Chapter Summaries

The Twin Emperors’ immunity and instant switching devastated the Horde and Alliance forces, forcing Patrick and the other leaders to devise a way to counter them. The chapter ended with both sides agreeing to create a powerful Dimensional Anchor to stop the emperors from teleporting and switching places.

• The Twin Emperors reversed the Qiraji’s failing position by switching whenever threatened, leaving the soldiers unable to harm them effectively.
• Patrick and High Overlord Saurfang divided the leaders between the two emperors, but their attacks struck the wrong targets after the emperors switched places.
• Patrick explained the emperors’ immunities and switching ability, then proposed separating them and blocking their teleportation with a Dimensional Anchor.
• Patrick asked Fandral Staghelm to help create the magic circle, and Fandral sent Rhonin to gather mages to maintain it.

With the coalition’s magic formation sealing the battlefield, the Alliance and Horde overwhelmed the Twin Emperors and killed Blade Emperor Vek'nilash. Magic Emperor Vek'lor then detonated his mana, leaving the coalition caught in a massive explosion.

• Patrick noticed the Dimensional Anchor circles had activated, and Alleria confirmed the space-sealing formation was complete.
• High Overlord Saurfang rallied the coalition leaders, who launched a coordinated assault on the Twin Emperors.
• Rokhan, Hamul Runetotem, and Patrick supported the Horde fighters as High Overlord Saurfang, General Jirikka, and Kruger Skullcrusher struck Blade Emperor Vek'nilash.
• The Alliance’s commanders and spellcasters pinned down Magic Emperor Vek'lor and bombarded him with attacks.
• High Overlord Saurfang, General Jirikka, and Kruger Skullcrusher killed Blade Emperor Vek'nilash, and Vek'lor detonated all the mana in his body.

After defeating the Qiraji Twin Emperors, the Alliance and Horde leaders discussed how to confront C'Thun beneath the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. The chapter ended with Grand Duke Leoric questioning whether C'Thun could act freely while still sealed.

• Magic Emperor Vek'lor's mana explosion severely wounded Grand Duke Leoric and other Alliance fighters, while the Horde suffered less damage.
• High Overlord Saurfang, General Jirikka, and Kruger Skullcrusher killed Blade Emperor Vek'nilash, and the allied forces routed the remaining Qiraji.
• Ossirian died after losing the Twin Emperors' magic, and the Alliance and Horde made camp to recover and clear the battlefield.
• High Overlord Saurfang gathered the leaders to discuss the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, where Fandral Staghelm identified C'Thun as the power behind the Qiraji empire.
• Fandral Staghelm proposed a surprise attack on C'Thun, while Patrick doubted the allied forces could kill an Old God.
• Grand Duke Leoric argued that C'Thun's continued use of schemes suggested the sealed Old God had limits on his power.

The allied leaders planned to clear Ahn'Qiraj and then send an elite force to face C'Thun, while soldiers hunted Qiraji for military merit and rewards. Patrick decided to join the assault himself, and after Alleria revealed she had reached the Legendary realm, he agreed to let her accompany him.

• High Overlord Saurfang, Fandral Staghelm, and the other leaders agreed to clear the Qiraji before assembling an elite force to attack C'Thun in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.
• Patrick warned the allied leaders that C'Thun could attack their minds with whispers and illusions, and the meeting ended with plans to clear the empire while the wounded recovered.
• The allied forces let soldiers form hunting squads, and the Blood Elves offered Magic Coins for Qiraji meat, spurring the soldiers to hunt for profit and military merit.
• Patrick arranged for the wounded to recover in the cool Blood Elf camp and told Alleria he would personally join the assault on the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.
• Alleria opposed Patrick's plan, revealed that she had entered the Legendary realm, and convinced him to let her accompany him.

The allied forces entered the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj to assault C'Thun, but the Old God trapped them in illusions and began attacking their souls. Ellen helped Patrick break free and shield the group, leaving them to face C'Thun's Death Ray Wall.

• The recovered commanders and Dragonflight representatives traveled through the underground temple toward C'Thun's chamber.
• Patrick sensed C'Thun's immense power, and High Overlord Saurfang led the group into the chamber.
• C'Thun's eye attacked the allied forces and trapped them in illusions that showed their defeat and enslavement.
• Ellen urged Patrick to resist, then summoned the Discs of Norgannon and told him to use a mana detonation to free everyone.
• Patrick broke free, blocked C'Thun's Death Ray Wall with a disc, and dispelled the illusions so the others could prepare to fight.
• C'Thun's red ray clashed with the Discs of Norgannon's silvery-white light as energy filled the chamber.

