Recaps

Yu Lin Bloodhawk prepared the Hinterlands and joined the allied expedition against the orcs, while advising Sylvanas about Quel'Thalas’s future and helping the elves manage an unreliable command. The allied vanguard reached Loch Danmor, where an orc attack broke the forward defensive line and left the army waiting for orders.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained to Sylvanas how ancestral legacies could unite people, then warned her of her future as Ranger-General, Banshee Queen, and Horde Warchief and urged her to survive the Undead invasion.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk tested a Goblin tank, repurposed it as a gang plow, and organized villages, crops, and aid for refugees in the Hinterlands.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk trained with Yiluo Chenfeng, welcomed new troops to the harbor, and formed an alliance with Mez'dra while proposing a neutral trade city and mutual defense pact with the green dragons and trolls.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk joined Alleria and Sylvanas at Menethil Harbor, where Alleria outlined a risky allied deployment and the officers planned escape routes and reconnaissance around Loch Danmor.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged for rangers and Gryphon Riders to capture Raptors to carry supplies for the Golden Mist Burning Legion, while Sylvanas taught him archery and recruited him to tell stories.
• The Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion and Wildhammer Dwarves marched toward Loch Danmor, where Yu Lin Bloodhawk rode with Sylvanas’s vanguard as scouts and Raptors supported the slow-moving army.
• Sylvanas bought Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s two ships for four thousand gold coins, and the vanguard advanced through Nok'dan Mor while killing spiders and capturing bears.
• Alleria reported that Orc Wolf Riders had broken the forward defensive line, ordered the vanguard to hold position, and sent Gryphon Riders to alert the main allied force.

Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk used poison, mines, bombs, and mounted harassment to wear down the Orc Wolf Riders while avoiding a direct fight. As the Warsong vanguard approached, the Elves continued to encircle the Orcs and target their mounts, leaving the Orc Company Commander and his remaining elites unable to reach bowshot range.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk persuaded Sylvanas to use guerrilla tactics, and the Elves began harassing the Orcs with poisoned arrows, mines, and bombs while helping the human cavalry escape.
• Lor'themar lured Orc Wolf Riders after his Rangers, using a toll-demanding sign and buried explosives to injure the pursuing force before splitting his troops into smaller groups.
• Sylvanas directed the Elves to isolate and attack small Orc groups, while Gryphon Riders bombed a larger force trapped in a minefield and the Orcs struggled to rescue their wounded.
• Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk identified the Shattered Hand Elite Set on an Orc corpse, and Sylvanas used repeated egg drops to harass the Orc camp and make the Orc leader follow her rules.
• Sylvanas ordered the Elves to collect Orc mounts and equipment, and the Orc Company Commander realized a false report of survivors had lured his force into an encirclement.
• The Orcs summoned three Infernals to break through the Elven trap, but the Elves contained them and renewed the encirclement beyond the burning forest.
• The Orc Company Commander charged toward an Infernal with roughly thirty Wolf Riders, but poisoned arrows brought down their Worgs, and the Elves killed the Warlocks and kept the remaining Orcs out of bowshot range.

Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk used a battlefield gala to break the orcs, but the wider war exposed the Allied Army’s weakness and drew the Bloodhawk Burning Legion into a political trap. Yu Lin refused to sacrifice its young recruits for his legend, while Alleria insisted Quel'Thalas still needed that legend.

• The elves defeated Grim’s orcs, and Sylvanas recruited Yu Lin Bloodhawk to devise a harassment plan that became a battlefield gala of songs and stories.
• While the orcs gathered to watch Yu Lin’s performances, elven infiltrators killed their sleeping leaders, and the elves routed the remaining force when it charged their camp.
• Sylvanas’s forces captured worgs, spoils, and prisoners, but human commanders dismissed the elves’ victory and sent their own troops against Grommash Hellscream’s vanguard.
• Grommash’s wolf riders and infernals shattered the human encirclement, while Alleria withdrew with captured worgs and later returned to the front as the war intensified.
• The orcs broke through the Allied Army’s junction with the gnomes and dwarves, and Prince Kael'thas sent reinforcements as Alleria defended her costly losses to Allied Command.
• Alleria discovered that Rhea and Lainas commanded the Bloodhawk Burning Legion, a force of 2,400 mostly new recruits, and learned they had been sent there rather than disbanded.
• Alleria and Sylvanas told Yu Lin that the Bloodhawk Burning Legion’s destruction could discredit him and implicate the Windrunner family, but Yu Lin rejected sacrificing its recruits for his public legend.
• Alleria stopped Yu Lin from returning to the Hinterlands and insisted that Quel'Thalas needed his legend, then sent Rhea and Lainas away to discuss what they were not ready to know.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the elven forces endured a disastrous retreat, then trapped the pursuing orcs in a burning forest and sailed home. In the Hinterlands, Yu Lin found a growing refugee settlement and organized its villages, farms, and orchards.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed building a faith around War God Yang Jian, and he, Alleria, and Sylvanas began compiling the god’s deeds before the worsening war interrupted their plans.
• Alleria and Sylvanas led the elves through fierce fighting as orcs breached the camp, while Yu Lin Bloodhawk trapped and defeated Orc Wolf Riders with his recruits and battle pets.
• After Allied Command’s retreat order was withheld, Yu Lin Bloodhawk chose Landing Point 5, and the elves withdrew while the orcs destroyed most of the Lordaeron force.
• Alleria and Sylvanas led Rangers against Orc Infantry in the valley, and the elves held their position despite being cut off from Allied reinforcements.
• As three Orc infantry legions pursued the elves through the forest, Yu Lin Bloodhawk sent Gryphon Riders to set it ablaze, trapping eighteen thousand orcs before the fleet sailed home.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to the Hinterlands and learned that it had taken in 130,000 refugees, while administrators suppressed a major riot and screened newcomers for settlement.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk toured the villages and supported Elf Village’s orchards, herb-growing, and farming, offering to buy its wild plants and encouraging the cultivation of more fruit trees.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk required villages to keep their fields productive and plant barren hills with orchards, then allowed villages to reclaim relinquished orchards if they planted additional trees for him.