Recaps

Karin brought the unconscious Medivh back to Karazhan after Medivh exhausted his mental energy, and wondered whether killing him could also destroy Sargeras. Medivh awoke with little memory of what happened, while Karin later opened a restrained book that came to life and chased him through the library.

• Karin carried Medivh from Stormwind City to Karazhan and rejected the idea of killing him to stop Sargeras.
• Moroes hurried Medivh to his study, where Moroes and Kuke tried to revive him with broth and ale.
• Medivh awoke, ate the broth, and recognized Karin as his assistant but could not remember what had happened.
• Moroes told Karin not to explain the events to Medivh because he would forget them anyway.
• Karin found Medivh's book about Imprisonment in the library and released a monster that chased him.

Karin spent months studying Medivh’s enchanted library while the orc threat grew and Dalaran sent Kel'Thuzad and Khadgar to aid Azeroth. When Karin opened Medivh’s notebook, he was drawn into a vision of Aegwynn confronting a demon army in Northrend.

• Karin exhausted the biting book’s arcane energy, read it, and spent a week studying its contents before searching Medivh’s library for valuable books.
• Karin encountered books protected by spells, including one that evaded him, one that would not open, and one that changed its appearance.
• Lothar’s scouts reported that more orcs might be arriving through the Dark Portal, and Dalaran sent Kel'Thuzad and Khadgar with an elite mage unit to support Azeroth.
• Karin found Medivh’s locked notebook in the library and used techniques from “Snares and locks” to open it.
• Karin read the words “The song of Aegwynn!” and lost consciousness, then awoke in a soul state within a vision of Northrend.
• Karin recognized Aegwynn as she faced a demon army, summoned dragons, and prepared for battle.

Karin saw an illusion of Aegwynn's battle with Sargeras, then captured a cloaked intruder in Karazhan and discovered she was Garona, a half-orc seeking to betray Gul'dan. Medivh returned, revealed his plans for Garona, and assigned Karin to help Moroes organize a grand banquet.

• Karin watched an illusion show Aegwynn defeat Sargeras's physical body before Sargeras's soul possessed her.
• Karin heard an intruder fleeing through Karazhan, trapped the figure with an Imprisonment spell, and fought her when she escaped.
• Karin and the intruder exchanged spells and blows until Moroes intervened and identified her as the Astral Plane Mage's guest.
• Medivh returned to Karazhan and introduced the intruder as Garona, a former slave of Gul'dan who planned to betray him.
• Medivh said he would take Garona to Stormwind City to meet Llane and asked Karin to help Moroes arrange a grand banquet.

Karin discovered that Sargeras planned to hold a banquet at Karazhan in seven days, then studied a book on animating constructs and reworked a giant Arcane Construct. He left the construct’s old security program unfinished as he began replacing its rules.

• Karin realized that Medivh had been Sargeras and worried about the upcoming banquet at Karazhan.
• Karin cut open the troublesome Blue Book and found a volume about animating constructs and configuring intelligent magic.
• Moroes told Karin that he and Kuke were going to Darkshire to hire Atumen as a Stablehand for the banquet.
• Kuke told Karin about a broken giant construct in the Exhibition Hall, and Karin went to inspect it.
• After three days, Karin completed his modified Arcane Construct, activated it, and then shut it down to replace its old rules.

Karin helped host a lavish banquet at Karazhan while “Medivh” remained absent, and the gathering ended with the arrival of a woman who looked exactly like the figure from Karin’s illusion. Moroes knelt before her as Atumen and Karin watched her approach.

• “Medivh” returned to Karazhan without Garona, while Karin had already sent coded letters to Kel'Thuzad and Khadgar.
• Moroes and Kuke prepared the tower for a banquet, with Atumen bringing horses and stable hands and an opera troupe arriving from Lakeshire.
• The nobles watched a performance of “Little Red Riding Hood” and praised the opera and “Medivh,” who stayed away.
• Koira offered Karin wine, then Lady Katrina propositioned him, and Karin rejected both women.
• Atumen spotted the arriving golden-haired woman in a silver hood and called her a goddess, while Moroes fell to his knees.

