Recaps

After the Dragon Banquet, Medivh strengthened the Wrynn Family’s ties to the Dragons, earned an upgrade from Viscount to Earl, and continued advancing his own power. He left the chapter as a Count and a Low-Grade Yellow Bone Bone Spirit.

• Lilia and the other Frost Dragonlings chose sites for their Dragon Nests in the Hengduan Mountains, then returned to Ulan City and resumed raising their people and maids.
• Medivh used the Dragon Banquet and the Dragons’ presence to protect the Wrynn Family while expanding its forces with Dragonblood.
• The Gewalt Federation elevated the Wrynn Family to an Earl Family, and Count Wrynn received congratulations from relatives and noble families.
• Audrey celebrated becoming an Earl’s wife, and Medivh later advanced his Dragonblood Knight and Dragonblood Sorcerer ranks to high Fourth Rank.
• Medivh strengthened his bones with Bone Power and became a Low-Grade Yellow Bone Bone Spirit.

After advancing to a Low-Grade Yellow Bone Bone Spirit, Medivh strengthened his Bone Spirit Substitutes and opened a Plane Portal from Black Furnace Fortress to Storm City. He reviewed the Wrynn Family’s expanding territories and skeleton production, while preparing to strengthen Number Two and bring the new substitutes into the assembly line.

• Medivh advanced to a Low-Grade Yellow Bone Bone Spirit, gaining four additional Bone Spirit Substitute slots, and strengthened Number One, Number Three, and Number Four.
• Medivh and Number Two used a Chaotic Elemental Storm to open a Plane Portal at Black Furnace Fortress, connecting it to Storm City.
• Medivh recalled Number Two to Kurd City and sent Number Three to oversee Black Furnace Fortress.
• Medivh reviewed the Wrynn Family’s expanding cities and territories across its planes, including the Skeleton Legion’s advances on the Blackstone Plane.
• Medivh reviewed his skeleton production over the past two years and planned to strengthen Number Two before deploying the four new Bone Spirit Substitutes.

Medivh expanded his Bone Spirit Substitute forces while Sindasa and Natalie welcomed an Azure Wave Dragon egg. Natalie later moved her clan to the Hengduan Mountains to work with the Wrynn Family, bringing a young dragon and an egg with her.

• Medivh advanced Bone Spirit Substitute Number Two to Low-Grade Yellow Bone and began mass-producing Purple Bone substitutes.
• Azure Wave Dragon Natalie laid an egg, and Medivh arranged an Incubation Nest for it in the Hengduan Mountains.
• After recovering, Natalie moved her household from the East Sea to the Hengduan Mountains and claimed the Azure Wave River basin.
• Natalie asked Medivh to trade offerings for her dragon blood, and he agreed to build her a Dragon Nest nearby.
• Sindasa recognized the young Azure Wave Dragon and egg that Natalie had brought to the valley.

Medivh cared for Vellona and used dragon blood to support his growing operation while planning to expand Wrynn Family control along the East Sea. Natalie’s move attracted other Azure Wave Dragons, and six young dragons settled nearby as Medivh secured a blood-donation agreement with more.

• Medivh arranged for Vellona’s Azure Dragon Egg to be incubated, and Vellona stayed at Tower No. 1 to enjoy his Elemental Spirit Fruits.
• After half a month of overeating, Vellona returned to Natalie, then went back to Medivh, who used bloodletting to restore her health and collect dragon blood.
• Medivh planned to attract more Azure Wave Dragons to the East Sea so their Dragon Servants would clear the Murlocs and open a shipping route for the Wrynn Family.
• Other Azure Wave Dragons visited Natalie and Kurd City, and Medivh’s forces taught a visiting Sub-adult Dragon not to raid the city.
• Six Youth Azure Wave Dragons moved to the East Sea coast, while four Sub-adult Dragons and eight Youth Dragons agreed to donate blood in exchange for crystals and fruit.

Six Youth Azure Wave Dragons settled near the Wrynn Family’s territory and signed a pact to help defend it. Meanwhile, Saruman learned of Medivh’s ties to powerful Dragons and remained unable to reach him, while Bishop Moana continued to protect Medivh.

