Recaps

Herad watched the Allied Forces battle Orcs and undead, then used Flamestrike to attack the first-generation Death Knights. The Death Knights raised fallen soldiers as zombies, forcing the humans, Priests, First-Generation Paladins, and High Elf Rangers to contain them.

• Herad watched the First-Generation Paladins use the Holy Light to defeat Orcs and envied their power against evil.
• Herad cast Flamestrike on a group of first-generation Death Knights, who survived with their anti-magic shields and raised human corpses as zombies.
• Human soldiers mistook the newly raised zombies for wounded comrades until Priests warned them that they were undead.
• Priests restrained the zombies while human soldiers hacked them apart, as the First-Generation Paladins battled powerful Orc Warriors.
• High Elf Rangers supported the front with sniper rifles, blasting apart zombies that kept fighting even after losing limbs.

Herad explained the threat posed by the advanced undead Death Knights as Dalaran’s mages countered the zombies and drove the Death Knights back. As the harbor defense held, Orgrim pressured Gul’dan to reveal more power before the morning mist cleared.

• Dalaran’s mages used fire to attack the zombies, then switched to Frostbolts to freeze them and protect the human soldiers and High Elf Rangers.
• Herad explained that the red-eyed Death Knights were advanced undead spellcasters created by orc warlocks, capable of raising the dead.
• Kel’Thuzad, Khadgar, and the other mages attacked the Death Knights with spells until Teron Gorefiend retreated beyond the Mage’s Eye’s surveillance range.
• Orgrim grew pessimistic as the harbor defenses held and the red dragons remained still, then demanded that Gul’dan use more of his power.
• Gul’dan resented Orgrim’s demand but backed down when he saw the Doomhammer and feared its power.

Gul'dan summoned a powerful Infernal with a Fine Infernal Stone, and the giant demon began destroying the human town's defenses. Herad and the defenders slowed it with ice spells and coordinated attacks, leaving it collapsed and badly crippled.

• Gul'dan used a Fine Infernal Stone to summon a ten-meter Infernal into the town, where it smashed buildings and resisted bullets and artillery.
• Herad ordered the Mages to suppress the Infernal with ice spells so the Knights could attack its knees.
• The Knights used Piercing Explosive Lances and Rage Energy to damage the Infernal's knee and cripple its movement.
• Herad sent the Arcane Scavenger into the ruins to find a weapon, and it returned with a sturdy wooden beam.
• The Arcane Scavenger dodged the Infernal's strike and smashed its damaged knee, causing the Infernal to collapse.

The Allied Forces evacuated Southshore after Gul'dan sent three Infernals to the city, while Herad's anti-aircraft guns shot down five Red Dragons. The armies settled into a temporary standoff, and the Red Dragon corpse Herad brought to Dalaran convinced the Council of Six that the dragons had attacked the humans.

• Herad's forces destroyed the first Infernal with concentrated fire from twenty anti-aircraft Arcane War Machines, and Gul'dan learned of its defeat.
• Orgrim threatened Gul'dan, who sent three more Infernal Stones through the Void Portal and summoned three Infernals into Southshore.
• Sir Lothar ordered a retreat toward Dalaran as the Mages suppressed the Infernals and the Allied Forces broke contact with the Orcs.
• Herad's High Elf Rangers shot down five injured Red Dragons, and Herad carried one corpse away as the Allied Forces evacuated Southshore.
• Gul'dan drove the Infernals into the fields north of Southshore, while the Allied Forces established artillery positions on high ground and both sides paused their advance.
• Herad delivered the Red Dragon corpse to Dalaran, where the Council of Six and the city's residents saw it and accepted that the dragons had attacked the humans.

Krasus and Antonidas examined a Red Dragon corpse and realized the dragons had grown unnaturally fast, while Herad sought to locate and destroy the Dragonmaw Clan before its controlled dragons multiplied. Captain Hank brought two Red Dragon corpses to Gilneas, where Admiral Daelin recognized the cannon damage and showed interest in buying artillery.

• Krasus and Antonidas examined a shattered Red Dragon corpse and concluded that its body had grown in a short period of time.
• Krasus recalled that the Dragonmaw Clan controlled the Red Dragons with the Dragon Soul, while Herad worked to find the clan before its dragons became a greater threat.
• Captain Hank brought the salvaged corpses of two Red Dragons to the Kul Tiras fleet in Gilneas after the Ironclad fleet fought at Southshore.
• Admiral Daelin inspected the corpses' cannon-shattered wounds and decided to buy artillery like the weapons that had killed them.
• Captain Hank approached Admiral Daelin and asked whether he was interested in the two Red Dragon corpses.