Magna Aegwynn confronted Medivh in Karazhan and discovered that Sargeras controlled her son's body. As Sargeras attacked her and ordered everyone in the tower killed, Karin sent a warning to Kel'Thuzad and revealed the Curator.

• Magna Aegwynn reunited with Moroes and demanded to see Medivh, while Karin warned Atumen to leave Karazhan.
• Karin used the magical paper to tell Kel'Thuzad to act ahead of schedule, then revealed the Curator.
• Aegwynn accused Medivh of opening the Dark Portal and bringing the Orcs into the world.
• Medivh revealed that he was Sargeras, who had possessed him since before his birth and killed several people.
• Sargeras overpowered Aegwynn, aged her rapidly, and ordered everyone in the tower killed.

Karin took the Curator into Karazhan's cellar and slaughtered the demons Sargeras had imprisoned there. As the last demons fell, heavy footsteps sounded above, leaving Karin facing the next threat.

• Karin left Karazhan with the Curator and ordered it to follow him to the cellar.
• Karin used the Ancient Spell "Unlock" to open the protected cellar entrance, then killed the chained Satyr Tristan Felhoof.
• Karin found demons and human remains throughout the cellar and realized Sargeras had kept the demons restrained there.
• Karin ordered the Curator to kill the imprisoned demons and joined in, cutting down a Succubus and the others with Glamdring.
• After the demons were dead, Karin heard heavy footsteps above the cellar.

Sargeras took control of Medivh, killed Moroes, and slaughtered the nobles gathered in Karazhan. After Karin killed the demons in the cellar, Sargeras confronted him and praised his unexpected resistance.

• Sargeras told Moroes that he was possessing Medivh, then killed the old steward when Moroes attacked him.
• Kuke found Moroes's body and, terrified, plunged a rusty blade into her own heart.
• Sargeras appeared before the nobles in Karazhan, killed Duke Crispin and Miss Koira, and burned the hall with Atiesh.
• Sargeras sensed that Karin had caused him trouble and went to confront him in the cellar.
• Karin stood among the demon corpses as Sargeras arrived, applauded, and praised him for the surprise.

Karin lured Sargeras outside Karazhan, where Medivh’s demon protection ward blocked his entry, but the ward began to fail. As Sargeras again demanded that Karin join the Burning Legion or die, Karin broke through to the sixth ring and the All-Knowing Eye reappeared in his mind.

• Sargeras offered Karin great power if he joined the Burning Legion, but Karin ordered the Curator to attack and escaped with a Teleportation Spell.
• Sargeras easily damaged the Curator, while Karin fled to the opera hall and found the invited nobles dead, including Miss Koira.
• Karin drew Sargeras outside Karazhan, where the demon protection ward drove him back and prevented him from entering.
• Sargeras began forcing his way through the ward and offered Karin one last chance to join the Legion or die.
• Karin broke through to the sixth ring, then heard the All-Knowing Eye announce its return.

Karin awakened the All-Knowing Eye and used its calculations to find a way to escape Sargeras. He exploited Medivh’s grief over Moroes and Kuke to make the mage resist Sargeras, then fled toward the chained gryphon atop Karazhan.

• Karin asked the awakened All-Knowing Eye to calculate his odds of survival, and it warned that Sargeras would almost certainly kill him.
• The All-Knowing Eye identified using people Medivh cared about to disrupt Sargeras’s control as Karin’s best chance.
• Karin found Moroes and Kuke dead, lifted their bodies, and carried them downstairs despite his grief.
• Karin dropped Moroes’s and Kuke’s bodies before Sargeras, prompting Medivh to fight back against Sargeras’s control.
• Karin chanted spells concerning the mind and soul to intensify Sargeras’s struggle with Medivh, then followed the All-Knowing Eye’s advice and ran toward the gryphon at Karazhan’s summit.

Karin escaped Karazhan on a Golden Gryphon, but Sargeras called it back, forcing Karin to land in the Redridge Mountains. While hiding from Orcs at a looted farm, he learned that three major Horde clans were searching for him and was nearly discovered.

