Recaps

Herad led the Allied Forces through the Wetlands and carved a direct route through the mountains toward Ironforge. As the army approached, Magni Bronzebeard prepared to fight the besieging orcs, and Kilrogg Deadeye feared his prophesied fate had changed.

• Herad raised dry ground in the Wetlands, and the murlocs abandoned their planned attack.
• Herad led the Allied Forces south instead of along the usual road and raised a staircase to the mountain ridge.
• Herad carved tunnels and skybridges through the mountains, opening a route toward Ironforge.
• Magni Bronzebeard learned that the Allied Forces would arrive and prepared the dwarf army for a decisive battle against the orcs.
• Kilrogg Deadeye saw the dwarves preparing to fight and then spotted gryphons approaching, fearing he would die at Ironforge.

Herad and the Allied Forces helped the Bronzebeard Dwarves rout the Orcs outside Ironforge with an avalanche and a flanking attack. The surviving Orcs were driven into the forest, where human Heavy Infantry, Musket Hands, and dismounted Knights joined the fight and hastened their defeat.

• Herad opened a passage through Dun Morogh while the Bronzebeard Dwarves and Orcs battled on the slope, with Dwarven cannons and Gryphon Riders inflicting heavy losses.
• After consulting the Allied Forces' leaders, Herad triggered an avalanche that routed the Orcs below the mountain.
• King Magni activated Avatar and smashed Orcs, while other Mountain Kings joined the fight against the retreating army.
• Herad created steps down the mountainside, allowing Heavy Infantry and Musket Hands to descend and engage the Orcs who had fled into the forest.
• Human Heavy Infantry surrounded Orcs in groups, and Musket Hands used armor-piercing bullets to kill them at close range.
• The late-arriving Knights dismounted and fought on foot, accelerating the Orc army's defeat.

Herad watched Alleria and the Allied Forces fight the Orcs in Dun Morogh, then joined the battle as Kilrogg led the Bloodmaul Clan in retreat. The remaining Orcs fled from the Gnomes’ capital, ending the crisis, while Herad considered securing land for the Draenei in Azeroth.

• Alleria shot Orcs from the mountaintop as Herad sent the Small Arcane Golem and the Arcane Scavenger down to the battlefield.
• Herad considered asking Prophet Velen for Draenei crystal technology records and offering the Draenei land in Azeroth in return.
• After sacrificing an eye and seeing the Orcs’ fate in a vision, Kilrogg led the Bloodmaul Clan out of Dun Morogh.
• The Allied Forces pursued the Bloodmaul Clan for dozens of kilometers, but the Orcs escaped into the forests.
• The Orcs blockading the Gnomes’ capital fled overnight, allowing the Gnomes to emerge from their underground city as the crisis ended.

After the Orcs army fled, Herad studied the Draenei’s anti-gravity knowledge and learned the basics of the Anti-Gravity Spell. Testing it on grass and debris gave him a new way to use the spell: lift enemies and drop them to their deaths.

• The Gnomes launched aircraft and mechanized forces under Gelbin Mekkatorque to pursue the Orcs army.
• Herad accessed the Draenei archives through a Magical Communication Device Velen had given him.
• Herad learned that Draenei anti-gravity relied on Anti-Gravity Magic, special crystals, and a powerful energy source.
• Herad adapted the spell’s principles to his studies and successfully made grass, pebbles, and leaf fragments float under his control.
• Herad realized he could use the Anti-Gravity Spell to lift enemies high into the air and drop them.

Herad used his Anti-Gravity Spell to lift Bloodmaul Orcs high into the air and drop them, while Alleria and her forces pursued the fleeing clansmen. The chase reached Loch Modan, where Kilrogg stirred up chaos to delay his pursuers, but the Allied Forces’ air power and Herad’s magic left the Orcs with few ways to resist.

• Herad used increasingly powerful Anti-Gravity Spells to lift Bloodmaul Orcs into the sky and drop them to their deaths, testing how high they needed to fall.
• Alleria continued the pursuit after seeing the Small Arcane Golem unharmed, and her Sparrowhawk harassed Orcs trapped in the weightless areas.
• Herad lowered his drop height through repeated tests and settled on fifty meters as a usually fatal height for Orcs.
• The fleeing Bloodmaul Orcs crossed into Loch Modan, where Kilrogg incited the local Orcs to fight, fortify, or flee so they would distract their pursuers.
• Alleria’s Rangers and the Gnomes’ aircraft attacked Orc forces from the air, while Herad joined the pursuit and prepared to immobilize Orc armies with Anti-Gravity Spells.

