Chapter Summaries

Ye Ting advised Calia on restoring Lordaeron and argued that the kingdom’s people, not its nobles, were its true foundation. He left Calia beginning to recognize that the nobles were the ones obstructing her effort.

• Alleria returned to Quel'Thalas through Ye Ting's portal, while Ye Ting and Calia discussed restoring Lordaeron at Darrowmere Castle.
• Janice pledged the Barov family's support for Calia, and Ilucia welcomed her mother's decision.
• Ye Ting explained why other kingdoms and factions could offer little immediate help to Lordaeron.
• Ye Ting told Calia that the people still fighting the Scourge were the strongest potential supporters of restoring the kingdom.
• Calia said she believed the people mattered most, and Ye Ting praised her understanding of their hardships.
• Calia asked whether the nobles, rather than the people, were unwilling to help her.

Ye Ting explained how Calia could win the commoners’ support and reclaim Lordaeron by leading them against the Scourge, even if that meant opposing the nobles. Calia accepted that she was willing to become king, and Ye Ting promised to help her.

• Ye Ting told Calia that the Menethil family’s standing among the people could help her gain their support by promising to drive out the Scourge and restore Lordaeron.
• Janice and Onyxia recognized that Ye Ting’s plan could rally the commoners against the divided noble lords, though it would make Calia their enemy.
• Calia hesitated to oppose her father’s former subjects, but Ye Ting told her that a king had to respond decisively to those who challenged her.
• Ye Ting urged Calia to become king and lead the people against the Scourge, warning that Lordaeron would otherwise fall into ruin.
• Calia agreed to become king, and Ye Ting encouraged her and promised to stand by her.

Ye Ting took Princess Calia on a dangerous journey to gather supporters and teach her through practical experience, beginning her preparation to rebuild Lordaeron. He left Garona and Onyxia in Caer Darrow to help Janice guard their base, while Calia began an exhausting routine of travel, study, and sword training.

• Ye Ting explained the education Calia would need to become a ruler, then proposed teaching her on the road because a year of castle lessons would take too long.
• Calia hesitated when Ye Ting warned that practical training could threaten her life, but she agreed to risk everything to help her people and rebuild her kingdom.
• Three days after reuniting, Ye Ting left Darrowmere Castle with Calia, while Garona and Onyxia stayed in Caer Darrow to help Janice guard their base.
• Ye Ting made Calia travel on foot in armor while carrying a longsword, and he taught her about governing and other subjects as they journeyed.
• Calia followed a demanding daily schedule of early sword practice, hours of travel and lessons, evening assignments, and further training before bed.

Calia struggled through Ye Ting’s demanding warrior training but persisted after he refused to let her lighten her load. During a rest, she praised his cooking, then revealed that she could no longer use the Holy Light.

• Calia asked Ye Ting to let her carry less equipment, but he insisted that a warrior must always carry her weapon and armor.
• Ye Ting challenged Calia to keep training for the sake of becoming queen, saving her people, and rebuilding Lordaeron, and she vowed not to give up.
• After Calia dragged her sword through more than two hours of travel, Ye Ting stopped for a midday rest and prepared lunch.
• Calia enjoyed Ye Ting’s wild boar and vegetables and remarked that she had expected him to rely on magical bread instead of cooking.
• Ye Ting asked why Calia had not used the Holy Light to ease her fatigue, and she said she could no longer use it.

Ye Ting gave Calia a Gold Apple, which restored her fatigue and secretly transformed her potential, helping her training and studies progress rapidly. After leaving the Alterac Mountains and entering Andorhal, Calia had become capable of handling a full day’s journey in armor and fighting dangerous creatures, and the pair reached their first city since leaving Caer Darrow.

