Recaps

Eudora launched a desperate frontal assault on Rowan’s fleet, but the Iron Warships and Steam Warships quickly isolated the Giant Rat and battered the Rodent Fleet. As the battle turned against her, Eudora aimed her Blunderbuss at Rowan and fired.

• Eudora ordered the Behemoth to charge Rowan’s ships while the Rodent Fleet followed behind.
• Rowan directed his fleet to divide the battlefield and intercept the enemy ships, but the Giant Rat surged forward with the power of the Zandalar King of the Wind.
• The Giant Rat rammed an Iron Warship, and Iron Tide soldiers, Water Rat Hunters, and Two-Headed Monsters boarded as Jaina and David fought to hold them back.
• Mobius ordered the Iron Warships to ram the Rodent Fleet, sinking six Sailing Warships before William and Leonard cut off the survivors with their Steam Warships.
• With the Giant Rat isolated and defeat closing in, Eudora raised her Blunderbuss and shot at Rowan.

Eudora detonated the Iron Tide Pirates’ cannon deck, but Rhonin’s shield protected Rowan’s warship and the blast decided the battle. As Rhonin moved to capture the badly injured Eudora, Zuluhed rescued her and fled toward shore.

• Rhonin attacked Eudora with homing Arcane Missiles, driving her into the sea as Rowan continued directing the battle.
• Eudora shot at Rowan, then surfaced and detonated the cannon deck, causing a massive explosion.
• Rhonin shielded Rowan’s warship from the blast, while the Iron Tide Pirates outside the shield were devastated.
• Rowan ordered the survivors to search for Eudora as Jaina rebuilt the Sea Elemental and David killed the pirates who refused to surrender.
• Rhonin found Eudora injured behind wreckage and tried to seize her with Telekinesis, but the Sea Elemental blocked his spell.
• Zuluhed emerged from the sea, grabbed Eudora, and raced toward shore, prompting Rhonin to fire an Arcane Blast.

Yazir treated Eudora and healed Zuluhed after their dangerous rescue, while Zuluhed and Zul debated how to handle the Iron Tide Pirates and the crisis in King's Bay. Talanji chose Zul’s plan to trap Rowan in the mist-shrouded waters, leaving Zuluhed concerned that Rowan might discover the Island of the Damned.

• Yazir laid the unconscious Eudora in a glowing pool and healed Zuluhed’s shoulder with saliva from Krag'wa, while Zuluhed gave Yazir dried dragon flesh.
• Talanji praised Zuluhed for the rescue, and he explained that Harlan Sweete had concentrated the Iron Tide Fleet near Guardpoint Ridge while leaving King's Bay vulnerable.
• Zul and Zuluhed argued over whether warning Harlan Sweete had undermined Zandalar’s plans, but Talanji redirected them toward stabilizing King's Bay.
• Zuluhed and Zul warned Talanji that Rowan’s warships and his Archmage allies threatened the pirates, and Talanji ordered that Rowan be captured alive.
• Zul proposed trapping Rowan in the mist-shrouded waters, and Talanji approved while Zuluhed silently worried that Rowan could find the Island of the Damned.

Rowan’s fleet destroyed Eudora’s Water Rat Fleet and began turning the battle at King’s Bay against the Iron Tide Pirates. As Talanji drew Captain Jori to her side, Zul and Zuluhed prepared to confront the Iron Battleships, each pursuing his own aims.

• Rowan ordered Mobius to send the Steam Fleet against the Iron Tide Fleet’s right flank while the Iron Battleships cut off the Rodent Fleet’s retreat.
• The Steam Fleet and Iron Battleships destroyed the Rodent Fleet, and the Giant Sea Elemental drowned the Iron Tide soldiers who fell overboard.
• Zuluhed offered Captain Jori a chance to serve Talanji, and Jori chose to become her weapon after Harlan abandoned the fleet.
• Talanji promised Jori greater rewards after the war, while Zul told him to focus on driving the Combined Fleet back into the bay.
• Zul sent Zuluhed to face the Iron Battleships, and Zuluhed accused Zul of scheming before they parted to pursue their own ends.

