Recaps

With the Norwington Family isolated by the Ashvane and Stormsong families and its businesses collapsing, Rowan took charge of the crisis after his parents left for Lordaeron. He redirected the inner-sea industries toward building warships, while Jaina offered support and Rowan insisted the family face the dispute without Admiral Daelin’s intervention.

• The Norwington Family’s broken ties with the Ashvane and Stormsong families halted production, froze orders, and plunged its trade system into chaos as corruption purges removed merchants’ guild leaders.
• Rowan learned his parents had gone to Lordaeron and assessed the family’s finances, finding just over two million gold coins available to cover wages, penalties, and upkeep.
• Rowan ordered the inner-sea mines to send iron ore to Morris Town and directed shipyard workers and technical staff to help build warships at Morris Shipyard.
• Jaina asked Rowan what had happened and offered to petition Admiral Daelin to send a fleet to protect the Norwington maritime routes.
• Rowan stopped Jaina, explaining that First Fleet intervention could alienate the other great houses, and Jaina told him he still had her support.

Rowan reflected on Jaina’s innocence and resolved to protect her from the painful choices she would face in the future. Jaina prepared to leave for Morris Town to help Rowan, while her parents accepted her decision and wished her well.

• Rowan thanked Jaina for helping him and flirted with her, making her blush.
• Jaina packed an enormous amount of luggage for her month-long stay in Morris Town, and Catherine supported her departure.
• Catherine privately gave Jaina a wooden box and awkwardly warned her to protect herself before marriage, embarrassing Jaina.
• Daelin hugged Jaina and asked whether Rowan could save the Norwington Family; Jaina admitted she did not know but vowed to stand by Rowan.
• Jaina used magic to leave the Proudmoore residence, and Daelin and Catherine discussed their daughter’s affection for Rowan.

Rowan sailed for Morris Town to rebuild the Norwington Family’s trade network by producing iron and ships, while Jaina joined him to help with the work. The ironworks soon began producing twenty tons of pig iron daily, and Rowan prepared to expand production and build Steam Warships.

• Rowan left Terry in charge of stabilizing the family’s trade network and set sail for Morris Town with Jaina and supplies.
• Lashius threatened Byron and mocked Rowan’s family, so Rowan used Fear to make Lashius’s own soldiers watch as Byron, Ellen, and Leonard beat him.
• Rowan warned Lashius that the Norwington Family would not tolerate further insults, then boarded the ship with his guards.
• Kande started the ironworks in Morris Town, which produced twenty tons of pig iron each day.
• Rowan planned to gather the Norwington businesses’ blacksmiths and establish a Steam Power Engine assembly line to build ten Steam Warships.

Rowan rallied the Norwington Family’s Inland Sea mine and shipyard managers by thanking them for their integrity and urging them to stand together against their enemies. The managers answered with fierce support, while Jaina watched Rowan with delight.

• Rowan entered the Council Hall and thanked the managers for protecting the workers and refusing to embezzle wages during the Norwington Family’s crisis.
• The managers bowed to Rowan and declared their loyalty to the Norwington Family.
• Rowan described the trade network’s dire situation and urged the managers to unite against Stormsong and the Ashvane Family rather than retreat.
• The managers shouted their support and vowed to fight, while Byron and Leonard argued about the honor of standing up for one’s ideals.
• Jaina watched Rowan’s speech and gained 520 delight.

Rowan coordinated the Norwington Family’s shipyards, mines, and blacksmiths while seeking to restore maritime shipping and the family’s military production. Jaina continued helping him develop steam power, and she suggested asking her former mentor in Dalaran to recruit more mages.

• Rowan arranged for ore to be sent to Morris Town, blacksmiths to be gathered, and new blacksmith shops to be built.
• Kande told Rowan that the family could no longer obtain cannons from Ashvane Munitions or transport weapons from its isolated Military Foundry.
• Rowan ordered the family’s cannons consolidated so a fleet could retrieve weapons from the Military Foundry once maritime shipping resumed.
• Rowan brought Jaina warm water while she worked on steam-engine components, and she pretended she could not unscrew the thermos.
• Rowan worried that Jaina’s help with butt-welding was not a long-term solution and asked about hiring mages from Dalaran.
• Jaina suggested visiting Dalaran to ask her former mentor to help.

Jaina and Rowan finished a productive day in the workshop, while Ellen revealed that Lucille had sent him to observe Rowan. Jaina grew jealous and insecure about Lucille, then felt Rowan touch one of her magical mirror images before he realized it might share sensations with her.

