Recaps

Lin Yu became Yu Lin Bloodhawk in Quel'Thalas, revealed the future to Sylvanas, and helped her prepare for the threats ahead. He took command of a new Battle Pet Ranger Unit and began gathering beasts for its training, leaving camp records based on the Troll Rune Beast Collar research in hand.

• Lin Yu left his guild and dreamed he was Yu Lin Bloodhawk, then received Sylvanas's order to block the route between Zeb'Sora and Zeb'Tela.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk rallied his recruits, completed Sylvanas's challenge, and learned that his squadron would scout and intercept messengers near the Tower of the Stars.
• Lin Yu warned Sylvanas about Dar'Khan's betrayal and the coming fall of Quel'Thalas, then disclosed what he knew about the wars, Medivh, Sargeras, and Thrall.
• After Lin Yu tried to die by jumping from a cliff, Sylvanas found him poisoned and injured, and he later woke to learn that he had survived in Yu Lin Bloodhawk's body.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas discussed changing the future, keeping their knowledge from Silvermoon City, and securing him a fief, though he rejected Deatholme and chose Shalandis Isle.
• At An'owyn Valley, Yu Lin Bloodhawk joined Alleria's command, studied ranger manuals, and devised a Battle Pet Ranger Unit to help his soldiers fight alongside beasts.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk secured support from Alleria and arranged to buy boars, bears, and wolves in human lands, then returned to camp with hundreds of boars.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that nearly two hundred lynxes had been captured in Quel'Thalas and found a beast-training method developed from Troll Rune Beast Collar research.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk built a battle-pet force, secured beasts and five Rogue followers, and returned to Quel'Thalas with a Young Treant and a captured pirate ship. As he tested the bonded beasts against Trolls, his conflict with Sylvanas and Alleria culminated in his threat to leave for Kalimdor.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk escaped a Troll pursuit and reported the threat, then organized the Bloodhawk Independent War Pet Unit and planned lynx, bear, and boar forces.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk warned Sylvanas about the Undead invasion and asked her to help evacuate Falthrien Academy and remove much of the Sunwell's energy if war came.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged beast shipments and recruited five former Rogues as followers through Dirithis, then met the Ancient Locust Tree and took its Young Treant with him.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk's followers fought off seven pursuers, and the Young Treant healed their wounds as they sailed toward Quel'Thalas.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to Sunsail Archorage, where Dragonhawk Riders captured the pirate ship that had followed him, and he sent the ship and its prisoners to Shalandis Isle.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to Tranquillien and discovered that Sylvanas had taken his Wolf King, Lupos, while Ghostclaw Lynxes began forming soul links without trinkets.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk tested lynxes in arena fights and arranged for a soldier and her bonded lynx to practice stealth and coordination before facing a Troll.
• Alleria threatened Yu Lin Bloodhawk when he tried to leave, and he announced that he could sail to Kalimdor and join Prince Thalor.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk built up his troops by training battle pets, developing new tactics, and securing ships, allies, and Shalandis Isle. The arc ended with Sylvanas testing him as a possible impostor before accepting his explanation of Disengage.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk trained the Nightstalkers to fight alongside lynxes and boars, then introduced battle-pet tactics and basic conjuration spells to his officers.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas pursued plans for dire wolves, gryphons, and other beasts while he negotiated with pirates and prepared for a possible attack on Jintha'Alor.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk put the Nightstalker recruits through a lethal mock battle led by rogues Sixteen and Seventeen, then assigned them to train with their lynxes.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged animal shipments and troop training as Sylvanas claimed wolves, bears, and lions for her forces and sent Lupos to the Dire Wolf Training Base.
• Thirteen brought Yu Lin Bloodhawk grain, five gryphons, and recruited sailors, while the other prisoners remained behind on Shalandis Isle.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that Shalandis Isle had been granted to him, recruited retiring Farstriders for his guard, and ordered new training and a secret campaign against Zeb'Sora.
• Sylvanas coached Yu Lin Bloodhawk's marksmanship and challenged his use of Wing Clip and Disengage, then briefly suspected he was an impostor.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained that he had thought Disengage required a backward leap, and Sylvanas accepted his explanation after showing him how to use it in other directions.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk built up his forces, secured ships and recruits, and prepared Shalandis Isle as a base while warning Sylvanas about Quel'Thalas’s future. The arc ended with his regiment and Sylvanas’s troops attacking Shalvalsa in the Hinterlands.

• Sylvanas trained Yu Lin Bloodhawk at the Dire Wolf Training Base, where he learned to evade the wolves using traps, terrain, and ranger skills.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas planned an attack on Zeb'Sora, then led their forces to defeat the trolls there and ambush reinforcements near Zeb'Watha.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk defeated Zuga in a duel and secured the surrender of the troll forces, then had his troops hunt trolls who had eaten captured elves.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk organized plans for a boar-breeding farm and a prison on Shalandis Isle, recruited retired veterans and other elves, and formed a Household Guard and expeditionary force.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk acquired transport ships, arranged for troll prisoners and equipment to be sent to Shalandis Isle, and secretly prepared the island for a military camp and prison.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk trained his guard, recruited gryphon tamers, and persuaded treants to help grow breadfruit on Shalandis Isle before pretending to grieve when a staged fire destroyed his territory.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led his regiment to Sunsail Archorage, where officers planned the Hinterlands expedition and arranged Teleportation Circles aboard the ships for the Dragonhawks.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas’s forces surrounded Shalvalsa, bombed it with more than two hundred High Elf Dragonhawks, and prepared a full assault as Blizzard’s Bastard mage force advanced.