Recaps

Dick killed Ramstein with the Holy Light, then collapsed from exhaustion after the battle. Three days later, he woke stronger, received a repaired Dragon Hook, and went to meet Uther and Alexandros at Light's Hope Chapel.

• Dick used Consecration, Judgment of Order, and the Fire of Justice to kill Ramstein and recover its damaged Dragon Hook.
• Dick collapsed after seeing the five fallen knights, and Erigor ordered the surviving Paladins to keep the route open for civilians.
• Dick woke three days later, discovered quest rewards of Strength and Agility, and received a Stratholme dungeon key.
• Residents of Light's Hope Chapel welcomed Dick as a hero, and Erigor told him the fallen knights' funeral would be held that afternoon.
• Erigor gave Dick the repaired Dragon Hook, and Dick entered the chapel to meet Uther and Alexandros.

Dick addressed the Silver Hand after Uther revealed that Arthas intended to disband the order, arguing that the Dreadlord’s influence posed a more urgent threat. He left the assembly with its members listening to his warning and with Alexandros confirming the demon’s appearance.

• Uther told the assembled Silver Hand leaders that Arthas planned to disband the order after the burning of Stratholme.
• Dick rose to argue that the order’s disbandment was not the most urgent issue and explained that a Dreadlord had attacked Arthas’s tent.
• Duau confirmed that Dalaran’s records described Dreadlords as demons skilled at infiltration and corruption.
• Renault challenged Dick to provide evidence that a demon had appeared beside Arthas.
• Alexandros confirmed that he and Uther had witnessed the Dreadlord, silencing Renault’s objection.

Dick warned the Silver Hand that the plague and Kel'Thuzad’s dark power signaled a larger threat, then proposed turning Stratholme into an outpost and rapidly training more Paladins. His plans were interrupted when Falric arrived with royal guards and arrested him on Arthas’s orders, stripping him of his status as a Paladin.

• Dick presented Kel’Thuzad’s Cursed Staff and argued that Arthas, Stratholme, and the Silver Hand were caught up in a demonic plot.
• Dick asked Alexandros to send Whitemane and Priests to serve at Light’s Hope Chapel; Renault’s outraged reaction led Alexandros to suspect Renault and Whitemane were romantically involved.
• Dick urged the Silver Hand to expand Paladin training and proposed using Eastweald and Andorhal as training grounds while moving reserve bases to Stormwind.
• Dick predicted another attack within three months and asked the Silver Hand’s leaders to preserve the order until then.
• Falric and Marwyn entered with Royal Guards and announced that Arthas had ordered Dick Tang’s arrest and that he was no longer a Paladin.

Dick agreed to accompany Falric to meet Arthas after preventing the Silver Hand from clashing with the prince’s soldiers. After attending the burial of the fallen knights, Dick met Arthas at the coast and learned the prince had arrested him because Dick had done what Arthas wished he could do.

• Alexandros, Uther, and the Silver Hand knights confronted Falric and Marwyn over Arthas’s order to arrest Dick, while soldiers armed with crossbows surrounded the chapel.
• Dick agreed to go with Falric on the condition that he could speak with Arthas, and Falric promised his life was not in danger.
• Dick attended the burial of the knights who died at Stratholme and vowed to make their sacrifices meaningful.
• Falric told Marwyn that Arthas was not himself and that Dick might help him, while revealing Arthas planned to sail to Northrend to kill Mal'Ganis.
• Dick met Arthas at the Darrowmere coast, where Arthas thanked him and bowed for doing what the prince himself had wanted to do.

Dick failed to dissuade Arthas from traveling to Northrend, and Nozdormu warned him that changing Arthas’s fate would threaten the timeline. Arthas left Dick in command of Stratholme’s defenses, where Dick prepared to contain Rivendare’s undead.

