Chapter Summaries

Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that one of the captured pirates was Countess Agnes’s daughter, a priestess, and decided to demand five gryphons for her. He visited the wounded prisoners and saw the valuable captive as she treated them.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk discussed the pirate prisoners with Fourteen and learned that the captured class holders included three advanced rogues and a priest.
• Fourteen revealed that the priest was Countess Agnes’s daughter, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk decided to demand five gryphons rather than trade her for grain.
• Sylvanas scolded Yu Lin Bloodhawk over soldiers calling her the “big boss queen,” and he argued that he could not control what the troops said.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk entered the tent where Sixteen and Seventeen guarded the wounded pirates and saw the priestess treating them.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged for Lorrain Agnes and the other captives to seek ransom, then trained in rogue skills with 16 and 17 while Sylvanas followed him. After learning the Air Force had captured five hundred dire wolves, he proposed a Dire Wolf Training Base to Lieutenant Colonel Glo and began considering a joint attack on Jintha'Alor.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk offered to release Lorrain Agnes and the other captives if her mother paid a ransom, warning that refusal would leave him treating them as pirates.
• Lorrain Agnes agreed to write a list of captives and a letter to her mother, promising to include everyone.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked rogues 16 and 17 to teach him Stealth and Sprint, while Sylvanas followed and learned alongside him for six days.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk met Lieutenant Colonel Glo at the pier and learned that the Air Force had captured all five hundred dire wolves.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed that Lieutenant Colonel Glo establish a Dire Wolf Training Base for training and breeding wolves, and learned that giant dire wolves lived near Jintha'Alor.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk considered persuading the Air Force to help launch a surprise attack on Jintha'Alor.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk negotiated an assault on Jintha'Alor with Sylvanas and Lieutenant Colonel Glo, then returned to find the Military Department had promoted him and formed a Giant Bloodfang Boar Battle Pet Auxiliary Force. He helped Sylvanas devise a plan to secure control of the boar breeding base and ended the chapter heading to Shalandis Isle with her following.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk presented a plan to attack Jintha'Alor with Lieutenant Colonel Glo and Sylvanas, and the three negotiated over the Dire Wolf base and the Vilebranch Giant Wolves while awaiting the Air Force commander's decision.
• On the voyage back, Yu Lin Bloodhawk urged Sylvanas to seek control of the Giant Bloodfang Boars, and they returned to Tranquillien to find an order forming the Giant Bloodfang Boar Battle Pet Auxiliary Force under the Bloodhawk Forces and promoting him to wing commander.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk advised Sylvanas to trade the Windrunner share in the Dire Wolf base for Air Force support, seek the Farstriders' backing, and order ordinary female boars; he then wrote a report arguing that the 700 Giant Bloodfang Boars should remain together.
• Sylvanas returned the next afternoon and told Yu Lin Bloodhawk to submit his report in three days, then followed him toward the Nightstalker Battalion and insisted on accompanying him to Shalandis Isle.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk led the Nightstalkers and their lynxes to Shalandis Isle, where he began a three-day combat exercise for the recruits. He then designed an all-black combat armor for the Nightstalkers, based on the gear worn by Sixteen and Seventeen.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk marched the Nightstalkers to Sunsail Archorage in four days, then sailed with them to Shalandis Isle.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the recruits to keep their lynxes away from camp and survive a three-day assassination exercise using blunted, paint-marked arrows.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk recruited Sixteen and Seventeen to attack the camp and promised them companies to train if they succeeded.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk examined Sixteen and Seventeen's leather armor and asked Rhea to draw a design for a new combat set.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk chose an undecorated black armor design with a Shadowcraft Cap and pauldrons, declaring it the Nightstalkers' combat armor.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk organized combat training for the Ranger recruits and ordered them to use lynxes to hunt Murlocs and learn Stealth. Nearly a month later, Dragonhawk Riders arrived on Shalandis Isle to speak with Sylvanas.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas designed unit emblems, then set Sixteen and Seventeen to test themselves against the Ranger recruits for three days.
• Sixteen and Seventeen defeated the recruits, killing their captain, deputy captain, and eighty-seven squad members.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk appointed the two Rogues as instructors and ordered the recruits to train under them, then found that twenty-seven lynxes had learned Stealth.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk assigned the recruits to hunt Murlocs with their lynxes and encourage the animals to learn Stealth from experienced hunters.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to practicing Stealth and Sprint, and nearly a month later two Dragonhawk Riders arrived to meet Sylvanas.

Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that the king and Silvermoon Council had taken control of the Giant Bloodfang Boar project and given the Dire Wolf base to the air force. As gossip about Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s relationships spread through the troops, Glo asked him to help procure Dire Wolves.

• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that the Windrunner family had lost its share of both the Giant Bloodfang Boars and Dire Wolves after the king and Silvermoon Council intervened.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk joked that Sylvanas should marry Prince Kael'thas, prompting her to scold him before she flew away with two female elves.
• Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Glo visited Yu Lin Bloodhawk and told him that troops were gossiping about his supposed relationships with Rhea, Alleria, and Sylvanas.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk redirected Glo's curiosity toward Alleria and offered to ask Sylvanas to help introduce them.
• Glo asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk to buy five Dire Wolves for the air force, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk agreed.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned Stealth through intense practice, while his preparations for the Jintha'Alor raid and dire-wolf breeding continued. At Sunsail Archorage, he reunited with Sylvanas and suggested Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Glo as a match for her sister, leaving her questioning whether Glo would dare pursue her.

• Glo offered Yu Lin Bloodhawk three gold coins per dire wolf, half upfront, and said the Air Force would wait for two thousand wolves before raiding Jintha'Alor.
• After seeing a lynx enter Stealth, Yu Lin Bloodhawk gained a half-stealthed state and trained for nearly a month, improving with Sixteen and Seventeen's guidance.
• Rhea gave Yu Lin Bloodhawk nineteen accessories after the remaining elves completed Soul Link by living beside their caged beasts.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk went to Sunsail Archorage to await Marquis Diritis's ship and practiced Stealth in the nearby woods.
• Sylvanas visited Yu Lin Bloodhawk and said she had finished training Lupos; Yu Lin Bloodhawk then told her that Glo liked her sister and asked what she thought of him.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk tried to arrange a meeting between Sylvanas’s sister and Lieutenant Colonel Glo, then managed his soldiers and waited for a shipment of battle pets at Sunsail Archorage. While practicing magic traps, he learned two Hunter-exclusive skills unusually quickly and suspected his old Hunter character was his real cheat.

• Sylvanas agreed to meet Lieutenant Colonel Glo after Yu Lin Bloodhawk promised a Rare Silver Elite battle pet for her sister’s marriage to a High Elf.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk gave five dock soldiers trinkets, urged them to learn Conjure Bread and Conjure Water, and reminded them that trained battle pets would help save lives against the Trolls of Zul'Aman.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to find Glo gone and learned Sylvanas had promised only to arrange a chance for him to meet her sister.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas to stay away from the expected battle-pet shipment, which he said would include frost wolves, Mountain Lions, and possibly bears.
• After waiting a week without any ships arriving, Yu Lin Bloodhawk practiced magic traps and learned Frost Trap and Explosive Trap within a few attempts.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk realized the traps were Hunter-exclusive skills, suspected his old Hunter character gave him a special advantage, and searched his skill book for Lacerate to test the idea.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk practiced Ranger skills with Sylvanas until Thirteen returned with news that King Terenas’s son Arthas had been born. As Yu Lin handled the arriving ships and beasts, Sylvanas became anxious about the future and claimed the frost wolves he had planned to keep.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk practiced Wing Clip and Disengage with Sylvanas for seven days, improving under her instruction.
• Thirteen reported that Countess Agnes would not ransom the galleon for Gryphons, so Yu Lin decided to keep the ship and appointed Thirteen to organize its crew.
• Thirteen told Yu Lin and Sylvanas that King Terenas had named his newborn son Arthas, and Yu Lin urged Sylvanas to find a husband before it was too late.
• Yu Lin ordered the arriving beasts unloaded and sent soldiers to collect three hundred war bears for his First Squad.
• Sylvanas asked for the mountain lions and bears, then claimed the frost wolves when Yu Lin said he did not need them yet.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged more combat-pet shipments, delegated work at Shalandis Isle, and trained for months while struggling to learn Sprint. By the end, Steel Torrent’s troops had been put in their place by Bear Iron Fist’s commander.

