Recaps

Anasterian remained wary of Patrick Cabrolon despite his lawful conduct and refused Council responsibilities, while Terenas secured Patrick’s agreement to a generous settlement that left Lordaeron poised to take control of Alterac. Patrick received the promised supplies from Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas as Terenas pressed ahead with plans for internment camps and the Alliance’s expedition to Outland.

• Anasterian reviewed Patrick Cabrolon’s record and decided to watch him while keeping Quel'Thalas’s key resources under royal control.
• Terenas agreed to cover Patrick’s compensation with goods worth fifteen percent more than the stated amount, while Daval Prestor signed for Alterac.
• Patrick recognized Daval Prestor as Neltharion in disguise and signed the Alliance agreement.
• Patrick had Idonis and Quelrintis inspect the supplies from the Council and Lordaeron, and they found the goods complete and high-quality.
• Patrick noted that Terenas was preparing internment camps and that the Alliance was nearing its expedition to Outland.

After years of construction, Sunlight City stood as a fortified home for the high elves while the Alliance and Horde continued their wars. In Dalaran, Jaina was sent to investigate a deadly plague, while Medivh warned Patrick of the coming Burning Legion; Patrick refused to flee, and Medivh discovered he could not see Patrick’s future.

• The Alliance sent Turalyon, Khadgar, Elenora Yunji, Danath Trollbane, and Kurdran Wildhammer through the Dark Portal, while Alonsus Faol’s death plunged the Alliance into mourning and Thrall continued the Horde’s liberation campaign.
• Antonidas told Jaina that a strange plague had broken out in Dalaran Province and assigned her to investigate it as her graduation project.
• Medivh flew to Sunlight City to warn Patrick that darkness and disaster were approaching, and Patrick recognized him as the former Guardian.
• Medivh urged Patrick to take his people west to Kalimdor, but Patrick refused to abandon Quel'Thalas and insisted that he could change the future.
• Medivh used arcane energy to search Patrick’s future but could not see it, and Patrick asked why Medivh had come to warn him.

Medivh urged Patrick to flee to Kalimdor before a catastrophe struck Azeroth, but Patrick refused to abandon his people. After Medivh left, Patrick told Alleria and Sylvanas about the coming disaster and explained how he had been preparing Sunlight City to protect the high elves.

• Medivh regretted opening the Dark Portal and urged Patrick to go to Kalimdor to escape the coming catastrophe.
• Patrick refused to leave his people, and Medivh wished him luck before flying away in raven form.
• Alleria and Sylvanas came in after Medivh left, and Patrick told them that a worldwide catastrophe and war would reach even Quel'Thalas.
• Sylvanas suggested warning the Silvermoon Council or King Anasterian, but Alleria doubted their political rivals would believe them or help.
• Patrick explained that Sunlight City had stockpiled supplies and that its floating city could serve as a refuge, while the high elves' slow population growth made losses especially dangerous.

Patrick prepared new management policies to keep the Floating City’s core assets under the Decision the Council, while Arthas and Jaina investigated a plague outbreak in Dalaran Province and encountered zombies. The chapter left them fighting the undead as the danger of the plague became clear.

• Patrick decided to place the Floating City’s principal property rights under the joint ownership of the Decision the Council to protect its development and preserve his authority.
• Patrick asked Alleria to have Yanida summon the Decision the Council to the Council Hall so he could announce new decrees.
• Arthas and Jaina traveled to Dalaran Province to investigate the plague and found the surrounding farms unnaturally quiet.
• Arthas and Jaina approached a farmhouse and discovered rotting residents infected by the plague emerging as zombies.
• Arthas killed one zombie with his Holy Light-covered warhammer, while Jaina set approaching zombies on fire, but they kept advancing.

Arthas and Jaina traced the plague to contaminated grain distributed from Andorhal, where they confronted Kel'Thuzad and learned that the Dreadlord Mal'Ganis had ordered the outbreak. Arthas killed Kel'Thuzad, who warned that Mal'Ganis would come from Stratholme to avenge him.

