Chapter Summaries

Kel'Thuzad completed the ritual and summoned Archimonde, while Dalaran raced to finish its floating city before the Burning Legion arrived. Archimonde placed the Scourge under the dreadlords' command, leaving Arthas shocked and uncertain about the Lich King.

• Kel'Thuzad and Arthas prepared for Dalaran to interfere with the demon-summoning ritual, but no attack came.
• Kel'Thuzad completed the ritual, and Infernals fell from the sky as the Burning Legion's advance force.
• Ye Ting reassured Dalaran's mages that the floating city's framework would be ready to fly within an hour.
• Kel'Thuzad summoned Archimonde, who arrived and declared that destruction had come to the world.
• Tichondrius appeared and reported that preparations were complete, and Archimonde put the Scourge under the dreadlords' command.
• Arthas concealed his shock at Archimonde's dismissal of the Lich King, while Invincible sensed his distress.

After Archimonde arrived, the Burning Legion took command of the Scourge and assembled its forces against Dalaran. With the final anti-gravity node complete, Ye Ting began Dalaran’s emergency takeoff.

• Archimonde stripped Arthas and Kel'Thuzad of their authority and announced his intent to destroy Dalaran.
• Doomguards poured from the clouds as Felguards took up positions on the ground, revealing the scale of the Legion’s invasion force.
• Dalaran’s mages realized their anti-undead barrier would be less effective against demons and recognized that Ye Ting’s floating city plan offered their only hope.
• A report confirmed that the final anti-gravity amplification node was complete, allowing Dalaran to take off in an emergency.
• Ye Ting activated the floating city system, directing arcane energy into the anti-gravity nodes and changing the barrier into a gravitational restraint field that separated the city from the surrounding earth.

Archimonde targeted Dalaran with a devastating spatial spell while the city’s anti-gravity system was still powering up. Ye Ting used Dalaran’s magical network to activate Phase Concealment, shifting the city into another phase just as the spell struck.

• Archimonde’s gaze made Dalaran’s mages sense that a powerful demonic spell was targeting them, and Ye Ting estimated that the city needed at least half an hour before it could take off.
• Archimonde reconstructed Dalaran as a magical model and used it to prepare a destructive spatial spell.
• Ye Ting connected his consciousness to Dalaran’s magical network and analyzed the city’s spatial coordinates and phase trajectory.
• Ye Ting activated the legendary spell Phase Concealment, moving Dalaran out of its original space as Archimonde’s attack arrived.

Archimonde's destructive spell failed to harm Dalaran because Ye Ting had shifted the city into an overlapping space. As Dalaran's anti-gravity system gained enough power to lift it, Ye Ting brought it back to the material plane, and Archimonde discovered it was rising.

• Archimonde struck Dalaran with a devastating spell, but the city remained unharmed, leaving Tichondrius bewildered.
• Archimonde realized Dalaran was hidden in an overlapping space and ordered his subordinates to watch for its return.
• Dalaran's mages felt the city begin to accelerate upward as its anti-gravity system overcame the planet's gravity.
• Ye Ting canceled his spell, returning Dalaran to the material plane.
• Archimonde expected Dalaran's people to flee, but he and the Dreadlords watched in surprise as the city rose.

Archimonde ordered the Doomguards to attack Dalaran after the city rose into the air, while Ye Ting led the mages in defending it. As the battle raged, Kael'thas realized Ye Ting's leadership had won the mages' loyalty and could secure his position as Speaker.

• Archimonde recognized that Dalaran had tricked the Legion by using its responses to buy time for the city to take off, then ordered the Doomguards to shoot it down.
• Tichondrius accepted Archimonde's order and hurried to send in the Doomguards before Dalaran's floating-city technology improved.
• Ye Ting directed the mages on the Violet Citadel platform to conserve their mana and target the Doomguards' wings as they attacked the city's magical barrier.
• Kael'thas warned Ye Ting that the Doomguards were too numerous to suppress, but Ye Ting ordered the mages to use potions and hold the line for Dalaran.
• Kael'thas admired Ye Ting's leadership and concluded that victory would make Ye Ting's position as Speaker of Dalaran difficult for Antonidas to reclaim.

As Dalaran’s barrier neared collapse under the Doomguards’ assault, Ye Ting launched a counterattack using the city’s gravity system. The disturbance crippled the demons and forced them to retreat, leaving Dalaran victorious as Kael'thas realized how Ye Ting had used the system.

• Modera and Ansirem teleported to Ye Ting and reported that they had completed his assigned task.
• Dalaran broadcast a warning and temporarily deactivated part of its barrier.
• The resulting gravity disturbance sent Doomguards crashing into the city or tore them apart, leaving more than half unable to fight.
• The surviving Doomguards retreated, and Dalaran’s residents celebrated their victory.
• Ye Ting rested on the Violet Citadel’s upper platform while Kael'thas deduced how the gravity system and barrier had caused the disturbance.

Ye Ting returned to Hearthglen after Dalaran was secured and joined Calia as Lordaeron's surviving forces gathered under her leadership. He brought recruited Dalaran mages and called a military meeting to share urgent news from the city.

