Recaps

Lina, a Blood Elf bounty hunter, recruited Patrick to help explore the treasures of Dire Maul, and Patrick agreed after learning more about her background. He led Blood Elf troops to Camp Mojache to prepare for the expedition and pursue his plan to establish a camp and portal in Dire Maul.

• Lina approached Patrick and offered to guide him to the treasures of Eldre'Thalas, now called Dire Maul, which was guarded by demonic servants and Ogres.
• Patrick agreed to give Lina a share of the treasure in exchange for her information and help.
• Liadrin reported that Lina was a skilled bounty hunter from Silvermoon City and that the Dire Maul treasure was likely real.
• Patrick decided to explore Dire Maul and considered establishing a Blood Elf camp there with a portal to the Floating City.
• Patrick led the Blood Elves and Lina from Orgrimmar to Camp Mojache in Feralas.

Patrick and his party entered Dire Maul to eliminate its demonic forces and clear the corrupted Warpwood Quarter. After killing Alzzin the Wildshaper and freeing the area, Patrick ordered the Blood Knights to clear the rest of the ruins, which he planned to use as a Blood Elf base in Kalimdor.

• Lina guided Patrick and his party through Dire Maul to the Warpwood Quarter, while the other Blood Knights established a camp in the Gordok Arena.
• Huili Sandeguer captured the imp Pusillin and took a crescent-shaped key, then Liadrin and Huili killed the Satyr Tsu'zee after his attack on Patrick failed.
• The Treant Ironbark thanked the party and led them to the Temple of Eldreth, where Alzzin the Wildshaper was gathering life energy and enslaving ancestral spirits.
• Patrick killed Alzzin with a wave of light, and the Blood Knights fought off the frenzied plants and imps left behind.
• Patrick ordered the Blood Knights to return to the Library, clear the remaining demons, and deal with the ogres so the Blood Elves could use the ancient city as a base.

After the Blood Elves defeated Immol'thar in Dire Maul's central garden, Lina asked Patrick and Huili Sandeguer to help with a demon-summoning mission that brought the Dreadlord Hel'nurath and his Xorothian Dreadsteed into their trap. Patrick realized Lina had really wanted the steed, and Lina was left struggling to explain herself.

• Patrick led the Blood Elf army back to Dire Maul's central district and then took a group toward the central garden after Huili Sandeguer sensed a demonic presence.
• Patrick restrained the weakened Immol'thar, and Liadrin and the Blood Knights killed the demon with the Holy Light.
• Lina asked Patrick and Huili Sandeguer to help summon a demon, and they prepared the ritual with her.
• Lina used the Xorothian Glyph to summon Hel'nurath and the Xorothian Dreadsteed, and the Blood Knights killed both before Hel'nurath could finish speaking.
• Patrick questioned Lina's claim that Hel'nurath had been watching the world, and Lina struggled to answer.

Lina revealed that she had concealed her true goal in Dire Maul: finding the ancient weapons Ancient Tree's Foe and Quel'Serrar. Patrick exposed her layered scheme and restrained her, while Liadrin proposed a fifteen-hundred-year prison sentence for offending the Regent.

• Patrick questioned Lina about why she wanted the Dreadsteed's soul, and Hui Li grew suspicious of her.
• Lina admitted that she had withheld information and used the Dreadsteed as a diversion while seeking Ancient Tree's Foe and Quel'Serrar.
• Lina explained how her plan would let her leave Patrick's group and search for the weapons whether or not he turned against her.
• Patrick ordered Hui Li to stand down, then used Mind Vision, Dimensional Anchor, and Spatial Restriction to imprison Lina.
• Liadrin proposed fifteen hundred years of imprisonment for Lina, and Patrick was startled by the length of the sentence.

Patrick sentenced Lina to serve for three hundred years as an assistant in rebuilding Eldre'Thalas, then led his forces to defeat Prince Tortheldrin and claim Quel'Delar. The surviving Shen'dralar were left under Patrick's scrutiny, while Lina ended up holding the unactivated sword she had schemed to obtain.

