Recaps

Allen discovered Graia Goldwheel’s letter and potion formulas, then studied the healing potion formula and learned that brewing a magical version required a source of magic. He visited Chris Magic Goods Shop seeking one and rejected the expensive Firestone and Earthstone, leaving his search unresolved.

• Allen opened the buried chest and read Graia Goldwheel’s letter describing how nobles stole his work and murdered him.
• Allen examined Goldwheel’s potion formulas, chose to study the healing potion formula, and learned that ordinary and magical healing potions came from the same formula.
• Allen realized that brewing a magical healing potion required magic and decided to seek an energy source in the market and shops.
• Allen searched the market, found nothing useful, and went to Chris Magic Goods Shop with his Membership Card.
• The shopkeeper offered Allen Firestone for 720 gold coins and Earthstone for 450 gold coins after discounts, but Allen asked to see other options.

Allen began preparing to make Healing Potions, rented a house in Dalaran’s outer city, and arranged to buy alchemy equipment and ingredients. Meanwhile, the black-robed Lillian Chris set a scheme in motion involving a Water Elemental Heart and the Nine-Ring Tower.

• A shopkeeper showed Allen a perfect Water Elemental Heart, but Allen declined to buy it and left, suspecting a scheme.
• Lillian Chris told the shopkeeper to spread word that she awaited someone at the Nine-Ring Tower, then took the Water Elemental Heart and vanished.
• Allen remembered his own smaller Water Elemental Heart and calculated the costs and risks of brewing Healing Potions with his limited funds.
• Allen rented an old house in the outer city and arranged with a market vendor to obtain used alchemy equipment and secondary ingredients.
• Allen ordered fifty portions of duskweed from the Alchemy Association and paid the full price.

Allen studied Jinlun's healing potion formula and gathered equipment and ingredients so he could begin brewing in his outer-city house. After repeated failures, he traced the problem to infusing magic power from the Water Elemental Heart and kept searching for a balance he could not yet find.

• Allen secured his outer-city house and dug a concealed hole to hide valuable equipment.
• Allen studied Jinlun's formula and alchemy information for a week before collecting his equipment and Duskweed.
• Allen began brewing a healing potion, but the liquid reacted badly when he tried to infuse it with magic power from the Water Elemental Heart.
• Allen recorded his mistakes and made repeated attempts, but he used up his Duskweed without producing a finished potion.
• Allen bought more ingredients and continued testing, concluding that small differences between ingredients made the magic-power infusion difficult to balance.

Allen succeeded in brewing Healing Potions, built a small business selling them, and planned to gain Alchemy Apprentice status so he could join Dalaran and access the Library’s second floor. After learning the test requirements, he devised a way to use the Water Elemental Heart without drawing attention.

• Allen brewed a weakened Healing Potion, discovered that his strong mental power let him sense the balance point, and began producing potions more reliably.
• Allen sold the merchant his first potions and later negotiated a regular supply agreement for twenty vials a month at 780 silver coins each.
• Allen calculated that his growing potion business could ease his financial troubles and decided to qualify for Dalaran through alchemy.
• Allen learned that brewing one potion from the Association’s list within three attempts would earn him an Alchemy Apprentice Certificate, and he planned to take the test in three days.
• Allen decided to conceal the Water Elemental Heart inside his own brewing flask and cover it with cloth during the supervised test.

Allen passed Dalaran’s Alchemy Apprentice test, joined the association despite its mandatory assignments, and gained access to the Library’s second floor. He spent the next half month studying magical theory while continuing to brew Healing Potions.

• Allen brewed a Healing Potion during the association test, impressed Lord Arthur, and received his Alchemy Apprentice badge.
• Allen joined Dalaran after learning that apprentices without mentors could be assigned tasks they could not refuse.
• Allen used his new identification to enter the Library’s second floor and discovered books on magical theory.
• Allen spent five or six hours studying and decided to focus on the Library’s introductory magic books instead of searching for clues about other classes.
• Over the next half month, Allen studied at the Library and brewed Healing Potions, improving his success rate and keeping his best potions for himself.

Allen learned that George Hreliff had joined the Hreliff Family and heard that Drenden Archersman was backing the Chris Family in Dalaran. After studying magic, Allen accepted an association assignment to brew healing potions and began testing whether he could gather magical power with mental power alone.

