Chapter Summaries

Patrick exposed Dreadlord Mal'Ganis, who had possessed Bali Westwind and infiltrated the Scarlet Crusade, before Mal'Ganis attacked Tirion Fordring and was captured. Back in Sunlight City, Patrick learned that Malygos had restored the Ley Line System and turned his attention to Dalaran and the coming war against the Scourge.

• Patrick questioned Bali Westwind and revealed that Dreadlord Mal'Ganis had possessed him.
• Mal'Ganis shed his disguise and attacked Tirion Fordring, but Maiev and Illidan pinned him to a wall.
• Brigitte Abbendis summoned High Monk Landrey and Bishop Trist while Patrick and his companions teleported back to Sunlight City.
• Illidan complained that he had missed his chance to fight the Scourge, and Patrick said the battle against Arthas would soon begin.
• Saragoss reported that Malygos had recovered and was monitoring the Ley Line System.
• Patrick and Saragoss discussed Dalaran, the Drakkari trolls, and the need to preserve the Covenant's strength.

Patrick and his allies planned their assault on the Obsidian Sanctum as part of preparations to secure the Wrathgate and prevent the Scourge from attacking their rear. The chapter ended with Onyxia joining the expedition under Patrick’s control.

• Shals delivered the Silver Hand’s request for passage, port access, and coordination against the Scourge, and Patrick left the decision to Kael’thas and the Council.
• Patrick outlined the threat posed by the Wrathgate, and Maiev stressed the need to capture it or fortify the area.
• Patrick ordered the troops to clear the Obsidian Sanctum, while Illidan, Kael’thas, Vashj, and Saragoss pledged forces and support.
• Katrana Prestor arrived, and Patrick revealed that she was Onyxia, the daughter of Neltharion.
• Onyxia offered to help protect Azeroth, but Patrick cut short her performance and explained that she would help secure the Obsidian Sanctum while restrained by his arcane runes.

The Alliance and Horde prepared to attack the Scourge at the Wrathgate as Patrick moved Sunlight City toward the Obsidian Sanctum. Garrosh, now leading a powerful force, looked forward to his first battle on Azeroth and a chance to prove himself.

• Patrick informed the Order of the Silver Hand of the plan, and Tirion Fordring offered to contact the Alliance and Horde about joining forces at the Wrathgate.
• Patrick discussed the Scourge’s possible future with Sylvanas and said he would give it to her if the opportunity arose.
• Patrick spoke with Onyxia about her future, but she doubted it could change while she remained bound by his runes.
• Patrick, Illidan, Maiev, Vashj, Kael'thas, and Saragoss set Sunlight City moving toward the Obsidian Sanctum, leaving Kael'thas's subordinates to defend Dal Island and its surroundings.
• King Agmar and Dranosh recognized Sunlight City as a sign that the high elves were preparing to attack the Scourge, and Dranosh recalled Patrick's help to the Mag'har.
• Garrosh consolidated the Warsong Clan and prepared for his first battle on Azeroth, hoping to prove himself and avenge the shame of having doubted his father.

Dranosh urged King Agmar to support the High Elves against the Scourge, while the Covenant’s forces reached the Obsidian Sanctum. Onyxia used her inherited earth power to shake the Sanctum, then waited as the army watched for a response.

• Dranosh asked to join the High Elves in fighting the Scourge, but King Agmar insisted they wait for orders and gather intelligence first.
• King Agmar agreed to send scouts and Sky-Reavers to the Floating City and open negotiations with the High Elves.
• The Covenant’s Coalition Forces defeated the Scourge outside the Obsidian Sanctum as Onyxia stopped Varedis and Loramus from entering.
• Onyxia gathered the Titans’ blessing and Neltharion’s power, causing the Obsidian Sanctum and nearby cliffs to tremble.
• Onyxia waited without explaining the earthquake as High King Maulgar grew impatient and offered to lead troops inside.

