Chapter Summaries

Patrick reassigned Verlin Sunstrider to lead a northern expedition with the Corona-class Carrier Battle Group and new submarines, sending Vereesa to Uldum instead. Meanwhile, Deathwing awakened Chromatus with his own energy, leaving the newly living dragon poised to threaten the Dragon Aspects.

• Patrick ordered Verlin Sunstrider to set out with the Corona-class Carrier Battle Group and new submarines, while Vereesa took responsibility for Uldum.
• Deathwing arrived at Wyrmrest Temple and rebuked the Twilight Father because Chromatus remained dead despite the temple's efforts.
• The Twilight Father presented Tarecgosa as Chromatus's future broodmother, and Deathwing poured his draconic energy into Chromatus.
• Chromatus began to move, awakened fully, and turned all five heads toward Deathwing, whom the bronze head called their father.
• Deathwing declared Chromatus capable of killing the Dragon Aspects by turning their own prized abilities against them.

Deathwing presented Tarecgosa to Chromatus and entered Wyrmrest Temple to recover his strength, expecting the mortal powers to counterattack. The Alliance, Horde, Arcane Pact, and Covenant assembled a vast expedition to destroy Deathwing and Twilight's Hammer in Northrend.

• Neltharion brought Tarecgosa before Chromatus, who declared himself recovered and hungry.
• Deathwing ordered Chromatus to feed on the dragonkin and tuskarr outside Wyrmrest Temple, then went inside to regain his strength.
• Kael'thas contacted the Alliance and the Horde, and Stormwind City and Orgrimmar agreed to send elite forces north.
• Medivh Aran and Dranosh Saurfang were appointed supreme commanders of the Alliance and Horde expeditionary forces.
• Kael'thas committed three carrier battle groups and the Spellbreaker Burning Legion, while Illidan withheld the void dragons from the campaign.
• Patrick assigned Vashj's naga to ambush enemies at sea and rescue allies as Azeroth's coalition forces gathered around Wyrmrest Temple.

Patrick met Illidan, Malygos, Maiev, and other leaders in Silvermoon City and asked about the War of the Ancients. Illidan revealed how Cenarius turned the Legion’s plans against it, while Patrick reconsidered the motives and history of Azeroth’s powerful figures.

• Patrick asked the veterans of the War of the Ancients how the Dragon Soul had been created and how the Black Dragons and demons had been defeated.
• Malygos described Neltharion’s proposal to create the Dragon Soul and the dragons’ failure to recognize his corruption before he used it against the Kaldorei.
• Illidan recalled the Dragon Soul’s golden beam annihilating Kaldorei soldiers and Nightsaber riders after the demons had been driven back.
• Illidan revealed that Kil’jaeden and Archimonde had separately tried to persuade him and Malfurion to destroy the Well of Eternity and stop Sargeras from entering Azeroth.
• Illidan explained that Malfurion told Cenarius, who arranged for the Well to explode early, destroying the portal and helping establish druidic power among the Kaldorei.
• Patrick questioned why Archimonde and Kil’jaeden later attacked the World Tree and Sunwell, and Illidan explained that they had used corporeal forms while Sargeras planned to invade in person.

Patrick and his allies learned more about Neltharion’s corruption before heading to Northrend, where the Twilight’s Hammer had seized the area around Wyrmrest Temple. As the enemy prepared for the coming battle, Chromatus demanded fresher food and anticipated the dragons’ arrival.

• Onyxia told Patrick and Illidan that Neltharion had once sensed changes in the earth but had stopped noticing its corruption, leading Patrick to suspect the Old Gods had corrupted him through the earth.
• Patrick set aside the question of Deathwing’s corruption and teleported with Malygos, Illidan, Onyxia, and the others to the Clearwind-class Aircraft Carrier, where Kael'thas reported that Mo'aki Harbor had been destroyed and Dal Island was in danger.
• Patrick instructed Kael'thas to notify the Council of Tirisfal, the Alliance, and the Horde so they could discuss when to attack.
• The Twilight's Hammer fed Chromatus outside Wyrmrest Temple while the Twilight Father celebrated their victories and Deathwing summoned more Faceless Ones and twilight dragons.
• Chromatus stopped eating Snowfall Elk, demanded fresher food, and said the dragons would soon come to reclaim Wyrmrest Temple.

