Chapter Summaries

Nathos ordered Kargath’s corpse taken for the Forsaken to extract intelligence after the Horde withdrew from Stoneclaw Mountain, while Meryl and Ohan discussed holding Dire Maul. Belorell followed clues about his hidden parentage to the Eastern Plaguelands, where he was nearing the place marked on Alleria’s old map.

• Nathos recognized the badly mutilated corpse as King Kargath and ordered it brought back so the Forsaken could strip away his soul and obtain Horde intelligence.
• Meryl warned Ohan that burning Dire Maul would destroy its resources, and Ohan said the Forsaken would garrison it when the master gave the order.
• Belorell investigated his unusual appearance and learned that his mother, Alleria, had once taken a human as her partner.
• Belorell secretly searched Alleria’s treasured box, found an old map of Lordaeron, and connected its marked location to Chromie’s clues.
• Belorell traveled to the Eastern Plaguelands and continued toward the destination marked on the map.

Belorell traveled through the dangerous Eastern Plaguelands to investigate something important and met a group from the Argent Crusade. After giving Fiona a false name, he arrived with her wagon at Light's Hope Chapel.

• Belorell struggled onward through the Eastern Plaguelands, carrying an ancient human-made arrowhead that had belonged to his mother.
• Fiona stopped her wagon and summoned Tarenna and Jidwen to speak with Belorell, who claimed he was an adventurer from Quel'Thalas.
• Belorell refused Tarenna's advice to turn back, and Fiona invited him to travel with them to the chapel.
• Belorell introduced himself to Fiona as Alavi, and the wagon reached Light's Hope Chapel.

Belorell helped Fiona unload supplies at the chapel, then learned that a high-bounty commission concerned Marius Farm, the place his mother had visited. Recognizing it from her map and remembering Chromie's instructions, he declared that he was going there, while Fiona stopped Jidwen from attacking him.

• Belorell helped Fiona unload supplies and asked where Tarenna and Jidwen had gone.
• Tarenna returned with a bounty and said Jidwen had gone to find another job.
• Jidwen joked that Marius Farm was haunted, and Belorell urgently demanded to know the place's name.
• Belorell compared his mother's map with the commission and confirmed that it marked Marius Farm.
• Belorell announced that he would go to Marius Farm, and Fiona stopped Jidwen from confronting him inside the chapel.

Belorell insisted on investigating the forbidden Marius Farm, hoping its secrets might explain something about his unknown father, while Fiona and the paladins warned him of the danger. At the farm, Lilian Voss noticed their wagon approaching and prepared to confront the newcomers.

• Jidwen, Tarenna, and Fiona told Belorell that everyone sent to investigate Marius Farm had died and that the bounty had risen to a thousand gold.
• Belorell said he wanted to uncover answers about his father, though he could not explain his connection to Marius Farm without revealing the Windrunner emblem on his map.
• Fiona suggested they eat before discussing the matter further.
• Lilian Voss recalled her orders to kill intruders and her past fights against groups that had entered Marius Farm.
• Lilian heard a wagon approaching and watched Fiona, Belorell, Jidwen, and Tarenna arrive.
• Jidwen and Tarenna dismounted in battle-ready stances as Fiona stepped down and walked toward the farm.

Belorell learned that Marius Farm’s history might predate the Argent Dawn’s records and suspected his parents’ past was connected to Nathanos Maris. Fiona, Tarenna, and Jidwen agreed to accompany him to the farm, and Belorell accepted their help.

• Belorell told Fiona and Tarenna that his father should have been at Marius Farm, and they noticed the timing might connect the farm’s troubles to his birth.
• Fiona explained that the Argent Dawn’s records only dated back to its founding, so the farm’s problems could have begun earlier under the Crimson Crusade.
• Tarenna and Jidwen identified Marius Farm as Nathanos Maris’s hometown, and Belorell wondered whether his mother had gone there to find him.
• Belorell prepared to leave for Marius Farm, but Fiona offered to go with him, and Tarenna and Jidwen joined the expedition.

Belorell accompanied Fiona, Jidwen, and Tarenna to Marius Farm, where they found a clue to the fallen Kraun Enkote and confronted the Undead assassin Lilian. The fight left Jidwen temporarily blinded, and Lilian exposed Fiona as a Worgen, shocking Belorell.