Patrick and the assault team struggled against C'Thun's avatar, whose divine shield blocked their attacks while he kept Patrick occupied with death rays. Patrick seized a moment when C'Thun revealed his body to strengthen the Discs of Norgannon's disintegration rays, which surged toward C'Thun's eye.

• Patrick used the Discs of Norgannon to match C'Thun's instant-death rays while the others attacked C'Thun and found their attacks stopped by his shield.
• Ellen told Patrick that C'Thun was an avatar protected by a divine power shield, and explained that his energy was at the peak of the demigod level.
• Patrick warned the assault team that C'Thun was only an avatar and that the Titans' seal remained in place.
• C'Thun revealed his body and sent giant eye and claw tentacles to attack the team while Patrick remained occupied.
• As C'Thun's attention divided, Ellen released her stored arcane energy and Patrick amplified the Discs of Norgannon's attack, driving the disintegration rays toward C'Thun's eye.

Patrick and the combined forces weakened C'Thun, while Arygos, Korialstrasz, and Merithra escaped their imprisonment and joined the battle. Patrick's second Disintegration Ray left C'Thun exposed, and High Overlord Saurfang struck a major wound into his body.

• Patrick's Disintegration Ray shattered C'Thun's void shield, allowing the dragons and other fighters to wound him with their attacks.
• Arygos, Korialstrasz, and Merithra broke free after C'Thun's binding spell weakened and headed toward the battle.
• Arygos and the other freed dragons joined the raiding party, and Arygos urged them to defeat C'Thun before Patrick ran out of strength.
• Ellen supplied Patrick with arcane energy as he fired another Disintegration Ray, leaving C'Thun's Eye near collapse and his shield gone.
• High Overlord Saurfang charged the weakened C'Thun and tore a huge gash in his body with his greataxe.

Patrick and the allied forces defeated C'Thun's avatar and destroyed the Qiraji Empire, then returned to camp to celebrate their victory. As Patrick recovered from exhaustion, he entered the Discs of Norgannon in a dream and learned that the Titans' knowledge there was open only to him.

• The allied forces overwhelmed C'Thun with their attacks, broke his shield, and brought down his avatar.
• Patrick explained that C'Thun had been only an avatar, and the group burned the corpse before preparing to return to the surface.
• Alleria guarded the weakened Patrick on the journey back, then watched over him as he slept in the Blood Elf camp.
• Quensass and the Blood Elves secured Patrick's tent while the allied forces celebrated their victory over the Qiraji.
• Patrick entered the Discs of Norgannon in his sleep, where Ellen told him he had earned the Titans' recognition and could study their knowledge.

Patrick absorbed Norgannon’s teachings on materialization and creation, then woke aboard a ship bound for Quel’Thalas after several days of rest. Alleria updated him on the aftermath of the Battle of Ahn'Qiraj and revealed Taelan Tirion Fordring’s request for Quel’Thalas to help the Scarlet Crusade retake Stratholme.

• Patrick received ancient Arcane knowledge explaining energy materialization, Spiritual Power projection, and creation.
• Ellen explained how rules such as gravity and conservation related to Arcane, then said she needed to rest after the battle with C'Thun.
• Patrick woke in a Blood Elf cabin at sea and learned from an attendant that they were returning to Quel’Thalas.
• Alleria told Patrick that the allied forces had celebrated victory, that the Blue Dragons had acknowledged Quel’Thalas, and that Azuregos and other Blue Dragons planned to stay in Sunlight City.
• Alleria revealed that Taelan Tirion Fordring wanted Quel’Thalas to help the Scarlet Crusade retake Stratholme, and Patrick left the arrangements to her.

Patrick welcomed Taelan’s request for Quel'Thalas to join the Scarlet Crusade in reclaiming Stratholme, but he wanted the Crusade to ask first so it would owe him a favor. After hearing that the Crusade had secured key positions and opened a route toward Stratholme, Patrick began considering what terms to demand before committing troops.

• Patrick decided that intervention in the Eastern Plaguelands would benefit Quel'Thalas, but he wanted the Scarlet Crusade to make the request and owe a favor.
• Taelan met with Patrick aboard the Blood Elf fleet and said Tirion Fordring had reunited the Scarlet Crusade, with Maxwell Tyrosus returning to its ranks.
• Taelan said the Scarlet Crusade and former Argent Dawn had stabilized Tyr's Hand and Light's Hope Chapel and cleared Corin's Crossing to connect Eastwall Tower and Northpass Tower.
• Taelan asked Quel'Thalas to join the assault on Stratholme, arguing that the campaign would destroy a major Scourge arsenal and prepare for an attack on Naxxramas.
• Patrick considered the Eastern Plaguelands essential to Quel'Thalas's security and withheld agreement until he could negotiate suitable terms.