Rowan’s fleet attacked the Iron Tide Pirates’ ships, while Rhonin drove Zuluhed back aboard the enemy flagship. Rowan recognized Talanji and Zul behind the ship’s magical defenses and saw a chance to capture or kill both Zandalari leaders, but Talanji’s mysterious ritual remained underway as the chapter ended.

• Rhonin attacked Zuluhed with Arcane Magic, forcing him to flee back toward the Iron Tide Pirates’ ships.
• Rowan ordered the Iron Battleships to bombard the eleven enemy warships, and Jaina struck one with a Giant Sea Elemental’s wave.
• A gray-black magical barrier blocked Jaina’s attack, and Rowan spotted Talanji and Zul aboard the protected flagship.
• Rowan continued the bombardment, sinking seven sailing warships while Rhonin pursued Zuluhed and Zul rescued him.
• Zuluhed returned to find the black mist weakening and saw Talanji praying before a shrine, leaving him doubtful that their defenses could withstand the human Archmages.

Talanji received Rezan’s power and joined Jaina and Rhonin in a clash of divine energy, while Zul attacked Rowan aboard the Iron Warship. After Number Zero confronted Zul and both plunged into the sea, Talanji’s ship began escaping, but Rowan ordered a full-speed pursuit.

• Talanji called on Rezan and gained his power, dispersing the black mist as Jaina and Rhonin transformed to fight beside her.
• Zul leaped onto the Iron Warship and attacked Rowan, but Mobius, David, Ellen, and Number Zero confronted him.
• Zul recognized Number Zero, who asked whether he belonged to the Zanchul Council before they fought and plunged into the sea.
• A Devilsaur energy projection pushed Talanji’s ship out of cannon range, and Rowan ordered the Iron Warship to pursue it.
• Mobius ordered the Iron Warship to charge, while Zuluhed urged Talanji to hold steady as the tides accelerated her fleet.

Rowan pursued Talanji and Zul into the open sea while the Combined Fleet fought the Iron Tide Pirates in King's Bay. Lashius ordered his ships to retreat, Leonard attacked him, and William failed to persuade him to send reinforcements as the fleet returned to port.

• Rowan led four Iron Warships through the Iron Tide Fleet and pursued Talanji and Zul toward the open sea.
• Captain Jori's fleet attacked the Combined Fleet, and Leonard and William urged Santos to fight on to protect Rowan's fleet.
• Lashius's contingent retreated, opening the Combined Fleet's defenses and giving the Iron Tide Pirates an opportunity to attack.
• Leonard boarded Lashius's flagship, accused him of abandoning the fight, and wounded him with a greatsword before Lashius's guards subdued and imprisoned Leonard.
• William asked Lashius to reinforce Santos, but Lashius refused, ordered the fleet to return to port, and directed William to seek Leonard's release through a military tribunal.

Rowan pursued Talanji and Zul into the Outer Sea, believing the Zandalari fleet was not yet a threat to Kul Tiras. Talanji redirected her ships toward the Drustvar Battlefield and used loa-powered devilsaur phantoms to strike Rowan’s warships, but Rowan ordered the chase to continue.

• Jaina challenged Rowan for abandoning the battle at King's Bay, and he argued that Talanji’s power suggested the Zandalari Empire was a greater concern than a lone witch doctor.
• Rowan concluded that the Zandalari fleet’s main force would not attack him yet and ordered his warships to keep advancing without firing.
• Talanji recognized Rowan as a dangerous pursuer and ordered Zuluhed to steer toward the Drustvar Battlefield to buy time.
• Talanji summoned Rezan’s power to send devilsaur phantoms beneath Rowan’s warships, shaking them with an underwater attack.
• After Rowan’s ships steadied and Mobius reported that Talanji’s fleet had pulled away, Rowan ordered his fleet to pursue them.