Admiral Daelin agreed to refit his flagship, the Sea Sovereignty, and sent it toward Quel'Thalas with Tidesages to assist. In Quel'Thalas, Herad tested an expensive enchanted-thorium long-handled blade that could cleave through steel and was intended for fighting infernals.

• Admiral Daelin chose to have his wooden warships upgraded and requested that the Sea Sovereignty be refitted first.
• Captain Hank asked for experts familiar with the flagship, and Admiral Daelin agreed to send Tidesages with the refit team.
• The Sea Sovereignty departed for Quel'Thalas with Tidesages and supplies aboard.
• Herad inspected an arcane golem's forging of a long-handled blade with an enchanted-thorium cutting edge.
• An arcane golem cleaved a thick steel pillar in two with the blade, demonstrating its power against heavily armored targets.
• Herad considered the weapon suitable for Arcane Scavengers fighting infernals, though its manufacture cost over fifty thousand gold coins.

Herad returned to the Allied Forces camp after arranging reconnaissance of the Dragonmaw Clan and planning how to counter the Horde at Southshore. He revealed that the weapon for fighting Infernals was finished and brought additional weapons for the quartermaster to distribute.

• Herad rode his White Hawkstrider from Sunsail Anchorage to Silvermoon City and teleported to Dalaran, where researchers had learned that artificially matured Red Dragons would live for less than two years.
• Herad asked the Wildhammer Dwarves to scout the plateau near the Wetlands and planned to hire High Elf Rogues to attack the Dragonmaw Clan once its base was found.
• Herad focused on the growing Horde force at Southshore, which had gained Forest Troll allies, and suspected that their leader was the resurrected Zul'jin.
• Herad arrived at the Allied Forces camp and found Turalyon and other First-Generation Paladins supplying holy energy to the Arcane Scavenger.
• Herad told Turalyon that the weapon for dealing with Infernals was finished and brought crates of equipment and an enormous long-handled blade for the quartermaster.

Herad tested the Arcane Scavenger’s immense strength with its new Giant Polearm, then rode toward Southshore to hunt three Infernals. His Invisible Winds killed more than a hundred Orc wolf riders without letting them raise an alarm, escorting him to the town’s outskirts.

• The Arcane Scavenger lifted the Giant Polearm effortlessly and demonstrated its power while Herad prepared the soldiers for battle.
• Herad rode southeast toward Southshore, and Alleria followed with the High Elf Rangers while a Lieutenant went to notify Falstad.
• Orc wolf riders tried to intercept Herad, but his Invisible Winds struck them with paralyzing lightning and killed them.
• Herad and the Invisible Winds eliminated over a hundred wolf riders and reached the outskirts of Southshore.

Herad used a surprise Gryphon bombing raid to draw attention away while his Arcane Scavenger attacked the three Infernals near Southshore. After the construct destroyed them with a holy-energy blade, Herad called the High Elf Rangers to retreat rather than assault the town that afternoon.

• Herad reached the outskirts of Southshore and lured one of the Infernals toward the forest with Frostbolts.
• Hundreds of Gryphons dropped bombs on Southshore, and Red Dragons engaged the Gryphon Riders after most of the bombers withdrew.
• Herad’s Arcane Scavenger severed the first Infernal’s knee and destroyed its soul core with a holy-energy blade.
• The Arcane Scavenger spun through the other two Infernals, reducing them to rubble.
• Gul’dan and Orgrim watched from Southshore’s wall as Herad signaled the High Elf Rangers to retreat.

After the Allies celebrated the bombing of Southshore, Herad led them to launch a decisive attack, only to discover the Orc army had fled and the city was filled with Undead. The Allies began shelling the city walls to clear the creatures.

• Herad explained to Alleria that the High Elf Rangers had retreated because the Orcs' red dragon numbers had increased, and he urged a swift attack on the Orc ground forces.
• The Wildhammer Dwarves exaggerated the success of their bombing raid, and the Allied Forces leaders approved Herad's plan for a general offensive the next day.
• The Allies marched to Southshore and found the Orcs on its walls unnaturally silent and rigid.
• Herad used the Mage's Eye to inspect the Orcs and suspected they were Undead, so he advised the Allies to bombard the city.
• After the shelling, damaged Orcs rose again on the walls, revealing that the main Orc force had fled and Southshore was full of Undead.
• Herad ordered more shelling to destroy the city wall, and the artillery commander immediately relayed the order.

The Allied Forces defeated the undead in Southshore, then discovered that the Orcs had crossed into the eastern foothills through a hidden mountain trail. As the forces moved to intercept them, the Orcs and Forest Trolls advanced toward Hinterlands Forest while Red Dragons circled the Wildhammer Dwarves’ city, held off by Gryphon Riders and anti-aircraft guns.

