Recaps

Diago and the wounded Masley faced Matolius, a plate-armored Dark Iron Dwarf who used shadow-priest spells, and Diago killed him after breaking through his shield. Once Masley recovered, the two left to help Tharnok Frosthammer at the mining site, where gunfire had begun.

• Masley admitted that his ambush had failed as Matolius charged into the passage and Diago joined the fight.
• Matolius struck Masley with Shadow Word: Pain and protected himself from Diago’s arrows with a holy shield.
• Diago shattered Matolius’s shield with his thorium hand axe and killed the dwarf.
• Diago comforted Masley until the Night Elf recovered, reset his dislocated elbow, and healed himself.
• Masley and Diago headed to help Tharnok Frosthammer, and Diago took Matolius’s head as they passed the corpse.

Diago led the freed slaves toward the mine’s exit, where Dark Iron Dwarves ambushed them at a lava river bridge. He used improvised illumination arrows to expose the defenders and help the slaves attack, but was shot; he survived when the bullet was stopped by his scale armor.

• Tharnok Frosthammer organized the freed slaves into a column and placed the strongest at its head as guards.
• Diago joined the vanguard, while Masley stayed behind to help the wounded, and the group made its way through the mine to a stone bridge over a lava river.
• A human slave rushed onto the bridge, prompting others to follow, and Dark Iron Dwarves opened fire, killing many and halting the column.
• Diago fashioned illumination arrows from bullets and gunpowder, lit up the opposite bank, and shot down nearly a dozen exposed Dark Iron soldiers.
• Diago charged across the bridge and fought the guards, giving the slaves time to join the battle, but a gunshot knocked him down.
• Masley cast Lifebloom on Diago, who recovered and found that his scale armor had stopped the bullet.

Diago Asnar and a band of escaped slaves reached Thorium Point, where Ofist and the Thorium Brotherhood gave them shelter. After Diago presented a letter from Kordaz Blackhammer and Matolius’s head, he secured permission to take scarce metals for making a gun.

• Prisean Huitong spotted a large group approaching Thorium Point and alerted the camp.
• Diago Asnar asked Ofist to shelter the fugitives, and the group surrendered their weapons before the Dark Iron Dwarves fed and housed them.
• Diago presented Kordaz Blackhammer’s letter, and Ofist welcomed him as a friend of the Thorium Brotherhood.
• Tharnok Frosthammer praised Diago and Masley for helping the escaped slaves and promised the Frosthammer Family would repay them.
• Diago offered Matolius’s head as payment for materials to make a gun, and the Thorium Brotherhood celebrated the traitor’s death.
• Burninate showed Diago the Brotherhood’s nearly empty storehouse, and Diago took several dark iron ingots, two thorium ingots, and one mithril ingot.

The fugitives left Thorium Point for Ironforge, while Diago taught a Dark Iron Dwarf to cook and completed a portable machine for making cased ammunition. After Grand Smith Burninate fitted Khanifa with an enchanted thorium tooth, gunfire from Firewatch Ridge signaled an attack by Twilight's Hammer and heightened Diago's urgency to finish his gun-making project.

• Notak Frosthammer led the freed slaves north across the snowy mountains toward Ironforge, while the frailest remained at Thorium Point.
• Diago spent a week teaching his cooking apprentice to prepare Lava Crabs and Lava Spiders, then built an ultracompact bullet-making machine and produced working cased ammunition.
• Grand Smith Burninate made Khanifa a thorium false tooth and enchanted it with Enchant Weapon - Superior Striking.
• Gunfire and fighting erupted near Firewatch Ridge, and more than two dozen Dark Iron Dwarves hurried toward the mine.
• Diago recognized the attack as Twilight's Hammer's move and decided he needed to accelerate his gun-making project.

After Firewatch Ridge fell to a mixed force of Orcs, Dark Iron Dwarves, and Tauren, Diago spent two months building a semiautomatic rifle, a powerful revolver, ammunition, and a bayonet. He left the workshop armed with his new weapons, while Masley Bearhide watched the rifle’s power and was stunned by Diago’s appearance.

