Chapter Summaries

Daelin and Alleria led the Alliance defense through an artillery duel as the orcs advanced under cover of smoke. Rain of Fire and cannon fire disrupted the assault, but the iron-shield formations remained protected, and the defenders struggled to target them through the smoke.

• Daelin ordered the cannons to fire solid shot at the advancing orc iron-shield formations while Alleria directed elf mages to dispel the orc fog.
• The artillery duel lasted nearly an hour, and the Alliance suffered heavy casualties even as its solid shot destroyed more than twenty orc iron-shield fortresses.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk noticed the orc catapults’ aim worsening, and Daelin realized the orcs were firing ranging shots before Alleria ordered the defenders to prepare.
• The orcs filled the area below the wall with smoke using burning projectiles and bundles of weeds, but Alleria ordered the mages to unleash Rain of Fire and burn the cover.
• Alleria ordered gryphon riders to attack with incendiary bombs, and Daelin ordered the cannons to switch to canister shot as orc infantry advanced through the smoke.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk recognized that the defenders lacked a reliable way to break the shielded formations, while smoke prevented the gunners from aiming solid shot accurately.

As the Orcs summoned demons during their assault on Menethil City, Alleria and Daelin ordered the defenders to focus on killing the Infernals while using fuel to slow the Orcs. Yu Lin Bloodhawk followed Sylvanas south toward the city gate, where the most Infernals were descending.

• An Elf Mage warned the defenders that the Orcs were summoning demons, and a felguard appeared on the wall and attacked human heavy infantry.
• Alleria urged Daelin to have soldiers throw combustible materials over the walls while the elves and paladins fought the demons.
• Alleria ordered the elves to spend their mana killing the Infernals as quickly as possible, and Daelin passed orders to the human soldiers.
• Several human paladins surrounded the felguard and held off its Whirlwind while other soldiers threw fuel over the walls.
• Sylvanas led Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the twenty high rangers south toward the city gate, where the most Infernals were descending.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas helped the defenders kill Infernals before redirecting their squad to reinforce Menethil City's gate. There, the Elf Rangers used poisoned arrows against a felguard while human Paladins held it back.

• Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk stopped fighting Infernals after the Rangers ran out of mana and headed for the gate to strengthen its defenses.
• Orc Shamans pushed their fog of war toward the walls as catapults continued battering Menethil City and the Orcs pressed their attack.
• At the gatehouse, a felguard fought several human Paladins while falling blocks of ice killed human soldiers.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk's Rangers coated their arrows with poison and struck the felguard's exposed body.
• The human Paladins repeatedly blocked the felguard's charges, allowing the Rangers to keep attacking from behind.

As the Felguard attacked the defenders, Sylvanas received word that two Infernals had breached Menethil City's northeastern wall and ordered her forces to prepare for withdrawal. Yu Lin Bloodhawk scouted the breach as an owl and spotted a Death Knight watching him.

• The Felguard used Whirlwind against the Elf Rangers, while two Paladins held him back and two others healed them.
• Sylvanas received an owl-borne message and told Yu Lin Bloodhawk to keep watch on the United Nations Burning Legion instead of moving to another location.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk used Beast's Eye to scout the northeastern wall and learned that two Infernals had collapsed it, leaving a breach only three meters high.
• Daelin sent the United Nations Burning Legion to defend the breach, while Alleria prepared the elves to withdraw and had them spread lamp oil and other flammable fuels through the city.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk arrived above the breach and met the gaze of a Death Knight below.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk watched the Orcs overwhelm Menethil City as Death Knights raised the dead to fight, while the United Nations Burning Legion rapidly retreated. Daelin ordered the cannons to destroy the Orc catapult position, and Alleria sent Gryphon Riders to attack the remaining catapults as the city’s defenses faltered.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk observed Death Knights raise fallen Human Soldiers and saw the United Nations Burning Legion retreat faster than the other defenders.
• Alleria urged Daelin to destroy the Orcs’ catapult position, and Daelin ordered the cannons to open fire.
• The cannons devastated the Orc catapult position, killing or wounding its archers and leaving only a dozen or so catapults standing.
• Alleria asked Daelin to send a Blocking Detachment behind the United Nations Burning Legion, but he stayed silent over the risks.
• Alleria ordered the Gryphon Riders to burn the remaining catapults, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk flew back toward Menethil City.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk reported that death knights and their undead vanguard were worsening the battle for Menethil City, though Daelin’s enforcement unit had steadied the allied line slightly. He and Sylvanas discussed demon hunters, Illidan, and his imprisonment as Yu Lin’s white owl returned to his shoulder.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk used Beast's Eye to scout the battle and saw death knights raising fallen human soldiers as undead vanguard while orcs pressed into Menethil City.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas that Daelin’s enforcement unit had improved the situation only slightly, and Sylvanas said they would hold because they were in Menethil.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk lamented that they could not absorb the power of dead demons as demon hunters did, and he explained that Illidan led the night elf demon hunters.
• Sylvanas asked who Illidan was, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained that he was Fandral Stormrage’s younger brother, Tyrande’s admirer, and a powerful figure imprisoned for ten thousand years.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk heard a bird call and watched his white owl settle on his shoulder.