• Belorell and the others approached Marius Farm, where Jidwen found Kraun Enkote’s Argent Crusade insignia.
• Fiona urged the group to continue searching for evil in the farm, while Belorell looked for traces of his father.
• Lilian appeared in the ruins and threatened to kill anyone trespassing at Marius Farm.
• Jidwen charged Lilian, but she wounded him, blinded him with a smoke bomb, and nearly killed him before he used the Holy Light to force her into hiding.
• Lilian spoke from behind the group and called Fiona a female Worgen, leaving Belorell shocked by the revelation.

Belorell watched Fiona reveal her Worgen form and fight Lilian after the Undead wounded Jidwen and Tarenna. The battle left Fiona bleeding, while Lilian turned her attention to Belorell and remarked that his eyes resembled those of the farm’s original owner.

• Lilian lured Jidwen out of the shadows with a potion’s stench and wounded him with a rune-etched dagger that weakened his Holy Light.
• Tarenna struck at Lilian, but she vanished and counterattacked, leaving both paladins unable to fight.
• Fiona transformed into a Worgen, told Belorell to protect the others, and attacked Lilian while remaining rational.
• Lilian held her own against Fiona and cut her several times, enraging the Worgen.
• Belorell confronted Lilian to stop her from hurting the others, and she noted that his eyes resembled the original owner of the farm.

At Marius Farm, Lilian confronted Belorell and his companions, then recognized a possible connection between the boy’s family and the farm’s hidden past. She sent him to give an arrowhead to his mother, and days later went to Nathanos in Hillsbrad to report what had happened.

• Lilian accused Belorell and his companions of coming to Marius Farm with hostile intentions, but let Belorell explain why he had come.
• Belorell said his mother had visited the farm and that he was searching for his father, whose connection to the place was marked on a map.
• After learning Belorell was from Quel'Thalas and hearing his name was Alavi, Lilian gave him a dagger and declared that he had dealt with the threat at Marius Farm.
• Lilian told Belorell that his mother had spoken the truth about his father dying to protect her, then gave him an arrowhead to return to his mother.
• A few days later, Lilian passed Nathanos's Blight Hounds in Hillsbrad and approached him to report what had happened at Marius Farm.

Nathanos learned that Belorell had returned and worried about his son discovering that he was alive, while Lilian reported meeting a self-controlled Worgen and received a new mission. Belorell prepared to return to Quel'Thalas, still seeking answers about his father and Marius Farm.

• Lilian told Nathanos that Belorell had come to Marius Farm, and Nathanos feared what his son would think if he learned the truth.
• Lilian reported encountering a Worgen woman who could shift forms while retaining her mind, and Nathanos ordered Lilian to retrieve her dagger and head to Tirisfal Glades after giving her a new task.
• Belorell thanked Fiona and gave Jidwen the valuable dagger, then admitted to Fiona that Alavi was not his real name.
• Belorell said he would return home and asked Fiona and the others what they knew about Marius Farm and Nathanos Maris.
• Jidwen said he had heard that Nathanos once had a beautiful High Elf companion.

Nathanos had the Valkyr perform a painful ritual that gave the revived warrior woman a durable body, then tasked her with learning to control the tides. Meanwhile, Alleria revealed to Belorell that Nathanos Maris was his father, and Belorell fled in shock.

• Nathanos ordered Agatha, Kira, and Bujalin to perform the ritual on the warrior woman, who accepted the pain in exchange for a stronger body.
• Alleria told Belorell that his father was Nathanos Maris and explained how Nathanos had died and been raised as undead; Belorell ran from Sunfury Tower.
• The Valkyr completed the ritual, leaving them exhausted, and the warrior woman awoke in a flesh-and-blood body.
• Nathanos gave the warrior woman the Quivering Venom Spear, which could raise the remains of fallen warriors.
• Nathanos sent the warrior woman to Kul Tiras to find the Tidespeakers and learn to control the tides.

Belorell wrestled with what he had learned about his father Nathanos and resolved to find him, while Nathanos learned that Malygos was in danger after the dying Infinite Dragon delivered its final message. The Infinite Dragon died, leaving Nathanos to face what came next with the power Malygos had given him.