• Karin unlocked the Golden Gryphon's chain and flew toward Stormwind, but the Gryphon became uncontrollable and turned back toward Karazhan, so Karin jumped off with Slow Fall.
• Karin crossed the Redridge Mountains and found a farm devastated by Orcs.
• The All-Knowing Eye warned Karin that roughly two hundred hostile Orcs were approaching, so he hid inside the farm.
• Orcs settled at the farm, and Karin overheard them say three Horde clans had been mobilized to find a fugitive matching his description.
• Two Orcs in Karin's room noticed a strange smell and turned toward his hiding place.

Karin escaped an Orc camp after killing two guards and setting the farm ablaze, but the Orcs tracked his scent with a white war wolf. The Orc force caught up behind him, and Karin prepared to fight.

• Karin killed two Orcs with an improved Imprisonment spell and took black bread from their supplies.
• Karin tried to sneak out of the farm, but an Orc Scout spotted him after he kicked a stone and sounded the alarm.
• Karin knocked down the Scout, set the camp ablaze with an enhanced Pyroblast, and escaped amid the chaos.
• The Orc leader found the two dead guards and sent White Fang to track Karin's scent without alerting the other clans.
• The All-Knowing Eye warned Karin that the Orcs were approaching, and Karin recognized the leader and white wolf before preparing for battle.

Karin ambushed the orcs from a cliff, killing their warlocks and breaking their attack. Kel'Thuzad arrived to cut off the fleeing orcs, and the two mages killed nearly all of them.

• Karin prepared Icy Veins and Arcane Empowerment as the orcs followed Whitefang toward his decoy clothing.
• Karin struck the gathered orcs with a Pyroblast, then defeated one warlock with Arcane Missiles.
• A second warlock summoned a hellhound, but Karin killed it with Glamdring and used Imprisonment to defeat both warlocks.
• The orcs fled, but Kel'Thuzad blocked their escape with Multiple Arcane Missiles while Karin attacked from above.
• Karin and Kel'Thuzad killed nearly all the orcs, and Kel'Thuzad revealed his face to Karin.

Khadgar warned King Llane that Medivh was possessed by Sargeras and had opened the Dark Portal, but the king refused to believe him. Anduin Lothar privately revealed that he had once seen Medivh take on a demonic form, then led Khadgar to a gathering of gryphons.

• Khadgar went to Stormwind Keep and accused Garona of being an orc spy sent by Medivh.
• Khadgar told King Llane and his court that Karin had discovered Medivh was Sargeras and that Medivh had opened the Dark Portal.
• King Llane dismissed Khadgar's warning and had him leave the palace, while Garona defended Medivh.
• Khadgar returned to his room and prepared to go to Karazhan to find Karin and Kel'Thuzad.
• Anduin Lothar privately told Khadgar he had once seen Medivh in a demonic form, then led him to a square with more than a dozen gryphons.

Karin reunited with Kel'Thuzad and Khadgar as Anduin Lothar gathered Stormwind reinforcements to confront the possessed Medivh. The group reached Karazhan at night, preparing to face Sargeras before he could consume Medivh's soul completely.

• Anduin Lothar told Khadgar that he had long suspected Medivh had changed, and Khadgar explained that Sargeras possessed him.
• Kel'Thuzad tested Karin's identity, then agreed to find Khadgar and return to Karazhan to stop Sargeras.
• Khadgar and Anduin Lothar reunited with Karin and Kel'Thuzad, and Karin recounted what had happened in Karazhan while hiding the All-Knowing Eye.
• Karin showed Anduin Lothar Glamdring and urged him to fight Medivh if necessary, and Lothar prepared to lead his guards onward.
• Karin, Kel'Thuzad, Khadgar, Anduin Lothar, and the Stormwind warriors flew through war-scarred lands and arrived at Karazhan as night fell.

Karin found the others trapped in Karazhan’s illusion after the group entered the apparently abandoned tower. Lothar experienced a vision of Stormwind facing an overwhelming orc army before Karin woke him, while the rest of the party remained unconscious.

