Chapter Summaries

Orgrim Doomhammer reached Khaz Modan with a depleted Horde, only to learn from Kilrogg Deadeye that the Bronzebeard Dwarves in Ironforge prevented them from gathering their full strength against the Alliance. Orgrim chose to lead most of his forces to Blackrock Spire while Kilrogg stayed behind to hold off the dwarves and harass the humans.

• Orgrim arrived in Khaz Modan ahead of the pursuing Alliance and told a Bleeding Hollow scout that most of the Horde was dead and the enemy was close behind.
• Kilrogg told Orgrim that he could not commit all his warriors because the Bronzebeard Dwarves could attack from Ironforge if their forces withdrew.
• Orgrim realized the Alliance had used the dwarves to limit his options and decided to retreat rather than risk fighting on two fronts.
• Orgrim ordered Kilrogg to hold back the dwarves and harass the humans while he led the remaining Horde to Blackrock Spire.
• Kilrogg praised Orgrim for reclaiming the Horde's honor despite Gul'dan's betrayal, and Orgrim left to prepare for another war.

The Alliance attacked the Horde outside Ironforge and helped the Bronzebeard Dwarves drive them off. Muradin pledged dwarven support to the Alliance as it continued pursuing the Horde south.

• Lothar and Ye Ting led the Alliance cavalry up to Ironforge, where Horde forces were trying to break through the gates.
• The Alliance charged the Orcs, and the Bronzebeard Dwarves opened the gates and attacked from behind, routing the Horde.
• Muradin Bronzebeard thanked Lothar and learned that the humans and elves belonged to the Alliance; Ye Ting introduced himself as Sandor Liver.
• Brann Bronzebeard joined the discussion, and Muradin offered to send Bronzebeard warriors to fight alongside the Alliance while his people reclaimed Khaz Modan.
• Lothar asked Ye Ting which way the Horde had gone, and Ye Ting pointed south.

The Alliance learned that the Horde was retreating to Blackrock Spire, a heavily fortified stronghold on Blackrock Mountain, and prepared to pursue them. Uther arrived after clearing Alterac, and Lothar set a five-day deadline to confront the Horde, while Ye Ting resolved to keep Lothar from meeting his original fate.

• Kurdran reported that he had tracked the Horde to Blackrock Spire, and Ye Ting explained that the fortress belonged to the Dark Iron Dwarves.
• Lothar assessed Blackrock Spire's defenses, while Muradin warned that black dragons nested beneath it and Ye Ting assured the group they would not be a threat.
• Turalyon declared that the Alliance could defeat the Horde, and Lothar agreed that the challenge was worth taking on.
• Uther arrived and reported that he and his companions had cleared Alterac and the surrounding mountains of Orcs.
• Brann estimated that the group could reach Blackrock Mountain within five days, and the Bronzebeard and Wildhammer Dwarves pledged to join Lothar's forces.
• Lothar set five days to settle the conflict, and Ye Ting resolved to prevent Lothar from dying in the coming battle.

With the Alliance closing in on the Burning Steppes, Orgrim rallied the depleted Horde by recasting their retreat as a deliberate choice to fight near Blackrock Stronghold. He prepared to lead them into a final battle, hoping their resistance would preserve the Horde’s remaining strength and future.

• After realizing the Horde could not reach Blackrock Spire intact, Orgrim halted his army in the Burning Steppes to rest and prepare for battle.
• Tabek asked what they should do, and Orgrim drew Doomhammer and declared that they would fight.
• Orgrim addressed the gathered Orcs, blaming their losses on Gul'dan's betrayal and insisting that the Horde remained powerful.
• Orgrim convinced the warriors that their retreat had been strategic and that they would attack the Alliance first.
• Orgrim accepted that the Horde's main force might die, but hoped the battle would secure opportunities for surviving Orcs on Draenor and Azeroth.

Orgrim led the Horde’s last provisions into a desperate counterattack at Blackrock Mountain, relying on his loyal Ogre guards and elite Orcs. Uther and the Silver Hand turned back the assault, killing every Ogre and Orc who faced them.

