Recaps

Anthony and Jaina visited Emerald Village, where its thriving commoners and the Holy Church’s influence made Anthony realize Dalaran had no choice but to side with the Holy Church. He told Jaina to report that Dalaran would stay out of the human conflict and might support the Church.

• Anthony and Jaina arrived at Emerald Village, and Anthony urged Jaina to face the changes of the era rather than avoid them.
• Anthony and Jaina entered the village and saw commoners living comfortably and children training with Rock Lee to become Holy Light Clerics.
• Anthony realized the villagers respected and hoped for the children who could join the Holy Church, unlike how commoners viewed those who rose through the nobility.
• Anthony concluded that opposing the Holy Church would make Dalaran an enemy of humanity and recognized that Dalaran had no real choice.
• Anthony told Jaina to report to Menethil II that Dalaran would not join the human conflict and might stand with the Holy Church.

Jaina learned that Arthas had massacred the infected people of Stratholme and returned to Lordaeron carrying Frostmourne. Welcomed as a hero, Arthas killed his father, King Menethil II, beginning the Burning Legion’s conquest of Azeroth.

• Jaina received a bloodstained letter and reacted in horror to the news of Arthas’s actions.
• At Stratholme, Arthas killed infected citizens despite Uther’s opposition, then followed Kel'Thuzad to Northrend to seek Frostmourne.
• Arthas took Frostmourne, while the Church of the Damned portrayed him as a hero who could save the kingdom from the plague.
• Menethil II welcomed Arthas back to Lordaeron, disregarding Uther’s warning about his strange behavior.
• Arthas seized Menethil II and killed him with Frostmourne, awakening the Dreadlord’s will as demons watched and celebrated.

Arthas unleashed a vast undead invasion on Lordaeron, while the Holy Church discovered the threat and mobilized its forces from the Holy City of Hope. Alleria, Vereesa, and Sylvanas realized that a catastrophe close to the return of the demons had begun.

• Arthas activated the magic circles across Lordaeron, and undead flooded the city, killing its guards and turning its people into a terrified crowd.
• The Holy Church investigated reports of undead near Northrend, and drone reconnaissance revealed vast armies on the march.
• The Holy Church placed the Holy City of Hope under military control and sent Holy Light Clerics, weapons, aircraft, and Sky Carriers toward the crisis.
• Vereesa asked Alleria whether the Holy Church was preparing to conquer Azeroth, and Alleria dismissed the idea.
• Sylvanas suspected that demons had returned, and Alleria said the disaster was not that, but was close to it.

The Windrunner sisters joined the Holy Church’s Auxiliary Forces after Alleria warned Marshal Axel that the Burning Legion might target the Well of Eternity. They left eager to serve the Church, while Alleria hoped they could eventually overcome their people’s prejudice and become true members.

• Sylvanas suggested that the Windrunner sisters join the Holy Church’s Auxiliary Forces so their family could support the campaign and seek help if Quel'Thalas faced danger.
• Alleria, Sylvanas, and Vereesa went to the command headquarters and asked Marshal Axel to accept them into the Auxiliary Forces.
• Alleria told Axel she feared the demons would attack the Well of Eternity and explained that some High Elf elders distrusted the Church.
• Axel welcomed the sisters, and all three gave him a formal Holy Church military salute.
• After leaving headquarters, Alleria and Sylvanas shared their excitement about serving the Church, while Vereesa remained puzzled by their conversation.

Uther and Faol fought to evacuate Lordaeron as Arthas commanded the undead, but the Holy Light Clerics and their Wolf Riders arrived to rescue civilians. Arthas resolved to spread his forces across other kingdoms, while Uther recognized the Wolf Riders as the heretics nobles had wanted destroyed.

• Faol urged Uther to escape and warn the other human kingdoms, but Uther refused to abandon Lordaeron.
• Arthas watched Uther through the undead and ordered him to be turned into part of his army.
• The Holy Light Clerics split into teams and rode into the city to rescue civilians as Arthas sent legions of undead after them.
• Uther and Faol saw the undead surrounding them withdraw, and Uther decided to join the newcomers to evacuate the people.
• Arthas found that the Wolf Riders' armor and weapons made them formidable against his undead, so he decided to spread his army across other kingdoms.
• Uther met the Wolf Riders and recognized them as the heretics the nobles had once wanted to destroy.

