Recaps

Patrick proposed that the Alliance, Horde, Covenant, and Scourge surround Wyrmrest Temple and destroy Twilight's Hammer, while he faced Deathwing. The leaders agreed to the deployment and departed to prepare for a battle that could begin at any moment.

• Patrick proposed surrounding Wyrmrest Temple from the east, west, and south, with Sylvanas leading the Scourge from the north.
• The leaders agreed that each faction would command its own troops and attack Twilight's Hammer together.
• Krasus warned that Deathwing might use the Dragon Soul and suggested someone who had faced him hold him off.
• Patrick volunteered to face Deathwing and told Krasus he wanted to assess the Dragonflight's strength.
• Kael'thas urged the leaders to prepare, and they assigned the Alliance to the east, the Horde to the west, the Covenant to the south, and the Scourge to the north.

Patrick prepared the Arcane Pact’s forces for the battle at Wyrmrest Temple and ordered them to avoid a direct beach assault. Vashj’s tsunami devastated the Twilight Cultists defending the coast, leaving another massive wave bearing down on the survivors.

• Patrick ordered the Scourge’s attacking troops to shift toward the southeast, drawing the Twilight Cultists’ strength toward the Alliance.
• The Alliance landed at New Hearthglen, while the Horde crossed into Snowfall Glade and approached Wyrmrest Temple.
• Patrick rejected Kael'thas’s plan to storm the beach and ordered long-range bombardment, while asking Astalor to bring Onyxia to him.
• Patrick told Vashj to keep the naga underwater to rescue the Arcane Pact’s soldiers and deal with any enemies as they wished.
• Vashj and the water warlocks unleashed a tsunami that swept away countless Twilight Cultists, and a second enormous wave surged toward the survivors.

The Alliance, Horde, Scourge, and other forces launched a massive assault on Twilight's Hammer around Wyrmrest Temple, while their leaders used powerful magic to support their armies. The southern coast was cleared for the landing, and Patrick's forces prepared to advance toward the temple where Deathwing was hiding.

• Tyrande unleashed Starfall east of Wyrmrest Temple, while Rokhan and eight witch doctors cursed Twilight Cultists west of it.
• The Twilight Father appeared and shielded Twilight Cultists, Void Dragons, Chromatic Dragons, and Faceless Ones as they prepared to attack.
• Malfurion cast a vast Tranquility over the battlefield, Velen strengthened Holy Light wielders with Divine Infusion, and Vol'jin and Agna bolstered the Horde with healing and elemental power.
• Sylvanas's Scourge gathered north of Wyrmrest Temple, while aerial units bombarded the southern shore and wiped out its remaining defenders.
• Patrick prepared his forces to land and advance toward Wyrmrest Temple, while Duke Falconcrest declared, “For... Alterac!”

The Arcane Pact’s coalition began its landing against the Twilight Cultists after its warships bombarded the coast. As the forces advanced, Oryx Rivendare asked Patrick to resurrect his father, but Patrick refused and explained that Baron Rivendare could not be restored.

• Duke Falconcrest pledged himself to Alterac, and Tandred ordered the warships to fire on the coastline.
• Demetria said the troops could prepare to land, while Lyn Bluestone reported that Ursoc was ready to attack.
• Kael'thas ordered the coalition to launch its assault, and the allied forces voiced their pledges before boarding fast boats.
• Oryx Rivendare asked Patrick to resurrect Baron Rivendare, but Patrick said it was impossible and would not save him.
• The coalition landed as the Twilight Cultists engaged them, and its advance swept forward along the cleared coastline.

The Coalition Forces advanced to Wyrmrest Temple, where Deathwing and his forces emerged to confront them. Patrick faced Deathwing in the air, blocked his breath with Mana Shield, but was knocked to the ground by a powerful claw strike before rising unharmed.