Kilrogg retreated toward Blackrock Spire, leaving the Orc forces in Loch Modan and the Badlands to delay the Allied Forces. As the Paladins advanced through Loch Modan, Herad and Alleria traveled to the Badlands to find a route toward the Searing Gorge and Blackrock Spire.

• Kilrogg fled to the Badlands and planned to rally the Blackrock Orcs at Blackrock Spire, unaware that the Paladins' fire resistance aura could counter the region's heat.
• Draenei Vindicators trained the human Paladins, strengthening their combat, support, and battlefield command abilities.
• Maraad rebuked Uther for sparing surrendering Orc peons, and an Orc peon attacked Uther before his Holy Shield stopped the axe.
• Uther killed the Orc peon, while Herad added Orc peons to his blacklist after witnessing the attack.
• Herad and Alleria teleported to the Badlands and considered a route through the Searing Gorge, where the Dark Iron Dwarves harassed Orc convoys.

Herad led the High Elf Ranger force through the Badlands and attacked an Orc camp controlling the pass to the Searing Gorge. After burning the camp and breaking the defenders with traps, gunfire, magic, and arrows, the Rangers left the surviving Orcs fleeing into the wilderness.

• The High Elf Rangers crossed the Badlands past the bombed Orc supply stations and reached the large Orc camp at the western pass.
• Herad summoned Elite Fire Elementals, which set the wooden Orc camp ablaze and forced its defenders to flee outside.
• The Rangers shot down charging Orcs Infantry with sniper rifles, then used magical traps to inflict further heavy losses.
• Herad held the Orcs in an Anti-Gravity Field while the Rangers escaped on Hawkstriders and resumed their attack with magical bows.
• Alleria used her Hurricane Arrow against the Orcs as the Rangers killed many more, until the survivors broke and scattered.

Herad studied anti-gravity runes in a towering cliffside laboratory and successfully made a Magic Crystal lift itself into the sky. After Alleria suggested using several crystals to make flying armor, Herad confirmed it could work, though the rangers’ mana supply remained a concern.

• Kilrogg’s orcs watched fire elementals burn their camp, and the elementals pursued them until Kilrogg lost more than four hundred lives killing the attackers.
• Herad built a tower on the cliffs between the Badlands and Searing Gorge and studied how to adapt anti-gravity runes to Magic Crystals.
• Herad etched a rune into a small Magic Crystal and activated it, sending it rising more than seven thousand meters before it descended safely.
• Alleria’s pet sparrowhawk retrieved the crystal, and Herad found that its lift pulled his arm straight when he held it back.
• Alleria asked whether several crystals could make a suit of armor fly, and Herad confirmed that they could while she considered equipping the rangers with them.

Herad developed mithril Flying Battle Armor for the Rangers and helped them learn to control it. After Herad demonstrated advanced flight maneuvers, Alleria and the Rangers realized that strong mental power was essential to mastering the armor.

• Herad replaced the armor's crystal mounts with mithril and introduced the costly Flying Battle Armor, which let Rangers climb walls, cross treetops, and fly.
• Rangers practiced with the new armor, but many struggled with control and suffered falls; Alleria steadily learned to adjust its sixteen Magic Crystals.
• After training, Alleria praised the armor but complained that it was difficult to control, and Herad explained that mental power was crucial.
• Herad used his mental power to lift Alleria's armor, guide it in smooth circles, and perform aerobatic maneuvers.
• Impressed by Herad's demonstration, Alleria and the Rangers resolved to train their mental power so they could control the armor more skillfully.

Herad sent the upgraded Small Arcane Golem to scout Blackrock Spire, where it discovered Black Dragonkin and Blackrock Orcs working together and swiftly killed a patrol. Herad recorded the golem’s effectiveness and sent the footage to Prophet Velen, leaving the Draenei with a demonstration of how their anti-gravity technology could improve Arcane Golems.

• The Small Arcane Golem flew from the cliffside tower to Blackrock Spire in less than three minutes.
• The Small Arcane Golem entered the fortress and found Black Dragonkin and Blackrock Orcs patrolling its upper level.
• The Small Arcane Golem used its speed and Ulthalesh to kill the patrol before its members could react.
• Herad watched the attack remotely, recorded it, and sent the footage to Prophet Velen.