The leaders of the Alliance, Horde, and Covenant gathered on the Ancient Shore to plan their assault on Wyrmrest Temple, while Chromatus prepared to destroy the dragons when they returned. Medivh gave Garrosh his father’s Gorehowl and apologized to Malygos for Arcanagos’s death, but the meeting still needed a plan to capture the temple.

• Chromatus warned the Twilight Father that the dragons would unite again and vowed to kill and devour them, while the Twilight's Hammer awaited the coalition outside Wyrmrest Temple.
• The Alliance, Horde, Covenant, and dragonflight leaders assembled on the Ancient Shore with their fleets for the coming battle.
• Dranosh suggested charging in to rout the enemy, and Garrosh said there was no need to rush.
• Medivh gave Garrosh Gorehowl, explaining that he had recovered it from Malchezaar in Karazhan.
• Medivh presented Arcanagos’s remains to Malygos and apologized, while Patrick explained that Sargeras’s control had left Medivh no choice.
• Varian asked for plans to capture Wyrmrest Temple, and Patrick endorsed Dranosh’s suggestion.

Patrick proposed that the Alliance, Horde, Covenant, and Scourge surround Wyrmrest Temple and destroy Twilight's Hammer, while he faced Deathwing. The leaders agreed to the deployment and departed to prepare for a battle that could begin at any moment.

• Patrick proposed surrounding Wyrmrest Temple from the east, west, and south, with Sylvanas leading the Scourge from the north.
• The leaders agreed that each faction would command its own troops and attack Twilight's Hammer together.
• Krasus warned that Deathwing might use the Dragon Soul and suggested someone who had faced him hold him off.
• Patrick volunteered to face Deathwing and told Krasus he wanted to assess the Dragonflight's strength.
• Kael'thas urged the leaders to prepare, and they assigned the Alliance to the east, the Horde to the west, the Covenant to the south, and the Scourge to the north.

Patrick prepared the Arcane Pact’s forces for the battle at Wyrmrest Temple and ordered them to avoid a direct beach assault. Vashj’s tsunami devastated the Twilight Cultists defending the coast, leaving another massive wave bearing down on the survivors.

• Patrick ordered the Scourge’s attacking troops to shift toward the southeast, drawing the Twilight Cultists’ strength toward the Alliance.
• The Alliance landed at New Hearthglen, while the Horde crossed into Snowfall Glade and approached Wyrmrest Temple.
• Patrick rejected Kael'thas’s plan to storm the beach and ordered long-range bombardment, while asking Astalor to bring Onyxia to him.
• Patrick told Vashj to keep the naga underwater to rescue the Arcane Pact’s soldiers and deal with any enemies as they wished.
• Vashj and the water warlocks unleashed a tsunami that swept away countless Twilight Cultists, and a second enormous wave surged toward the survivors.

The Alliance, Horde, Scourge, and other forces launched a massive assault on Twilight's Hammer around Wyrmrest Temple, while their leaders used powerful magic to support their armies. The southern coast was cleared for the landing, and Patrick's forces prepared to advance toward the temple where Deathwing was hiding.