• Wounded Dwarven miners told Diago that a mixed group of Orcs, Dark Iron Dwarves, and Tauren had taken the Firewatch Ridge mine, while Masley Bearhide helped treat the injured.
• Diago decided to make a semiautomatic rifle using dark iron, thorium, and mithril, and Grand Smith Burninate helped him solve the barrel’s construction problems.
• Diago repeatedly reworked faulty parts until his Engineering skills improved, then made a rifle stock from magically treated ironwood with Masley’s help.
• Diago built a powerful revolver, produced more than five thousand rifle rounds and over a thousand handgun rounds, and asked Burninate to forge a mountable bayonet.
• Two months later, Diago showed Masley his weapons and demonstrated the rifle’s power by shooting through a thick wooden board, leaving the Druid intimidated.

Diago and Masley ambushed a Twilight's Hammer convoy carrying ore from the Firewatch Ridge mines, using Diago's M1 rifle, traps, and their animal companions to defeat the cultists. After inspecting the rifle and finding little valuable ore, they prepared to leave before reinforcements arrived.

• Diago and Masley watched a Twilight's Hammer convoy of mine carts, workers, and guards travel south from the Firewatch Ridge mines.
• Diago opened fire with the M1, killing cultists and disrupting the convoy, then shot down an Eye of Kilrogg that had detected him.
• As the Twilight cultists charged the hill, Diago shot them while his explosive trap and Masley's panther form helped stop their advance.
• Diago and Masley killed the remaining cultists, and Diago inspected the M1 and found no damage to its metal parts or barrel.
• Diago checked the convoy's ore, found only a small amount of thorium, and urged Masley to leave as voices rose near the mine.

Diago attacked the Twilight's Hammer mine and nearly succumbed to the thrill of killing, but Masley calmed him with a Druid spell. After learning about Elune and praying for strength, Diago helped defeat a large force of Twilight cultists and found his bloodlust easing, though a sinister presence still watched him.

• Diago sniped Twilight cultists guarding the mine, then withdrew with Masley and Khanifa rather than risk an assault inside the camp.
• Masley used a Soothing spell on Diago after seeing his bloodlust and warned him that his expression had frightened him.
• Diago thanked Masley and asked him to explain Elune, then learned a prayer and began seeking spiritual comfort.
• When Twilight reinforcements returned, Diago prayed to Elune and fired on them from long range while Masley and Khanifa attacked from an ambush.
• The cultists broke and fled after suffering heavy losses, and Diago prayed as his urge to slaughter subsided and a foul presence turned its attention away.

Diago and the Thorium Brotherhood discovered that the Twilight Cultists were using an old Altar of Storms ruin to teleport ore and troops to Silithus. Diago destroyed the array with a bomb, ending the threat but killing and injuring many dwarves, and the survivors learned that the head they found belonged to Vyral.

• Diago sent Khanifa to alert Ofist, and the Thorium Brotherhood arrived to capture and interrogate the Twilight prisoners.
• A prisoner revealed that the Twilight Cultists used a teleportation array in the Altar of Storms ruins to reach Silithus, so Diago hurried there to stop them from destroying it.
• Diago and Masley waited at the ruins until the dwarves arrived with a wounded warlock, whom Theodosius Frostwhisper healed enough to activate the array.
• After the warlock opened the portal and tried to escape through it, Diago knocked him down and kicked a bomb into the passage.
• The bomb triggered a violent blast that destroyed the array, leveled the ruins, killed more than ten Thorium Brotherhood members, and seriously wounded over twenty.
• Ofist found a severed head protected by an enchanted cloth helmet, and the surviving warlock identified it as Lord Vyral before Diago left the remaining prisoners to Ofist.

After becoming celebrated in Thorium Point, Diago and Masley decided to leave for Blackrock Mountain to rescue Marshal Reginald Windsor from Blackrock Depths. Masley revealed that Elune had sent him a vision, and Diago reluctantly agreed to go with him.

• Diago and Masley returned to Thorium Point as heroes, where the dwarves celebrated their victory and showered them with attention.
• Masley told Diago they had to leave for Blackrock Mountain to rescue someone, while Diago objected that entering Blackrock Depths would be suicidal.
• Masley revealed the small horns hidden beneath his hair, identifying them as a blessing associated with Cenarius and Elune.
• Masley said Elune had directed him in a vision to rescue Windsor, and asked Diago to come along.
• Diago accepted the mission, grabbed his M1 Rifle, and urged Masley to hurry.

Diago, Khanifa, and Masley left Thorium Point and traveled to Blackrock Mountain, where they crossed a chain bridge suspended over a lava lake to reach the route toward Shadowforge City. The exhausted pair reached the far side, only to learn that Diago expected them to face another difficult route.