• Jaina completed the main welding on two Steam Power Engines, but Rowan stopped her from working overtime and explained that her mirror images could remain in the workshop for fifteen hours.
• Ellen collected siren's bloom pollen and tidespray buds, then told Jaina that Lucille had assigned him to stay with Rowan and pay attention to his habits.
• Jaina became jealous of Lucille and worried that Rowan might prefer her over Jaina.
• Rowan poked Jaina's mirror image and, believing it was only magical research, touched it while Jaina felt the sensation through their link.
• Rowan received emotion points from Jaina, wondered whether the mirror image shared its senses with her, then locked the workshop and returned to the Council Hall.

Rowan welcomed blacksmiths to Morris Town and organized them into the Morris Mechanical Manufacturing Plant while Jaina reflected on how much he had changed. After learning that most of the Norwington Family’s customers would wait for delayed orders, Rowan announced he would lead a fleet to sea in a week to protect the family’s shipping lanes, despite Jaina and Terry urging caution.

• Rowan welcomed the arriving blacksmiths, and Kande led them to the Blacksmith Shop as Rowan placed Kobi and his father in charge of the new Morris Mechanical Manufacturing Plant.
• Terry told Rowan that the Norwington Family had paid five hundred thousand gold coins in penalties and that customers for seventy percent of the month’s orders would accept delays of twenty to thirty days.
• Rowan said he would lead a fleet out in a week to protect the Merchants' Guild and fulfill the delayed orders.
• Terry offered to handle the deliveries with the Norwington Family’s Second Fleet, and Jaina warned Rowan that he lacked naval battle experience.
• Rowan explained that he wanted merchants to see the family could protect its shipping lanes, even after losing the fleet’s protection.

Rowan prepared to lead the Norwington Family's fleet to Southshore, knowing the voyage was a dangerous gamble that could restore the family's trade and reputation. After learning that Lord Stormsong had rescued the corrupt officials meant for Tol Dagor, Rowan vowed to rebuild the Second Fleet and settle the score.

• Rowan rejected Terry's warning against sailing and insisted that he would lead the fleet to save the Norwington Family.
• Terry reported that pirates had killed the sailors and soldiers escorting the corrupt officials, while the officials had disappeared before reaching Tol Dagor.
• Rowan concluded that Lord Stormsong had intervened to rescue the officials and angrily vowed to remember his actions until the Second Fleet regained its strength.
• Terry returned to mobilize troops for the voyage while Rowan discussed war and peace with Jaina.
• Rowan told Jaina that lasting peace required power across Azeroth, and Jaina said she was not afraid of him.

Rowan assembled an eleven-warship fleet and prepared to sail for Boralus, then Southshore. At the Storm Temple, Priscilla pressured Lord Stormsong into joining a plan to unleash a storm at sea and kill Rowan.

• Jaina helped the Morris Machine Factory build ten Steam Power Engines, which Rowan used to assemble an eleven-warship fleet.
• Rowan prepared to depart for Boralus once his family's navy arrived in Morris Town.
• Priscilla visited Lord Stormsong at the Storm Temple and pressed him to join her against Rowan.
• Lord Stormsong warned Priscilla that their houses risked ruin if they acted together and failed.
• Priscilla asked Lord Stormsong to create a tremendous storm at sea to overcome Rowan's protectors and kill him, and he agreed.

Lucille rejected Moss and invited Rowan and Jaina to dinner as Rowan prepared to take a fleet to sea. Moss learned Rowan would sail soon, and Lord Ashvane feared the voyage would bring disaster to his family.

• Moss invited Lucille to dinner, but she rejected him and later invited Rowan and Jaina instead.
• Rowan explained that he was taking the Norwington Family fleet out to sea to deliver Merchants' Guild orders, and Jaina said she would travel with him to Dalaran.
• Moss warned Rowan to keep Jaina safe, then left after threatening him.
• Jaina questioned Lucille about Ellen and teased her about liking Rowan; afterward, Jaina asked Rowan who was prettier and gained 100 happiness points from his reassurance.
• Moss told Lord Ashvane that Rowan's fleet would sail the day after tomorrow, and Lord Ashvane worried that the voyage would endanger his family.

Rowan admitted to Floyd that the voyage to Southshore was dangerous but necessary to save the Norwington Family from collapse. Floyd accepted the risk and agreed to rally the guild members, while Leonard and Byron discussed their chances of surviving the voyage.