• The six Youth Azure Wave Dragons moved to the East Sea coast, established territories with help from their servant tribes, and signed the Dragon City-State Pact with the Wrynn Family.
• Dorothy, Charlotte, and Adeline stayed at Veledra’s Dragon Nest while their homes were built, and Liam, Oliver, and Andrew stayed with Sindasa.
• Frail told Saruman that powerful Dragons had attended Medivh’s banquet and left their descendants in Wrynn Territory.
• Saruman erupted in anger over Medivh’s connections, then offered Frail a magical modification after warning him to forget what he had seen.
• Medivh stayed within the protection of his allies as Bishop Moana followed him wherever he went.

Medivh’s dragon population and the Wrynn Family’s control of the Wan River enabled the newly formed Azure Wave Merchant Group to open a protected sea route to Stillwater Port. The fleet’s grain cargo sold quickly, and the route promised a faster supply line between the Odyssey Region and Gevot’s coastal city-states.

• Vellona reached the early Fifth Rank after growing quickly under Medivh’s care, while Wrynn Territory’s dragons and incubating eggs totaled fourteen dragons and six eggs.
• Azure Wave Dragon tribes drove nearby Murloc tribes away, letting the Wrynn Family control the Wan River to its estuary and the Azure Wave Dragons claim nearby shores and waters.
• The Azure Wave Merchant Group sent more than fifty cargo ships from Dragon Gate Ferry Harbor, carrying goods under Wrynn and Azure Wave Dragon flags.
• Protected by Dragon Servant tribes, the fleet sailed about six hundred kilometers along the coast and arrived safely at Stillwater Port.
• A tax official identified the fleet as belonging to Count Wrynn and recognized that it had opened a valuable route through waters other merchant groups could not cross.
• Local merchants quickly bought the fleet’s inexpensive grain.

Medivh established the Azure Wave Merchant Group’s protected sea route between Stillwater Port and Odyssey City-State, creating profitable trade for both regions. As the rainy season began and Murlocs gathered at Wan River, he allowed them to enter the river basin.

• Medivh told Odyssey City-State’s envoy that the Azure Wave Merchant Group would handle trade with Black Mountain City-State under the Azure Wave Dragon Clan’s protection.
• After seeing Azure Wave Dragons and their servants guarding the route, representatives from both city-states agreed to trade through Anthony and the merchant group.
• Sophia presented the Wrynn Family’s gifts and profit-sharing plan to the Azure Wave Dragon Queen, who confirmed the clan’s protection of the merchant group.
• Trade flourished, enriching the city-state nobles and the Wrynn Family while bringing the Azure Wave Dragon Clan its share of profits.
• When Murlocs gathered at Wan River during the rainy season and faced off against the aquatic Dragon Servant clans, Medivh ordered the Azure Wave Dragons to let them enter the river basin.

Medivh allowed the fishmen to enter Wan River for their rainy-season foraging, preserving the tacit peace between humans and fishmen. He grew closer to Vellona, learned that Suixiang was expecting his child, and continued training while checking on the dragon eggs.

• Medivh let the fishmen pass through his territory into Wan River, where they foraged in the flooded lands under the rainy-season understanding between the fishmen and the Odyssey City-State.
• Vellona asked Medivh to transform, and he flew with her to her Dragon Nest, where they became close.
• Suixiang became pregnant, and Medivh gave her the Wrynn family name, prompting celebrations among the Spirit Cat Tribe.
• Medivh continued his training and assigned Bone Spirit Substitutes No. 5 through No. 8 to produce skeletons in Kurd City and the Other Plane's Block Cities.
• Medivh checked the dragon eggs in Ulan City and Crimson City; the Ice-Blue Dragon Egg communicated telepathically, while the three Lava Dragon eggs remained dormant.

The Scare-Claw Tribe abandoned the Southern Plains as the Skeleton Legion’s Block City divided its territory, while Medivh expanded into the region and continued searching for his father, Rhine. As the Skeleton Legion prepared to face the advancing Swamp Monsters, Medivh called a meeting to plan how to keep the city from sinking into their mire.