• Ye Ting left Dalaran and returned to Hearthglen, where Calia greeted him with a formal knight's salute.
• Ye Ting introduced the mages he had recruited in Dalaran, and Calia accepted their allegiance to Lordaeron.
• Calia introduced Ye Ting to her allies, including Saidan Dathrohan, Alexandros Mograine, Alfred Abidis, and Isillien, while Garithos remained absent.
• Ye Ting and Calia entered Hearthglen Castle's conference hall, where Lordaeron's military leaders had gathered.
• Ye Ting recognized figures including Renault Mograine, Sally Whitemane, Bridget Abidis, Commander Durand, and One-Armed Invar among the assembled commanders.

Ye Ting briefed Calia and the Hearthglen commanders on Dalaran’s defeat and the demons’ arrival, explaining that their power had overwhelmed the city’s defenses. Renault challenged Ye Ting’s warning, but Ye Ting calmly described the cost of Dalaran’s survival and left the commanders facing the scale of the threat.

• Calia welcomed Ye Ting back and asked him to report on the Battle of Dalaran.
• Ye Ting explained that Dalaran had failed to stop the undead and revealed that demons had been behind the Orcs and had now arrived in the world.
• Sally Whitemane asked whether the demons were also behind the undead, and Ye Ting confirmed it.
• Renault stood up and accused Ye Ting of lacking courage, insisting that humanity could defeat the demons.
• Mograine rebuked Renault, while the other commanders and Whitemane showed their disapproval.
• Ye Ting said Dalaran had barely survived by activating its floating city system and that the demons’ power was beyond their ability to challenge for now.

Calia and Lordaeron’s generals assessed the demons and Scourge overrunning the kingdom and debated whether to fight or preserve their forces. Calia suspended the planned troop deployment and ordered support teams sent to help survivors evade the undead while the army remained in Hearthglen.

• Ye Ting reported that the demons and Scourge were sweeping through Lordaeron, trapping Gilneas’s forces near Shadowfang Keep and threatening regions across the kingdom.
• Ye Ting proposed gathering civilians and remaining troops near Southshore and evacuating them to Stormwind, while other areas sent civilians to safer locations.
• The generals debated whether to halt their counteroffensive, defend civilians, or preserve their forces as the undead threat grew.
• Calia suspended the original troop deployment, ordered the army to stay in Hearthglen and increase food production, and sent support teams to help survivors evade the undead.

Calia organized Hearthglen’s defenses and training while Ye Ting prepared to travel to Kalimdor, where he intended to find Jaina and unite with the Night Elves against Archimonde. Kael'thas joined the expedition to pursue the Scourge and avenge his father and people.

• Calia canceled Hearthglen’s campaign, sent Gryphon Riders to warn human settlements, and dispatched Dathrohan to gather refugees near Andorhal.
• Ye Ting proposed training programs for Hearthglen’s forces, and Calia assigned Durand to train recruits, Marlen to teach elite soldiers basic use of the Holy Light, and the court mages to establish a small magic academy.
• Vereesa agreed to train selected soldiers as archers after Ye Ting clarified that they did not need to become full rangers.
• Ye Ting resolved to travel to Kalimdor to find Jaina and contact the Night Elves, and Admiral Proudmoore invited him to join the fleet carrying refugees to Theramore.
• Kael'thas joined Ye Ting’s expedition with an elite team, intending to confront the Scourge and avenge his father and the fallen subjects of Quel'Thalas.

After a storm drove the fleet off course, Ye Ting and the refugees reached Kalimdor and found a promising stretch of coast in the Barrens. Daelin Proudmoore proposed establishing a settlement there, but Ye Ting’s suggestion to use local races as laborers was rejected.

• Several days after the storm, Ye Ting and the fleet spotted Kalimdor’s coastline and came ashore in the Barrens.
• The fleet built a temporary camp, hunted antelope for dinner, and discovered that seawater had soaked nearly all their gunpowder.
• Daelin Proudmoore, Kael'thas, and Ye Ting discussed founding a settlement and fortress on the coast while they searched for the route to Theramore.
• Ye Ting suggested using local humanoid races to help build the camp, but Daelin Proudmoore, Kael'thas, and the others opposed capturing them as laborers.

Ye Ting scouted the Barrens and discovered a Quilboar tribe, then learned they had captured an unfamiliar creature for a food divination. He found their prisoner in the shaman’s cave and discovered she was a Night Elf.

• Ye Ting climbed a tree to survey the area, recognized the Barrens, and went to investigate a Quilboar settlement.
• Ye Ting observed the Quilboars and identified a shaman leading a guarded ritual.
• Ye Ting used Invisibility and Comprehend Languages to learn the Quilboars were divining whether an unfamiliar creature was safe to eat.
• Ye Ting suspected the captive might be a survivor from the missing ships and followed the shaman back to his cave.
• Ye Ting entered the cave and found that the Quilboar prisoner was a Night Elf, not a human.

