Chapter Summaries

Yu Lin Bloodhawk prepared an open-ground ambush for the reinforcements from Zeb'Watha and secured the Air Force’s promise to bomb them if they exceeded two thousand. While waiting for the approaching trolls, he used prank warning signs to make them increasingly suspicious, and the chapter ended with three hours remaining before they reached the ambush.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk chose a low ridge as an ambush site and planned for Steel Torrent, Bear Iron Fist, and the frost wolves to break up and attack the troll formation.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk insisted the Air Force bomb any force larger than two thousand, and Glo agreed after scouts reported that the trolls had not yet set out.
• Glo ordered bombing when the trolls were reported to number between twenty-five hundred and twenty-seven hundred, while the Nightstalkers tracked their progress and losses.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk sent Trollish warning signs along the route, including one rigged with an Immolation Trap that burned a troll's eyebrows and made the force more cautious.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk had another sign offer a piece of candy while warning of an ambush; the trolls discarded it and sped up, and a Nightstalker reported that they would arrive in three hours.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk said there was time to prepare two more signs.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk taunted the advancing trolls with childish signs before arranging an ambush with the elf officers. The troll vanguard stalled despite orders to advance, and the chapter ended with its commander refusing to attack until the main force arrived.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk sent the trolls mocking warnings on wooden signs, but they kept advancing toward the elves.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the elf officers planned an ambush, assigning forces to the center and flanks while Glo's dire wolf force guarded the perimeter.
• The troll vanguard halted when it saw the elves and a sign warning of an ambush, but one subordinate led more than seventy trolls in a charge.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the Farstriders commander joined the fight, and the elite elves quickly defeated the charging trolls.
• The troll commander ordered the vanguard to advance at top speed, but the vanguard commander dismissed the messenger and ordered his troops to wait for the main force.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the Farstriders negotiated with the trolls after a battle, and an interpreter discovered that the trolls fought largely because they lacked food. An insult led Yu Lin Bloodhawk and troll commander Zuga to agree to a duel, with surrender terms for the losing side.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk's elves and the trolls exchanged food and conversation while their interpreters relayed messages between the two groups.
• The troll interpreter told the elf that the trolls often went hungry, and that fighting brought food from their chief and from their fallen enemies.
• After the troll interpreter called Yu Lin Bloodhawk a coward who ran from combat, Yu Lin Bloodhawk agreed to a duel with the troll vanguard commander, Zuga, over the surrender of both sides.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Zuga met between the groups, introduced themselves, and discussed their status and whether they might become friends.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk defeated the Troll Warrior Zuga in a duel after freezing him in a trap and crippling his leg with Explosive Shot. Zuga’s defeat left the Trolls facing the wager and Yu Lin Bloodhawk reflecting on the lethal power of his trained attacks.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Zuga wagered grain on their duel, with Zuga demanding that each Troll receive grain equal to his body weight if Yu Lin Bloodhawk lost.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk set a Freezing Trap before the duel, then slowed Zuga with Concussive Shot as Zuga advanced.
• Zuga charged into the trap and was frozen, while Yu Lin Bloodhawk warned that he would shoot him rather than kill him.
• As the Trolls chanted for Zuga and he began using Berserk to break free, Yu Lin Bloodhawk struck his thigh with Explosive Shot.
• Zuga broke out of the ice, threw his axe, and charged, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk dodged with Disengage as the shot’s second explosion ruined Zuga’s leg.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk declared Zuga defeated and considered how Sylvanas’s training had made his arrows devastating.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk defeated Zuga in a duel, then faced an elderly Troll Hexer who rejected a duel and threatened to overwhelm his small force. The chapter ended as Yu Lin Bloodhawk revealed a much larger army of Steel Behemoths, frostwolves, and Elf Rangers, while the Trolls formed ranks for battle.