• Arthas and Jaina fought the zombies, and Jaina suspected Orc sorcerers were behind the plague.
• Jaina found glowing, contaminated grain in a granary, and Arthas realized Andorhal might have infected the whole province.
• Arthas led his knights to Andorhal and found the city ruined and deserted.
• Jaina recognized Kel'Thuzad, who admitted the Cult of the Damned had distributed plague-tainted grain under Mal'Ganis's orders.
• Jaina used Dimensional Anchor to stop Kel'Thuzad from escaping, and Arthas struck him down.
• Kel'Thuzad warned that Mal'Ganis would come from Stratholme to avenge him.

Patrick proposed placing Sunlight City’s land-use rights under the Council while preserving permanent ownership of buildings, explaining how public administration and strict accountability had helped the city flourish. He left the Council considering reforms that would protect residents while preventing corruption and official inaction.

• Patrick presented a proposal to restrict the sale of land-use rights and place their administration under the Council, prompting members to question what would happen when those rights expired.
• Patrick explained that Sunlight City's Mage Towers and walls formed a coordinated defensive system and clarified that the Council would reclaim land rights, not ownership of buildings.
• Patrick assured the members that building ownership would remain permanent and said land-use rights could be renewed after investigation and deliberation.
• Patrick argued that the Floating City needed shared administration, comparing it to Quel'Thalas, where great families administered land belonging to the royal family.
• Patrick attributed Sunlight City's rapid growth to meeting residents' needs and to rules requiring officials to report regularly and punishing dereliction and political contributions.
• Patrick rejected political contributions as disguised bribery and maintained that accountability for inaction forced officials to work toward the city's development.

Patrick planned deeper reforms to place the Floating City's core assets under Council ownership while preserving private ownership of buildings, and Lorne Songweaver voiced support. The chapter ended with news of a plague spreading through Lordaeron, which Patrick had been waiting for.

• Patrick said he wanted the Council to own the Floating City's core assets and keep their benefits within the city.
• Idonis asked how Patrick would prevent resistance, and Patrick explained that residents would own their buildings but rent the land from the Council.
• Lorne Songweaver recounted how the Silvermoon Council had driven his family from the city and argued that the Floating City offered people advancement through their own efforts.
• Lorne supported Patrick's resolution, and Patrick reaffirmed his intent to prevent Sunlight City from becoming like Silvermoon City.
• A messenger reported that plague had spread from Dalaran Province to Miredal Province, plunging the Kingdom of Lordaeron into panic, and Patrick recognized the moment he had awaited.

Patrick prepared the Floating City and Quel'Thalas for the plague spreading through Lordaeron, while Arthas returned to the capital and began destroying his former life. After killing King Terenas and Rotande Gili, Arthas faced the cathedral guards as they turned against him.

• Patrick ordered elves abroad and those beneath the Floating City to return to Quel'Thalas, but many ignored his warning about the plague.
• Arthas returned to Lordaeron's capital, where Terenas welcomed him as a hero.
• Arthas killed Terenas with Frostmourne and declared that he was succeeding his father.
• Arthas went to the cathedral and rejected Rotande Gili's warning that he would destroy himself.
• Arthas killed Rotande Gili, and the cathedral guards drew their weapons and accused Arthas of betraying the Holy Light.

Arthas raised Rotande Gili as an undead plague mage and led the Scourge east toward Quel’Thalas to resurrect Kel’Thuzad. Patrick learned that the Elfgate’s defenses had been disabled and that Arthas was heading for An’owyn, where Dar’Khan Drathir was expected to defend the Crystal Temple.