• Dick urged Arthas to stay in Lordaeron, but Arthas revealed he intended to claim Frostmourne and use it against the Scourge.
• Nozdormu stopped time and warned Dick not to change Arthas’s decision to go to Northrend.
• Arthas gave Dick authority to defend Stratholme and hold back the undead until his return.
• A week later, Arthas sailed from the Eastern Kingdoms with three thousand soldiers and more than twenty ships.
• Dick’s forces and Saidan Dathrohan’s knights fortified two defensive lines, confining Rivendare’s undead to the deepest part of Stratholme.
• During a night patrol, Dick found Lady Whitemane crying over a letter, but she dismissed him and returned to her room.

Dick survived another failed duel with Rivendare in the Stratholme Dungeon, then continued training himself and the paladin recruits as he prepared for Arthas’s return. In Northrend, Arthas found the runeblade he believed could save his people and refused Muradin’s plea to leave.

• Dick lost his seventeenth duel against Rivendare, but escaped when the Black Knight’s runeblade shattered and the dungeon projection ended.
• Dick used the three remaining entries on his Stratholme Dungeon key as a training ground and went out for morning exercises among the city’s elite undead.
• Dick described how his harsh live-combat training had rapidly strengthened the paladin recruits, while his own attributes and combat strength also increased.
• Dick kept pushing himself because he expected Arthas to return soon.
• In the Forgotten Ice Cave, Muradin read the runeblade’s sinister inscription and warned Arthas to leave, but Arthas insisted the sword was his destiny and screamed as he tried to claim it.

Arthas took Frostmourne, which split his soul and transformed him into a Death Knight, then killed Mal'Ganis and agreed to return to Lordaeron. Thirteen days later, he arrived at Southshore with Falric, Marwyn, and his pale-faced soldiers, announcing that the prince had returned to save the kingdom.

• Muradin tried to stop Arthas from taking Frostmourne, but dark magic pushed Arthas to grasp the Runeblade.
• Frostmourne split Arthas's soul, and his dark half killed the golden figure representing his better qualities.
• Arthas defeated Muradin and then stabbed Mal'Ganis, trapping the Dreadlord in ice and killing him.
• Ner'zhul spoke to Arthas through their new bond and offered him control of the Crypt Fiends in exchange for helping Kel'Thuzad ascend.
• Arthas walked into the blizzard and, thirteen days later, arrived at Southshore with Falric, Marwyn, and his soldiers.
• Arthas ordered the dockmaster to tell Lordaeron that its prince had returned to save the kingdom.

Arthas returned to Lordaeron carrying Frostmourne and revealed his turn to darkness by killing King Terenas and launching an undead assault on the capital. Jaina and Rhonin escaped the collapsing palace and set out to save someone who could rebuild Lordaeron.

• Arthas entered Lordaeron to a citizens’ welcome, while his presence drained the life from the Court Steward and withered the red petals he touched.
• Jaina and Rhonin sensed the dark power within Arthas, but King Terenas dismissed Rhonin and embraced his son.
• Arthas killed King Terenas with Frostmourne, claimed the throne, and froze his father’s corpse and the throne in ice.
• Arthas summoned dark champions and creatures beneath the palace, forcing Jaina and Rhonin to fight their way out as Rhonin’s attack brought a meteor down on the palace.
• Undead soldiers and Crypt Fiends slaughtered people across Lordaeron, and Rhonin rescued a little girl from an undead attacker.
• Jaina resolved to return to the palace with Rhonin to save someone who could rebuild Lordaeron.

Uther and Dathrohan learned that Arthas had destroyed Lordaeron and faced the threat of a vast undead army advancing toward Tirisfal. Uther accepted Dick’s defensive plan and mobilized aid, while Dick’s regiment prepared to assault Stratholme.