• Zuga kept crawling toward Yu Lin Bloodhawk until the Troll interpreter surrendered on behalf of the group, and Zuga passed out.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk directed the Trolls to lay down their weapons beneath the White Flag and offered a Life Potion so Zuga's severed leg might be saved.
• The Farstriders' commander explained that the Trolls had surrendered to protect Zuga and would not join the coming battle.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk mocked the elderly Troll Hexer by calling him a naughty child who had taken his candy, then challenged him to a duel for the Trolls' grain.
• The Hexer refused to duel and declared that he would capture Yu Lin Bloodhawk by force.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk revealed hundreds of Steel Behemoths, frostwolves, and Elf Rangers as the Trolls formed their battle lines.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas led an Elf force of five hundred against two thousand Trolls, using battle pets and coordinated attacks to break their formation. The Steel Torrent and Bear Iron Fist charged through the battlefield as the Rangers and Nightstalkers destroyed the Trolls’ defenses and pursued the fleeing survivors.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the Nightstalkers to destroy the Trolls’ Earthbind Totems while Elf forces attacked both flanks.
• The Steel Torrent and Bear Iron Fist charged into the Troll ranks, crushing and scattering the Trolls as Sylvanas led the Frostwolf Clan Rangers into the battle.
• Sylvanas’s Rangers cut down panicked Trolls while the Steel Torrent wheeled around and charged through another cluster of them.
• The Nightstalkers used Arcane Shot to destroy the Earthbind Totems, then retreated as a Steel Torrent charge bore down on the Trolls.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk watched three hundred Steel Torrent beasts and two hundred Bear Iron Fist beasts sweep through the Troll army.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk's forces crushed the troll army, killed those who refused to surrender, and took roughly six hundred prisoners. After the battle, the Farstriders Commander asked what Yu Lin planned to do with the captives, and Yu Lin offered them to him.

• The Steel Torrent, Bear Iron Fist, and Frostwolf Rangers tore through the trolls while Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered each force to follow its assigned role.
• Zuga considered escaping, but a hidden elf warned him that Rangers and Dire Wolf Rangers were waiting outside, so Zuga urged the trolls to run toward the White Flag and surrender.
• After trolls escaped by clinging to a Giant Bloodfang Boar, Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered spikes added to the Steel Torrent's armor to prevent others from doing the same.
• As the trolls surrendered in growing numbers, Yu Lin Bloodhawk's forces reduced the remaining resistance and surrounded those who still refused to yield.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the concealed Rangers to shoot the holdouts, then sent Glo's Dire Wolf Force to clear the battlefield and had the Air Force burn the troll corpses.
• The healers treated the injured Rangers and battle pets, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk offered the roughly six hundred troll prisoners to the Farstriders Commander, who refused them.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk turned captured trolls who had eaten elves into targets for battle-pet ranger training and planned a Great Prison on Shalandis Isle. After discussing battle-pet units with the Farstriders, he proposed a joint raid on Jintha'Alor to establish a Giant Bloodfang Boar Crossbreeding Farm, and the Farstriders Commander offered a Mage Corps to join.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that trolls had killed and eaten captured elves, then ordered the prisoners interrogated to identify those who had eaten elves.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk released the 264 identified trolls for Sylvanas and Lieutenant Colonel Glo's troops to hunt, and told Zuga that only trolls who had not eaten elves would be spared.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk planned a Great Prison on Shalandis Isle where battle-pet rangers could hunt prisoners who had eaten elves.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk held a three-day meeting at Farstriders Camp to review battles and discuss improvements, while the Farstriders Commander paid a deposit for battle pets.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk revealed his plan to establish a Giant Bloodfang Boar Crossbreeding Farm at Jintha'Alor, with the Air Force joining a raid there.
• The Farstriders Commander insisted that the Farstriders join the plan and offered to send a Mage Corps.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk coordinated battle-pet improvements and troop training with the Farstriders and Alleria’s forces before returning to Tranquillien. There, he recruited retired ranger veterans and struggled to decide what armor to give the soldiers who had helped find them.

