Chapter Summaries

Yu Lin Bloodhawk appointed High Elf officials to coordinate talks between Turalyon’s delegation and the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps, while keeping himself at arm’s length. He left for Quel'Danil City to meet the Old Charlatan and pursue a Portal in Zul'Aman.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Turalyon and the officer representatives that High Elf officials would coordinate negotiations and consult him and Marshal Lothar if they lacked authority.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk instructed the officials to remain neutral, then left them to handle the delegation’s business.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk blamed Lothar’s suspicions for the political trouble and resolved to abandon the Restoration Corps if necessary and return to merchant work.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk traveled to Quel'Danil City to meet the Old Charlatan and demanded that he find a way to bring back a Portal from Zul'Aman.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk went to the Temple District to confront Old Charlatan, but first ran into Lirath Windrunner, who mocked his conspicuous behavior and fled. Yu Lin Bloodhawk left to find Old Charlatan at the old blacksmith’s place, while Lirath emerged from hiding and met a young elf who had been searching for him.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk spotted Lirath Windrunner in the Temple District and demanded to know what trouble he had caused.
• Lirath insisted he was innocent, said Yu Lin Bloodhawk looked like someone up to no good, and explained that Teacher Thirteen had taught him to act normal during thefts or assassinations.
• Lirath used Sprint to escape Yu Lin Bloodhawk, then entered Stealth after declaring that he did not know him today.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk found that Old Charlatan was absent from the Main Temple and went to look for him at the old blacksmith’s place.
• After Yu Lin Bloodhawk left the Temple District, Lirath came out from behind a tree and was startled by a young elf who had been looking for him.

Lirath Windrunner learned that Kaitivin and two other boys had allied against him, but chose to wait for a chance to confront them separately. Yu Lin Bloodhawk failed to find Old Charlatan and the Wildhammer dwarf, then inspected the slowly rising Valley Entrance Fortress in Quel'Danil Mountain Valley.

• Lirath Windrunner heard that Kaitivin and two other boys had formed an alliance to resist him, and decided to wait until they were apart before fighting them.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk searched for Old Charlatan at the blacksmith's home and the Forge Department but could not find him or the Wildhammer dwarf.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk suspected that Old Charlatan and the Wildhammer dwarf had gone to study the Dragon Soul fragment and decided to wait for their return in Quel'Danil City.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk flew with his Gryphon Rider Bodyguards to inspect the Valley Entrance Fortress construction site.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk saw that the fortress walls were still under five meters high because the dwarves were building deep foundations to meet their strict quality standards.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk checked on the Eaglewing Regiment children and the relocated High Elf commoners in Quel'Danil Mountain Valley. The villagers were content for now, but they warned him that the growing population would have more demands once it settled in.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to the War Fortress and judged that its immense size meant construction would take at least six months to a year.
• After the Old Charlatan failed to return, Yu Lin Bloodhawk visited the Eaglewing Regiment children and asked about their lives, studies, and training.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told homesick children they could return home after the war, but asked them to remain in Quel'Danil and continue studying and training for now.
• The old villagers told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that many relocated High Elves were planting fruit trees because they still lacked other work, though most were content with life in Quel'Danil.
• The old villagers warned Yu Lin Bloodhawk that the settled High Elf population would eventually make more demands.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk decided Quel'Danil needed public schools, hospitals, and other civic institutions, then discovered that funding them would be a major obstacle. He vowed to find money, while the larger Alliance-backed ventures remained stalled awaiting Lordaeron's approval.