• George Hreliff introduced Allen to Buckle Hreliff and revealed that he had formally joined the Hreliff Family.
• Buckle told Allen that Drenden Archersman had publicly declared support for the Chris Family, prompting Allen to connect the news to the Water Elemental Heart and the coming Council of Six election.
• Allen reflected on magical theories and concluded that mages understood little about nature and other forces beyond magic.
• Allen went to the association and received an assignment to brew fifteen healing potions of inferior grade or better for four hundred silver coins each.
• Allen tried gathering magical power from the air with his mental power to infuse a healing potion, struggled to concentrate it, and confirmed that mental power could gather it to some extent.

Allen tried to cast spells by constructing runes with mental power, but his attempts failed. After finding another mage’s similar failed experiments, he questioned the accepted explanation and considered why mental power could control mana despite being unable to interact with it directly.

• Allen attempted to construct a Fireball rune with mental power, but it collapsed before affecting the surrounding mana.
• Allen set the experiment aside and returned to brewing potions and studying at the library as Dalaran’s Kirin Tor elections approached.
• Allen received a larger Healing Potion assignment, sold half of his medium-grade potions to a young man for more than seventy gold coins, and kept his high-grade potions.
• Allen spent several days in the library and found an experiment record describing another mage’s failure to cast spells by constructing runes with mental power.
• Allen concluded that his mental power dispersed before it could form a rune and questioned why it could control mana if it could not interact with mana.

Allen’s mental power underwent a painful transformation, creating a soul space and leaving him in need of recovery. A week later, Archmage Kel'Thuzad summoned mages to assist Highlord Pelaven against rampaging magical beasts in Silverpine Forest, and Allen reluctantly joined the mission before choosing a book of basic spell runes as payment.

• Allen failed to gather enough mana from his surroundings to construct runes and cast spells.
• Allen’s mental power erupted while he tried to brew potions, then transformed and became several times stronger as a soul space appeared.
• Allen rested and studied his soul space for a week while recovering from the damage to his soul.
• Archmage Kel'Thuzad appeared at the potion-brewing hall and asked mages to help Highlord Pelaven deal with rampaging magical beasts in Silverpine Forest.
• Allen signed up for the mission despite not wanting to go, then chose a book of basic spell runes from Kel'Thuzad’s list of payments.

Allen discovered why his pure mental energy could not form runes outside his Soul Space and kept the revelation secret. Before leaving for Pelaven's territory, he bought and activated a defective spellbook that could store and replenish his mental energy, then headed to the meeting point.

• Allen realized that mages could not use pure mental energy to form runes because they lacked the mental strength to create a Soul Space, and he decided to keep the discovery secret.
• Allen prepared for his journey to Pelaven's territory, informed the merchant he would be leaving, and searched the eastern district for useful equipment.
• Allen bought a supposedly failed spellbook made from Deadman's Tree wood after discovering it could hold his pure mental energy.
• Allen charged the spellbook, activated it, and found that it could store about half his mental energy for later use.
• Allen named the activated book the Soul Book, disguised it as an ordinary black-bound book, and hurried to the meeting point with his luggage.

Allen traveled with a group of Dalaran mages and apprentices to Highlord Pelaven’s frontier outpost near Silverpine Forest, where he suspected their mission involved helping Pelaven expand into the dangerous forest. At the outpost, Allen met his roommate Ruizesi and revealed to him and other apprentices that he was an Alchemy Apprentice rather than a mage apprentice.

• Allen traveled from Dalaran to Highlord Pelaven’s outpost near Silverpine Forest with a group of mages and apprentices.
• The group arrived at the frontier outpost, where soldiers escorted them to the lord’s residence and assigned them rooms.
• Allen met his roommate Ruizesi, introduced himself as an Alchemy Apprentice, and studied basic runes before bed.
• Ruizesi told Allen that their mission was not to defend against magical beasts, and Allen suspected they could not refuse their assignment.
• At lunch, Ruizesi introduced Allen to Jim and Charles, who did not recognize him, so Allen explained that he had joined Dalaran as an Alchemy Apprentice rather than as a mage apprentice.

Allen settled into potion-making in Lord Pelaven’s territory while studying runes and developing a way to cast spells quickly through his soul space. After mastering Wind Blade, he realized its power depended on conversion runes and that he lacked the spell runes needed to improve it.

• Lord Pelaven divided the apprentices between alchemy work and other duties, and Mage Larz assigned Allen and the other alchemists to brew at least three potions a day.
• Allen began brewing the required potions, memorizing runes, and preparing spell runes in his soul space so he could cast Wind Blade quickly.
• Ruizesi told Allen that his patrol squad needed Healing Potions, and Allen sold him six Lesser Healing Potions at market price.
• After nearly a month, Allen received wages calculated from his success rate and potion output, which remained low because he brewed only the minimum each day.
• Allen mastered Wind Blade but found its power ordinary, then concluded that Spell Runes determined a spell’s strength and that he had almost none available.