• Sylvanas and the Farstriders Commander agreed with Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s plans for a breeding farm, research staff, transport ships, and a prison, while the commander promised to investigate retired navy transports.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told the Farstriders Commander that the trainees would return after taking Jintha'Alor, then agreed to visit Alleria’s camp at Sylvanas’s insistence.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Alleria’s forces spent three days reviewing the battle-pet units, and he promised to return the Windrunner squads after one final assessment.
• Back at Tranquillien, Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s team revised the battle-pet armor and training plans, while Glo departed with copied documents and footage and Sylvanas returned to Sunreaver Island.
• The Bear Iron Fist Unit Commander brought eighty retired ranger veterans and explained that promotion bottlenecks had forced them to retire; Yu Lin Bloodhawk offered to reward those who helped find them.
• The Bear Iron Fist Unit Commander asked for Nightstalker Sets for the men, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed improved chainmail instead and worried about choosing a design.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk prepared his future guard and discussed new training plans for the Bloodhawk Regiment before traveling to Sunsail Archorage to meet Marquis Dirithis. He warned Dirithis that Silverpine Forest was afflicted by a spreading Worgen Curse, leaving the fate of the gryphon trade and the potential danger unresolved.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk outfitted his future Baron's Guard and had its veterans advise the commanders on training, including a plan to seek hawkstrider mounts for the Steel Torrent's rangers.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk left the Military Camp for Sunsail Archorage, where Marquis Dirithis was waiting to discuss the five gryphons he had obtained.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk explained that he had rejected Gilneas wolves because an old silverpine had warned him about humans transforming into worgen in Silverpine Forest.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Dirithis that worgen victims could become contagious months or even years after being bitten, and that at least fifty worgen had been detected in the forest.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk warned Dirithis about a possible plague in Gilneas and shared secret reports of demonic energy near the Black Morass. After Dirithis left, Yu Lin distributed the captured battle pets among the factions and discussed a rare battle pet dowry with Sylvanas.

• Dirithis learned from Yu Lin Bloodhawk that a plague might soon strike Gilneas and hurried to return home.
• Dirithis showed Yu Lin a manifest of more than two thousand captured beasts, and Yu Lin paid him while keeping the Gryphons, Snow Leopards, and two silver elite beasts for himself.
• Yu Lin told Dirithis that Quel'Thalas mages had detected fel-like energy near Karazhan and the Black Morass, and Dirithis agreed to keep the information quiet.
• Yu Lin arranged for the factions to collect their battle pets, and Silvermoon City took the Cliff Boars, the Air Force took the Dire Wolves, and Sylvanas took the Frostwolves and Mountain Lions.
• Sylvanas and the Farstriders divided the Wild Bears, with the Windrunner forces taking the white-furred ones and the Farstriders taking the others.
• Yu Lin offered Sylvanas's sister a Frostwolf or Iceclaw Bear as a dowry, then refused Sylvanas's request to see his other rare battle pets.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk recruited retired dragonhawk riders for his household guard and returned to Tranquillien to gather equipment, training materials, and beast Soul Trinkets. He brought the riders ten gryphons and asked them to tame the mounts, but they admitted they had no experience training gryphons.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk argued with Sylvanas about finding Alleria a husband, then met Glo and arranged to recruit ten retired dragonhawk riders.
• Sylvanas explained household guards to Yu Lin Bloodhawk, who decided to equip his guards by reporting a hundred Nightstalker Sets as damaged.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that his commanders had barely altered the Nightstalker Set design, then gathered sixty beast Soul Trinkets and sent eighty retired officers to Sunsail Archorage.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told his troops to train hard for a likely final battle together, and the officers spread the news, inspiring the soldiers.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to Sunsail Archorage with ten gryphons and asked the retired dragonhawk riders to tame them.
