Chapter Summaries

Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged care and supplies for the growing influx of refugees while arguing with Yiluo Chenfeng about his motives. He delegated refugee administration and security so he could leave the Hinterlands for Tarren Mill to meet Sylvanas.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered refugees to bathe and have their clothes boiled, then approved Fourteen’s request to bring more than six thousand refugees from Westfall.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Yiluo Chenfeng and Gaddediwa to send tents, iron pots, and other necessities, and argued that taking in refugees could also make money.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk decided to delegate local responsibilities so he could travel to Tarren Mill before Sylvanas left.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk assigned the City Lord’s Household Guard to protect the harbor and warehouses, and left the City Guard to manage elf civilians.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk placed Sixteen and Seventeen in charge of human refugees’ food, lodging, living areas, and work assignments while requiring units to suppress unrest and punish criminal refugees.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk planned a refugee settlement and waterworks with Sixteen, Seventeen, and Mez'dra, while weighing how many Stormwind refugees he could support. He intended to seek grain funds from the human Alliance in Lordaeron and left open the possibility of taking only thirty to fifty thousand refugees if aid was refused.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained the village layout, roads, farmland, and administrative plans to Sixteen and Seventeen, and asked them to protect Tom and the Wildhammer surveyors.
• Mez'dra arrived with dwarf gryphon riders, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk showed him the settlement and canal plan while requesting surveyors and construction supervisors.
• Mez'dra warned Yu Lin Bloodhawk that accepting refugees would bring trouble and require vast quantities of grain.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk said he planned to take in up to two hundred thousand refugees and would ask the human Alliance for money to buy grain at the conference in Lordaeron.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk said he would limit the refugees to thirty to fifty thousand healthy people if the allied human nations refused funding, then changed the discussion to the canal project.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra discussed diverting the Hinterlands River through the Seaside Plain and celebrated their cooperation over drinks. Mez'dra's observations about Yu Lin Bloodhawk's costly efforts to feed trolls left him questioning whether he was rich, greedy, and wasteful.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra planned a winding river and lakes through the Northern Hills and Seaside Plain, with Wildhammer Dwarves helping build the channels and a dam.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk said he would fly to Tarren Mill to meet Quel'Thalas's delegation, while gryphon riders would escort the arriving dwarves and help keep them safe.
• Mez'dra reported that the hunters had caught over three hundred Steelmane Hunters and more than a hundred wild bears, with gryphon riders assisting the effort.
• Mez'dra learned that Vilebranch and Witherbark trolls were reporting or delivering worgs and bears in exchange for grain, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained that the rewards kept them from stealing eggs.
• Mez'dra argued that grain was more practical than meat during wartime and told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that gold coins, rather than force, had defeated the trolls.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk sat stunned as Mez'dra called him rich, greedy, and wasteful, then ate with tears streaming down his face.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk recovered from his hangover and prepared to meet the Quel'Thalas delegation in Tarren Mill. Yiluo Chenfeng insisted on accompanying him despite his objections, and the chapter ended with the two trading teasing threats before departure.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk woke with a severe hangover and asked Yiluo Chenfeng for porridge and wine to recover.
• Yiluo Chenfeng brought him porridge, sweets, and a jug of wine, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk felt better after drinking some.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Yiluo Chenfeng to help the Dwarves and arrange tents and other supplies while he went to meet the Quel'Thalas delegation in Tarren Mill.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk entered the teleportation array with his six Bodyguards, but Yiluo Chenfeng joined him and insisted on flying with him to Tarren Mill.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk tried to dissuade Yiluo Chenfeng with jokes about sharing a Gryphon, but she refused to back down.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk reflected on his fearfulness and concluded that he was useless and unworthy of Yiluo Chenfeng's legion commander. He left Yiluo worried as he declared he would stop pressuring her and let her choose whoever she wanted.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Yiluo Chenfeng traveled by Gryphon, with Yu Lin anxiously worrying about keeping her safe while she enjoyed the journey.
• Yu Lin reflected on his lack of courage and his belief that he would flee or betray others rather than face danger.
• Yu Lin told Yiluo that he thought he was useless, then set off with her toward their Gryphon.
• When Yiluo asked what was wrong, Yu Lin said he was unworthy of her legion commander and would not stand in the way of her being with someone else.
• Yu Lin compared himself to a nobody who could not win over a powerful woman, while Yiluo remained worried and confused.