Velen watched a Small Arcane Golem use anti-gravity technology to devastate Blackrock Spire, while Herad guided it through the fortress. After a Black Dragonflight mage teleported it into a magma pool, the golem escaped and the Blackrock Orcs let it pass rather than face it.

• Velen saw the Small Arcane Golem destroy Black Dragonkin and Blackrock Orc patrols, then urged Draenei magic artisans to combine anti-gravity technology with Arcane Golems.
• Herad watched the golem sweep through Blackrock Spire until a Black Dragonflight mage teleported it into a magma pool.
• The golem emerged unharmed, and Herad identified its location near the entrance to Blackrock Depths before directing it toward an exit.
• Blackrock Orcs attacked the golem as it searched the lower levels, but it defeated the defenders and opened a massive metal door.
• The pursuing Blackrock Orcs backed away in fear, then ignored their fallen comrades and pretended to shout after the golem as it left.
• Alleria watched the footage and criticized the Blackrock Orcs for failing to challenge the golem.

Herad and Alleria watched the Small Arcane Golem enter an Orc stronghold in the Burning Steppes, where it began slaughtering the defenders with Ulthalesh. The Orcs’ attempt to overwhelm the construct only fed the artifact’s power, and the assault continued.

• Herad considered promoting Magical Communication Devices while Alleria teased him for being distracted, then warned him not to swear by the Sunwell.
• Herad redirected Alleria’s attention to the Orc stronghold in the Burning Steppes, and they discussed how the Orcs had hauled timber from the Redridge Mountains.
• The Small Arcane Golem charged into the Orc camp, setting wooden houses ablaze and cutting down Orc infantry with Ulthalesh.
• The Orc warlord refused to risk his treasured adamantite axe against the glowing scythe and instead sent waves of Orcs to exhaust the construct.
• Ulthalesh harvested the Orcs’ souls for psychic energy, replenishing the Small Arcane Golem and growing stronger as the battle continued.

Herad and Alleria watched the Small Arcane Golem challenge Orc Warlord Blair Bloodaxe to a duel, where Blair fought skillfully but was overwhelmed. The golem spared him from its Bladestorm, then burned down the Orcs’ fortress, leaving Blair badly injured and helpless.

• Ulthalesh brooded over Herad’s precautions and continued helping the Small Arcane Golem kill Orcs.
• Herad spotted Blair Bloodaxe’s distinctive armor and ordered the golem to fight him in a fair duel.
• Blair charged the golem with his adamantite battle axe, but the golem blocked the blow and countered with a scythe strike.
• The golem used Bladestorm, and Blair dodged and blocked until his battle axe was nearly broken.
• The golem rammed Blair out of Bladestorm’s range, then set the camp buildings ablaze and nearly destroyed the fortress.

Herad’s Small Arcane Golem surveyed the route through the Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes, and Herad sent Sir Lothar data proposing a shorter march through the mountains. Sir Lothar inspected the route and the remains of a defeated Orc camp, leaving impressed by the High Elf Rangers’ abilities.

• Herad’s Small Arcane Golem flew from the Orc camp to survey the terrain and temperatures along the Allied Forces’ route.
• Herad sent Sir Lothar the collected data and suggested that the Allied Forces cut through the Blackrock Mountain Range instead of marching through Blackrock Spire.
• Khadgar projected the information for Sir Lothar and the other Allied Forces leaders, who were shocked by the harsh conditions.
• Sir Lothar traveled by Steam Tank to inspect the Searing Gorge the next day.
• Sir Lothar examined the defeated Orc camp and inferred how the High Elf Rangers had overcome the Orc army.
• Sir Lothar watched the High Elf Rangers leap and climb along the cliffs, realizing that their mobility exceeded his expectations.

Sir Lothar chose a tunnel through the Blackrock Mountain Range to avoid the deadly Searing Gorge, while Herad completed the route into the Burning Steppes. Alleria led the High Elf Rangers against the Ogres’ largest stronghold, where the Rangers routed the defenders.

• Sir Lothar surveyed the Searing Gorge, rejected crossing it, and thanked Herad for agreeing to open a tunnel through the Blackrock Mountain Range.
• Sir Lothar departed overnight in Steam Tanks, while Alleria proposed training the Rangers in the Burning Steppes.
• Herad dug the tunnel higher through the mountain to avoid underground magma pools, then opened an exit onto a mountainside in the Burning Steppes.
• Herad used the Mage's Eye to observe the Orcs and Ogres near the Redridge Mountains pass as the High Elf Rangers rode south toward the Ogres’ largest gathering place.
• The High Elf Rangers ambushed the Ogres near a Dead Volcano, killing many with enchanted arrows and defeating armored warriors with magic arrows or a Small Arcane Golem.
• The remaining ordinary Ogres dropped their clubs and fled from the Rangers.

