Chapter Summaries

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.

Patrick returned to Andorhal as Sylvanas ordered the Forsaken to advance into the Eastern Plaguelands, while he prepared to negotiate with the Scarlet Crusade over New Andorhal. Nathanos agreed to accompany him before the eastward campaign began.

• Patrick confirmed the Scarlet Crusade talks with Taelan and ordered the cooled lava on Caer Darrow Island weathered into soil.
• Patrick returned to Andorhal, where the Scourge had been cleared and Undercity guards and workers were building New Andorhal.
• Varimathras delivered Sylvanas's decree ordering Rotande Gili to garrison New Andorhal and Nathanos to lead the existing troops into the Eastern Plaguelands.
• Nathanos inspected Sylvanas's written orders and accepted them despite his concern that the Forsaken's forces would be stretched thin.
• Patrick invited Nathanos to join the negotiations with the Scarlet Crusade, and Nathanos agreed to go before the advance east.

Patrick, Taelan, and Nathanos the Blightcaller agreed to a fragile peace between the Scarlet Crusade and the Forsaken, then set out together for the Eastern Plaguelands. Along the way, Taelan discussed honor and prejudice with Patrick, while the chapter ended with the Scarlet Crusade’s killings of civilians still under scrutiny.

• Nathanos the Blightcaller tacitly agreed that the Forsaken should seek peace with the Scarlet Crusade while their position remained weak.
• Patrick and Taelan negotiated a boundary and a ban on killing civilians, which Taelan accepted despite his adjutant’s hostility.
• Taelan said he was heading to the Eastern Plaguelands, and Patrick proposed traveling with him and Nathanos the Blightcaller.
• Patrick’s blood elves, Taelan’s humans, and Nathanos the Blightcaller’s Forsaken marched together toward the Eastern Plaguelands.
• Patrick praised Tirion Fordring’s honor, and Taelan agreed that race did not determine a person’s character as they discussed the Scarlet Crusade’s persecution of civilians.

Patrick sensed Tirion Fordring near the Thondroril River and led Taelan to discover that his father was alive. Their reunion left Patrick planning to use Tirion to help the Scarlet Crusade.

• Taelan proposed crossing the Thondroril River and using Marris Stead as a temporary fortress, while Nathanos admitted he dreaded seeing his former home.
• Patrick detected a powerful soul upstream and suggested to Taelan that Tirion Fordring might still be alive.
• Taelan hurried upstream with Patrick and found Tirion in a hut beside the river.
• Taelan and Tirion recognized each other and embraced, then Taelan introduced his father to Patrick.
• Patrick revealed that he had brought Tirion out early to save the Scarlet Crusade and preserve its strength.

Patrick explained why Tirion Fordring had been exiled despite acting according to his ideals, and Tirion recognized how his defense of Eitrigg had alienated people scarred by the wars. Patrick urged him to join others against the Scourge, while Aeldara Morningwalker explained how human Paladins’ Holy Light differed from the Blood Knights’ power.

• Tirion Fordring recounted how he had protected Eitrigg and maintained that he had acted according to a Paladin’s virtues.
• Patrick told Tirion that his defense of Orcs had come when war survivors still hated them, and that he had failed to guide his people toward understanding the causes of the conflict.
• Tirion realized his actions had made the Silver Hand appear to collude with its enemy and had caused trouble for Uther and the other Paladins.
• Patrick encouraged Tirion to set aside his dejection and recognize that the Forsaken, blood elves, and Lordaeron could unite against the Scourge.
• Aeldara Morningwalker explained that human Paladins drew Holy Light from spiritual convictions, while Blood Knights extracted similar power from Naaru.

Tirion Fordring regained confidence and agreed with Taelan to try to rescue the Scarlet Crusade from its extremism. Patrick and the others withdrew their forces from the Eastern Plaguelands, leaving Caer Darrow Island to be garrisoned and developed as Quel'Thalas territory.

• Tirion Fordring regained his confidence, and he and Taelan agreed to lead the Silver Hand back toward the path of light and reform the Scarlet Crusade.
• Taelan led the Scarlet Crusade Expeditionary Force back to Hearthglen, while Tirion rode apart from the troops.
• Patrick told Nathanos to return to Andorhal and promised to explain the withdrawal to Sylvanas; Nathanos agreed to watch the Scarlet Crusade.
• Patrick told Lor'themar Theron that Quel'Thalas would withdraw most of its troops from Caer Darrow Island, leaving Aeldara Morningwalker in charge of the garrison and continuing construction.
• Kyrissa objected to staying on Caer Darrow Island, then summoned a young red dragon and a young blue dragon.