• Rowan joked with Floyd about the Northern Wilderness before admitting he was frightened of the voyage and believed the family had no choice but to sail.
• Rowan explained that he was willing to risk the voyage to protect the Norwington Family's workers and wages, despite the danger posed by Stormsong and the Ashvane Family.
• Floyd recalled his long history with Lord Aldrius and decided to support Rowan, promising to persuade the other guild members to join the voyage.
• Leonard asked Byron what he thought of Rowan's conversation with Floyd, and Byron said Rowan was the protagonist and would survive.
• Leonard warned Byron not to jinx them before they had even set sail, while Byron insisted that ominous words only doomed cannon fodder.

Rowan's fleet sailed from Hook Point toward Southshore, but a strange storm gathered in its path. Jaina and Rowan prepared for battle as Lord Stormsong's forces revealed they had deliberately summoned the tempest to trap the fleet.

• Rowan led eleven warships out of Hook Point while Floyd and the Merchants' Guild boarded the accompanying cargo ships.
• Admiral Daelin ordered his guards to keep Rowan and Jaina safe, whatever happened during the voyage.
• On the third day at sea, Ellen successfully tested a powder, then joined Rowan, Jaina, Byron, and Leonard in the recreation room.
• Jaina noticed a strange storm gathering to the east, and Rowan ordered the fleet to prepare for battle.
• Faye told Lord Stormsong that the storm had gathered and trapped the fleet, and he sent Sergeant Bainby to act according to their plan.

As an enemy fleet bombarded Rowan’s ships through a magically created storm, Jaina caught a cannonball and the fleet struggled to return fire. With the warships losing their bearings and taking heavy damage, Rowan decided to use his ship to draw the enemy’s fire while the others advanced.

• Jaina identified the storm as magically created, and Rowan ordered everyone below deck when he spotted the enemy fleet firing through the rain.
• The first cannon volley damaged three warships, and Jaina cast a barrier to protect herself and signalman Tobin as he reported the fleet’s condition.
• During the next volley, Jaina caught an incoming cannonball after reinforcing her shield with ice, while Tobin relayed Captain Terry’s order for the fleet to advance at full speed.
• The hurricane disrupted the ships’ courses as repeated volleys damaged Rowan’s warship, leaving Rowan convinced the fleet could not withstand many more attacks.
• Rowan asked Jaina whether her Teleportation Spell could move everyone to another ship if theirs sank, then announced that he would draw the enemy’s fire to buy time for the fleet.

Rowan led a warship through the storm as bait, drawing the pirates’ fire away from his fleet and setting out to reach Southshore. Once the pirates sent attackers aboard, Jaina fought a high-ranking rogue who had targeted her, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Under Jaina’s cover, Tobin relayed Rowan’s plan to Captain Terry, who agreed to it, and Rowan ordered the fleet to charge.
• Bainby recognized Rowan’s warship as bait and sent small boats toward it while an elf girl vanished into the shadows to kill Rowan.
• Rowan’s warship emerged from the storm with Jaina aboard, and the enemy ships stopped firing as he had expected.
• Pirates attacked the warship, and a hidden rogue killed several soldiers before Jaina revealed him with Arcane Explosion and attacked with Frostbolt and Frost Nova.
• The high-ranking rogue evaded Jaina’s spells and focused his assault on her while Rowan and the others tried to protect her.

Jaina fought a high-rank rogue while the Iron Tide Raiders boarded Rowan’s warship, and Byron and Ellen battled the attackers on deck. Rowan stayed hidden in the cabin, helpless as the fighting continued, until he heard an eerie noise from a dark compartment.

• The high-rank rogue dodged Jaina’s spells and kept her occupied while the pirates’ small warship held Rowan’s vessel in place with iron chains.
• Sergeant Bainby led the Iron Tide Raiders across the chains, and Byron attacked him in a fury over the massacre at Vigil’s Domain.
• Byron used Crusade and Judgment to overwhelm Bainby, then collapsed from exhaustion with a poisoned wound.
• Ellen knocked the disoriented Bainby into the sea while fighting spread across the warship.
• Rowan hid in the cabin with the soldiers guarding him and warned them after hearing an eerie noise from the dark compartment.

Rowan fought off an infiltrator and Sergeant Bainby aboard his damaged warship, using an explosion to cripple the Iron Tide Raiders and shift the battle. Jaina froze the flooding hull to stabilize the ship, but Bainby and the Stealth User remained unaccounted for as Rowan prepared to counterattack.