• The gryphons fled from the Observatory, and Karin’s assessment showed that his chance of dying in Karazhan was low.
• Reginald Windsor entered Karazhan and reported no danger, so Karin and the others followed him inside.
• Karin found Aegwynn’s Song at the entrance to Medivh’s study and told Khadgar to keep her safe.
• Karin discovered that the others had frozen under Karazhan’s illusion while he remained unaffected by Kuke’s Black-Frame Glasses.
• Lothar saw a vision of himself defending Stormwind with Varian against a vast orc army, then saw Medivh arrive as a raven.
• Karin woke Lothar and explained that he had experienced an illusion, while the rest of the party remained trapped in it.

Reginald Windsor, Khadgar, and Kel'Thuzad each experienced visions of possible futures. The chapter left Kel'Thuzad watching a magical experiment unleash a blast called the “eternal blazing sun.”

• Reginald Windsor watched a vision of his older self serving as marshal and confronting Onyxia in Stormwind Keep.
• Khadgar witnessed an army fighting orcs and demons at a dark portal, led by a plate-armored mage who noticed him.
• Kel'Thuzad recognized that he was trapped in a powerful illusion above Stratholme and saw the floating city Naxxramas.
• Kel'Thuzad heard his older self lend Naxxramas to a young mage and prepare protective magic for an experiment.
• A spark from Naxxramas exploded over the Great Sea in a blast of fiery light, and the young mage said their mentor would name it the “eternal blazing sun.”

Windsor experienced an illusion in which his future self used Draconic Magic against Onyxia, while Karin warned the expedition to keep their visions secret and protected Khadgar from further illusions. As the group searched Karazhan, a fire-scorched skeletal dragon attacked, and an ancient spell began behind Karin.

• Windsor saw an illusion of his future self exposing Onyxia and using Draconic Magic to make her reveal her dragon form, and he remembered the spell.
• Anduin Lothar warned the soldiers not to fall into illusions or speak about what they saw, and Karin blindfolded Khadgar.
• Karin told Kel'Thuzad and the others that Medivh was likely absent from the tower, then the All-Knowing Eye warned him of a fast-moving dragon behind the left wall.
• Karin warned the group, Kel'Thuzad dodged, and the dragon burst through the wall and killed Warrior Lori.
• Anduin Lothar wounded the dragon with Quel'Zaram, and Karin cast a Fire Protection Barrier as it prepared to breathe flames at Lothar.
• The dragon stopped its attack and retreated in fear as someone behind Karin began chanting an ancient spell.

As Lothar’s party descended through Karazhan, Reginald Windsor used Draconic magic to drive back a dragon, and Khadgar sensed an unsettling energy in the cellar. Karin opened a hidden stone door beneath the cellar, where Kel’Thuzad warned that a terrifying enemy awaited them.

• Reginald Windsor repeated a Draconic spell he had heard in an illusion, forcing the dragon to retreat as Lothar led the others onward.
• Khadgar sensed a faint, unsettling energy in the cellar and persuaded the group to investigate it.
• Karin and Lothar found the cellar filled with demon corpses, and Lothar praised Karin for killing them.
• Kel’Thuzad spotted bloodstains leading to a cellar wall, and Karin used the Unlock spell to open a hidden stone door.
• Kel’Thuzad sensed a terrifying enemy waiting in the depths beyond the door.

After Durotan exposed Gul'dan's pact with demons, Orgrim Doomhammer and Varok Saurfang plotted to kill Gul'dan and Blackhand while trying to secure the Horde's future. Gul'dan then received orders from Medivh to attack human cities, but Medivh noticed that his assistant had arrived with visitors.

• Durotan accused Gul'dan of serving demons, and Gul'dan exiled the Frostwolf Clan and sent assassins after Durotan, his wife, and their newborn child.
• Orgrim Doomhammer told Varok Saurfang that Durotan and his wife had been murdered, while their child, Go'el, was missing.
• Orgrim and Saurfang resolved to kill Gul'dan and Blackhand, and considered recruiting Grommash to help them.
• Gul'dan told Medivh that every clan except the hidden Mag'har had passed through the Dark Portal.
• Medivh ordered Gul'dan to attack human cities, saying the human king would soon die, then noticed that his assistant had brought visitors.