• Calia told Ye Ting that she no longer had the Holy Light and did not consider it reliable, prompting him to adjust his training plans.
• Ye Ting gave Calia a Gold Apple, and she ate it after confirming he truly intended it for her.
• The Gold Apple restored Calia’s strength and secretly improved her potential, recovery, and ability to learn.
• Calia’s training and studies advanced, and she became able to travel in armor and defeat boars, wolves, and lone ghouls.
• Ye Ting and Calia left the Alterac Mountains, entered Andorhal, and reached the first city they had seen since leaving Caer Darrow.

Calia confronted the devastation of Andorhal and finally understood the Scourge’s destruction and the responsibility she bore as Lordaeron’s future ruler. After she unleashed her grief on the undead, Ye Ting comforted her and urged her to cry before taking up her duty again.

• Calia surveyed Andorhal’s ruins and recognized that the town had vanished because its people were gone.
• Overcome by sorrow and rage, Calia charged a ghoul and hacked it apart, then destroyed the undead drawn by the commotion.
• Exhausted and crying, Calia wondered how she could atone for Arthas’s crimes and lead the survivors toward a brighter future.
• Ye Ting embraced Calia, told her she could cry with him, and urged her afterward to arm herself and lead her people against evil.

Calia spotted a living man disguised as a zombie while searching Andorhal, and she and Ye Ting secretly followed him. They discovered he was scouting for a group of soldiers and frightened civilians, who entered the ruins to scavenge under military supervision.

• Calia noticed that one zombie looked unusually healthy and alert, and Ye Ting confirmed he was alive.
• Ye Ting stopped Calia from approaching the stranger and taught her to observe him discreetly before making contact.
• Calia and Ye Ting followed the disguised man out of town and found him meeting dozens of soldiers and civilians with handcarts.
• The disguised scout led the reluctant civilians into Andorhal while soldiers supervised and guarded them.
• Calia and Ye Ting followed the group as it navigated around undead and began scavenging the ruins.

Ye Ting and Calia watched a scavenging party in Andorhal, and Ye Ting taught Calia to look beyond appearances before allowing her to intervene when undead attacked. After they helped the survivors defeat the undead, Sergeant Major Onions Hubert thanked Calia and questioned who she and Ye Ting were.

• Ye Ting explained to Calia that the soldiers' abuse of the laborers might stem from orders by unseen nobles, so they continued watching the scavengers.
• A laborer's overturned cart scattered ironware, drawing more than a dozen undead toward the party.
• The soldiers stood and fought while the laborers fled, and Ye Ting told Calia she could help without revealing her identity.
• Calia charged into the battle, and the laborers returned to support the soldiers; together they defeated the undead, though three soldiers and two laborers died.
• Sergeant Major Onions Hubert thanked Calia and warily wondered where she and Ye Ting had come from.

Calia and Ye Ting traveled with Oniens's scavenging party to Baron Bishop's fortified village near Andorhal. Calia's false identity was exposed when Laurie Bishop recognized her as Princess Calia, and the baron invited her to stay.

• Calia introduced herself as Artoria Wycliffe and named Ye Ting as her teacher, then joined Oniens's party on the road to the village.
• The party returned with salvaged goods, and Laurie Bishop berated Oniens for failing to bring back more valuable supplies.
• Calia defended the soldiers, prompting Laurie to recognize her as Princess Calia and waive their punishment.
• Laurie welcomed Calia to the Darson Barony and invited her to be his guest, and she followed him into the village with Ye Ting.

Ye Ting and Calia saw the contrast between the suffering refugees outside Baron Bishop’s castle and the luxurious life within, prompting Calia to condemn the baron and resolve to become a better kind of noble. Ye Ting warned her against killing Bishop and began outlining a gradual plan to establish her authority among the villagers.

• Baron Bishop led Ye Ting and Calia through the impoverished village and showed them his well-maintained, heavily fortified castle.
• After Bishop left them in their guest rooms, Calia angrily criticized his treatment of the refugees and subjects.
• Ye Ting explained that nobles often protected their own comforts and warned Calia that killing Bishop would destabilize the settlement.
• Calia declared that she wanted to lead justly and guide worthy people to become nobles, and Ye Ting encouraged her.
• Ye Ting began explaining how Calia could use Bishop to establish her identity and gradually gain prestige among the people.

