Chapter Summaries

Yu Lin Bloodhawk approved a plan for Sana's troops to capture adult Raptors while leaving the young and eggs alone, and promised the Golden Mist Burning Legion stronger battle pets after the war. He moved into Sylvanas's residence to continue telling her stories, only to become a regular storyteller for her and the other elves.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sana to have the troops capture only adult Raptors and avoid their young and eggs, then promised to take the Golden Mist Burning Legion to The Hinterlands for better battle pets after the war.
• Sylvanas appeared and asked for the same battle pets, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk said the Golden Mist Burning Legion would get the next Steel Torrent after the three frontline legions.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Sylvanas why her sister had scolded him, and Sylvanas blamed menopause before asking when he would move in with her.
• Sylvanas persuaded Yu Lin Bloodhawk to move in that night so he could continue telling her the story of Water Margin.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk regretted moving in when Sylvanas, her bodyguards, and other elves repeatedly made him tell stories.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk trained with Sylvanas, quickly learned Scatter Shot, and traded a promise of a Journey to the West story for lessons in Arrow Rain. As the Expeditionary Army prepared to depart, Sylvanas joined him for lunch and more stories.

• The northern Gryphon Riders returned while Alleria's people moved the supplies, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk left preparations to join Sylvanas for training.
• Sylvanas taught Yu Lin Bloodhawk Scatter Shot, and he mastered its technique surprisingly quickly.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked to learn Arrow Rain, and Sylvanas agreed to teach him after he promised to tell her Journey to the West.
• Sylvanas left departure preparations to Lor'themar and asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk to repeat witty bandit sayings as they headed back for lunch.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk called Sylvanas's wish to become an educated bandit a great and promising ambition.

Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk joked during the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion’s slow march through the Wetlands, where her frost wolf vanguard hunted the local beasts. Yu Lin Bloodhawk practiced his skills as the allied army inched toward Loch Danmor, and the column had yet to encounter an enemy.

• Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk traded jokes on the way to the dining area, where they ate before Sylvanas put him back to work repeating stories.
• The Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion and the Wildhammer Dwarves set out together, with the slow-moving allied army carrying heavy equipment and supplies.
• The vanguard Lordaeron Cavalry hurried to the Loch Danmor front, while Lordaeron’s main infantry waited near the Wetlands border for the rest of the army.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk rode ahead with Sylvanas and her Bodyguards, practicing his skills while the frost wolf vanguard hunted beasts along the route.
• Ilo visited twice to guide Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s Multi-Shot practice, while Yu Lin Bloodhawk gave up on Rain of Arrows because he lacked the mana to cast it.
• The army continued its slow, uneventful march through the Wetlands, with Sylvanas’s vanguard sweeping the road of beasts.

As the Alliance advanced toward the Orc front in Loch Danmor, the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion joined Lordaeron’s main force and was assigned to the vanguard. Sylvanas brought Yu Lin Bloodhawk with her for company, reassuring him that Lor'themar could handle the troops.

• Alleria ordered Yu Lin Bloodhawk to arrange for the Raptor-catching units to rejoin the army according to how many mounts they had captured.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned from the returning Gryphon Rider that Sana had assigned adult Raptors to one unit and was taming young Raptors to fill the other.
• The first Raptor unit arrived as the army marched, and Lordaeron’s main force assigned the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion to the allied vanguard.
• The armies advanced cautiously through Loch Danmor in a triangular formation, using Gryphon Riders and owl Rangers for reconnaissance.
• Sylvanas brought Yu Lin Bloodhawk to the vanguard, where he complained about the danger and she said Lor'themar could manage the troops.

Sylvanas persuaded Yu Lin Bloodhawk to sell her two ships for Gryphon Riders, and he learned that the Windrunner family had secretly funded the gryphon forces. The elven vanguard’s slow march ended when Alleria warned that Orc Wolf Riders had broken through the forward defenses and could soon reach them.

• Sylvanas arranged for Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s Gryphon Bodyguards to scout ahead and asked him to station ships offshore for support.
• Yu Lin agreed to sell Sylvanas his two ships for four thousand gold coins, and she revealed that the Windrunner family had purchased the gryphons to keep them beyond the state’s control.
• Yu Lin asked whether the family’s Gryphon Riders would fight against the Zul'Aman trolls, and Sylvanas promised they would defend Quel'Thalas.
• Yu Lin stayed with Sylvanas’s vanguard as it marched slowly through Nok'dan Mor, capturing seven grizzly bears and killing more than seventy moss-eating spiders along the route.
• Alleria reported that Orc Wolf Riders had caused the forward defensive line to collapse, so she ordered the vanguard to hold position while Gryphon Riders carried news to the main allied force.
• The vanguard’s Gryphon Riders and owl Rangers intensified their reconnaissance as the army waited for new orders.