Lord Arthur and Lucille remained unable to break the Iron Tide Pirates’ defenses at Snowforest Harbor, while Lucille denied her feelings for Rowan. After Talanji and Zuluhed reached the harbor waters, Rowan had Rhonin teleport him and Jaina there to face the pirates.

• Lord Arthur complained that the Iron Tide Pirates’ turtle-shell shields had stalled his Fourth Fleet, and Lucille agreed that Rowan’s new fleet might have broken the deadlock.
• Lord Arthur pressed Lucille about her feelings for Rowan and urged her to marry, but she denied liking him and left in frustration.
• Talanji’s Sailing Fleet reached Snowforest Harbor after losing four ships, and the loa’s power left Talanji drained and visibly aged.
• Zuluhed watched the unconscious Talanji and decided to follow his heart as the Iron Tide Fleet faced the Fourth Fleet near the harbor.
• Rowan asked Rhonin to send him to Snowforest Harbor, and Jaina joined him before Rhonin teleported them both there.

Rowan and Jaina visited Lord Arthur at Snowforest Harbor to discuss joining forces against the Iron Tide Pirates, and Rowan explained how his four warships had reached the area. Jaina and Lucille confronted each other over their feelings for Rowan, leaving their rivalry unresolved.

• Rowan and Jaina met Lord Arthur at the Harbor Fortress, where Rowan clarified that they had come to discuss the Iron Tide Pirates rather than trade.
• Rowan told Lord Arthur that his four warships were at Icefield Beach and described their voyage and victories against the pirates.
• Lord Arthur asked about Rowan and Jaina's engagement, and Rowan declared that he would be delighted to marry Jaina.
• Jaina found Lucille upset outside and tried to speak with her about Rowan.
• Lucille challenged Jaina's reasons for believing Rowan loved her and vowed not to give him up, while Jaina warned that she would not accept him marrying two women.

Talanji recovered from her near-fatal overuse of the Loa’s power after Zul used sacrificial Blood Magic to break her divine protection. She learned that the protection could become a dangerous restraint, while Rowan’s return forced her party to leave the waters off Snowforest Harbor.

• Zul returned and rebuked Zuluhed for allowing Talanji to abuse divine power, then ordered Yazir to bring him a healthy human pirate.
• Zul used the pirate’s blood in a ritual that drained the man and restored Talanji, while Zuluhed covered up the sacrifice.
• Yazir burned the pirate’s desiccated corpse and returned to the cabin, where Talanji had awakened.
• Zul told Talanji that he had broken her divine protection so Zuluhed’s tide magic could heal her, and Talanji remembered Torga’s warning that the protection could become shackles.
• Zuluhed told Talanji that Rowan had returned and that they had to leave the waters off Snowforest Harbor ahead of schedule.

Rowan led the Iron Warships and the Fourth Fleet in a decisive assault on Raul's Blacktooth Fleet, overcoming its defenses and capturing Talanji after Valeera shattered the flagship's divine barrier. With Talanji in their hands, Rowan saw a major prize in the princess of the Kingdom of Zandalar.

• Talanji urged her teacher to pursue one final gamble against Rowan and Kul Tiras.
• Rowan charged the Iron Warships into the Blacktooth Fleet, while the Fourth Fleet joined the attack and destroyed the pirate vessels around the flagship.
• The flagship's divine protection resisted Rowan's ramming attack and cannon fire, so Rhonin tried to find a way to break the barrier as the pirates retreated.
• Valeera pierced the barrier with a burst of electrical power, allowing the Giant Sea Elemental and three Iron Warships to attack the flagship.
• Rhonin engaged Zul, while Zuluhed transformed into a wolf spirit and tried to escape with the unconscious Talanji.
• A dagger struck Zuluhed, and Jaina pulled Talanji back onto the deck, leaving Rowan with the captured princess.

Rowan interrogated the captured troll princess Talanji in Snowforest Town’s filthy dungeon, hoping to learn the location of the mist-shrouded waters. Talanji resisted his taunts and recognized that he was keeping her alive for information.

