Recaps

After the Northern Expedition, Baron received a summons to join the Alliance Forces in the Storm Peaks, while engineers at K3 prepared siege weapons for the assault on Ulduar. Tirion Fordring and Mograine arrived at the forward camp to command the giant armies, and Dick welcomed them to the coming war between mortals and gods.

• Baron reflected on the losses of the Northern Expedition and accepted a summons to the Storm Peaks.
• At K3, Gnome and Goblin engineers competed while assembling siege engines for Dick’s assault on Ulduar.
• Blackfuse and Garrivitz discussed a stolen gyroscopic stabilizer, while Mekkatorque’s team secretly acquired Blackfuse’s hydraulic stabilization core.
• Tirion Fordring and Mograine arrived at the Snowdrift Plains camp to serve as commanders for the Spirit and Mogu forces.
• Dick welcomed Tirion Fordring and Mograine as they prepared for the war at Ulduar.

Dick gathered mortal champions and the forces of the Dragonflights, Valarjar, and Titan constructs outside Ulduar before opening its sealed gate. He led the army into the city to confront the Old God imprisoned within, while warning the leaders left behind of a desperate contingency plan.

• Baron, Swen, and Master Rommath stood before Ulduar as Rommath explained its significance and collected a broken rune.
• Dick explained how the gate could be opened, and Alexstrasza questioned Heimdall about Odyn’s distrust of the Dragon Aspects.
• Dick restricted the mortal heroes to the front lines and instructed them to keep the fallen creatures from entering Ulduar’s interior.
• Dick gave Tirion Fordring, Mograine, Bolvar Fordragon, Saurfang, and Vol'jin contingency plans in case he and the Dragon Aspects did not return.
• Dick joined the assembled legions and dragon formations, used Ra-den’s authority to unlock Ulduar’s gate, and led the army through the storm vortex.

Dick and the allied forces fought through Ulduar’s Training Grounds, destroying the towers that sealed the skies and clearing the way for dragons and airships. As the army advanced, the Flame Leviathan emerged, and Mekkatorque and Garrivitz rushed to claim and attack it while Dick moved on with Heimdall.

• Dick deflected the Storm Tower’s lightning into the Storm Beacons, then destroyed the tower with his Solar Lance.
• Muradin and Brann Bronzebeard destroyed the Frost Tower, clearing the remaining aerial blockade as Mekkatorque and Garrivitz sent flying machines and airships into the battle.
• Dragons and bombers supported the recovering chariot force, allowing the allied army to resume its advance through the Training Grounds.
• Mekkatorque spotted a huge machine breaking through an iron wall and warned Dick to retreat.
• The Flame Leviathan charged toward the allied forces, while Mekkatorque and Garrivitz attacked it and argued over who owned it.
• Dick told Heimdall they were not needed and continued farther into Ulduar.

Dick reached the World Forge and fought Ignis, whose mind had been corrupted by chaos. He pinned Ignis down and used the Silver Hand to make order battle the chaos inside him, hoping the smith would regain control.

• Dick and Heimdall split up, with Dick heading for the World Forge and Heimdall going to Mimiron's Test Grounds.
• Dick found Ignis working amid lava and flames and attacked him after seeing the smith's corrupted state.
• Anveena and Lei Shi joined Dick in striking Ignis with a hammer and water, leaving him stunned and vulnerable.
• Dick pinned Ignis to the ground with Solar Lances and struck his head before driving the Silver Hand into his forehead.
• Dick's order power began battling the chaos inside Ignis, and Ignis's struggling weakened as Dick urged him to endure the pain and reclaim his senses.

Dick restored Ignis’s reason and learned how chaos had overtaken Ulduar, while receiving a control stone and a fragment of Val'anyr that could help against Yogg-Saron. Ignis advised Dick to seek Freya first and offered to reforge Windfury as Dick prepared to continue deeper into Ulduar.

• Dick helped Ignis suppress the chaos within him, and Ignis described how the Guardians had become isolated or corrupted after the prisoner escaped.
• Ignis revealed that Loken had caused the disaster and learned from Dick that Loken was already dead.
• Ignis gave Dick a Control Stone for Kologarn and a fragment of the Scepter of the World, urging him to find the remaining pieces of Val'anyr.
• Ignis advised Dick to seek Freya at the Conservatory of Life and warned him that Mimiron had become dangerous after a laboratory accident.
• Ignis examined Windfury and offered to remove its elemental power so it could develop a soul; Dick agreed and asked Ignis to forge another Windseeker's Blessing for his wife.