• Sylvanas claimed the frostwolves and the next shipment for her troops, while Yu Lin Bloodhawk secretly secured a silver elite bear for the First Squad’s commander.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged further animal shipments, sent letters about gryphons, and gave the ships’ crews Sun Spring Fruit Wine before sailing to Shalandis Isle with 13.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk left 13 to handle the pirate prisoners and focused on training, while 16 and 17 continued Nightstalker’s mock battles.
• Sylvanas arranged training for her Bear Iron Fist soldiers and sent Lupos and two hundred troops to the Air Force Dire Wolf Base, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk refused to add the mountain lions to Nightstalker’s training.
• After months of practice, Yu Lin Bloodhawk made only slow progress with Sprint and realized his Hunter-focused ability hindered his other skills.
• A visiting soldier reported that Bear Iron Fist’s commander had warned Steel Torrent’s troops that they had to follow Bloodhawk Regiment’s rules and earn acceptance before acting superior.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that Shalandis Isle had officially been granted to him and celebrated the right to establish a hundred-man Baron's Guard. He planned to recruit guards and develop the island despite his adjutant's warnings that it lacked people and resources.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk heard that Bear Iron Fist had accepted replacement soldiers, and he authorized a murloc-farming expedition to Goldenmist Village once the men were ready.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk took delivery of battle pets left over after the Queen Boss and the Air Force claimed their shares, deciding to keep them for his own use.
• Thirteen arrived at Shalandis Isle with grain, five gryphons, and recruited sailors, gunners, and musketeers; Lorraine refused to leave without the other prisoners, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk left the matter to Thirteen.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk instructed Thirteen and Rhea to safeguard the gryphons and traveled back to Tranquillien to seek news about his fief.
• The commander of Bear Iron Fist told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that Shalandis Isle had been granted to him, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk eagerly accepted the hundred-man guard allowance and asked where he could recruit guards.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk discussed recruiting retiring veterans and building the Bloodhawk Regiment’s future while arranging Battle Pet sales and plans for a Steel Torrent force. After confirming that his troops had demolished Murloc structures, he planned a future surprise attack on Zeb'Sora.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk declined to make the young First Squad his baronial guard, telling the unit commander that they were seeds for the Bloodhawk Regiment and Quel'Thalas.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked the unit commander to find retiring Farstriders for his guard and sold the remaining War Bears to them for three gold coins each.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the commander to charge for the remaining Battle Pets, secretly move Giant Bloodfang Boar piglets to Shalandis Isle, and consider forming a Steel Torrent force with male Common Boars.
• The unit commander reported that Battle Pets had demolished Murloc structures at Goldenmist Village and that troops were also stationed at Sunsail Archorage.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered more Mass Charge training for Steel Torrent and said the regiment would secretly move to Farstriders Camp to attack Zeb'Sora and demolish its illegal structures.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged for his troops to review their combat training and recruit retired veterans, then visited Sylvanas to ask about Alleria and the troops’ preparations. Sylvanas advised him to focus on training, and her coaching at the target range helped him rapidly improve as a hunter.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk instructed the unit commander to record battles, review lessons, and compile a training manual before recruiting at least seventy or eighty people.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Lieutenant Colonel Glo about Sylvanas and Alleria, then flew with him to the Dire Wolf Training Base.
• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that all the frost wolves had completed their soul links, and she teased him about worrying over her sister’s suitors.
• Sylvanas said she had no plan for Alleria’s campaign and told Yu Lin Bloodhawk to train the troops and adapt to whatever came.
• Sylvanas tested Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s marksmanship, identified his weaknesses, and drew up a training plan for him.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk practiced at the target range, steadily improving under Sylvanas’s guidance.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s complacency led Sylvanas to expose how easily she could outmaneuver him in a spar, using his own Wing Clip and Disengage against him and striking him with an arrow shaft. When Sylvanas wondered whether he was an impostor, she attacked and demanded to know who he was and where Yu Lin Bloodhawk was.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk named Wing Clip and Disengage as his strongest skills, and Sylvanas challenged him to use them against her.
• Sylvanas evaded Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s attacks, trapped him with Wing Clip, and struck him with an arrow shaft whenever he leaped away.
• Sylvanas explained that Disengage did not have to make her leap backward, while Yu Lin Bloodhawk insisted she had cheated.
• Sylvanas questioned whether someone else was pretending to be Yu Lin Bloodhawk, seized his throat, and searched his face for signs of a magical disguise.
• Sylvanas released him and demanded to know who he was and where Yu Lin Bloodhawk was, while he gasped and angrily protested.

Sylvanas suspected Yu Lin Bloodhawk was an impostor and tested him by reenacting their past conversations. After confirming his identity, she realized they had misunderstood each other about Disengage and explained how he could use the skill in directions other than backward.

• Sylvanas tested Yu Lin Bloodhawk with memories of their first meeting and the days after he returned to life.
• Sylvanas revealed she had been joking when she claimed he had frightened her, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk angrily protested her scare tactics.
• Sylvanas accused Yu Lin Bloodhawk of pretending to be someone else because he jumped backward whenever he used Disengage.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained that he thought Disengage required a backward leap because that was how the book described it.
• Sylvanas explained that Disengage could be used in other directions and no longer suspected Yu Lin Bloodhawk was an impostor.