Patrick allowed Nareil Lasas and Indigos to stay on Caer Darrow Island under Kyrissa’s care, then returned toward Quel'Thalas after the Forsaken and Scarlet Crusade withdrew. In Undercity, Varimathras failed to turn Sylvanas against Patrick and privately vowed revenge.

• Patrick questioned Nareil’s presence and learned that both young dragons were orphans from the Alterac Mountains who distrusted humans and dwarves.
• Kyrissa vouched for Nareil and Indigos, and Patrick agreed to let them stay on Caer Darrow Island if they were provided with food.
• After the Forsaken and Scarlet Crusade turned back, Patrick ordered his group to return to camp and teleport to Silvermoon City.
• Varimathras blamed Patrick for disrupting his plans and tried to persuade Sylvanas that Patrick was encroaching on Forsaken power.
• Sylvanas dismissed Varimathras’s suspicions and declared that she trusted Patrick more than him, leaving Varimathras to silently plot revenge.

Thrall learned that Ahn'Qiraj's seal was failing and prepared the Horde for a war against the Qiraji. He decided to seek help from the Alliance and invite Sylvanas and the Blood Elves to join the Horde's meeting.

• Cairne Bloodhoof and Hamuul Runetotem told Thrall that the Cenarion Circle had confirmed Ahn'Qiraj's seal was incomplete and recounted how the Qiraji had been sealed a thousand years earlier.
• Hamuul told Thrall that the Cenarion Circle would contact the Alliance, but warned that the Horde might have to bear the greater share of the fighting.
• Thrall summoned the Horde's members to discuss the coming war and agreed with Vol'jin that the Blood Elves might help them.
• Thrall and Vol'jin reasoned that the Blood Elves opposed Dalaran because of its treatment of Kael'thas and would support the Horde against the humans.
• Orgrimmar sent Sylvanas an invitation to the Horde meeting and asked her to notify Patrick Cabrolon, the Blood Elf Regent of Quel'Thalas.

After securing Caer Darrow Island, Patrick proposed rebuilding Quel'Thalas's navy around a giant aircraft carrier. The Council questioned how such a lightly armed vessel could survive enemy attacks, leaving the proposal unresolved.

• Patrick summoned the Silvermoon Council and reported the campaign's success in claiming Caer Darrow Island for Quel'Thalas.
• Patrick asked the Council to assess Quel'Thalas's navy, and Halduron Brightwing acknowledged its magical ships but noted its lack of naval combat experience.
• Patrick declared that Quel'Thalas would prepare to build a world-class navy and presented a design for a massive carrier.
• Halduron Brightwing recognized that the carrier would transport aerial troops, and Patrick explained how its flight deck would support dragonhawk riders.
• Rommath questioned whether the carrier's limited defenses would make it an easy target for enemies.

Patrick’s council developed safeguards for his aircraft carrier plan and discussed whether Quel'Thalas had the supplies to support a carrier battle group and future campaigns. Quelrintis began explaining the kingdom’s trade with the Forsaken and the Horde, but the chapter ended before he revealed the full situation.

• Patrick explained that carrier defenses would come from escort ships and Dragonhawk Riders, and Quensass said the ships could be joined into a flight deck.
• Aodran proposed medical facilities, while Halduron Brightwing and Rommath recommended interception vessels and measures to protect the wooden carrier from fire.
• The council discussed forming carrier groups and coordinating their departments under Patrick’s New Silvermoon Council.
• Patrick asked Quelrintis about food and military supplies, and Quelrintis reported a food supply rate of around 266 percent.
• Quelrintis said trade with the Forsaken and orc buyers from Orgrimmar brought in valuable goods, and Patrick asked whether it was profitable.

Patrick considered how to fund his plan to build three Carrier Battle Groups and decided to reform Quel'Thalas's currency to improve trade with the goblins. He ordered Rommath to develop new magical coins and Quelrintis to require their use in all goblin transactions.

• Quelrintis reported that Quel'Thalas had a surplus of 8.9 million gold coins after the Scourge invasion, despite the costs of rebuilding and war.
• Patrick asked Quelrintis to assess material reserves and prepare a preliminary budget for building Carrier Battle Groups.
• Patrick proposed reducing the gold content of Quel'Thalas's coins and adding arcanite threads as an anti-counterfeiting measure.
• Rommath warned that lighter coins might not be accepted by other nations, so Patrick suggested an adamantite coating to restore their weight and durability.
• Patrick told Quelrintis to require goblins to use the new magical gold coins in every transaction and to melt down the old coins.