Varedis and Loramus killed Rotting One Losen after Onyxia used lava to destroy the Scourge forces in the Obsidian Sanctum. Patrick arrived as the Arcane Pact established a camp there, and he told Onyxia that conflict with the red dragons was inevitable.

• Onyxia triggered an eruption that engulfed the Scourge necromancers and skeletons inside the Obsidian Sanctum.
• Varedis and Loramus charged into the lava and killed Rotting One Losen, who died claiming the Lich King would resurrect him.
• Varedis reported the victory, and Kael'thas sent the waiting troops and Scholars to begin building a camp at the sanctum.
• Patrick inspected the new camp and praised Onyxia and the forces that had secured the site for the Arcane Pact.
• Patrick told Onyxia that his alliance with the blue dragons and the Kirin Tor's choice of the red dragons made a future fight with the red dragons unavoidable.

Onyxia met with Nalis, the Black Dragon Ambassador, at Sunfury Spire and claimed to be Patrick’s prisoner to draw her into revealing her intentions. Patrick exposed his control over the office and prevented Nalis from transforming or escaping.

• Onyxia explained that she could help Patrick through her influence over the Black Dragons, while Patrick questioned her about Nalis.
• Patrick teleported Onyxia to his office at Sunfury Spire, where she used her runes to summon Nalis.
• Nalis asked whether Onyxia had destroyed the Scourge in the Obsidian Sanctum and objected to the High Elves taking control of the sacred site.
• Onyxia claimed that Patrick had enslaved her and showed Nalis the Arcane Runes that she called her shackles.
• Patrick challenged Nalis, then activated the office’s runes and stopped her from transforming or escaping.

Patrick captured Nalis and pressured her into revealing the mission Neltharion had assigned her. Nalis disclosed that Deathwing was hiding in Deepholm, but she did not know his larger purpose or how to reach him.

• Nalis threatened Patrick with the Black Dragon clan’s retaliation, but Patrick restrained her and demanded that she prove her value or be handed over to Malygos.
• Nalis realized she had been lured into a trap and agreed to cooperate rather than risk falling into the Blue Dragons’ hands.
• Kyrissa returned and recognized Nalis as the Black Dragon who had appeared at Wyrmrest Temple.
• Patrick, Kyrissa, and Onyxia questioned Nalis, who revealed that Neltharion had sent her to find a weak point in Azeroth’s ley lines, gather energy, and seek a chance to break the Ley Line Defense System.
• Kyrissa suspected Neltharion had another purpose, and Nalis said he was hiding in Deepholm but admitted she knew nothing more.

Patrick confirmed that Neltharion was in Deepholm and turned Nalis into a secret intelligence source for the Arcane Pact. He and Kyrissa arranged to pull Kalecgos from Wyrmrest Temple and maintain influence there through new dragon representatives, while Patrick assigned the Obsidian Sanctum as the Pact’s Northrend headquarters.

• Kyrissa confirmed that Patrick’s guess about Neltharion’s location in Deepholm was correct, though Patrick said they could not enter the elemental plane to find him.
• Patrick placed arcane marks on Nalis and ordered her to return to Wyrmrest Temple as its Black Dragon Ambassador and secretly report intelligence.
• Patrick told Kyrissa to have the Aspect of the Blue recall Kalecgos and send a trustworthy blue dragon to Wyrmrest Temple as the public Blue Dragon Representative.
• Kyrissa agreed that Kalecgos should leave but argued that the blue dragons should not abandon Wyrmrest Temple to the red dragons.
• Patrick proposed that the new Blue Dragon Ambassador and Nalis work together to keep Wyrmrest Temple under the Pact’s control, while Kyrissa said her father had already recalled his subordinates to the Azure Sanctum.
• Patrick declared the Obsidian Sanctum the Arcane Pact’s Northrend ground-forces headquarters and warned Nalis not to interfere.