The rangers captured Dead Volcano, driving the ogres into their caves with gunfire and tear gas. Herad and Alleria confronted the Ogre Lord, and after Herad disrupted its footing, Alleria wounded it and gained the upper hand.

• The rangers hunted down the ogres around Dead Volcano, while rifle fire suppressed the defenders and the Small Arcane Golem’s vanguard secured the summit.
• The rangers threw Tear Gas Grenades into the caves and cleared out the incapacitated ogres using gas masks and melee weapons.
• Herad and Alleria entered the larger cave where the two-headed Ogre Lord lived, and the tear gas impaired the armored giant.
• Alleria attacked the Ogre Lord with her Adamantite Shortsword but struggled to pierce its armor until Herad made its footing unstable.
• Alleria stabbed the Ogre Lord in the knee joint and continued attacking while Herad watched the fight turn in her favor.

Alleria killed the Ogre Lord and decided to turn its Adamantite Shortsword into arrowheads, while Herad brought in Arcane Golems to harvest the Dead Volcano’s rare ores. The group continued hunting Ogres as Herad secretly removed the deposits, planning to blame the missing minerals on the Ogres.

• Alleria stabbed the fallen Ogre Lord in the neck, and the Small Arcane Golem carrying Ulthalesh captured its soul.
• Alleria suggested making Adamantite Arrowheads, and Herad agreed to enchant them so she could retrieve the arrows.
• Alleria kissed Herad and ran off to hunt more Ogres while the Small Arcane Golems raced the rangers through the caves.
• Herad opened a Portal to bring Arcane Golems from the Armory and used Earth Magic to extract the Dead Volcano’s Thorium and Mithril ores.
• Herad removed the hidden ore deposits without leaving excavation traces and planned to tell the Dark Iron Dwarves that the Ogres had mined them.

Herad used the ores from the Dead Volcano to supply his foundry and forged adamantite arrows for Alleria. After testing their armor-piercing and returning enchantments, he created a mithril glove to safely guide the arrows in flight.

• Goblin and Gnome engineers watched Arcane Golems bring rare ores from the Dead Volcano, and Herad used the haul to make Mithril golem bodies, Thorium armor, and large batches of Thorium arrows.
• Herad returned to the Armory to forge twenty adamantite arrowheads from the remaining adamantite and enchanted them with armor penetration and returning.
• Herad tested an adamantite arrow and confirmed that it pierced a steel target before flying back to him.
• Herad realized returning arrows could injure their users and forged a mithril glove enchanted to guide slow-moving projectiles.
• Herad used the glove to control the returning adamantite arrows as they flew around him.

Herad inspected the stalled Demigod Arcane Golem project, then returned to the Dead Volcano as the Rangers ambushed Orc reinforcements in the Redridge Mountains pass. The Orcs Warlord finally sealed the pass and refused to attack, forcing the Rangers to abandon their siege while Herad rewarded them and waited for the Alliance army to gather.

• Herad saw that two sets of Demigod Arcane Golem armor were complete, but a shortage of obsidian had stalled construction, so the Silvermoon City Council sent envoys to negotiate with the Night Elves.
• Herad returned to the Dead Volcano and saw Rangers ambush Wolf Riders, killing more than two hundred while the trapped wild wolves helped draw in further Orc reinforcements.
• The Rangers continued shooting Orc troops as they investigated the gunshots, and the Orcs Warlord realized he had lost at least ten thousand soldiers.
• The Orcs Warlord shut the Redridge Mountains pass and forbade attacks, so the Rangers abandoned their operation and Herad rewarded each Ranger with twenty thorium arrows.
• Herad waited for the Alliance forces to assemble, as the Dwarves, Gnomes, and Stormwind army had arrived or were nearing the Dead Volcano while other kingdoms lagged behind.

Herad developed Dead Volcano as a base and discussed engineering with Mekkatorque before planning an arcane-furnace-powered Mechanar. He considered salvaging the Draenei starship wreck on Draenor and sought Akama’s help to uncover the Cipher of Damnation.

