Recaps

After Tiffin was struck by a stone and Stormwind’s forces attacked, Felix led the Stonemasons’ Guild through the sewers toward an escape route. VanCleef chose to stay behind at the Valley of Heroes to cover the retreat, entrusting Vanessa and the guild to Felix.

• Tiffin refused to hand over Marcus Jonathan and tried to calm the stonemasons, but a thrown stone struck her and left her bleeding.
• Dune appeared with Stormwind’s guards and priests, attacking the workers with fireballs as they cleared the streets.
• Felix ordered the guild to retreat into the sewers, where they regrouped and learned from Vladimir that the Valley of Heroes gate had been captured.
• Felix proposed fleeing to Westfall, where Vanessa, Jack, and Morgan were in Moonbrook, and VanCleef agreed.
• As Stormwind’s pursuing troops attacked the Valley of Heroes, VanCleef stayed behind to cover the others and asked Felix to care for Vanessa and the guild.

Felix led the Stonemasons’ Guild to Westfall and resolved to keep the workers’ rebellion from exploiting local farmers. After VanCleef arrived, Felix helped him rally the stonemasons and found the Defias Brotherhood, leaving their ambitions aimed at Stormwind and its nobles.

• Felix led the surviving stonemasons out of Stormwind and across the rivers into Westfall.
• At Saldean Farm, Felix and the guild members waited for VanCleef, who arrived with news of dead and captured brothers.
• VanCleef rallied the stonemasons by describing the nobles’ lavish banquet and their refusal to pay the guild’s wages.
• Felix urged the workers to reclaim what they had built, and VanCleef declared them members of the Defias Brotherhood.
• Felix proclaimed that the workers were the true masters of Stormwind and considered whether rebels could shape Azeroth’s future.

Felix advised VanCleef on how the Brotherhood could survive in Westfall, laying out short- and medium-term plans to obtain food and money. He left VanCleef with a quiet question about a king’s duties, setting up his long-term proposal.

• VanCleef told Felix that Vanessa was safe but the Brotherhood lacked supplies and had no way to support itself in Westfall.
• Felix proposed hunting murlocs, gnolls, and kobolds for food and valuables, while VanCleef trained the Brotherhood’s members to fight.
• Felix suggested ambushing tax carriages and eventually raiding banks in Stormwind City to take money from the Brotherhood’s enemies.
• VanCleef agreed to begin training the brothers and asked Felix for his long-term plan.
• Felix asked VanCleef what a king’s duties were and what a king ought to do.

Felix explained to VanCleef that governments fund public services through taxation and argued that the Defias Brotherhood could replace Stormwind’s nobles by protecting farmers and taxing them. He recognized that winning farmers’ support would take long-term work, so he asked VanCleef to teach the Brotherhood more assassin techniques.

• VanCleef said he wanted to build homes rather than become king, and Felix explained that a king’s job was to allocate resources through officials and taxation.
• Felix argued that Stormwind had failed by refusing to pay the Stonemasons’ Guild, and VanCleef realized that taxation and public services could make a government unnecessary if the Brotherhood provided them instead.
• Felix proposed taking land from Westfall’s farm owners and proving the Brotherhood could protect farmers while charging them less than Stormwind’s nobles.
• Felix recalled Baros Alexston’s farm and considered how difficult it would be to organize farmers who lacked guild ties and had long been ruled by nobles.
• Felix set aside the long-term plan and asked VanCleef to teach him and the other brothers assassin skills such as sustained stealth.

VanCleef began training Felix and the Brotherhood’s Rogues, demonstrating how technique and defense mattered more than brute force. Felix then explained how draining Stormwind City’s treasury could leave its army unpaid and drive the soldiers to mutiny.

• VanCleef gathered Felix and the brothers on open ground and assessed Felix’s combat skills.
• Felix attacked VanCleef with his longsword, but VanCleef easily evaded his strikes and pointed out his lack of technique and agility.
• VanCleef disarmed Felix in a flash and taught the brothers to protect themselves and strike only when success was certain.
• VanCleef listed the skills assassins needed to master, including Stealth, poisons, ambushes, and shadow magic, while Felix added pickpocketing, theft, and lockpicking.
• Felix proposed making Stormwind City too poor to pay its soldiers, and Vladimir, Joseph, and VanCleef concluded that the unpaid army would mutiny.