• Patrick reduced Lina's punishment to three hundred years of service in Dire Maul and marked her with an Arcane Inscription, assigning her to assist the future city's administrator.
• Patrick and his troops destroyed the five Energy Generators, cleared Prince Tortheldrin's followers, and confronted the prince in the Library.
• Lina killed Prince Tortheldrin with a blast of white-hot fire after he refused to surrender.
• Patrick questioned the surviving Shen'dralar about Lethon and demanded Quel'Delar, revealing that he knew the blade's runes had not been activated.
• Lethon handed over the unfinished sword, and Patrick gave it to Lina, who realized it was not yet a true ancient weapon.

Patrick planned to rebuild Eldre'Thalas as Eldre'danil, with a stable arcane power source, and offered the surviving Shen'dralar a place in the new city. He recruited Baihaer-Zaofeng, a former librarian with expertise in magic circles, and left him to search the collection for specific books.

• Patrick told Liadrin to keep Blood Knights in Eldre'Thalas, protect the remaining Shen'dralar, and prepare to rebuild the city with a new arcane power source.
• A Blood Knight caught Baihaer-Zaofeng sneaking into the city, and Yavo recognized him as a former Shen'dralar librarian who had survived Tortheldrin's massacre.
• Baihaer-Zaofeng explained that he had returned to honor his mentor and Wolandu-Yuequan, and that he had designed the magic circle that drew power from Immol'thar.
• Patrick offered Baihaer-Zaofeng the position of administrator in Eldre'danil, and Hui Li assured him that Patrick's offer was genuine.
• Patrick ordered Baihaer-Zaofeng to find a list of books in the collection, giving him his first task in the new city.

Patrick led the Blood Knights into the Gordok Council, intending to defeat the Ogres and recruit them into the new city. He killed King Gordok, was accepted as the Ogres’ new king, and received the Ancient Tree’s Foe axe.

• Patrick explained that he wanted to recruit the Ogres as melee troops and ordered the Blood Knights to incapacitate them rather than kill them.
• Patrick and the Blood Knights advanced through the Gordok Council, knocking out attacking Ogres and the guard Krokaus.
• At the Gordok Throne, King Gordok attacked Patrick, but Patrick killed him with Diffusing Riftwave.
• Mizzle declared Patrick the new king, and the Ogres quickly offered their tribute.
• Patrick found the Ancient Tree’s Foe axe among the tribute and recognized its ancient enchantments.

Patrick began rebuilding Eldre'Dani as a shared city for Blood Elves, Night Elves, and ogres, assigning the ogres work and security duties while arranging for a permanent portal from Silvermoon. As he summoned the third Disc of Norgannon to power the city, its arcane energy filled Eldre'Thalas and moved the surviving Night Elves.

• Patrick gave Lina the Ancient Tree's Foe and ordered Krush to gather the Gordunni ogres, promising to feed them and rebuild the city.
• Patrick told Liadrin to organize construction and create shared residential districts, explaining that living together and equal laws could weaken prejudice between races.
• Patrick directed that ogres serve as guards and that a statue of Elune be built to help the Night Elves feel at home.
• Seidanna, Olosalia, and Quensass arrived from Silvermoon, and Patrick had them construct a permanent portal to Eldre'Dani.
• Patrick summoned the third Disc of Norgannon, releasing arcane energy that filled the Library of Eldre'Thalas and brought Yavo, Makus, Lethon, and the other surviving Night Elves to tears and celebration.

Patrick oversaw the occupation and development of Eldre'Dani, assigning its defenses, magical reconstruction, and research work to the Blood Elf forces. After returning to Silvermoon City, he spoke with Alleria about Lirath's growing responsibilities and his work during Arthas's invasion.