• Rowan doused Talanji with icy water to wake her and tried to provoke her into losing her temper.
• Talanji demanded that Rowan kill her, then criticized human conduct and defended her actions in the war.
• Rowan ordered Ellen to search Talanji’s pack and found personal items, medical supplies, and skincare products but no weapons or equipment.
• Rowan asked Talanji to reveal the exact location of the mist-shrouded waters, explaining that rescuing the Combined Fleet could decide the battle near Guardpoint Ridge.
• Talanji mocked Rowan for abandoning his attempt to provoke her and questioning her about the war instead.

Rowan forced the captured Talanji to reveal the location of the mist-shrouded waters, giving him leverage in the war, then prepared a celebratory meal with Jaina and Lucille. The chapter ended with Jaina and Lucille competing for Rowan’s attention as he tried to cook.

• Rowan threatened to send Talanji’s head to Lordaeron, and she agreed to reveal where the mist-shrouded waters were.
• Rowan ordered Jenny to take Talanji to a cell and pack up her ruined cosmetics, while Talanji wrestled with her doubts about him.
• Rowan celebrated capturing Zandalar’s princess by planning a meal with catfish, and Lucille prepared the fish while Jaina watched.
• Jaina and Lucille refused Rowan’s request to wait in the sitting room and both insisted on helping him cook.
• Jaina told Rowan he could choose only one of them.

Rowan and Jaina shared a meal with Lucille before reaffirming their love and plans to marry, while Lucille watched them embrace from the shore. The next day, Rowan joined a military council that decided to investigate the Misty Sea, and Lord Arthur privately asked him to reconsider Lucille’s feelings.

• Jaina and Lucille competed over the food at Rowan’s dinner, and Jaina declared that she and Rowan would be busy getting married.
• Rowan told Lucille that he loved Jaina, and Lucille wished the couple happiness.
• Rowan and Jaina walked along the shore, promised to wait until she came of age, and embraced beneath the moonlight as Lucille watched from behind a reef.
• Rowan, Talanji, and Lord Arthur discussed a chart locating the Misty Sea near Kul Tiras, and they decided to sail toward the Crimson Forest the next day.
• Lord Arthur asked Rowan to reconsider Lucille’s feelings, but Rowan refused to become a cheating bastard.

Aboard the Iron Warship, Rowan argued that he would overthrow Zandalar’s royal court and rule for the people, leaving Talanji shaken by his vision and their military imbalance. Meanwhile, on a small island, Zul decided to report Talanji’s capture if necessary, but Yazir still hoped she could manage without the Zandalari navy.

• Talanji observed the Iron Warship and concluded that Zandalar needed to change after seeing the gulf between its forces and Kul Tiras’s technology.
• Rowan asked Talanji to submit, then explained that he wanted to destroy Zandalar’s royal court while preserving its people and culture under his rule.
• Talanji questioned Rowan’s claims, but his arguments about power, industry, and ordinary people left her doubting her ability to defeat him.
• On the island, Yazir hunted a goat while Zuluhed prepared it, and Zul said he would send word of Talanji’s capture if necessary.
• Yazir urged the others to wait because Rowan’s fleet was heading toward the mist-shrouded waters, while Zul began a ritual to seek the gods’ help.

Zul sought Bwonsamdi’s help after Talanji was captured, warning that a powerful arcane mage had overcome Bwonsamdi’s Mist Formation. Meanwhile, Rowan’s fleet examined a magical Lightning Dagger and began searching for the caster behind the sea fog.