Dick and Ignis reforged Windfury with Naaru’s Shield, creating a sentient sword named Order. Dick then joined Heimdall in the Test Grounds, where XT-002 recognized his authorization and prepared to deliver Mimiron’s final message.

• Ignis reforged Windfury around Naaru’s Shield, and the blast of Holy Light nearly destroyed the forge and his hammer.
• Dick claimed the newly awakened sword, named it Order, and left to check the other battlefields.
• Heimdall battled the heavily armored XT-002 Deconstructor in Mimiron’s scrapyard, struggling to damage it.
• Dick arrived and knocked XT-002 down with a Solar Lance, but the robot entered standby after detecting his authorization.
• XT-002 requested confirmation to deliver Mimiron’s final message, and Dick fired a Solar Lance toward Heimdall to stop his attack.

Dick and Heimdall accessed Mimiron’s final message through XT-002 and learned that Yogg-Saron had manipulated the Guardians and that Mimiron had hidden fragments of Val'anyr. After retrieving the crystal, Dick ordered XT-002 to reinforce the front lines while they prepared to awaken Mimiron and Freya.

• Dick deflected Heimdall’s attack on XT-002, then used his High Guardian authority to access the robot’s stored message.
• Mimiron’s recording revealed that Yogg-Saron had manipulated the Guardians, that Loken was its puppet, and that Mimiron had secured the Observatory’s Energy Control Core.
• Mimiron explained that he had discovered three fragments of Val'anyr and sent them through black vortices, but an energy blast cut off his message before he finished giving Ra the activation code.
• Dick took the crystal from XT-002 and told Heimdall that they would prioritize awakening Mimiron and Freya.
• Dick ordered XT-002 to open the path to the Front Hall and support the mortals fighting the Iron Burning Legion.

Dick and his allies entered Ulduar’s Front Hall to rescue the High Guardians, while Heimdall and Eir attacked the Iron Council. Dick subdued Kologarn with Ignis’s Rune Stone, but a hidden attacker struck at him from behind as Heimdall confronted the Council leaders.

• Dick, the Dragon Aspects, and the Guardians arrived in the long-abandoned Front Hall and saw its decayed halls beneath a preserved starlit sky.
• Ironaya feared that she might have to fight her friend Auriaya, but Dick promised to purge her corruption if she was alive and warned everyone about Yogg-Saron’s influence.
• Dick sent Heimdall, Eir, and the Val’kyr toward the Iron Council Hall, then led the others up the stairs to rescue the High Guardians.
• Kologarn burst through the floor, but Dick used Ignis’s Rune Stone to control him and made the giant lay down his arms as bridges.
• A hidden attacker lunged at Dick from behind, prompting Archaedas to throw his axe and Ironaya to shout a warning.
• Heimdall and Eir broke into the Iron Council Hall, where Molkheim, Brundir, and Steelbreaker confronted them; Heimdall demanded the observatory’s Data Card.

Dick and the Dragon Aspects encountered the corrupted Auriaya in Ulduar and defeated her before Dick purged the chaos from her. After waking, Auriaya told them that Freya was likely the most lucid High Guardian, so they set off for the Conservatory of Life.

• Auriaya wandered Ulduar’s Inner Ring with her cats, lonely and consumed by chaos.
• Dick struck an obsidian cat that attacked him, and Ironaya and Alexstrasza healed it before Auriaya arrived and demanded it back.
• Auriaya attacked Ironaya, so Dick, Archaedas, Nozdormu, and Malygos coordinated their attacks and knocked her unconscious.
• Dick pressed his order-powered hand to Auriaya’s forehead for ten minutes and freed her from the corruption; she woke and reunited with Ironaya.
• Auriaya told Dick that Hodir was sealed in his frozen Temple, Freya was probably in the best condition, and Mimiron had guarded the Spark of Imagination with offensive robots.
• Dick and the Dragon Aspects chose to go to Freya’s Conservatory of Life.