• Patrick ordered Hawkspear to follow the Farstriders' battle plan and temporarily placed the Ogres under their command.
• Hawkspear reported that Rangers had begun taming lynxes, which they mainly used as mounts to improve their mobility.
• Patrick assigned the Magisters' Legion to restore Eldre'Dani's magical facilities and directed the Spellbreakers to control the city's unstable magic and rampaging creatures.
• Patrick sent Huili Sandeguer to notify Camp Mojache of the outcome in Dire Maul, then returned to Silvermoon City with a Disc of Norgannon.
• Alleria told Patrick that Lirath had developed the Life Forest base, rescued civilians from Suncrown Village during Arthas's invasion, and helped establish a new town.

Patrick planned new Mage Towers to reconnect Silvermoon City with the Ghostlands and help clear the Scourge plague, then heard that the Forsaken were preparing for action in the Western Plaguelands. The chapter ended with the council debating Araj the Lich Summoner's return to Andorhal and what it might mean for Arthas.

• Alleria told Patrick that Lirath was not yet ready to command troops or manage the Ranger Forces.
• Patrick proposed using the Stone of Radiance and the Stone of Flame to build Mage Towers along the old Thalassian Pass, and Alleria agreed they could restore connections to Tranquillien.
• Patrick assigned Lirath Windrunner to oversee the Tower of Radiance, Halduron Brightwing to manage the Tower of Flame, and Aelrondan to command the Eastern Sanctum Tower.
• A councilor informed Patrick that the Forsaken Queen had gathered troops at the Bulwark, apparently preparing for military action in the Western Plaguelands.
• The councilors discussed Araj the Lich Summoner's return to Andorhal and wondered whether it signaled Arthas's return.

Patrick and the council debated whether Quel'Thalas should help the Forsaken seize Andorhal and clear the Scourge from the Western Plaguelands. Patrick decided to support Lor'themar's proposal, while new intelligence identified the Barov Family's castle as a Scourge stronghold and the council reflected on Quel'Thalas's recent reforms.

• Lor'themar and Lanaya explained the Forsaken's campaign against the Scourge in Andorhal and the strategic importance of controlling the Western Plaguelands.
• Patrick agreed that the council could not let Andorhal fall to the Scourge, and Lor'themar argued that Quel'Thalas should repay the Forsaken for their past support.
• Lorne Songweaver delivered a report saying the Barov Family's castle on an island in Lake Darrowmere had likely become a Scourge base for plague and necromancy research.
• Rommath suggested revealing Scholomance to the humans so they would attack it, but Lanaya objected that the human forces lacked the strength and supplies for another campaign.
• Patrick chose to support Lor'themar's proposal and said Quel'Thalas should help take Andorhal, strengthen its alliance, and demonstrate the kingdom's strength.
• Alleria recalled that the Silvermoon Council had spent three hundred years reviewing a Ghostlands road project before construction began, embarrassing the former officials present.

Patrick sent Quel'Thalas troops to aid the Forsaken against the Scourge and planned to use the Eastern Plaguelands to train new recruits and secure the Elfgate. He arrived in Undercity and told Nathanos that the campaign would target the Scourge’s hidden base in the Western Plaguelands.

• Patrick ordered Quel'Thalas to send troops to help the Forsaken fight the Scourge in Andorhal.
• Patrick and the Silvermoon Council agreed to send recruits into the Eastern Plaguelands to establish a camp and gain battlefield experience.
• Patrick led the newly formed force through a portal to Undercity, where Nathanos welcomed him.
• Patrick told Nathanos that the Scourge’s main logistical base was in the Western Plaguelands and proposed destroying it while helping the Forsaken reclaim territory.

Patrick led Blood Elf and Forsaken forces toward Andorhal to destroy the Scourge stronghold occupied by Summoner Araj. The assault began with little resistance, though Lor'themar worried that the ease of their advance concealed an ambush.

• Patrick's forces joined Nathanos Blightcaller's Forsaken, including Rotande Gili and the Defilers.
• Rotande Gili, Saragoss, and Kyrissa reported that Andorhal was occupied by Araj's forces and had few natural defenses.
• Patrick ordered the troops to storm Andorhal, and the Blood Elf and Forsaken forces advanced along separate routes.
• Patrick directed the Blood Knights, Spellbreakers, rangers, and mages to attack the scattered Scourge defenders.
• Aeldara found the battle unexpectedly easy, while Lor'themar warned that the Scourge might be preparing an ambush.