• Zul summoned Bwonsamdi and told him that the Kul Tiras Navy had captured Talanji.
• Bwonsamdi dismissed Talanji’s capture as Zandalar’s problem, but reconsidered when Zul explained that her survival mattered to Zandalar’s future.
• Zul warned Bwonsamdi that a powerful arcane mage had broken through the Mist Formation, and Bwonsamdi threatened to withhold the final Colossus Seal if Zul had another purpose.
• Rhonin examined the Lightning Dagger and explained that it drew unrestrained power from a powerful creature, while Jaina suspected it had been stolen.
• Rowan took the Lightning Dagger for its potential use in developing electrical power.
• When Talanji noticed mist on the sea, Rowan stopped the ship and ordered a search outside the fog for its caster.

Rowan interrogated Talanji about the sea fog, then chose to lead the fleet into it despite the risk. Once inside, Rhonin detected traces of the fog’s movements, though its caster had distorted them to hide the source.

• After three days of fruitless patrols, Rowan questioned Talanji about how to dispel the sea fog, and she said they needed to find the spell’s sustaining center.
• Rowan suspected Talanji wanted him to enter the mist, then realized she feared being taken back to King's Bay and used as a prisoner of war.
• Talanji urged Rowan to risk entering the fog to save the Combined Fleet, and Rowan concluded that she preferred the mist to captivity.
• Rowan ordered the warships to turn around and sail into the sea fog, where it quickly swallowed the fleet and erased their sense of direction.
• Rhonin examined the fog and said its movements left traces, but its caster had distorted them to conceal the source.

Jaina, Rowan, Rhonin, and Talanji struggled to understand the mist trapping them at sea and decided to test it with arcane markers. Meanwhile, Lashius feared Rowan’s growing power, learned that Faye was concerned for her trapped husband Brannon, and watched Priscilla pressure Lord Stormsong to help find the missing Combined Fleet.

• Rowan realized the fleet might be trapped because it followed the mist’s movement, and he proposed leaving two arcane markers to test the idea.
• Lashius learned Rowan had destroyed the Raoul Fleet and was searching for the missing Combined Fleet, then hurried to Stormsong’s temple fearing Rowan would soon threaten him.
• Lashius warned Lord Stormsong that Rowan’s Iron Battleships endangered House Stormsong’s military and commercial power.
• Lashius invited Faye to dinner, but she refused and told him to focus on the fighting in King’s Bay.
• Lashius overheard Faye and Priscilla discussing their trapped husbands, Brannon and Lord Ashvane, and mistakenly thought Brannon had cuckolded him.
• Priscilla threatened to expose Stormsong’s secrets unless he helped find her husband, and Stormsong reluctantly agreed to consider it.

As a sudden storm gathered over the Storm Temple, Faye and Fern discussed the dangerous power Lord Stormsong had connected to the Temple and Brannon’s disappearance in the Misty Sea. Faye left secretly to search for Brannon, while Fern stayed behind to watch Lord Stormsong and alert End of the Storm if trouble arose.

• Faye told Fern that a mysterious power from the deep sea had connected with the Storm Temple, violating an ancient taboo.
• Fern revealed that Brannon was trapped in a soul-made sea-fog barrier and that four high-ranking tidal priests sent to find him had also vanished.
• Faye decided to leave the Temple secretly and search for Brannon in the Misty Sea.
• Fern arranged for Faye to pass the checkpoint, pointed her toward a fast boat, and gave her a Runic Darkblade.
• Fern stayed behind to keep watch on Lord Stormsong and report any danger to End of the Storm.

Rowan and the warships continued to wander through the Misty Sea until Ellen discovered a Wind Wall suspended above a ship. Jaina recognized it as a Tidesage spell and a possible marker left by the Combined Fleet, giving them their first lead after five days.

• Jaina worried about losing her hair and learned that Rowan had crushed Talanji's hair-growth elixir.
• Rhonin secretly gave Rowan a cream bun made with his Advanced Breakfast Spell.
• Ellen noticed an unusual gust, climbed onto the command room roof, and was thrown into the sea by a Wind Wall.
• Ellen pointed out the Wind Wall, and Rhonin stopped the warship and dropped anchor.
• Jaina identified the Wind Wall as a Tidesage spell that could mark the Combined Fleet, while Talanji renewed her resolve to pursue her goal.