• The riders said they had experience training dragonhawks but had never trained gryphons, leaving Yu Lin Bloodhawk doubtful of their confidence.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk expanded his forces on Shalandis Isle, giving gryphons and snow leopards to his knights and guards while recruiting hundreds more elves. The arrivals left him determined to build a large Baron Guard Force, even if he had to conceal its true size behind different titles.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged for Thirteen to recruit troll prisoners for labor and secretly plan a military camp, castle, and prison on Shalandis Isle.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk gave ten gryphons and Soul Trinkets to his knights, who began trying to tame the beasts while he practiced Sprint and Stealth.
• After eighty guards arrived, Yu Lin Bloodhawk distributed snow leopards and recruited additional intermediate- and high-level fighters, allowing many to pose as tenants or adventurers.
• Thirteen offered to find more followers, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk told him to bring capable recruits, especially high-level warriors.
• Half a month later, sixty-odd elves returned with a shipload of recruits, bringing Yu Lin Bloodhawk's force to six hundred elves besides the dragonhawk riders.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk accepted the recruits despite the burden and resolved to build a Baron Guard Force under public cover.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk organized his new guards and arranged dire-wolf training while urging Sylvanas to make Falthrien Academy research a way for Elves to escape dependence on the Sunwell. The chapter ended with Sylvanas warning him that his two-hundred-member guard force exceeded the legal limit.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk divided the six hundred newly sworn Elves into the Shalandis Garrison and the Bloodhawk Expeditionary Team, and assigned them training and recruiting duties.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk inspected the gryphon riders, then took more than a hundred recruits to Sunreaver Island for dire-wolf training in exchange for an extra hundred wolves.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk visited Sylvanas and learned that she and the wolves had discovered the Howl skill and were studying how to control it.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk urged Sylvanas to direct Falthrien Academy toward finding a way to end Elven dependence on the Sunwell, warning that its destruction could turn survivors into Wretched.
• Sylvanas pointed out that Yu Lin Bloodhawk had formed a two-hundred-member guard force, a hundred over his legal limit, and told him he had been far too bold.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged to move troll prisoners to Shalandis Isle and bought two arcane-powered transport ships, planning to convert them into gryphon carriers. The ships were set for modification, while Sylvanas considered how to involve Falthrien Academy in building the island prison.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk warned Sylvanas about Quel'Thalas's future invasion and urged her to build evacuation harbors and protect her family on Shalandis Isle.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told soldiers to arrange an escort for troll prisoners, and three days later the Farstriders Commander agreed to send all thirteen hundred prisoners to Shalandis Isle.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk secured equipment for an expedition force by promising the Farstriders Commander a unit's worth of Steel Torrent mounts if the boar breeding project succeeded.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk bought two decommissioned arcane-powered transport ships from the naval regiment commander for fifteen hundred gold coins apiece.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk paid for ship modifications and drew up plans for a broad forward runway and a small rear landing platform for gryphons.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged preparations for the arrival of troll prisoners on Shalandis Isle and learned that the Dragonhawk Riders had made progress taming gryphons. He planned to build an air force by recruiting more riders and using them to capture flying mounts.

• Sylvanas bought two retired transport ships and prepared for a possible deployment to the Hinterlands within six weeks.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to Shalandis Isle and told its commanders to prepare for nearly eighteen hundred troll prisoners and eight hundred sets of Farstriders equipment.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk gave Thirteen gold and ordered him to arrange food, stonemasons, construction, and an accidental fire so the trolls could clear the island’s trees.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk declined to bring Sixteen and Seventeen from Tranquillien Military Camp and went to check on the gryphon tamers.