Uther and the survivors at the Holy Light Grand Cathedral received reinforcements from the Holy Church, whose fighters held off the undead while preparing an air evacuation. The chapter ended with Faol agreeing to calm the civilians as they waited for the regiment and its airship.

• A Holy Light Cleric saved Uther from a Ghoul, and Uther revealed that survivors were sheltering at the Holy Light Grand Cathedral.
• Uther led the Holy Light Clerics to Faol, who learned that the small group was only a vanguard from a regiment of nearly a thousand troops.
• Ten Holy Light Clerics held the Church entrance against the undead, and their weapons and abilities astonished Faol, Uther, and the civilians.
• The Regiment Commander reported that the city had been searched and ordered preparations to evacuate the survivors by airship.
• A Holy Light Cleric told Faol to keep the civilians calm during the air evacuation, and Faol agreed while Uther remained confused.

Holy Light Clerics in overwhelming numbers routed the undead besieging the church, forcing Arthas to abandon his original plan and secretly disperse his forces. Kel'Thuzad discovered that their golden weapons destroyed undead souls, then watched a gigantic Sky Carrier arrive at the church entrance.

• Holy Light Clerics riding white wolves cleared the church entrance and formed a defensive line that the Undead Army could not cross.
• Uther watched the undead fall and felt both satisfaction at Arthas’s defeat and guilt over failing as his teacher.
• Arthas raged at the clerics’ strength, then sent more than half his undead forces outside the city and quietly fled the Royal Palace.
• Kel'Thuzad reached the battlefield and saw golden attacks extinguish undead soul flames so they could not reform.
• A colossal Sky Carrier stopped in front of the church, lowered its bay door, and extended a silver-white stairway to the ground.

Faol led the survivors of Lordaeron aboard the Sky Carrier while the demons debated their next move. After the demons chose to target Quel'Thalas, Mickey used the Mothership to destroy Lordaeron with a devastating blast, leaving Uther staring at the devastation.

• Faol organized the survivors and led them aboard the Mothership, which took off with Uther among its passengers.
• Kel'Thuzad and the demon lords watched the Mothership depart, and Kil'jaeden ordered a squad to raid Quel'Thalas and establish a Portal at the Well of Eternity.
• The Mothership stopped outside Lordaeron, and Mickey told Uther it would deliver a destructive gift to the undead.
• Mickey fired the Mothership's weapon, flattening Lordaeron in a tremendous explosion.
• Uther asked if the destruction was divine punishment, and Mickey called it justice's judgment on evil.

After the destruction of Lordaeron, the Burning Legion chose Archimonde to invade despite the Mothership’s terrifying power, while Arthas escaped and Jaina and Anthony arrived too late to confront him. As undead forces overwhelmed the human kingdoms, people fled to Holy Church villages, and nobles spread rumors that the Church had allied with the undead.

• After the Mothership’s blast silenced the demons, Archimonde volunteered to invade Azeroth and Kil'jaeden promised to report his valor to the Master.
• Arthas escaped Lordaeron with more than half his forces lost and vowed that the armies of death would one day engulf the world.
• Jaina and Anthony reached the ruins of Lordaeron, where Jaina grieved for the dead and resolved to keep searching for Arthas.
• The human kingdoms panicked as undead armies seized territory, while villages protected by Holy Light Clerics became refuges for fleeing people.
• Nobles failed to gain special treatment from the Holy Church and spread rumors that it had allied with the Undead Army.

The Holy Church broadcast a speech attacking noble privilege and promising a fairer society, winning the support of commoners displaced by the Undead Army. Anthony and Jaina recognized that the Holy Church had made its stance clear and went to meet its leaders.

• The Holy Church broadcast Miller Gal's speech across the Human Kingdoms, denouncing nobles' power and urging commoners to trust the Church.
• Anthony and Jaina listened to the broadcast in a village restaurant and considered the Holy Church's growing influence and military strength.
• The rescued villagers applauded the speech, having found food, shelter, paid work, and schooling in the Church's camps.
• Anthony told Jaina that they had no choice but to act, and Jaina agreed that the commoners would likely not support a restored Lordaeron monarchy.
• Anthony and Jaina decided to meet the important figures in the Holy Church.

Anthony and Jaina visited the Holy Light Clerics’ command center on behalf of Dalaran and witnessed the pressure the Undead Scourge placed on their forces. They met Legion Commander Kumata, who asked whether they represented Dalaran officially.