• The Thorium Brotherhood held a farewell for Diago and gave him a badge, a donkey, and an offer of help before he left with Khanifa and Masley.
• Diago destroyed the M1 blueprints and all evidence of its manufacture, then led the group through Searing Gorge to Blackrock Spire.
• Diago guided Masley through the empty fortress and into a cavern overlooking a lava lake, where they saw the chain bridge and Franclorn Forgewright's tomb.
• Masley ran to the bridge's edge, nearly fell into the lava, and was pulled back by Diago.
• Diago and Masley crossed the sloping chain bridge while struggling with their fear of heights, then collapsed on the far side.
• Masley asked whether they would face another route like the bridge, and Diago's silence confirmed his fear as Khanifa bounded across to join them.

Diago and Masley explored Franclorn Forgewright’s tomb and reached a slave mine on the outskirts of Blackrock Depths. They prepared to sneak past the Dark Iron Dwarf overseers and enter the mine.

• Diago led Masley through the tomb, where Masley admired ancient Titan murals and became enraged at a vandalized image of a dragon.
• Diago stopped Masley from approaching Franclorn Forgewright’s coffin, and Masley saw the dwarf’s agitated ghost with his magical sight.
• Diago and Masley crossed a perilous path and chain bridge above the lava to reach a stone platform overlooking the mine.
• They spotted enslaved miners and armed Dark Iron Dwarf overseers in the vast chamber, then Diago suggested using the shadows to enter unnoticed.
• Diago put on his Lizard-skin Cloak and crawled toward the mine as it blended into the surrounding ground and ore.

Diago, Masley, and Khanifa’s infiltration of Blackrock Depths was exposed by a Gnoll, but Diago’s smoke bombs let them escape the alerted overseers. They then approached Conqueror Pyron and began slipping past the powerful Fire Elemental toward Shadowforge City.

• Masley transformed into a panther and moved with Diago and Khanifa through the mine, avoiding overseers and slave laborers.
• A Gnoll spotted the group and raised the alarm, but Masley killed it before Dark Iron Overseers approached.
• Diago used improvised smoke bombs to confuse the overseers, allowing the group to flee unnoticed.
• Diago and Masley watched Conqueror Pyron patrol the passage and learned that its limited perception gave them a chance to pass.
• Diago led the two panthers forward while Pyron looked away, leaving them to continue their infiltration into the city of fire.

Diago and Masley infiltrated Blackrock Depths, using dragon dung to panic the Dark Iron Dwarves’ bloodhounds and slip into the detention block. They hid in an equipment storeroom near Interrogator Gerstahn’s area, where Diago said he had a way to get closer to Marshal Windsor’s cell.

• Diago scattered powdered dragon dung, and Masley accidentally ate a piece before learning what it was.
• Masley transformed into a bear and pummeled Diago, while Khanifa watched and tried to join in.
• The dragon dung’s aura sent the bloodhounds into a frenzy, distracting their handlers as the adventurers crept toward the detention block.
• Diago and Masley struggled to sneak past the many jailers and eventually hid in an equipment storeroom.
• Masley asked how they would proceed, and Diago confidently said he had a way forward.

Diago used Beast's Eye to enter Khanifa's consciousness and control the Yellow Leopard while they searched Shadowforge City's interrogation hall for the key to Marshal Windsor's cell. The spell ended before Diago could help, but Khanifa returned with the key, and Diago ordered them to leave.

• Diago explored his wilderness-like Source of Consciousness and followed his soul bond into Khanifa's simpler consciousness.
• Diago projected his consciousness into Khanifa's body, struggled to control it, and then let Khanifa guide them through the passage toward the interrogation hall.
• Khanifa evaded Interrogator Gerstahn on the narrow steps and searched the hall for the prison cell key while Diago warned that Beast's Eye was running out.
• The spell expelled Diago from Khanifa's body, and he returned to his own body beside Masley, fearing Khanifa would not make it back.
• Khanifa reappeared with the silvery-white prison cell key on his teeth, and Diago took it and ordered them to leave.

Diago and Masley found Marshal Windsor imprisoned in Blackrock Depths and showed him a note proving that Dark Iron Dwarves were deciphering his intelligence. Windsor regained hope and ordered them to kill General Angerforge and Golem Lord Agamand, but Diago left before explaining his plan.