• Patrick led the Coalition Forces as they overwhelmed scattered Twilight Cultists and dragons, with the well-equipped Gor'dok Ogres proving especially effective.
• The army encircled the remaining Twilight Cultists and advanced on Wyrmrest Temple, where Patrick and the Dragon Aspects sensed the Old Gods' influence.
• Deathwing appeared with Warlord Zon'ozz, Yor'sahj the Unsleeping, Hagara the Stormbinder, Ultraxion, Warlord Blackhorn, Chromatus, and his other forces.
• Patrick warned the Dragon Aspects about Chromatus, then confronted Deathwing and recalled their previous encounter in Quelrins City.
• Deathwing's breath struck Patrick's Mana Shield, and his empowered claw disrupted Patrick's levitation spell and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Patrick emerged unharmed behind his Mana Shield and used levitation to fly back into the air.

The Illidari and Azeroth's Coalition Forces attacked the Twilight Cultists defending Wyrmrest Temple while Patrick fought Deathwing in the air. Patrick wounded the Aspect of the Black and discovered that Neltharion's blood became living slimes, confirming that the Old Gods had transformed him into a tentacled monster beneath his Black Dragon form.

• Teron Gorefiend, Gurtogg Bloodboil, and Vel'rilles Deep Shadow led Illidari forces against the Twilight Cultists as Azeroth's Coalition Forces overwhelmed the temple's defenders.
• Hui Li ordered the Dark Curse Burning Legion to activate Shadow Armor and prepare to attack, while Liadrin's Dawnedge Knights charged from both flanks.
• Patrick faced Deathwing again and trapped Neltharion's head in a Coffin of Space before the Aspect of the Black broke free through brute strength.
• Patrick struck Neltharion with Diffusing Riftwaves, cutting his chest armor and wings and drawing blood that transformed into living slimes.
• Patrick accused Deathwing of not being Neltharion, and Neltharion claimed he had transcended mortality as Patrick recognized the Old Gods' transformation of the Aspect of the Black.

Onyxia turned against Deathwing as the Dragon Aspects and their allies fought Chromatus and the Twilight forces, with Nozdormu and Thrall arriving to reinforce them. Beneath Wyrmrest Temple, Sseratus and Quetz'lun carried out Patrick’s secret rescue mission, and Sseratus escaped with the prisoner Kyrissa.

• Onyxia rejected Deathwing, and Patrick blocked his Elementium Arrow while she ordered Serinar, Nalis, and their subordinates to attack the false black dragons.
• Alexstrasza and Malygos confronted Deathwing, who restored Chromatus to full life and sent him against the dragonflights.
• Chromatus slaughtered dragons as the battle intensified, until Nozdormu and Thrall arrived with reinforcements and Nozdormu’s time-infused breath destroyed Twilight Cultists.
• Sseratus and Quetz'lun tunneled beneath Wyrmrest Temple to find the prisoners held by Twilight's Hammer.
• Sseratus recognized the imprisoned blue dragon Kyrissa, swallowed her to conceal her, and escaped through the tunnel while his descendants killed the pursuing cultists.

Tarecgosa briefed the Dragonflight representatives on Chromatus and the Twilight Father's forces, leading them to conclude Chromatus had to die. On the eastern battlefield, Maiev struck the Twilight Father, pierced his defenses, and shattered his Shadowform, revealing his true appearance.

• Tarecgosa told Kyrissa, Torastrasza, Ysera, Saqiligousa, Krasus, and the other representatives about Chromatus, the cultists, and the Twilight Father's strengths.
• Tarecgosa explained that Chromatus considered himself Deathwing's offspring, prompting the representatives to conclude that he had to be killed.
• The Twilight Father led his forces on the eastern battlefield as Alliance magic and the Undead Scourge put pressure on his troops.
• Maiev blinked through the Alliance forces and appeared behind the Twilight Father, striking him with her dagger.
• Maiev broke through the Twilight Father's defenses and shattered his Shadowform with a storm of throwing knives.