• The Scare-Claw Tribe’s chief ordered the Werewolves to evacuate the Southern Plains and concentrate against the Human Legion, leaving the Skeleton Legion and Swamp Monsters to fight over the abandoned territory.
• The Block City expanded west to more than five hundred and forty kilometers, cutting off the Southern Plains from the Scare-Claw Tribe’s heartland.
• Second Elder Udir left Sunset City to rejoin the Hobarton Family’s front line after saying farewell to Medivh and urging him to keep searching for Rhine.
• Medivh sent skeleton expeditions into the hills to search for Rhine and excavate historical bones while the Skeleton Engineering Team completed Sunset City Five and expanded south.
• Medivh summoned the Skeleton Mages to discuss how to defend the Block City from the Swamp Monsters’ Fossil-to-Mud Technique.

Medivh sent the Skeleton Mage Corps to counter the Mud Swamp Monsters while he fought the Red Wolf Clan and their Red Dragon ally. After Shyvana drove the Skeleton Army back to Sunset City Five, Medivh confronted her himself and brought her down with his Eight-Armed Skeleton Golem, but she refused to surrender.

• The Skeleton Mage Corps captured Mud Swamp Monsters and prepared to defend the Magic Rune Walls around Block City.
• The Red Wolf Clan expanded into the Scare-Claw Tribe's hills, and Medivh sent the Skeleton Army to contest the territory.
• A young Red Dragon drove the Skeleton Army back, allowing the Red Wolf Clan to advance to the gates of Sunset City Five.
• Medivh brought Oriana to Sunset City, formed his Eight-Armed Skeleton Golem, and challenged the Red Dragon Shyvana without asking her to join the fight.
• Medivh's Dragon-Hunting Bone Chains bound Shyvana and dragged her to the ground, but she continued to resist as the golem demanded her surrender.

Medivh reunited with his long-missing father Rhine, who had been serving as Shyvana’s guardian, and learned that his mother Aurora had died after believing Rhine was dead. Rhine grieved her loss, and Medivh asked him what had happened during the years he was missing.

• Shyvana urged General Weilong to help her fight Medivh, but Rhine refused and revealed that he was Rhine Hobarton, Medivh’s father.
• Medivh told Rhine that he had left the Hobarton Family and founded the Wrynn Family as a Pioneer.
• Rhine asked about Aurora, and Medivh told him that she had died from grief after news of Rhine’s supposed death reached them.
• Rhine wept and blamed himself for being absent when Aurora needed him.
• Medivh told Rhine that Aurora had never blamed him and asked what had happened during his years away.

Rhine explained how the Red Dragon Queen had made him a Dragon Servant, and Medivh learned why his father could not return home. Facing the danger of the Red Dragon Queen’s retaliation, Medivh tried to make Shyvana join his side, but she turned the confrontation to her advantage and left him exhausted.

• Rhine recounted how the Red Dragon Queen rescued his soldiers, gave them dragon blood, and appointed him General Weilong to serve Shyvana.
• Medivh understood why Rhine had stayed away and discussed with him how to prevent the Red Dragon Queen from attacking Lanluo City over Shyvana’s capture.
• Rhine suggested making Shyvana one of their own, and Medivh gave him the Dragon Transformation Art to help persuade her.
• Shyvana rejected Medivh’s offer of Fire Elemental Crystals and Fire Spirit Fruits, so Medivh transformed into a Lava Dragon and confronted her.
• After three days, Shyvana used a Dragon Secret Art to pin Medivh down and exhaust him, then taunted him as he staggered away.

Audrey and Hilda reunited with Rhine in Sunset City, where he met their children and learned Medivh had secured peace with the Red Dragon Shyvana. Second Elder Udir arrived and accepted that Rhine could not return to the Hobarton Family, content that his former student was alive.

• Audrey introduced Anduin, Hilda, Jaina, and Bolvar to Rhine, who was delighted to meet his family.
• Rhine noticed Medivh avoided Shyvana, and Medivh complained that her dark magic had left him powerless and drained.
• Shyvana taught Oriana her dark-magic methods, while Medivh ordered the Skeleton Mage Corps to develop body-tempering techniques.
• After signing the Dragon City-State Pact, the Skeleton Army joined Rhine's forces to help Shyvana expand her territory, while Sunset City continued growing toward the Swamp Monsters.
• Second Elder Udir arrived in Sunset City and embraced Rhine, who explained that he could not return to the Hobarton Family or fight for it.
• Udir told Rhine that his survival mattered more than his inability to return, and said he remained in the prime of life.

