Chapter Summaries

Rowan sought Ysera’s help obtaining the Tear of Elune, only to discover Tyrande had taken it from the Temple of the Moon. Meanwhile, Imonar tortured two Night Watch members to learn what Prince Farondis had taken, and Eddie lied about the artifact as Adelrie faced further torment.

• Rowan discussed Tyrande’s negotiating tactics with Ysera and asked to borrow the Tear of Elune.
• Ysera agreed to lend Rowan the Tear in exchange for his help finding land in the Eastern Kingdoms for a Dreamgrove.
• Rowan and Ysera found the Temple of the Moon’s fountain empty, and Sa'ella revealed that Tyrande had taken the Tear.
• Imonar shackled Adelrie and Eddie in his interrogation room and used the Soul Abyss Gem to torture Adelrie.
• Imonar asked Eddie what Prince Farondis had taken, and Eddie falsely claimed it was the Ring of Eternity.

Rowan learned that the Emerald Nightmare had overwhelmed Shaladrassil and agreed to enter the Eileen Rift with Ysera to confront its source. Meanwhile, Tyrande handed Xavius the Tear of Elune in exchange for Malfurion’s release, but Xavius only promised that she would see him soon.

• Ysera revealed that the Nightmare had corrupted Shaladrassil’s core, while Malfurion and Lunara remained missing.
• Rowan proposed sending a team into the Eileen Rift, and Ysera agreed to accompany him and protect him with her guardian power.
• Xavius showed Tyrande that Malfurion was imprisoned in the Eileen Rift and demanded the Tear of Elune as their bargain required.
• Tyrande attacked Xavius with Moonlight Arrows, but he reappeared and claimed his new power made him impossible to defeat.
• Tyrande gave Xavius the Tear of Elune, and he promised she would see Malfurion soon.

Malfurion escaped the Eileen Rift after Xavius traded him for Tyrande’s corrupted Tear of Elune, which Xavius then used to corrupt Ursol. Rowan hurried back to the Dreamgrove as the Emerald Dream’s corruption spread, while Farondis reunited with Thalyssra and asked about the Arcan'dor Ancient Tree.

• Malfurion fought the nightmare’s erosion in the Eileen Rift as Xavius recalled his rivalry with the Stormrage brothers and revealed that he wanted Malfurion to witness the world’s destruction.
• Xavius released Malfurion in exchange for Tyrande’s Tear of Elune, then used the corrupted Tear to turn Ursol into a raging servant of the nightmare.
• Rowan left Ysera with warnings not to enter the nightmare alone and returned to the Dreamgrove in Drustvar, where Katrana showed him she had learned to become a Druid.
• Rowan told Katrana that corruption was spreading through the Emerald Dream, and she transformed into a dragon so they could fly while he explained what was happening.
• At the Meredil Ruins, Farondis reunited with Thalyssra, who apologized for not seeking him out, and he asked where the Arcan'dor Ancient Tree was.

Rowan consulted Xal'atath about stopping the Emerald Dream's corruption, and she proposed that his unusual soul might persuade Igvarus to leave willingly. After reuniting with Lucille and learning about the demon invasion and political resistance, Rowan prepared for the mission while Cenarius rejected Ysera's decision to trust him.

• Katrana returned to the institute cafeteria, where staff hurried to warn others that she was back, while Rowan grabbed food and left.
• Xal'atath explained that Igvarus, Heart of Corruption, was the source of the Dream's corruption and suggested Rowan might persuade it to purify itself and leave; Rowan insisted she join the mission.
• Rowan reunited with Lucille, who reported demon sightings near Lordaeron and Dalaran, Thrall training Orcs at Durnholde Keep, and Stormwind nobles opposing the Armies of Legionfall.
• Rowan told Lucille to kill troublesome Stormwind nobles if necessary, and she agreed to handle it cleanly.
• Cenarius confronted Ysera for trusting Rowan instead of acting against the corruption, then left to enter the grove while Ysera stayed behind.

