Chapter Summaries

High Elf mages devastated Shalvalsa with overlapping fire and ice spells, wiping out its Vilebranch Troll defenders. Sylvanas ordered the army to secure the mountain pass, prepare to attack Jintha'Alor, and scout nearby troll camps as the forces awaited news from the coast.

• More than 150 High Elf mages bombarded Shalvalsa with Rain of Fire and Blizzard while rangers kept the trolls pinned down.
• After the twenty-minute assault, Nightstalkers signaled that the city was clear, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk sent the Steel Torrent in to check before advancing with the full force.
• Sylvanas searched Shalvalsa and confirmed that no trolls had survived, then ordered supplies unloaded and the fleet to prepare for an attack on Jintha'Alor.
• Sylvanas warned that the fires and smoke would alert nearby trolls and directed Yu Lin Bloodhawk to scout camps one, two, and three and fortify the mountain pass.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk built defenses and a dragonhawk landing platform, then sent two newly arrived dragonhawk riders to scout camp one for signs of reinforcements.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas ambushed and annihilated a thousand Vilebranch Troll reinforcements while protecting the pass entrance and waiting for the Dire Wolf Force to clear the coastal plain. They returned to strengthen the pass defenses and prepared to attack Jintha'Alor once the Dire Wolf Force arrived.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas agreed to wait for the Dire Wolf Force to secure the coastal plain before attacking Jintha'Alor, and they planned to destroy an approaching relief force from Vilebranch Troll Camp One.
• After dragonhawk riders spotted a thousand Vilebranch Trolls marching toward Shalvalsa, Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas led most of their troops out to ambush them.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas divided their troops into combat teams and surrounded the trolls as they pursued the elves in a long column.
• The Steel Torrent, Bear Iron Fist, and Sylvanas's frostwolf rangers annihilated the relief force in under an hour without suffering any serious injuries.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk sent Rhea and two other Nightstalker squads to scout Jintha'Alor, then led his troops back to the pass entrance to strengthen its defenses.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s forces annihilated a Vilebranch Troll army with repeated Steel Torrent charges, leaving the battlefield gruesome and the Elves shaken. He explained to Sylvanas that the slaughter was meant to teach his rookies the true cost of war so that only enemies would die on the battlefield.

• After Vilebranch Troll scouts vanished, their chieftain led two thousand troops out, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged for Dragonhawks to bomb them.
• The bombing killed more than two hundred Trolls and wounded over a hundred, but their commander continued onward and led the survivors into an encirclement by Elves and Steel Behemoths.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the Trolls to surrender or die, and when their commander chose to resist, he sent the Steel Torrent charging through their ranks.
• The Steel Torrent’s repeated charges killed more than seven hundred Trolls, while desperate attacks wounded at least fifty Giant Bloodfang Boars; the remaining Trolls scattered and were finished off by arrows.
• The Elves returned from the battlefield pale and sick, and Sylvanas questioned Yu Lin Bloodhawk about the carnage.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Sylvanas that the rookies needed to understand the battlefield’s cruelty so they would not treat war like a game and become the ones who died.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk learned that Vilebranch Troll forces from Camps No. 2 and No. 3 were moving, then planned an aerial ambush with help from Lord Mez'dra and the Wildhammer Dwarves. He ordered leaflets to be spread as a public justification for the attack, while Sylvanas suspected he was using the story to manipulate morale and impress the troops.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk's scouts reported that about 2,500 Vilebranch Trolls from Camps No. 2 and No. 3 were moving, and Lord Mez'dra explained that the trolls feared attacks from their Witherbark rivals.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk planned to let the Vilebranch forces reach his army before the Dragonhawks bombed them, and Mez'dra agreed to have the Wildhammer Dwarves attack the two camps afterward.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Mez'dra that the High Elves were attacking Jintha'Alor because Vilebranch Trolls had killed and eaten a High Elf, and Mez'dra offered assistance.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered the Dragonhawk Rider to rest the air force and prepare Trollish leaflets demanding the culprits' surrender while offering civilians a safe route out of Jintha'Alor.
• Sylvanas questioned Yu Lin Bloodhawk's motives, and he urged her to tell the troops his justification for the attack to boost their pride and morale.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas chose to advance on Jintha'Alor while the Vilebranch Trolls remained inside Camp One, leaving the Dragonhawk Riders to bombard the camp. At the entrance to a narrow mountain pass, Sylvanas recognized the terrain as a possible ambush site, and they decided to wait for the Nightstalkers to return.