• Tyrande unleashed Starfall east of Wyrmrest Temple, while Rokhan and eight witch doctors cursed Twilight Cultists west of it.
• The Twilight Father appeared and shielded Twilight Cultists, Void Dragons, Chromatic Dragons, and Faceless Ones as they prepared to attack.
• Malfurion cast a vast Tranquility over the battlefield, Velen strengthened Holy Light wielders with Divine Infusion, and Vol'jin and Agna bolstered the Horde with healing and elemental power.
• Sylvanas's Scourge gathered north of Wyrmrest Temple, while aerial units bombarded the southern shore and wiped out its remaining defenders.
• Patrick prepared his forces to land and advance toward Wyrmrest Temple, while Duke Falconcrest declared, “For... Alterac!”

The Arcane Pact’s coalition began its landing against the Twilight Cultists after its warships bombarded the coast. As the forces advanced, Oryx Rivendare asked Patrick to resurrect his father, but Patrick refused and explained that Baron Rivendare could not be restored.

• Duke Falconcrest pledged himself to Alterac, and Tandred ordered the warships to fire on the coastline.
• Demetria said the troops could prepare to land, while Lyn Bluestone reported that Ursoc was ready to attack.
• Kael'thas ordered the coalition to launch its assault, and the allied forces voiced their pledges before boarding fast boats.
• Oryx Rivendare asked Patrick to resurrect Baron Rivendare, but Patrick said it was impossible and would not save him.
• The coalition landed as the Twilight Cultists engaged them, and its advance swept forward along the cleared coastline.

The Coalition Forces advanced to Wyrmrest Temple, where Deathwing and his forces emerged to confront them. Patrick faced Deathwing in the air, blocked his breath with Mana Shield, but was knocked to the ground by a powerful claw strike before rising unharmed.

• Patrick led the Coalition Forces as they overwhelmed scattered Twilight Cultists and dragons, with the well-equipped Gor'dok Ogres proving especially effective.
• The army encircled the remaining Twilight Cultists and advanced on Wyrmrest Temple, where Patrick and the Dragon Aspects sensed the Old Gods' influence.
• Deathwing appeared with Warlord Zon'ozz, Yor'sahj the Unsleeping, Hagara the Stormbinder, Ultraxion, Warlord Blackhorn, Chromatus, and his other forces.
• Patrick warned the Dragon Aspects about Chromatus, then confronted Deathwing and recalled their previous encounter in Quelrins City.
• Deathwing's breath struck Patrick's Mana Shield, and his empowered claw disrupted Patrick's levitation spell and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Patrick emerged unharmed behind his Mana Shield and used levitation to fly back into the air.

The Illidari and Azeroth's Coalition Forces attacked the Twilight Cultists defending Wyrmrest Temple while Patrick fought Deathwing in the air. Patrick wounded the Aspect of the Black and discovered that Neltharion's blood became living slimes, confirming that the Old Gods had transformed him into a tentacled monster beneath his Black Dragon form.

• Teron Gorefiend, Gurtogg Bloodboil, and Vel'rilles Deep Shadow led Illidari forces against the Twilight Cultists as Azeroth's Coalition Forces overwhelmed the temple's defenders.
• Hui Li ordered the Dark Curse Burning Legion to activate Shadow Armor and prepare to attack, while Liadrin's Dawnedge Knights charged from both flanks.
• Patrick faced Deathwing again and trapped Neltharion's head in a Coffin of Space before the Aspect of the Black broke free through brute strength.
• Patrick struck Neltharion with Diffusing Riftwaves, cutting his chest armor and wings and drawing blood that transformed into living slimes.
• Patrick accused Deathwing of not being Neltharion, and Neltharion claimed he had transcended mortality as Patrick recognized the Old Gods' transformation of the Aspect of the Black.

Onyxia turned against Deathwing as the Dragon Aspects and their allies fought Chromatus and the Twilight forces, with Nozdormu and Thrall arriving to reinforce them. Beneath Wyrmrest Temple, Sseratus and Quetz'lun carried out Patrick’s secret rescue mission, and Sseratus escaped with the prisoner Kyrissa.