• The Allied Forces bombarded Southshore’s walls and destroyed the undead pouring through the breach with artillery, muskets, and heavy infantry.
• The Allied Forces’ scouts found that the Orcs had gone east and discovered that Troll Rogues had wiped out the bridge guards.
• The Wildhammer Dwarves realized the Orcs could be using a hidden trail into Hinterlands Forest, so Falstad returned to the main city while the Allied Forces followed the trail.
• Guided by Forest Trolls, the Orcs crossed the mountain passage, and the Allied Forces found signs that a large army had passed through.
• Kurdran Wildhammer and his gryphon Skare brought down a Red Dragon, while the remaining Red Dragons kept their distance from the city’s Gryphon Riders and anti-aircraft guns.

Orgrim led the Horde to attack Aerie Peak after Zul'jin rallied the forest trolls and allied them with the orcs. The red dragons destroyed the Wildhammer Dwarves' mountain bunkers, allowing the Horde to storm the gates, but the dwarves' superior armor and spellcasters made the close battle costly for the attackers.

• Zul'jin gathered more than a hundred thousand forest trolls and allied with the Horde, which abandoned Southshore and marched on Aerie Peak.
• Orgrim ordered the red dragons to burn the Wildhammer Dwarves' bunkers, and the dragons destroyed them by igniting their ammunition magazines.
• The red dragons escaped the dwarves' anti-aircraft fire, clearing the way for the Horde's ground assault.
• Orcs and forest trolls charged Aerie Peak's open gates before the dwarves could close them, forcing the defenders into close combat.
• Wildhammer Dwarf heavy infantry used enchanted weapons and numerous shamans to wound the attackers, leaving the larger Horde army worse off overall.

Herad broke from Sir Lothar’s slow-moving Allied Forces and reached Aerie Peak, where the Wildhammer Dwarves were close to being overwhelmed by the vastly larger Horde army. After waiting for reinforcements and preparing his Arcane Scavenger, he led the High Elf Rangers in a charge toward the battlefield, startling Orgrim as Gul'dan quietly withdrew.

• Falstad and the Gryphon Riders arrived too late to turn the tide, and the Wildhammer Dwarves continued to suffer heavy casualties against the Horde and Forest Trolls.
• Herad urged Sir Lothar to send faster troops ahead, but Sir Lothar refused, so Herad set out alone and the High Elf Rangers, Wildhammer Dwarf Heavy Infantry, and knights followed at a faster pace.
• Herad reached the canyon exit, saw the immense Horde army besieging Aerie Peak, and retreated into the concealed canyon to await reinforcements.
• Herad prepared three Arcane Scavenger with spell-reinforced wooden clubs, and Alleria arrived with the High Elf Ranger troops.
• Herad rallied the Rangers to kill Zul'jin again, then led them and their Arcane War Machine in a charge from the canyon.
• Orgrim noticed the charging force and feared it was coming for him, while Gul'dan quietly slipped away.

Herad’s High Elf force tore through the Horde army with Arcane Scavengers, war machines, and Rangers, while Gul'dan empowered Orc warriors to charge into deadly gunfire. Zul'jin escaped into the Hinterlands Forest, and the arriving knights charged the shattered Horde forces.

• Arcane Scavengers and High Elf Rangers cut down Orcs and Forest Trolls, while Arcane War Machines drove Orgrim into a panicked retreat.
• Gul'dan enhanced nearby Orc warriors with Fel magic, sending them into a fearless charge that Herad’s machine guns blasted apart.
• Herad asked Alleria where Zul'jin had gone, and she pointed to the forest where he had fled.
• Herad judged the forest too dangerous to pursue Zul'jin and halted his troops at its edge.
• The knights arrived and charged the scattered Horde army, trampling Orcs and Trolls beneath their horses.

The Allied Forces routed the Horde at the city, where the Wildhammer Dwarves and Arcane Scavenger slaughtered the troops who could not retreat. After seeing the construct’s armor scratched by Orc weapons, Herad decided to reinforce it.

• High Elf Rangers supported the cavalry with gunfire and shells, disrupting the Horde’s command structure.
• Orgrim ordered a retreat as Wildhammer Dwarf Heavy Infantry reinforcements worsened the battle for the Horde.
• The Horde troops trapped inside the city gate were pushed into the Arcane Scavenger’s spinning blade and nearly all were killed.
• High Elf Rangers collected Forest Troll tusks from the battlefield while Herad watched and the Arcane Scavenger returned with two scratches on its mithril armor.
• Herad considered the difference in the armies’ equipment and decided to add armor to the constructs.