Rowan traveled with Devos, Katrana, and Xal'atath while Devos tried to understand human contradictions and Katrana sought Rowan’s attention. In Val’sharah, Cenarius led the Nature Guardians through Shaladrassil’s corruption and confronted Xavius, but the apparent victory gave way to a disturbing vision of Malfurion as Cenarius’s Nightmare power took hold.

• Katrana showed Rowan her student disguise, and Rowan rebuked her while Xal'atath hurried ahead after Katrana teased them.
• Devos asked Rowan why humans were contradictory, and he told her to spend a month thinking like one.
• Cenarius led the Nature Guardians into corrupted Shaladrassil, rescued Dream Guardians, restrained Goldrinn, and freed Elerethe.
• Cenarius attacked Xavius with the power of nature, and Lunara and her sisters struck him with Nature Javelins.
• The Nightmare corruption appeared to recede as Xavius’s cries faded, but voices resembling Malfurion and Xavius unsettled Cenarius, whose Spirit of Nature turned blood-red.

Rowan learned that Tyrande had given the Tear of Elune to Xavius and left Val'sharah’s defenses depleted, so he led Ysera and their allies into the Emerald Dream to fight the Nightmare. In Hillsbrad, Thrall enjoyed a quiet life with Taretha until Zuluhed urged him to use the Burning Legion’s invasion to free the orcs, and Thrall asked to hear the truth about their history with fel.

• Ysera told Rowan that Tyrande had traded the Tear of Elune to Xavius to secure Malfurion’s release, while Tyrande had taken most of Val'sharah’s forces to Mount Hyjal.
• Rowan dismissed the absent guards and led the group through Eilor’s Teleportation Circle toward the entrance to the Emerald Dream; Sa'ella urged the elves in the Grove not to abandon the dream dragons.
• Thrall and Taretha shared a peaceful day at home, and Thrall made her a fox-fur coat before she asked him to have a child.
• Thrall sensed the fel energy left by Demon Hound bites awakening his dormant bloodline, then confronted Zuluhed when the warlock came to his courtyard.
• Zuluhed urged Thrall to exploit the Burning Legion’s attack to free the orcs in the internment camps, and Thrall agreed to hear the true history of the orcs and fel.

Malfurion investigated the Nightmare’s source while Xal’atath confronted Il’gynoth and Yogg-Saron, then introduced Rowan as Il’gynoth’s guide. Elsewhere, Zuluhed explained the Horde’s corruption and crimes to Thrall before revealing that Gul’dan was still alive.

• Malfurion watched Lunara mistake a healthy oak sapling for corruption, then followed tremors and discovered two corrupted devilsaurs had been subdued by outsiders.
• Xal’atath contacted Il’gynoth and told him that his origins and thoughts were tied to the Void, while Yogg-Saron and N’Zoth angrily tried to stop her.
• Yogg-Saron attacked Xal’atath through their psychic link, but Rowan helped her evade the blast, which struck N’Zoth instead.
• Xal’atath introduced Rowan to the confused Il’gynoth as someone who could help him understand the world beyond the shadow will.
• Zuluhed told Thrall how Gul’dan and the Burning Legion had led the Horde to embrace fel, destroy the draenei, and ruin Draenor.
• Thrall walked away after hearing Zuluhed’s account, but turned back in fury when Zuluhed revealed that Gul’dan was still alive.

Rowan entered Il'gynoth's mind and persuaded him to withdraw the corruption from the Emerald Dream, leaving the dream able to heal. A week later, Shandris and Malisar saw the Burning Legion arrive over Felwood and flew to the Nighthold, where two fel lords confronted them.

• Rowan connected to Il'gynoth's mental world and argued that life could seek a better future without accepting the void's destruction.
• Il'gynoth accepted Rowan's words for now, ended the corruption, and withdrew Corruption's Heart from Shaladrassil toward Ny'alotha.
• Ysera felt her burden ease as the Emerald Dream began healing, while Rowan asked her to prepare other things for him.
• Shandris and Malisar discussed the strange weakening of nature in Felwood as they kept watch for the Burning Legion.
• Two Void Warships and a Void Flagship appeared over Felwood, and Shandris ordered the outposts to fall back and defend Mount Hyjal.
• Shandris and Malisar flew to the Nighthold and landed on its platform, where two fel lords raised their burning blades against them.