• Belorell questioned whether Undead were inherently evil and considered that his father might still retain his humanity.
• Belorell worried about the arrowhead he had given Alleria and resolved to find Nathanos and learn what had happened to him.
• A mortally wounded Infinite Dragon emerged from a time tunnel and told Nathanos, "The rest is up to you."
• Nathanos realized that something had happened to Malygos, and the Infinite Dragon died after he closed its eyes.
• Nathanos saw past events in the golden light of Malygos's power and wondered whether anyone could control the past or future.

Nathanos learned that the fight against Deathwing continued despite Ragnaros's defeat, while the Forsaken's attempt to study Deathwing's blood had stalled. A mysterious summons led him to the Elemental Altar, where he met Alexstrasza and wondered whether she had come to avenge the dead.

• Belmont reported that Ragnaros had been defeated, Cho'gall had fallen to Sylvanas, and the Guardian Dragons were seeking a way to defeat Deathwing.
• Belmont told Nathanos that Nathos could not make Deathwing's unusual blood sample collapse, and Nathanos ordered him to continue the research.
• A powerful voice summoned Nathanos to the Elemental Altar alone, and he rode there after dismissing his attendants.
• Alexstrasza revealed herself at the altar, and Nathanos asked whether she had come to avenge those who had died in Forsaken territory.

Alexstrasza tried to recruit Nathanos and the Forsaken into the coalition against Deathwing, but Nathanos refused and confronted her over the Forsaken’s rejection by the living. Twilight’s Hammer assassins ambushed them, and Hagara the Windbinder appeared to challenge them.

• Alexstrasza thanked Nathanos for saving her and invited the Forsaken to join the coalition against Deathwing.
• Nathanos refused, insisting the Forsaken would never ally with other powers and accusing the living of rejecting them.
• Nathanos shot a Twilight’s Hammer assassin hiding behind a boulder, exposing more enemies in the Elemental Altar.
• The ground shook as Hagara the Windbinder descended with twisted earth elementals and declared that Deathwing knew Alexstrasza’s movements.
• Nathanos taunted Hagara, claiming Deathwing feared him because he had once driven the Worldbreaker from the Twilight Highlands.

Nathanos and Alexstrasza fought Hagra, whose control of the elements was empowered by Deathwing. The Valkyr sacrificed themselves in a mysterious burst of light that hurled Nathanos into a strange tunnel, and he awoke in pain with his fate unclear.

• Nathanos used his dark power to destroy Hagra’s elemental creatures, while Alexstrasza discovered she could not transform or fully overcome the twisted elements.
• Hagra summoned earth elementals, and Nathanos called his Valkyr servants to help fight them.
• Deathwing revealed himself through Hagra and strengthened her power, leaving Nathanos struggling to hold him back as Alexstrasza faltered.
• Agatha, Daschira, and Alsurra joined hands and vanished into a beam of white light, unleashing a force that threw Nathanos and Hagra apart.
• Nathanos passed through a strange tunnel filled with visions of Azeroths and moons, then jolted awake on the ground in pain.

Nathanos lost his left arm defending Alexstrasza from Deathwing’s attack, then challenged her over the dragons’ failure to protect mortals and refused her proposal. After Alexstrasza departed, Nathanos said the threat had to be made harmless rather than simply destroyed.

• Nathanos discovered that the explosion had destroyed his left arm and learned that three Valkyr had sacrificed themselves, while Alexstrasza had survived.
• Alexstrasza approached to tend to Nathanos, and he accused the Guardian Dragons of standing aside while mortal lands suffered invasions and destruction.
• Nathanos told Alexstrasza that Nozdormu had been hunting him through time and space, and she considered whether she should help the Bronze Dragon Aspect.
• Alexstrasza asked Nathanos to reconsider her proposal, but he refused and ordered her to leave his territory.
• Alexstrasza flew away, and Nathanos told Kira that threats should be made to cease being threats rather than simply disappear.

After defeating Malygos, Nozdormu sought to use the Hourglass of Time to find and eliminate Nathanos, but discovered that Malygos had sealed Nathanos’s entire past beyond anyone’s reach. Nozdormu awakened during the Dragon Kings’ retrieval of the Dragon Soul, realizing that Nathanos had mastered his fate and might soon take revenge on the Guardian Dragons.