• Orgrim ordered the Horde to eat its remaining provisions before committing to a last stand.
• Orgrim rallied his loyal Ogre guards and sent Rend Blackhand, Maim Blackhand, and their surviving clans toward the Dark Portal.
• The Horde surprised the Alliance and broke through its lines, with Ogres and elite Orcs driving the humans back.
• Lothar called Uther to the front, and Uther led the Silver Hand into battle under the power of the Holy Light.
• Uther and the paladins surrounded the Horde’s attackers and killed every last Ogre and Orc in the fight.

The Horde launched a surprise attack from the west, and Ye Ting and Lothar rushed to defend the Alliance. Orgrim Doomhammer targeted Lothar, and the two commanders faced each other for a duel.

• A sentinel warned Ye Ting and Lothar that another Horde attack was coming from the west, so they rode to the battlefield.
• Ye Ting recognized Orgrim Doomhammer leading a fierce assault with hundreds of Orcs and dozens of Ogres.
• Orgrim considered attacking Ye Ting but chose Lothar, whom he believed was the Alliance army’s greatest pillar.
• Orgrim and Lothar fought their way toward each other until no warriors stood between them.
• Orgrim Doomhammer and Anduin Lothar announced their names as their final battle began.

Lothar and Orgrim fought a brutal duel as Ye Ting watched, prepared to intervene if Lothar faced a fatal blow. Orgrim smashed Quel'Zaram with a powerful strike, leaving the outcome of the duel unresolved.

• Orgrim threw Doomhammer at Lothar's warhorse, and Lothar leaped clear before the horse collapsed.
• Lothar and Orgrim exchanged blows, with Lothar's skill and Orgrim's strength giving each an advantage at different moments.
• Ye Ting recalled that Quel'Zaram would lose its power against someone it judged noble and prepared a Force Wall to protect Lothar.
• The duel continued as both commanders discarded damaged armor and equipment, then traded heavy wounds.
• Orgrim punched Lothar in the chest and brought Doomhammer down on Quel'Zaram, shattering the sword.

Ye Ting stopped Orgrim from killing Lothar, weakened him with magic, and killed him on the battlefield. The Horde’s forces fell into chaos as Orcs fled or surrendered, while the Alliance secured its victory.

• Ye Ting cast Force Wall to block Doomhammer’s strike against Lothar, then bound and weakened Orgrim with spells.
• Ye Ting silenced Orgrim and drove the Infinity Blade into his chest, killing the Warchief.
• Orcs witnessed Orgrim’s death and began fleeing, surrendering, or resisting without organization.
• Turalyon helped the wounded Lothar onto a horse so he could continue directing the battle.
• The Alliance prepared to pursue the scattered Orcs and imprison those who surrendered.

After taking command from the wounded Lothar, Ye Ting pursued the defeated Orcs toward the Dark Portal with the Windrunner sisters and the Alliance forces. They reached the Black Morass, where Ye Ting recognized the unnatural red landscape as terrain from the Orcs’ world.

• Kurdran Wildhammer reported that about four hundred Orcs had fled south across the Redridge Mountains, and Ye Ting ordered Alleria and Sylvanas to follow them without trying to capture them.
• Ye Ting explained that the Orcs would flee toward the Dark Portal in the Swamp of Sorrows, and the Windrunner sisters led their rangers after them.
• Ye Ting and the sisters tracked the scattered Horde remnants for a week, while the Alliance army advanced behind them and Ye Ting warned his forces to stay vigilant.
• Ye Ting and his companions reached the Black Morass and found that its ground had been transformed into a vast stretch of red rock.
• Ye Ting told Brann and the others that the strange terrain belonged to the Orcs’ world.

Ye Ting discovered that the Dark Portal was spreading fel corruption across Azeroth, and the Alliance reached the portal and launched an assault on its Orc guards. The battle began with Ye Ting leading the charge, while the fate of the portal remained unresolved.

• Ye Ting warned the commanders that the Dark Portal was merging the worlds and spreading Draenor’s corrupted terrain across Azeroth.
• Three days later, Kurdran’s Gryphon Riders found the Orcs gathered around a massive gate in a canyon.
• Ye Ting recognized the Dark Portal’s fel energy and saw that it was draining power from the earth.
• Ye Ting ordered the Alliance to attack and used strengthening spells as he charged into the Orcs with the Infinity Blade.
• Alleria, Sylvanas, Vereesa, Liadrin, and the Alliance soldiers joined the assault on the Orc guards.