Alleria decided to delay a ground rescue while sending Gryphon Riders to hinder the Orc Wolf Riders pursuing human cavalry. Yu Lin Bloodhawk planned to wear down the orcs with guerrilla tactics and poisoned arrows as Sylvanas prepared to fight them.

• Alleria ordered ten bomb-carrying Gryphon Riders to slow the Orc Wolf Riders and told Sylvanas to rescue the human cavalry if they came within thirty kilometers.
• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that the human cavalry was fleeing toward them, but he initially worried about running from the orcs.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk reconsidered after learning the orcs numbered only six or seven hundred, then sent bodyguards to check for possible reinforcements or an ambush.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed guerrilla warfare, explaining that the elves would harass and exhaust the orcs rather than meet them head-on.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Sylvanas whether her Frostwolf Clan Regiment had poison so the elves could coat their arrows and weaken the orcs.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed using poison and aerial harassment to weaken the pursuing Orcs and help rescue the human cavalry. Sylvanas prepared to put his plan into action while Yu Lin Bloodhawk focused on resting and avoiding unnecessary risks.

• Sylvanas went to find Mages to make fast-acting poison after Yu Lin Bloodhawk suggested poisoning the Orcs’ mounts.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk lay down to rest, but Sylvanas returned and repeatedly prodded him until he told her a story.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk pointed out that the thirty-kilometer engagement radius left too little room for the Elves’ cavalry tactics.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed splitting ten Gryphon Riders and his six Bodyguards into two groups to harass the Orcs with bombs and mines, exhausting them before they reached the Elves’ attack range.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk said the Elves would still have completed their mission if the Orcs abandoned the pursuit, and they could leave the fighting to the human warriors.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained a plan for the Frostwolf rangers to harass and divide the pursuing orcs, while Sylvanas ordered reconnaissance and briefly persuaded him to perform a comedy routine. After Alleria ordered an immediate rescue of the human light cavalry, Sylvanas deployed her forces and inspected the battlefield from the air as the troops prepared for the rendezvous.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk described how six Frostwolf companies would lure the orcs apart, harass them, and destroy isolated groups with support from gryphon cavalry.
• Sylvanas ordered Lor'themar and the owl rangers to survey the terrain, then convinced Yu Lin Bloodhawk to perform the cross-talk routine I'm Just Teasing You.
• Alleria sent Sylvanas orders to rescue the human light cavalry and reinforced her with rangers and a hundred mages.
• Sylvanas sent Lor'themar ahead to harass the orcs, dispatched gryphon riders to guide the humans, and concealed her main force for a possible attack.
• Sylvanas's troops reached their positions, and she flew with Yu Lin Bloodhawk to inspect the prospective battlefield.

Lor'themar prepared his Rangers to divert the Orc Wolf Riders after learning about their deadly nets from a surviving human cavalry unit. He sent the humans along a protected retreat route and set a trap for the approaching Orcs, leaving the Rangers to face them with Sylvanas’s bizarre toll sign.

• Lor'themar welcomed about four hundred exhausted human light cavalrymen and learned that Orc Wolf Riders had destroyed most of their force with powerful charges and barbed nets.
• The human commander warned Lor'themar that the Orcs could snare targets within ten yards, and Lor'themar sent the humans along a retreat route with instructions to destroy a temporary bridge.
• After the cavalrymen departed, Lor'themar warned his Rangers and Sylvanas about the nets, telling them to keep at least fifteen yards from the Orcs and lead them in circles.
• Lor'themar ordered Rangers to bury Gnome land mines beneath a sign Sylvanas had ordered them to post.
• When a Ranger asked what the sign said, Lor'themar read its demand for a toll, and the Rangers questioned whether it sounded like a proper declaration of battle.

Lor'themar led six hundred rangers to delay the pursuing Orc Wolf Riders, following tactics proposed by Yu Lin Bloodhawk. After the orcs arrived and mistook the elves for bandits, Lor'themar told them to turn back, but the Orc leader dismissed the rangers as nothing special.