• Anthony and Jaina approached the Holy Light Clerics’ military compound and a guard courteously asked them to leave the restricted area.
• Anthony identified himself and Jaina as mages from Dalaran and requested a meeting with the commanding officer.
• The guard contacted headquarters through his wrist device and received permission for them to enter.
• Anthony and Jaina crossed the compound and saw troops deploying as command staff handled reports of undead attacks across the kingdoms.
• The guard brought them to Legion Commander Kumata, who asked whether they had come on Dalaran’s behalf or as individuals.
• Anthony said they represented Dalaran and introduced himself as its foremost mage and Jaina as his apprentice.

Anthony and Jaina challenged the Holy Church’s rejection of hereditary rule, but Anthony ultimately asked to join the new era, and Kumata welcomed Dalaran’s mages into the fight against the Undead. At the auxiliary encampment, Anthony and Jaina discovered an extraordinary gathering of Azeroth’s renowned figures under the Holy Church’s banner.

• Kumata asked Anthony and Jaina why they had come, and Anthony raised concerns about the Holy Church’s treatment of established groups and the nobility.
• Jaina questioned whether the Holy Church intended to destroy the kingdoms, and Kumata explained that royal rule would no longer be hereditary.
• Anthony asked Kumata to let Dalaran join the new era, and Kumata welcomed him while urging mages to remain humble in their pursuit of knowledge.
• Kumata assigned Anthony to recruit mages of good character for the Auxiliary Personnel and ordered them to follow the Holy Church’s command.
• A guard led Anthony and Jaina to the auxiliary encampment, where they saw Aegwynn, Medivh, Alexstrasza and her Red Dragon Legion, the Windrunner sisters, Gelbin Mekkatorque, Brann Bronzebeard, Uther, Archbishop Faol, and a powerful orc.

Anthony and Faol reunited at a gathering of Azeroth's allies and discussed the Holy Church's power and its godlike protector. The gathering revealed that teams from other worlds had come to help fight the undead Scourge, and Dragon arrived with allies from the Pirate World.

• Anthony and Archbishop Faol reunited and praised the Holy Church's achievements, while Uther and Jaina mourned Arthas's fall.
• The Red Dragon Queen urged the gathering to focus on making amends and protecting Azeroth, and Faol told Anthony about a godlike being in Quel'Thalas.
• Minato Namikaze introduced Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, and Kaguya Otsutsuki as Auxiliary Personnel from the Shinobi World, explaining how the Holy Church assigned teams to fight the Scourge.
• Dragon arrived with Ace, Luffy, Whitebeard, and former navy admirals, and he and Minato discussed their worlds' cooperation and development.

A group of girls called the Celestial Pearl Girls arrived at the Holy Church’s gathering hall with the tailed beasts, and their awkward entrance was interrupted by Night Raid’s arrival. The reunion brought together old allies, while the tailed beasts bristled at Hashirama and Madara over their past imprisonment.

• Hibana and Irene argued inside a spatial passage before the girls and seven tailed beasts emerged in the hall.
• The girls introduced themselves as the Celestial Pearl Girls, while Matatabi explained that the tailed beasts had taken an easy mission to earn points after losing their savings to Nine-Tails.
• Tatsumi, Sayo, Mine, and the other members of Night Raid entered and reunited with Dragon, Minato, Hashirama, and Madara.
• Hashirama asked why the tailed beasts had come, and they angrily reminded him and Madara that they had once sealed them away.

Shishu briefed the summoned auxiliary squads on the undead crisis and distributed mission information, prompting local fighters to team up with the newcomers. Meanwhile, Arthas agreed to divert his undead army to rescue Gul'dan from the Holy Church, leaving the six human kingdoms under siege.

• Shishu explained that the Shadow Council was loosening the Old Gods' seals and assigned the auxiliary squads to clear undead-infested areas.
• Light Spirits guided the Azeroth fighters through their Optical Computers, and the Red Dragon Queen agreed to join Minato's team in Alterac.
• Minato noticed Dragon inviting the Windrunner Sisters, while the other teams selected missions and departed the hall.
• Across the Eastern Continent, undead armies battered the remaining human kingdoms as Arthas met with Shadow Council figures in a bunker.
• The Shadow Council demanded that Arthas attack its autonomous region in Stormwind to rescue Gul'dan, and Arthas agreed.

Minato's group and the Red Dragon Queen reached the besieged Alterac Mountains, where the defenders faced overwhelming undead forces. Hashirama unveiled a colossal Wood Release construct, leaving the defenders and the Red Dragon Queen stunned as he challenged Madara to a kill-count contest.