Felix led a group of Defias rogues to scout and attack a nearby murloc village, hoping to secure gold while keeping the Brotherhood supplied in Westfall. After discovering two more villages nearby, he warned that the group risked being overwhelmed, and Joseph asked whether their goal was to take gold or wipe out the murlocs.

• Felix told the novice rogues to wear red face coverings as they set out to hunt a murloc band near the beach.
• Felix's group crossed a hill and watched the murloc village, while Benny Blanco admitted he had barely fought before.
• Felix scouted north and discovered two additional murloc villages beyond the one shown on Lightfinger's map.
• Felix warned the Defias that nearby murlocs could reinforce one another and overwhelm their small group.
• Dudmore asked whether they should return empty-handed, and Joseph questioned whether they had come for gold or to wipe out the murlocs.

Felix drew the Murlocs away from their village so Joseph and the Rogues could steal the gold coins. After fighting off the Murloc leader, Felix saw the Murlocs begin retreating and pursued them.

• Felix explained the plan to lure most of the Murlocs away while Joseph and the Rogues raided their village for gold.
• Felix equipped leather armor and a Stormwind shield, then charged out to attract the Murlocs’ attention.
• Felix led the Murlocs away, killing several as he fought and retreated to keep them chasing him.
• The purple-skinned Murloc leader attacked Felix with its iron fork, but Felix knocked it down with his shield.
• A distant Murloc called the group back, and Felix pursued them, killing another straggler with his shield and sword.

Felix returned safely to the Defias camp after leading the Murlocs away, but the Brotherhood suffered heavy losses in other raids. After Morgan reported the Goldshire money wagon’s schedule, Felix proposed taking its tax money and called the operation confiscation rather than robbery.

• Felix taunted Slardar and led the retreating Murlocs away from the Defias camp.
• Felix returned to Dudmore and Joseph, who confirmed their team was safe but had found only copper coins.
• VanCleef told Felix that another team had been driven off by Murloc reinforcements, one team had been wiped out by elementals, and his own team had suffered injuries fighting a large Riverpaw Gnoll.
• Morgan reported that Goldshire’s money wagon traveled to Stormwind in the middle of each month, and VanCleef rewarded him with the Collector’s Ring.
• Felix proposed targeting Goldshire’s soldiers and tax money, insisting that the operation would be confiscation rather than robbery.

Felix persuaded VanCleef to stay out of the planned ambush and explained why Stormwind City had not yet attacked the Defias Brotherhood. He left VanCleef considering how the kingdom’s internal rivalries and outside threats kept Varian occupied.

• VanCleef wanted to join the Defias Brotherhood’s first ambush against Stormwind soldiers, but Felix told him to gather information on Gold Coast Quarry instead.
• Felix warned VanCleef that attacking a quarry owned by the crown could provoke Stormwind’s army, while targeting Earl Ridgewell’s property might not.
• VanCleef denied that the Defias had killed Queen Tiffin, but Felix argued that Varian believed they had and asked why the king had not retaliated.
• Felix explained that rivalries among Stormwind’s leaders, corruption, and threats across the kingdom prevented Varian from focusing on the Defias.
• Felix described King Terenas’s efforts to dominate the Alliance and said Lordaeron posed an external political threat to Stormwind City.

Felix explained to VanCleef why Varian feared Lordaeron’s ambitions and why the Defias Brotherhood needed to exploit divisions within the Alliance. VanCleef agreed to keep the Brotherhood’s operations limited and put Felix in charge of attacking Goldshire’s cash wagons.

• Felix argued that Stormwind’s lesser nobles might welcome Terenas Menethil, while Varian and Bolvar had reason to fear losing their power and safety.
• Felix explained that Varian distrusted the Menethils despite his gratitude to Lordaeron, and VanCleef realized the Alliance’s political rivalries could endanger the Brotherhood.
• VanCleef asked whether Varian was also struggling, and Felix said Varian had to tread carefully until Lordaeron fell.
• Felix advised VanCleef to limit the Brotherhood to small operations such as attacking the Gold Coast Quarry and cash wagons, while avoiding Sentinel Hill and Moonbrook.
• VanCleef assigned Felix the attack on Goldshire’s cash wagons, and Felix demanded full control over choosing the participants and keeping the operation secret.

