Recaps

Dick returned to the battle at Kun-Lai Summit and helped the Shado-Pan turn back the hatred-controlled Yaungol and Hozen. He killed the Sha of Hatred, though the Sha would eventually persist as part of Pandaria’s darkness.

• Taran Zhu, Master Snowdrift, and the secluded Monk masters fought the Sha of Hatred while the Shado-Pan struggled against its empowered followers.
• Dick arrived at the Peak of Serenity and used a Rain of Light to break the creatures’ assault, allowing the Monks to counterattack.
• Dick and Anveena joined the battle, and Dick used his enhanced strength and Windfury to batter and wound the Sha of Hatred.
• Anveena lent Dick her power, and he struck the Sha of Hatred with a pillar of Holy and Order energy that destroyed its manifested body.
• Dick killed his first Demigod opponent, while the chapter noted that the Sha of Hatred would eventually return as part of Pandaria’s lingering darkness.

Dick crossed the sealed Vale of Eternal Blossoms and reached the hidden chamber where Y'Shaarj's Heart was imprisoned. With the Sunwell Spirit’s help, he broke through the entrance and entered the passage to face the threat alone.

• Dick traveled through the mists into the Vale of Eternal Blossoms and found crops piled across the abandoned land after ten thousand years of growth and decay.
• Dick continued northeast alone, slowed by Shaohao’s lingering power while the Sunwell Spirit’s chatter guarded him from the valley’s oppressive loneliness.
• Dick reached the palace and located the hidden passage beneath the starlit well, where Y'Shaarj's Heart lay buried.
• Dick and Lady Anveena broke through the sealed wall with the Fire of Justice, opening the passage into the depths.
• Lady Anveena returned to Dick’s shoulder, and Dick entered the dark passage to confront Y'Shaarj's Heart.

Dick entered Ra-den’s prison to reach the Heart of Y’Shaarj and met Immerseus, the guardian of the first hall. Immerseus opened the sealed door for him, leaving Dick to face Norushen in the Second Hall.

• Dick noticed Y’Shaarj’s influence stirring loneliness in him as he approached the great pool.
• Dick called Immerseus from the water, and the Water Elemental attacked before Anveena embraced it and befriended it.
• Dick showed Immerseus Ra-den’s presence through the Core of Lightning and introduced himself as Dick.
• Immerseus used the pool’s water to open the sealed door, while Dick told Anveena to stay behind and play with it.
• Dick entered the Second Hall, where Norushen guarded the way to the Heart of Y’Shaarj and would not obey Dick.

Dick reached Norushen, the guardian of Y'Shaarj's Heart, and persuaded him to test his mind rather than block his path. After Dick defeated the negative emotions Norushen drew out, he entered the Third Hall, where the Heart of Y'Shaarj awaited him, still troubled by the absence of pride and doubt among the Sha.

• Dick learned how the Well of Eternity's power had suppressed Y'Shaarj's Heart and how the Great Sundering had weakened Elune, allowing the Sha to rise.
• Norushen stopped Dick from entering the Central Hall, warning that Y'Shaarj might use him as a vessel, but agreed to examine his mind after hearing that Ra-den had entrusted Dick with the Heart.
• Norushen told Dick that Sha contact had left negative emotions in his mind and enclosed him in a barrier to face them.
• Dick fought and destroyed five Sha, but found no pride among them and suspected that the Sha of Doubt was also missing.
• Norushen acknowledged Dick and opened the way to the Third Hall, where Dick found the Heart of Y'Shaarj.

Dick hesitated over opening the corrupted Titan chest containing Y'Shaarj's heart until Krik'thik stopped him and gave him a Bamboo Mask to reveal his pride. Wearing it, Dick encountered a person identical to himself who claimed to be his pride and asked to talk.

• Dick approached the chest but Krik'thik struck his hand away before he could touch it.
• Krik'thik warned Dick that his pride had no physical form and that opening the chest without confronting it could make him explode and transform into a monster.
• Krik'thik gave Dick the last Bamboo Mask and asked him to open the Gate of the Terrace of Endless Spring so he could visit Shaohao.
• Dick put on the mask and saw a version of himself sitting on the chest, who identified himself as Dick's pride and proposed a conversation.
• Dick lowered Windfury and agreed to talk while keeping his hand on the sword's hilt.

Dick confronted the Sha of Pride, which exposed his doubts about belonging in Azeroth and loving the people around him. After admitting his origins to his companions and receiving their acceptance, he faced the Sha with renewed resolve to save the world.