After the United Nations Burning Legion soldiers turned on the enforcement troops, Alleria sent the Bloodhawk Burning Legion to defend the harbor while Daelin handled the human soldiers. On the way back, Sylvanas’s squad encountered enemies in the fog, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s owl spotted a Death Knight and a large force.

• A human messenger told Daelin that United Nations Burning Legion soldiers had attacked the enforcement troops and were retreating toward the harbor, pursued by orcs.
• Alleria ordered the Bloodhawk Burning Legion to defend the ships and told Daelin to kill anyone who tried to seize them.
• Alleria left for the harbor, explaining that her recruits might not hold it and that the elves would not kill allied human soldiers unless they threatened elven ships.
• Sylvanas led her squad back toward the harbor and ordered Yu Lin Bloodhawk to scout the mist with his owl.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk spotted a Death Knight on a Death Warhorse and a crowd of figures in the fog, then felt terror as the Death Knight’s gaze found him.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk warned Sylvanas that a Death Knight and his undead army were ahead after the Death Knight killed his owl through Beast's Eye. Sylvanas confronted the Death Knight, but he used Death Grip to pull her toward him, and a flash of blade light appeared beside her.

• The Death Knight caught Yu Lin Bloodhawk's owl with Death Grip, killed it, and forcibly ended his Beast's Eye spell.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas about the Death Knight, his undead soldiers, and his known abilities.
• Sylvanas sent five High Rangers to find and kill an orc shaman, then led the rest of the group toward the Death Knight.
• Sylvanas and the Death Knight exchanged words as his undead army blocked the street.
• The Death Knight used Death Grip to drag Sylvanas toward him, and a sudden flash of blade light appeared beside her.

Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk fought the Death Knight and his Undead Soldiers, discovering that arrows could kill the undead with hits to the head or heart. The Death Knight began summoning demons as the chapter ended with Sylvanas declaring the dead soldiers were not scary.

• Sylvanas crippled the Death Knight's mount and wounded him with an arrow, but he healed himself by using Death Siphon on an Undead Soldier.
• The Death Knight sent his Undead Soldiers to attack, and Sylvanas's High Rangers held them back in the street.
• The Death Knight began summoning demons while Yu Lin Bloodhawk tried to interrupt him with arrows.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk killed an Undead Soldier with a shot to the head, and Sylvanas killed another with a shot through the heart.
• Sylvanas concluded that the Undead Soldiers were not scary after seeing that arrows to the head or heart could kill them.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk killed the Death Warriors too late to stop the Death Knight from summoning a Succubus, whose Seduction trapped him in an illusion. Sylvanas prepared to attack the demon, but the Death Knight moved to protect her, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk shot the shield-bearing Death Warrior twice, exposing and killing him, but the Death Knight completed his summoning spell.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk waited as the summoning circle produced a Succubus, while Sylvanas confirmed the Orc Shaman was dead.
• The Succubus's Seduction ensnared Yu Lin Bloodhawk, leaving him dazed and praising her beauty as Sylvanas grew angry.
• Sylvanas aimed an Arcane arrow at the Succubus, but the Death Knight rushed between them to shield her.