• Sylvanas rallied the Bloodhawk Regiment by expanding Yu Lin Bloodhawk's invented excuse into a rousing call for revenge.
• Dragonhawk Riders reported that the Vilebranch Troll reinforcements had entered Camp One and had not come out, leaving Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas uncertain about their intentions.
• After the Trolls remained inactive for two more days, the Dire Wolf Force and Thirteen's 200-man musket unit arrived with supplies, and Sylvanas urged an advance on Jintha'Alor.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas sent the Dragonhawk Riders to bomb Camp One, then led most of their forces toward Jintha'Alor while leaving troops to guard the mountain pass and supply route.
• At a narrow mountain pass, Yu Lin Bloodhawk questioned why the Trolls had not built a fortress there, and Sylvanas warned that the terrain could conceal an ambush.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas decided to wait for the Nightstalkers to return before proceeding through the pass.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk weighed how to respond to the Vilebranch Trolls closing in and the growing force gathered at Jintha'Alor, while Sylvanas refused to make decisions for him. At dawn, he chose to march toward the city without leaving troops to guard the valley entrance, though Sylvanas told him to leave two hundred Bear Iron Fist soldiers behind to erase their traces.

• A Dragonhawk Rider reported that three thousand Vilebranch Trolls were pursuing Yu Lin Bloodhawk's force and that the fleet had reached its position; Yu Lin ordered leaflets dropped over Jintha'Alor and planned to begin bombing it the next morning.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered his troops to rest, and the pursuing Vilebranch Trolls halted when they learned his army had stopped.
• A Nightstalker confirmed there was no troll ambush at the valley entrance and reported that Vilebranch Trolls from nearby villages had been gathered in Jintha'Alor.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk spent the night worrying about the pursuing trolls and the crowded city, then decided at dawn to march straight to Jintha'Alor.
• Sylvanas advised Yu Lin Bloodhawk not to leave a unit at the valley entrance and reminded him to leave two hundred Bear Iron Fist soldiers behind to clear their traces.

Sylvanas revealed that she had secretly arranged a trap for the Vilebranch Trolls following the army into the valley. She ordered the troops to turn back at night and prepare a sudden counterattack at the valley entrance.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk worried as the march went wrong, the Bear Iron Fist soldiers fell behind, and no Nightstalkers reported in.
• A Dragonhawk Rider told Sylvanas that the hiding place was ready, and Sylvanas ordered the Mages transported there.
• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that the Vilebranch Trolls were moving to trap them and ordered the army to turn back before dawn.
• Sylvanas explained that she had sent the Bear Iron Fist, Frostwolf Rangers, and Mages to hide near the valley entrance while Nightstalkers tracked and eliminated the Troll Rogues.
• Sylvanas fired a signal arrow and led the army back through the night to ambush the Vilebranch Trolls at the valley entrance.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas returned to the valley entrance and prepared an ambush to frighten the Vilebranch Trolls into abandoning their pursuit. The Troll vanguard cautiously entered the valley, and its commander grew agitated after messengers returned with news from outside.

• Sylvanas explained that Nightstalkers were killing the Troll Rogues inside the valley and blocking any who tried to escape and report their return.
• Sylvanas told Yu Lin Bloodhawk she planned to strike quickly with their strongest forces, then let a few survivors carry news of their strength back to the Vilebranch Trolls.
• The troops reached the valley entrance at four in the morning and prepared an ambush more than seven hundred meters inside, beyond the keen senses of the Vilebranch Dire Wolves.
• A Vilebranch Troll vanguard of about five hundred arrived outside the entrance, followed later by the main force, and cautiously searched the valley before reporting it safe.
• The Vilebranch Troll main force waited for its Rogues to return, while Sylvanas predicted they would wait in vain; returning messengers then spoke with the vanguard commander, who appeared to lose his temper.