Yiluo Chenfeng and Yu Lin Bloodhawk arrived in Tarren Mill and encountered desperate Stormwind refugees, leaving Yiluo to reflect on how much worse Quel'Thalas might fare when the undead invaded. She reconsidered Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s accomplishments and worried about the stalled Steel Torrent project and the cost of his plans.

• Yiluo Chenfeng and Yu Lin Bloodhawk reached Tarren Mill before the Quel'Thalas Negotiation Team arrived.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and his bodyguards conjured magical bread for the refugees, but soon ran out of mana.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and his companions left town after being overwhelmed by the refugees seeking help.
• Yiluo Chenfeng compared the refugees’ plight with Quel'Thalas’s future and questioned whether Yu Lin Bloodhawk could face the coming crisis.
• Yiluo Chenfeng recalled the Windrunner Burning Legion’s growth and lamented that the Steel Torrent force had produced no results.
• Yiluo Chenfeng reflected on Yu Lin Bloodhawk giving up Quel'Danil and moving to a harbor, recognizing the scale of his undertaking.

Yiluo Chenfeng reflected on Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s far-reaching preparations and worried that Quel'Thalas might one day suffer like the refugees traveling toward Tarren Mill. Yu Lin tried to cheer her up with jokes and bravado, then left her irritated by pretending she had gone silly.

• Yiluo Chenfeng considered how Yu Lin Bloodhawk had turned Shalandis Isle, murlocs, ships, and grain into valuable resources and suspected his plans had begun long ago.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk noticed Yiluo Chenfeng was distracted and traded flirtatious jokes with her to lift her mood.
• Yiluo Chenfeng pointed out the refugees heading toward Tarren Mill and wondered whether the people of Quel'Thalas might suffer the same fate.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk claimed he would protect Quel'Thalas with the Dragon Slayer, then admitted he had only been boasting.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk tested Yiluo Chenfeng’s awareness by asking how many fingers he held up, and she slapped his hand away and called him stupid.

Yiluo Chenfeng discovered a group of orphaned refugee children in Tarren Mill, some of whom were eating earthworms to survive, and insisted that Yu Lin Bloodhawk help save them. Yu Lin Bloodhawk struggled to explain how they could help, while Yiluo demanded that he take the children to the Hinterlands.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk worried that Yiluo Chenfeng had gone mad, but she rushed to stop refugee children from beating a little girl who had stolen food.
• Yiluo Chenfeng learned the girl had a starving brother and that their parents had died, then offered bread in exchange for the girl returning the stolen food and showing them where her brother was.
• Yiluo Chenfeng and Yu Lin Bloodhawk discovered the children had been surviving on earthworms because they had no adults to collect porridge for them.
• Yiluo Chenfeng declared that she wanted to save the children and told Yu Lin Bloodhawk to take responsibility for them.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained that they had no food and needed to join Sylvanas's delegation, but Yiluo Chenfeng insisted that he take the children to the Hinterlands.

Yiluo Chenfeng and Yu Lin Bloodhawk found a starving boy among refugee children, and Yiluo saved him with a Life Potion. After Yiluo promised the children that Yu Lin would take them to safety, Yu Lin reluctantly agreed to bring them to Quel'Danil.

• The little girl led Yiluo Chenfeng and Yu Lin Bloodhawk to her brother in a makeshift shelter.
• Yiluo found the boy barely breathing and prepared to give him a potent Life Potion, but Yu Lin offered a smaller one instead.
• The boy recovered after drinking Yu Lin's intermediate Life Potion, and he and his sister bowed to thank their rescuers.
• Yiluo told the children Yu Lin was the City Lord of Quel'Danil and would take them somewhere safe.
• Yu Lin agreed to take the children to a safe place with food and shelter, despite preferring to recruit stronger refugees.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged for refugee children in Tarren Mill to fish for food and promised to have Thirteen find a way to bring them to the Hinterlands. After an urgent message summoned him to the Alliance conference in Southshore, he left the children in the care of Bodyguards and flew there with Yiluo Chenfeng.