• Herad strengthened Dead Volcano’s lower slopes and leveled its summit into runways, pleasing Mekkatorque.
• Herad explained jet-engine principles, and Mekkatorque began revising his design.
• Herad planned to study arcane furnaces and build a Mechanar to power arcane golems.
• Herad considered salvaging the damaged Draenei starship wreck at Oshu'gun, but recognized that orcs and the Burning Legion could obstruct him.
• Herad remembered that Akama had once been an archbishop-level Priest and might be able to read the Skull of Gul'dan’s secrets.

Herad brought Gul'dan's skull to Akama, hoping to learn the Cipher of Damnation from its memories, but the skull's spirit had lost its intelligence. Velen began divining for the Cipher, a process expected to take about two months.

• Herad sent Draenei refugees from the Temple of Karabor through a Portal to Azeroth and showed Akama an Orc skull he had brought.
• Akama recognized the skull as belonging to Gul'dan, and Herad explained how Gul'dan had helped bring disaster upon the Draenei and Orcs.
• Akama tested Gul'dan's artifact spirit and concluded that its muddled state meant its memories were lost.
• Akama suggested that Velen divine for the Cipher of Damnation, so Herad took Gul'dan's skull to the Tomb of Sargeras.
• Velen began divining the skull's fate and estimated that finding information about the Cipher would take around two months.

Herad returned to the Dead Volcano base, where he used Doomhammer to supply the Allied Forces with abundant water before Sir Lothar organized their attack on Redridge Mountains. The Allied Forces seized the northern half of the region, and Herad joined Alleria in helping sweep out the orc deserters as the campaign continued.

• Herad used Doomhammer to conjure a vast supply of purified water at the Dead Volcano base, drawing the Allied Forces there to rest and prepare.
• Sir Lothar deployed the Allied Forces to bomb orc positions, push south with Steam Tanks and cavalry, and sweep the surrounding mountains with infantry.
• The Allied Forces crushed the orc defenders at the northern pass and advanced to Lake Everstill, taking half of Redridge Mountains.
• Herad warned Sir Lothar that escaped orc deserters could threaten the Kingdom of Stormwind, and Sir Lothar ordered troops to hunt them down.
• Herad joined Alleria in the mountain sweep because he worried that powerful orc warlocks might still be hiding in Redridge Mountains.

Alleria led the Rangers into the eastern forest to clear out Orc deserters, destroying the Orcs at a logging camp while Gnolls hunted the fleeing peons. After Alleria killed a Gnoll scout with a Hurricane Arrow, the surviving Gnolls fled, and the forest fell quiet.

• Alleria took Herad and the Ranger force into the eastern forest, where Orcs were salvaging lumber at a ruined logging camp.
• The Rangers fired repeated volleys that killed most of the Orcs Infantry and sent the peons running into the forest.
• Gnolls ambushed and captured the fleeing Orc peons before the Rangers arrived, then sent scouts to watch them.
• Alleria killed a Gnoll scout with a powerful Hurricane Arrow, frightening the other scouts into fleeing.
• Herad understood that Alleria used overwhelming violence to deter the Gnolls, and the forest grew quiet.

Herad and Alleria’s Rangers cleared the Eastern Forest’s fortifications and hunted Orc deserters, using magic and the Forest Will to find them. The Rangers ambushed a group of Orcs in a gnoll camp, leaving the Orcs unable to identify their attackers.

• Herad used an Earthquake Spell to drive Orcs out of the castle, where the Rangers shot them down.
• The Rangers cleared the lakeside fortifications while Orc deserters hid deeper in the forest and fought gnolls for shelter.
• High Elf Rangers used nature spells to communicate with the Forest Will, which guided them toward the Orcs.
• Alleria sent a ranger squad to attack a small group of Orcs occupying a gnoll camp.
• The Rangers silently surrounded the Orcs and launched an ambush from cover, leaving the Orcs unable to tell where their attackers were.

Herad’s forces attacked the Orc garrison at Lake Everstill, using steam tanks and High Elf Rangers to overwhelm its poorly equipped troops. The Orcs’ southern reinforcements were trapped under sniper fire, and Herad destroyed the crossroads’ tower and walls with an Earthquake Spell.

• The High Elf Rangers cleared the Eastern Forest of Orc deserters and continued south along Lake Everstill.
• Herad watched poorly equipped Orc reinforcements march toward the front as steam tanks began crossing the bridge.
• Steam tanks broke through the Orc defenses, firing buckshot into the charging infantry and driving them back.
• High Elf Rangers ambushed Orc reinforcements from sniper positions in the forest near the southern pass, inflicting heavy casualties.
• Herad cast an Earthquake Spell that swallowed the tower and the walls at the southern crossroads.