• Wildhammer Gryphon Riders bombed Andorhal with holy water as Uther and Dathrohan discussed the campaign and Dick’s harsh training methods.
• A messenger reported that Arthas had ambushed Alexandros Mograine’s relief force and slaughtered nearly all six hundred thousand people in Lordaeron.
• Uther sent for reinforcements and ordered Dathrohan to join Isillien and hold the border against the approaching undead.
• A messenger delivered Dick’s plan to defend Chillwind Camp and the Bulwark, seek aid from Dalaran and Gilneas, and contain the war within Tirisfal and West Darrowmere.
• Herod declined Uther’s offer to fight at Andorhal because the Stratholme Regiment’s assault on Rivendare was due to begin at midnight.
• Uther appealed to Dalaran, Gilneas, and Alterac, summoned Dathrohan to Chillwind Camp, and ordered a thousand recruits transferred to the Stratholme Regiment.

Dick led the Stratholme Regiment in a decisive assault against Rivendare’s undead, then defeated Rivendare before he could complete his transformation into a Death Knight. With the battle won and the historical node completed, Dick gained new attributes, talents, and a higher template rank.

• Dick rallied 2,600 soldiers and led the Stratholme Regiment in a charge against the undead inside Stratholme.
• Dick and the regiment overcame Rivendare’s forces by coordinating their squads, using holy water, and destroying the abominations.
• Dick discovered that Rivendare was only partially undead because Kel’Thuzad’s death had prevented the Death Knight ritual.
• Erigor distracted Rivendare while Dick blocked his runeblade and struck him down with the Fire of Justice.
• Dick purified Rivendare’s remains and received rewards for completing Arthas’s request and the Stratholme historical node.

After the Stratholme Regiment reclaimed the city and killed Rivendare, Dick accepted Uther's request to preside over an urgent alliance meeting. Brigitte Abbendis explained the ideological dispute dividing the Silver Hand, and Dick asked whether it might split the order.

• The knights celebrated their victory as sunlight reached Stratholme, while Dick recovered from his wounds and gave Rivendare's sword to Erigor.
• Dick praised Herod and promoted him to champion of the Stratholme Regiment.
• Brigitte Abbendis arrived with a thousand recruits and told Dick that Uther had invited leaders from several powers to a meeting at Light's Hope Chapel.
• Brigitte revealed that Uther wanted Dick to preside over the meeting, and Dick agreed.
• Brigitte explained that General Abbendis and his allies favored making the Holy Light more offensive, while Uther defended its purity; Dick asked whether their disagreement could split the Silver Hand.

Dick urged Abbendis to help unite the Silver Hand’s younger commanders, then arrived at Light’s Hope Chapel for a prewar conference where Uther named him its true presiding officer. The conference began as Dick took center stage, while Princess Caliea remained in Dalaran recovering from her grief.

• Dick warned Abbendis that the Silver Hand could fracture if Uther were lost and proposed that mid-ranking commanders unite the order; she agreed to contact Taelan Fordring, Ashlam Valorfist, Madonniel, Lohan, Korfax, and Angela.
• Dick rode into Light’s Hope Chapel with Erigor, Whitemane, and Herod, where a cheering crowd celebrated his victory and he credited all who fought evil.
• Dick reunited with Jaina, who explained that she represented Dalaran and that her mentor supported Princess Caliea’s plan to rebuild Lordaeron; Caliea stayed in Dalaran to rest.
• Dick and Jaina entered the conference hall, where Uther welcomed representatives from several nations and introduced Dick as the commander of the Stratholme Regiment and the conference’s true presiding officer.

Dick confronted the Northern Frontier’s ambassadors, demanding aid against Arthas’s undead army and threatening to withdraw Lordaeron’s forces if Gilneas refused to help. After he forced the envoys to summon their leaders, Whitemane challenged his tactics, and Dick questioned whether the Order of the Silver Hand had any future left.