• Rotande Gili rose under Frostmourne’s control and unleashed plague magic on the soldiers and priests who charged Arthas.
• Arthas left Rotande Gili to serve the Lich King and marched east toward Quel’Thalas with an expanding army of undead.
• The Elfgate’s defenders retreated to Patrick’s Floating City after its magical defenses shut down, suggesting a traitor had helped the Scourge enter the Ghostlands.
• Alleria told Patrick that Arthas was traveling along the mountain road toward An’owyn.
• Patrick and Alleria expected Dar’Khan Drathir to defend An’owyn and its Crystal Temple.

Dar'Khan planned to betray Quel'Thalas by helping Arthas breach its defenses, then use the invasion to seize the Sunwell and the throne. He persuaded his old butler to support him, while Arthas marched toward An'owyn to meet his secret ally.

• Dar'Khan resented Senyor Sunwing and other leaders for absorbing the Drathir Family after his sacrifices weakened it.
• Dar'Khan decided to help Arthas destroy the Silvermoon Council and King Anasterian, then claim the Sunwell and become king.
• Dar'Khan's agents sabotaged Elfgate's magical defenses and left Arthas an invitation to meet in An'owyn.
• Arthas accepted Dar'Khan's offer and led his army toward An'owyn, appearing to advance on the city while heading to meet him.
• Dar'Khan told his old butler to blame civilian deaths on his rivals and promised him a position as Council Chairman, tempting him into silence.
• Dar'Khan ordered preparations to welcome Arthas and said the Drathir Family would preserve only its direct line's fighting strength.

Patrick and Alleria learned that Arthas’s undead army had destroyed An’owyn and moved on to An’telas, so Patrick mobilized Sunlight City’s forces to confront him. At Sunscar Peak, they met Arthas’s army as it marched out of An’telas with the second piece of the Key of Three.

• Alleria received a scout report that Arthas’s undead had slaughtered An’owyn, destroyed its Moon Crystal Temple, and likely killed Koltira and Dar’Khan.
• Patrick ordered Sunlight City’s troops to prepare for battle and sent reports to Silvermoon City, the Silvermoon Council, and Sunstrider Tower.
• Patrick discussed with Ellen the danger of facing the Lich King, then assembled Sunlight City’s mage-, ranger-, and priest-heavy force.
• After refugees fled An’telas, Patrick led his army toward the valley and encountered the stench of its fallen defenders.
• Patrick and Alleria’s army met Arthas’s forces marching out of An’telas, and Quelrintis shouted at the invaders as Arthas studied the elves.

Patrick confronted Arthas and Ner'zhul as the undead invaded Quel'Thalas, accusing Ner'zhul of betraying his people. Patrick unleashed a modified Arcane Mass Point to begin the battle, but Arthas blocked the elves' opening volley with ice.

• Patrick sensed three souls within Arthas and accused Ner'zhul of betraying the orcs and turning the Shadowmoon Clan into undead.
• Ner'zhul denied ever betraying his people, while Arthas declared that death intended to occupy Quel'Thalas and seize its food and troop supplies.
• The elves recognized Arthas's desecration of the dead and prepared to fight the invaders.
• Patrick used his legendary-rank power to summon a black Arcane Mass Point that drew in arcane energy.
• The rangers and mages attacked Arthas with arrows and spells, but Arthas raised floating ice that blocked their volley.

Patrick’s elven army fought Arthas’s Scourge in a narrow mountain pass, using an Arcane Mass Point and fire to destroy undead while Arthas secretly prepared an underground assault. Patrick unleashed the sphere on Arthas’s forces, then used the Discs of Norgannon to teleport his army to the floating city, leaving Arthas amid the ruins.

• Patrick drew nearby undead and parts of the landscape into his Arcane Mass Point while his mages burned the trapped creatures with fireballs.
• Arthas used spiritual power to create a safe zone for his undead and ordered them to attack Patrick’s army.
• Patrick’s elves fought the Scourge with enchanted fire arrows, but crypt fiends and more undead emerged from tunnels beneath and around the army.
• Patrick realized Arthas had used the battle to conceal his plan to surround the elves, and the two exchanged taunts as Arthas drew Frostmourne.
• Patrick released the Arcane Mass Point, sending it crashing toward Arthas’s forces, then summoned the Discs of Norgannon to teleport the elven army to the floating city.