Felix led the Defias Brotherhood in ambushing a Goldshire tax convoy on the road to Stormwind City. The attackers killed the escorts and seized control of the money wagons, though the fight was still underway.

• Felix briefed his brothers on the ambush plan, assigned them code names, and led them toward Goldshire under cover of darkness.
• Two days later, the convoy traveled late through Elwynn Forest with about twenty soldiers and hired adventurers guarding it.
• A red-masked Defias member blocked the road, and the Brotherhood attacked after a soldier charged him and had his throat slit.
• Felix and Joseph fought through the convoy while Lightfinger killed an adventurer who tried to escape and warn Stormwind City.
• Dwarven musketeers opened fire from a money wagon, but Felix and Joseph killed them and helped Jack overpower a guard.

After the Defias Brotherhood captured the adventurers guarding the money wagons, Felix argued that they should be killed to prevent them from reporting the robbery. The group voted to release them instead, and Felix sent them away after they promised to keep silent.

• Felix and the rogues subdued the adventurers, moved the prisoners and three money wagons into the woods, and Joseph inspected the cash.
• Felix proposed killing the captives, while Dudmore and others argued that the adventurers were ordinary people working for a few coins.
• Joseph suggested releasing them, but Felix warned that they might alert Stormwind City and bring the garrison, SI:7, or city guards after the group.
• Felix put the decision to a vote, and the majority chose to release the prisoners.
• Felix questioned the adventurers one by one, then let them go after they swore not to report the robbery.
• Felix urged the rogues to hurry back with the money, hoping they had not lost their chance to return safely.

After robbing an Alliance money carriage, Felix and the Defias rogues carried their loot toward Westfall but found Westbrook Garrison heavily guarded. They planned to sneak across at night, though Felix’s unease grew as his exhausted companions failed to report in, and he heard movement in the forest.

• Felix ordered the rogues to hide the bodies and carriage, then led them toward Westfall with the stolen coins.
• At the Mirror River, Felix spotted twelve guards and three cavalrymen at Westbrook Garrison, far more than before.
• Felix and the others rejected crossing by a long detour, swimming past Riverpaw Gnolls, or attacking the garrison directly.
• Felix proposed waiting until night, then having him and Joseph set a fire in the stables while the group crossed with the loot.
• Seeing that the exhausted rogues were falling asleep, Felix sent Joseph to keep watch with him and asked Vladimir to report if the guards left.
• Several hours later, Vladimir had not appeared, and Felix heard rustling in the distant forest.

Felix overheard SI:7 scouts searching for his bandit group and sent Joseph to warn the others to flee east. He diverted Mathias Shaw and the scouts with a series of tricks, but Shaw realized the deception and resumed the search to the west.

• Felix and Joseph overheard SI:7 scouts discussing their search for the robbers and His Majesty's tax money.
• Felix ordered Joseph to tell Vladimir, Bazil, and the others to pack up and escape east while he stayed behind to delay the scouts.
• Felix ran north, drew the scouts after him, and hid in a tree while preparing grass fuses.
• Felix repeatedly ignited the fuses to lure Mathias Shaw and his men back and forth through the woods.
• Shaw examined the charred fuses, realized one person had made them all, and ordered his men to search west for Felix's companions.

As the Brotherhood fled east from SI:7 and Westbrook Garrison, Vladimir and the others experienced vivid, conflicting visions that left Felix puzzled. The group gathered at its rendezvous point, but the strange visions remained unexplained.

• Joseph and Vladimir urged the Brotherhood to flee east as SI:7 closed in, but Westbrook Garrison soldiers began searching the eastern bank, forcing the rebels to scatter.
• While fleeing, Vladimir experienced visions of the Brotherhood triumphing and of himself and his comrades facing execution.
• Felix found the exhausted Vladimir and led him to the rendezvous point, where Dudmore, Lightfinger, Jack, and the others were waiting.
• Vladimir and the others told Felix they had all experienced visions, including Lightfinger's dream of seizing Stormwind City and another brother's nightmare of a witch unleashing a flood and monsters.
• Felix wondered why he alone had seen no visions and began considering what might be causing them.