Benedictus revealed himself as the leader of Twilight's Hammer and attacked Bolvar and Maiev with the Holy Light, while Velen intervened. On the main battlefield, Deathwing unleashed his Chaos Breath, leaving Patrick badly weakened and nearly out of mana as the chapter ended.

• Benedictus confronted Bolvar and Maiev, revealed his identity, and attacked the nearby Alliance soldiers with Holy Light.
• Velen shielded Bolvar from Benedictus's spells, while Bolvar resisted and Maiev summoned a shadow Avenging Deity to face him.
• Patrick and Neltharion continued fighting evenly until Deathwing recognized Patrick was buying time for the others.
• Elune warned Patrick that Deathwing was preparing Chaos Breath, so Patrick spent most of his mana creating an Arcane disc to block it.
• Deathwing's purple-black Chaos Breath dissolved Patrick's Arcane disc and battered his shield, leaving Patrick kneeling in midair with almost no mana.

Patrick faced Deathwing while the Alliance and Horde hoped they would destroy each other, but the arrival of Nefarian’s Chromatic and Black Dragons changed the battle. Patrick used the fight to develop a new path for his magic, then prepared to remove his restrictions and finish Deathwing.

• The Alliance and Horde leaders watched Patrick and Deathwing fight, hoping both would fall and that Patrick’s death would break the Arcane Pact.
• Garrosh accepted the Pact’s growing influence in the Eastern Kingdoms and abandoned plans to expand exchanges with it after other Horde leaders objected.
• Deathwing declared Patrick defeated as Patrick’s mana ran low, but Nefarian arrived with large numbers of Chromatic Dragons and Black Dragons.
• Patrick discussed with Elune how Karde integrated different forms of energy and considered combining arcane magic, spatial power, and time runes into a new path of cultivation.
• Elune transferred stored mana to Patrick and urged him to finish Deathwing, and Patrick removed his restrictions to prepare for the fight.

Patrick revealed his immense arcane power and used the Discs of Norgannon to turn back Deathwing’s breath. As reinforcements threatened the battle, Nozdormu proposed combining the Dragon Aspects’ essences with Thrall’s earth power to defeat Deathwing.

• Patrick unleashed a vast surge of arcane energy, and Illidan and Medivh recognized the scale of his strength.
• Deathwing attacked Patrick with chaotic dragon breath, but Patrick blocked it with the Discs of Norgannon and pushed the blast skyward with an Arcane Energy Ray.
• The leaders feared the approaching Black Dragonflight and Chromatic Dragonflight would overwhelm the defenders if Deathwing’s forces were not defeated quickly.
• Nozdormu summoned the other Dragon Aspects and proposed that Thrall supply the earth power they lacked as the Earth-Warder.
• Nozdormu proposed uniting the Dragon Aspects and using their essences, as they had with the Dragon Soul ten thousand years earlier, to defeat Deathwing.

Thrall agreed to help the four Dragon Aspects recreate the Dragon Soul through a ritual that could be stopped if anyone withdrew their power. With Deathwing, Chromatus, and the Twilight forces pressing the battlefield, the Aspects took humanoid forms and prepared to begin.

• Nozdormu explained that the Dragon Aspects could no longer create the Dragon Soul as before, and proposed a safer ritual with Thrall.
• Thrall said he could wield the Power of the Earth, while Malygos warned that surrendering their power remained dangerous.
• Nozdormu described the threat of defeat, and Thrall agreed to attempt the ritual as the battle worsened.
• Patrick continued fighting Deathwing, while Benedictus battered the Alliance and Chromatus held back the Horde.
• Ysera, Malygos, and Alexstrasza agreed to try, and Thrall asked the four Aspects to assume humanoid forms.
• The Aspects changed form, and Thrall began preparing the ancient ritual as Alexstrasza told him they trusted him.

Thrall opened a spiritual connection with the elements and the Dragon Aspects, witnessing the ancient Titan blessings that shaped their powers. The elements answered his call, and he heard the earth’s blessing meant for him.