Patrick and the elves learned that Arthas was targeting Silvermoon City and suspected that Dar'Khan had betrayed Quel'Thalas by revealing how to open Bann'donor. After receiving Sylvanas's report that masked high elves were guiding Arthas, Patrick ordered the Floating City to head toward Eversong Woods.

• Patrick explained that Arthas carried two souls and had become a low-ranking demigod, making a direct confrontation dangerous.
• Patrick deduced that Arthas had obtained the three-part key to Bann'donor and that a traitor had exposed the locations of its components.
• Patrick accused Dar'Khan of possibly surviving An'owyn's destruction and betraying Quel'Thalas, since no one had found his body.
• Lorne Songweaver delivered Sylvanas's report that masked high elves were guiding Arthas's undead army.
• Patrick learned Sylvanas had withdrawn to the Bann'donor pass and was preparing Silvermoon's defenses, then ordered the Floating City to regroup and fly toward Eversong Woods.

Patrick rushed the Floating City toward Silvermoon City after Sylvanas secretly pursued Arthas, hoping to prepare for the Scourge’s invasion. He discovered Sylvanas had become a banshee and arrived at the Isle of Quel'Danas, where he intervened as Salorian Dawnseeker fought the Scourge.

• Patrick set the Floating City moving toward Silvermoon City after Sylvanas followed Arthas to uncover the traitors’ plans.
• Patrick and Alleria found Sylvanas's bloodstained necklace at Bann'donor pass, and Alleria feared her sister had been killed.
• Patrick saw Arthas at the ruined Silvermoon City and recognized the banshee beside him as Sylvanas.
• Patrick followed Arthas to the Isle of Quel'Danas, where Salorian Dawnseeker battled Orbaz Bloodbane's advance forces.
• Patrick teleported beside the exhausted Salorian while Alleria led troops to support the defenders and heal the wounded.

Patrick killed Orbaz Bloodbane and urged Anasterian to retreat with the surviving elves to the Floating City, but the king insisted on defending the Sunwell. When Arthas's army arrived, Anasterian faced Arthas while Patrick was tasked with protecting the remaining people.

• Patrick used Super Arcane Magic-Diffusing Riftwave to cut Orbaz Bloodbane and nearby undead to pieces.
• Patrick sent the wounded elves to the Floating City and went with Salorian Dawnseeker to meet Anasterian.
• Patrick warned Anasterian that the undead could outlast them at the Sunwell, but Anasterian insisted that Quel'Thalas must preserve its source of magic.
• Anasterian agreed to withdraw if the defenders could no longer hold out, though Patrick suspected the king was only placating him.
• When Arthas's army arrived, Anasterian attacked him with flames, which Arthas blocked with ice.
• Anasterian sent Patrick a magical message to settle the survivors safely before he faced Arthas.

After Anasterian fell to Arthas, Patrick evacuated the surviving High Elves from Quel'Danas to his Floating City, while Arthas betrayed Dar'Khan and resurrected Kel'Thuzad at the Sunwell. The refugees mourned the fall of Silvermoon and sang the Lament of the Highborne as Patrick prepared to lead them through the aftermath.

• Arthas defeated and killed Anasterian, and Patrick persuaded Nochong and Salorian to evacuate the defenders and civilians rather than face Arthas.
• Patrick opened the Floating City's teleportation circles and rescued the surviving High Elves from Quel'Danas.
• Arthas had Rotande Gili infect Dar'Khan with the Plague, then scattered Kel'Thuzad's ashes into the Sunwell and resurrected him.
• Patrick housed the refugees in the Floating City, where Nochong thanked him and the survivors mourned Silvermoon City's destruction and Anasterian's death.
• The High Elves sang the Lament of the Highborne and remembered Quel'Thalas before the war.