• On the Flying Shuttle, Madara dismissed the undead as weak, and Hashirama teased him about having no child with Esdeath before the two briefly brawled.
• Evers Proudmoore watched Alterac's defenses buckle under the undead onslaught and despaired over the kingdom's fate.
• A soldier reported a huge red dragon above the defensive line, and Evers hurried outside to find the Red Dragon Queen accompanied by Minato's group.
• The Red Dragon Queen transformed into her dragon form and prepared to meet Evers, but Hashirama summoned Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands.
• Hashirama challenged Madara to see who would kill more undead, while the defenders and the Red Dragon Queen stared in shock at the enormous construct.

Madara and Hashirama wiped out the Undead Army around Alterac, then joined the Red Dragon Queen in clearing other concentrations as Minato explained the strengths of different worlds. Meanwhile, Jaina led Sengoku and the Pirate World's Adventurers' Guild officers to Kul Tiras, where they reflected on their world's progress and their determination to win the Holy Grail.

• Madara used Super Shinra Tensei and Hashirama's Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands to destroy the Undead Army surrounding the Alterac Mountains.
• Minato and the Red Dragon Queen traveled with the warriors to clear undead elsewhere, and Minato described the strengths and weaknesses of the Shinobi, Pirate, and Azeroth worlds.
• The Red Dragon Queen wondered whether auxiliary members from other worlds were as powerful as Madara and Hashirama, and Minato reassured her about Azeroth's abilities.
• Jaina brought Sengoku and the Pirate World's Adventurers' Guild officers to Kul Tiras, where Sengoku remarked on the value of peace after seeing the devastation.
• The Adventurers' Guild officers discussed their world's growth and Dragon's goal of surpassing the Shinobi World, hoping to win the Holy Grail and gain access to powerful treasures.

Jaina questioned the Pirate World adventurers about their society and learned that they had overthrown their nobles and now lived under the Federal Government. As Jaina returned to Kul Tiras with reinforcements, her father Daelin Proudmoore learned she wanted to speak with him privately and went to meet her.

• Jaina asked Garp and Sengoku about nobles and learned that the Pirate World had abolished nobility after its people overthrew the ruling class.
• Sengoku warned Jaina not to oppose the Holy Church if she wanted to protect her family, leaving her worried about persuading her proud father.
• Daelin Proudmoore lamented Kul Tiras's losses to the Undead Army and his lack of allies.
• A guard told Daelin that Jaina had returned with reinforcements and wanted to speak with him privately.
• Daelin set out for Jaina's residence, hoping her reinforcements might help Kul Tiras.

Jaina persuaded Daelin Proudmoore to let her seek help from the Holy Church against the Undead Scourge, and they headed for the front lines. There, Sengoku and another white-clad fighter unleashed devastating attacks on the undead, leaving the soldiers stunned.

• Daelin Proudmoore objected to Jaina accepting help from the Holy Church, but agreed to see what she and Sengoku’s companions could do.
• Jaina set out for the kingdom’s front lines with Sengoku and his companions, while Daelin Proudmoore armored himself and followed to watch over her.
• At Stormsong Valley, the undead broke through the soldiers’ defensive line and a reanimated soldier nearly attacked his comrade.
• Sengoku caught the reanimated soldier’s greatsword, crushed it, and cleared undead with a powerful wind blade.
• A white-clad man used Meteor Volcano to rain molten fists onto the battlefield, devastating the undead and leaving the soldiers in awe.

The Holy Church's fighters devastated the undead forces, convincing Daelin Proudmoore to accept that his family's future honor would take a new form under Jaina's leadership. Meanwhile, Arthas and Ner'zhul watched their armies collapse as the Horde purged traitors among its ranks.

• Daelin Proudmoore and Jaina watched the Holy Church's Auxiliary Personnel and Adventurers' Guild officers freeze and shatter the undead army with powerful attacks.
• Daelin Proudmoore agreed that the kingdom's survival mattered more than the family's old honor and entrusted its future to Jaina.
• Arthas saw through the undead's vision that his forces were being destroyed and briefly questioned whether his chosen path was right before Ner'zhul's influence suppressed his doubts.
• Ner'zhul saw that the orcs were thriving and considered turning his surviving people into an Undead Army to avenge himself on Kil'jaeden.
• Durotan and the Horde chieftains purged hidden Shadow Council members and Twilight's Hammer cultists after the rebels caused trouble, while the Holy Church's Legion Commander reacted strangely to the list of culprits.

