Recaps

Rowan faced political betrayal and devastating losses while preparing the Norwington Family to fight the Iron Tide Pirates. The Combined Fleet entered battle in the Outer Sea, where the Iron Warships withstood the enemy’s guns and Jerry’s lightning dagger revealed a new threat.

• Daelin assigned Kul Tiras’s fleets to defend the coast and ordered Rowan to prepare seven Iron Warships within a month.
• Zuluhed negotiated with Bwonsamdi as gray fog trapped the Kul Tiras fleet, while Rowan recalled forces and prepared to defend the Inland Sea.
• Rowan prioritized wartime necessities over merchants’ profits, and the Norwington fleet fought Mark’s pirates in the Inland Sea as Lillard withheld reinforcements.
• Jaina killed Lillard after Rhonin’s Time Magic revealed his delay, and Rowan ordered the Third Fleet to Morris Harbor while Byron’s heart was preserved by the Holy Pact.
• Broll treated Byron, William joined Rowan’s Second Fleet, and Rowan gained the support of his commanders for a campaign into the Outer Sea.
• William’s Iron Warships destroyed the pirate fleet attacking Sentinel Camp, and Rowan offered the captured Rondo a chance to find other Freehold pirates.
• Rowan volunteered the Second Fleet to lead the Combined Fleet against the Iron Tide Fleet, then ordered the Iron Warships to fire as Eudora’s guns failed to damage them.
• Jerry’s lightning dagger carved the steel hull and sent electricity through the water before David knocked him unconscious, and Rowan handed the dagger to Rhonin.

Rowan pursued Talanji, captured her, and reunited with the Combined Fleet inside the Misty Sea. The fleet found the island sustaining the fog, and Rowan led a small landing party into danger.

• Rowan’s fleet defeated the Rodent Fleet and pursued Talanji, while Zuluhed rescued her and Talanji’s forces withdrew toward Snowforest Harbor.
• Rowan joined Lord Arthur’s Fourth Fleet, and after Valeera broke the flagship’s divine barrier, Jaina captured Talanji as Zuluhed tried to escape with her.
• Rowan questioned Talanji about the mist-shrouded waters, then sailed into the sea fog to find the missing Combined Fleet.
• Faye left the Storm Temple to search for Brannon in the Misty Sea, while Lord Stormsong accepted the Light of Lights’ power and a Faceless Behemoth formed beneath the temple.
• Rowan’s fleet followed Tidesage Wind Walls and collided with a Third Fleet warship, revealing the Combined Fleet and bringing Rowan together with Lord Arthur, Lord Ashvane, Halliwell, Kainings, and Brannon.
• Rowan and Rhonin exposed an illusion concealing an island that sustained the mist, and the commanders chose Rowan to lead a small landing party.
• Rowan led twenty people onto the island by Teleportation Spell, where Ironclad Souls attacked and Talanji warned that they obeyed only one will.

Rowan’s party claimed the Scepter of the Abyss, ended the island’s soul mist, and returned to Kul Tiras, where Rowan expanded his political and commercial plans. As he traveled to Southshore and dealt with allies and rivals, Arthas arrived in the region and Jaina feared Lordaeron would pressure Daelin over her marriage.

• Jaina and Rhonin defeated the Ironclad Souls, and Rowan’s party discovered the temple and took the Scepter of the Abyss after clashes with Zuluhed and the Naga.
• Rowan used the Scepter to clear the island’s soul mist and repel Hajatan, then warned Lord Ashvane that he planned to build influence in the Kul Tiras Navy.
• Rowan’s fleet contained a vast oil fire, returned to Boralus, and Rowan freed Leonard and his family from Lashius’s abuse before sending Inee and Bunian away.
• Rowan and Jaina made their relationship official, and Rowan secured Daelin’s approval to marry Jaina while arranging new markets and a grain deal with Illucia.
• Rowan assigned his leaders new responsibilities, agreed to search for Faye, and learned that Faye had survived on an island before departing with Sataia.
• Rastakhan’s council identified Kul Tiras as Zandalar’s hypothetical enemy, while Zuluhed urged him to support the Horde and change course.
• Byron and Adrian began selling Norwington grain in Stormsong Valley despite Tony Ma’s boycott threat, while Rowan traveled to Southshore and recruited Lucille as a journalist.
• Rowan met Blackmoore in Southshore as Arthas inspected Durnholde’s orc camps, and Jaina warned Rowan that Lordaeron’s court might push Daelin toward a political marriage for her.

Rowan helped turn back Zandalari and orc forces at Southshore, then returned to Morris Town to expand his industrial plans and confront resistance from Kul Tiras’s powerful families. The stretch ended with Byron drawn into an investigation of Reki Hank and Sataia, while Number Six searched for Number Seven.

• Rowan proposed exploiting orc infighting, and Zuluhed enlisted Grom to escape the internment camp and restore the Horde’s honor.
• Rowan suspected Blackmoore had helped the orc raids, while Lucille’s investigation and the agents’ reports pointed toward a traitor in Southshore’s military.
• Zuluhed and Zul led a Zandalari fleet against Garithos’s Royal Fleet as Rowan took his Iron Warships toward the coast.
• Rowan trapped Grom, Zuluhed, and Zul in mist, then persuaded Grom to stop the fighting before his ships sank Garithos’s flagship.
• Rowan returned to Morris Town, backed its growth, and ordered Byron and Floyd to resist House Stormsong’s boycott with low-priced goods.
• Rhonin and Sataia tested a long-range shell, which Rowan named the Mage Hunter, while the Family Council debated the rival families’ warships and a technology-transfer agreement.
• Rowan agreed to help Tandred prosecute noble heirs who had abused girls, while Daelin announced Rowan and Jaina would marry at the next Midsummer Festival.
• Rhonin rescued Byron from Reki, Archbishop Joseph suppressed a hidden substance in Lord Arthur, and Number Six asked Number Zero where Number Seven was.