• Dick told the conference that Lordaeron had fallen and Arthas was assembling an undead army that could exceed two million, then asked the assembled powers for troops or supplies.
• The ambassador from Gilneas refused to intervene and began to leave, so Dick threatened to withdraw the Silver Hand and Lordaeron’s remaining troops to West Darrowmere.
• Dick declared that Lordaeron’s refugees would drag others down with them rather than die alone, silencing the hall and making the ambassadors sit back down.
• After receiving a quest to unite the Northern Frontier against the undead, Dick demanded that the Silver Hand follow his decisions, and Dathrohan’s arrival showed that Uther backed him.
• Dick ordered the envoys to bring leaders with authority to decide, and Antonidas opened portals for them to travel through.
• Whitemane accused Dick of risking the Silver Hand’s future, and Dick asked what made her think the Order still had one.

Dick confronted the young Silver Hand commanders over Lordaeron’s desperate situation, and Uther, Alexandros, and Dathrohan sent them to the battlefield to learn through fighting. At the conference, Dick secured military support from several nations and groups by exposing their secrets or bargaining with them.

• Dick told Whitemane and the young commanders that Lordaeron needed allies to protect its surviving civilians, then left them to reconsider their objections.
• Alexandros ordered Whitemane and the other young commanders to go to the battlefield, while Uther and Dathrohan explained why Dick had earned his authority.
• Dick resumed the conference with Uther, Alexandros, Antonidas, Lor'themar Theron, Falstad Wildhammer, Liam Greymane, Vincent Godfrey, and Aliden Perenolde present.
• Dick exposed Gilneas's plans involving the Greymane Wall and Arugal's summoned monsters, silencing Godfrey and alarming Liam.
• Falstad pledged the Gryphon Squadron after Dick revealed his knowledge of Toxic Fog Canyon, and Antonidas agreed to send Dalaran battle mages after Dick mentioned Daio and Ebonchill.
• Dick offered Stratholme as refuge for Aliden's Syndicate, then agreed to Lor'themar's request for the Silver Hand to train elven paladins in return for Quel'Thalas's Ranger Corps support.

Dick secured support for the Silver Hand as Gilneas adopted an isolationist policy, then found resolve in Little Pamela and reaffirmed his decision to protect the land. Three days later, while rescuing civilians and preparing a scorched-earth defense at Felstone Field, Dick discovered a death knight leading an undead attack and received a quest to prove the Barov Family’s destruction.

• Prince Liam announced that Gilneas would withdraw from commercial and diplomatic exchanges with the other nations and that the Gilneas Brigade would help defend Silverpine Forest alongside Dalaran battle mages.
• After the meeting, Dick reflected on the danger he had invited by threatening Gilneas and Alterac, but Little Pamela’s visit helped him decide that protecting the people of the land was worth the risk.
• At Felstone Field, Dick and his companions fought undead, found twenty-three farmers hiding in a cellar, and prepared to evacuate survivors as the Silver Hand withdrew and Dick pursued a scorched-earth strategy.
• Dick spotted an undead army advancing from Andorhal, led by a death knight, and received a quest to kill Alex Barov and bring his insignia to Uther.
• The quest revealed that a lich from Scholomance had joined the undead at Andorhal, prompting Dick to suspect Lethas Frostwhisper was behind the attack.

Dick and the paladins defended Felstone Field against an undead army, buying time for civilians to escape before retreating toward Hearthglen. He separated from the retreating force with Herod to face death knight Alex Barov, and their battle began at Gahrron's Withering.

• Dick ordered Herod and Redpath to organize the defense and evacuation while he led thirty paladins against the undead.
• Dick used Retribution Aura to bolster the knights, then knocked Alex from his mount and dragged him through the undead with the Dragon Hook.
• Herod and Redpath brought down the two abominations as Dick’s force held the line until the paladins began to fall back.
• Dick ordered Redpath to lead the retreat, then killed one abomination while Herod killed the other.
• Dick and Herod carried the restrained Alex to Gahrron's Withering, where they released him and began fighting him together.

Dick and Herod defeated Alex at great cost, but Arthas arrived and turned the mindless Undead into a coordinated army. The defenders’ line collapsed, leaving Lordaeron’s forces overwhelmed.