• The refugee children told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that nobles forbade them from fishing in the nearby lake and river, and that they had traded away their fishing gear.
• Yiluo Chenfeng gave money for fishing rods, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk sent Bodyguards and children into town to buy fishing gear, a pot, and millet.
• Yiluo Chenfeng worried about how the children could travel to the Hinterlands, so Yu Lin Bloodhawk said Thirteen would arrange their transport.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk received a message that the Alliance conference had moved to Southshore and that Commander Sylvanas wanted him there immediately.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk left gold and several Bodyguards to watch over the children, then flew with Yiluo Chenfeng and two Bodyguards toward Southshore.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk weighed the limits of taking in human refugees against his plans to develop the Hinterlands for future Quel'Thalas refugees. After reaching Southshore, he told Thirteen to bring refugee orphans to the Hinterlands and went to meet the Quel'Thalas delegation to seek support.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk met Thirteen in Southshore and learned that Commander Alleria was not with the negotiating delegation.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Thirteen to bring orphaned children from Tarren Mill to the Hinterlands after hearing they were eating bugs and earthworms.
• Thirteen misunderstood and thought Yu Lin Bloodhawk wanted to select children for training, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk clarified that he wanted to take them in because they were suffering.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk agreed to bring in the several hundred orphans Thirteen knew of, while warning that future refugee aid would depend on whether the nobles provided food and money.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk left the gryphons with Thirteen's guards and headed with Yiluo Chenfeng to the Quel'Thalas delegation's lodgings.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk visited Sylvanas and discovered that his wife had not returned to Quel'Thalas, while Sylvanas teased Yiluo Chenfeng and discussed the refugees and orphans. He asked Sylvanas to take Yiluo back to her sister, and the chapter ended with Sylvanas questioning how Lin Yu had influenced his plans for raising the children.

• Thirteen left Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the Quel'Thalas delegation after arriving at the guarded estate.
• Sylvanas teased Yu Lin Bloodhawk about his honeymoon and learned that he did not know his wife had not returned to Quel'Thalas.
• Sylvanas taunted Yiluo Chenfeng, then took Yu Lin Bloodhawk aside to discuss family matters.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Sylvanas to take Yiluo Chenfeng back to her sister and explained that he was struggling to care for the growing number of orphans.
• Sylvanas questioned Yu Lin Bloodhawk about his plans to educate the children and asked whether Lin Yu had told him how to raise them.

Sylvanas questioned Yu Lin Bloodhawk about raising children and his origins, then asked him to take Yiluo and negotiate refugee aid and weapons sales with the humans. The chapter ended with Sylvanas furious that Yu Lin Bloodhawk had made war profits without including her.

• Sylvanas asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk about education in China, and he explained how children studied many subjects under numerous teachers.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk admitted that Lin Yu had created his body and that he came from another world, then complained about life in Azeroth.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk joked about gathering a harem, and Sylvanas threatened to castrate him if he tried.
• Sylvanas asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk to take Yiluo, offer shelter for up to two hundred thousand refugees at the humans' expense, and sell Stormwind City armor and weapons for cash.
• Sylvanas cursed Yu Lin Bloodhawk for profiteering from the war, then revealed she was angry because he had not included her in the deal.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas negotiated a deal to secure funds for developing the Hinterlands, but their talk turned to what to do about Yiluo Chenfeng. It left Yiluo confronting them after overhearing their attempted bargain, while Sylvanas ran off joking about a harem.

• Sylvanas agreed to take twenty percent of the profits for negotiating advance funding from Stormwind City, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk authorized her to present his territory as Quel'Thalas's overseas free-trade zone.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas planned to seek two years of advance payments, explain the armor as equipment for a future mercenary corps, and use the money to build homes and farmland for refugees.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Sylvanas to take Yiluo Chenfeng back to the Windrunner family, but Sylvanas refused, so he offered to pay her to do it.
• Yiluo Chenfeng appeared and accused Sylvanas of trying to bargain over her, prompting Sylvanas to abandon the deal and run off.
• Sylvanas called back that she would let Yu Lin Bloodhawk choose three thousand beauties from the refugees for his harem, then ran away giggling.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk joked with Sylvanas about a risky deal before Antonidas arrived and asked to join it. Yu Lin complained about Antonidas's unpaid warship and spun a tale about Jianghu Wanderers, leaving Antonidas intrigued but confused.