Calia endured Baron Bishop’s banquet and the commoners’ hopeful welcome while planning to earn their trust by fighting nearby undead. Ye Ting and Calia discovered that Bishop’s survival may have depended on the Scourge, as a death knight and other undead entered their room with the baron.

• Calia concealed her contempt for Baron Bishop and behaved graciously at his welcoming banquet.
• The villagers and soldiers greeted Calia with hope that she would bring Lordaeron’s army to save them, while she knew no army remained.
• Calia asked Ye Ting how to build her reputation, and he advised her to demonstrate her strength by clearing out nearby undead.
• Ye Ting sensed danger, and Calia quietly drew her sword as someone smashed open the door.
• Calia recognized the intruder as a death knight and saw other Scourge members behind him, with Baron Bishop among them.

Calia confronted Baron Bishop and learned that he had betrayed Lordaeron to serve the Scourge, intending to capture her for the Lich King. When Bishop attacked Ye Ting, an unseen force repelled him and exposed Ye Ting as a mage.

• Calia accused Bishop of betraying Lordaeron, and he admitted he served Arthas for territory, power, and the promise of eternal life.
• Bishop revealed that he had been spying on Hearthglen's resistance and planned to deliver Calia to the Scourge.
• Calia refused to become undead and prepared to fight the death knight as Bishop threatened her and Ye Ting.
• Bishop attacked Ye Ting with his rapier, but an invisible barrier threw him into a wall.
• Bishop realized Ye Ting was a mage, and Ye Ting confirmed that he had never claimed to be a teacher.

Calia faced Hubert the Slayer alone after Ye Ting made the fight a test of her abilities. She held her ground with technique, but Hubert’s superior strength, skill, and experience soon put her at a disadvantage.

• Baron Bishop suspected Ye Ting’s presence was part of a trap, and the undead ordered Hubert the Slayer to attack Calia while they dealt with Ye Ting.
• Ye Ting told Calia to defeat Hubert on her own, and she accepted the challenge to prove she could stand against powerful enemies.
• Calia studied Hubert’s size, strength, and fighting style, then waited for him to make the first move.
• Hubert attacked, but Calia blocked his blow by using leverage to withstand the difference in their strength.
• Hubert changed tactics and traded blows with Calia, whose solid swordsmanship helped her defend against his direct style.
• Hubert’s greater strength, skill, and experience overwhelmed Calia’s technical defenses, leaving her at a disadvantage.

Calia overcame her fear and held off Hubert the Slaughterer while Ye Ting overwhelmed the undead with a relentless storm of Arcane Missiles. After blocking ten powerful strikes, Calia was exhausted, and Hubert prepared a final sweep that threatened to cut her down.

• Ye Ting encouraged Calia to stand firm as Hubert's attacks drove her back.
• Ye Ting suppressed the necromancers and death knights with a continuous barrage of Arcane Missiles, prompting their leader to demand that Hubert stop him.
• Calia blocked Hubert's attempt to leave and renewed her resolve to protect Ye Ting's mission.
• Hubert unleashed ten death-empowered strikes, but Calia defended against each one despite her growing exhaustion.
• Hubert acknowledged Calia as a worthy opponent, then prepared a horizontal greatsword sweep while she could barely stand.

Calia nearly defeated Hubert by exploiting his opening, but his Shield of Darkness stopped her and left her unable to rise. Ye Ting protected himself from the charging undead with a Prismatic Wall and began preparing a spell that would bring their doom.

• Calia dodged Hubert’s greatsword and counterattacked by aiming her longsword at a gap in his armor.
• Hubert blocked Calia’s strike with Shield of Darkness, then blasted her into a wall with the shield’s backlash.
• Calia fell too injured to get back up, and Hubert defeated the young knightess.
• Ye Ting stopped casting Arcane Missiles and began preparing another spell.
• The undead charged Ye Ting and attacked with spells, but his Prismatic Wall blocked them while he prepared his spell.