• Herod struck Alex from behind, and Dick exploited Alex’s Anti-Magic Shell to batter him with Holy attacks and blast a hole through his chest with Holy Shock.
• Herod wounded Alex with his Holy Light–imbued axe, but Alex dragged him back and stabbed him; Dick then beat Alex down and used holy water to destroy him.
• Dick gave Herod holy water, secured him on a warhorse, and recovered a damaged fragment of Alex’s Pallid Greatsword and the Barov Family Crest.
• Arthas watched the battlefield with Kel'Thuzad and used Frostmourne to organize the Undead into a disciplined army, deploying Crypt Fiends and swarms of insects against the defenders.
• Arthas’s army breached the line in less than half an hour, overrunning the forces that had held for seven days.

Arthas turned the surviving knights into Death Knights and marched on Crusader's Hold, where Uther confronted his former student in a deadly duel. Dick learned that Uther was in danger and hurried to intervene after receiving a quest to change his fate.

• Arthas defeated the surviving knights, raised them as Death Knights, and ordered Falric to equip them and lead raids across West Darrowmere.
• Uther reviewed reports of the fallen outposts, then learned that Arthas had surrounded Crusader's Hold.
• Uther, Alexandros, Dathrohan, and Gavinrad led hundreds of paladins out to face Arthas and his undead army.
• Uther fought Arthas one-on-one, invoking several Holy Light blessings after the first clash showed how powerful Arthas had become.
• Dick received the quest “The Holy Light Fades” and rushed toward the stables to reach Uther before he was killed.

Dick tried to save the dying Uther by freezing his body and urging him to become a death knight, but Uther refused to abandon the Holy Light. Dick then told Alexandros that a dark gem and a hidden Runeblade in Karazhan could help defeat Arthas and preserve Uther’s soul, leaving Alexandros to choose between Uther’s faith and survival.

• Arthas overwhelmed the knights, pierced Uther’s Divine Shield with Frostmourne, and left him near death.
• Dick stopped Gavinrad from treating Uther, explained that a dark artifact could preserve his soul by turning him into a death knight, and asked Uther to agree.
• Uther refused Dick’s proposal, so Dick had a mage freeze Uther’s body before his soul faded.
• Dick sent Dathrohan and Gavinrad back to aid Alexandros and claimed that the prophet who had appeared at King Terenas’s court was Medivh’s soul.
• Dick revealed that Alexandros possessed a dark gem from an orc warlock and said it should be forged into a sword in Ironforge.
• Dick told Alexandros to take Uther to Karazhan and retrieve Medivh’s hidden Runeblade, but Alexandros accused him of forcing Uther to abandon his faith.

Dick lured Arthas away from Crusader's Hold by using Kel'Thuzad's ashes, then apparently sacrificed himself to keep the urn from Arthas. Arthas captured the ashes but let the fortress survive for now, accepting Dick's challenge at Quel'Thalas as their conflict widened.

• Dick warned Alexandros that Arthas would return within three months and rode out with Kel'Thuzad's urn to draw Arthas away from Crusader's Hold.
• Arthas pursued Dick while Falric ordered the undead to attack the fortress, and Dathrohan rallied the defenders to close the gates and raise a Holy Light barrier.
• Dick wounded Arthas's Crypt Fiend with Holy Shock and confronted Arthas at the bank of the Thondroril River, threatening to drop the urn into the water.
• Dick challenged Arthas to meet him at the Sunwell in Quel'Thalas, then fell into the river as Arthas used Death Grip to seize the urn.
• Arthas decided to let Crusader's Hold survive temporarily and rode upstream, avoiding Eastweald and the danger beneath Light's Hope Chapel.

After the battle at Crusader's Hold, Alexandros and the assembled paladins learned that a dark runeblade might preserve Uther's soul, though it would turn him into a conscious death knight. They transformed Alexandros's black gem with their combined Holy Light, creating the Ashbringer and revealing a new hope against the undead.