Herad planned to upgrade the Arcane Scavengers with thorium armor, while Orgrim withdrew after losing his chance to capture Aerie Peak and resolved to improve the Horde’s equipment. In Silvermoon City, news of the Burning Legion’s Infernals pushed the High Elf councilors to approve Herad’s long-delayed project to build demigod-level Arcane Golems.

• Herad decided to shrink the Arcane Scavengers’ energy tanks and cover their bodies, hands, and feet with thorium armor.
• Orgrim abandoned hopes of taking Aerie Peak, followed Zul'jin to a forest camp, and lamented the Horde’s poor equipment and failed campaign.
• Orgrim suspended the offensive and planned to wait for Blackrock Mountain’s smiths to equip elite Orc Heavy Infantry with steel armor.
• The High Elf councilors approved Herad’s god-making project after learning that the Burning Legion’s Infernals had appeared.

Herad and Alleria returned to Silvermoon City to recruit Rogues while the Silvermoon City Council prepared materials for a demigod-level Arcane Golem. Herad inspected its armor being forged and looked forward to seeing the giant construct in battle.

• Gryphon Riders confirmed that Orcs and Red Dragons had gathered in Grim Batol, prompting Herad and Alleria to hurry to Dalaran and return to Silvermoon City.
• Alleria took charge of recruiting a band of Rogues, while the White Hawkstrider carried Herad to Sunsail Anchorage and raced back toward the forest.
• Herad entered the foundry, where workers and Arcane Golems forged components for the Arcane Scavenger and the demigod-level Arcane Golem.
• Herad's design gave the ten-meter-tall golem an obsidian body reinforced with enchanted thorium armor, whose finished surface shimmered with shifting colors.
• Herad anticipated that the towering demigod-level Arcane Golem would dominate the battlefield.

Herad inspected the Demigod Arcane Golem’s newly forged enchanted thorium armor as the High Elves prepared to power the completed construct. After King Anasterian and Rommath filled its energy chamber with Sunwell water, the golem was ready to be sent to the Dawnedge Armory for its armor and weapons.

• Herad watched the arcane golems quench a piece of enchanted thorium armor and considered how the Demigod Arcane Golem’s size and bright appearance would draw enemy fire.
• The High Elf Council discussed how much Sunwell water to use and adopted Rommath’s recommendation to fill the golem’s storage capacity.
• King Anasterian crouched beside the Sunwell and filled several runic bottles with its golden water.
• Anasterian handed the bottles to Rommath, who installed them in the golem’s energy chamber until all two hundred slots were full.
• Rommath closed the chamber, and the completed golem was set to go to the Dawnedge Armory for its armor and weapons.

Herad oversaw the delivery of a Demigod Arcane Golem and learned that the Council was considering rewarding him for his work. He secretly skimmed Sunwell water from rune bottles and outfitted his upgraded Arcane Scavengers with a compartment to carry it.

• Mages brought the inactive Demigod Arcane Golem to the island pier while the Sea Sovereignty arrived to be converted into an ironclad.
• Herad considered the cost of Kul Tiras’s fleet and its potential as a customer for his golem and arms business.
• Rommath praised Herad’s progress toward becoming an Archmage and said the Council was discussing a treasure as a reward.
• After the golem was delivered to the warehouse, Herad skimmed excess Sunwell water from two hundred rune bottles and collected ten bottles’ worth.
• Herad installed the stolen Sunwell water in a compartment on one of his three upgraded, thorium-armored Arcane Scavengers.

Herad prepared an operation against Grim Batol, assembling a hundred Rogues and traveling by warship while keeping track of Deathwing. Deathwing remained distracted by his political struggle in Alterac, leaving Herad hopeful that the team could kill the Dragonmaw Clan and free the Red Dragon Queen without drawing his attention.

• Herad put away his modified Arcane Scavengers, then traveled toward Sunsail Anchorage on an ice boat propelled by Air Elementals, which crashed him onto the beach.
• Herad gathered with Alleria and the hundred Rogues she had selected, whose dragonhide armor and Dragonfang Daggers had been supplied for the mission.
• Herad led the Rogue band aboard the modern warship and contacted Dalaran's intelligence operatives for news of Deathwing.
• Krasus and Dalaran's Archmages kept Deathwing occupied with political pressure in the Kingdom of Alterac, delaying his plans for Grim Batol.
• Herad anticipated attacking Grim Batol while Deathwing remained distracted, with the goal of killing the Dragonmaw Clan and freeing the Red Dragon Queen.