Onyxia persuaded Nalis to prioritize Patrick Cabrolon and consider cooperating with him rather than blindly serving Neltharion. Meanwhile, the Alliance and Horde gathered at the Wrathgate, but Patrick was unavailable as their leaders tried to agree on how to attack the Scourge.

• Onyxia told Nalis that Neltharion treated them as pawns and advised her to follow Patrick's judgment and abandon Neltharion's mission if it became dangerous.
• Onyxia explained that Patrick had purged the Old Gods' control over the Aspect of the Blue and could help the Black Dragon clan return to Azeroth, convincing Nalis to consider their cooperation.
• Nalis and Onyxia agreed to work together, and Nalis transformed and flew away.
• Dranosh Saurfang worried that Patrick would not meet with him despite the Horde vanguard having cleared the Scourge around its Wrathgate camp.
• Bolvar and Rhonin sought Patrick to discuss a joint assault, while Bolvar hoped the Arcane Pact would take the first attack against the Scourge.

Patrick received word that the Alliance and Horde were ready to fight the Scourge, and he ordered preparations for the battle of the Wrathgate. At the summit near Angrathar, Jorin proposed taking the gate quickly and sealing the Scourge inside Icecrown Glacier, and the plan won the leaders’ approval.

• Yanida told Patrick that the Alliance and Horde were ready to attack after a joint demand from Tirion Fordring, Alonsus Faol, and Calia Menethil.
• Patrick ordered the forces to prepare for the battle of the Wrathgate, and the Alliance, Horde, and Silver Hand gathered to surround Angrathar.
• Patrick arrived at the summit and clashed with Rhonin before Tirion Fordring redirected the discussion to the Scourge threat.
• Patrick, Darion, Taelan, King Agmar, and Bolvar discussed the dangers at Angrathar, Galakrond’s grave, and Gundrak.
• Jorin proposed taking the Wrathgate before the Scourge’s main force reached Dragonblight and trapping Scourge forces inside Icecrown Glacier, and the leaders approved the plan.

Jorin proposed that the Forsaken and the Knights of the Ebon Blade guard the Coalition Forces' rear during the assault on the Wrathgate, while the main force used the terrain to contain the Scourge. Patrick pressed the Alliance and Dalaran to provide aerial support through the Red Dragons, leaving the factions facing expectations and obligations before the battle.

• Bolvar asked how the Coalition Forces would protect their rear, and Jorin proposed assigning that duty to the Forsaken and the Knights of the Ebon Blade.
• Darion, Kol'tira, Thassarian, Rotande Gili, and Faranell accepted the plan, agreeing to hold off Scourge forces while the others fought at the Wrathgate.
• Patrick supported using Angrathar's terrain to fortify the Coalition Forces' position, while Halv Vem Bane warned that the Scourge's aerial forces posed a serious threat.
• Patrick said the Blue Dragons would not shoulder all aerial combat and urged the Alliance and Dalaran to rely on their Gryphon Riders and the Red Dragons.
• Patrick accused Dalaran of endangering Azeroth by drawing arcane energy from ley lines, and Rhonin challenged his claims about the Blue Dragons and the Nexus.
• Patrick invoked Dragonblight's importance to the Red Dragons and pressured the Alliance and Dalaran to secure their help, while privately plotting to prevent them from shifting the burden to the Arcane Pact.

Patrick rejected Dalaran’s appeals to neutrality, and Kael'thas accused the Kirin Tor of betraying him and plotting to control Quel'Thalas. The coalition prepared to attack the Scourge at Angrathar, while Arthas watched their preparations and welcomed the prospect of new soldiers.

• Patrick challenged Rhonin over Dalaran’s ties to the Alliance and warned that their past debts would eventually be settled.
• Kael'thas denounced the Kirin Tor for imprisoning him and described its ambitions to control Dalaran and Quel'Thalas.
• Tirion Fordring redirected the dispute toward the Scourge, and the leaders agreed to pursue Jorin's proposal for the coming battle.
• Patrick outlined a plan to secure Angrathar, destroy the Scourge forces outside Icecrown Glacier, and then advance on Icecrown Citadel.
• The coalition forces established camps and defenses, with Rotande Gili, Faranell, and Darion preparing to hold off the Scourge near the Obsidian Sanctum.
• Arthas watched the coalition through a soul image and smiled at the prospect of gaining many new soldiers.