Sylvanas held off the death knight while her rangers and mages attacked the Undead Army. An Arcane Healing Mage identified that Yu Lin Bloodhawk was trapped in an illusion by mind magic, leaving Sylvanas to wonder who had cast it.

• The death knight raised a Magical Shield to protect himself and the Succubus while Sylvanas ordered her High Rangers to retreat and fight the advancing corpses.
• The five Elf Rangers returned from hunting the Orc Shamans, and Sylvanas assigned them to deal with the Undead Soldiers.
• Sylvanas stamped on Yu Lin Bloodhawk's feet, but he remained fixated on the Succubus and continued crying in pain.
• Sylvanas and the death knight waited for an opening as he maintained his shield and she gathered mana for an attack.
• Elves sent by Burning Legion Commander Alleria arrived, and Sylvanas ordered them to attack the Undead Army.
• An Arcane Healing Mage examined Yu Lin Bloodhawk and told Sylvanas that mind magic had trapped him in an illusion.

Sylvanas’s forces dispelled the Succubus’s Seduction from Yu Lin Bloodhawk and slowed the retreating Death Knight. Yu Lin Bloodhawk recovered, learned his feet hurt from kicking a wall in the illusion, and insisted he wanted to capture the Succubus alive, while Sylvanas demanded that he kill her.

• Sylvanas ordered the Arcane Healing Mage to dispel the Seduction affecting Yu Lin Bloodhawk as the Death Knight weighed whether to retreat or fight.
• Sylvanas hit the Death Knight with Concussive Shot, slowing him while the mage dispelled the mind magic from Yu Lin Bloodhawk.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk awoke, discovered his feet were too painful to stand on, and received healing from the Arcane Healing Mage.
• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that he had hurt his feet kicking a wall during the illusion, then urged him to focus on the Succubus.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk said he wanted to capture the Succubus alive, but Sylvanas insisted that she must be killed.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Sylvanas to capture the death knight alive so Quel'Thalas could study him, and she set off after him. Yu Lin stayed behind to watch the battle pets struggle against the armored Death Soldiers, with gorillas outperforming expectations while tigers and dire wolves proved less effective.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Sylvanas to capture the death knight alive for the benefit of Quel'Thalas, and she agreed.
• Sylvanas raced across the rooftops to pursue the retreating death knight while Yu Lin stayed to observe the street battle.
• The gorillas used their strength and Thunderstomp to batter the Death Soldiers, drawing their attacks onto themselves.
• The tigers' claws struggled against plate armor, though they wounded Death Soldiers in lighter armor without quickly stopping them.
• The dire wolves found openings by removing helmets from fallen Death Soldiers, but killed them more slowly than the other battle pets.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the elves battled the death knight’s summoned Death Soldiers, using arrows, battle pets, and powerful spells to cut down their ranks. As the fight continued, Yu Lin noticed black mist escaping from certain slain soldiers and observed how unnervingly silent and fearless the undead were.

• The Elf Rangers struggled against the armored Death Soldiers, while elven Mages dealt heavy damage with fire and arcane spells that proved more effective than frost magic.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk saw Sylvanas overpowering the death knight, then joined the fight and killed Death Soldiers with his Normal Shot.
• Yu Lin noticed that Death Soldiers pierced through the head or heart released wisps of black mist as they died, and he decided to ask about it later.
• The elves reduced the death knight’s force of roughly four hundred summoned Death Warriors to fewer than a third, but the undead kept attacking without fear or pain.
• Yu Lin observed that the Death Soldiers lacked the independent minds of Undercity’s future undead and attacked in eerie silence, while the elves’ battle pets met them head-on.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas defeated the Death Warriors, capturing the Death Knight and Succubus before leading the elves back toward the harbor. The elves reached it safely as Menethil City descended into chaos.

• The elves wiped out the remaining Death Warriors while Sylvanas fought the Death Knight and Succubus.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk captured the Succubus with a barbed net, and Sylvanas trapped the Death Knight with another.
• The elves restrained both captives and set out for the harbor under Sylvanas's command.
• The elves encountered retreating Human Soldiers and small orc and ogre forces, defeating the latter as they advanced.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk urged Sylvanas to hurry back, and the elves withdrew to the harbor without incident.