Felix tried to reunite with his Defias brothers while Westbrook Garrison soldiers and SI:7 agents hunted them, but Chromie froze time and warned him not to alter major events. Felix refused to abandon his plans and asked what would happen if someone rescued the Red Dragon Queen from Grim Batol early.

• Felix left Dudmore and Vladimir in hiding and returned to wait for Joseph and the others.
• After soldiers and SI:7 agents arrived, Felix concluded that Joseph and Bazil had likely been captured and ran back toward his brothers.
• A golden beam stopped time around Felix, the soldiers, and the forest, leaving only Felix able to move.
• Chromie identified herself as a Bronze Dragonflight time guardian and warned Felix that changing Varian's path would endanger the world.
• Felix insisted that he would lead his brothers toward a future beyond banditry and asked Chromie what would happen if the Red Dragon Queen were rescued from Grim Batol early.

Felix debated Chromie over the Bronze Dragonflight's claim that history had to follow one correct timeline, while Mirok intervened on his behalf. He left Chromie questioning her beliefs and challenged her with a paradox about changing the past.

• Chromie admitted that the Bronze Dragonflight could no longer glimpse the future and accused Felix of causing the change.
• Chromie tried to seize Felix, but Mirok appeared and wrestled her, urging Felix to stop the disasters on the continent.
• Felix pretended not to recognize Mirok and asked the two gnomes to settle their disagreement before interfering with him.
• Chromie argued that the Bronze Dragonflight had to preserve the best timeline, while Mirok challenged her certainty about the world's fate.
• Felix questioned whether a fixed timeline could allow free will and life, then asked Chromie whether killing one's grandfather in the past would erase the killer.

Felix convinced Chromie and Mirok that time travel created parallel timelines and that the Bronze Dragons should not force a single future on Azeroth. A flashback showed Zaladormu discovering that the Forsaken timeline had vanished and deciding not to fix it.

• Felix argued that killing one's own grandfather could not change the past, then explained that timelines split into parallel streams and that free will should not be constrained.
• Chromie worried that the Bronze Dragons' mission had become meaningless, but Felix urged her to discover a new purpose and defend life's freedom to choose its future.
• Mirok agreed with Felix's criticism of the Bronze Dragons, then she and Chromie resumed fighting and disappeared.
• One month earlier, Zaladormu received reports of anomalies across several timelines and discovered that the Forsaken timeline had vanished.
• Zaladormu learned that Nozdormu had been missing for a long time and chose to leave the distorted timeline alone.

Felix escaped the pursuers with help from wind elementals and led the Defias Rogues east, abandoning most of their copper coins. Their pursuers stopped to scramble for the scattered coins, allowing a masked plainclothes soldier to disappear into the night.

• Felix outran SI:7's pursuers and returned to the Defias camp, warning the Rogues to flee while Joseph, Bazil, and the others were likely in custody.
• Felix persuaded the Rogues to leave their copper coins behind and take only a few bags of silver as they fled east.
• Felix sent Vladimir and the others toward Jerod's Landing while he stayed behind to distract the pursuers.
• Officer Jackson and Shaw searched the hillside, but several soldiers abandoned the chase to grab the coins scattered below.
• The plainclothes soldier who had first spotted the coins put on a mask and vanished into the night.

Felix returned to Westfall with the surviving Defias brothers and the stolen silver, while Joseph, Bazil, and others remained prisoners in Stormwind. After hearing that SI:7 had been alerted, VanCleef agreed that the Brotherhood could not risk an immediate rescue, leaving Felix to devise a safer plan.

• Felix met Lightfinger and the others at Jerod's Landing, and they sailed downstream toward Westfall with the stolen coins.
• Dudmore apologized for letting the adventurers escape, while Felix promised to find a way to rescue Joseph and Bazil from the Stockade when the time was right.
• Felix warned the brothers that a prison break could provoke a crackdown, and they agreed not to tell VanCleef about the captives until they returned.
• The boat reached Westfall, where VanCleef showed Felix the garrison rotation schedule and realized several brothers were missing.
• Felix told VanCleef that Joseph, Bazil, and the others had been captured and explained that SI:7 had been alerted, so an immediate rescue was too dangerous.
• VanCleef recalled his history with Mathias Shaw and accepted that the Brotherhood would have to avoid acting rashly.