Sylvanas’s Elf Forces encircled the Vilebranch Troll army after it entered the valley, while Dragonhawk Riders arrived to bomb the trapped Trolls. The bombardment ended with the valley entrance hidden beneath smoke and dust, leaving Yu Lin Bloodhawk unable to see the attack’s results.

• The Vilebranch Troll Vanguard searched the area again, and Sylvanas’s Elf Forces quietly followed them toward the valley entrance.
• The Vilebranch Troll main force entered the valley and camped, while Sylvanas ordered Yu Lin Bloodhawk to wait for the signal from outside.
• After a Dragonhawk Rider fired a Red Signal Flare, Sylvanas’s Elves tightened their encirclement and blocked the Trolls’ escape routes.
• The Vilebranch Troll commanders realized they had been trapped, then ordered their soldiers to charge through the Elves toward Jintha'Alor.
• Two hundred Dragonhawk Riders bombed the packed Trolls at the valley entrance, filling the area with smoke and dust.

After the Air Force devastated the Vilebranch trolls at the valley entrance, Sylvanas punished prisoners who tried to attack the elves and led the ground troops toward Jintha'Alor. Dragonhawk Riders began repeated incendiary raids on the city, leaving Yu Lin Bloodhawk to marvel at the Air Force’s destructive tactics.

• The elves advanced through the valley, where the Air Force’s bombs had killed or wounded most of the Vilebranch trolls.
• A wounded troll launched a surprise attack, but a Nightstalker and lynx stopped him before Sylvanas ordered the surviving attackers and other prisoners seized.
• Sylvanas declared that the trolls had killed a high elf, ordered the prisoners’ weapon-wielding arms cut off, and commanded her troops to kill every other troll still breathing.
• The elves resumed their march toward Jintha'Alor while the Air Force prepared to bomb the densely gathered trolls in the city.
• Two hundred Dragonhawk Riders bombed Jintha'Alor with incendiaries, setting its wooden homes and hide tents ablaze, then flew back to reload for another raid.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk joked that the Air Force wanted to force the Vilebranch trolls to sleep outdoors, while Sylvanas let the bombers continue at their own pace.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas watched the Dragonhawk Riders devastate Jintha'Alor before planning the ground assault. As more Vilebranch Trolls fled the city, Sylvanas ordered the road out of the valley controlled so they could not gather behind the Elves.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas advanced toward Jintha'Alor as Dragonhawk Riders repeatedly bombed its lower districts.
• Sylvanas accepted Yu Lin Bloodhawk's offer to take full command of the coming city assault, with orders to avoid needless casualties among the troops.
• After seeing Vilebranch Trolls flee into the valley, Sylvanas decided they had to be driven out to prevent attacks on the Elves' rear.
• Sylvanas assigned Yu Lin Bloodhawk to guard a stretch of the main road with a hundred Steel Torrent troops and four hundred Frostwolf Rangers, while she would control the road nearer the city.
• Sylvanas ordered Dragonhawk Riders to scout the road and instructed Yu Lin Bloodhawk to kill Vilebranch Trolls who tried to leave it.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk inspected his stretch of road and discovered that his troops had secretly organized a plan to catch Vilebranch Trolls who caused trouble. After berating himself for lacking their foresight, he cheered himself up by deciding he was still a genius and that Sargeras was an idiot.

• Sylvanas assigned Yu Lin Bloodhawk four hundred Frostwolf Rangers and a hundred Steel Torrent soldiers to guard a later stretch of road while her main forces held the front.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led his troops out before dawn, then found the road seemingly deserted because the Rangers were using Stealth.
• A Frostwolf Clan officer explained that the troops had divided into ten groups and hidden themselves and their Battle Pets to monitor the Trolls and respond to trouble.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk realized the troops expected any Trolls reaching them to be unarmed and lamented that they had anticipated the situation better than he had.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk recovered his confidence by telling himself that delegating the planning had been a sign of his own genius and that Sargeras was still an idiot.