• Onyxia rejected Deathwing, and Patrick blocked his Elementium Arrow while she ordered Serinar, Nalis, and their subordinates to attack the false black dragons.
• Alexstrasza and Malygos confronted Deathwing, who restored Chromatus to full life and sent him against the dragonflights.
• Chromatus slaughtered dragons as the battle intensified, until Nozdormu and Thrall arrived with reinforcements and Nozdormu’s time-infused breath destroyed Twilight Cultists.
• Sseratus and Quetz'lun tunneled beneath Wyrmrest Temple to find the prisoners held by Twilight's Hammer.
• Sseratus recognized the imprisoned blue dragon Kyrissa, swallowed her to conceal her, and escaped through the tunnel while his descendants killed the pursuing cultists.

Tarecgosa briefed the Dragonflight representatives on Chromatus and the Twilight Father's forces, leading them to conclude Chromatus had to die. On the eastern battlefield, Maiev struck the Twilight Father, pierced his defenses, and shattered his Shadowform, revealing his true appearance.

• Tarecgosa told Kyrissa, Torastrasza, Ysera, Saqiligousa, Krasus, and the other representatives about Chromatus, the cultists, and the Twilight Father's strengths.
• Tarecgosa explained that Chromatus considered himself Deathwing's offspring, prompting the representatives to conclude that he had to be killed.
• The Twilight Father led his forces on the eastern battlefield as Alliance magic and the Undead Scourge put pressure on his troops.
• Maiev blinked through the Alliance forces and appeared behind the Twilight Father, striking him with her dagger.
• Maiev broke through the Twilight Father's defenses and shattered his Shadowform with a storm of throwing knives.

Benedictus revealed himself as the leader of Twilight's Hammer and attacked Bolvar and Maiev with the Holy Light, while Velen intervened. On the main battlefield, Deathwing unleashed his Chaos Breath, leaving Patrick badly weakened and nearly out of mana as the chapter ended.

• Benedictus confronted Bolvar and Maiev, revealed his identity, and attacked the nearby Alliance soldiers with Holy Light.
• Velen shielded Bolvar from Benedictus's spells, while Bolvar resisted and Maiev summoned a shadow Avenging Deity to face him.
• Patrick and Neltharion continued fighting evenly until Deathwing recognized Patrick was buying time for the others.
• Elune warned Patrick that Deathwing was preparing Chaos Breath, so Patrick spent most of his mana creating an Arcane disc to block it.
• Deathwing's purple-black Chaos Breath dissolved Patrick's Arcane disc and battered his shield, leaving Patrick kneeling in midair with almost no mana.

Patrick faced Deathwing while the Alliance and Horde hoped they would destroy each other, but the arrival of Nefarian’s Chromatic and Black Dragons changed the battle. Patrick used the fight to develop a new path for his magic, then prepared to remove his restrictions and finish Deathwing.

• The Alliance and Horde leaders watched Patrick and Deathwing fight, hoping both would fall and that Patrick’s death would break the Arcane Pact.
• Garrosh accepted the Pact’s growing influence in the Eastern Kingdoms and abandoned plans to expand exchanges with it after other Horde leaders objected.
• Deathwing declared Patrick defeated as Patrick’s mana ran low, but Nefarian arrived with large numbers of Chromatic Dragons and Black Dragons.
• Patrick discussed with Elune how Karde integrated different forms of energy and considered combining arcane magic, spatial power, and time runes into a new path of cultivation.
• Elune transferred stored mana to Patrick and urged him to finish Deathwing, and Patrick removed his restrictions to prepare for the fight.

Patrick revealed his immense arcane power and used the Discs of Norgannon to turn back Deathwing’s breath. As reinforcements threatened the battle, Nozdormu proposed combining the Dragon Aspects’ essences with Thrall’s earth power to defeat Deathwing.