• Thrall asked the Dragon Aspects to open their minds and emotions to one another as he called on the elements through the totem array.
• The water, earth, fire, and air spirits shared their realms and answered Thrall, while Al'Akir agreed to fight his former allies for the High Elf who had freed him.
• Thrall linked minds with the Dragon Aspects and saw their true inner selves: Ysera as life, Malygos as arcane magic, and the blessings of time and compassion associated with the others.
• Thrall felt the earth’s knowledge and strength within himself and heard the blessing that described the land as the foundation of all things.

Thrall and the Dragon Aspects joined their powers through Nozdormu’s magic circle, while Patrick merged time and space within arcane energy and ascended to demigodhood. Patrick’s strengthened ray overwhelmed Deathwing’s breath and wounded his neck, leaving Deathwing ready to stop holding back.

• Thrall’s power joined the Dragon Aspects’ essences, and the Power of the Earth acknowledged him as Nozdormu formed a magic circle without a vessel.
• Patrick combined time and spatial runes with arcane energy, creating the embryonic Arcane Energy Space-Time Domain.
• Patrick’s wave of light briefly suspended creatures across Azeroth, including the Alliance, Horde, Arcane Pact, Deathwing, and Twilight Cultists.
• Patrick formally entered the realm of demigods as his rule over time and space took shape.
• Patrick’s strengthened Arcane Energy Ray broke through Deathwing’s Chaos Breath and melted his Elementium Armor, striking and wounding his neck.
• Deathwing acknowledged Patrick’s power and decided he would no longer hold back.

Patrick defeated Deathwing and drove him to flee, while Garona killed the Twilight Father. Patrick and the Dragon Aspects then killed Chromatus, though Deathwing escaped to the south.

• Patrick's arcane beam pierced Deathwing's neck and overcame the black dragon's power.
• Garona stabbed the Twilight Father from behind while he was distracted by Deathwing's defeat.
• Deathwing ordered his followers to kill the others and fled south, prompting Malygos to celebrate his retreat.
• Chromatus attacked Patrick with dark purple dragonfire, but Patrick blocked it with a Disc of Norgannon and destroyed two of its heads.
• Thrall and the Dragon Aspects struck Chromatus with their combined attacks, killing its remaining heads and bringing it down.

After Chromatus died and Deathwing fled toward the Maelstrom, Patrick and the Coalition Forces overwhelmed Twilight's Hammer and its dragon reinforcements. The chapter ended with the cultists' rout nearly complete and Wyrmrest Temple's battlefields devastated.

• Thrall used the Dragon Soul, empowered by the four Dragon Aspects, to destroy Black Dragons and Chromatic Dragons as Patrick pursued Deathwing.
• Patrick killed Warlord Blackhorn and his Void Dragon with a Coffin of Space while flying toward the Maelstrom.
• Illidan burned Twilight Cultists and killed Yor'sahj the Unsleeping with his Eye Beam and fel fire.
• With Deathwing, Chromatus, and the Twilight Father gone, the Coalition Forces gained the advantage and routed Twilight's Hammer.
• Malygos urged Thrall to keep attacking the Black Dragons as the coalition wiped out nearly all remaining enemies across the devastated battlefields.

Illidan and the other leaders put the Scourge aside and set out to hunt Deathwing, while Patrick pursued the wounded dragon toward the Maelstrom. The chapter left Patrick closing in on Deathwing as the Maelstrom’s power threatened to aid the dragon.

• Illidan, Kael'thas, and the other leaders agreed that killing Deathwing was their priority and assigned the remaining enemies to the former Four Council.
• Illidan told Vashj to leave ordinary naga behind to clear the battlefield and send her stronger naga toward the Maelstrom.
• Kael'thas invited the Alliance and Horde leaders to travel aboard the Arcane Pact’s faster ships, and Captain Verlin Sunstrider led the fleet toward the Maelstrom.
• Deathwing flew toward the Maelstrom while Patrick pursued him and fired arcane rays, but most missed or barely damaged the dragon.
• Patrick learned that his spatial magic was not yet strong enough to restrain Deathwing and resolved to keep him from recovering at the Maelstrom.