• After villagers raised concerns about their children's education, Yu Lin Bloodhawk decided to propose elementary schools, middle schools, and a university to the Quel'Danil Council.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk summoned the City Lord's Representative and others to discuss schools, hospitals, a medical research institute, and additional public services.
• The councilors also proposed a Military Officer Command Academy, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk insisted on becoming its principal.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the others realized that Quel'Danil lacked the money to fund their plans, while even Christine's Bowmaking Department's expansion remained stalled.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk reviewed his many ongoing expenses and waited for Lordaeron to approve ventures that could bring Quel'Danil more funding.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk prepared Quel'Danil City's development plans while the Council waited for Lordaeron to approve a trade with the Alliance. After confronting the Old Charlatan about Lirath Windrunner, Yu Lin realized Thirteen's sailors might have taught the boy his unruly behavior and decided to keep him off the ship.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told his confidants to prepare detailed plans and supply lists while he awaited the Alliance's decision on the proposed trade.
• The Quel'Danil Council debated development proposals for more than ten days, but its members unanimously supported trading with the Alliance.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk met the Old Charlatan, who agreed to the Portal matter and complained that Lirath Windrunner disrupted the Temple District and was unsuited to studying magic.
• The Old Charlatan berated Yu Lin Bloodhawk for putting Lirath in the Temple District, and Yu Lin left without revealing his real reasons.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk suspected Lirath had picked up foul language from Thirteen's sailors and resolved not to let him board their ship again.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that war had broken out in Quel'Thalas and ordered preparations to move to Aerie Peak. He gave the rival factions in the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps ten days to resolve their leadership dispute and march, while concealing the real reason for the deployment from Lothar.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk decided the mischievous boy should remain with the Old Charlatan rather than join the Eaglewing Regiment.
• A Gryphon Rider Bodyguard reported that war had begun in Quel'Thalas and that Yu Lin Bloodhawk should send troops from The Hinterlands at the right moment.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps to march to Aerie Peak within ten days, regardless of who commanded it or what it was called.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered his men to prepare to visit Mez'dra at Aerie Peak and told the Army Staff to send more officers to the Eastern Burning Legion.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk wrote Lothar that reconnaissance in the Dunhold region was complete, hiding that the deployment was meant to support Quel'Thalas.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk sought Clerics from the Old Charlatan to reinforce the eastern Hinterlands legion, but the Old Charlatan demanded control of the Military Officer Command Academy in exchange. The chapter ended with Yu Lin offering him the Dean of Discipline position, which the Old Charlatan did not understand.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk sent Lothar a letter and ordered War God Armor and weapons delivered to him in Southshore in exchange for ordinary military equipment.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked the Old Charlatan to assign more Clerics to the eastern Hinterlands legion because High Elf troops had been recalled and the legion lacked ranged firepower.
• The Old Charlatan agreed to provide Clerics only if Yu Lin gave him the Military Officer Command Academy, and Yu Lin refused to surrender the principal's position.
• After the two men argued and threatened to do without the deal, Yu Lin offered the Old Charlatan the Dean of Discipline position.
• The Old Charlatan asked what a Dean of Discipline was.

Ye Long mocked a Death Knight, freed the poisoned Shakir from a sack, and challenged the knight to a fight. The chapter left Ye Long attacking the airborne Death Warhorse with a powerful kick.