After Calia recovered, Ye Ting explained why her warrior skills could not overcome a death knight’s magic and tried to ease her disappointment. Calia vowed to defeat Arthas herself as atonement for House Menethil’s sins, and Ye Ting agreed to help her gain the power she needed.

• Ye Ting told Calia that he had frozen the undead to preserve evidence of nobles colluding with them.
• Calia apologized for losing to Hubert the Slaughterer, but Ye Ting said that surviving the fight had counted as victory.
• Ye Ting explained that death knights’ control of magic gave them an advantage over warriors like Calia.
• Calia said that she had to defeat Arthas with her own hands because his betrayal had brought suffering to the land and dishonored House Menethil.
• Calia asked Ye Ting to help her gain the power to defeat Arthas, and he agreed.

Ye Ting suggested that Calia become a paladin so she could grow strong enough to defeat Arthas, but her loss of faith prevented her from drawing on the Holy Light. He then proposed giving her a dragon bloodline, and she agreed after he revealed that he had fused human and dragon blood and that Onyxia was a black dragon.

• Ye Ting advised Calia to try becoming a paladin, but her memories of Lordaeron made her prayers fail.
• Calia begged Ye Ting to find another way to make her stronger, so he recounted the story of the half-dragon King of Knights.
• Calia guessed that Ye Ting planned to give her a dragon bloodline, and he confirmed that his own human and dragon bloodlines had been fused.
• Ye Ting revealed that a red dragon held a seat in the Kirin Tor and that Onyxia was a black dragon.
• Calia understood Onyxia's extraordinary abilities and agreed to undergo the transformation.

Ye Ting gave Calia the red Dragon bloodline, greatly strengthening her body and awakening a powerful life energy she struggled to control. As she formed a new conviction and recited the Knight King's oath, Holy Light returned to her in a new form.

• Ye Ting modified Calia with Alexstrasza's red Dragon bloodline, and she awoke with greatly increased strength.
• Calia felt powerful life energy flowing from her heart and asked Ye Ting how to use it.
• Ye Ting advised her to control the energy through her will and a firmly held conviction.
• Calia rejected the nobles' bloodline ideology and vowed to rule by a new ideal after they betrayed their king and people to the undead.
• Calia recited the Knight King's oath, and golden radiance erupted as Holy Light merged with her Dragon-given power.

Calia regained the Holy Light alongside her red dragon power, then exposed and executed Baron Bishop for treason against Lordaeron. The people of Darson Barony chose her as their new leader, and she set her sights on Hearthglen to find the strength needed to protect and expand their refuge.

• Calia wondered why she had regained the Holy Light, and Ye Ting suggested that her chivalric convictions and the power of the red dragon had awakened it.
• Calia revealed Baron Bishop’s crimes to the soldiers and civilians of Darson Barony, and Bishop confessed to aiding the Scourge and betraying nearby settlements.
• Calia sentenced Laurie Bishop to death, beheaded him before the gathered people, and purified the remaining undead.
• The people asked Calia to lead Darson Barony, and she accepted, opened the village to those outside, and turned the castle into a refuge for everyone.
• Calia concluded that the settlement needed a stronger army and decided to seek help at Hearthglen, north of Andorhal.

Calia and Ye Ting traveled from Darson Barony to Hearthglen seeking allies against the Scourge. They found Taelan Fordring, who pledged his support, while Calia refused the title of queen until she judged Arthas and restored peace to Lordaeron.

• Calia set out with Ye Ting for Hearthglen after arranging for Darson Barony's residents to remain behind and defend the castle.
• Calia tamed Graymane through her red dragon presence, and the pair rode through a forest increasingly affected by the Scourge's plague.
• Calia saw undead wandering through the wheat fields and vowed to restore the land.
• Taelan Fordring recognized Calia and pledged his loyalty, asking her to lead Lordaeron.
• Calia accepted Taelan's support but refused to be called queen until she had judged Arthas and restored peace.