Felix persuaded VanCleef to delay the Stockade break until Winter Veil, using the time to train the Defias and keep their hideout safe. After training, Sarsarun appeared and gave Felix a weakened version of Thunderfury, leaving him unsure why the air elementals were helping him.

• Felix proposed framing the Stockade prison break on Emperor Thaurissan and the Dark Iron Dwarves, and VanCleef agreed to follow his plan.
• Felix convinced VanCleef to wait until Winter Veil, arguing that Varian would imprison rather than execute their captured brothers.
• Felix ordered the Defias to focus on training and hunting, adding weighted cross-country runs to improve their strength and escape speed.
• Sarsarun met Felix by the river and gave him a lighter, wind-enhanced sword, then told him to do what he wished.
• Felix suspected the air elementals wanted to disrupt the Bronze Dragonflight's timeline, but he remained uneasy about their motives.

The Defias Brotherhood prepared to seize the Gold Coast Quarry after Felix confirmed its miners and soldiers were underpaid and unhappy. VanCleef led a surprise night attack that overwhelmed the sentries and caught the sleeping defenders off guard.

• Mathias Shaw interrogated Joseph, known as Big Beard, but Joseph refused to reveal information about the Brotherhood.
• A month passed without Stormwind taking military action against Westfall, allowing the Brotherhood to continue its plans.
• Felix reported that the quarry's miners and soldiers were underfed or underpaid, and VanCleef ordered an immediate attack to prevent leaks.
• VanCleef led the rogues to the quarry, where they killed the sentries before they could sound an alarm.
• Felix and the other rogues charged into the quarry, and VanCleef rallied the attackers as they cut down the unprepared defenders.

VanCleef’s Defias Brotherhood captured the Gold Coast Quarry after miners rose up and Felix killed the quarry officer with poison. Felix persuaded the Brotherhood to disarm and release the captured Stormwind soldiers, leaving the quarry under Defias control.

• Furious miners inside the quarry attacked the Stormwind defenders from behind while VanCleef’s rogues fought them from the front.
• Felix poisoned the quarry officer, who died after several minutes, and the remaining soldiers fled or surrendered.
• VanCleef declared that the Brotherhood had won the quarry, and Lightfinger asked what to do with the prisoners.
• Felix ordered the Brotherhood to strip the soldiers of their equipment and let them stay as workers or return home.
• Felix explained that the Brotherhood should release serving soldiers but execute adventurers, whom he considered more committed to the Alliance and its nobles.

Felix persuaded VanCleef to improve the miners’ working conditions and proposed reforms to protect the Defias Brotherhood from betrayal. VanCleef then worried Felix intended to take money and leave the Brotherhood.

• VanCleef ordered the soldiers stripped of their possessions and let miners stay to work or return home.
• Felix urged VanCleef to keep the miners’ wages unchanged while giving them more rest and better treatment, and VanCleef agreed.
• Felix warned that Brotherhood members could betray the group for money and that SI:7 might strike if their location was revealed.
• Felix proposed paying members who no longer wished to fight what Stormwind’s nobles owed them and letting them leave peacefully.
• VanCleef realized Felix might be planning to take money and leave the Brotherhood.

Felix planned to use a future Defias betrayal to justify creating an organization to root out SI:7 spies, while he built support through individual conversations with Guild members. After hearing Jasper Fel’s report about the unusual robbers, Shaw decided to warn Grand Duke Bolvar and King Varian about them.

• Felix agreed with VanCleef that members who lacked resolve could leave the Brotherhood, while privately worrying that SI:7 spies might remain among them.
• Felix planned to establish a counterintelligence organization after a betrayal created a convincing reason, and chose Baros Alexston as a possible traitor to frame.
• With VanCleef’s support, Felix held private conversations with the Stonemasons’ Guild’s skilled workers and migrant laborers to explain his ideas.
• Jasper Fel told Shaw that robbers at the Gold Coast Quarry had freed prisoners, paid them copper coins, confiscated their weapons, and improved miners’ wages and working conditions.
• Shaw suspected the quarry robbers were the same group that had stolen the king’s tax money and decided to alert Grand Duke Bolvar and King Varian.