Alleria told Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk that Admiral Daelin planned to burn Menethil City and trap the orcs inside while the elf forces circled behind them. The elves sailed south to prepare, leaving the human soldiers at the harbor to hold the line, and Yu Lin worried that their unrest might undermine the plan.

• Alleria met Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk at the harbor and explained that the Allied Army could not hold Menethil City against the orcs and their death knights.
• Alleria outlined Admiral Daelin’s plan to lure the orcs into Menethil City, burn it with incendiary bombs, and have the elf forces cut off the survivors’ escape.
• Alleria warned Yu Lin Bloodhawk that the plan had been based on his suggestion and told him to stop making careless remarks.
• The elves boarded their ships and sailed south while the human soldiers remained behind to draw the orcs into the city.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk worried that the restless human soldiers might lose their will to fight, and Sylvanas replied that this was Proudmoore, not Quel’Thalas.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk lost command of the fleet as it waited near Menethil City, then questioned a captured Death Knight about his powers. He bet that the Alliance would win the war, wagering the Death Knight's freedom against training living people to become Death Knights.

• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk she had learned from him to blame things on the War God, and he denied teaching her that habit.
• The fleet stopped within sight of Menethil City, where a lighthouse signal would trigger gryphon riders to bomb the city, and Alleria took command from Yu Lin Bloodhawk.
• With little to do aboard ship, Yu Lin Bloodhawk visited the shackled Death Knight and asked how he returned the dead to their bodies.
• The Death Knight asked for rum and said he drank memories, leaving Yu Lin Bloodhawk puzzled by the familiar phrase.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk predicted the Horde would lose the war and proposed a bet: he would free the Death Knight if the Alliance lost, while the Death Knight would help train living Death Knights if the Horde lost.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk pressured the Death Knight into choosing between training prisoners and becoming a subject for High Elf experiments, while challenging the Shadow Council’s loyalty to demons. After the Death Knight fell silent, Yu Lin Bloodhawk left the cabin and explained his plan to Sylvanas.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk offered the Death Knight ten captured orcs and four years to develop a training method, while warning that High Elf mages could experiment on him instead.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk argued that the Shadow Council served demons through Gul'dan and questioned why the orcs continued using fel after it had ruined Draenor.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk revealed that he knew the Shadow Council’s first leader was Oronok, leaving the Death Knight silent and conflicted.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk left the cabin, and Sylvanas demanded to know why he was making the Death Knight research how to train living people into Death Knights.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas that he wanted the method available in case they needed it later.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk argued for researching dark magic to develop stronger melee forces, but Sylvanas warned him that it could give his political enemies and Dalaran grounds to intervene. Sylvanas told him Menethil City had been attacked and teased him by flying off with his Gryphon; as his fleet sailed south, returning Gryphon Riders reported that the city had become a blazing inferno, though they could not confirm the attack’s results.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk argued that dark magic research could help train powerful melee troops, but Sylvanas warned him against pursuing it because it could invite retaliation from the Royalist Party Faction and Dalaran.
• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that Menethil City had sent a signal and their Gryphon Riders had taken off; he refused to go near the battle.
• Sylvanas teased Yu Lin Bloodhawk by flying away on his Gryphon after implying she would return it to him.
• The fleet weighed anchor and sailed south as Yu Lin Bloodhawk looked back at smoke rising from Menethil City.
• The Gryphon Riders caught up with the fleet that evening and reported that Menethil City had burned fiercely, but they could not say what the attack had accomplished.

After the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion cleared the murloc settlements along the southern coast, Yu Lin Bloodhawk searched one ruined village and found a locked treasure chest. He had his men bring it out, but none of them knew how to pick the lock.

• The elves landed south of Menethil City at midnight and overwhelmed the coastal murlocs with their battle pets.
• After the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion set out at dawn to pursue the orcs, Yu Lin Bloodhawk went ashore with Troll Warriors and human Musketeers to search the ruined settlement.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk found that the battle pets had eaten every murloc, leaving only ruined shelters, bloodstains, and scattered bone weapons.
• A human Musketeer spotted a rusty iron chest inside a shelter, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered his men to bring it out.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk discovered the chest was locked and asked if anyone could pick it, but the Musketeers and Troll Warriors had no answer.