Patrick agreed that Quel'Thalas would help Taelan's forces retake Stratholme, while planning to establish Blood Elf camps in the Eastern Plaguelands. After Taelan left, Patrick told Alleria that the advance would create a defensive line for Quel'Thalas, but denied that he intended to claim the entire region.

• Patrick reminded Taelan that Arthas had attacked Quel'Thalas, then acknowledged the Scarlet Crusade's situation in the ruined Lordaeron.
• Patrick promised Blood Elf camps in the Eastern Plaguelands, where Taelan's troops could rest and resupply, and proposed a naval assault on Stratholme alongside the Scarlet Crusade's attack.
• Taelan thanked Patrick for Quel'Thalas's aid and left pleased with the promise of military support.
• After a soundproof barrier was raised, Alleria asked Patrick whether his plan would open a route into the Eastern Plaguelands.
• Patrick said the troops would establish a defensive line for Quel'Thalas and rejected the idea of turning the entire Eastern Plaguelands into its territory.

Patrick explained why Quel'Thalas should avoid occupying the Eastern Plaguelands outright, arguing that the kingdom lacked the population to defend such territory and should focus on access and cooperation instead. In Dalaran, Harry Potter Dawnblade and Aethas Sunreavers discussed reports that Kael'thas had sided with demons, though Harry doubted the claims.

• Patrick told Alleria and the others that Quel'Thalas could not afford to occupy and defend the Eastern Plaguelands, and that accepting other races as subjects could threaten Blood Elf rule.
• Patrick said the Blood Elves should establish cooperative ties rather than spill their people's blood in the Plaguelands, while noting that hostile powers still threatened Quel'Thalas.
• Harry Potter Dawnblade asked Aethas Sunreavers for confirmed information about Kael'thas's actions in Outland.
• Aethas reported that Kael'thas had joined Illidan, occupied Tempest Keep, and was rumored to have sided with demons.
• Harry Potter Dawnblade questioned whether the Kirin Tor was telling the truth, while Aethas believed Kael'thas might have fallen to demonic influence.

Aethas and Harry Potter Dawnblade backed Zendarri's plan to establish the Silver Covenant as a ranger-led organization separate from the Sunreavers. Meanwhile, Patrick's Expeditionary Force reached Southshore, where the Scarlet Crusade prepared to continue upriver toward Hearthglen.

• Aethas and Zendarri discussed how to rally High Elves against Patrick Cabrolon and recruit beyond the Sunreavers' spellcasters.
• Aethas offered Zendarri leadership of a new ranger organization, and Zendarri proposed the name Silver Covenant and a recruitment plan focused on enemies of the Horde.
• Zendarri urged the Silver Covenant to keep its ties to the Sunreavers secret while building strength to challenge Silvermoon City.
• Aethas and Harry Potter Dawnblade approved the plan, and the Silver Covenant was established in Dalaran with Xendari Windrunner as its leader.
• Patrick's Expeditionary Force arrived near Southshore, where Blood Elf ships and Dragonflight allies would help the Scarlet Crusade travel upriver toward Hearthglen.

Taelan Fordring thanked Regent Cabrolon for helping the Scarlet Crusade and returned to Hearthglen with Idril and the Expeditionary Force. Patrick promised to begin preparations concerning Stratholme after returning to Quel'Thalas.

• Taelan thanked Regent Cabrolon as the Scarlet Crusade prepared to leave the Silithus Great Desert.
• Idril Kelren boarded the Mothership, greeted Patrick, and welcomed Taelan back on Tirion's behalf.
• Taelan led Idril and the Expeditionary Force aboard the Blood Elf fleet, which sailed to Hearthglen.
• Taelan asked Patrick to send good news from Quel'Thalas about Stratholme.
• Patrick recalled his former ties to Terenas Menethil and promised to begin preparations concerning Stratholme.

After the Battle of Ahn'Qiraj, Patrick warned Liadrin and Hui Li Sandeguer not to let the power granted by the Naaru control them as the Aircraft Carrier returned to Quel'Thalas. The ship neared home, where families and civilians waited to welcome the returning Warriors.

• The Aircraft Carrier Battle Group sailed back to Quel'Thalas, and its legion commanders prepared to report to the Military Department.
• Patrick warned Hui Li Sandeguer that her growing shadow power was exceeding her control and urged both her and Liadrin to rely on strength they could master themselves.
• Liadrin and Hui Li Sandeguer answered Patrick solemnly that they would act for Quel'Thalas.
• Alleria joined Patrick at the bow after reaching the Legendary rank and spotted the coastline ahead.
• The Blood Elves prepared to disembark while families and civilians waited at Sunbay Harbor for the Warriors to return.