Sylvanas taught Yu Lin Bloodhawk that Disengage was an offensive ranger skill, then took him to the Dire Wolf Training Base for a month of live pursuit training. After twenty days of being hunted, he had grown far better at combining Disengage, bow attacks, traps, and the terrain, though large packs could still force him to flee.

• Sylvanas explained that true rangers used Disengage to create openings for bow attacks and demonstrated its use against Yu Lin Bloodhawk.
• Sylvanas brought Yu Lin Bloodhawk to the Dire Wolf Training Base and set the rangers’ dire wolves on him for a month of training.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk spent the first days being repeatedly caught and bitten, while the rangers kept him alive with recovery potions.
• After ten days, Yu Lin Bloodhawk used traps, Lacerate, Concussive Shot, Disengage, and the terrain to evade and deter smaller groups of dire wolves.
• By the twentieth day, more than a hundred rangers had joined the hunt and armored dire wolves began summoning companions instead of attacking him alone.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained his plan to use Jintha'Alor as a secret refuge if Quel'Thalas fell, while Sylvanas refused to abandon her family's roots. After training his forces, he assembled them and finalized a large-scale raid plan for Zeb'Sora.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas that Jaina had been born and discussed the coming orc invasion and the risks to Alleria and the Windrunner family.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained that he had chosen Jintha'Alor as an evacuation refuge in case Quel'Thalas fell, and warned Sylvanas that her family members would likely die during the invasion.
• Sylvanas rejected his offer to move her family to Jintha'Alor, but afterward trained herself and her subordinates with renewed intensity.
• After further training, Yu Lin Bloodhawk gathered Sylvanas, Lieutenant Colonel Glo, and his officers to plan an attack on Zeb'Sora with twenty-four hundred soldiers and battle pets.
• The commanders finalized a plan in which the Nightstalkers would scout and clear sentries, Steel Torrent would divide the trolls, and Bear Iron Fist and the wolf forces would attack fleeing troops and intercept reinforcements.
• The soldiers received their armor, and the Nightstalkers put on their uncommon- and rare-grade combat sets.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk formally inducted his soldiers, rallied them for their first battle, and sent the regiment toward Zeb'Sora under cover of night. Sylvanas followed with her troops and watched the Nightstalkers guide the force safely to a secluded valley after killing more than seventy troll scouts without losses.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk pinned Bloodhawk emblems on the soldiers and urged them to make their first battle a glorious victory.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the Nightstalker Battalion to eliminate hostile observers and secure a secret route to Farstriders Camp.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told the troops to rest before their night departure, while Sylvanas left to arrange her own emblems and ceremony.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led the regiment out at eight, with Glo's troops marching ahead and Sylvanas joining the pursuit later.
• Sylvanas followed Nightstalkers through the night and admired their equipment, stealth, and effectiveness.
• A Nightstalker guided the force into a secluded valley at dawn, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas the Nightstalkers had killed over seventy troll scouts without casualties.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk led the battle-pet troops toward Zeb'Sora after the Nightstalkers cleared its outer sentries and scouted the camp. The three-pronged assault began when the Nightstalkers opened the gate, leaving the Steel Torrent and Bear Iron Fist troops charging in.

• Sylvanas asked when the battle-pet troops would be fully trained and said she wanted a Nightstalker unit of her own.
• Lieutenant Colonel Glo marched his force to Farstriders Camp, where Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s troops rested and prepared for the attack.
• Sixteen and a Nightstalker killed a highly skilled troll scout, prompting Yu Lin Bloodhawk to order the battle pets armored.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led the force toward Zeb'Sora while the dire wolves searched ahead and the Nightstalkers reported the camp’s distance and defenses.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk divided the attackers into three groups, and the Nightstalkers infiltrated Zeb'Sora to seize the high ground.
• After faint screams sounded, Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the charge, and the Nightstalkers opened the camp gate.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk led the elves in a planned assault that encircled and slaughtered the trolls at Zeb'Sora, then ordered a daylight sweep to kill survivors and burn their buildings. Afterward, he directed the troops toward Zeb'Watha, hoping the smoke from Zeb'Sora would draw out its trolls and let the elves ambush them.

• Steel Torrent and the rangers split into squads, seized the routes and high ground, and attacked the trolls throughout Zeb'Sora.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk watched as armored beasts and rangers cleared the camp pocket by pocket, while dire wolves finished off wounded trolls.
• The elves surrounded Zeb'Sora overnight, then searched it after daybreak and killed more than two hundred trolls hiding among the ruins.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the troops to advance toward Zeb'Watha, revealing that he intended to use the smoke from Zeb'Sora to lure out its trolls and ambush them.