• Patrick unleashed a vast surge of arcane energy, and Illidan and Medivh recognized the scale of his strength.
• Deathwing attacked Patrick with chaotic dragon breath, but Patrick blocked it with the Discs of Norgannon and pushed the blast skyward with an Arcane Energy Ray.
• The leaders feared the approaching Black Dragonflight and Chromatic Dragonflight would overwhelm the defenders if Deathwing’s forces were not defeated quickly.
• Nozdormu summoned the other Dragon Aspects and proposed that Thrall supply the earth power they lacked as the Earth-Warder.
• Nozdormu proposed uniting the Dragon Aspects and using their essences, as they had with the Dragon Soul ten thousand years earlier, to defeat Deathwing.

Thrall agreed to help the four Dragon Aspects recreate the Dragon Soul through a ritual that could be stopped if anyone withdrew their power. With Deathwing, Chromatus, and the Twilight forces pressing the battlefield, the Aspects took humanoid forms and prepared to begin.

• Nozdormu explained that the Dragon Aspects could no longer create the Dragon Soul as before, and proposed a safer ritual with Thrall.
• Thrall said he could wield the Power of the Earth, while Malygos warned that surrendering their power remained dangerous.
• Nozdormu described the threat of defeat, and Thrall agreed to attempt the ritual as the battle worsened.
• Patrick continued fighting Deathwing, while Benedictus battered the Alliance and Chromatus held back the Horde.
• Ysera, Malygos, and Alexstrasza agreed to try, and Thrall asked the four Aspects to assume humanoid forms.
• The Aspects changed form, and Thrall began preparing the ancient ritual as Alexstrasza told him they trusted him.

Thrall opened a spiritual connection with the elements and the Dragon Aspects, witnessing the ancient Titan blessings that shaped their powers. The elements answered his call, and he heard the earth’s blessing meant for him.

• Thrall asked the Dragon Aspects to open their minds and emotions to one another as he called on the elements through the totem array.
• The water, earth, fire, and air spirits shared their realms and answered Thrall, while Al'Akir agreed to fight his former allies for the High Elf who had freed him.
• Thrall linked minds with the Dragon Aspects and saw their true inner selves: Ysera as life, Malygos as arcane magic, and the blessings of time and compassion associated with the others.
• Thrall felt the earth’s knowledge and strength within himself and heard the blessing that described the land as the foundation of all things.

Thrall and the Dragon Aspects joined their powers through Nozdormu’s magic circle, while Patrick merged time and space within arcane energy and ascended to demigodhood. Patrick’s strengthened ray overwhelmed Deathwing’s breath and wounded his neck, leaving Deathwing ready to stop holding back.

• Thrall’s power joined the Dragon Aspects’ essences, and the Power of the Earth acknowledged him as Nozdormu formed a magic circle without a vessel.
• Patrick combined time and spatial runes with arcane energy, creating the embryonic Arcane Energy Space-Time Domain.
• Patrick’s wave of light briefly suspended creatures across Azeroth, including the Alliance, Horde, Arcane Pact, Deathwing, and Twilight Cultists.
• Patrick formally entered the realm of demigods as his rule over time and space took shape.
• Patrick’s strengthened Arcane Energy Ray broke through Deathwing’s Chaos Breath and melted his Elementium Armor, striking and wounding his neck.
• Deathwing acknowledged Patrick’s power and decided he would no longer hold back.

Patrick defeated Deathwing and drove him to flee, while Garona killed the Twilight Father. Patrick and the Dragon Aspects then killed Chromatus, though Deathwing escaped to the south.

• Patrick's arcane beam pierced Deathwing's neck and overcame the black dragon's power.
• Garona stabbed the Twilight Father from behind while he was distracted by Deathwing's defeat.
• Deathwing ordered his followers to kill the others and fled south, prompting Malygos to celebrate his retreat.
• Chromatus attacked Patrick with dark purple dragonfire, but Patrick blocked it with a Disc of Norgannon and destroyed two of its heads.
• Thrall and the Dragon Aspects struck Chromatus with their combined attacks, killing its remaining heads and bringing it down.