Allen joined a search for the Magic Source behind the demonic corruption in Silverpine Forest and used his enhanced perception to detect a dangerous concentration of magic. When squad leader Ryan dismissed his warning and led the soldiers away, Magg stayed behind with Allen.

• Allen received an urgent notice and learned that Lord Pelaven needed the apprentices to locate the Magic Source in Silverpine Forest, where beasts were undergoing demonic corruption.
• Pelaven sent the troops into the forest to search, and Allen was assigned to Ryan's ten-man squad.
• Allen used the Soul Book to sense magical fluctuations and guided Ryan's squad toward areas of stronger magic.
• Allen detected a large group of corrupted beasts ahead and urged Ryan to take a detour, but Ryan doubted him and insulted his abilities.
• Ryan led the squad onward, while Magg stayed with Allen, saying he believed Allen was trying to prevent unnecessary losses.

Allen led Ryan’s surviving soldiers through an escape from a pack of corrupted beasts, then treated a wounded soldier and arranged a rest despite their dwindling supplies. As the group continued its mission to find the Magic Source, Allen believed Pelaven would send no reinforcements and focused on getting everyone out alive.

• Allen prepared traps and an escape route, then rescued Ryan’s retreating squad and guided them through the woods to high ground.
• Allen used vines and ice to slow the corrupted beasts, and the group escaped after more than half of Ryan’s squad was killed or wounded.
• Ryan admitted his mistake and apologized to the surviving soldiers, while Allen urged them to keep moving and complete their mission.
• Other squads were overwhelmed by corrupted beasts, and one squad was wiped out in under ten minutes.
• Allen used two drops of Healing Potion and clean gauze to treat a soldier’s bleeding wound after the group ran low on medicine.
• Ryan agreed to let the exhausted soldiers rest, while Allen privately concluded that Pelaven would not send reinforcements.

Allen discovered that a modified set of Conversion Runes let him cast a Wind Blade twice as powerful as an ordinary one, then told Ryan about his improvement. With supplies running low, they agreed to prepare a retreat but made one final reconnaissance trip into the hills, where they found an unnervingly silent area.

• Allen added a stroke to the Conversion Runes, successfully cast a powerful Wind Blade, and recorded the First-Rank spell after testing it.
• Allen told Ryan that his spell had improved, and Ryan explained that the squad was running low on dry rations and might have to leave within three days.
• Allen persuaded Ryan to take responsibility for the soldiers and consider retreating, and they planned a withdrawal route after deciding to explore the hills once more.
• Allen sensed abnormal magical power ahead, so he and Ryan left the soldiers behind and set out together to investigate.
• Allen and Ryan reached a quiet area with no visible signs of danger, but a stone Allen tossed ahead produced no movement.

Allen and Ryan escaped a giant Man Snake by leading it into a pack of Fel Beasts, and they recovered a fragment Allen identified as a Magic Source. After returning to the base, they learned that Fel Beasts had attacked while they were away, and Allen was summoned to meet Highlord Pelaven and a group of officers.

• Allen recognized the oversized Man Snake, struck its mouth with a Wind Blade, and fled with Ryan when the spell failed to stop it.
• Allen led Ryan to a pack of Fel Beasts, giving them a chance to escape while the creatures turned against the Man Snake.
• Ryan showed Allen a white stone he had picked up near the snake, and Allen identified it as a fragment of a Magic Source.
• Allen and Ryan returned to the base and learned that Fel Beasts had attacked, causing heavy losses and a lockdown.
• Ryan stayed to report their discoveries, while Allen returned to his quarters and rested.
• Highlord Pelaven summoned Allen the next morning, and Allen found Ryan, Larz, and several unfamiliar officers in the lord's hall.

Allen survived Highlord Pelaven’s interrogation and prepared to leave the lord’s residence after receiving his reward. He returned to Dalaran alone, planning to obtain Full Mage certification so he could choose his own assignments.