• Nozdormu reflected on Malygos’s defeat and planned to use the Hourglass of Time to locate when Nathanos had altered history.
• Nozdormu summoned the Hourglass and searched through the past but could not find Nathanos in its visions.
• Nozdormu examined the Hourglass’s own history and saw that Malygos had extracted and sealed every fragment concerning Nathanos.
• Nozdormu realized that Malygos had ensured no one could threaten Nathanos and understood why Malygos had smiled before dying.
• Alexstrasza, Ysera, and Kalecgos called Nozdormu back to the present as the Dragon Soul lay before him.
• Nozdormu remembered retrieving the Dragon Soul and concluded that Nathanos had mastered his fate and could seek revenge on the Guardian Dragons.

Nathanos struggled with the loss of his arm, then deciphered a message revealing that Deathwing’s assault had begun at Wyrmrest Temple. He assigned missions to the assembled Forsaken and took Ohan to investigate a separate matter at Ravenholdt Manor.

• Nathanos considered accepting the Valkyr’s ritual to restore his body, then received a coded ring recovered from Hagra’s corpse.
• Nathanos deciphered the ring’s message and learned that the Guardian Dragons and Thrall were preparing to use the Dragon Soul against Deathwing at Wyrmrest Temple, where their forces were surrounded.
• The Forsaken’s strongest members gathered in Alterac, where Belmont reported the crisis and Nathanos confirmed that the Guardian Dragons were also part of his plans.
• Nathanos kept the Goblin squad and Meryl on their assigned missions, then ordered Ohan to accompany him to Ravenholdt Manor.

Deathwing revealed Onyxian, his powerful Twilight Dragon creation, and prepared to unleash him against the world. At Wyrmrest Temple, the Dragon Aspects asked Thrall to wield the Dragon Soul and help empower it with the Earth-Warder’s strength before Deathwing attacked.

• Deathwing introduced Onyxian as his ultimate creation and ordered him to destroy the world’s hope.
• Onyxian concealed his intentions and told Deathwing that he was hungry.
• The Dragon Aspects and Thrall gathered around the Dragon Soul at Wyrmrest Temple.
• Kalecgos and Ysera warned Thrall that wielding the Dragon Soul was dangerous and that Deathwing would come to stop them.
• Alexstrasza explained that the Aspects would infuse the Dragon Soul with new power, and Nozdormu said Thrall must add the fifth power associated with the Earth-Warder.
• Thrall affirmed that mortals were strong defenders of Azeroth, and Alexstrasza agreed to fight Twilight Judgment alongside them.

Nathanos and Ohan traveled to Ravenholdt Manor to investigate something unbelievable, but a group of assassins ambushed them at the cave entrance. Their leader appeared, and Nathanos recognized him as Farad, a man who should have died years ago.

• Nathanos and Ohan discussed Ohan’s childhood and how she had survived the destruction of Durnholde Castle.
• Nathanos and Ohan reached a cave that he believed led to Ravenholdt Manor.
• Nathanos sensed hidden figures nearby, and masked assassins of several races surrounded them.
• A Blood Elf tried to pull Nathanos down with a whip, while Ohan kicked away a Dwarf who attacked her.
• Nathanos unleashed his dark power and demanded to meet the assassins’ leader.
• Farad emerged from the cave, and Nathanos recognized him as a man who should have died years ago.

Nathanos and Ohan followed Farad to a hidden group of assassins at Ravenholdt Manor, where they discovered a stone Dragon Egg shell and met the newly hatched Wrathion. Wrathion revealed his origins and said he and Nathanos each had something the other needed, leaving their bargain unresolved.

• Farad led Nathanos and Ohan past a large group of armed assassins to Ravenholdt Manor, where guards demanded their weapons.
• Nathanos and Ohan entered the basement and found a stone shell that Ohan recognized as an eggshell.
• Wrathion appeared and revealed that he had summoned Nathanos because they each had something the other needed.
• Nathanos identified Wrathion as Deathwing's son and explained that Rheastrasza had arranged for him to hatch from a cleansed Black Dragon Egg.
• Wrathion confirmed that Rheastrasza had switched him with another egg and that Ravenholdt's people had helped steal him from the Crimson Bastion.