Patrick organized relief and military efforts after Arthas's invasion devastated Silvermoon City, while planning to protect the High Elves from the Sunwell's contamination and the magical addiction that would follow. He began summoning a second Disc of Norgannon as Yanida confirmed that the Floating City's supplies could support Quel'Thalas.

• Patrick ordered troops to aid displaced civilians, gather commanderless forces under unified command, and stop looting and undead activity.
• Alleria vowed to kill Arthas and avenge Sylvanas, while Patrick considered how Sylvanas had underestimated the possessed prince's strength.
• Patrick assessed the invasion's casualties and recognized that magical addiction after the Sunwell's destruction threatened the High Elves more than the war itself.
• Patrick began summoning a second Disc of Norgannon to help prevent magical addiction.
• Yanida reported that nearly ten percent of the elves had died and that the Floating City's supplies could sustain Quel'Thalas.

Patrick reported Silvermoon City's devastation and the Sunwell's contamination to Kael'thas, who had returned to Quel'Thalas after Arthas's invasion. At the Sunwell, Kael'thas concluded that the sacred source of the kingdom's power had to be destroyed to stop the plague from spreading.

• Idonis reported that Silvermoon City had been divided by the Dead Scar, its arcane supplies were in chaos, and the contaminated Sunwell threatened the elves and their lands.
• Kael'thas arrived, and Patrick told him that King Anasterian had died, the city and outlying settlements had suffered heavy losses, and the Sunwell had been tainted.
• Kael'thas suspected a traitor had revealed the secrets of the Moon Crystal Temples, and Patrick identified Dar'Khan Drathir as the primary suspect while noting that he and his family had vanished.
• Patrick urged Kael'thas to address the spreading plague in the Sunwell before pursuing revenge against Dar'Khan.
• At the Sun Eater Temple, Kael'thas declared that the Sunwell had to be destroyed to prevent its contamination from consuming the people of Quel'Thalas.

Kael'thas halted the Sunwell's plague-spreading energy, and Patrick arranged emergency measures for Quel'Thalas after its destruction. Patrick left Kael'thas in charge of Silvermoon City while he returned to the Floating City to prepare a replacement energy source.

• Kael'thas disrupted the Sunwell's energy until it stopped radiating, though its power remained contaminated.
• Patrick and Kael'thas returned to Sunfury Spire and directed officials to continue rescuing and housing civilians.
• Idonis reported that the loss of the Sunwell's energy had caused arcane systems to malfunction, put Arcane Golems at risk, and left some elves craving magic.
• Patrick said he would summon a Disc of Norgannon to supply basic energy while the kingdom addressed its long-term power needs.
• Patrick assigned Silvermoon City's administration to Kael'thas and said he would reorganize the Silvermoon Council after the crisis.
• Patrick returned to the Floating City, leaving his Council's standing committee members to assist Kael'thas.

Kael'thas and his confidants assessed Patrick's leadership as he organized relief and planned to restore Quel'Thalas's energy supply. The chapter ended with Patrick, Kael'thas, and Ellen sensing Archimonde's immense attack on Dalaran.

• Kael'thas asked his confidants to assess Patrick, and Luminas Sunstrider praised his steady, pragmatic leadership.
• Vel'rilles Deep Shadow gave Kael'thas Patrick's records, and Kael'thas concluded that Patrick had brought needed development to Quel'Thalas.
• Patrick told Alleria he would summon another Disc of Norgannon and urged the Windrunner family to lead the Ranger Forces.
• Alleria agreed to serve the kingdom, while Patrick explained that leaders had to protect its frightened civilians.
• Patrick, Kael'thas, and Ellen sensed a powerful eruption of energy to the southwest, as Archimonde attacked Dalaran.

