Vol. 3Alliance to Quel'Thalas

Rhode united the kingdoms against the Scourge, confronted threats across Azeroth, and rose to Archmage while investigating Dar'Khan’s schemes. The volume left him holding Rivendare captive after learning that Dar'Khan had manipulated the Sun King and sought the Moon Crystals.

  • Rhode helped Thoradin defeat Mal'Ganis and united the kingdoms against the Scourge, earning a title and a role in the new Alliance.
  • Rhode developed his territory and Hearthstone project, then prepared to investigate reports of serious illness in Alterac.
  • Rhode helped the Frostwolves settle at Alterac Keep, fought trolls and the Cult of the Damned, and discovered that Arugal had captured High Elf Rangers.
  • Rhode killed Arugal and freed the Rangers, but Lalinf, Dailiya, and other villagers had taken the Worgen Potion, so he promised to find a cure.
  • Rhode and Lilia defeated Kel'Thuzad and destroyed his phylactery, earning Rhode a promotion and an invitation to Northrend.
  • Rhode defeated Kael'thas, agreed to investigate the Dark Cult with Marin and Lilia, and encountered bandits in Elwynn Forest.
  • Rhode helped defeat Onyxia and Benedictus, became an Archmage, and traveled with Lilia to investigate Baron Rivendare.
  • Rhode defeated Rivendare and forced him to surrender, learning that Dar'Khan sought the Moon Crystals and had manipulated the Sun King.
Chapters 202–301 Read from ch. 202

Arc 9Alliance and Hearthstone

Rhode helped expose Mal'Ganis, free Stromgarde, and establish a united Alliance against the Scourge while expanding his school, farms, and Hearthstone project. The arc ended with Dreamfoil cultivation failing and reports that people in Alterac had fallen seriously ill, prompting Rhode to investigate.

  • Rhode used Nagaz's Demon Stone to free Arthas, Lilia, Sally, and Kienlo, then helped Thoradin confront Mal'Ganis in Stromgarde.
  • Rhode persuaded Thoradin and Arthas to prepare a coalition against the Scourge, and Thoradin rewarded him with Northridge Farm and the title “Pride of Stromgarde.”
  • Rhode began developing farming and education in his territory, recruited Millhouse Manastorm to help build Hearthstone, and opened Darrow Hill Vocational Skills Training School.
  • At King Terenas's conference, Rhode demonstrated the threat of the Scourge and explained how the kingdoms could prepare, and the nations formed a new Alliance and named Rhode Chief Economic Executive.
  • Rhode organized herb cultivation, trade, roads, schools, and standardized patrols, while founding Seafood Town with Nat Pagle.
  • Rhode developed Rune-powered Hearthstone card boxes, but a connection bug caused the game to produce repeated legendary cards, so he stopped the test to fix it.
  • Rhode found that farmers could not grow Dreamfoil, while Ghost Mushrooms and Grave Moss thrived and could support tests of low-grade Necromantic Potions.
  • A farmer reported that people who had gone to Alterac had become seriously ill, and Rhode prepared to investigate.
Chapters 202–226 Summaries Read

Arc 10The Worgen of Pyrewood

Rhode helped the Frostwolves settle at Alterac Keep, stopped the troll and Cult of the Damned threats, and pursued the trail of Lilia’s missing sister. He rescued the captive High Elf Rangers from Arugal, but Lalinf, Dailiya, and other villagers had already been exposed to the Worgen Potion, leaving Rhode to seek a cure.