• Yiluo Chenfeng challenged Yu Lin Bloodhawk about his boast of having three thousand beauties, and Yu Lin teased her for interfering before chasing after Sylvanas.
• Sylvanas called off their deal because it carried too much risk, then stopped when Antonidas and several Dalaran mages approached.
• Yu Lin told Antonidas he still had not been paid for a warship that had been reassigned to Admiral Proudmoore, and said he was nearly reduced to begging.
• Yu Lin introduced Sylvanas as Jade Dragon and Alleria as Ice Phoenix, claiming Jianghu Wanderers had given them those nicknames.
• Yu Lin described himself as a Jianghu Wanderer called Hunter and told Antonidas that entering the jianghu meant losing control of one's fate and never being able to leave.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk argued with Antonidas about the jianghu, then described taking in orphaned refugees and complained about the burden of feeding them. He tried to persuade Yiluo Chenfeng to return to Quel'Thalas, but she refused, and the chapter ended with Antonidas asking to join a mysterious deal.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk wondered whether his actions made him part of the jianghu and called himself half a man of the jianghu.
• Sylvanas asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk what he had been thinking about, and he changed the subject to Antonidas's unpaid bill and his need to feed refugees.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained that Yiluo had pushed him to take in orphaned children in Tarren Mill and Southshore, where some were reduced to eating bugs and earthworms.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk urged Yiluo to return to Quel'Thalas, but she insisted on staying with him.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk signaled Sylvanas with three fingers, which he claimed meant a deal offering thirty percent of the profits, and Antonidas asked to take part.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk settled his debt to Antonidas by arranging for Quel'Thalas to build four transport ships, then explained why he resisted the king’s order to sell his military equipment. He revealed plans to use refugees, an army, and conquered trolls to secure Quel'Danil’s strength, and Sylvanas began to challenge his scheme.

• Antonidas paid Yu Lin Bloodhawk fifty thousand gold and agreed to fund four transport ships in place of four galleons; Yu Lin, Dalaran, and Quel'Thalas signed a contract.
• Yu Lin told Antonidas that the king had ordered him to sell thirty thousand sets of military equipment to Stormwind City, thwarting his plan to arm legions and conquer the Hinterlands.
• Yu Lin identified Sylvanas as his sister-in-law and explained that Alleria was his wife; he feared Sylvanas would punish him if he defied the king’s order.
• Yu Lin argued that conquering the Hinterlands would give him gold, territory, and troll labor, allowing him to retain or recruit soldiers after the war.
• Yu Lin said he had stockpiled food for several years, and Sylvanas realized he meant to sell armor while taking in human refugees and began speaking coldly.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk refused to surrender his grain and military supplies without payment, while Antonidas weighed Stormwind City’s urgent need for arms against the risk of strengthening the elves in the Hinterlands. Antonidas chose to buy the supplies and ordered an investigation after learning that Yu Lin Bloodhawk had already built up troops and taken in refugees.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk rejected Sylvanas’s demand to hand over his grain and threatened to raise human legions if the king tried to force him.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk offered Antonidas two ships in exchange for persuading the other delegations not to buy his military supplies.
• Antonidas refused the deal and decided to buy the supplies for Stormwind City and support the king’s plan for the refugees.
• Sylvanas followed Yu Lin Bloodhawk and tried to persuade him to help with the refugees and sell the supplies, but he refused.
• Antonidas ordered an investigation into the Hinterlands, and a mage reported nearly three thousand elven troops and more than ten thousand refugees there.

Antonidas ordered an investigation into Jianghu after hearing about the Quel'Danil elves' growing influence in the Hinterlands. Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained his plans to use human refugees to develop the Seaside Plain, while Sylvanas became excited about the profits.

• Antonidas questioned a mage about the human army and learned that Quel'Danil had armed trolls and divided the Hinterlands with the Wildhammer dwarves.
• Antonidas decided to investigate Jianghu and determine what the organization wanted.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas discussed how they had supplied information to Antonidas and planned to demand payment for taking in refugees.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk described prioritizing able-bodied refugees to develop farmland and settlements in the Seaside Plain, and asked Sylvanas to bring his forces and Zuga's people to the Hinterlands.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained how grain sales and gold mining could fund their territory, and Sylvanas asked whether she would get a share.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas that she shared in Quel'Danil's rule and explained that he planned to seek a cure for Arcane Concealment in Kalimdor. He then challenged her to consider whether ancestry mattered by revealing that humans and Dwarves descended from the Vrykul and telling a story about a once-powerful nation whose people lost confidence in their own heritage.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas that they were Quel'Danil's two city lords and hoped she or someone in her family would govern The Hinterlands after the Second War.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk said he planned to travel to Kalimdor to seek a way to alleviate Arcane Concealment and admitted he had stopped trying to pursue Sylvanas's missing sister.
• Sylvanas rejected the idea of Turalyon becoming her brother-in-law, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk revealed that humans and Dwarves descended from the Vrykul, a race created by gods.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas a story about a prosperous ancient country that was invaded, impoverished, and made to doubt its own ancestors.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ended his story by asking Sylvanas whether ancestors mattered.