Rhine reunited with Second Elder Udir, while Medivh learned that the Gnoll Kingdom had invaded Blue Bay City. He evacuated the city’s allies and triggered a devastating Chaotic Elemental Storm that engulfed the Gnoll army.

• Second Elder Udir sparred with Rhine and discovered that his student had become a peak Tier 6 Knight through the Red Dragon Queen’s Origin Dragon Blood.
• Medivh kept Rhine from going to Blue Bay City, where the Gnoll Kingdom’s army and Tier 6 Transcendents had breached the city defenses.
• Number Two ordered the Light Priests and stationed army to evacuate Blue Bay City before the City Burning Plan began.
• After Number Two returned to Crimson City, the Wrynn Dark Towers activated their hidden energy and unleashed a Chaotic Elemental Storm across Blue Bay City.
• The storm killed ordinary Gnolls and Transcendents below Tier 5, while Tier 5 and stronger fighters struggled to survive.

After the Gnoll Kingdom captured Blue Bay City, Medivh triggered the city’s defenses, destroying most of its invading army and crippling the kingdom. The city’s Elemental Well contained the resulting storm, and while Blue Bay City was rebuilt, its ruins yielded magical materials and naturally enchanted equipment.

• The Gnoll Kingdom’s forces captured Blue Bay City, but the city’s self-destruction unleashed a Chaotic Elemental Storm that killed most of the invaders and drove human reinforcements back.
• The Odyssey City-State’s powerhouses hunted the fleeing Gnolls, while the Dark Tower’s spirits and hidden Elemental Skeleton Mages repaired the Spatial Rift and built an Elemental Well to contain the storm.
• The Gnoll Kingdom lost nearly all its attacking force, the Porcupine Kingdom withdrew from the occupied territory, and nobles of the Odyssey City-State became more cautious in dealing with the Wrynn Family.
• Medivh ordered the Skeleton Legion to rebuild Blue Bay City and contain lingering elemental erosion as the Elemental Well began producing Elemental Crystals.
• The Dark Tower’s spirits found metal, weapons, armor, plants, and seeds transformed by the storm, prompting the Research Group’s Alchemical Mages and Magic Rune Mages to study the newly formed magical equipment.

Blue Bay City became an elemental-industrial center, while Medivh grew closer to Shyvana and learned that she might teach Veledra the Red Dragon Secret Art. As Sunset City’s forces fought the Swamp Monsters, Shyvana identified their new Mud Swamp Dragon fighters as Sub-Dragons and suggested Oriana could bring them under her control.

• The Skeleton Corps rebuilt Blue Bay City as an elemental-industrial city and used its Elemental Well to increase Elemental Crystal production.
• Medivh visited Shyvana in dragon form, and she praised his progress after he walked on her back without her using the Dragon Secret Art.
• Shyvana continued caring for Medivh while teaching the Red Dragon Secret Art to Oriana and considering adapting it for Veledra.
• Shyvana offered to help fight the Swamp Monsters, but Medivh said Sunset City’s forces were holding them back.
• When Mud Swamp Dragons charged from the marsh, Shyvana explained that they were Sub-Dragons descended from extinct Rock Dragons and suggested Oriana try to control them.

Oriana and Medivh secured the Mud Swamp Dragons’ submission after Rhine and Shyvana demonstrated the Red Dragon Clan’s power. Medivh then accompanied Oriana to the Rock Dragon Hall, where the Mud Swamp Dragons welcomed him after he revealed his Lava Dragon form.

• Oriana refused the Mud Swamp Dragons’ request to return with them, and Rhine demanded that they submit or die.
• Rhine and Shyvana intimidated the Mud Swamp Dragons, who pledged themselves to Oriana and ended their battle with the Skeleton Army.
• Medivh and Rhine accompanied Oriana to the Mud Swamp Dragons’ ancestral land, where more than forty dragons greeted them.
• The Mud Swamp Dragon elder led Oriana and Medivh through the swamp to the Rock Dragon Hall and opened the Rock Dragon Tomb for Oriana.
• Medivh transformed into a Lava Dragon when the elder barred him from the tomb, and the Mud Swamp Dragons celebrated the prospect of having a pair of dragons.

