Recaps

Yu Lin Bloodhawk turned the Trolls toward the War God, strengthened Quel'Danil through alliances, and prepared to obtain ships and battle pets as the Second War approached. The arc ended with an Orc prisoner agreeing to teach the elves the Net-Catching Technique.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk welcomed visiting elves, then agreed to let trolls worship the War God and led their oath-taking ceremony, where a red glow appeared around them.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned from Sorens that the glow was the War God's Will, and proposed a sacred site for the Trolls.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the Windrunner Sisters worked with Mez'dra on an alliance, Dwarven smithing, and moving his people to Quel'Danil City as the Council recognized the Trolls as a buffer.
• After Sylvanas and Alleria left for Aerie Peak, Yu Lin Bloodhawk planned to seek battle pets in Stranglethorn Vale and take Bloodsail Buccaneer ships under pirate flags.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked captured Orc Wolf Riders to teach the elves their net technique, and Grim refused on behalf of his men.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk tested the Orcs by separating them and giving them different meals, while Grim explained that fel pollution had left his people short of food.
• As the Orcs grew anxious about their rations and feared being left at the Quarry, one prisoner agreed to teach the elves the Net-Catching Technique.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk built up his forces through pirate raids, beast roundups, and troll trade, then returned to the Hinterlands as Quel'Thalas recalled its expeditionary army. He strengthened the City Lord’s Guard and left Quel'Danil’s representation at the Alliance conference to Quel'Thalas.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged for orcs to teach the Net-Catching Technique, trained elf squadrons, and negotiated with the Vilebranch Trolls over relocation and farming support.
• Alleria and Sylvanas secured a pact with the green dragons, then joined Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s expedition to Stranglethorn Vale, where their forces raided Bloodsail camps and captured ships.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led the elves in capturing hundreds of gorillas and deer, then traded gorillas with Sylvanas for bears and sought tigers and leopards from the trolls.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s forces rounded up raptors and traded equipment with several troll factions for more beasts before most of the fleet returned to the Hinterlands.
• Alleria and Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that Quel'Thalas had ordered the Expeditionary Army Corps home as war loomed, and Sylvanas advised him to let Quel'Thalas represent Quel'Danil at the Alliance conference.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk negotiated for mounts and supplies, established a Naval Staff, and appointed Shidewa and Xingluoge to train the City Lord’s Guard.
• Alleria and Sylvanas departed for Quel'Thalas, while Yu Lin Bloodhawk promised to help Shidewa and Xingluoge reach Legendary strength and declined to attend the Alliance conference.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk seized control of Quel'Danil after rejecting the council's plan to attend the Alliance Meeting, then reorganized the city and expanded farming, labor, and military projects across the Hinterlands. The arc ended with the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion arriving and Alleria introducing Yu Lin to Christine after bringing him rare-grade longbows.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk used his forces to arrest the councilors, held a public meeting, and exposed the factions' support for attending the Alliance Meeting and separating Quel'Danil from Quel'Thalas.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk invalidated the council resolution, held a referendum in which about 80 percent voted that Quel'Danil belonged to Quel'Thalas, dissolved the council, and ordered the public trial and execution of sixty former council members.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk reorganized Quel'Danil under military rule, relocated residents and former Noble Faction members, rebuilt the City Guard, and later ended military rule as the city settled under trusted leadership.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk negotiated labor-for-food agreements with the Witherbark and Vilebranch Trolls, whose workers helped develop farms, roads, waterways, Aerie Peak, and New Shalvalsa.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk tested biogas digesters for boar waste and planned standardized village farms, while a returning fleet brought veterans and young volunteers who formed the Eaglewing Regiment under Orc Blademaster instructors.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk worked with Sylvanas to arrange owls and equipment for his forces and the Expeditionary Army Corps, then recruited Wildhammer dwarves and the Lyk Brothers to develop mechanized armor production.
• The Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion arrived in the Hinterlands, and Alleria gave Yu Lin Bloodhawk two hundred rare-grade longbows before introducing him to Christine.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk organized the evacuation of Wildhammer Dwarf children and led an elven force against pursuing Orcs in the Wetlands. The Elves repelled the Orc assault at Big Gourd Belly, but the Orc Chieftain called for reinforcements and planned to attack again after dark.

• Alleria and Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged the evacuation of the Wildhammer Dwarves, while Yu Lin sent Mez'dra to gather gryphon riders and prepared defenses along the Orcs’ route.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led the Bloodhawk Burning Legion against the Orc Wolf Riders, using mines, nets, poisoned needles, caltrops, and aerial attacks to slow them.
• The Orc Wolf Riders charged into Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s formations, where the Elves used poisoned arrows and caltrops before Alleria arrived with Rangers and Mages to reinforce them.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk captured surviving Orcs and Warlocks, learned they belonged to the Blackrock clan, and stayed at the Gourd Grounds while more than eight thousand Wildhammer children were evacuated.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk drilled mixed Ranger and Mage formations as the Orcs approached, then the Elves lured the Orc army into their defenses and attacked its demons with spells and gryphon riders.
• An Orc Swiftshadow Rogue attacked Yu Lin Bloodhawk with crippling poison, but Blizzard exposed him and Elf Rangers wounded him as he fled through the Poison Needles.
• The Wildhammer Dwarves and Elves destroyed the demons and stalled the Orc infantry, prompting the Orc Chieftain to withdraw with about half his force and call for two border legions.
• The Orc Chieftain postponed another attack until dark while Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that his Rangers had enough poison for only three more applications.