• Lor'themar blamed Yu Lin Bloodhawk for the rangers' bandit-like language, and the rangers joked about joining Bloodhawk's forces after retirement.
• Lor'themar ordered his six hundred rangers to lure the orcs, keep them at least fifteen yards away, and follow the sixteen-character battle principles.
• Owl rangers reported the enemy's approach, and a group of Orc Wolf Riders rode ahead to confront the elves.
• Lor'themar told the Orc Wolf Rider squad leader that the elves were trying to slow the pursuit of the human light cavalry and read aloud a toll-demanding sign.
• The main orc force arrived, and its leader called the elves bandits; Lor'themar denied stealing anything and told the orcs to go back.

Lor'themar and six hundred Elf Rangers ambushed charging Orc Wolf Riders with mines and arrows, then scattered to draw the Orcs into pursuit. The Orc leader began to suspect the fleeing Elves were leading his exhausted force into an ambush.

• Lor'themar told the Orc leader that the wooden sign demanded a toll, and the Orcs charged after he rejected it.
• The Orc leader smashed the sign, triggering mines and bombs that killed or injured dozens of Wolf Riders.
• Lor'themar and six hundred Elves fired one volley, then split into six groups and fled on their Hawkstriders.
• The Orc Wolf Riders pursued the scattered Elves, with the Orc leader following Lor'themar.
• After more than an hour, the Orc leader halted when he realized the Elves were keeping pace with his pursuit and might be luring his troops into an ambush.

The Orc Wolf Riders discovered that poisoned arrows had weakened their force, while Lor'themar’s rangers used repeated retreats to wear down their pursuers. Sylvanas ordered her forces to target the retreating orcs and prepare traps along their routes.

• The Orc Wolf Rider leader realized that poison had caused many riders and Worgs to fall behind, then ordered a cautious withdrawal to search for them.
• Grim defied the leader’s caution and charged the elves with fifty Wolf Riders while Lor'themar led his rangers away again.
• The main orc force turned back at a normal pace, leaving Grim’s group to pursue Lor'themar.
• A messenger reported to Sylvanas that the stragglers had been eliminated and their bodies and poisoned Worgs had been booby-trapped.
• Sylvanas ordered the Frostwolf Rangers to ambush orc groups of fewer than a hundred riders and directed Gryphon Riders to plant more bombs and mines along the routes of larger groups.

Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk discussed the battle and his casual knowledge of military strategy. Yu Lin advised separating the retreating enemy forces and defeating them in smaller groups, while Sylvanas pointed out that the two largest groups might reunite.

• Sylvanas ordered warning signs placed for retreating enemies, including notices about a minefield.
• Yu Lin persuaded Sylvanas to stay in the command tent and direct the battle rather than go to the front.
• Yu Lin explained that he had picked up military ideas from games and movies, then outlined a guerrilla strategy of splitting the enemy and destroying groups one at a time.
• Sylvanas said the two largest enemy groups were retreating and could reunite into a force of more than three hundred troops, making it difficult to defeat them after dealing with the smaller groups.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk devised a plan for Sylvanas to lure and destroy the Orc forces by targeting their mounts and coordinating ambushes and harassment. As the plan began, a hundred elf rangers continued exhausting a group of 112 Orc Wolf Riders, who could neither catch them nor safely rest their mounts.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed trapping a small Orc group, baiting its survivors toward nearby reinforcements, and surrounding the combined forces.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk advised using poisoned arrows against Worgs and having gryphon riders drop Explosive Bombs to disrupt the Orcs’ retreat.
• Sylvanas ordered the plan carried out and insisted Yu Lin Bloodhawk accompany her to confront the Orc chief, but he persuaded her to wait until the larger Orc group was defeated.
• Sylvanas reminded Yu Lin Bloodhawk that she would not spare him from the front line after the Orcs were dealt with, leaving him stunned by her remark that he and his sister were not yet married.
• A hundred elf rangers harassed 112 Orc Wolf Riders from beyond the range of their nets, tiring the Orcs and their Worgs while preventing them from resting.

An Orc Wolf Rider company struggled to retreat under relentless Elven poison-arrow attacks, while an Orc chief cautiously led his force through a minefield marked by an Elven warning sign. The chapter ended as Elven Gryphon Riders dropped a massive bombing attack on the Orcs trapped inside the minefield.

• Elven archers harassed the Orc Wolf Riders with poisoned arrows, forcing their commander to withdraw in stages while his Shaman treated the wounded.
• The Orc company commander hesitated over whether to leave riders behind to cover the retreat, then paused after hearing about an Elven sign warning of a minefield.
• The Orc chief ignored an identical warning at first, but sent a ten-man scout squad ahead and discovered Gnome Land Mines and Goblin Bombs along the route.
• Eight Elven Gryphon Riders appeared overhead after most of the Orc chief's force entered the minefield, and he ordered his troops to stay on the scouts' path and hurry through.
• The Gryphon Riders dropped a few trial bombs, then flew over the main Orc force and released more than a hundred bombs at once.