Pope Ria and the Holy Church began breaking the seals of the Old Gods so they could offer them as nourishment to the Holy Light. N'Zoth broke free of his weakened seal but was swiftly bound in golden chains, leaving him terrified of becoming prey.

• Ria ordered the Holy Church's legions to break the Old Gods' seals and confirmed that the undead scourge was being contained.
• N'Zoth awoke in the Throat of the Abyss and tried to corrupt the Holy Light Clerics surrounding his seal, but his power failed to affect them.
• Naruto and Sabo discussed how the legions planned to capture five Old Gods and offer them to the Holy Light.
• N'Zoth furiously attacked the nearly dismantled seal, while the Holy Light Clerics contained his escaping corruption beneath a dome of light.
• N'Zoth broke the seal and attacked the clerics, but golden chains descended and bound him, weakening him as he struggled.

Ria released N'Zoth from the clerics' golden chains and effortlessly captured him in her palm, where he found C'Thun already trapped. She kept prodding the Old Gods to make sure they stayed alive and moving as she planned to serve them as food.

• Naruto asked Sabo whether the Legion Commander had been reached, and Sabo said help would arrive soon as the clerics struggled to hold N'Zoth.
• Ria arrived and told the clerics to release N'Zoth, then faced the freed Old God herself.
• N'Zoth attacked Ria, but her expanding hand swallowed him and trapped him in her palm with C'Thun.
• C'Thun explained that Ria had captured him the same way, while N'Zoth panicked and tried unsuccessfully to escape.
• Ria prodded C'Thun to check whether he was still alive, then tormented both Old Gods until they were scurrying across her palm.

Ria's actions split Azeroth's timeline, and Nozdormu set out to investigate the changed future. Meanwhile, the Holy Church brought the human kingdoms under its new order, leaving surviving nobles to face its reckoning.

• Nozdormu saw a changed branch of Azeroth's future and was warned by a woman with golden eyes not to seek spoilers.
• The Holy Church's forces cleared the undead from the seven human kingdoms and advanced on their borders.
• Stormwind's king surrendered his crown and became the kingdom's first president, while Dalaran and Kul Tiras joined the Holy Church's new order.
• Genn Greymane learned that the Holy Church had wiped out Stromgarde's nobility after they took commoners hostage, and he urged Gilneas's nobles to submit.
• The remaining kings surrendered their crowns, and the Holy Church arrested and punished nobles accused of crimes.

After the undead army’s defeat, Ner'zhul persuaded Arthas to invade Quel'Thalas and use the Well of Eternity to bring in the Burning Legion. As Arthas prepared to strike the elven capital, the Sun King cracked down on High Elves who supported the Holy Church, while Kael'thas asked Alleria about the Church’s attitude toward elves.

• Ner'zhul convinced Arthas to take the remaining undead army by sea to Quel'Thalas and attack the High Elves.
• The Sun King ordered Parliament to seal the borders and punish High Elves who crossed over or praised the Holy Church.
• High Elf soldiers found an evacuated border village while Arthas and the undead watched from the forest, then let the soldiers leave to conceal their presence.
• Arthas told Ner'zhul that the undead would attack the elven royal capital at night rather than risk exposing themselves by killing the border guards.
• Alleria and the Windrunner Sisters met Kael'thas in Dalaran, where Kael'thas asked what the Holy Church thought of elves.

Arthas’s Scourge overran Quel'Thalas in a surprise attack, and he confronted the Sun King and the Supreme Council at the Well of Eternity. The Sun King realized his closed borders had left the kingdom vulnerable, then appeared tempted by Arthas’s offer of eternal life.

• Alleria told Kael'thas the Holy Church welcomed all races, and the Windrunner Sisters promised to take him to the Holy City by Flying Shuttle.
• The Scourge attacked Quel'Thalas’s laxly defended capital at night and overwhelmed its defenders while the Sun King and the Supreme Council remained at the Well of Eternity.
• Arthas entered the hall, killed a councilor with Frostmourne, and mocked the elves for losing their capital in three hours.
• Arthas revealed that undead had surrounded the Well of Eternity and told the Sun King that sealing the borders had made the conquest easy.
• The Sun King recognized Arthas as the Lich King and asked him to spare Quel'Thalas, but Arthas offered him eternal life instead.
• The Sun King questioned whether Arthas’s offer was true, and Arthas called on the elves to accept death and eternal life.