• Diago and Masley avoided Rocknot and found a stained scrap of paper in a latrine, which Diago said was key to rescuing the marshal.
• Diago used the Silver Key to open a hidden cell and greeted Marshal Windsor, who initially refused to leave because he believed Stormwind had lost its last hope.
• Windsor cursed Bolvar and explained that he had been gathering evidence against the mastermind behind Stormwind City's troubles.
• Diago gave Windsor a note signed by Dagran Thaurissan, revealing that General Angerforge and Golem Lord Agamand were deciphering Windsor's intelligence.
• Windsor asked Diago and Masley to kill the two Dark Iron Dwarves and recover his intelligence, but Diago abruptly left, saying he knew what to do.

Diago and Masley entered the Arena of Order after the Dark Iron Dwarves mistook them for prisoners sent to fight, and they faced a trial against Digger Worms. Diago defeated the juvenile worms with a frost trap and rifle fire as Arbiter Grisstone returned to the arena.

• Masley and Diago passed through the prison passage and found that it circled back to the central hall, where Masley saw prisoners confined in iron cages.
• Diago led Masley into the Arena of Order and left Khanifa hidden in a passageway.
• Arbiter Grisstone mistook Diago and Masley for prisoners and ushered them into the arena as gladiators.
• The arena’s first trial began when several Digger Worms burst from the ground and attacked Diago and Masley.
• Diago used a frost trap to slow the worms and shot them until they stopped moving, then Arbiter Grisstone emerged from the preparation room.

Diago and Masley defeated their arena opponents, but their promotion bout brought them face to face with the undefeated orc Garrosh. Masley charged Garrosh and suffered a grievous wound, leaving Diago to face the champion’s killing intent.

• Diago let Masley handle the second bout, and Masley transformed into a giant bear to swiftly crush the Lava Spiders.
• Adjudicator Grisstone announced Garrosh as the challengers’ next opponent, and Diago recognized the orc as a dangerous hunter’s nemesis with an undefeated record.
• Masley charged Garrosh despite Diago’s warning, but Garrosh’s spinning axes stopped the bear’s attack.
• Garrosh feinted an opening, dodged Masley’s lunge, and slashed a deep wound across the bear’s back that resisted healing.
• Masley rolled toward the arena’s edge as Garrosh turned toward Diago with murderous intent.

Diago and Masley defeated Garrosh in the arena, though Masley was badly wounded and Diago nearly ran out of ammunition. After receiving Gladiator’s Badges that granted them limited freedom in Shadowforge City, they left the arena to find a place for Masley to recover.

• Masley’s healing spells slowed his bleeding, but his wound left Diago to face Garrosh alone.
• Diago ran out of rifle ammunition, then used a spell-charged bullet to stagger Garrosh as the Orc charged him.
• Masley cast Entangling Roots long enough for Diago to escape Garrosh’s axe, and Diago shot the Orc at close range with his M500 until Garrosh fell dead.
• Diago checked on Masley and found that the Druid’s wound had stopped bleeding, though he had lost a great deal of blood and needed rest.
• Diago took the Savage Gladiator’s Greaves from Garrosh’s body and put them on, then Grisstone awarded Diago and Masley Gladiator’s Badges.
• Diago and Masley left the arena to find a place to stay and tend to Masley’s wound.

Diago and Masley rested after their gladiatorial victory, then traveled north through Shadowforge City and crossed the Great Fissure by the Bridge of Flames. They entered the inner district and continued toward their mission, while Masley’s questions about Gray Anvil and Dughal left Diago exasperated.

• Diago and Masley left the arena through hostile spectators and rested in an abandoned house, where Diago fed Khanifa and Masley tended his wound.
• Masley drank some of Diago’s purple wine, then joined him as they set out north through the city.
• Diago showed Masley the Great Fissure and its lava river, and they crossed the Bridge of Flames without being stopped.
• Gray Anvil recognized the gladiators and invited them to drink with him, while Dughal teased him about leaving his post to fool around with men.
• Masley questioned Diago about the guards’ exchange and whether Diago liked that behavior, prompting Diago to angrily threaten him.

Diago and Masley reached the Black Vault, where Diago hoped to find Fineous Darkvire and exploit an opportunity to get inside the vault. Diago met Darkvire, but the artisan hurried away before Diago could ask him to repair his weapon.

• Diago and Masley crossed the residential district, avoiding Twilight Cultists and convincing Dark Iron guards that they were headed to Tinker Town to repair Diago's weapon.
• A guard told them that Fineous Darkvire had gone to the Black Vault to repair its door hinges, so they made their way there.
• Masley admired the carvings outside the bank while Diago led him into the banking hall and waited for a chance to reach the vault.
• Fineous Darkvire emerged from the vault, and Diago flattered him while asking him to repair his weapon.
• Darkvire said he had no time and hurried outside to seek help from his artisans, then wondered where Diago had gone.