• Ryan told Allen that Highlord Pelaven had allied with Archmage Kel’Thuzad, and Allen suspected the power struggle might be tied to the recent attacks.
• Pelaven questioned Allen about the mutated Man Snake and the forest’s changing magic, then pressured him over the Magic Source and his advancement; Allen denied knowing anything, and Pelaven let him go.
• After Allen left, Pelaven consulted Seank, who said Kel’Thuzad would not use such a clumsy scheme; the Magic Source then crumbled to powder.
• When the assignment ended, Ryan gave Allen his reward: an Ice Shield spellbook, which Allen studied and tested before leaving.
• Allen set out for Dalaran the next morning with Ryan and his squad seeing him off, intending to obtain Full Mage certification and gain control over his assignments.

Allen returned to Dalaran, earned Full Mage Certification, and learned that Antonidas had advanced and secured control of the Council of Six. After George offered him a place with his family, Allen considered how to fund his magic and decided to develop more spells before submitting his rune-based Wind Blade to Dalaran.

• Allen asked George and the Association how mages qualified for Full Mage Certification, then registered for the test.
• Allen passed by casting his enhanced Wind Blade and received a mage badge, robe, and staff.
• Allen brewed potions for a week and delivered them to George, who told him Antonidas had advanced and a new Council of Six member had been announced.
• George noticed Allen's new mage robe, celebrated his certification, and invited him to consider joining his family.
• Allen weighed the cost of advancing as a mage and decided to study his rune further and create related spells before submitting it to Dalaran.

Allen found little useful knowledge in Dalaran’s Library and accepted a dangerous task to find Winter Mushrooms in Silverpine Forest in exchange for Illusion Incense that could increase his mental power. After fighting Winter Wolves and venturing into the forest’s unexplored depths, he left a suspicious swamp without discovering whether the mushrooms were nearby.

• Allen found that the Library’s third floor offered few worthwhile books and realized that gaining deeper magical knowledge would require a mentor or an exchange he could not yet make.
• As the New Year approached, Allen thought of his family in Lordaeron and prepared to leave Dalaran to search Silverpine Forest for Winter Mushrooms.
• Allen accepted the task because the client promised him one finished Illusion Incense for every 3 g of mushrooms he found.
• Allen killed several Winter Wolves after leaving the city, camped overnight, and searched the forest the next day without finding any Winter Mushrooms.
• Allen marked his route as he entered the unexplored depths of Silverpine Forest, passed a battle between the Ice Frostwolf Clan and Gnolls, and left a poisonous swamp where his mental power could not probe beneath the water.

Allen discovered that the Jungle Savages’ Winter Mushroom ritual strengthened his spiritual power, then gathered more than a dozen mushrooms in Silverpine Forest. After returning to Dalaran, he turned in mission 402 and agreed to meet Rex at Clins Tavern that afternoon.

• Allen followed enormous footprints to a valley, where he watched the Jungle Savages perform a ritual with a Winter Mushroom and absorbed the smoke to strengthen his spiritual power.
• Allen observed the white savage for a week, then followed him gathering Winter Mushrooms and learned where and how to find them.
• Allen searched another part of Silverpine Forest, found his first Winter Mushroom after killing an Iron Centipede, and gathered more than a dozen specimens over the following month.
• Allen left Silverpine Forest after running low on supplies and Healing Potions, then returned to Dalaran and rested.
• Allen reported the completion of mission 402 at the Association, agreed to meet Rex at Clins Tavern that afternoon, and stopped by George the Merchant’s place.

Allen met Rex and exchanged twelve portions of Winter Mushroom for three finished doses and two alchemy formulas. After testing the doses and learning the formulas, Allen improved his Mental Power and began producing Purification Potions, then spent the following year waiting for Winter Mushroom to grow again while growing disillusioned with mage gatherings.

• George told Allen his family had raised his standing because they believed he could win Allen over, then gave Allen his new business card and promised their friendship would remain unchanged.
• Allen negotiated with Rex at Chris's Tavern and agreed to trade twelve portions of Winter Mushroom for three finished doses and formulas for a Purification Potion and a Lesser Speed Enhancement Potion.
• Rex delivered three white incense sticks a week later, and Allen found that using one greatly accelerated his cultivation and Mental Power growth.
• Allen studied both formulas, produced an inferior Purification Potion after a month, and eventually raised his success rate to about fifty percent.
• Allen used nearly all the incense, kept his remaining Winter Mushroom, and postponed returning to Silverpine Forest until the next year because the weather had warmed.
• Allen attended mage gatherings for a year, then stopped going because he found the low-rank mages focused on power and Runes rather than understanding magic.

Allen searched for clues about the haunting rumors in Tirisfal Glades but decided he was too weak to investigate and focused on qualifying for a higher mage rank. After developing and naming a powerful new spell, Whirlwind, he sold better potions to George, who urged him to try for full Alchemist status.