• Blue Dick accused Dick of being unable to love anyone and of feeling like an outsider who had never truly embraced Azeroth.
• Dick admitted he was proud, lost, and unsure what he wanted, but said he had to lead and protect the people relying on him.
• Dick told Liadrin that he came from another world and feared he was unworthy of her and the others.
• Liadrin, Velinde Starsong, Anveena, Moam, and Tao Shi accepted Dick, each assuring him that his origins did not change their regard for him.
• The Sha of Pride emerged in a chaotic, twisted form, and Dick summoned Windfury and declared that he wanted to save the world.

After defeating the Sha of Pride, Dick secured the Heart of Y'Shaarj and promised to remove it from Pandaria forever. He discussed the fading Sha, Pandaria's future ties to the outside world, and the unexplained fate of the Sha of Doubt before preparing to free Shaohao and disperse the mists.

• Madam Goya hosted Dick, the four Celestials, Pandaren leaders, Anduin, and other guests at a lavish feast.
• Dick said he would take the Heart of Y'Shaarj out of Pandaria, and Yu'lon and Chi-Ji accepted that his plan was safer than leaving it behind.
• Dick explained that the Sha would persist for up to a hundred years without the Heart's energy and warned that Pandaria would remain unsuitable for large-scale outside entry for five years.
• Dick told the Pandaren leaders that Theramore, Orgrimmar, and the Kingdom of Stormwind would send envoys after the mists dispersed, and he offered the Pandaren a place on his side.
• Lorewalker Cho said the Pandaren would observe before choosing a side, while Yu'lon reported that the Sha of Doubt's status at the Temple of the Jade Serpent remained unclear.
• Dick rose to fulfill his promise to Krik'thik to free Shaohao and disperse the mists.

Dick and Krik'thik reached the Terrace of Endless Spring, where Dick removed Ra-den's seal and helped Lei Shi leave her post. They approached Shaohao, who had waited alone for ten thousand years, as Dick prepared to pay his respects.

• Krik'thik showed Dick the Sage's Serpent stairway and gave him a stonemason's mallet called the Hammer of Folly.
• Dick used his power over Titanic Energy to remove the seal on the Terrace of Endless Spring's gates, and Krik'thik opened them.
• Zhu Long appeared to block their path, then fled when Krik'thik called out to him.
• Dick reassured Lei Shi and persuaded her to leave the palace and go outside to play.
• Dick followed Krik'thik to Shaohao's pavilion and prepared to greet the mist-like hero.

Dick met Shaohao and, after hearing the emperor’s counsel, chose to keep moving forward despite his doubts about changing the future. As Dick prepared to free Shaohao and end Pandaria’s mists, Senxia’s fleet witnessed the mists begin to churn beneath a gathering storm.

• Shaohao recounted how he had saved Pandaria from the Sundering and praised Dick for overcoming his pride and defeating Lei Shen.
• Dick confessed that a vision of the future had made him fear his efforts were meaningless, and Shaohao urged him to choose between giving up and continuing forward.
• Dick accepted the final bowl of Monkey Wine from Krik'thik and declared that they would set Shaohao free.
• Senxia waited with the Black Demon King's Fleet alongside the fleets of Stormwind and Kul Tiras beyond Pandaria’s mists.
• A violent storm erupted as the mists churned, and Senxia declared that the age of mists was ending.

Dick dispersed Pandaria’s mists and confronted Kel’Thuzad, who was using the Sha of Doubt to resist Xal’atath’s influence. Dick refused to give him the heart immediately but promised to reconsider in a year if Kel’Thuzad proved himself.

• The mists withdrew from Pandaria, revealing the open sky and leaving its peoples uncertain about the future.
• Dick returned to Sage’s Serpent, found Mr. Bigglesworth carrying a letter, and went to the Temple of the Jade Serpent.
• Dick discovered Kel’Thuzad had bound the Sha of Doubt to himself and imprisoned Xal’atath’s Blade of the Black Empire to resist her control.
• Kel’Thuzad asked Dick for the heart that could help him defeat Xal’atath, but Dick refused to trust him or give it to him yet.
• Dick offered to reconsider in a year if Kel’Thuzad killed Benedictus, took control of Twilight’s Hammer, and avoided causing trouble during the Northern Expedition.
• Kel’Thuzad accepted the conditions, and Mr. Bigglesworth settled beside him as he reflected on the hard-won trust.

Anduin and Li Li reunited with their families in Pandaria as Dick returned to Jaina and Liadrin and received a blessed cloak from the August Celestials. The celebration ended when Dick glimpsed the Cloud Serpent Palace burning and realized something had happened in the Broken Isles.