After returning to Silvermoon City, Patrick learned that Dalaran had approved the Silver Covenant, which had drawn many High Elf rangers away from Quel'Thalas. The news enraged Luminas Sunstrider, whose past imprisonment in Dalaran had left her deeply hostile to the Kirin Tor.

• Quel'Thalas welcomed its returning soldiers with a grand celebration, while Patrick and the other leaders went back to Sunfury Spire.
• Lor'themar reported that Dalaran had approved the Silver Covenant, led by Xendari Windrunner and supported by Aethas Sunreaver, Porter Dawnblade, and Jaina.
• Lor'themar said that many rangers had joined the Silver Covenant, making their return to Quel'Thalas unlikely.
• Luminas Sunstrider reacted to the news with anger and frost, calling the elves who joined the Covenant traitors.
• The chapter recounted how Garithos had imprisoned Kael'thas and his followers, forcing Kael'thas to flee to Outland while Luminas later became a Death Knight and settled in Silvermoon City.

Patrick dismissed concerns about the Silver Covenant and reviewed Quel'Thalas’s plans for rebuilding and expansion. He agreed to lead a naval assault on Stratholme, with Salorian Dawnseeker commanding the vanguard.

• Patrick assured Lor'themar Theron that he would handle the Silver Covenant and said its founding would mark the beginning of Dalaran’s destruction.
• Patrick approved Lirath Windrunner’s transfer from the Tower of Radiance to the New Andilien Estate to oversee its military and civil affairs and help defend the Elfgate.
• Patrick outlined plans to clear the Eastern Plaguelands with the Scarlet Crusade and establish a camp at Northpass Tower before attacking Stratholme by water.
• Salorian Dawnseeker requested a place in the Stratholme campaign, and Patrick appointed him commander of the vanguard while deciding to oversee the battle himself.

Patrick assigned Hawkspear to establish and defend a new Quel'Thalas presence in the Eastern Plaguelands, while delaying action against Zul'Mashar until after the battle of Stratholme. He then planned to restore contact with Kael'thas in Outland through the Dark Portal, and Mathis asked to join the expedition.

• Salorian volunteered to lead the offensive against the Scourge, and Patrick chose Hawkspear to command troops at Northpass Tower.
• Patrick ordered Hawkspear to rebuild Northpass Tower as a mage tower and establish a defensive military base in the valley west of the Elfgate.
• Patrick told Hawkspear to leave Zul'Mashar alone until after the battle of Stratholme, then clear out its trolls and connect the new bases by road.
• Patrick asked Mathis for Kael'thas's teleportation coordinates and announced plans to send an army through the Blasted Lands to Outland after Stratholme.
• Mathis requested permission to join the Outland expedition, and Patrick granted it on the condition that it wait until after the battle of Stratholme.

Patrick explained to Alleria that he had secretly directed Zendarri to establish the Silver Covenant in Dalaran, creating a way to weaken Dalaran and give its marginalized Elves a chance to return to Quel'Thalas. He left the kingdom preparing quietly for a future conflict while waiting for the right moment to act.

• Alleria questioned Patrick about whether he had ordered Zendarri to found the Silver Covenant, and Patrick confirmed her suspicion.
• Alleria reasoned that Patrick had tolerated Zendarri's apparent betrayal because he was planning something against Dalaran.
• Patrick explained that Zendarri could unite Dalaran's Elves under the Windrunner name and eventually lead those willing to return to Quel'Thalas.
• Patrick said he would forgive the Elves who returned, but would show no mercy to those who chose to fight against the kingdom.
• Patrick told Alleria that he had guarded against the Kirin Tor since the Second War, after realizing it might seek control over Quel'Thalas.
• Alleria warned that Dalaran's ties to the Alliance and Jaina made a direct war risky, and Patrick said he would continue preparing in secret until the right moment.

Patrick planned to draw uncertain high elves away from Dalaran without provoking an all-out war, while he and Alleria discussed policies to increase Quel'Thalas’s population. In Stormwind, Leoric reported back after Silithus, where Quel'Thalas had demonstrated its strength to the other powers.

• Patrick decided to use Zendarri to stir conflict in Dalaran and persuade wavering elves to return to Quel'Thalas, while reserving force for those who remained loyal to Dalaran.
• Patrick and Alleria discussed Quel'Thalas’s low population growth, and Patrick proposed a child-rearing and social security system to support families.
• Leoric returned to Stormwind City and went to Stormwind Keep to report to the leadership after the battle in Silithus.
• Leoric’s report followed Patrick’s display of Quel'Thalas’s strength, which warned the Alliance and other powers against exploiting the kingdom’s past losses.