Chapter Summaries

Lor'themar's Elves harassed Grim's Orc Wolf Riders while Orcs struggled to rescue the wounded from a minefield. Sylvanas prepared new mines and set out to inspect the Orcs' position, taking the reluctant Yu Lin Bloodhawk along.

• Grim discovered the Elves' taunting message, while Lor'themar ordered Rangers to harass the Orcs as they treated their wounded mounts.
• The Orc leader used ropes and hides to pull wounded soldiers from the minefield, but explosions killed several Orcs and stranded the heavy Worgs.
• Sylvanas directed the Frostwolf Clan Second Squadron and Mages to bury Goblin Bombs and Gnome Land Mines at marked locations.
• Sylvanas coaxed Yu Lin Bloodhawk into promising to tell her a story so he would accompany her toward the Orcs.
• Sylvanas whistled her Hawkstrider into following her, startling Yu Lin Bloodhawk as she rode ahead with her guards.

Sylvanas teased Yu Lin Bloodhawk as the Orc Company Commander devised a way through the Elves’ minefield. After losing one rider and suffering several minor injuries, the Orcs cleared a passage and began a coordinated maneuver, while the Elves struggled to respond.

• Sylvanas insisted on keeping Romance of the Three Kingdoms with her, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk gave up trying to turn his hawkstrider back for it.
• The Orc Company Commander sent ten Wolf Riders across the minefield one at a time to open a safe passage for the troops.
• The first rider and his worg were killed by successive explosions, but the second crossed safely and the others continued along different routes.
• The ten riders cleared a passage wide enough for five riders abreast, with only one killed and five others lightly injured.
• The Orc Company Commander ordered one group to feign a charge at the Elves while the other crossed the minefield, and the Elves asked their commander what to do.

Sylvanas pursued the orcs while Yu Lin Bloodhawk examined their dead and discovered that their distinctive armor identified them as elite members of the Shattered Hand Clan. The pursuit continued as Sylvanas prepared to confront them, and Yu Lin warned that they were exceptionally strong.

• The elf captain led his rangers into retreat, but the orcs turned back and blocked the minefield with nets, preventing the elves from pursuing them.
• Sylvanas ordered the trapped squadron to clear the nets and attack the orcs from both sides while other units joined the encirclement.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk noticed that the dead Felblood Orcs had been finished off, while poisoned worgs had been left alive as bait for the decoy troops.
• Sylvanas revealed that bombs were buried beneath the corpses and worgs, hoping to catch the orc shamans in an explosion.
• Yu Lin recognized the armor on an orc corpse as the Shattered Hand Elite Set and told Sylvanas they were likely facing elite warriors of the Shattered Hand Clan.
• Yu Lin warned Sylvanas that the Shattered Hand elites were far stronger than the elite trolls in the Hinterlands.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas investigated a dead Orc and discussed collecting Orc gear, while Sylvanas planned to profit from the battle’s spoils. The Orc leader counted his battered force and learned that a small group of Elf riders was approaching.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas deduced how the dead Orc and his wounded Worg had been left behind, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk praised the Orc’s toughness.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas discussed keeping Orc armor and weapons, while Sylvanas revealed she had devised a way to make money from the equipment.
• The Orc leader tallied his casualties, finding many wounded and dead after the minefield, and blamed the embedded scrap iron for worsening their injuries.
• An Orc rider reported that eleven Elf Wolf Riders and three Hawkstrider riders were approaching, and the Orc leader learned they seemed unafraid of his force.

Sylvanas confronted the Shattered Hand orcs and used a Gryphon Rider egg drop to punish them for ignoring the elves’ rules. She left the orc leader furious and warned him that another delivery might follow.

• Sylvanas introduced herself and Yu Lin Bloodhawk to the orc leader and reminded him that the elves had rules he needed to follow.
• Sylvanas revealed that fifty Gryphon Riders were approaching with nearly a thousand eggs for the orc camp.
• The orc leader warned his troops to scatter, but the Gryphon Riders dropped the eggs across the panicked camp and flew away before he returned.
• The orc leader found his soldiers wounded and cursed the incompetent couriers, then confronted Sylvanas again.
• Sylvanas told the orc leader to exercise after eating and warned that another batch of eggs might be delivered.