The Vilebranch trolls in Jintha'Alor faced unrest as elven bombings and leaflets turned the commoners against the nobles. Sylvanas allowed two elite teams to leave, but the elves killed one team when it strayed from the road, leaving the other to bury its dead and continue under strict warnings.

• The Vilebranch nobles struggled to contain panic and anger among the lower-tier commoners after elven leaflets accused them of killing and eating a high elf.
• The elves offered everyone except the top-tier nobles safe passage out of Jintha'Alor, but the guards suppressed the commoners who tried to leave.
• The nobles sent two elite Vilebranch teams out to seek reinforcements, and Sylvanas ordered the elves to let them go if they followed the main road.
• One team ignored the Nightstalker's warning and left the road, where Steel Behemoths and elven archers annihilated it.
• The Nightstalker let the surviving team bury their companions and leave or return, while warning that five thousand reinforcements had already been killed.
• The surviving Vilebranch officer buried the dead, discarded his weapon, and sent a soldier back to report the losses while reminding him to stay on the road.

An elite Vilebranch Troll squad buried the dead at the valley entrance, then found the surviving Troll camps unwilling to help them. Meanwhile, Elven Dragonhawk raids drove Jintha'Alor’s civilians to rebel against the soldiers keeping them trapped, and the chapter ended as they spotted the Dragonhawks returning.

• An elite Vilebranch Troll squad buried three thousand corpses at the valley entrance and was given permission to leave.
• At Camp No. 1, the squad learned that the Trolls blamed Jintha'Alor’s nobles for the deaths and drove the soldiers away when they requested reinforcements.
• The squad leader learned that forces from Camps No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 had been annihilated, then decided to seek help from smaller tribes.
• The Dragonhawks resumed bombing Jintha'Alor, and the civilians began resisting the elite soldiers who blocked the gates.
• After the lowest tier escaped, civilians on the higher tiers gathered at the gates and waited for the Dragonhawks to return.
• A Vilebranch Troll spotted a red cloud on the horizon and shouted that the Dragonhawks were coming.

Sylvanas’s forces drove the Vilebranch Trolls out of Jintha'Alor and forced them to disarm and follow the road with strict, lethal discipline. The Trolls who disobeyed were crushed by the Elves’ coordinated troops, while most survivors gradually learned to comply.

• The elite Vilebranch Trolls on the second and third tiers fled Jintha'Alor as the Dragonhawk Riders arrived, and the riders bombed the elite guards at the highest-tier gate.
• Sylvanas sent the Bear Iron Fist and mages into the city to secure the exit while her remaining troops managed the crowds outside.
• Steel Torrent behemoths charged armed Trolls who ignored the road instructions, and Elf Rangers killed the wounded before ordering the unarmed Trolls to pass and the disarmed to bury the dead.
• The Elves used patrols, ambushes, behemoth charges, frost wolves, archers, and Dragonhawk Riders to destroy Trolls who left the road or caused trouble.
• After seeing disobedient elites and makeshift troops annihilated, most Vilebranch Trolls dropped their weapons and followed the Elves’ orders.

After clearing the lower tiers and escorting the Vilebranch Trolls out of the valley, Sylvanas’s forces secured Jintha'Alor City and prepared to capture its top tier. Sylvanas left the trolls’ dire wolves for the Dragonhawk Riders to disable, while Yu Lin Bloodhawk worried about how the city could be supplied after the army withdrew.