• Ye Long dismissed the Death Knight as weak and ordered him to return to the underworld, but the knight stayed while screams came from the woods.
• Ye Long tore open the sack and found Shakir inside, then drew the poison from her body and dismissed it as worthless.
• Ye Long told the Death Knight to leave, but the knight drew his sword and charged after the fighting in the woods fell silent.
• The Death Knight attacked Ye Long with a Cleave, but Ye Long dodged and struck the Death Warhorse beneath its chin.
• Ye Long followed up by driving his right foot toward the Death Warhorse's exposed belly.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk appointed Sorens Dean of Discipline at the Military Officer Command Academy and then traveled to Aerie Peak to plan a strike on an orc supply depot. He and Mez'dra decided to have the Eastern Burning Legion attack the depot while the Western Burning Legion dealt with scattered orc troops.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk refused Sorens's demand to become Vice Principal and appointed him Dean of Discipline instead.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to his quarters, prepared for the journey, and flew to Aerie Peak the next morning.
• Mez'dra told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that his scouts had found an orc supply depot near the Great Bridge, guarded by a regiment of light infantry.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra learned that another regiment of orcs was scattered across the Durnholde Region, making a surprise attack difficult.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra assigned the Eastern Burning Legion to attack the depot and the Western Burning Legion to eliminate the scattered orc regiment.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra prepared a surprise offensive against the orcs in the Durnholde Region, dividing the Hinterlands' forces between a supply depot and scattered enemy positions. They brought Lieutenant Blair and resistance leaders to Aerie Peak to share intelligence before the commanders finalized their plans.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk planned for the Eastern Burning Legion to attack the orc supply depot while Mez'dra's Western Burning Legion targeted scattered orc forces, with Wildhammer gryphon riders blocking messengers from escaping.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra summoned the legion commanders to a meeting and sent gryphon riders to fetch Lieutenant Blair and leaders of the human resistance.
• Lieutenant Blair and his companions arrived at Aerie Peak, relieved that the Hinterlands was finally preparing to attack the orcs in the Durnholde Region.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra held an early intelligence session with Blair and the available commanders, organizing and copying their information ahead of the next day's meeting.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra agreed with Blair and the other human resistance leaders to coordinate attacks on Orc forces in Durnholde, with the resistance groups receiving captured supplies and Orc prisoners sent to the Hinterlands. At the next morning’s meeting, the commanders assigned units and routes for the campaign, and Mez'dra reinforced Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s Eastern Burning Legion with a thousand Wildhammer Dwarf riflemen.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed that the Western Burning Legion split into detachments and work with Blair’s local resistance groups to surprise and destroy scattered Orc forces.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra agreed to give the resistance groups all captured spoils, asking them to send Orc prisoners to the Hinterlands.
• Mez'dra, Yu Lin Bloodhawk, Blair, and their men shared a late-night meal and one jar of liquor before returning to their lodgings.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk outlined the battle plan at the morning meeting, while Mez'dra assigned Western Burning Legion officers and units to cooperate with Blair and the other resistance leaders.
• Mez'dra transferred a thousand Wildhammer Dwarf riflemen from Aerie Peak to Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s Eastern Burning Legion to strengthen its long-range firepower.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk left the Hinterlands campaign to the Army General Staff and Old Charlatan while returning to Quel'Danil to press the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps to resolve its stalled negotiations. With the deployment into Durnholde Region imminent, he went to the Seaside Plain to confront Turalyon and make his position clear.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that Old Charlatan had arrived without Lirath Windrunner and left him and the Army General Staff to oversee the campaign from The Hinterlands.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Mez'dra that the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps would first garrison and train at Aerie Peak before replacing the Hinterlands corps in Durnholde Region.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to Quel'Danil and learned that Turalyon's noble officers and the other officers had reached a deadlock in negotiations.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk traveled to the Seaside Plain, confirmed the negotiations were still stalled, and ordered the officials to summon Turalyon for a private meeting.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk demanded that Turalyon resolve the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps' command dispute and march to Aerie Peak within three days. Turalyon revealed that the current officers refused to surrender their posts, while he depended on the healthy refugees in the Hinterlands to fill the ranks.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk summoned Turalyon and gave him three days to settle the corps' internal affairs and prepare to march to Aerie Peak.
• Turalyon admitted that the current officers were occupying important posts and refused to give them up.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk warned that the corps would march under a new name if the dispute remained unresolved, while Lothar's agreement would still let the old nobility recruit a separate corps.
• Turalyon wondered where he could find enough recruits, since most Stormwind survivors elsewhere were weak and the healthiest refugees were in the Hinterlands.

Turalyon refused to hand Yu Lin Bloodhawk control of the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps, suspecting political motives behind his offer. Yu Lin Bloodhawk insisted he was investing in the fight against the Orcs, but Turalyon’s distrust threatened to jeopardize the deal.

• Turalyon explained that he would not entrust the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps to the Stormwind refugees, whom he doubted would fight to restore their kingdom.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk said he was only a businessman and that whether the deal succeeded made little difference to him.
• Turalyon suggested Yu Lin Bloodhawk was more politically skilled than he claimed, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk realized Turalyon suspected him of seeking control of the corps.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Turalyon that his real aim was to defeat the Orcs and criticized him for worrying about control while Stormwind had little left beyond its name.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk called the Hinterlands’ support a major gamble based only on promises from Lothar and the Little Prince, and warned he might reconsider the deal.
• Turalyon reflected on how Lothar’s royal ancestry and the Little Prince’s claim had helped unite the Alliance despite Stormwind’s fall.