Sylvanas used repeated egg deliveries and land mines to wear down the orcs while her forces rested and received new orders to finish the fighting before the Orc Main Army arrived. She arranged to collect captured worgs, weapons, and armor, then pressed Yu Lin Bloodhawk to take the orc equipment as war trophies.

• Sylvanas told the orc leader that Raptor eggs had been dropped along the road and that his missing followers were behind her, then escaped when his riders charged.
• After scouting the orcs with Beast's Eye, Sylvanas ordered her Gryphon Riders to keep delivering eggs and sent her troops back to rest at Area 7.
• The Intelligence Officer reported new orders, the Allied Army's movements, and that Grommash Hellscream led the Warsong Clan vanguard; Sylvanas learned they were at least two days away.
• Sylvanas ordered the Decoy Force to collect the orcs' worgs, armor, and weapons after the fighting, and directed the Frostwolf Clan Force to regroup at Area 7.
• Sylvanas told the Intelligence Officer to give the captured orc equipment to Yu Lin Bloodhawk, who protested that he had only asked for Elite Sets.

Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk haggled over the price of equipment they expected to capture from the orcs, while the orc Company Commander reflected on the elves’ tactics and guessed how their Concussive Shots worked. The chapter revealed that Sylvanas had used the battle as a training exercise, and that her forces’ intelligence and air superiority had made the sixteen-character maxim effective despite their weaker unit.

• Sylvanas demanded ten gold coins per set of orc equipment, and she and Yu Lin Bloodhawk argued over its value until the Intelligence Officer left to deliver orders.
• The orc Company Commander recalled deciding to rescue the surrounded riders because he needed more men and felt a duty to his fellow orcs.
• The Company Commander described how the elves’ Concussive Shots and concentrated arrows had stalled small groups of riders, and he guessed that several elves had to alternate their shots.
• The chapter explained that Sylvanas wanted to capture the orcs’ equipment and mounts while limiting casualties and testing her troops against them.
• Sylvanas planned to use Alleria’s weaker Ranger force against the orcs first, then commit the Frostwolf Rangers when the orcs attempted to retreat.
• The battle results showed that the sixteen-character tactical maxim worked well when Sylvanas’s forces had superior intelligence and air power.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk watched Sylvanas lead the Elves into an ambush against an Orc rescue force, whose commander summoned three Infernals to cover a breakout. The Orcs escaped the burning forest, but the Elves regrouped on the plain and surrounded them again.

• The Orc company commander realized the Elves had lured his hundred-strong force into an encirclement with a false report of survivors needing rescue.
• The commander ordered his Warlocks to summon Infernals while twenty armored Ravagers led the Orcs in a retreat through the forest.
• The three Infernals crashed into the forest, set it ablaze, and stunned the Elf Rangers long enough for the Orcs to break through.
• The Elven commander ordered his Rangers to pursue the Orcs, then surrounded them again on the plain beyond the forest.

The elven commander ordered his forces to attack the three Infernals emerging from the woods while the remaining Elf Rangers tightened their encirclement around the Orc Wolf Riders. The orc Company Commander planned a desperate charge to join the Infernals, but his poisoned War Wolf collapsed beneath him.

• The orcs stopped fleeing and formed ranks as the elves surrounded them, and the elven commander vowed to kill them for summoning demons.
• The elven commander sent Frostwolf Sixth Squadron and Third Baiting Squadron to bring down the three Infernals emerging from the woods.
• The orcs watched the Elf Rangers ride toward the Infernals while the rest of the elves kept them trapped and tightened the moving encirclement.
• The orc Company Commander decided to charge toward the Infernals and use them to break through the elves' formation.
• The orc Company Commander's War Wolf collapsed from the poison on three arrows embedded in it.

The Orc Company Commander realized the poisoned arrows had crippled his Wolf Riders and led the remaining fighters in a desperate charge. The Elves stopped the assault with slowing shots and relentless volleys, leaving the Orcs trapped beyond bowshot.