• King Varian arrived in Pandaria and embraced Anduin, while Anduin promised not to leave him again.
• Cheng Bo and Xi Zai reunited with Li Li and Chen Stormstout, and Cheng Bo invited them to return to the Stormstout home as family.
• Dick reunited with Jaina and Liadrin and held them close as he said goodbye to Blue Dick.
• The August Celestials appeared and Yu'lon gave Dick a cloak blessed by the Celestials.
• Dick saw the Cloud Serpent Palace engulfed in flames and recognized that something had happened in the Broken Isles, Valarjar.

High Priest Ishanah watched Shattrath face a long Illidari siege while holding on to hope from a letter sent by Lord Velen. At the city gates, Illidan’s envoy Gathios demanded an audience with A’dal, and Shattrath’s frightened refugees gathered to confront him.

• Ishanah remembered Draenor’s destruction and learned from Lord Velen’s letter that the Draenei had found a possible new home and hope of returning to Argus.
• Ishanah saw a meteor and was shocked by what she calculated from the stars.
• Gathios approached Shattrath with two Demon Hunters and an army of armed Broken, demanding to see A’dal with a secret order from Illidan.
• Refugees of many races rushed to the gate, believing Illidan was about to destroy Shattrath.
• Cairne threatened the refugees, but Gathios stopped him and promised to wait while a Vindicator went to ask A’dal to decide whether to receive him.

Khadgar and Kurdran learned that Shattrath planned to evacuate through the Dark Portal to Azeroth as Illidan's forces prepared to attack. Ishanah concealed the real purpose of the plan, which was part of a staged war meant to deceive the Great Demon, and the assault began on the third night.

• Khadgar and the drunken Kurdran were summoned to the Hall of the Holy Light, where Gathios delivered a scroll from Illidan.
• Ishanah rejected Gathios's offer in public but signaled privately that she had understood the message, and A'dal announced that Shattrath would flee through the Dark Portal to Azeroth.
• Ishanah told the gathered leaders that Velen had prepared the portal in Azeroth, while she privately warned Khadgar not to expose the hidden scheme.
• Khadgar demanded Ishanah guarantee that the conflict would not affect Azeroth, and she agreed as Shattrath's people prepared for evacuation.
• On the third night, demon hunters, naga, and Broken attacked Shattrath amid green artillery fire.

A Warlock informed Danath that the Dark Portal would reopen and that Honor Hold’s soldiers would return home, while Khadgar’s refugee column fled toward the portal under attack. After Khadgar accidentally disrupted the evacuation and learned the rear refugees were demon spies, Illidan’s Demon Hunters attacked him over his past with Medivh.

• The Warlock told Danath that the Alliance’s leaders had sent word and ordered him to prepare for the Dark Portal’s reopening; Danath ordered Arator to ready the soldiers to go home.
• Khadgar and Kurdran led the refugees through Terokkar Forest as the Broken pursued and killed those at the rear.
• Khadgar caused a rockslide to strike the Broken, nearly triggering a stampede among the refugees.
• Ishanah rebuked Khadgar and revealed that the refugees at the rear were demon spies whose presence had helped deceive the demons.
• Two Demon Hunters confronted Khadgar and asked whether he regretted what he had done to Medivh, then attacked him; Khadgar fought back with arcane elementals.

The Goya Matriarch arrived at the Dark Portal with Garrosh and other Orcs, where she confronted Kargath and persuaded him to bring the Shattered Hand Clan’s uncorrupted children to safety. As Kanrethad prepared to activate the gateway, the Matriarch learned she likely would never return to Draenor and accepted leaving her homeland so the demons could be fought.

• The Goya Matriarch approached the Dark Portal with Garrosh, Dranosh, and Jorin, and Garrosh rebuked Kanrethad for addressing her.
• The Goya Matriarch called Kargath out of hiding, and Kargath knelt to confess his shame and explain that he used fel power to seek revenge against demons.
• The Goya Matriarch slapped Kargath and ordered him to bring the Shattered Hand Clan’s children who had not accepted fel blood.
• The Goya Matriarch asked Kanrethad whether she could return to Draenor, and he said she probably could not because the world would become a training ground for fighting their enemies.
• Garrosh, Dranosh, and Jorin rode toward Hellfire Citadel to help Kargath gather the children, while Kanrethad ordered his Warlocks to activate the Dark Portal.
• The Goya Matriarch prayed as the portal’s runes lit up and recalled the suffering caused by Gul’dan and the Shadow Council.

Kanrethad opened the Dark Portal and brought the orc refugees to Azeroth, where the Goya Matriarch reunited with Thrall and Varok Saurfang reunited with Dranosh. Meanwhile, Queen Caliea’s coronation in Stratholme began as Lordaeron prepared to rise again.