Patrick and the Blood Elves and Forsaken captured Andorhal after defeating Araj the Summoner and his Scourge forces. They secured Araj's Scholomance credential, but the Scarlet Crusade was also advancing, and Scholomance remained their next objective.

• Nathanos the Blightcaller reported that the Scarlet Crusade from Hearthglen had attacked Andorhal, and Patrick ordered his forces to seize the town before the humans did.
• Blood Knights, Farstriders, mages, and Archmages destroyed the Scourge forces and Araj's bone-pile summoning circles.
• Patrick's magic bound Araj and the Scourge warriors he summoned, and Patrick burned them to ash.
• Araj's death left behind a Scarab that served as a credential for entering Scholomance, while the remaining Scourge became sluggish and easier to defeat.
• The Blood Elves and Forsaken celebrated their victory and recapture of Andorhal as the Scarlet Crusade and Scholomance remained unresolved.

Patrick and the Forsaken leaders planned to secure the Western Plaguelands and destroy Scholomance, the Scourge stronghold in the Barov Family’s castle. After Scarlet Crusade forces halted their attack and requested a meeting, a human general arrived in Andorhal.

• Patrick ordered Rotande Gili to establish a supply line from Undercity and bring the Western Plaguelands under Forsaken control.
• Patrick revealed that the Barov Family’s castle had become Scholomance, where the Cult of the Damned trained Necromancers for the Scourge.
• Lor'themar Theron, Aeldara Morningwalker, Nathanos the Blightcaller, and Rotande Gili agreed that Scholomance had to be destroyed before the Scourge could use the region’s dead to build its forces.
• Rotande Gili decided to inform the Queen and request reinforcements for Andorhal.
• A messenger reported that the Scarlet Crusade had stopped its attack and wanted to meet Patrick, and a human general arrived with an escort of hostile crusaders.
• Aeldara demanded that the human general state his purpose.

Patrick negotiated with Taelan Fordring and helped him remember his father’s teachings, briefly weakening the Scarlet Crusade’s fanaticism. Taelan left to consult the High Inquisitor, while Patrick prepared to move against Scholomance and its remaining Scourge forces.

• Taelan Fordring introduced himself as lord of Hearthglen, and Patrick identified himself as Regent of the Blood Elves.
• A Scarlet Crusade adjutant challenged Patrick’s alliance with the Forsaken, but Lor'themar Theron defended him and condemned the Crusade’s conduct.
• Patrick mentioned Tirion Fordring’s belief that race did not define honor, prompting Taelan and Tirion’s former veterans to question the Crusade’s actions.
• Patrick offered to leave the lands north of the old Lordaeron highway untouched if Taelan guaranteed the Crusade would not attack the Blood Elves and Forsaken, but Taelan’s adjutant insisted they consult the High Inquisitor first.
• Patrick gave Taelan a Communication Trinket that could protect him with an Arcane Barrier, then planned to rescue him from Isillien and the demon-influenced Scarlet Crusade.
• Rotande Gili contacted Sylvanas for reinforcements as Patrick prepared to attack Scholomance, where Gandling was secretly rebuilding his forces.

Taelan returned toward Hearthglen after negotiating over Andorhal, newly aware of the Scarlet Crusade’s corruption but unsure how to change it. In Undercity, Sylvanas approved expanding into the Western Plaguelands, while Balnazzar and Varimathras plotted to lure Patrick’s forces into a trap at Marris Stead.

• Taelan ignored his adjutant’s demands to reject the alliance and reflected on why Maxwell Tyrosus had left to found the Argent Dawn.
• Sylvanas received Rotande Gili’s report that Andorhal had been retaken and approved sending more personnel to establish a base in the Western Plaguelands.
• Varimathras met Balnazzar in Stratholme and warned that Patrick’s victories threatened to weaken the Scourge.
• Balnazzar planned to praise Patrick’s forces, lure them toward Marris Stead, and have the Scourge and Scarlet Crusade attack them from both sides.
• Varimathras returned to Undercity while he and Balnazzar resumed their paladin disguises and disappeared into the Plaguewood.