Medivh resurrected an ancient Yellow Bone Dragon in the Rock Dragon Tomb while the Dragon Spirit Guardians chose Oriana as leader of the Rock Dragon Clan. The newly restored Rock Bone Dragon Nadal emerged with them, leaving the Mud Swamp Dragon elder baffled by his strange, living-like nature.

• Medivh refined an eleven-hundred-year-old Yellow Bone Dragon skeleton in the Rock Dragon Tomb, awakening its Dragon Spirit Guardians.
• The Dragon Spirit Guardians explored Oriana's memories, gave her the Rock Dragon Clan's scepter, and appointed her clan leader to rebuild the clan.
• Medivh restored the Bone Dragon with Earth Element Crystals, and it grew into a powerful Rock Bone Dragon named Nadal who retained his memories from life.
• Nadal accepted Oriana as clan leader and agreed to follow her orders, while Medivh realized the resurrection might someday help him bring back his mother.
• Medivh, Oriana, and Nadal left the tomb, and the Mud Swamp Dragon elder recognized that Nadal was neither an ordinary living dragon nor an undead creature.

Medivh resurrected Nadal and used Oriana’s authority to bring the Mud Swamp Dragons under the Rock Dragon Clan, while promising to help them evolve. After building ties with the clan and resurrecting twenty-five Rock Bone Dragons, Medivh began another breakthrough by creating a Red Bone Mud Swamp Dragon.

• Nadal revealed himself to the Mud Swamp Dragons, and they accepted Oriana as their queen after recognizing the Rock Dragon Scepter.
• Nadal explained that Medivh had resurrected him on the Dragon Spirit Guardian’s instructions, and he asked Oriana for Origin Dragon Blood to reassure the Mud Swamp Dragons.
• Medivh arranged an underground passage between the Rock Dragon Hall and Sunset City, and three Mud Swamp Dragons received a bloodline upgrade.
• Medivh spent two and a half months resurrecting twenty-five Rock Bone Dragons, but he could not refine the Red-Grade Dragon remains.
• Medivh used six Mud Swamp Dragon skeletal sections to resurrect a Mid-Grade Red Bone Mud Swamp Dragon, earning a special reward that activated his mental energy.

Medivh advanced to Fourth-Rank Advanced Necromancer, revived a Rock Bone Dragon, and spent time with Veledra and Shyvana. Shyvana warned him to keep the revived Rock Bone Dragons away from unfamiliar dragons because using dragon remains was taboo.

• Medivh broke through to Fourth-Rank Advanced Necromancer and reflected on his nineteen years of growth.
• Medivh revived a top-grade Yellow Bone Rock Bone Dragon and returned from the Rock Dragon Tomb to Mud Swamp City.
• Veledra used the Red Dragon Secret Art with Medivh, who endured it until the effect ended.
• Medivh visited Shyvana, who chose not to use the secret art and let their encounter unfold naturally.
• Shyvana visited Mud Swamp City, recognized the Rock Bone Dragons as revived Rock Dragon remains, and warned Medivh to hide them from unfamiliar dragons.

Medivh helped the Rock Bone Dragons transform into Rock Dragon Colossi while Rhine reunited with his family in Sunset City. Later, Ice Blue Dragon Lissandra hatched, and Veledra discovered she was carrying twins before taking Lissandra to the Hengduan Mountains.

• Medivh taught Nadal and the Rock Bone Dragons to transform into Rock Dragon Colossi, and assigned them to improve themselves and nurture the Mud Swamp Dragon Tribe.
• Draven brought Rhine's family to Sunset City, where Rhine reunited with them after thirty years apart.
• Medivh learned that the Ice-Blue Dragon Egg had hatched and traveled with Veledra and Sindasa to Ulan City to meet Lissandra.
• Veledra teased Lissandra about her appetite, then became her strict big sister and controlled her diet.
• Lissandra noticed Veledra was weak, and Veledra discovered she was pregnant with twins.
• Veledra took Lissandra home to the Horn Plane and prepared to claim territory and build a nest in the Hengduan Mountains.

