolved while the Burning Legion fought the Army of the Dead.
• Chromie struggled with the report, decided Deren should write it for her, and vanished from her room to find him.
• Deren greeted Sinestra in the living room while Anveena finished breakfast, then returned to the kitchen and helped her plate the food.
• Anveena teased Deren as he worked, and a bronze-colored light flashed through the kitchen.

Lezi Long dragged Deren through a Time Rift to write her required ten-thousand-word report, and he finished it after she helped him with massages. He returned to Theramore, where Onyxia scolded Lezi Long, while Deren wondered what had been in the tea she served him.

• Lezi Long interrupted Deren making breakfast and pulled him through a Time Rift to her lavish office, where she asked him to write a ten-thousand-word report.
• Deren refused to ghostwrite the report at first, but agreed to help after Lezi Long failed to glimpse the future report and begged him.
• Lezi Long explained the report's format and observations, and Deren organized her notes into an outline and drafted the report.
• Lezi Long massaged Deren's back, hands, and feet as he proofread and completed the report, then she promised to copy it out herself.
• Lezi Long returned Deren to Theramore, where Onyxia scolded her and Deren claimed he was exhausted from writing before suspecting the tea had contained slime.

Deren went with Vereesa to ask Elune to search the realm of death for her parents’ souls, while also claiming the promised gift of eternal life. After Elune began the search and transformed Deren, he reunited with Vereesa and ran into Sylvanas, who openly declared she would not let him escape her attention.

• Deren told Onyxia he wanted Vereesa to accompany him to seek her deceased parents in the Shadowlands, and Onyxia let him go without joining them.
• Deren and Vereesa visited Elune at the Temple of the Moon, where Elune agreed to ask her sister and the Archon’s eldest daughter, Gristhia, to search for Vereesa’s parents’ souls.
• Elune took Vereesa’s memories of her parents and sent their information to the rulers of the realm of death, warning that finding the souls would take time.
• Elune granted Deren eternal life by transforming him with moonlight and noted that powers beyond Azeroth’s Soul were present within him.
• Vereesa worried about whether her parents could return, and Deren asked her to keep the possibility from her siblings until there was news.
• Sylvanas caught Vereesa holding Deren’s arm, scolded them, and then told Deren she refused to let him get away from her.

Deren met Stellagosa in Theramore, where she told him White Jaina had returned to her Timeline and asked for his advice about the dragons’ future. Their conversation also uncovered rumors about Deathwing and a missing Black Dragon Egg, before their drinking turned intimate.

• Deren encountered Stellagosa on his way home, and she told him White Jaina had returned to her Timeline and planned to rebuild Theramore.
• Stellagosa asked what path the dragons should take, and Deren advised them to do nothing about the Dragon Isles and their future.
• Stellagosa shared rumors that Malygos and Alexstrasza were discussing the dragons’ homeland and that Kalecgos had been acting strangely.
• Stellagosa told Deren that Deathwing was making moves at Deeprock Abyss and supposedly planned to pass on the position of Earth-Warder.
• Stellagosa revealed that a Black Dragon Egg called Ragnaros had gone missing, and Deren said he and Oni had no interest in the position.
• Deren and Stellagosa drank together and became intimate, and Deren noticed his immortality-given power as he tried to subdue her.

The Jailer escalated the war on Argus, but Archimonde and the Burning Legion resisted with the help of the Maw Walker and Maldraxxus forces. After the Jailer and Denathrius entered the battle, both sides’ leaders avoided a decisive fight, leaving their armies locked in another war of attrition.

• The Jailer sent a much larger army to Argus, and Archimonde reversed the Legion’s collapse by attacking The Maw’s forces himself.
• The Jailer sent the amnesiac Maw Walker into the demon ranks, where Kil'jaeden fought him and the Maw Walker summoned Maldraxxus battle fortresses before disappearing through a rift.
• The Jailer and Denathrius joined the battle, and the Jailer struck Archimonde with a powerful Finger of Death that Archimonde survived by sacrificing an arm.
• The Jailer and Archimonde withdrew rather than risk a direct fight, while Denathrius and Kil'jaeden also avoided a decisive duel.
• The Maw and Burning Legion armies resumed their battle, and the war settled into a stalemate of attrition.

Aman'Thul and the Titans responded to the Shadowlands' war against the Twisting Nether and planned to send Azeroth's dragons back to the Dragon Isles. On Xe'ra's orders, Turalyon and Uther took separate missions in the Shadowlands, and Uther arrived in Korthia to search for a mysterious sigil.

• Aman'Thul told the Titans that Neltharion had been gravely wounded by Onyxia, and proposed using Black Dragons to bring Azeroth's Dragon Race back to the Dragon Isles.
• Xe'ra received mysterious information about the Shadowlands and summoned Turalyon and Uther to assign them separate missions.
• Turalyon accepted the mission to find a Shadowlands leader, and Xe'ra used Uther's Death Power to help him survive before teleporting him away.
• Xe'ra sent Uther to Korthia to find a sigil that could earn the Shadowlands leader's trust.
• Uther arrived in Korthia's wasteland and heard a strange voice identify the place.