• The Orc Company Commander recognized that poisoned arrows had left nearly all the Worgs down and his riders exposed to the Elves.
• He regretted failing to attack alongside the Infernal while the Orcs were still in the burning woods, then rallied the survivors with “Strength and Honor!”
• The Orc Company Commander charged toward the Infernal with roughly thirty Orc Wolf Riders, but the Elves slowed them and shot down their Worgs.
• The Elves killed the three exposed Warlocks and continued to encircle the Orcs, targeting their mounts and lightly armored limbs.
• The Orc Company Commander and twenty elite Ravagers struggled toward the Elves, but repeated Concussive Shots kept them from reaching bowshot range.

The elves destroyed the orc force and subdued the survivors after the Infernals and Ravagers could not overcome their tactics. Grim asked to see the elven commander, but Lor'themar told him the orc chieftain was likely facing an even more despicable enemy.

• The Elf Rangers used rotating formations and repeated attacks to bring down all three Infernals.
• The orc company commander and the remaining Ravagers charged the elves and died under ordinary arrows.
• The elven commander ordered the troops to finish the Infernals and collect the battlefield's worgs, weapons, and armor.
• Lor'themar's Rangers and the 1st Frostwolf Clan Squadron trapped Grim and fifty orcs, whose poisoned worgs had left them unable to fight.
• Grim asked to see the elven commander, and Lor'themar said she was busy and warned that the orc chieftain faced someone even more despicable.

Grim and the Orcs surrendered after the First Frostwolf Clan Squadron arrived, while Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk argued over how to feed their guests after running out of eggs. The chapter ended with Sylvanas teasing Yu Lin Bloodhawk about Rhea and his ties to the Bloodhawk Regiment.

• Lor'themar told Grim that Yu Lin Bloodhawk had devised the battle plan and poisoned arrows, and Grim surrendered as the First Frostwolf Clan Squadron approached.
• The Intelligence Officer reported to Sylvanas that the air raids had used all the chicken eggs and that the Raptor eggs were buried.
• Sylvanas asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk to find more eggs or another dish to serve the guests, but he said they had no way to get any in time.
• Sylvanas pressed Yu Lin Bloodhawk for an idea and offered him conditions, but refused to return his Gryphon or give him Lupos.
• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that the Bloodhawk Regiment had re-formed and Rhea was its commander, then teased him for defending Rhea.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk struggled to come up with a way for Sylvanas to harass the orcs through the night, while Sylvanas explained that she wanted to test how much strength they would have left by morning. The chapter ended with Yu Lin Bloodhawk reluctantly accepting her reasoning and still feeling frustrated.

• Sylvanas persuaded Yu Lin Bloodhawk to help devise a harassment plan and promised to train his sweetheart and the Bloodhawk Regiment if his idea was good enough.
• Sylvanas asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk about Baidu Search and cloud computing, then asked whether they could provide military strategy.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk suggested sending a Frostwolf Clan squadron to shoot arrows at the orcs, but Sylvanas warned that the orcs' worgs could detect them.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk suggested killing the orcs' night patrols, but Sylvanas rejected it because she wanted to harass the exhausted enemy rather than end the battle immediately.
• Sylvanas said she wanted to learn how much fighting strength the orcs would retain after a night of harassment, leaving Yu Lin Bloodhawk frustrated.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk struggled to find a way to keep the orcs awake and on edge until Grommash Hellscream arrived, then hit on the idea of using Amplification Magic to sing at them. He proposed an all-night “Dance with the Orcs Gala,” but Sylvanas thought he was joking and the chapter ended with their bickering.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk rejected sneaking into the orc village and considered using loud noises to frighten the orcs because he had no bombs left.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk recalled Grommash Hellscream was due to arrive the next day and feared facing him.
• Sylvanas suggested singing while mocking Yu Lin Bloodhawk, and he connected the idea to the idiom “besieged on all sides.”
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed holding Azeroth’s first battlefield “Dance with the Orcs Gala” and having everyone sing to the orcs.
• Sylvanas hit Yu Lin Bloodhawk on the head, and he ended up slapping himself while they argued.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk resisted Sylvanas's attempts to make him attend the celebration and perform, fearing the orcs and demanding his Gryphon. Sylvanas left him under guard to devise a solution, and he cursed her after she walked away.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged an elven choir and magical preparations for the evening celebration, while the elves debated whether he should stay behind or attend.
• Sylvanas argued that Yu Lin Bloodhawk should attend because the celebration was his idea and his performances had been announced.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk refused to go without his Gryphon, insisting that he had come to watch rather than fight.
• Sylvanas ordered two Frostwolf Clan Bodyguards to keep Yu Lin Bloodhawk near the bomb-filled area and told him to come up with a solution for his announced acts.
• After Sylvanas left, Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked the guards about her behavior, then cursed her as they watched in silence.

