Chapter Summaries

Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s High Elf rangers overwhelmed the quilboar and captured them alive, while he considered recruiting them into his service. After joining the advance, he took out his frustration on one captured quilboar, drawing Sylvanas’s amused curiosity.

• The High Elf rangers advanced against the trapped quilboar, using nets and battle pets to capture them while restraining the seers from casting spells.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk watched the capture operation and reflected that the quilboar might be civilized and recruited, unlike the centaurs he considered irredeemably hostile.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk followed the rangers and kicked a netted quilboar who had been especially loud before the battle, stopping when the captive fell quiet.
• Sylvanas asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk whether the quilboar was special, and he explained that he was settling a score for the captive’s earlier crowing.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk wondered whether he had changed as Sylvanas grew more composed, but their conversation turned into an argument over his fitness and training. Sylvanas insisted she would make him train, leaving him scrambling to object.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk praised Sylvanas for becoming more mature, and she teased him for behaving childishly despite being a Highlord.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Sylvanas whether he had changed, and she told him he had gotten fatter and needed more training.
• Sylvanas offered to draw up a training plan and supervise Yu Lin Bloodhawk, but he tried to refuse.
• Sylvanas compared Yu Lin Bloodhawk unfavorably with herself, her sister, Xingluoge, and Shidewa, then challenged him to explain how she should have put it.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk fled Sylvanas and reached the battle, where he learned Willyx hated the Quilboar because they hurt Goblin business. He offered to make a squad of Quilboar Willyx’s bodyguards, and Willyx worried that he would have to pay them gold coins.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk escaped Sylvanas by hurrying away with Willyx.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk saw Quilboar retreating from the High Elves’ advance.
• Willyx cursed the Quilboar and explained that their actions made it harder for Ratchet’s Goblins to earn money.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk remembered that Willyx had once been captured while seeking gold in the Quilboar dungeon.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk offered to assign the strongest Quilboar as Willyx’s bodyguards, and Willyx asked whether he had to pay them.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk considered the arrival of Ogres in Kalimdor and resolved to claim the Valley of Trials for the High Elves before the Orcs arrived. After the Quilboar retreated into Thornbriar Forest, he ordered his forces to burn it down rather than send their battle pets and soldiers into danger.

• Willyx told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that Ogres had appeared in the Barrens and some had entered Ratchet to work as bodyguards.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk decided the Ogres were not an immediate concern and privately claimed the Valley of Trials as the High Elves' first foothold in Kalimdor.
• Willyx called Yu Lin Bloodhawk's smile sleazy, despicable, shameless, and obscene, angering him before a Household Guard officer interrupted them.
• A Household Guard officer reported that the Quilboar had retreated into Thornbriar Forest, whose thorns caused unusually intense pain and deterred battle pets.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk refused to send his people in without their battle pets and ordered his forces to burn Thornbriar Forest as quickly as possible.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the quilboar to surrender under threat of a magical fire, hoping to capture them as laborers. As the quilboar fled toward their caves, Sylvanas warned him that Kolkar centaurs were approaching the Valley of Trials, and their obvious destination seemed suspicious.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the quilboar to be warned and captured rather than burned to death.
• Willyx shouted a surrender warning at the quilboar, but none came out of the thorn thickets.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the High Elf mages to threaten the quilboar with a prepared Rain of Fire spell without releasing it.
• The frightened quilboar began retreating from the thickets toward their caves while the mages held the spell overhead.
• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that Kolkar centaurs were mobilizing toward the Valley of Trials.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk recognized that the centaurs' clear destination made their movement suspicious.

Sylvanas revealed that an unknown magic user had watched the high elves from above before the Kolkar centaurs mobilized. As Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s fire attack engulfed Thornbriar Forest, Sylvanas left to meet the approaching centaurs with the Frostwolf Clan Regiment, leaving him responsible for the quilboar.

• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that an unseen watcher had used magic to observe the high elves and vanished shortly before the Kolkar centaurs mobilized.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas watched as red fireballs fell from the clouds and set Thornbriar Forest ablaze.
• Smoke from the fire drove the quilboar deeper into their caves, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk hoped they would survive so he could capture them alive.
• Sylvanas went to muster the Frostwolf Clan Regiment to confront the approaching Kolkar centaurs, leaving Yu Lin Bloodhawk with the City Lord's Household Guard and responsibility for the quilboar.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk waited for Sylvanas to explain her plan, then burned away the thorn forest and prepared to attack the silent Quilboar in their cave. The chapter ended when a Ranger reported that the Quilboar had sealed the cave entrance with rocks.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk watched Sylvanas leave without telling him how to coordinate with her, but remained ready to help if needed.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk burned the thorn forest outside the Quilboar cave, but none of the Quilboar emerged after the fire died down.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered High Elf mages to use Blizzard to extinguish the embers and cool the ground.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk sent Dire Wolf battle pets into the cave with Beast's Eye to scout for a Quilboar ambush.
• A Ranger reported to Yu Lin Bloodhawk that the Quilboar had sealed the cave entrance with rocks.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk weighed how to reach the quilboar sealed inside a cave while racing to establish a portal and leave for Feralas. He entered the cave to inspect it and found a large fork beside a stream of clear water.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that both cave passages were sealed and that scouts had heard no movement inside.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the Household Guard to blast through the blockage, then rejected the officer’s suggestion to delay by sealing the entrance.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk considered installing the portal outside the cave but worried about exposing the high elves’ presence and facing threats from quilboar and centaurs.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk changed his mind about consulting Lord Sorens and went into the cave with six bodyguards while Household Guard rangers secured the interior.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk reached the fork about a hundred meters inside and saw a clear stream flowing down the lower passage.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk inspected the quilboar barricade and assessed whether the cave could safely house a portal. He left the Household Guard preparing for possible attacks by centaurs, then learned Sylvanas had taken the wingblade carts he had hoped to use against them.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk inspected the crude stone barricade the quilboar had built in a narrow passage.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked whether the Household Guard could protect the portal during its installation and warned that centaurs might attack while the arcane mages worked.
• The Household Guard officer said the rangers and ballistas could handle the centaurs and their mages, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk suggested using the wingblade carts against their heavy cavalry.
• The Household Guard officer revealed that Sylvanas had taken the wingblade carts, leaving Yu Lin Bloodhawk frustrated that they were unavailable for the fight.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk lost his temper over Sylvanas’s undisclosed battle plan and accidentally insulted someone’s ancestors while talking about centaur cavalry. He summoned High Priest Sorens to ask him something, but Sorens arrived angry, believing Yu Lin had insulted him and his ancestors.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk snapped at a Household Guard officer, claiming that centaur cavalry had eighteen generations of cavalry ancestors, then clarified that he had meant someone else.
• The officer feared Yu Lin’s infamous skill at cursing and hurried to fetch High Priest Sorens to avoid being berated.
• Yu Lin inspected a second cave passage blocked by the quilboar and wondered why they were still silent despite the fire outside having gone out.
• The officer returned with Sorens, while Willyx trotted after them.
• Sorens complained that Yu Lin had called him a centaur or a quilboar and judged eighteen generations of his ancestors.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked the Old Charlatan why the Quilboar inside the cave had gone quiet, but Willyx blamed the silence on fear of Yu Lin stealing their gold. Willyx’s accusation led Yu Lin to wonder whether the Quilboar mistook his forces for Centaurs, who often raided other races.

• The Old Charlatan arrived irritated after Yu Lin Bloodhawk summoned him and denied knowing why the Quilboar were silent.
• Willyx claimed the Quilboar had blocked the cave entrance to protect their gold from Yu Lin Bloodhawk.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk resented Willyx’s accusation and insisted that he had not robbed the Quilboar.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk considered whether the Quilboar thought his people were Centaurs seeking loot rather than territory.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk reflected on the Centaurs’ raiding habits and their power over the Tauren and other Kalimdor races.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Old Charlatan to install a Portal in the cave so he could bring reinforcements from The Hinterlands. After learning that centaurs were likely approaching and Sylvanas planned to trap them in the valley, Old Charlatan understood why Yu Lin Bloodhawk wanted the Portal built quickly.