Medivh celebrated Veledra’s twin pregnancy, arranged a Dragon Nest for Lissandra, and welcomed his eighth child, Ansaniya. In Sunset City, Shyvana impressed visiting Red Dragons, and Lairna decided to stay after discovering the food and comforts there.

• Veledra told Medivh she was pregnant with twins, and he encouraged Oriana and Vellona to use the Red Dragon Secret Art.
• Medivh arranged a Dragon Nest for Lissandra in the Hengduan Mountains, and she went to stay with the Frost Dragon Sisters while Veledra recovered.
• Suixiang gave birth to Medivh’s daughter Ansaniya Loran Hobarton Wrynn, who received a blessing from the Holy Light.
• Red Dragons visiting Shyvana were astonished by her control of Sunset City and her alliance with the Mud Swamp Dragons.
• Lairna chose to stay with Shyvana and eagerly asked where they would raid, but Shyvana told her to stay home and eat and sleep.
• Lairna changed her mind about leaving when she saw the food at the Red Dragon Restaurant and asked Shyvana for another chance.

Shyvana took in Lairna and taught Vellona the Red Dragon Secret Art while Medivh prepared for his next advancement. The Odyssey City-State then ordered its families to join a campaign on the Blackstone Plane, disappointing Medivh because the Wrynn Family was already established there.

• Shyvana let Lairna stay with her, and Lairna met Vellona, who had come at Medivh's request to learn the Red Dragon Secret Art.
• Shyvana adapted the Red Dragon Secret Art for Vellona, who later introduced High Tower Maids from the Fire Fox and Fire Cat clans to serve Shyvana.
• Medivh stayed in Kurd City with his family, cared for Veledra as she carried a dragon egg, and stockpiled bones to prepare for advancing as a Necromancer.
• The Odyssey City-State Council ordered its families to prepare for war and join the campaign against the Indigenous Tribal Alliance on the Blackstone Plane.
• Medivh regretted the mobilization because the Wrynn Family was already established on the Blackstone Plane.

Medivh let the Odyssey City-State Expeditionary Legion take the lead in the war against the Horde while the Wrynn Family supplied provisions and focused on developing its territory. After three years of cultivation, he learned to resurrect Top-Grade Red Bone Transcendental Skeletons and reviewed the millions of Skeletons supporting the family’s growth.

• The Wrynn Family agreed to serve as quartermaster for the Odyssey Expeditionary Legion but sent no combat troops.
• The city-state allied forces launched a major counteroffensive against the Horde, while Medivh kept Sunset City’s defenders in place and avoided claiming the Scare-Claw Tribe’s land.
• Medivh continued cultivating instead of joining the war, aiming to strengthen himself before attempting to advance to Fifth-Rank Necromancer.
• By early April of the following year, Medivh successfully resurrected a Top-Grade Red Bone Transcendental Skeleton.
• Medivh contacted his eight Bone Spirit Substitutes and reviewed the Skeleton forces they had raised, totaling nearly 7.9 million Grey, White, Green, Blue, and Low-Grade Purple Bone Skeletons over three years.

Medivh reviewed the Skeleton Legion’s growth and his expanding territories before watching his children train and welcoming the Fire-Praying Spirit Witches to Flame Dragon City. The witches planned to spread the Goddess of Fire Prayer’s faith in secret across Blackstone Plane.

• Medivh counted more than twenty million skeletons across his territories, including over a hundred Fifth-Rank Bone Spirits.
• Wrynn Territory and its cities across several planes continued expanding their underground districts and Block City rings.
• Medivh watched Anduin and Jaina spar with skeleton instructors while Arthas and the other children cheered them on.
• Bishop Moana coordinated with Light Priests across the planes to help them advance and oversee the Skeleton Legion.
• The Fire-Praying Spirit Witches arrived in Flame Dragon City after negotiating with Medivh and Shyvana, intending to spread their goddess’s faith secretly across Blackstone Plane.