• Sylvanas sent 200 Frostwolf Rangers to search the lower tiers and kill any Vilebranch Trolls left behind.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk’s troops warned the fleeing Vilebranch Trolls to stay on the road and threatened to wipe out any tribe that harmed elves again.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk led his troops to Jintha'Alor City and saw its stepped terraces, narrow gates, and the elven forces holding the lower tiers.
• Sylvanas delayed the assault on the top tier until the Dragonhawk Riders could drive the trolls west and paralyze the Giant Vilebranch Dire Wolves.
• The Dragonhawk Riders spent the day bombing the fourth tier and shooting paralysis arrows at the dire wolves while the ground troops waited.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked what would happen if more trolls attacked, and Sylvanas said the Narrow Mountain Pass and future supply lines were the real concern.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas discussed his rankings of Warcraft figures and troops, then Sylvanas prepared the dragonhawk riders to clear the Vilebranch Trolls from the gate. The coming attack was set to begin once the remaining dire wolves were eliminated.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk agreed to have Sylvanas train the Bloodhawk Regiment for three months, while two human instructors would teach the Mountain Lion Unit close-combat and assassination skills.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk ranked Sylvanas as a king-tier boss and compared Alleria, Arthas, Thrall, Tyrande, Jaina, Kael'thas, and other figures using his unusual system.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk warned Sylvanas to avoid Grommash Hellscream and the Warsong Clan, saying they were dangerous enough to kill the demigod Cenarius.
• The Dragonhawk Rider captain reported that more than fifty dire wolves remained and that most trolls had retreated east.
• Sylvanas ordered the dragonhawk riders to finish off the remaining wolves, bomb the trolls guarding the gate, and strike reinforcements while avoiding friendly troops.

Sylvanas and Yu Lin Bloodhawk attacked Jintha'Alor after the Vilebranch Trolls ignored their surrender offer, then forced the captured soldiers to kill their remaining Nobles. The chapter ended with a Troll soldier stabbing a Noble Officer, declaring that if he did not die, everyone would die.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk persuaded Sylvanas to offer the Troll soldiers a chance to surrender, but the Vilebranch Trolls gave no response before the deadline.
• Dragonhawks bombed the fourth-tier gate, and the Bear Iron Fist and Rangers charged in, defeating the Trolls who resisted.
• Sylvanas refused to spare two surviving Troll warriors and ordered the surrendered soldiers to bring her the heads of the Priests and Nobles.
• Hundreds of battered Troll soldiers returned with severed heads, and Sylvanas ordered them to kill a Noble Officer who had already surrendered.
• A Vilebranch Troll soldier stabbed the Noble Officer and said, "If you don't die, everyone dies!"

Sylvanas forced the surrendered Vilebranch Trolls to choose between leaving Jintha'Alor and swearing allegiance, then Yu Lin Bloodhawk organized them into battalions and security forces. When transporting the captured dire wolves proved difficult, Yu Lin proposed a Teleportation Circle, and the Air Force agreed to provide an Arcane Core for one.

• Sylvanas had a Vilebranch Troll kill a noble officer, then let soldiers leave Jintha'Alor or pledge allegiance and organized the loyalists into three battalions by the ranks of the heads they carried.
• The three battalions swore allegiance to Yu Lin Bloodhawk, who assigned the remaining trolls to Military Police and an Armed Police Bureau.
• Sylvanas ordered the trolls to clear the rooms and throw corpses and unwanted items from the northern cliff.
• Yu Lin suggested using a Teleportation Circle to move the Giant Vilebranch Dire Wolves, and a mage explained that a Portal was impractical while a circle required Arcane Cores.
• Yu Lin proposed teleporting the wolves to a beach, and the Air Force agreed to send an Arcane Core and arrange a site for the Teleportation Circle.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk arranged defenses and training for Jintha'Alor City before returning to Shalandis Isle, where he ordered the troll prisoners put to work restoring the island's woods. The chapter ended with the elves preparing to round up the prisoners, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk stopped them.

• Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Sylvanas agreed on a plan to defend Jintha'Alor City with cannons, ammunition, and troops while Sylvanas took command of the Bloodhawk Regiment for three months of training.
• Sylvanas ordered fifty Bear Iron Fist soldiers to block a cave and postpone searching it until surrendered Vilebranch Trolls could be sent inside.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk told Bloodhawk soldiers to enter the city for training after the Air Force left and arranged for Thirteen to demolish vulnerable stretches of the Small Mountain Road.
• Lieutenant Colonel Glo agreed to transport the cannons and ammunition before the Vilebranch giant wolves, and arranged a dragonhawk flight for Yu Lin Bloodhawk to Shalandis Isle.
• Yu Lin Bloodhawk found the island's troll prisoners idle and restless, so he ordered them to dig holes and plant trees while leaving space for a future castle.
• The elves eagerly moved to round up the troll prisoners, but Yu Lin Bloodhawk stopped them.