Alleria worked to restore order and rebuild Silvermoon City while resisting calls for an immediate offensive, and Kael'thas rallied the elves by promising vengeance and naming them blood elves. Patrick installed the Discs of Norgannon as a temporary power source for Sunfury Spire, though its energy could not directly operate the city’s old arcane constructs.

• Alleria rebuilt passages between Silvermoon City’s western and eastern districts and argued that the elves had to restore their defenses before launching a full-scale offensive.
• Alleria revealed that Sylvanas had died at Bann'donor and rebuked legion commanders demanding war against the undead and Zul'Aman Trolls.
• Kael'thas promised that the elves would make Arthas and the Scourge pay, and declared that they would rename themselves blood elves.
• The elves began rebuilding Silvermoon City, while the Sunfury Legion, the Eclipse Burning Legion, and the Sun Seekers returned to help defend the kingdom and restore its supply network.
• Patrick summoned the Discs of Norgannon above Sunfury Spire, restoring its magical glow with a new blue-white light.
• Kael'thas learned from Patrick that the Discs’ energy could not power the city’s existing arcane constructs, which had been designed for the Sunwell.

Patrick began reorganizing the Silvermoon Council after Silvermoon City’s destruction, naming Dar'Khan Drathir as the suspected traitor who enabled Arthas’s invasion. Kael'thas refused the throne for now and planned to fight the Scourge in Lordaeron, while Patrick urged him to join the new Council and Quel'Thalas faced the challenge of finding a stable energy source.

• Patrick thanked the surviving leaders and called for the Silvermoon Council to be reorganized.
• Patrick identified Dar'Khan Drathir as the prime suspect in betraying Quel'Thalas, and Council members discussed evidence that the Drathir Family had fled.
• Patrick told Kael'thas that the law made him heir to the throne after Anasterian's death.
• Kael'thas postponed taking the throne and declared that he would lead forces into Lordaeron to fight the Scourge and avenge Quel'Thalas.
• Patrick asked Kael'thas to join the new Silvermoon Council, while Kael'thas raised the need for a stable energy source compatible with Quel'Thalas's existing magical systems.

Patrick and Kael'thas established the new Silvermoon Council, appointing department leaders and setting rules for consultation, accountability, and oversight. The chapter ended with the Council prepared to manage Quel'Thalas's recovery while Kael'thas planned to travel south to fight the Scourge.

• Kael'thas appointed Patrick Regent of Quel'Thalas, responsible for its daily affairs.
• Patrick announced the Council appointments, including Rommath, Halduron Brightwing, Lor'themar Theron, Liadrin, Alleria Windrunner, and Lanaya Sunstrider.
• Kael'thas granted Liadrin the title of countess and charged her with gathering the remnants of the Five Great Families.
• Patrick ordered Lorne Songweaver to assist Lanaya and the Observer Sanctum with Observers from the Floating City.
• Patrick named the standing committee and said Nochong would temporarily replace Kael'thas while the prince fought the Scourge in Lordaeron.
• Patrick established consultation-based decision-making, banned donations, and made Council members accountable for their decisions under the Observer Sanctum's monitoring.

Patrick oversaw Quel'Thalas's recovery, encouraged its people to train for useful professions, and ordered troops to reclaim territory and eliminate the undead. As the kingdom rebuilt, Kael'thas prepared to march south to Lordaeron, while Patrick and Alleria managed the growing burdens of government and military service.

• Kael'thas prepared to march south to Lordaeron with Quel'Thalas's main armies and other forces, while Liadrin gathered the former Council faction's troops.
• Patrick approved sending more teachers to Sunstrider Isle as more elves sought mage training and vocational skills.
• Patrick urged the elves to leave behind their complacency and ordered most troops withdrawn from Sunstrider to reclaim lost territory and destroy the undead.
• Patrick reviewed a large stack of government proposals and discussed the kingdom's recovery and growing military enlistment with Alleria.
• Alleria said she had left Ranger Command's remaining tasks to Lor'themar, Halduron, and Hawkspear so they could settle into their roles.