• Rowan ordered his soldiers to search the flooded hold, where they cornered a female Stealth User before Sergeant Bainby burst in through the breach with iron chains.
• Rowan led the soldiers toward the stairs, then ordered the sailors to move the ammunition crates to the bow and stayed behind to face Bainby.
• Rowan ignited the crates with Fireball, blowing open the bow and throwing the Iron Tide Raiders into the sea.
• Jaina summoned a Sea Elemental to brace the tilting warship, then lifted Rowan onto its head as he swam to her.
• Jaina used Rapid Cooling to freeze the hull and flooding water, stabilizing the ship while more than half the raiders sank.
• Rowan prepared to counterattack as the remaining fleet emerged from the storm, though Bainby and the Stealth User were still missing.

After defeating most of the Iron Tide Pirates, Rowan searched for the two high-rank rogues still aboard the warship and learned that Ellen had developed a way to expose them. Rowan prepared to use the Revealing Dust, while the rogues made their final move.

• Number Thirteen warned the wounded Sergeant Bainby that Rowan’s fleet was nearing Skullsplitter’s fleet and said they still had one last chance.
• Rowan returned to the deck and ordered the remaining Iron Tide Pirates killed after they refused to surrender.
• Ellen reported that Bainby was trapped belowdecks in ice, while Rowan realized the female rogue was missing and might be waiting to ambush him.
• Jaina admitted she could not locate a rogue who stayed hidden in the shadows, so Rowan considered leaving the warship.
• Ellen gave Rowan her Revealing Dust, which could expose high-rank Stealth Users, and Jaina said she could kill an exposed rogue within three minutes.

Rowan and Jaina fought off Bainby and the hidden rogues, only to discover that two of the intruders were Number Zero and Number Seven, former associates of Chris. The pair revealed that they were acting on orders and tried to leave, but Jaina’s Revealing Dust and Frostbolts kept them exposed as Ellen recognized Chris.

• Rowan ordered Leonard to kill the badly wounded Bainby, but Bainby broke free and attacked Rowan and Jaina with his chains.
• Rowan used Revealing Dust, revealing four High-Rank Stealth Users hidden in the cabin as Jaina defended him and froze two attackers.
• Ellen recognized one of the revealed rogues as Instructor Chris, while Number Thirteen identified the others as Number Zero and Number Seven.
• Number Zero knocked out the female high elf rogue and killed Bainby, then Jaina killed Number Thirteen with ice spikes.
• Number Zero and Number Seven tried to leave, but Jaina warned that they could not escape the Revealing Dust and readied Frostbolts against them.
• Number Zero revealed that he had held Jaina when she was little, while Ellen happily insisted that Chris was his instructor.

Rowan pressured Number Zero and Number Seven into helping defeat the pirates, then had them take Ellen aboard to wait for the battle. The pirates opened fire on Jaina’s Sea Elemental, and Skullsplitter ordered his cannons to target the fleet’s sails.

• Rowan pointed out that Number Zero and Number Seven had failed their assignment by being discovered and asked them to help win the naval battle.
• Number Seven objected, but Number Zero persuaded him to cooperate rather than risk their identities and failure becoming public.
• Number Zero carried Ellen across the sea while scolding him for neglecting stealth training and warning him to avoid the black market.
• Number Zero and Number Seven boarded the ship and hid with Ellen until the fighting began.
• A cannonball struck Jaina’s Sea Elemental, breaking its Binding Inscription and destabilizing it.
• Skullsplitter ordered four volleys before deciding whether to retreat, and Skikaff signaled the pirates to target the enemy ships’ sails.

Rowan's fleet counterattacked Skullsplitter's pirate fleet, and its uncanny accuracy repeatedly wrecked whichever ship Skullsplitter boarded. As the Iron Tide Raiders' fleet burned and sank, Skullsplitter called the defeat an illusion before Number Seven knocked him unconscious.

• Rowan ordered the ten warships able to fire to maneuver independently and unleash their cannons on the pirates.
• Rowan's fleet sank Skullsplitter's flagship, forcing him to jump between ships as Number Zero and Ellen followed him in the shadows.
• The pirate fleet's second barrage arrived too late, while Rowan's ships fired again and destroyed more vessels, killing Skikaff.
• Skullsplitter ordered a retreat, but his own crew tried to stop him from boarding their mobile ship; he seized its helm and fled the battle.
• Another barrage struck Skullsplitter's ship as the surrounding pirate vessels burned and sank, leaving him convinced the defeat was an illusion.
• Number Seven grabbed Skullsplitter, but Number Zero stopped him from killing the pirate captain, and Number Seven knocked him unconscious.