The Orc leader’s Wolf Riders were devastated when aerial bombs sent their mounts stampeding through a minefield. He organized the survivors into a slow escape along paths their mounts had safely taken, while many wounded and stranded Orcs remained behind.

• The Orc leader ordered his Wolf Riders to hit the ground, but most could not dismount before Elf Gryphon Riders bombed them and their mounts triggered mines.
• The Orc leader stopped the survivors from moving and ordered them to wait while he and the nearby Orcs called their mounts over one at a time.
• The Orc leader used his Worg’s safe route to lead riders out of the minefield and ordered them to carry wounded comrades along the same path.
• The Orc leader and the other riders who had dropped to the ground summoned their mounts in turn, and most survivors escaped by following the routes the Worgs took.
• After nearly two hours, a little over twenty mobile riders, numerous wounded Orcs and Worgs, and the dead remained scattered across the minefield.

The Orcs escaped most of the minefield but suffered severe injuries, and their leader struggled to rescue those trapped among the explosives. Sylvanas ordered a larger ambush at Area 7, where she planned to destroy the Orc forces, and set out with Yu Lin Bloodhawk.

• The Orc leader told the surviving Wolf Riders how to cross the minefield, while Orcs and Shamans worked to rescue the wounded and remove embedded shrapnel.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas discussed how the Orcs might clear future minefields, and Sylvanas ordered the Second Frostwolf Clan Squadron to Area 7 with more mines and bombs.
• Sylvanas ordered the First Frostwolf Clan Squadron to join Lor'themar against fifty Wolf Riders, then directed the remaining forces to attack a larger force before converging on Area 7.
• Sylvanas told the Intelligence Officer to bring the Mages to Area 7 and left with Yu Lin Bloodhawk, who planned to fly there later on his Gryphon.

Sylvanas forced Yu Lin Bloodhawk to accompany her small party toward Area 7, despite his pleas to stay with the mages. They reached the planned meeting point before the Second Frostwolf Clan Squadron, and Sylvanas sent owl rangers to scout both the squadron and the Mage Unit.

• Sylvanas revealed that she had sent a subordinate to scout the enemy on Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s gryphon, then insisted he ride with her to Area 7.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk argued that he was safer with the mages and feared facing the orc wolf riders, but Sylvanas threatened to tie him to a hawkstrider and take him along.
• Sylvanas’s party of fourteen traveled quickly toward Area 7 while Yu Lin Bloodhawk worried about the danger and regretted not preparing Iron Arrowheads.
• At Area 7, Sylvanas found that the Second Frostwolf Clan Squadron had not yet arrived and ordered two owl rangers to locate it and the Mage Unit.
• The owl rangers used Beast’s Eye to scout, while Sylvanas left four Frostwolf Rangers to guard them as they became vulnerable during the spell.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk complained to Sylvanas about the discomfort and logistical costs of different mounts, while the Rangers scouted the approaching orc forces near Area 7. Grim’s Wolf Riders pursued the elves but could not catch them and exhausted their worgs.

• Owl Rangers used Beast's Eye to report that the Frostwolf Clan Second Squadron and the Mage Unit were nearing Area 7.
• Sylvanas ordered an Owl Ranger to confirm the orcs’ position and another to summon Gnome Land Mines and Goblin Bombs with the Gryphon Riders.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas that he wanted horses or another steady, agile mount instead of hawkstriders or meat-eating worgs.
• Sylvanas suggested bloodfang boars, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk decided they were too short and lacked stamina for his needs.
• Grim pursued more than a hundred elves with fifty Wolf Riders, but the exhausted worgs could not close the distance.

Grim and the Orc Wolf Riders pursued Lor'themar's elves, who baited them into a charge and shot their mounts before fleeing again. Grim realized the elves had tricked him and ordered his riders to treat the poisoned worgs while the others stood guard.

• Grim halted the pursuit because his riders' mounts were exhausted, while the elves waited just beyond bow range.
• Grim taunted the elves into fighting, and Lor'themar hung a cloth bearing a mocking message before telling the rangers to target the worgs and flee after one volley.
• The elves invited the Orc Wolf Riders to charge, and Grim ordered his riders to attack despite suspecting a trap.
• Lor'themar and the rangers shot at the charging riders' mounts and immediately rode away.
• Grim stopped the charge and found that more than thirty worgs had been hit, so he ordered his riders to treat their poisoned wounds and the others to stand guard.