Kael'thas explained how Quel'Thalas lost influence in Dalaran and why he had cooperated with the Kirin Tor, while Patrick revealed he had long prepared for conflict with them. As the Coalition Forces readied an assault on the Wrathgate, Patrick waited for word from the Forsaken and Death Knights.

• Kael'thas described how human mages rose in power and how the Kirin Tor replaced the Council of Tirisfal, leaving Quel'Thalas with little influence in Dalaran.
• Patrick told Kael'thas that Aethas and Xendari led Dalaran's elves but held little power, and admitted the Kirin Tor were their main enemies.
• Patrick explained he had prepared for conflict since learning the Council of Tirisfal had fallen, and Kael'thas agreed to let him act as he saw fit.
• The Silver Hand Paladins and Quel'Thalas's troops struck the Scourge near the Wrathgate while the Alliance and Horde maintained combat readiness.
• The Scourge gathered undead Vrykul, gargoyles, frost wyrms, necromancers, and summoners inside the Wrathgate as Patrick awaited reports from the Forsaken and Death Knights.

The coalition prepared for the Scourge’s assault at the Wrathgate, with Patrick assigning Vashj’s forces to protect the rear and support the fight against the Scourge’s flying units. When the undead army poured out of Angrathar, the Alliance, Horde, and Arcane Pact launched into battle, and Illidan led the charge toward the gate.

• Kael'thas rallied his subordinates in Sunlight City as reinforcements arrived.
• Patrick assigned Vashj, Naj'entus, and Kalithresh to hold the rear while Vashj led the water warlocks and Sea Silk against the Scourge’s flying forces.
• Necromantic power rose behind the Wrathgate, and the Scourge began raising corpses and organizing its troops.
• Bolvar, Dranosh Saurfang, and the Arcane Pact leaders rallied their forces as the coalition prepared to meet the undead.
• Undead Vrykul surged out of Angrathar, while the coalition attacked with artillery and Kael'thas and the archmages unleashed Flamestrikes.
• Illidan led the charge toward the gate, cutting down high-ranking undead Vrykul with the Warglaives of Azzinoth.

The Coalition Forces battled the Scourge at Angrathar as Patrick’s allies joined the fight and struck at the undead from the ground and sky. The arrival of red dragons, blue dragons, and gryphon troops strengthened the assault and left the coalition poised to seize control of the skies.

• Vashj and the Water Warlocks unleashed lightning against Sindragosa and the frost wyrms, burning and killing many of them.
• Kargath fought through the Vrykul, driven by his desire to avenge Ner'zhul’s betrayal.
• Patrick saw red dragon reinforcements arriving with Krasus, then ordered High King Maulgar and Saragoss to send their forces into battle.
• Saragoss transformed into a blue dragon and led dozens of blue dragons, including Halreen and Siannegos, into the fight.
• Danath and Kurdran arrived at Angrathar with elite gryphon troops from Stromgarde and Aerie Peak.

The Alliance, Horde, and Covenant pressed the Scourge at Angrathar as Patrick prepared for the Lich King’s arrival. Arthas appeared and revived the fallen undead, prompting Patrick and Tirion Fordring to confront him.

• King Agmar led the Sky-Reavers against the Frost Wyrms while Krasus fought Sindragosa and helped relieve pressure on Vashj.
• Anub'arak emerged with Scourge forces, and Patrick ordered Naj'entus to reinforce the rear while Hui Li and Liadrin led their troops into the attack.
• Nochong and the Spellbreakers used magic to turn the Scourge's summoned skeletons and zombies against their former allies.
• The Lich King appeared at Angrathar, unleashed magic that revived fallen corpses, and faced Patrick, who teleported from the rear base camp.
• Tirion Fordring confronted Arthas and demanded that he pay for the lives he had taken.