Malfurion, Ysera, Rowan, and their allies fought the nightmare-corrupted Wild Gods at the Eileen Rift, but Xavius seized Rowan and dragged him into the Shadow Rift. The scene then shifted to a Legion warship, where Shandris Feathermoon confronted the supposedly dead Tichondrius.

• Malfurion confirmed that Xavius had corrupted ten Wild Gods, including Cenarius, and Ysera decided to confront them at the Eileen Rift.
• Cenarius and the corrupted Wild Gods attacked Ysera's group, while Malfurion battled his former mentor and Rowan and Devos fought off other attackers.
• Devos resisted the corrupting shadows, helped drive back Goldrinn, and joined the battle as the Wild Gods and Ysera's allies fought to a stalemate.
• Xavius appeared behind Rowan, grabbed his shoulder, and pulled him into the Shadow Rift.
• Shandris Feathermoon defeated two Felguards aboard a Burning Legion warship, then faced Tichondrius, who claimed he had survived his previous death.

Rowan resisted Xavius’s attempts to torture and corrupt him, then trapped Xavius inside his powerful mind. Katrana’s intervention let Xavius escape, and the chapter ended with the weakened Xavius attacking Sa’ella and the defenders near the Moon Altar.

• Xavius imprisoned Rowan and used corrupted tendrils and nightmare power to try to make him submit, but Rowan secretly neutralized the attacks with artifact energy.
• Rowan provoked Xavius into entering his mind, where Rowan’s immense soul overwhelmed and trapped him.
• Katrana burst into Eileen Rift to rescue Rowan, allowing Xavius to escape through a portal and abandon his physical body.
• Rowan healed Katrana with artifact energy and carried her through the Dream Portal to Shaladrassil’s woodland.
• Xavius attacked Sa’ella, elf guards, and druids as they blocked his escape, while Sa’ella prayed to Elune for strength.

Sa'ella became a Moon Warrior and helped kill Xavius, while Rowan recovered the Tear of Elune and confirmed that Val'sharah was safe. Xavius's soul was taken by Azshara, and two weeks later the Burning Legion invaded the Hillsbrad Foothills, leaving Drak facing a devastating Infernal assault.

• Sa'ella received Elune's favor, pinned Xavius with Moonfire, and joined four druids in killing him with Starsurges.
• The elves of Shaladrassil's grove celebrated Sa'ella, while Rowan found the Tear of Elune among Xavius's remains and warned Sa'ella to be careful with her words.
• Rowan told Sa'ella that the Emerald Dream crisis was over and left, offering to arrange work in Kul Tiras for her and her uncle Farodin.
• Azshara appeared to Xavius's departing soul, reshaped it, and took him to the Eternal Palace in Zin-Azshari.
• Thrall ordered the soldiers to retreat when the Legion's teleportation spell brought fel meteors down on their camp in the Hillsbrad Foothills.
• Drak fought an Infernal that regenerated its missing arm, saw the battlefield overwhelmed by Infernals, and charged into the enemy with two swords.

Rowan used the Tear of Elune in the Heart of Azeroth to provide pure energy that brought the Arcan'dor Ancient Tree to its final growth stage, offering hope to the Nightborne. The tree stopped before flowering and fruiting, but Sa'ella arrived with an unusual druid who might know how to complete its cultivation.

• Aluriel blamed Rowan for Suramar's fall and wanted to kill him, while Vandros and Melandrus warned her not to disrupt their plan to exploit the Nightborne's mana addiction.
• Rowan met Prince Farondis, learned that the Tidestone was nourishing the Arcan'dor Ancient Tree, and offered to help it grow with energy from the Heart of Azeroth.
• Rowan channeled the Tear of Elune's transformed energy into the Arcan'dor Ancient Tree, which rapidly reached its final growth stage before its growth stopped.
• Farondis explained that the tree still needed to flower and fruit, a stage he had not personally overseen.
• Nikus announced that Sa'ella had arrived with an unusual druid, and Rowan eagerly asked for them to be brought in.