Diago gained Fineous Darkweir’s trust by posing as a humble engineer and followed him into the vault to inspect the mechanism guarding the four important safes. There, Franclorn Forgewright’s astonishing machine overwhelmed Diago with its ingenuity, and he was forced to search for the fault after Darkweir pulled him away from studying it.

• Diago claimed he had repaired engineering devices in Stormwind City and suggested a possible fault, convincing Fineous Darkweir to let him help.
• Darkweir brought Diago and Masley into the vault, where Diago spotted a portrait marking one of the Guardians who held the safe keys.
• Darkweir opened a concealed section of the floor to reveal Franclorn Forgewright’s vast mechanical apparatus.
• Diago examined the machine and realized that his own engineering skills could not compare with Franclorn Forgewright’s creative genius.
• Darkweir repeatedly tugged Diago away from the machine and asked whether he had found the problem, prompting Diago to hurriedly search for the fault.

Diago repaired the vault mechanism, allowing him and Masley to open its safes and claim an enormous hoard of rare treasures. After killing Darkweir and hiding his body, they left the vault with the loot and Ironfel.

• Diago repaired the faulty machinery while studying Franclorn Forgewright's design, and Darkweir opened the vault's four central safes.
• Darkweir became distracted by the gems, and Diago and his companion stabbed him to death.
• Diago opened chests filled with elemental crystals and rare metals, while Masley claimed a chest of valuable herbs.
• Diago and Masley opened the remaining safes and stole the rarest treasures they could carry, leaving most valuables behind.
• Diago and Masley restored the vault, hid Darkweir's corpse among the gears, picked up Ironfel, and left.

Diago and Masley stole Shadowforge City’s treasures, then obtained the thorium key from Franclorn Forgewright’s statue while outmaneuvering the Twilight’s Hammer. They used the key to activate the Shadowforge Lock, though the mechanism’s effect had not yet become visible.

• Diago and Masley deceived the Dwarven guards by claiming Darkweir was contemplating the Heart of Iron, then slipped away with Shadowforge City’s finest treasures.
• Diago and Masley reached the Temple of Thaurissan and forced Pyromancer Rograine and the Twilight Cultists away from Franclorn Forgewright’s statue.
• Diago placed Ironfel in the statue’s hand, retrieved the thorium key from a hidden drawer, and bluffed Rograine into letting them leave.
• Diago and Masley headed north to the Shadowforge Lock, where Diago inserted the key and turned the enormous mechanism.
• Masley saw no immediate change after the lock stopped, and Diago explained that its main mechanism was the distant drawbridge to the barracks.

General Angerforge left his office to investigate suspected infiltrators, allowing Masley to steal a stone tablet written in ancient Draconic script. Masley and Diago escaped with the tablet and continued toward their next target, Golem Lord Agamand, in the war-golem workshop.

• A Dark Iron guard reported suspicious incidents at the mine and central hall, and General Angerforge assembled troops to search Shadowforge City.
• After Angerforge left, Masley shifted from panther form, searched the office, and found a hidden compartment containing a stone tablet.
• Masley took the tablet, met Diago in the corridor, and handed it over; Diago confirmed it was the item they sought.
• Masley and Diago continued through the corridors to a workshop where nearly a hundred technicians assembled Heavy War Golems.
• Diago spotted a smaller room across the workshop and identified it as Golem Lord Agamand's location.

Diago, Masley, and Khanifa infiltrated Agamand’s workshop to steal a stone tablet, but Agamand’s Shaman magic exposed them and sent the Dark Iron Dwarves in pursuit. Trapped in a dead-end alley, Diago and Masley were about to fight when a dwarf opened a hidden door and called them inside.

• Diago guided Masley and Khanifa through the crowded workshop, and Masley slipped into Agamand’s room to take the stone tablet.
• Agamand sensed something amiss, activated a Magma Totem, and burned Masley as he fled; Diago’s shot bounced off Agamand’s shield.
• Agamand summoned two Dark Iron Colossi and ordered the dwarves to catch them, so Diago and Masley escaped across the lava river and into the city streets.
• The dwarves spread out to encircle the fugitives, driving Diago and Masley into a narrow alley with pursuers approaching from both ends.
• As Diago and Masley prepared to fight, a Dark Iron Dwarf opened a small hidden door and urged them to come inside.