Rowan’s fleet followed Brannon’s Wind Condensation marks through the Misty Sea and found the Combined Fleet after ramming a Third Fleet warship. The fleets reunited and began investigating how to escape the mist, while Brannon approached Jaina and Rhonin after the meeting.

• Rhonin determined that the wind elements in the Wind Walls moved along fixed paths, and Rowan’s fleet followed them until it heard ships beyond the mist.
• Rowan called out to the unseen ship and received a reply, then ordered his fleet straight ahead; it struck and broke apart a Third Fleet warship, revealing the Combined Fleet.
• Rowan reunited with Lord Arthur, Lord Ashvane, Halliwell, and Kainings, and mocked Lord Ashvane over their past economic disagreements before Arthur turned the meeting to escaping the mist.
• Brannon reported that he had placed twenty-seven Wind Condensation marks across an area of roughly fifty thousand square nautical miles, and Jaina described how the fleets’ separate mists merged when they met.
• Lord Ashvane and Rhonin concluded that discovering what lay beyond the mist was the key to escape, while Brannon stayed behind to speak with Jaina and Rhonin.

Lord Stormsong accepted the Light of Lights’ power beneath the Storm Temple, choosing to break with the Tidesage elders’ teachings. He emerged changed and turned his attention to Rowan, while a Faceless Behemoth formed beneath the temple and the goddess revealed her monstrous nature.

• Lord Stormsong reflected on how he had defied Tidesage traditions to build House Stormsong’s wealth and power, then confronted the whispers from the deep sea.
• Lord Stormsong summoned the Light of Lights, who appeared before him and told him that he was first and foremost himself.
• Lord Stormsong touched the altar and accepted the Light of Lights’ power as the spectral Tidesage elders watched and faded away.
• Lord Stormsong left the temple in clear weather, murmuring about Rowan venturing into the Misty Sea.
• Beneath the temple, a Faceless Behemoth formed from swollen flesh, and the Light of Lights transformed into a tentacled banshee and called it her child.

Number Zero reported to Daelin as Rowan’s fleet prepared to break through the mist, while Rowan questioned Talanji about Vol’dun and joined the planning meeting. The fleets’ experiment revealed that an illusion concealed the real mist around them, and Rhonin identified an island sustaining the spell, prompting Rowan to order an advance.

• Number Zero reached Daelin and reported that Rowan had entered the mist, and Daelin ordered the Sea Sovereignty to attack the Iron Tide Pirates.
• Rowan questioned Talanji about Vol’dun, learned that General Moroi led it, and warned her that the fleet was about to break through the mist.
• Rowan, Rhonin, Jaina, and Brannon presented a plan to separate the fleets and use an energy anchor, despite objections from Lord Ashvane and Halliwell.
• The fleets sailed in opposite directions, and Rhonin teleported Rowan to the anchor, where he discovered that the fog outside the fleets’ mist was an illusion.
• Rhonin dispelled the illusion and revealed an island sustaining the mist, and Rowan ordered the fleet to move out.

Rowan was forced to command a small landing force onto the mist-shrouded island and brought the captive Talanji as a hostage. As the party encountered Ironclad Souls, Talanji warned that the spirits would not obey her.

• Rowan's reconnaissance found the island's coast deserted and confirmed that the island sustained the mist, so the commanders agreed to send a small force ashore.
• Lord Ashvane nominated Rowan to command the assault, and Kainings, Halliwell, and Lord Arthur backed him until he could not refuse.
• Jaina questioned Rowan after the meeting, and he asked her to keep him safe during the landing.
• Rowan had Ellen tie up Talanji, then led the twenty-person party onto the island using a Teleportation Spell.
• Rhonin cleared the mist with Arcane Explosion as Jaina placed arcane markers, but several Ironclad Souls attacked the party and battered its Arcane Shield.
• Rowan held a dagger to Talanji's neck to stop the others from moving, but she said the Ironclad Souls obeyed only one will.