• Kanrethad activated the Dark Portal, and the Goya Matriarch crossed through first.
• The Goya Matriarch recognized Durotan and reunited with Varok Saurfang, then told Thrall that his true name was Go’el.
• Garrosh, Dranosh, Jorin, and the remaining orcs crossed the portal, and Dranosh reunited with his father, Varok Saurfang.
• Citizens and paladins gathered in Stratholme for Queen Caliea’s coronation as Lordaeron was reestablished.
• Tirion Fordring and Alexandros Mograine led the Silver Hand’s procession as Queen Caliea’s carriage entered Stratholme to cheers.

Queen Caliea was crowned in Stratholme before a vast, cheering crowd and swore to defend Lordaeron and carry the war against darkness into its realm. Her fierce oath won the people’s immediate allegiance as they knelt and hailed her queen.

• Queen Caliea entered Stratholme in an open carriage, protected by Naisha, Rhonin, and other hidden guards as the citizens celebrated her arrival.
• Gath'riss escorted Caliea to the square, where Gavinrad prepared to preside over the coronation with Jaina Proudmoore and Anduin Wrynn representing Lordaeron’s alliances with Kul Tiras and Stormwind.
• Gavinrad asked Caliea what Lordaeron meant, and she answered that it meant a land and people at peace.
• Caliea vowed to give everything to protect Lordaeron, reclaim its citizens’ souls from darkness, and take the war into darkness’s realm.
• Dick rose with Windfury drawn, prompting others to unsheathe their weapons as Sir Redpath and the crowd knelt to acclaim Caliea queen.

Caliea became Queen of Lordaeron and declared that she would dedicate her life to her people, then granted Dick the title and fief of Grand Duke of Theramore. At the coronation reception, she lured Dick into her bedchamber and used a potion to beg him to give her a child.

• Caliea vowed to oppose Arthas and devote her life to Lordaeron, renouncing marriage and other mortal rights.
• Gavinrad proclaimed Caliea Queen of Lordaeron, and Daelin crowned her before she promised never to abandon the kingdom.
• Caliea named Dick Grand Duke of Theramore and its viceroy, then privately asked him not to let her become truly alone.
• A pair of eyes opened briefly inside the frozen Ice Citadel in Northrend before closing again.
• Caliea claimed someone had entered her bedchamber, led Dick inside, and trapped him with a potion that stirred desire.

Khadgar returned to Karazhan, where the undead attacked him for killing Medivh, and he offered Medivh’s Staff of the Guardian to Med’an’s household. Meryl allowed Khadgar to stay as a guest to explain what he knew about Medivh, and Dick greeted him with a teasing jab about the beating.

• Earl Robin recognized Khadgar at the Deadwind Pass gate and attacked him, prompting Attumen and the Undead Hunting Party to charge to the entrance.
• Meryl arrived with Med’an and Anduin and ordered the undead to stop attacking Khadgar.
• Khadgar offered Moroes the Staff of the Guardian, but Meryl explained that the staff had acknowledged Khadgar and asked him to share what he knew about Medivh.
• Moroes let Khadgar enter Karazhan as a guest, warning him not to return after this visit.
• Dick arrived in Karazhan’s Twisting Space and told Khadgar that the undead beating had been his way of expressing displeasure over Medivh’s death; Khadgar replied that he had still won.

Khadgar revealed that Medivh had tasked him with destroying Sargeras’s avatar in the Tomb of Sargeras, and Dick confirmed the tomb remained intact while agreeing to help. Khadgar’s reconnaissance expedition set sail for the Broken Isles as Dick arrived at Lordaeron’s Northrend frontline base to join the Northern Expedition.

• Dick and Khadgar’s confrontation was interrupted by Rhonin, and Meryl asked Khadgar to explain his news from Medivh.
• Khadgar recounted how Medivh’s soul had told him to destroy Sargeras’s avatar in the Tomb of Sargeras to drive the Dark Titan’s will from Azeroth.
• Dick identified the Tomb of Sargeras and assured Khadgar that it remained intact, then agreed to help while directing him to recruit Gavincente for reconnaissance.
• Rhonin offered Dalaran’s forces, and Meryl and Med’an agreed to provide warlocks from Karazhan to support Khadgar’s mission.
• Two days later, a merchant ship sailed from Theramore toward the Broken Isles as Dick arrived at Farshire, Lordaeron’s frontline base in Northrend.

Dick met with Alexandros Mograine at Valiance Keep and proposed adjusting the Northern Expedition to secure the Borean Tundra before Arthas awoke. Mograine agreed to concentrate the armies there, while Dick planned to handle the Vrykul threat in Howling Fjord.