Patrick confronted Deathwing at the Maelstrom as Deathwing revealed his Old God-transformed body and began unleashing the full Cataclysm. After learning he could not control Azeroth’s time to stop it, Patrick prepared to fight Deathwing by drawing on arcane energy.

• Deathwing emerged from the Maelstrom and shed his Elementium Armor, revealing tentacles as his body became that of a Faceless One.
• Patrick attacked Deathwing with an Arcane Energy Ray, but Deathwing and the surrounding tentacles withstood it while Deathwing continued his Chaos Breath.
• Deathwing announced that the Hour of Twilight had come and threatened to tear the world apart.
• Elune explained that Patrick lacked the strength to control Azeroth’s time and described the limits of Aman’Thul’s power and the Bronze Dragons’ predictions.
• Patrick decided he had to stop Deathwing directly and absorbed arcane energy as Deathwing drew on the Maelstrom’s Power of the Earth.

Patrick, the Dragon Aspects, Thrall, and their allies joined forces to destroy Deathwing at the Maelstrom. Afterward, Patrick warned that Azeroth still faced upheaval because its elemental balance had been disrupted.

• Onyxia attacked Deathwing, while Patrick mocked him and met his Chaos Breath with a powerful Arcane Energy Ray.
• Thrall struck Deathwing with the Dragon Soul, letting Patrick pierce him again, but tentacles grew from his wounds and kept him alive.
• Patrick launched the Sin Ray as the Dragon Aspects channeled their powers through the Dragon Soul, while Therazane sealed Deathwing's route to Deepholm and Al'Akir attacked him with lightning.
• The Dragon Soul, Patrick's Discs of Norgannon, and Al'Akir's lightning destroyed Deathwing completely, leaving him as dust and ash.
• Alexstrasza, Malygos, and Thrall joined Patrick beside the Maelstrom, and Patrick warned them that the disrupted elemental balance meant their work was not finished.

Patrick and Elune restored the Four Dragon Aspects’ power and authority with the Titans’ authorization, preparing them to help repair Azeroth after Deathwing’s destruction. The Aspects regained their ancient strength, while Patrick kept the Earth-Warder position unassigned.

• Therazane warned Al'Akir, Thrall, and Patrick that Deathwing’s attack had damaged the earth and that elemental imbalance threatened Azeroth.
• Patrick proposed restoring elemental balance, then asked Malygos whether the Ley Line System could still be controlled precisely.
• Elune agreed to replenish the Dragon Aspects’ power and restore their authority over Azeroth’s systems.
• Patrick activated the Well of Eternity as Elune appeared above the Maelstrom, and the twin moons transmitted the request for the Titans’ authorization.
• The ley lines channeled four beams into Alexstrasza, Ysera, Malygos, and Nozdormu, restoring the Dragon Aspects’ power to its ancient peak.

Patrick explained that he planned to summon the shattered world of Draenor into Azeroth to repair its damage, while using the effort to unite its leaders against shared threats. After Medivh considered the risks and Patrick explained his safeguards and the Dark Portal’s role, the leaders agreed the plan was worth attempting.

• Patrick reminded Azeroth’s leaders of their rivalries and said they needed to set aside their hatred to defend their shared home.
• Patrick revealed that he intended to summon Draenor into Azeroth so its fragments could repair the damage to the world.
• Medivh objected to the risks to the ley lines, but Patrick said Malygos would monitor them and explained how the Dark Portals could provide precise coordinates.
• Medivh reconsidered after realizing that joining Outland to Azeroth could reduce the Dark Portal’s danger and help make Azeroth whole.
• Thrall supported Patrick’s plan, and Patrick said the leaders would first eliminate the Burning Legion’s remnants and Shadow Council forces in Outland.
• Patrick offered to exempt unwilling locations from the summoning, a remark that the leaders understood was directed at Velen and Shattrath.