The Orc leader assessed his battered force as Elven air raids and hidden bombs left its soldiers and Worgs wounded, exhausted, and furious. He resolved to preserve the Ravagers’ mounts as the force’s best chance of retreating safely.

• The two Orc shamans struggled to treat the many wounded while bandages and mana ran low, and the warlocks’ priority treatment fueled resentment among the soldiers.
• The Orcs avoided harvesting souls or approaching corpses and weakened Worgs because they feared hidden bombs and the camp’s volatile mood.
• The Orc leader inspected the camp and recognized that morale and fighting strength had collapsed, while the force remained under constant harassment.
• The Orc leader decided to protect the Ravagers’ Worgs, whose mounts were still fit to ride, so the elite cavalry could help the army escape the Elves.

The Orc leader tried to prepare his exhausted survivors for another Elf attack, then received a crystal ball and a strange message announcing a battlefield gala. A Shaman identified the ball as a Resonance Crystal with arrays for light, shadow, and amplification, effective within about a thousand meters.

• The Orc leader ordered the night watch to guard against Gryphon Riders while letting exhausted soldiers sleep.
• An Orc soldier reported many Elf Wolf Riders approaching, including a few hawkstrider-riding Mages, and delivered a crystal ball from them.
• The Orc leader ordered everyone awakened after learning the Elves had sent a message announcing a battlefield gala called Dancing with Beasts.
• The Shamans examined the crystal ball and identified it as a Resonance Crystal with Light and Shadow and Amplification Magic arrays.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk annoyed Sylvanas by repeating a Chinese incantation as she brought him along on the mission to the orc camp. The elves’ Resonance Crystal reached the orcs, and Sylvanas ordered her ranger to proceed with the plan before moving ahead and leaving her bodyguards to watch Yu Lin Bloodhawk.

• The orc shaman explained that the Resonance Crystal could receive images and sounds from a nearby mother crystal, while the orc leader suspected the elves had an ulterior motive.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk continued repeating, “I'm the protagonist. I won't die,” after Sylvanas’s repeated attempts to make him stop.
• Sylvanas’s ranger reported that the orcs had received the Resonance Crystal, and Sylvanas ordered the plan to proceed.
• Sylvanas pleaded with Yu Lin Bloodhawk to stop chanting, then hurried ahead and tasked her two bodyguards with watching him.
• One of the bodyguards nervously asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk whether he would torment them.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the elves prepared a party that was actually part of a military operation against the orcs. The chapter left the orc leader puzzled and on alert as the elves surrounded his camp without attacking.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk silently encouraged himself as he rode with the elves, while his Frostwolf Clan bodyguards admired him for supposedly intimidating Sylvanas.
• The elves installed thin steel wires in front of their positions to restrain the orcs’ worgs and prepared for the evening’s planned performances.
• Sylvanas arranged for Gryphon Rider couriers to collect a few chicken eggs from Alleria’s headquarters as party snacks, but told them to arrive later.
• The orcs formed ranks and took defensive positions, following their leader’s order to stay alert while the elves camped around them.
• The orc leader questioned what the elves intended, but his commander could only confirm that they were setting up camp.

Sylvanas began a magical gala broadcast for the elves and orcs, while Yu Lin Bloodhawk marveled at the crystal technology. The orcs watched the glowing screens appear in their camp, where their shaman finally set the crystal shard on a stone platform.

• The orc leader and general debated whether the elves were trying to exhaust them and whether they had run out of bombs.
• An Owl Ranger reported that the orcs had fortified their camp but had made no move, and Sylvanas said it was time they noticed the owls watching them.
• Sylvanas told the mages to start the gala, and they poured mana into the Resonance Mother Crystal to create a blue magical screen.
• The Resonance Crystal Shards in both camps also formed screens, and the orc leader recognized Sylvanas when she appeared on them.
• The orc leader and his men piled stones into a platform so the shaman could rest the crystal shard on it.