  • Rhode brought Thrall and the Frostwolf Clan to Alterac Keep, where Thrall used water totems to cleanse the fel and Rhode successfully cultivated felweed.
  • Rhode joined Falstad Wildhammer’s fight against Zalaz Witherbark’s trolls, destroyed the Venomous Spider Queen, and defeated Ras Frostwhisper.
  • Rhode uncovered Balnazzar’s plot to spread plague through infected corn, burned the corn, and learned that Quel'Danil Lodge’s rangers had disappeared.
  • Rhode visited Gilneas to teach its mages, exposed his power at the academy, and learned from Kandray that Arugal had captured High Elf Rangers in Pyrewood Village.
  • Rhode and Lilia entered Pyrewood Village, where they discovered Arugal’s Worgen experiments and found Lalinf and Dailiya had drunk the potion.
  • Rhode defeated Arugal’s mages, killed Arugal when he tried to escape, and freed Galinde and the other imprisoned High Elf Rangers.
  • Lilia reunited with Galinde, while Rhode arranged to seek permission for the rangers to remain near Southshore and promised to find a way to help the potion’s victims.
  • Lalinf and Dailiya collapsed as the Worgen Potion took effect, and Rhode promised the gathered victims that he would rescue them.
Chapters 227–251 Summaries Read

Arc 11The Lich and the Duel

Rhode defeated Kel'Thuzad and destroyed his phylactery, earning a promotion and acclaim across Azeroth. After winning a duel with Kael'thas and helping Antonidas recover, Rhode set out with Marin and Lilia to investigate the Dark Cult, but bandits blocked their way in Elwynn Forest.

  • Rhode treated Lalinf and Dailiya's transformations, recruited them, and brought them along after they defeated Warden in a spar.
  • Rhode led an expedition to the gnolls near Windvale Village and persuaded Lalinf and Dailiya's followers to aid the humans.
  • Rhode discovered Kandray had placed a bounty on him, then tracked Duke Foulcrest to Lake Lordamere and killed him after learning of Kel'Thuzad's plans.
  • Rhode enchanted the Thought Acceleration Gemstone into a Fire Orb and led a search into Tirisfal Glades, where he found the Scourge and uncovered Kel'Thuzad's hidden forces.
  • Rhode fought through the Scourge army, destroyed Heigan and the Plague Cannons, and entered the cave where Kel'Thuzad awaited him.
  • Rhode and Lilia defeated Kel'Thuzad's defenders, found his phylactery, and destroyed it, while a mysterious voice invited Rhode to Northrend.
  • Rhode returned to Southshore, received a promotion, helped Antonidas understand and counter his void curse, and presented his spell-model method to Dalaran's mages.
  • Rhode defeated Kael'thas in a duel, agreed to help investigate the Dark Cult in Stormwind, and traveled with Marin and Lilia until red-masked bandits blocked their path.
Chapters 252–276 Summaries Read

Arc 12From Stormwind to Rivendare

Rhode defeated the Defias Brotherhood, the Twilight's Hammer, Onyxia, and Benedictus before traveling toward Quel'Thalas. At Rivendare's manor, he uncovered the Baron's Scourge ties and forced him to surrender, learning that Dar'Khan was behind the scheme involving the Sun King and the Moon Crystals.

  • Rhode killed Johnsen and defeated VanCleef's fighters, but Twilight Lord Everun arrived and used the gemstones to summon four Abyssal Council dukes.
  • Rhode killed the dukes and defeated Aewolan, then survived Onyxia and Krixix's bombing and helped Varian's forces bring down Onyxia.
  • Rhode exposed Benedictus's shadow magic in Stormwind and defeated him in a duel, then received news of his elevation to Archmage and Anasterian's challenge.
  • Rhode and Lilia traveled to Corin's Crossing under assumed names, where Baron Rivendare tried to buy Rhode's runes and recruit him.
  • Rhode and Lilia defeated Maleki's attackers, exposed Rivendare's Scourge treachery, and killed Skul and Ramstein when the Baron set them against Lilia.
  • Rivendare revealed Dar'Khan's plan to collect magical items and the three Moon Crystals while manipulating the Sun King into arranging the Quel'Thalas duel.
  • Rhode overpowered Rivendare while Lilia defeated Anastari, and Rivendare surrendered.
Chapters 277–301 Summaries Read
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