• Sorens insulted Yu Lin Bloodhawk, who joked that he intended to take the quilboar's territory.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Old Charlatan how long it would take to install a Portal in the cave, and Old Charlatan estimated half a day to a day.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led Old Charlatan outside and dismissed the others so he could explain why he wanted the Portal kept secret.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Old Charlatan that Kolkar Ridge's centaurs were mobilizing and that Sylvanas had taken the Frostwolf Clan Regiment and Wingblade Carts to block the valley entrance.
• Old Charlatan accepted that Sylvanas's warning was credible, while Sorens realized Yu Lin Bloodhawk wanted to summon reinforcements because he expected to face many centaurs.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk negotiated with Old Charlatan to conceal the Portal, agreeing to give him three Metal Fragments from the Dragon Soul. Old Charlatan explained his concealment spell, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk realized there was too little time left to record enough imagery for it to work well.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Old Charlatan about the secret observer and learned the watcher would not see the Portal unless he entered the valley and approached it.
• Old Charlatan demanded a price to conceal the Portal permanently, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk agreed to give him three Metal Fragments from the Dragon Soul.
• Old Charlatan said Yu Lin Bloodhawk could build the Portal anywhere and described a spell that replayed recorded imagery to hide the construction.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk complained that Old Charlatan had not told him about the spell sooner and realized there was not enough time left to record the imagery.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged for Old Charlatan to build a Portal in the Boar Den while preparing the City Lord's Household Guard to face the centaur army. Sylvanas's battle plan left Yu Lin responsible for the defense of the Valley of Trials as she prepared to bomb the centaurs' home base.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Old Charlatan to install the Portal in the Boar Den, and Old Charlatan began the work with his Clerics.
• Old Charlatan delayed the installation by teaching his Clerics about Portal magic, so Yu Lin Bloodhawk discussed defensive arrangements with the City Lord's Household Guard.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk inspected the defenses while waiting for the centaurs, whose three or four thousand troops greatly outnumbered his six hundred guards.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk read Sylvanas's battle plan, which tasked him with stopping the centaurs in the valley while she sealed its entrance.
• Sylvanas said she would use the Aircraft Carrier's Gryphon Riders to bomb the centaur base in Kolkar Mountain Valley.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk realized Sylvanas had left his forces to face the invading centaurs, so he prepared an elaborate defensive position to stop their charge. After inspecting the traps and ballistae, he felt confident in the battle but lamented that he still lacked suitable mounts for a High Elf light cavalry force.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk understood that Sylvanas intended his six hundred City Lord's Household Guard soldiers to face the centaurs while her forces waited, and he accepted the assignment.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered his soldiers to lay tripwires, horse traps, Explosive Traps, and Frost Traps around the ballistae, leaving a narrow passage to lure the centaurs into range.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk inspected the defenses and grew confident that his prepared infantry could hold against the cavalry without needing to pursue them.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk considered Hawkstriders, worgs, horses, and Giant Bloodfang Boars as possible mounts, but rejected them as unsuitable for the light cavalry force he wanted.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk prepared his troops to defend the cave passages while Old Charlatan’s Portal installation ran behind schedule. As the quilboar began opening their blocked passage, Yu Lin waited in ambush and sent for Willyx to translate their words.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk assigned the City Lord's Household Guard’s best fighters and battle pets to defend both cave passages.
• Old Charlatan explained that darkness had delayed the Portal installation, while Sylvanas reported that the centaurs had entered the Valley of Trials and stopped for the night.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that the quilboar were nearing the end of their excavation and ordered his rangers to wait in darkness among traps and torches.
• The quilboar loosened a large stone and opened a gap in the passage, prompting Yu Lin to ask where Willyx had gone.
• A Gryphon Bodyguard said Willyx had hidden beside the Old High Priest, and Yu Lin ordered him brought back to translate for the group.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk lured Willyx toward the Quilboar by claiming he had found treasure, hoping Willyx would help reveal what the Quilboar were thinking. Willyx eagerly took the Golden Pearl and walked toward the torches, forgetting his fear of danger.

• Willyx resisted being brought to Yu Lin Bloodhawk until the Gryphon Bodyguard told him there might be gold coins.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk prepared to have Willyx question the Quilboar so he could learn their intentions.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk showed Willyx a Golden Pearl and pretended a Quilboar had dropped it while retreating.
• Willyx became fixated on the pearl, took it from Yu Lin Bloodhawk, and walked toward the torches instead of fleeing.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk warned Willyx not to get too close to the blocked entrance.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the rangers waited in darkness for the quilboar to break through the cave entrance. After the quilboar taunted them with red underpants, Yu Lin retaliated, then threatened Willyx when he asked an ill-timed question.

• Willyx examined the Golden Pearl by torchlight, then panicked when a stone fell and claimed the quilboar were coming out.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led Willyx and the rangers into hiding and watched the blocked entrance as the quilboar slowly pried away stones.
• After a fist-sized hole appeared, the quilboar stuck red underpants on a branch through it instead of emerging.
• Yu Lin ordered a ranger to shoot the underpants down, and the arrow drew startled cries from the quilboar.
• Willyx asked whether Yu Lin could eat all the pigs he threatened to roast, so Yu Lin smacked him and said he would roast Willyx after he finished eating.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk sent Willyx to pressure the Quilboar into surrendering while his forces prepared for the Kolkar Centaurs’ advance. After learning the Centaurs would arrive within two or three days, he assigned a hundred Household Guards to handle the Quilboar and ordered them to protect his people above all else.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Willyx to demand the Quilboar surrender and sent two Elf Rangers to protect him.
• An Elf Ranger teased Yu Lin Bloodhawk that Willyx’s pose resembled Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s own battle-commanding manner.
• A Gryphon Bodyguard reported that the Kolkar Centaurs were marching toward them and would arrive within two or three days.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered his forces outside to defend their position without pursuing the Centaurs.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk assigned an officer and a hundred Household Guards to deal with the Quilboar, ordering them to capture rather than kill when possible and ensure none of his own people died.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk agreed to delay the Quilboar trapped in the cave rather than kill them, so his people could finish preparing a Teleportation Circle or drive off the Centaurs. He left to ask the Old High Priest for two Frost Mages while his guard planned to seal the cave passage with ice-bound stones.

• The officer of the City Lord's Household Guard warned Yu Lin Bloodhawk that a hundred guards might not be enough to capture the Quilboar without casualties.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the guards to hold the Quilboar back until the Teleportation Circle was complete or he drove off the Centaurs.
• The officer asked Yu Lin Bloodhawk to borrow two Frost Mages from the Old High Priest.
• The officer planned to thicken the stone barrier with water frozen by the Mages, making it difficult for the Quilboar to break through.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk praised the plan and joked that his people possessed the greatest martial honor, though others were too unsophisticated to understand it.