Recaps

Ye Ting secured the Wildhammer Dwarves’ support and led the Alliance against the Amani Trolls, uncovering Malacrass’s sacrifice ritual and freeing the Loa. With the Troll army shattered and Malacrass dead, the Alliance celebrated victory and prepared to turn toward the Hinterlands.

• Ye Ting won the Wildhammer Dwarves’ alliance and arranged a brandy trade after Alleria and Ye Ting impressed them at a banquet.
• Ye Ting led the Alliance into Zul'Aman, where coordinated formations and aerial scouts thwarted Troll ambushes and drove the Trolls into their stronghold.
• After the Alliance entered Zul'Aman, Ye Ting animated statues to confront Malacrass’s four Loa-powered champions and exposed the sacrifice pit beneath the temple.
• Ye Ting entered the Emerald Dream and learned from the bound Loa that Malacrass’s blood ritual drained their power and enslaved the souls of Trolls and beasts.
• Ye Ting rallied the dead souls against Malacrass, weakening his ritual, while Alleria, Sylvanas, and their allies fought to protect his body.
• Ye Ting returned with the Loa’s divine power and created four divine beasts that broke Malacrass’s shadow barrier and helped stop the ritual.
• The freed Loa killed their empowered champions, and the spirits of Malacrass’s victims drove him mad before the demigods killed him and cast him into the pit.
• Ye Ting declared the Amani Trolls defeated, reassured Sylvanas that warriors fought to preserve peace, and went with the tired Alleria toward a nearby lake.

Ye Ting engineered the destruction of the Hinterlands Troll tribes, then led an elite squad into Grim Batol, where they seized the Dragon Soul and helped the Dragon Aspects drive Deathwing away. The arc ended with the Horde fleet attacking across the sea, as Daelin’s fleet struggled against the Orc transports and red dragons.

• Ye Ting reassured Garona after she described the strength and senses granted by the demigods’ blessing, then settled Sylvanas’s concern about her relationship with him.
• Ye Ting manipulated the Amani remnants and rival Hinterlands Troll tribes into a civil war, then led the Alliance in destroying the weakened tribes and besieging the Vilebranch at Jintha'Alor.
• Ye Ting joined the Alliance rulers’ victory celebrations and met Galen Trollbane, Calia Menethil, Arthas Menethil, and Jaina Proudmoore.
• Ye Ting recruited Vereesa Windrunner, Garona, and Kurdran Wildhammer to infiltrate Grim Batol, where he exposed Onyxia and captured her.
• Ye Ting’s squad entered Grim Batol with Onyxia’s help, found the red Dragon bound in the Dragonmaw training plaza, and attacked Nekros Skullcrusher as Ye Ting took the Dragon Soul.
• Deathwing confronted Ye Ting, but Onyxia sided with him and the Dragon Aspects arrived, and Talonixia wounded Neltharion, who escaped into Deepholm.
• The freed red dragons agreed to help attack the Orc fleet, while Ye Ting reassured Vereesa after she blamed herself for her inexperience.
• Daelin Proudmoore ambushed Orgrim’s transports near Zul'Dare Isle, but the red dragons set Alliance ships ablaze, and Daelin received Derek Proudmoore’s offer to distract them.

Ye Ting helped the Alliance repel the Horde in the Arathi Highlands, then lured Orgrim’s forces through Poison Mist Gorge toward Alterac. As Alterac’s ruler and the Barov family considered surrendering to the Horde, Sandor Liver arrived as the Alliance’s envoy and battlefield commander.

• The Red Dragons and Alliance fleet destroyed the Horde’s ships, then Ye Ting joined the march to Stromgarde and learned that Death Knights had shattered its defenders.
• Ye Ting and Lothar fought the Horde at Northfold Farm, then Ye Ting organized mounted raids that exhausted Varok Saurfang’s wolf riders and forced the Horde to reconsider its hold on Arathi.
• After the Horde entered Hinterlands in search of Forest Troll allies, Ye Ting lured Orgrim into Poison Mist Gorge and sealed its entrance with explosives.
• Orgrim escaped through the gorge toward Alterac with thousands of elite Orcs, while Ye Ting’s forces mistook the remaining corpses for a decisive victory.
• Ye Ting explained to Onyxia that he had deliberately directed the Horde toward Alterac, viewing its arrival as a warning to the Alliance and Azeroth.
• Aiden Perenolde agreed to let the Horde pass through Alterac and killed a messenger carrying Lothar’s appeal, while Janice Barov struggled to choose between her sons’ opposing positions.
• An Orc assassin killed Wilton Barov, and Alex urged his family to surrender, but Janice rejected him and reaffirmed the family’s Alliance allegiance.
• Sandor Liver arrived at Caer Darrow as the Alliance’s special envoy and supreme commander of the Alterac battlefield, leaving Alex stunned.

Ye Ting helped the Alliance drive Orgrim’s Horde from Alterac, defending Caer Darrow until the Orcs retreated into the mountains. As the Alliance prepared its counteroffensive, Gul'dan’s hunt for the Eye of Sargeras ended in his death, while Orgrim fled through the Wetlands with Alliance forces closing in.

• Ye Ting secured Janice and the Barov family’s support, began teaching Ilucia, and helped the Alliance learn of the Horde’s movements in Alterac.
• Orgrim turned on King Perenolde, seized the capital, and advanced through Barov territory toward Caer Darrow, where Ye Ting and Onyxia prepared the defenses.
• Ye Ting and the defenders held Caer Darrow against the Horde, while Lothar’s cavalry struck from behind and Gul'dan’s magic threatened the city.
• Gul'dan betrayed the Horde and sailed west to raise the islands around the Tomb of Sargeras, while Orgrim withdrew through the Alterac Mountains after failing to take Caer Darrow.
• The Alliance placed Alterac under Janice’s temporary authority and prepared a pincer offensive as Ye Ting departed for the main camp with Lothar and the others.
• Gul'dan entered the Tomb of Sargeras seeking the Eye, but its demonic guardians killed him after the other warlocks fled.
• Rend and Maim Blackhand pursued Gul'dan’s followers, found the temple overrun by monsters, and returned toward Doomhammer’s forces.
• Lothar and King Trollbane drove Orgrim from the Arathi Highlands, and Orgrim led the Horde across the Thandol Span into the Wetlands as enemy cavalry appeared to its east.