N'Zoth

On the sixth day after Varian returned—three days after he had left Tiffin's room—Bovar, far away in the Swamp of Sorrows, received a secret order from the King, delivered by Intelligence Department Seven. Its message was simple: Bovar was to withdraw his troops. Bovar hesitated for a day, then finally pulled back. But the thing he had worried about never happened. When Grimg saw Bovar retreat, he also led his army back to the Blasted Lands.

After the forest trolls captured Dun Modr Fortress, they too fell silent and made no further moves. This came as a relief to Dallas, who was stationed on the other side of Dwarven Bridge. But even as he breathed easier, Dallas stepped up preparations for battle. The reason was simple: the forest trolls were far more unsettling than the Scourge.

The fleets of the Alliance and Horde had been fighting for some time, but the conflict ended with the Horde fleet's retreat. The whole Eastern Kingdoms Continent seemed to return to its former tranquility in an instant. Yet while the Kul Tiras navy cheered aboard its warships, its sailors had no idea that their King—the very man they now regarded as a hero—was about to become a murderer who would spark a war, an ambitious schemer.

Unlike the jubilant celebrations throughout Kul Tiras, Stormwind City lay beneath a cloud of gloom. The Queen remained unconscious, the black dragon had wreaked havoc, and white funeral banners hung outside countless homes. War, the calamities that had befallen the Kingdom of Stormwind, and the suffering endured by Stormwind City's common folk were beyond the understanding of other nations. But for that very reason, now that Varian had once again become a King who gave people hope, his prestige had risen even higher. Everyone hoped he could lead