Turalyon questioned why Yu Lin Bloodhawk would support the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps in exchange for only a verbal promise, while the former Stormwind nobles sought to claim influence over it. Yu Lin defended his actions by invoking a merchant’s integrity, though he privately recognized his own profiteering and hypocrisy.

• Former Stormwind noble houses rushed to claim a share of power in the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps, and Lothar understood their ambitions.
• Turalyon wondered why the high elves would spend so much to help restore Stormwind for only a verbal promise.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk realized Turalyon’s concern for the corps left room for negotiation and asked what mattered to a merchant besides profit.
• Yu Lin told Turalyon that integrity could require a merchant to accept a loss, then privately admitted his war profiteering made him a greedy opportunist rather than a good businessman.

Turalyon weighed Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s explanation for the High Elves’ aid and the risks of losing control of the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps. Faced with no way to stop the corps from marching to Aerie Peak, he chose to trust Yu Lin Bloodhawk.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained that the High Elves would help Lothar as a descendant of the Arathor imperial family and hoped to aid the Little Prince in restoring Stormwind.
• Turalyon considered whether the High Elves planned to control the Restoration Corps and recognized that its march to Aerie Peak was imminent.
• Turalyon realized that opposing Yu Lin Bloodhawk could disappoint Lothar and the Little Prince, while concessions could anger the old noble houses.
• Turalyon decided to stake his family’s reputation on trusting Yu Lin Bloodhawk and told him he believed him.

Ye Long confronted a necromancer who claimed he had rescued Shakir from human slavers, then forced him to provide zombie puppets for a beating. The necromancer ran out of puppets and, terrified of being next, claimed there were more.

• The necromancer told Ye Long that he and his men had killed the human slavers and rescued Shakir.
• Ye Long stopped beating the Death Knight and ordered the necromancer to come over for a beating, saying he would hit him even if he had done nothing wrong.
• The necromancer asked if his five zombie puppets could take his place, and Ye Long agreed to use them for exercise.
• Ye Long thrashed the puppets, quickly sending the rogue puppet flying, then demanded more targets.
• The necromancer said there were no more puppets, but changed his answer when Ye Long ordered him to take the beating himself.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained to Turalyon why he wanted to help the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps’ current officers and asked him to protect them from being exploited. Turalyon was startled by the request.

• Turalyon complained that the current officers held the senior positions and left noble-born sons with no chance to advance.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk offered to mediate between Turalyon and the corps’ current officers, while insisting that the corps march to Aerie Peak by the deadline.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained that the officers had joined to gain status and privileges, and that he wanted to repay their service without taking control of human affairs.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk clarified that he was not asking Turalyon to make concessions but to protect the common-born officers from being used as cannon fodder.
• Turalyon was taken aback and asked whether Yu Lin Bloodhawk wanted him to protect them.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Turalyon to protect the Kingdom of Stormwind Restoration Corps from being used as pawns by the old noble families, and Turalyon agreed to consider how to lead it. Before leaving, Turalyon asked about Alleria and learned that Orcs and Zul'Aman forces had launched a surprise attack on Quel'Thalas through what the High Elves suspected was a portal.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Turalyon to protect the Restoration Corps and ensure its soldiers did not die pointlessly as old noble families took senior positions.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed negotiating with the current officers and selecting upright replacements from the noble officer contingent, and Turalyon agreed to think through the plan.
• Turalyon asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk how Alleria was doing, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk said she was fighting in Quel'Thalas.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Turalyon that Doomhammer had led elite Orc forces alongside Zul'Aman forces in a surprise attack on Quel'Thalas.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk said the High Elves suspected the Orcs had reached Quel'Thalas through a portal, and Turalyon questioned how they had obtained the coordinates.