Patrick and Tirion confronted Ner'zhul, who revealed that Arthas was his vessel and that Arthas's soul was trapped in Frostmourne. Patrick and Tirion battered the Lich King with Arcane and Holy Light attacks, and Kargath, Illidan, and Kael'thas arrived to demand payment for his crimes.

• Ner'zhul confirmed that he controlled Arthas and held Arthas's soul inside Frostmourne.
• Patrick explained his promise to support Lordaeron and attacked Ner'zhul with a Molten Fireball.
• Patrick unleashed Arcane Flying Swords, while Ner'zhul shielded himself with undead and countered the flames with frost.
• Tirion struck Ner'zhul with the Ashbringer and unleashed the Judgement of Justice, leaving the Lich King struggling after the explosions.
• Kargath, Illidan, and Kael'thas confronted Ner'zhul and declared that he would answer for his debts.

Ner'zhul's Scourge was driven back at Angrathar as Illidan, Patrick, Kael'thas, Kargath, and Tirion confronted the Lich King. Ner'zhul unleashed the Death Realm Plague on ordinary soldiers, turning the Coalition Forces' advance into chaos.

• The Alliance, Horde, Covenant, and Silver Hand overwhelmed the Scourge, while Ner'zhul's forces could not use their sea-of-skeletons tactic in Angrathar's narrow valley.
• Illidan and Patrick taunted Ner'zhul over his past service to Kil'jaeden, provoking the Lich King into attacking Illidan with Frostmourne.
• Kael'thas, Illidan, Kargath, and Tirion joined forces against Ner'zhul, while a Vrykul Warrior blocked Kargath's strike.
• Ner'zhul spread black mist that caused nearby Scourge to burst into plague-bearing blood mist and sickened ordinary Coalition soldiers.
• Patrick identified the Death Realm Plague as its blood mist spread through Angrathar's gorge and disrupted the Coalition Forces' advance.

Tirion Fordring unleashed Holy Wrath, healing the Coalition Forces and devastating the Scourge, while Ner’zhul escaped into Angrathar with his commanders. The factions celebrated their victory and began preparing to hold the Wrathgate and continue the Northern Expedition.

• Tirion Fordring called on the souls within the Ashbringer and unleashed Holy Wrath, dispersing the plague and purifying Scourge while healing Coalition soldiers.
• Ner’zhul raised a Frost and Bone Wall to block Tirion’s attack, and Patrick, Kael’thas, and Illidan destroyed it.
• Ner’zhul, Falric, Marwyn, Sindragosa, and the remaining Scourge forces retreated through Angrathar, whose gates then closed.
• The Coalition Forces wiped out the remaining Scourge and celebrated their victory, with Salorian Dawnseeker mourning his losses and praising the approaching defeat of the Scourge.
• The Alliance, Horde, Covenant, and other factions prepared to secure Angrathar, clear the areas around Dragonblight, and recall the Forsaken and Ebon Blade knights.

After the coalition’s victory at Angrathar, its leaders planned the campaign to clear the Scourge from the surrounding regions before attacking Icecrown. Patrick volunteered the Arcane Pact to deal with Zul’Drak, where the Drakkari trolls were slaughtering the animal gods.

• Taelan and Tirion told Patrick that the Silver Hand had purged Mal’Ganis’s servants and reunited against the Scourge.
• Rotande Gili and Darion joined the meeting, where Darion called for an immediate assault on Icecrown Citadel.
• Patrick said the coalition first needed to clear the Scourge from Dragonblight and nearby lands before advancing into Icecrown Glacier.
• Tirion asked the factions to take responsibility for nearby regions, and Patrick volunteered the Arcane Pact for Zul’Drak.
• Patrick prepared to enter Zul’Drak to help the Lynx Spirit save the animal gods from the Drakkari trolls.