Ye Ting defeated the Orcs gathered around the Dark Portal and drove Rend Blackhand and Maim Blackhand into retreat. With the battle over, he ordered everyone to withdraw while he and the other mages prepared to close the portal.

• Ye Ting used the Alliance army’s coordination to defeat the Orcs, while some fled through the Dark Portal and one squad stayed behind to cover their retreat.
• Rend Blackhand and Maim Blackhand challenged Ye Ting, but he wounded them with Repulsion, Blink, Stone to Mud, and Pyroblast.
• The Blackhand brothers called for reinforcements and escaped toward Blackrock Mountain, while the Alliance wiped out the Orcs who remained.
• Ye Ting told everyone to retreat one mile so he and the accompanying mages could attempt to close the Dark Portal, and Onyxia stayed to help.

Ye Ting destroyed the Dark Portal by drawing on its energy and disintegrating its stone frame, severing the connection to Draenor. The Alliance won the war, and the land began to recover, though Ye Ting knew the gate would be opened again someday.

• Ye Ting examined the Dark Portal and concluded that destroying its stone frame would collapse the portal.
• Ye Ting and the other mages drew energy from the Dark Portal, while Ye Ting secretly channeled some of it into Spellweaver.
• Ye Ting cast an enormous Ultimate Destruction Orb at the gate, disintegrating much of its structure.
• The damaged Dark Portal exploded and vanished, severing its connection to Draenor.
• Onyxia caught Ye Ting as the blast nearly knocked him down, and the land began to recover after the portal's influence ended.

The Horde’s defeat left its survivors divided and stranded, while the Alliance celebrated victory and faced the devastation across the Eastern Kingdoms. The chapter ended with the Alliance beginning reconstruction, especially in Stormwind under Llane Wrynn.

• Teron Gorefiend and other death knights escaped through the Dark Portal to Draenor before its destruction trapped the Orcs there.
• Kilrogg and the Bleeding Hollow Clan withdrew into the wilderness, while Rend Blackhand and Maim Blackhand reclaimed Blackrock Spire and sought to unite surviving Horde groups.
• The Frostwolf Clan remained hidden in the mountains of Alterac, and many other Orcs scattered across the Eastern Kingdoms.
• The Alliance nations agreed to pool resources for reconstruction but continued arguing over how to deal with Alterac.
• King Terenas pledged support for Stormwind’s restoration, and Llane Wrynn led returning citizens with help from Bolvar Fordragon and Anduin Lothar.

After the war, the Alliance debated the fate of its Orc prisoners and the traitorous kingdom of Alterac, exposing tensions among its human nations. The chapter left Stromgarde, Lordaeron, and Gilneas competing over Alterac’s future and strategic value.

• The High Elf volunteer force disbanded, while Ye Ting’s mounted archers and the Knights of the Silver Hand continued serving; Liadrin’s paladins came under Vanderlor’s command.
• Alliance hunters pursued Orc survivors, while the Alliance’s kings divided over whether to execute or imprison the prisoners.
• The Alliance agreed to build joint prisoner-of-war camps supervised by Danath Trollbane, with the Orcs’ survival dependent on how well the camps operated.
• Thoras Trollbane demanded Alterac’s eastern territory as compensation, while Terenas considered bringing the kingdom under Lordaeron’s control.
• Genn Greymane entered the dispute, reportedly backing a nephew of Perenolde as a claimant so Gilneas could gain resources and greater access to the sea.

The Alliance debated the fate of the Barov family, whose loyalty and wartime service should have earned them a reward but drew the envy of powerful nobles. As those nobles tried to force a marriage alliance to claim the family’s lands and wealth, Ye Ting intervened by revealing that Ilucia Barov was his student.

• The Barov family’s betrayal warning and defense against the Horde established their loyalty, leading Terenas to intend to reward them.
• Lordaeron and Stromgarde nobles, joined by hostile former Alterac nobles, sought to pressure Janice Barov into a marriage alliance that would let them divide the family’s lands and wealth.
• Ye Ting gained prestige across the Alliance’s armies, while the nations promoted him as a counterweight to Lothar’s influence.
• At the Alliance meeting about the Barov family, Ye Ting declared that Ilucia Barov was his second student.

