Recaps

Yu Lin Bloodhawk expanded Bloodskull’s operations, moved Zul’Aman prisoners to Hakkari Island, and sent Alleria’s army to join the Alliance campaign against the orcs. As the Alliance pushed Doomhammer’s forces into the Burning Steppes, Yu Lin and Sylvanas sailed toward Kalimdor.

• Fourteen took command of Bloodskull’s Booty Bay operations, struck a deal with Baron Vigaz, and established a base on Hakkari Island while Zuga returned to the Hinterlands.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk expanded his forces and military projects, testing Steven’s explosive ballista bolts and supporting Christine and David’s development of Wingblade siege carts.
• On a prisoner transport mission, Zuga chose to lead his people to Stranglethorn Vale after Fifteen gave him Yu Lin’s letter, and Yu Lin arranged supplies and support for their settlement.
• Yu Lin and Sylvanas sailed for Kalimdor, while Alleria led the High Elf Expeditionary Army to join the Alliance in Arathi and later helped defeat the encircled orc army.
• The Alliance advanced into the Searing Lands, where Alleria’s forces bombarded the orc defenses and repelled counterattacks as Lothar and Uther fought through fog and traps.
• The orcs withdrew from the Searing Lands to Doomhammer’s headquarters in the Burning Steppes, while Yu Lin’s fleet approached Ratchet and Willyx promised it would arrive that night.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk led the High Elves to seize the Valley of Trials and tried to capture the quilboar, but the cave standoff was interrupted by the threat of mobilizing Kolkar centaurs. He entered the blocked cave to assess it and ended the stretch awaiting Sorens while the quilboar remained silent.

• Willyx revealed that gryphon riders were missing, and Sylvanas sent Yu Lin Bloodhawk to investigate strange magical fluctuations southwest of the fleet.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas encountered the black dragon Onyxia, who said she had only been curious and wanted to play, then returned safely to the fleet.
• After reaching Ratchet, Yu Lin Bloodhawk persuaded Sylvanas and Sorens to scout the Valley of Trials as a possible High Elf foothold.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led troops through a hazardous mountain trail and, with Sylvanas’s forces, defeated and captured quilboar at their cave rather than killing them.
• When the quilboar retreated into Thornbriar Forest, Yu Lin Bloodhawk used a threatened Rain of Fire to drive them toward the cave, while Sylvanas went to confront mobilizing Kolkar centaurs.
• The quilboar sealed both cave passages, so Yu Lin Bloodhawk entered with bodyguards to inspect the site and consider whether it could safely house a Portal.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that Sylvanas had taken the wingblade carts and questioned whether his forces could protect Portal workers from centaur cavalry.
• After Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s angry remark alarmed an officer, the officer fetched Sorens, who arrived complaining that Yu Lin had insulted his ancestry.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk prepared the Valley of Trials for the approaching Kolkar centaurs while negotiating with the quilboar and arranging a secret portal to Quel'Danil. After building alliances and defenses, he faced the centaur army as it charged his forces.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that the Kolkar centaurs were mobilizing, arranged for Old Charlatan to build a secret Portal in the Boar Den, and prepared his six hundred guards to hold the valley.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk trapped the quilboar behind their blocked cave entrance and negotiated with them while Old Charlatan's mages worked on the Portal.
• Old Charlatan told Yu Lin Bloodhawk about his father, a hardworking commoner who became a high ranger and royal guard before dying at Zul'Aman.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered Quel'Danil to send reinforcements and scouted the centaur army, then had his forces poison pools along the centaurs' route.
• After the quilboar agreed to terms and Quel'Danil's advance force arrived, Yu Lin Bloodhawk assigned the Household Guard to lead the fight and ordered the officers to recruit the quilboar as auxiliaries.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk planned to capture Clefthoof Zebras as mounts and secretly arranged for his forces to hunt rare battle pets while Sylvanas remained unaware.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk's troops waited behind their fortifications as the Kolkar centaurs approached, but the centaurs arrived apparently unharmed by the poison.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk rejected a surprise attack and let the centaurs assemble, then watched at least half their army charge toward the High Elf Rangers.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s forces defeated the centaur armies but suffered heavy losses, then pursued the survivors toward Sweetwater Oasis. As the campaign reached the Wailing Caverns, Yu Lin feared the centaur tribes would unite against them and ordered Sylvanas to keep the oasis’s fall secret.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk used ballistas, traps, poison, and the Quilboar prisoners to defeat the first centaur force, then kept most of its captives for labor in Trial Valley.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk, Sylvanas, and Old Charlatan attacked a larger centaur camp near Cross Intersection, where the centaur elites resisted fiercely and cost Yu Lin’s forces most of their dire wolf battle pets.
• Old Charlatan’s Mage Corps destroyed the centaur elite core while Sylvanas’s regiment pursued the scattered survivors, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s battered Household Guard stayed behind to clear the battlefield.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk reviewed the Alliance’s advance toward the Swamp of Sorrows and predicted that Lothar would prioritize reclaiming Stormwind City.
• Alleria prepared to defend the passage between the Burning Steppes and the Swamp of Sorrows after the orc negotiation trap killed the Alliance delegation and Alterac rebels delayed the assault on Blackrock Spire.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk joined Sylvanas’s pursuit, then proposed sailing to Feralas because he suspected someone was provoking the centaurs to attack them.
• After Sylvanas drove centaur survivors into a cave at Sweetwater Oasis, Yu Lin Bloodhawk recognized the location near the Wailing Caverns, ordered secrecy and reinforcements, and told her to guard the cave entrance.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk reached the Wailing Caverns, scolded Sylvanas for acting without his orders, and demanded that she retreat after defeating the centaurs, and Sylvanas asked whether they should attack the cave as they had the quilboar.