Sa'ella brought Farodin to meet Rowan, where Farodin confronted his guilt over an Arcan'dor disaster and agreed to help with Rowan's tree. Elsewhere, Imonar tortured the Night Watch for information about the Tidestone, while Thrall drew on fel energy fighting infernals and risked awakening his demon blood curse.

• Sa'ella took Farodin to Shal'Aran Temple to meet Rowan, and Farodin recoiled at returning to the place tied to the Arcan'dor's explosion.
• Rowan revealed that he had an Arcan'dor, and Tel'arn recognized Farodin as a former colleague before Farodin admitted the danger of the tree destabilizing without a steady energy supply.
• Farodin agreed to help Rowan's effort to save the Nightborne, and Rowan called for them to begin at once.
• Imonar tortured the Night Watch at Nar'thalas Academy for information about the Pillars of Creation, but Eddie insisted the Tidestone had been destroyed and refused to betray Prince Farondis.
• Thrall and Drak fought infernals as Thrall absorbed fel energy, prompting Zuluhed to warn that it was awakening Thrall's demon blood curse.
• A stream of seawater fell over Thrall and Drak as the battle continued.

Thrall escaped the infernals with Zuluhed and Drak while the Burning Legion began its assault on Mount Hyjal, setting Nordrassil ablaze. In Meredil Ruins, Vandros, Melandrus, and Aluriel entered Shal'Aran expecting Elisande and Thalyssra to surrender, but Vandros sensed an unexpectedly powerful energy below.

• Thrall healed, ordered Zuluhed to carry the badly injured Drak to safety, then used a Bladestorm to kill the six infernals and escaped on a frost wolf.
• Malisar tried to destroy the Nighthold's Star Destroyer Cannon generator, but Gul'dan ordered it fired and three warships bombarded Nordrassil.
• Malisar and Shandris attacked Tichondrius, but Gul'dan's fel fire engulfed Nordrassil and plunged Mount Hyjal into darkness.
• Vandros told Melandrus and Aluriel that the Nightborne commoners were gathering, and the demon forces surrounded the Meredil Ruins.
• Vandros, Melandrus, and Aluriel followed the commoners into Shal'Aran, where Vandros sensed a remarkably rich energy source.

Rowan helped the Nightborne reject Vandros’s appeal to fel by proving that Arcan'dor fruit cured mana addiction, while Vandros and the other traitors turned to violence. The story then shifted to Mount Hyjal, where druids evacuated the Kaldorei as Nordrassil burned and Fandral Staghelm lamented Malfurion’s absence.

• Vandros urged the desperate Nightborne to embrace fel, but Rowan told them they could choose their own future and trusted their people to choose hope.
• Rowan and Shalan ate Arcan'dor fruit, and Shalan’s mana addiction vanished, prompting him to announce the Nightborne’s salvation.
• Vandros transformed into a fel monster and attacked the crowd, but Elisande trapped him with temporal magic while Thalyssra blasted him away.
• Aluriel summoned demon troops to attack Meredil, and Melandrus followed as Elisande and Thalyssra celebrated the Nightborne’s deliverance with Rowan.
• Druids led the Kaldorei through a protected passage toward Malorne Sanctuary as Nordrassil burned, while Fandral Staghelm complained that Malfurion was absent.

Jaina struggled to lead the Alliance conference as its representatives argued over the Legion’s advance and the fate of the orc internment camps, until Rowan arrived and took charge. Meanwhile, Thrall reached a camp in occupied territory just as Leihanna tried to tempt its orcs with demon blood, and he stopped a young orc from drinking it.

