Recaps

Patrick defeated Dar'Khan and ended the Ghostlands War, then steered Quel'Thalas toward cooperation with the Forsaken, the Blue Dragonflight, and the Horde without openly joining the Horde. The arc left Patrick negotiating trade in Orgrimmar while Quel'Thalas prepared to support its allies and rebuild its strength.

• Patrick condemned the Council's factional struggles, became Regent after Kael'thas departed, and organized an expedition to confront Dar'Khan in the Ghostlands.
• Patrick's forces destroyed the twin necropolises and defeated Dar'Khan's leaders before advancing on Deatholme with the Forsaken and Kalec's companions.
• Patrick killed Dar'Khan and used a sphere of heat to destroy Deatholme and purify its plague, then agreed to protect Anveena's secret and rejected Sylvanas's invitation to join the Horde.
• Patrick returned to Silvermoon City and directed the Council to maintain neutrality while building cooperation with the Forsaken, including restoring the teleportation circle between Silvermoon City and Undercity.
• Patrick negotiated with Sylvanas over secret cooperation, supplies, and trade, then returned to Silvermoon City as Liadrin and Astalor developed a safer way to use the naaru's Holy Light.
• Patrick proposed alliances with the Blue Dragonflight, sent Salorian Dawnseeker and Selin Fireheart to clear undead, and helped establish beast training and improved Holy Light infusion for the Blood Elves.
• Patrick traveled with Sylvanas to Orgrimmar, where Thrall welcomed the delegation and announced the founding of the New Horde.
• Patrick negotiated a trade agreement with Gazlowe and agreed to sell lower-grade weapons and potions while keeping Quel'Thalas's best arms for itself.

Patrick secured Dire Maul for the Blood Elves, then joined the Forsaken to retake Andorhal and destroy Scholomance. The arc left Caer Darrow becoming a Blood Elf base while the Forsaken and Scarlet Crusade prepared to expand into the Plaguelands.

• Patrick explored Dire Maul with Lina, defeated its demons, and made Lina serve the city after she revealed she had used their expedition to seek ancient weapons.
• Patrick recruited the Gordok Ogres, appointed Baihaer-Zaofeng to administer Eldre'danil, and restored the city's arcane power with the third Disc of Norgannon.
• Patrick returned to Silvermoon and ordered Quel'Thalas to support the Forsaken in Andorhal, where his forces defeated Araj and helped recapture the town.
• Patrick and Lor'themar planned to destroy Scholomance, while Patrick negotiated with Taelan Fordring and offered the Scarlet Crusade territory if it would not attack the Blood Elves and Forsaken.
• Patrick led the forces across Lake Darrowmere and destroyed Scholomance, then raised and melted the castle and its contaminated remains to clear the site.
• Patrick declared Caer Darrow a Blood Elf territory and began planning a base there as Kyrissa and Saragoss cooled the lava into solid ground.
• Sylvanas ordered Nathanos to prepare a Forsaken outpost in the Eastern Plaguelands, while Isillien sent Taelan to lead the Scarlet Crusade's expansion toward Marris Stead.

Patrick secured peace between the Forsaken and the Scarlet Crusade, strengthened Quel'Thalas, and gathered allies for the coming War of the Shifting Sands. The arc ended as the summit assembled in the Cenarion Wilds, with Kul Tiras and Stromgarde expected to join the fight.

• Patrick negotiated a boundary and a ban on killing civilians with Taelan, then helped reunite Taelan with his father, Tirion Fordring, who agreed to reform the Scarlet Crusade.
• Sylvanas sent Nathanos east despite his concern that Forsaken forces would be stretched thin, while Patrick arranged for Quel'Thalas to withdraw most troops from Caer Darrow Island and left Aeldara Morningwalker in charge.
• Patrick presented a carrier design to the Silvermoon Council, expanded military and civic spending, and established plans for new magical currency that would draw merchants into Quel'Thalas’s trade system.
• Cairne and Hamuul warned Thrall that Ahn'Qiraj’s seal was failing, and Patrick agreed to help the Horde while urging Thrall to invite Dalaran, Kul Tiras, and Stromgarde to the war.
• Patrick offered the Horde weapons and trade through Eldre'Dani, then sent Rommath and Hawkspear to invite Tandred Proudmoore and Telestra to invite Prince Galin to the Continental Summit.
• Tandred and Galin accepted Patrick’s invitation, while Thrall and other Horde leaders worried that Quel'Thalas’s growing power could upset the Horde’s balance.
• Patrick chose Ogres and Highborne from Eldre'Dani to accompany him to the summit, where Vol'jin and Saurfang welcomed his delegation and Patrick said the human allies would arrive the next day.
• Patrick and the other leaders followed Kalon to the Cenarion Circle camp in the Cenarion Wilds and gathered around the summit table.

Patrick helped form a continental coalition for the campaign against Ahn'Qiraj while strengthening Quel'Thalas and negotiating with the Blue Dragons. The allied armies assembled in Tanaris, where Patrick discovered that the Qiraji had already spread into the region.

• Fandral Staghelm called for an allied army against the Qiraji, and Patrick pressed the leaders to pledge troops as Stormwind initially held back.
• Patrick persuaded Jaina to approach Stormwind's leaders, while Tandred and Galin accepted his invitation to join the summit for Kul Tiras and Stromgarde.
• Bolvar brought Stormwind into the coalition with more than sixty thousand troops, and Galin and Tandred pledged soldiers and transport support.
• The delegates arranged supplies and a route through Tanaris, then chose High Overlord Saurfang to command the Continental Allied Forces.
• Patrick returned to Quel'Thalas, expanded Eldre'Dani's council, established Huili Sandeguer's Dark Curse Burning Legion, and rejected Aethas Sunreaver's appeal for an alliance with Dalaran.
• Patrick ordered the Magisters' Legion to seek Mathis and his troops on Bloodmyst Isle, assembled Quel'Thalas's thirty-five-thousand-strong Zaram army, and urged the Blue Dragons to protect the ley lines and coordinate with Quel'Thalas.
• Patrick traveled with the expedition to Tanaris, where he sensed the Qiraji's Corrupted Nest and ordered the coalition to clear it and the Great Divide.