After the war, Patrick led the effort to rebuild Andorhal and prepare an assault on Scholomance, while Rotande Gili revealed his research into turning plague into healing energy. The expedition planned to advance toward the Wailing Haunt and reach Caer Darrow by sea, and Rotande Gili’s work remained limited to healing the Forsaken.

• Lor'themar Theron and Nathanos the Blightcaller began rebuilding Andorhal after Taelan Fordring departed.
• Patrick ordered supplies and magical vessels from Silvermoon City and directed the troops to advance toward the Wailing Haunt, clearing Scourge forces and preparing teleportation circles along the shore.
• Patrick and Rotande Gili agreed that the Forsaken would join the march on Scholomance once reinforcements arrived.
• Patrick observed that Rotande Gili had learned to use plague to heal Forsaken wounds, and Rotande Gili explained his goal of making plague a healing force for both the living and the undead.
• Rotande Gili told Patrick that his research began after he escaped the Lich King’s control and that he had tried turning his body into plague energy.

Patrick explained his research into the different sources of Holy Light and shared his hope of one day seeing an undead paladin. Rotande Gili revealed why he wanted the research preserved, then joined the fight to clear the Scourge from Andorhal as the allies prepared to advance on Caer Darrow.

• Patrick told Rotande Gili that human paladins drew pure Holy Light from faith, unlike the Blood Knights, whose power mixed arcane energy with a Naaru’s light.
• Rotande Gili said he shared his research because the Forsaken faced powerful enemies and their future was uncertain, and he thanked Patrick for respecting them.
• Patrick reflected on Sylvanas’s patrols during the plague, his inability to warn the elves about Arthas, and Quel'Thalas’s continued strength.
• Rotande Gili fought the Scourge in Andorhal, using his plague to consume even undead bodies and strengthen himself.
• With Summoner Araj dead and the Scourge at the Wailing Haunt disorganized, Lor'themar and Aeldara prepared to defeat them, build a lakeside base, and advance by ship toward Scholomance and Caer Darrow.

Patrick led his troops to Caer Darrow Island to attack Scholomance, where Gandling sought to regain the Lich King's favor. Patrick planned to establish a blood elf base on the island after clearing Scholomance, and the group stepped ashore amid an eerie silence.

• Gandling, a former Dalaran mage and Cult of the Damned member, remained confident in Scholomance and wanted to earn the Lich King's recognition as its headmaster.
• Patrick led his troops across the plague-ridden Lake Darrowmere toward Scholomance, while Aeldara Morningwalker and Kyrissa prepared for battle.
• Saragoss grew wary of Patrick after sensing an aura like Norgannon's in the Super Arcane Magic Patrick had used against Aqira.
• Patrick told Kyrissa she would have a chance to fight in Scholomance and proposed building a blood elf base on Caer Darrow Island while leaving Andorhal to the Forsaken and Horde.
• Saragoss raised concerns about the island's underground Scourge presence and plague, and Patrick said he would rebuild the site with arcane magic and cleanse it with Flame Cleansing.
• Patrick and his companions set foot on Caer Darrow Island, where a deathly silence surrounded them.

Patrick and the Blood Knights led an assault on Scholomance, clearing its Bone Crypt and deeper rooms. After Rotande Gili destroyed Janice Barov, Patrick shattered the Scourge forces in the corpse storage room, where Vectus and Marduk Blackpool confronted the attackers.

• Lor'themar Theron led the Blood Elves and Forsaken in an attack on the Scourge guards and apprentices in the Bone Crypt.
• Patrick told Rotande Gili that Mind Vision let him perceive everything inside Scholomance, including Janice Barov, who had become a Scourge instructor.
• Rotande Gili used Reaper's Scythe to destroy Janice Barov and prayed for her soul to rest in peace.
• Patrick used his spiritual power to bind and shatter the Scourge minions, administrators, and Bloodbone Construct in the corpse storage room.
• Vectus and Marduk Blackpool arrived and threatened to torment the attackers' souls.