Ye Ting rescued Aeldara, a Night Elf Druid captured by Quilboar, and learned that they were descendants of the demigod Agamaggan. Aeldara’s account gave Ye Ting an opening to make contact with the Night Elves as they continued through Kalimdor.

• Ye Ting found a naked Night Elf tied up in a cave and freed her after she asked for help in Darnassian.
• Aeldara transformed into a black panther and ran outside to cover herself before introducing herself as a Druid of the Claw.
• Aeldara told Ye Ting she had been sent by the Malfurion Council to inspect Agamaggan’s followers but had been captured through carelessness.
• Aeldara explained that the Quilboar descended from Agamaggan, who had died fighting demons during the War of the Ancients.
• Ye Ting learned that the Quilboar’s demigod ancestry had not prevented their decline after Agamaggan’s death.

Ye Ting learned that Aeldara was a high-ranking Night Elf Druid and a disciple of the Ashen Druids' leader, Delandros Shadewhisper. After hearing about the Fang of Ashamane, he sought to befriend her, and Aeldara agreed to guide him and introduce him to important Night Elves.

• Ye Ting recognized that Aeldara's knowledge of Kalimdor could help his group establish a camp, contact Theramore, and eventually reach the Night Elves.
• Aeldara explained that she was an Ashen Druid and a disciple of Delandros Shadewhisper, an Archdruid of the Cenarion Circle.
• Aeldara told Ye Ting how the Ashen Druids formed around Ashamane's altar and the Fang of Ashamane, the relic left from the panther demigod's death.
• Ye Ting recognized the Fang of Ashamane as a powerful artifact and raised his estimation of Aeldara, who might inherit it.
• Aeldara trusted Ye Ting and agreed to serve as his guide and introduce him to influential Night Elves.

Ye Ting brought Aeldara to the Alliance camp, where she and Kael'thas clashed over the Night Elves' abandonment of magic and the High Elves' legacy. After Ye Ting confirmed that Archimonde had led the Burning Legion to Kalimdor, Aeldara agreed to guide them to the Night Elf leaders, while Ye Ting urged her and Kael'thas to set aside their feud.

• Ye Ting brought Aeldara to the coastal landing site, where Daelin and the others reacted to the Night Elf's arrival.
• Kael'thas and Aeldara traded insults as he criticized the Night Elves for abandoning magic and their former power.
• Ye Ting confirmed that the Burning Legion had returned under Archimonde, and Aeldara agreed to introduce him and the Alliance to the Night Elf leadership.
• Ye Ting stopped Aeldara and Kael'thas from arguing again and told them to cooperate against the demons.
• Ye Ting told Aeldara that magic itself was neither just nor evil and that its nature depended on who wielded it.

Ye Ting introduced Aeldara to the camp’s officers as a Night Elf druid whose abilities could help solve their manpower and construction problems. After describing how druids could aid the port’s construction with magic, he claimed he had another solution that would not require her to use spells.

• Ye Ting learned that building the port would take over two months with the camp’s limited manpower, while Daelin and Lorik explained the labor and supply constraints.
• Ye Ting asked how quickly the port could be built with enough draft animals, and Lorik estimated less than a month.
• Ye Ting introduced Aeldara as a Night Elf druid, local guide, interpreter, and beast-speaker, prompting the assembled officers to stare and whisper.
• Daelin and Kael'thas doubted that Aeldara could resolve the camp’s problems, so Ye Ting explained that druids could grow treehouses, accelerate crops, and awaken treants as laborers.
• Ye Ting announced that Aeldara could help solve the problems without using magic, leaving the officers and Aeldara eager to hear his method.

Ye Ting proposed hiring quilboar and centaurs for help through trade, with Aeldara acting as interpreter. After learning about the tribes, he began planning how to exploit the settlers’ technological advantages while avoiding trade goods that could be turned into weapons.

• Ye Ting convinced Daelin that the settlers could ask the quilboar and centaurs for help instead of enslaving them, and Aeldara agreed to interpret.
• Ye Ting asked Daelin for carpenters and blacksmiths and Kael'thas for alchemists and enchanters to prepare for trade.
• Ye Ting questioned Aeldara about quilboar and centaur customs, crafts, and living conditions to assess their needs.
• Aeldara suggested trading iron goods, but Ye Ting warned that the tribes could use the tools as weapons and said he had a better option.

Ye Ting prepared fire-starting devices, cloth, and alcohol as gifts to win over the native races, then brought a small convoy to the Steelmane Tribe. The boarfolk let him enter after smelling the alcohol, revealing one of their unexpected means of detecting danger.

• Aeldara examined Ye Ting’s fire-starting device as he demonstrated how its flint mechanism and rune produced a flame.
• Ye Ting prepared cloth and alcohol alongside the devices, relying on their superior quality to appeal to the boarfolk and centaurs.
• Ye Ting set out for a different boarfolk tribe with Aeldara and several wagon drivers, leaving his guards behind to show goodwill.
• Two guards at the Steelmane Tribe’s gate stopped the convoy, and Aeldara translated Ye Ting’s offer of gifts.
• The boarfolk guards allowed Ye Ting’s convoy inside after smelling the alcohol on the wagons.