Karin and his companions descended through a horrifying mirror image of Karazhan, where they encountered the evidence of Medivh’s atrocities and a chamber packed with demons. Lothar stayed behind to hold the demons off while Karin, Kel'Thuzad, and Khadgar continued downward and found an Astral Plane Mage waiting in Medivh’s study.

• Lothar led Karin and the others down the sinister stairway, where they discovered a reversed Karazhan filled with torture devices, bones, corpses, and signs of demon summoning.
• Karin and his companions reached the mirror-image Library, opened its iron door, and found it swarming with demons.
• Lothar used Quel'Zaram to block the demons while his warriors fought beside him, urging Karin, Kel'Thuzad, and Khadgar to continue toward Medivh’s study.
• Karin led Kel'Thuzad and Khadgar down to the study, where they found an elegant Astral Plane Mage who greeted Karin.

Karin, Khadgar, and Kel'Thuzad confronted Medivh in his tower, where he revealed his plan to use the Orcs to reach the Tomb of Sargeras and be reborn. Aegwynn, the Shade of Aran, and Lothar tried to reach Medivh, but he unleashed flames that engulfed the room.

• Medivh praised Karin's attempt to distract him with Moroes and Kuke's deaths, then described his plan to control the Orcs through Gul'dan and enter the Tomb of Sargeras.
• Karin revealed Aegwynn's Song, allowing Aegwynn to appear and confront her son.
• Medivh blamed Aegwynn for making him a tool of her power and revealed that Fel power had saved him from the harm caused by the Tirisfal power she placed in him.
• Aegwynn summoned the Shade of Aran, who pleaded with Medivh to stop, while Kel'Thuzad prepared to attack.
• Lothar entered and urged Medivh to stop, but Medivh recognized Karin's tactic and engulfed the room in flames.

Sargeras, controlling Medivh, overwhelmed the defenders and began draining Karin’s life force and magic. Karin remained conscious as he waited for his last, unreliable ally to act.

• Kel'Thuzad warned the others about Medivh’s bronze flames while Anduin Lothar attacked, but Medivh knocked Lothar down.
• Medivh restrained Aegwynn and burned away the Shade of Nielas Aran after Aran attacked him with fire.
• Medivh repelled Khadgar’s spell, knocked him unconscious, and defeated Kel'Thuzad when he rushed to protect Karin.
• Medivh pulled Karin close and began stripping away his life force, youth, and magic, while Karin stayed conscious and counted on his last ally.

Gul'dan secretly turned against Sargeras, using the Shadow Council and a crystal ball to attack him during his battle with Karin. The attack briefly exposed Medivh, allowing Karin to stab him with Glamdring.

• Gul'dan summoned Talongor, Cho'gall, Giselda, and the other Shadow Council warlocks to prepare a magic circle.
• Gul'dan recalled how Kil'jaeden had betrayed him and decided he would not trust Sargeras, whom he hoped to kill and replace with the power hidden in the Tomb of Sargeras.
• After a fugitive invited him to help fight Sargeras, Gul'dan agreed and ordered the Shadow Council to pour its power into the crystal ball he had given Sargeras.
• Gul'dan's mental attack struck Sargeras through the crystal ball, briefly revealing Medivh's face to Karin.
• Karin thrust Glamdring into Medivh's heart.

Karin and the others defeated Sargeras by killing Medivh, then buried Medivh, Moroes, and Kuke near Karazhan. After learning that Medivh had left his property to them, Karin promised to honor his final wishes and help drive back the orcs and close the portal.

• Medivh briefly regained control before Karin killed him, and Lothar beheaded him to ensure Sargeras was gone.
• Karin, Lothar, Kel'Thuzad, and Khadgar confirmed they had won, while Aegwynn had disappeared and Nielas Aran's soul was gone.
• Karin buried Medivh, Moroes, and Kuke near Karazhan as Lothar arranged the fallen soldiers' graves and burned the unburied corpses.
• Lothar gave Karin Medivh's will, which left his property to Moroes, Kuke, and Karin, the only heir still alive.
• Karin vowed to carry out Medivh's wishes, drive back the orcs, and close the portal before saying goodbye at the graves.