Patrick proposed that the Draenei and the Arcane Pact set aside their disputes, then oversaw negotiations over territories in Draenor. After the factions chose regions, Patrick began summoning Draenor by channeling energy into the ley lines.

• Patrick urged Velen to trust that the Arcane Pact would not target the Draenei and offered to keep their disputes from worsening.
• Thrall asked for Nagrand for the orcs, and Muln Earthfury pledged that the Earthen Ring would help stabilize Draenor's elements.
• Medivh chose Netherstorm for the Alliance, and Patrick accepted the choice.
• Patrick let Illidan choose the Pact's territory, and Illidan selected Shadowmoon Valley.
• Patrick began the summoning, while structures in Feralas and on the Isle of Quel'Danas sent energy into the ley lines.

Patrick began moving Outland to Azeroth by building a Titans rune ley line around the shattered world and constructing a spatial passage between the two worlds. As the teleportation started, Outland’s inhabitants watched the sky change, while armies prepared to seize their assigned territories once the transfer ended.

• Malygos confirmed that the ley line system was functioning, and Medivh activated the Dark Portal’s spatial teleportation magic.
• Patrick transmitted Azeroth’s ley line runes through the Dark Portal, forming a protective ley line network around Outland and embedding it with replicated Titans runes.
• Patrick aligned Outland’s ley line coordinates with Azeroth’s, rotated the continent to position Nagrand, Netherstorm, and Shadowmoon Valley, and began constructing the spatial passage.
• Varian, Garrosh, Kael'thas, Vashj, Illidan, and other leaders mobilized their forces to occupy their designated territories after Outland’s transfer.
• The teleportation began, illuminating Outland’s sky with Titans runes as Rexxar, Gruul, and High Priestess Ishanah reacted to the changes.

Patrick completed the teleportation of Outland into Azeroth, merging their land and ley line systems and restoring the world’s balance. As the Covenant prepared to reclaim Outland, N'Zoth revealed that events in Pandaria were proceeding according to his plan.

• Patrick used the Titans Runes to teleport Outland into Azeroth, and the two worlds’ ley line systems merged.
• Thrall, Therazane, and their followers stabilized the reshaped land, while Patrick ensured that fel-contaminated regions would not pollute the Great Sea.
• Patrick discussed the limits of his power with Elune and realized he could not replicate the Well of Eternity’s Titans Runes.
• Kael'thas, Illidan, Vashj, Danath, and Kurdran led Covenant troops toward the Black Temple to clear out demons and reclaim their territories.
• Inside the Titans' prison, N'Zoth told Vara that events in Pandaria were proceeding as planned and awaited the mortals’ arrival.

Patrick and the Covenant leaders decided how to organize their territories and allies after the Alliance and Horde landed in Outland. Patrick set plans for Onyxia, the tuskarr, Kul Tiras, the Syndicate, and the furbolgs, while reserving separate arrangements for Lordaeron and Sylvanas's Avengers.

• Patrick allowed Onyxia to bring the Black Dragon clan under his protection if she could keep its members under control, while clarifying that the offer did not include the Void Dragons.
• Kael'thas assigned Onyxia a mixed-crewed fleet so she could travel to Blade's Edge Mountains and contact her brother Sabellian.
• Patrick tasked Elder Kunani and the tuskarr with helping survey and navigate maritime routes to Shadowmoon Valley, and confirmed Kul Tiras would remain the core provider of maritime trade services.
• Patrick told Duke Falconcrest that the Syndicate could emerge from hiding and establish a city in the Alterac Mountains as the Covenant's intelligence organization.
• Patrick arranged for Northrend troops to open a route connecting Grizzlemaw to Covenant territory, while leaving the Animal Gods to develop their own priesthoods.
• Patrick reserved separate plans for the Kingdom of Lordaeron, which involved Sylvanas's Avengers.