Dick and Ysera discovered that Freya had preserved a miniature ecosystem containing samples of most of Azeroth’s life. Dick explained that it was Freya’s backup plan for restoring the world, and they went deeper into the conservatory to wake her.

• Dick and the Dragon Aspects divided their mission in Ulduar, with Dick and Ysera assigned to confront Freya.
• Ysera told Dick that N’Zoth’s nightmare remained quiet in the Emerald Dream, though she suspected N’Zoth had begun acting outside it.
• Dick and Ysera opened the green gate and found a peaceful ecosystem filled with diverse creatures living together.
• Ysera recognized that Freya had collected pairs of creatures from across Azeroth and maintained them in this hidden place.
• Dick explained that the conservatory was an ark preserving life in case Azeroth’s ecosystem was destroyed, though he believed the Forge of Origination would erase it all.
• Dick and Ysera entered the forest to awaken Freya, who had slept for too long.

Dick and Ysera fought the corrupted Freya in the Conservatory of Life while Dick destroyed the energy nodes sustaining her power. Freya’s clone returned to her true body, and Dick helped her reason overcome the chaos, but she mistook him for Tyr and Ra and learned they could not return.

• Freya attacked Dick and Ysera when Dick woke her, forcing Ysera to fight while Dick searched for the Conservatory’s energy nodes.
• Dick found and destroyed a corrupted treant elder and its magic circle, weakening Freya and allowing Ysera to wound her.
• Dick destroyed the remaining arcane nodes as Freya battered Ysera, causing the Conservatory’s creatures and plants to fall into disarray.
• Dick struck Freya with a Solar Lance, and the Conservatory’s seal opened as Freya’s clone returned to her body.
• Freya’s reason struggled against the corruption until Dick placed his hand on her forehead, and she mistook him for Tyr and Ra before he told her they could not return.

Dick defeated Freya’s Chaos corruption and encouraged her to prepare to fight Yogg-Saron, then entered Mimiron’s laboratory alone. He discovered Mimiron had trapped him in an arena and sent a miniature Flame Leviathan as his first opponent.

• Freya explained that she had built the Conservatory of Life to preserve life after learning of a possible world reshaping, and Dick warned that Yogg-Saron had manipulated her into doing so.
• Dick reassured Freya that Yogg-Saron had deliberately kept her lucid to make her serve its plans, then told her to prepare for their coming fight.
• Dick and Ysera reached the Spark of Imagination, where Dick went ahead to clear the mechanical sentinels while Ysera waited for the other Dragon Aspects.
• Dick destroyed the Mechanical Constructs in the corridor with Holy Light and entered Mimiron’s empty laboratory.
• Dick found a message revealing Mimiron’s trap, failed to escape the sealed arena, and heard Mimiron announce the Flame Leviathan as his first opponent.

Dick battled Mimiron’s machines in the Spark of Imagination Hall, destroying the Flame Leviathan before facing VX-001 and the Aerial Command Unit. As Mimiron tried to recruit him into the embrace of steel, Lady Anveena appeared beside the machine and prepared to strike.

• Dick endured Mimiron’s attacks inside the compressed Energy Cage, then hit Mimiron with a Solar Lance and destroyed the Flame Leviathan’s energy core.
• Mimiron deployed VX-001, whose electrical blast hurled Dick into the Energy Barrier when he tried to approach it.
• Mimiron took to the air in his Aerial Command Unit and bombarded Dick while urging him to become a machine.
• Dick shouted for Mimiron to look behind him as Lady Anveena revealed herself beside the machine and struck.

Dick and Anveena destroyed Mimiron’s machines, recovered the crystal clue, and tried to enter the Doom Shelter password. Mimiron revealed he had only been pretending to be unconscious, trapped them, and assembled his ultimate weapon, while Dick and Anveena secretly held parts that could undermine it.

• Anveena sabotaged Mimiron’s Flight Control Unit, causing the flying machine to crash into VX-001 and the Personal Flame Leviathan in a series of explosions.
• Dick pulled the injured Mimiron from the wreckage and placed the crystal from XT-002 Deconstructor into the storage device in Mimiron’s head.
• Dick entered the known password digits and guessed several three-digit endings, while Mimiron secretly woke and activated an electrical web that weakened Dick and bound Anveena.
• Mimiron flew to the ceiling and used mechanical arms to reassemble his three machines into the colossus V-07-TR-0N.
• Dick revealed a mechanical core, and Anveena produced a gyroscopic stabilizer as they watched Mimiron boast about his weapon.