• Prince Liam proposed abandoning vulnerable settlements and concentrating the Alliance’s forces on defensible terrain.
• Bolvar called for a decision on the interned orcs, while Blackmoore defended the camps as a symbol of human civilization and urged Kul Tiras to send more aid.
• Bolvar and Blackmoore clashed over the Alliance’s priorities until Rowan entered the conference hall and silenced the argument.
• Azgalor sent Leihanna to use demon blood to corrupt the orcs held in camps cut off near Tarren Mill.
• Leihanna tempted a young orc with promises of power, but Thrall arrived and knocked the demon blood from his hands.

Rowan backed Bolvar’s proposal to resolve the orc internment crisis, pressuring Blackmoore to cooperate while calling for the Alliance to unite against the Burning Legion. Meanwhile, Gul’dan escalated his assault on Nordrassil, and Krosus arrived to trap the night elves as they fled.

• Rowan argued that the Alliance could neither release nor continue supporting the orc captives, and Blackmoore maintained that they should remain confined.
• Modera challenged Blackmoore over the cost of the camps, and Rowan announced Kul Tiran reinforcements for Southshore before urging the kingdoms to form an allied army.
• After the meeting, Rowan reviewed intelligence with Jaina, and they reconciled privately.
• Gul’dan watched Nordrassil burn, ordered the capture of female and young night elves, and dismissed Tichondrius’s concerns.
• Malfurion arrived and promised to protect the Kaldorei, but Krosus destroyed the druids’ escape passage and blocked the fleeing civilians.

Thrall defeated Leihanna, freed the orcs in an internment camp, and accepted their pledge to follow him as their new chieftain. Meanwhile, Sylvanas investigated the Legion beacon at Tarren Mill, and Azgalor prepared to attack Southshore while Domataks worried about Rowan’s plans.

• Thrall captured Leihanna, forced her to burn away her energy, and let her leave with a warning for Gul'dan.
• Thrall freed the internment camp’s orcs, accepted their clan tokens, and declared their unity for the Horde.
• Sylvanas rejected King Anasterian’s offer to return as Ranger-General while she and Capernian watched the beacon at Tarren Mill.
• Azgalor prepared thirty thousand demons to attack Southshore and cut off Kul Tiras’s maritime supply route.
• Domataks warned Azgalor about Kul Tiras’s powerful cannons and worried that Rowan might target the beacon behind them.

Fandral failed to save Mount Hyjal’s civilians as the Legion destroyed Nordrassil, while Tyrande and Malfurion confronted the losses and disagreements left by the defeat. As the Legion attacked Southshore, Rowan joined Sylvanas and Capernian behind enemy lines to steal secrets from the Legion’s Warship Teleportation Engine.

• Fandral charged into the flames to rescue Night Elf civilians, but a blast killed them before he could reach them, driving him into a furious attack on the demons.
• Malfurion abandoned the northern settlements and focused on evacuating civilians, while Fandral broke down at Cenarius’s Refuge and Tyrande argued with Malfurion over her refusal to cooperate with Rowan.
• Tyrande asked Malfurion why the Wild Gods had not helped, and he explained that the nightmare had stolen their wills and sent them to Ardenweald.
• The Legion claimed Mount Hyjal, and Tyrande later opened an underground complex in Felwood while Jarod Shadowsong continued searching for Maiev.
• Azgalor attacked Southshore, but its fleets used Mage Hunter shells to devastate the demon forces before the Void Warships raised a defensive barrier.
• Rowan joined Sylvanas and Capernian at the Legion’s Tarren Mill stronghold, where they infiltrated the Warship Teleportation Engine so he could steal its technological secrets.

Rowan and Sylvanas infiltrated the Fel Teleportation Engine, where their close encounter led them to confess their feelings with a kiss while Capernian watched. Back in Suramar, Elisande and Thalyssra received a report that Farondis was in danger.

• Rowan and Sylvanas hid from the fel detection beams in a blind spot while Capernian scouted the upper floors.
• Rowan kissed Sylvanas, and she returned his affection before reminding him they still had a mission.
• Capernian found Rowan and Sylvanas together and watched them share an intimate moment.
• Elisande warned Thalyssra that Rowan had many women around him and urged her to build support before pursuing him.
• Silgryn brought Elisande and Thalyssra an urgent report, and they learned that Farondis was in danger.