• The knights drove Arthas's undead from Crusader's Hold after the Holy Light Barrier fell, then gathered around the wounded Uther.
• Tirion Fordring arrived, reuniting with his son Taelan and his former comrades.
• Dathrohan explained that a runeblade in Medivh's tower could save Uther's soul but would transform him into a death knight, and Alexandros decided to take Uther south and let him choose.
• Alexandros revealed the black gem he had found on an Orc Warlock and asked the others to channel their Holy Light into it.
• The combined Holy Light transformed the gem into a silver-bright jewel and healed Alexandros's old wound.
• Alexandros named the jewel the Ashbringer and presented it as their hope against the undead and darkness.

Dick entered the Ghostlands to delay Arthas’s return to Lordaeron and came upon Liadrin’s patrol being attacked by Zul'jin’s beast avatar. He defeated the lynx avatar, then recognized Liadrin and asked what she was doing there.

• Dick rode into the Ghostlands while studying Uther’s Holy Book and heard fighting ahead.
• Zul'jin’s lynx avatar killed Liadrin’s ten Ranger Corps guards and cornered her.
• Dick caught Liadrin as she fell, then fought the lynx avatar and slowed it with the Fire of Justice.
• Dick and Liadrin battled the weakened avatar until Dick struck it with Holy Shock and defeated it.
• Dick recognized Liadrin and asked what she was doing there.

Dick warned Liadrin that undead forces were marching toward Quel'Thalas, then traveled on to Silvermoon City after visiting Deatholme. The chapter ended with Sylvanas's Rangers retreating from an overwhelming undead attack toward the Defensive Runes.

• Dick buried the fallen elven soldiers, blessed their bodies with holy water, and warned Liadrin that undead forces were advancing toward Quel'Thalas, but she trusted the Defensive Runes to protect the kingdom.
• Dick found Sylvanas's lost pendant and a beast-lynx spirit in Zul'jin's lynx form, then rode with Liadrin to Deatholme.
• Liadrin showed Dick around Deatholme and sent a report through her contacts to help him, while Dick left for Silvermoon City.
• On an island off Quel'Thalas, Sylvanas led the Rangers against an undead force that grew as fallen soldiers rose again, and she ordered a retreat behind the Defensive Runes.

Arthas abandoned his assault on Quel'Thalas’s defenses and turned his undead toward the Ghostlands, while Sylvanas prepared to lead her rangers there and summoned Dick. Dick fought Arthas’s newly raised undead, survived the Death Knight’s retaliation, and was conscripted by Sylvanas’s Ranger Corps.

• Arthas found Quel'Thalas protected by Defensive Runes, summoned Marwyn, Thassarian, and Marduk, and ordered his undead to invade the Ghostlands.
• Sylvanas Windrunner received Liadrin’s letter, deduced that Arthas would target the Ghostlands, and ordered her rangers to prepare for battle and bring Dick Tang to Fairbreeze Village.
• Dick fought through the Risen and Cursed Mages, killing several before one mage exploded under Arthas’s power and hurled him away.
• Four Elven Rangers arrived, cleared the remaining Risen, and told Dick that Sylvanas had summoned him to Fairbreeze Village.

Dick Tang warned Sylvanas Windrunner that Arthas’s invasion would overwhelm Quel'Thalas, but she rejected his advice and ordered him to leave. After a quest compelled him to try to save Sylvanas, Dick gathered the elven paladins of the Silver Hand and prepared to join the war.

• Dick Tang met Sylvanas Windrunner, warned her about Arthas’s threat and Quel'Thalas’s lack of holy water and priests, and refused her offer to serve as her deputy.
• Sylvanas called Dick a coward and ordered him out after he criticized her plans and warned her to watch for flying undead.
• Dick returned to a nearby camp and met Myra, the leader of thirty-seven elven paladins sent by the Order of the Silver Hand.
• A quest ordered Dick to attempt to save Sylvanas, so he told the paladins to recruit priests and soldiers, prepare holy water, and join the war.
• All thirty-seven paladins chose to accompany Dick, and Myra drew his sword as they prepared to fight for Quel'Thalas.