Herad and a band of Rogues infiltrated Grim Batol and methodically killed the Dragonmaw Orcs occupying its upper level. With the upper level cleared, they prepared to face the more exposed Lower Area, where Red Dragons were kept.

• Captain Hank sailed the warship upriver, and Herad and the others traveled on foot to Grim Batol.
• Herad equipped the Rogues with Gnomish night-vision goggles and led them to the city after dark.
• The Rogues killed the Orc guards at Grim Batol's gates, and Herad told them to focus on quietly killing every Orc they could defeat.
• The Rogues divided into teams and assassinated Dragonmaw Orcs throughout the upper level while Alleria silently shot Orcs who came to investigate.
• Herad's group finished clearing the upper level and moved on to the more open Lower Area, where the Red Dragons were kept.

Herad and the Rogues infiltrated the Dragonmaw Clan’s lower level and found Nekros tormenting two Red Dragons with the Dragon Soul. After Herad seized the artifact and the Red Dragon Queen killed Nekros, Herad urged her to summon the other dragon monarchs to set a trap for Deathwing.

• Herad led the Rogues through the lower level, silently killing Dragonmaw Orcs while leaving sleeping Warlocks alive.
• The Rogues found a chamber of Dragon Eggs, but Herad warned them not to touch any of them.
• Herad identified a heavily guarded cavern as their destination, and the Rogues killed its guards.
• Herad sneaked up on Nekros as he used the Golden Disk to punish two Red Dragons, then took the artifact from him.
• Herad used a gale to send Nekros toward the Red Dragons, and the Red Dragon Queen crushed him with her claw.
• Herad proposed that the Red Dragon Queen summon the other dragon monarchs to ambush Deathwing, and she sent subordinates to call them.

The Red Dragon Queen destroyed the Dragonmaw Orcs’ experiments and rescued the dragon eggs while Herad prepared a trap to draw Deathwing to Grim Batol. Herad then questioned Nozdormu’s absence, prompting Malygos to demand answers from Soridormi, who contacted Nozdormu as the Aspects’ suspicions grew.

• The Red Dragon Queen burned the Dragonmaw Orc warlocks and trainers, then ordered adult dragons to incinerate the mindless, rapidly grown red dragons.
• Taranistaz grew agitated over the destroyed eggs, and Herad urged him to recover his strength for revenge against Deathwing.
• Red dragonkin carried the surviving eggs away from Grim Batol and disguised themselves as Orcs to stage a brutal-looking battlefield for Deathwing to discover.
• Herad expected Deathwing to come after the eggs and questioned why Nozdormu had sent Soridormi in his place.
• Malygos demanded to know what the bronze dragons were hiding, and Soridormi contacted Nozdormu to calm him.

Nozdormu revealed that Deathwing would move after the Horde’s defeat and that a human Mage would eventually break the Dragon Soul. While Herad’s allies prepared a trap with fake Dragon Eggs at Grim Batol, Deathwing learned of the attack and flew there to claim the eggs, unaware that he was being lured in.

• Nozdormu admitted he had held back his power and predicted the Horde’s defeat at Blackrock Mountain would give Deathwing a chance to break the Dragon Soul.
• Nozdormu said an inept human Mage would use an item belonging to Deathwing to break the Dragon Soul and rescue Alexstrasza.
• Herad and the red dragonkin prepared convincing fake Dragon Eggs at Grim Batol to lure Deathwing.
• Dalaran’s Archmages visited Lord Prestor and received news that the High Elves had attacked the Dragonmaw Clan’s Red Dragon breeding base.
• Deathwing slipped out of Alterac in his black Dragon form and flew to Grim Batol, where he waited for the Dragon Eggs to be brought out.

Deathwing attacked a convoy carrying dragon eggs, but the Dragon Aspects and other dragons ambushed him and fought a bloody battle. The Red Dragon Queen fell gravely wounded, the Aspect of the Blue continued trading bites with Deathwing, and Herad doubted the dragons could win.

• Herad learned from the river ship’s radar that Deathwing was near Grim Batol and alerted the Dragon Aspects.
• Deathwing swooped on the dragon-egg convoy, intending to steal eighty eggs, but the hidden Aspects revealed themselves and restrained him.
• The Aspects and other dragons surrounded Deathwing, using their claws and teeth as magic and dragonfire proved ineffective.
• Nozdormu opened wounds on Deathwing, whose magma-like blood flowed without clotting, while the dragons tried to wear him down.
• Deathwing attacked the Red Dragon Queen, leaving her gravely wounded, while the Aspect of the Blue bit him and continued fighting as Herad feared the dragons might lose.