After winning a costly naval battle, Rowan arranged generous compensation for the fallen sailors’ families and questioned the captured Skullsplitter for intelligence on Freehold’s pirate fleets. Having learned the Iron Tide’s forces and movements, Rowan headed to confront Number Zero and Number Seven over loot he believed they had stolen.

• Rowan ordered the Norwington Family to pay each fallen sailor’s or soldier’s household a hundred gold coins, and Jaina comforted him as he vowed to rid Kul Tiras’s waters of pirates.
• Rowan and Byron interrogated Skullsplitter, who gave them a rough outline of Freehold’s four pirate fleets and said the main Iron Tide fleet had been away since the beginning of the year.
• Byron executed Skullsplitter, and Rowan found a Magical Package on his body that required Jaina to break its Sealing Spell.
• Rowan suspected Number Zero and Number Seven had stolen loot from him and went to knock on the door of their cabin.

Rowan confronted Number Zero and Number Seven over the loot from the defeated High-Rank Rogue, then used their failed protection mission to secure their help. Number Zero and Number Seven agreed to work with him and discussed Rowan’s leadership qualities after he left.

• Number Seven and Number Zero discussed the Norwington Family’s plan to rebuild the Second Fleet under Rowan’s command.
• Rowan asked Number Zero and Number Seven for the defeated Rogue’s loot, and Number Zero returned a Magical Package containing only a necklace.
• Rowan accused the two Stealth Users of failing to protect him and Jaina and of secretly taking his gear.
• Rowan implied he might dismiss them, prompting Number Zero to agree that they would do whatever Rowan asked.
• Number Zero and Number Seven praised Rowan’s shamelessness and discussed why Number Zero had brought Number Seven into the assignment.

Rowan arrived in Southshore with Jaina and the Norwington Family fleet, then attended a meeting with the town’s merchants’ guilds. He met Ilucia, the president of the Barov Family Merchants’ Guild, as trade negotiations were about to begin.

• Rowan arrived in Southshore after a five-day voyage, and Mayor Maleb welcomed the Norwington Family fleet at the harbor.
• Rowan reflected on Mayor Maleb’s long record of defending Southshore and considered recruiting him.
• Floyd arranged lodgings for Rowan and Jaina, then brought Rowan to meet Southshore’s major merchants’ guild leaders.
• Rowan took his place at the meeting table while Jaina stood behind him, keeping her identity as Kul Tiras’s princess discreet.
• Lusen Sackhoff introduced Ilucia, the Barov Family Merchants’ Guild president and Lord Alex’s eldest daughter, who greeted Rowan.

Rowan and Ilucia signed a trade agreement between the Norwington and Barov Merchants' Guilds while Ilucia tried to charm him and assess the Norwington Family's political troubles. Ilucia left disappointed after Rowan declined her invitation, and Jaina teased him about their encounter.

• Ilucia asked Rowan about the Norwington Family's trouble in the Family Council of Kul Tiras and whether Lord Aldrius had entrusted him with family affairs.
• As the guild representatives reviewed the agreement, Ilucia flirted with Rowan, while Jaina pinched his side and watched jealously.
• Rowan and Ilucia signed the trade agreement, exchanged copies, and shook hands before the guild representatives applauded.
• Ilucia invited Rowan to go out that evening, but he said he already had plans with Jaina, whom Ilucia mistook for his maid.
• After Ilucia left, she muttered that Rowan had no sense of romance, and Jaina asked whether Ilucia had stolen his soul.

Rowan restored trade with Lordaeron’s great families and used the system to obtain plans for a steel battleship, though he lacked the Engineering skill to understand them. He went for a nighttime walk with Jaina and prepared to show her a treasure.

• Rowan secured new trade contracts with Lordaeron’s great families, bringing orders back to the Norwington Family.
• Rowan considered how to strengthen Kul Tiras’s navy and redeemed the One-Star Battleship blueprints for 3,000 emotion points.
• Rowan discovered he needed 25 Engineering skill points to comprehend the battleship plans, while he had only 12.
• Jaina asked Rowan to take a walk with her, and he agreed.
• Rowan asked Jaina about a teacher in Dalaran, and she said she would look for him the next day.
• Rowan told Jaina he had a treasure to show her and reached into his bag.