Dick defeated Mimiron’s combined war machine, rescued the Mechanical Guardian, and discovered that Val'anyr’s missing fragments had been hidden in the Fist of Tyr. With the fragments reunited but needing reforging to face Yogg-Saron, Dick revealed he had saved C'Thun stomach acid.

• Mimiron piloted V-07-TR-0N against Dick, but the stolen core devices destabilized the machine and triggered a catastrophic explosion that destroyed the Spark of Imagination’s Teleporter.
• Dick searched the wreckage with Anveena, found Mimiron, and restored the Guardian’s senses by entering the code 042.
• Mimiron revealed that one Val'anyr fragment was in the wreckage and that Tyr’s fragment had been hidden inside Dick’s Fist of Tyr.
• Mimiron explained that the fragment had protected Dick from the Old Gods’ corruption, and Anveena recovered the remains of Val'anyr’s hammer head.
• Dick reunited all three fragments, learned that old gods stomach acid was needed to reforge the hammer, and showed Mimiron the C'Thun stomach acid he had kept.

Yogg-Saron’s assault on the Crimson Halls of Insanity broke the seal and overwhelmed Ysera with a vision of the abyss, while the Dragon Aspects discovered that N'Zoth had left corruption in the Emerald Dream. Heimdall ordered them to help seal the breached halls as he rebooted Hodir’s mind.

• Ysera reunited with Alexstrasza, Malygos, and Nozdormu after they captured Hodir, while Dick went ahead to clear Mimiron’s obstacles.
• A destructive surge erupted from the teleporter, and Freya warned that the seal on the Crimson Halls of Insanity had been broken.
• Yogg-Saron’s mental attack showed Ysera a yellow eye in the abyss and drove her into terror until Freya’s life magic calmed her.
• Nozdormu and Malygos concluded that N'Zoth had corrupted the Emerald Dream and attacked Ysera through a hidden trap, while Heimdall said the Old Gods had not united.
• Heimdall gave Ysera a rune stone, stabbed Hodir to reboot his mind, and ordered the Dragon Aspects to rush to the Crimson Halls of Insanity.

Dick and the Guardians battled Yogg-Saron’s overwhelming forces in the Crimson Halls of Insanity before boarding Mimiron’s skyrail train to strike directly at the deepest level. Eir led the Val’kyr in retreating to the Training Grounds, where they were ordered to hold off the chaos until the champions returned.

• Malygos, Freya, Thorim, and the other Guardians fought back the endless Faceless Ones, but the chaos forces continued to overwhelm the Crimson Halls.
• Heimdall urged the group to break through to Yogg-Saron, and Mimiron’s skyrail train arrived with Dick and Mimiron aboard.
• Dick and Mimiron called the Guardians onto the train and set off toward the deepest part of the Crimson Halls.
• Dick told the Val’kyr to lure the chaos into the Training Grounds, where Ignis and Auriaya had prepared defenses.
• Eir sounded the Spirit Legion’s horn, then led the Val’kyr in retreating to the Training Grounds to fight alongside their comrades.

Dick and the assembled Judgementals fought their way through Ulduar’s Shattered Domain and defeated General Vezax, the last C’Thraxxi guarding the approach to Yogg-Saron’s prison. They stood ready to face the Old God next.

• Mimiron’s train stopped at a rubble-blocked track, and he led the group onward toward the powerful enemy detected near Yogg-Saron’s prison.
• The group entered a bright hall filled with Faceless Ones, where Freya dispelled the despair aura emitted by General Vezax.
• Dick attacked Vezax while the others battled the Faceless One legion, and Heimdall wounded the general with a powerful strike.
• Vezax drew on Yogg-Saron’s black blood to summon a Dark Tide, but Mimiron, Thorim, Hodir, and Freya disrupted his transformation and weakened him.
• Dick struck Vezax with a searing lance of Holy Light, killing the general as he warned them of the terror ahead.