• A Dragonhawk Rider explained that the riders had adapted hippogryph-training methods and expected to establish soul links with the gryphons soon.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk announced plans for an air force and promised flying mounts to recruits who helped capture them.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged to recruit dragonhawk riders, trained his Household Guard, and visited Little Locust Tree, where treants introduced him to breadfruit and agreed to help plant it on his island. He then kept away from Shalandis Isle so Thirteen could stage the planned fire, heading to Tranquillien Military Camp to learn conjuring skills and observe the soldiers.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned how dragonhawk riders mounted and trained, then held an oath-of-fealty ceremony for his new Household Guard and trained them in Stealth and Sprint for more than twenty days.
• After the troll prisoners arrived, Yu Lin Bloodhawk left so Thirteen could stage an accident, then visited Little Locust Tree in Treant Valley the next morning.
• A large treant gave Yu Lin Bloodhawk breadfruit and explained its uses, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk persuaded the treants to collect seeds and help grow breadfruit trees on Shalandis Isle.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk feasted with the soldiers at Sunsail Archorage, drank heavily, and returned home with a soldier's help.
• To avoid suspicion and stay away from Shalandis Isle while Thirteen prepared the fire, Yu Lin Bloodhawk flew to Tranquillien Military Camp to watch training and learn Conjure Bread and Conjure Water.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk struggled to learn Conjure Bread and Conjure Water while waiting for the Air Force’s operation against Jintha'Alor. After the attack was confirmed, he led the Bloodhawk Regiment to Sunsail Archorage in new uniforms, where the officers planned their landing and advance into the Hinterlands.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk heard that a fire had destroyed his island territory, blamed on trolls, and pretended to grieve before resuming his spell studies.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk discussed recruiting mages for a battle-pet research team, then slowly began to improve at casting Conjure Bread and Conjure Water.
• Lieutenant Colonel Glo delivered orders for the units to assemble at Sunsail Archorage, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk prepared his regiment for the expedition.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led twelve hundred black-clad soldiers on their march to Sunsail Archorage, where their silent formation impressed the other units.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Glo to summon Thirteen’s galleon to escort the fleet, and the galleon caught up and took the lead.
• The senior officers planned to bombard a Vilebranch Troll village, secure the beach and narrow mountain path, and establish a camp in the Hinterlands.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and the officers debated how to secure the mountain trail and support an assault on Jintha'Alor without losing surprise or running short of ammunition. They settled on building Teleportation Circles aboard the ships, and a Dragonhawk Rider flew back to fetch the materials and Arcane Cores.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk proposed securing the trail at night with the Nightstalkers before the Frostwolf Clan and the Dire Wolf Force attacked the Trolls on the coastal plain.
• The officers rejected plans to build a Dragonhawk Launch Platform at the upper trail entrance or on the beach because of supply, construction, and security problems.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked the Mage representatives whether a Teleportation Circle could send Dragonhawks and their riders into the air above it.
• A Mage said the circles could be built aboard the ships, though their shifting teleportation points would be imprecise and they would need Arcane Cores and several days of work.
• The officers agreed to gather magical materials and Arcane Cores, and a Dragonhawk Rider flew back to arrange their delivery.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s forces surrounded Shalvalsa and used Dragonhawk bombers and concentrated bow fire to suppress its Vilebranch Troll defenders. As the Elves prepared to launch their full assault, Blizzard’s Bastard mage force moved out.

• The fleet completed twenty-six Teleportation Circles, then sailed to the Hinterlands and landed troops to secure the mountain trail and prepare an attack on Shalvalsa.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered Nightstalker to patrol the perimeter and signaled that the forces were ready to strike Shalvalsa.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s Bloodhawk Regiment and Sylvanas’s Frostwolf Clan regiment surrounded Shalvalsa, trapping its inhabitants inside.
• More than two hundred High Elf Dragonhawks bombed Shalvalsa with incendiary bombs, setting its wooden huts and tents ablaze.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered Steel Torrent’s mounted archers and the Frostwolf Clan troops to suppress the Troll defenders while Nightstalker occupied nearby high ground.
• Blizzard’s Bastard mage force moved out as the Elves prepared to launch their full assault.