• Dick toured Valiance Keep and learned that Mograine had secured the Borean Tundra coastline after winning several battles against the local Scourge.
• Dick warned Mograine that public support and Lordaeron's resources might not sustain a long war and proposed settling families and nobles on the fertile land of the Borean Tundra.
• Dick urged Mograine to withdraw Tirion Fordring's troops from Howling Fjord and concentrate the forces in the Borean Tundra, where Mograine estimated they could clear out major undead forces within two or three months.
• Dick proposed sending incoming reinforcements to Dragonblight so the Alliance Forces could confront Arthas as he awoke, and volunteered to deal with the Vrykul in Howling Fjord.
• Mograine doubted Dick's confidence in the plan.

Dick answered Alexandros Mograine’s concerns about the Northrend campaign by revealing a chart with two possible secret landing points on Icecrown Glacier and proposing that other powers receive Northrend territories. A day later, Khadgar’s reconnaissance party sailed toward the Broken Isles, where Gavincente received news from Dick and declared that the Vrykul would settle their own affairs.

• Alexandros warned Dick that rival powers might abandon the expedition over Lordaeron’s territorial ambitions and that the Scourge’s numbers made a direct battle hopeless.
• Dick showed Alexandros a chart marked with two possible landing points on Icecrown Glacier, and Alexandros ordered three renowned naval officers to verify them.
• Dick proposed that Lordaeron take only the Borean Tundra while its allies divided Northrend’s other fertile regions.
• Khadgar sailed toward the Broken Isles with Gavincente, Anduin, Swen, Lakes, Rommath, Baine Bloodhoof, and Rogelio Starstrider aboard a merchant ship captained by Bard Nedrek.
• Bard recognized Anduin as the heir of House Wrynn and eagerly arranged to serve him the ship’s finest coconut milk.
• Gavincente received a message from Dick on his Communications Stone, thanked him, and said the Vrykul would settle their own affairs.

Odyn’s Halls of Valor fought Helya’s Kvaldir in a seemingly endless war, as Vrykul died and were raised into Odyn’s Spirit Legion. The chapter left Odyn and Helya watching the battle continue, with neither side close to victory.

• Odyn’s distrust of Azeroth’s native creatures led him to leave Ulduar and build the Halls of Valor, where he recruited loyal Vrykul spirits.
• Helya’s Kvaldir attacked the Halls of Valor, and Vrykul warriors fought them across the mist-covered plaza.
• Golden Val’kyr descended to gather fallen Vrykul souls and lead them through the Gates of Valor, where they became spirits.
• The newly formed Spirit Legion counterattacked as Helya sent elite Kvaldir against them, continuing the cycle of battle and death.
• Odyn watched the war beside Heimdall and Eir while Helya watched from her bone throne with Garm at her side.

Anduin continued his trial on Shieldrest Isle and entered the Tomb of the First Kings, unaware that Helya was watching him. Dick and Anveena defeated Magna Icebreaker and claimed his artifacts, then hurried toward Anduin as he faced the spirit Ymiron.

• Anduin reached the Tomb of the First Kings after two days alone on Shieldrest Isle, where Oathkeeper kept the dead Vrykul spirits away.
• Helya noticed Oathkeeper and became interested in Anduin, then headed toward Shieldrest Isle after sensing purple lightning.
• Anduin found a battlefield of slain undead Vrykul and followed Oathkeeper's pull into the tomb, where he chose the right passage.
• Lady Anveena destroyed Magna Icebreaker's physical form, and Dick gathered the king's remains and stored the Scale of the Earth-Warder and longsword.
• Anveena warned Dick that Anduin was in trouble against Ymiron, and Dick set off to stop Truthguard from falling into the wrong hands.

Anduin entered a tomb to face the Vrykul champion Ymiron in a trial for Truthguard, but Dick arrived and revealed himself as Tyr’s successor, persuading Ymiron to fight for order once more. With Anveena and Dick’s aid, Anduin prepared to face Ymiron and prove himself worthy of the shield.

• Anduin entered the tomb, where Ymiron rose from his throne and took Oathkeeper and Truthguard for the trial.
• Dick arrived, revealed his connection to Tyr, and asked Ymiron to return to the fight for order and truth.
• Ymiron agreed to serve order but warned that he was dying and could not survive outside the tomb.
• Dick promised to restore Ymiron’s strength and suggested helping Anduin prepare for the trial; Ymiron allowed it.
• Dick gave Anduin Windfury and the Naaru’s Shield ring, while Anveena channeled holy power into him.
• Anduin declared he was not afraid and took his stance against Ymiron, ready to begin the trial.