Ye Ting defended the Barov family at the Alliance meeting and warned that a lingering rift beneath the destroyed Dark Portal was spreading fel energy and could enable another Horde invasion. The Alliance built Nethergarde Keep under Khadgar’s supervision, while Ye Ting stayed in Alterac and planned to explore another world.

• Ye Ting declared Ilucia Barov his second student and vouched for the Barov family, prompting the nobles to abandon their attempts to seize its territory or punish it.
• The Alliance granted the Barov family the right to accept refugees in Alterac but left its territory unchanged.
• Ye Ting explained that a rift still connected Azeroth to Draenor, allowing fel energy to seep into the Blasted Lands and threatening further invasion.
• Ye Ting urged the Alliance to build a fortress and station mages to contain the fel energy, and Khadgar took charge of constructing Nethergarde Keep.
• Khadgar remained at Nethergarde Keep to watch the Blasted Lands, while Ye Ting helped Janice and her daughter rebuild Alterac and taught Jaina and Ilucia.
• Ye Ting planned to use energy stored in the Spellweaver to open a gateway and explore a new world.

Ye Ting used energy from the Dark Portal to travel to the moment a world began, protected by a small pocket of space. He witnessed creation and absorbed its fundamental truths, but the complexity gradually overwhelmed his consciousness.

• Ye Ting prepared to cross into a world's creation by gathering far more energy than usual from the Dark Portal.
• Ye Ting used the portal's space-splitting energy to create a pocket of space that could sustain him in a world without established space or matter.
• Ye Ting entered the newborn world inside his pocket of space and watched it develop from a singularity into a world.
• Ye Ting recorded the fundamental truths of creation, but their complexity gradually swallowed his consciousness.

Ye Ting survived observing the world's truth because Helena Ravenclaw cut off his consciousness before the knowledge overwhelmed him, though he remained unconscious for a long time. He awoke in a vast blue crystal structure that resembled a computer and discovered his spells still worked, leaving him wondering why this new world supported magic from World of Warcraft.

• Ye Ting had Helena Ravenclaw use her delegated authority to knock him unconscious when observing truth threatened to overwhelm his mind.
• Ye Ting safely emerged from his observation with his sense of self intact, after remaining unconscious while his brain processed the information.
• Ye Ting awoke inside an immense blue crystal cube surrounded by countless similar cubes filled with glowing, circuit-like patterns.
• Ye Ting checked his protective trigger spells and found that none had activated, while all his spells still functioned.
• Ye Ting wondered why World of Warcraft magic worked perfectly in the new world without its magical foundation being brought there.

Ye Ting investigated why his Harry Potter magic worked despite his arrival in a seemingly young world, then sensed that the surrounding blue cubes formed an enormous magical computer. Unable to decipher or control it, he began searching the structure for something like a main control room.

• Ye Ting questioned how his magic could function without a complete original canon for this world's magic.
• Helena Ravenclaw told Ye Ting that only three to five years had passed while he was unconscious and that she had sensed no creation event.
• Ye Ting concluded that a temporal anomaly had likely occurred and decided to investigate the blue crystals around him.
• Ye Ting sensed a vast network of photons and aether inside the cubes and judged that they formed an immense computer-like structure.
• Ye Ting realized he could not yet decipher the network, so he wandered through the cubes in search of a control room.

Ye Ting explored the vast blue construct, learning to move through it with his consciousness while avoiding beams that could burden his mind with strange information. He followed an energy anomaly into a region where physical laws returned and discovered an enormous rock that he believed held the answers he sought.

• Ye Ting learned to travel through the blue space with his consciousness and avoid its information-carrying beams after one struck him.
• He explored for days and used a faint malignant energy as a reference point, estimating that the construct was at least two thousand kilometers across.
• Ye Ting detected a region where the blue energy diminished abnormally and headed toward it.
• He crossed a final wall and found an enormous intact rock in the energy void.
• Ye Ting felt gravity and was able to walk again, then decided to investigate the rock.