Patrick sent the Forsaken and Blood Elf forces to attack the laboratory while he went alone to confront Darkmaster Gandling and the remaining Scourge leaders. Gandling’s prepared magic circles failed against Patrick’s overwhelming power, leaving the Scourge unable to cast spells as the confrontation continued.

• Marduk Blackpool and Vectus were dismembered after Patrick tore apart the space around them.
• Patrick ordered Lor'themar Theron and Aeldara Morningwalker to lead the troops against Lash Frostwhisper, then return to the surface before Scholomance was destroyed.
• Patrick went to the faculty offices and found Darkmaster Gandling gathered with the remaining Scourge leaders, including Lecturer Marduk.
• Gandling and the Scourge leaders activated an annihilation spell, but Patrick released his spiritual power and swept away their magic circles.
• The backlash stripped the Scourge of their ability to cast spells, leaving them vulnerable to Patrick.

Patrick destroyed the Scourge forces hidden in Scholomance, then used a massive arcane spell to turn the Barov Family's castle and plague-contaminated grounds into lava. He asked the Blue Dragons Kyrissa and Saragoss to cool the land so a new camp could be built there.

• Patrick lured the hidden Scourge necromancers into revealing themselves and killed them with a large-scale spell that pulverized Scholomance and its contents.
• Patrick returned to the surface, where Lor'themar, Aeldara, Rotande Gili, and the troops waited outside the cordon.
• Patrick explained to Rotande Gili that he had entered alone to prevent the Scourge from escaping and threatening them later.
• Patrick raised the castle, contaminated soil, and Scourge remains into the sky, then used Arcane Mimicry to heat them into a mass of lava.
• Kyrissa and Saragoss agreed to use their dragon breath to cool and solidify the lava so the troops could build a new camp.

Patrick planned to establish a permanent blood elf base on Caer Darrow Island, linking it with the Forsaken-held Andorhal to control the Plaguelands. Meanwhile, Sylvanas ordered Nathanos to prepare an advance into the Eastern Plaguelands and sent Varimathras to deliver the orders, unknowingly advancing the great bat's scheme.

• Patrick explained that Caer Darrow Island would become blood elf territory, with a teleportation circle connecting it to Silvermoon City.
• Kyrissa and Saragoss cooled the lava at the former Barov castle site with their frost breath.
• Lor'themar and Aeldara Morningwalker supported building a new base there, and Patrick agreed that the Gor'dok Ogres could help with construction.
• Varimathras urged Sylvanas to reward the Forsaken and advance into the Eastern Plaguelands after securing Andorhal.
• Sylvanas ordered Nathanos to prepare an outpost in the Eastern Plaguelands and sent Varimathras to Andorhal with the orders, playing into his scheme.

Isillien accepted Patrick’s proposal to divide the Western Plaguelands, while warning that the arrangement could leave Hearthglen surrounded. He planned to expand Scarlet Crusade control and sent Taelan to lead an expedition into the Eastern Plaguelands.

• Varimathras carried Sylvanas’s decree toward Andorhal, expecting the Blood Elves to assist the Forsaken if their camp faced trouble.
• Taelan argued that the Scarlet Crusade should accept Patrick’s offer to gain farmland and ease Hearthglen’s supply shortages, despite his adjutant’s objections.
• Isillien agreed that the Crusade needed new territory but warned that the proposed borders could leave Hearthglen surrounded by hostile forces.
• Isillien ordered the Crusade to secure territory from Felstone to the Thondroril River, establish a post at Gahrron, and send forces toward Marris Stead.
• Isillien assigned Taelan to lead the Eastern Plaguelands mission and gave frontline defenses to Taelan’s adjutant, leaving Taelan to accept the orders.