• Allen found accounts suggesting evil spirits haunted Tirisfal Glades and that the High Elves had fled the region after encountering something terrifying, but postponed investigating until he became stronger.
• Allen visited the Association to buy second-tier spells, found them too expensive, and decided to develop spells himself while studying potions and practicing the Incantation.
• Allen created Whirlwind, a spell that formed a destructive vortex with hidden wind blades, and recorded it in the Soul Book after repeated tests.
• George arrived with food and drink to collect Allen's potions, saw his Medium Purification Potion and Greater Healing Potion, and encouraged him to attempt qualification as a full Alchemist.

Allen earned his Second-Rank Mage certification and became a teaching assistant for Fundamentals of Magic Theory at the Apprentice Academy. After settling into the role and studying the academy’s library, he taught a lesson on Antonidas’s definition of magic and invited the apprentices to ask questions.

• Allen learned from George that Antonidas had become chairman of the Council of Six and that Kel'Thuzad was pursuing power in Antonidas's name, though Antonidas had reprimanded him.
• Allen passed his Second-Rank Mage certification exam with his self-created Whirlwind spell and applied for a teaching assistant position at the Apprentice Academy.
• Allen won the position after answering the interviewers’ questions, then chose to assist with Fundamentals of Magic Theory despite its lower salary.
• The deputy dean tested Allen with mental power, approved his choice, and assigned him to work with Instructor Pisimai.
• Allen spent a month assisting Pisimai and studying the academy library, then substituted for him and taught the apprentices Antonidas’s theory that magic was energy.

Allen discussed the nature of magic with Khadgar, a curious first-rank mage who shared his doubts about the archmages’ theory. As Allen developed and sold several original wind spells to fund his research, he accepted an Association mission and returned to find Khadgar approaching his office.

• Khadgar asked Allen whether magic was energy, then later invited him to discuss their doubts about Antonidas’s theory.
• Allen warned Khadgar to control his curiosity and avoid prying into people’s secrets, but Khadgar continued sharing discoveries with him over the next three months.
• Allen created several wind spells, including the Airburst Spell, Blade Swarm Spell, Freezing Spell, and Scorching Wind, and decided to sell some to cover his expenses.
• Allen sold the Association his Blade Swarm Spell and Freezing Spell, receiving payment and a share of future sales.
• Allen accepted a mission to brew ten vials of Purification Potion and returned to the academy, where he saw Khadgar approaching his office.

Allen learned that the Kirin Tor had rejected Kel'Thuzad’s foreign-trade proposal and realized that his ties to the Alchemy Association could make him a target in the factional struggle. Kel'Thuzad’s clash with Antonidas deepened their rift, and the Council later imposed new restrictions on the Association while Allen’s academy colleagues began distancing themselves from him.

• Khadgar told Allen that the Kirin Tor had rejected Kel'Thuzad’s proposal by a wide margin after Antonidas withdrew his support, and warned that Allen could be seen as part of Kel'Thuzad’s faction because he worked through the Alchemy Association.
• Allen suspected that someone on the Council of Six was exploiting the dispute and considered how the differences in background, age, and politics between Kel'Thuzad and Antonidas had widened their conflict.
• Kel'Thuzad angrily confronted Antonidas, who accused him of endangering Dalaran, and Kel'Thuzad left after realizing his mentor opposed the changes he wanted.
• Kel'Thuzad kept a low profile after returning to his Mage Tower, while the Kirin Tor passed a new plan reducing the magic herb supplies allocated to his Alchemy Association.
• Some academy mages began distancing themselves from Allen, though the political turmoil had little practical effect on him because he had no core interests or privileges tied to Dalaran.

Allen studied Kael'thas's manuscript on arcane addiction and suspected that magical power could contaminate mages' minds or souls, though he kept his theory to himself. He passed the Alchemist examination, joined the Association to gain access to more recipes, and received his identification and robe.

• Allen discussed Kael'thas's research with Khadgar and concluded that prolonged exposure to magic might bind magical power to a mage's mind or soul.
• Allen borrowed alchemy books, learned basic brewing techniques, and went to the Association to take the Alchemist examination.
• Allen brewed three kinds of potions, and Arthur, Master Keshus, and Master Baolun passed him.
• Arthur offered Allen membership in the Association, and Allen accepted so he could obtain recipes unavailable on the open market.
• Three days later, Allen received his identification and a Certified Alchemy Master's Mage Robe, then browsed the Association's wares.