Dick and the Champions opened the Titans’ prison and confronted the warped domain of Yogg-Saron, whose first attack trapped Dick in an illusion. After his silver flames broke the deception, Dick entered the prison again, determined not to be fooled twice.

• Dick reviewed the Titans’ records describing the Old Gods as parasites sent by the Void Lords to corrupt worlds and infant Titans.
• Ysera refused to withdraw from the battle, and Dick gave her Celestial power to protect her.
• Dick opened the ancient gate, and the Champions saw the distorted prison world containing Yogg-Saron.
• Dick called out Yogg-Saron and Sara, then saw a female Vrykul figure and yellow eyes watching from the emptiness above.
• Silver flames erupted from Dick’s left arm and shattered Yogg-Saron’s illusion, returning Dick to the gate.
• Dick took a concealed treasure from his Bag of Holding, put it away, and entered the prison again as the first exchange ended with Yogg-Saron holding the advantage.

Dick and the Heroes entered Yogg-Saron’s prison, where the Old God unleashed his full power and trapped them in a battle against the entire space. As Yogg-Saron’s shield blocked their attacks, Dick gathered the Guardians’ and Dragon Aspects’ blessings and called on Rajh’s power to prepare a counterattack.

• Anveena was overwhelmed by Yogg-Saron’s psychic influence, so Dick sheltered her within his body and restored his own focus with the Order Sigil and Feathers of Light.
• Dick saw through Yogg-Saron’s illusion of a Vrykul woman asking for help and destroyed it with a Solar Spear.
• Yogg-Saron expanded the prison to its original size, emerged from the lake, and attacked Dick and the assembled Heroes with countless tentacles and psychic force.
• Yogg-Saron raised a seven-colored shield powered by the prison’s magic, preventing Dick and the others from striking his body.
• Dick called for every ally’s power, receiving blessings from the Guardians, the Dragon Aspects, and Odyn, then threw a glowing object and summoned Rajh’s power.

Dick and his allies attacked Yogg-Saron, with Dick breaking the Old God’s shield and wounding his true body before a Mind Crush threw the battlefield into chaos. After Nozdormu restored the injured fighters and Dick joined with Anveena, a new silver-winged figure appeared as the battle reached its climax.

• The Creators of the Forge of Origination empowered Dick, and Rajh’s Sun Projection helped him break Yogg-Saron’s magical shield and stab the Old God.
• Yogg-Saron unleashed Mind Crush, causing Heimdall and Malygos to collide, Thorim and Hodir to be ensnared, and Alexstrasza and Ysera to be wounded amid the confusion.
• Nozdormu used Time Magic to restore the injured allies and return the battlefield to its earlier state.
• Dick used the lingering power of the 13 blessings to slash open Yogg-Saron’s body, then asked his companions to buy him time while he recovered.
• Dick and Anveena merged into a silver figure, which appeared in the prison chamber and severed the tentacles attacking the battlefield.

The Order Angel and the defenders wounded Yogg-Saron, but the Old God used Mind Crush to separate Dick and Anveena from their combined form. Dick consumed Helya’s crystal to learn how to harm Yogg-Saron, then tried to use its secret and failed to reproduce the required frequency.

• The Order Angel drew Yogg-Saron’s attention while Malygos, Heimdall, the Dragon Aspects, and the others attacked its body.
• Yogg-Saron struck the Order Angel with successive Mind Crush attacks, splitting him back into Dick and Anveena.
• Mimiron protected Dick and Anveena long enough for Dick to escape, and Dick swallowed the crystal made from Helya’s relic and Arthas’s Insignia.
• In soul form, Dick saw Yogg-Saron’s chaotic force field and watched Helya’s memory of discovering the frequency that fused a soul with energy to create a Helarjar.
• Dick used the lantern and Holy Light to try the frequency on a collected soul, but the soul dissipated before he could make it work.

Dick summoned the lost souls within his lantern and fused them with Holy Light, lightning, and order to create a Spirit Legion. As Dick and Anveena formed the Order Angel, the legion counterattacked Yogg-Saron and the Dark Kingdom collapsed.

• Dick and Anveena failed to fuse Holy Light with souls at the needed frequency, so Dick called on the lost souls in his lantern to join his fight.
• The lost souls answered Dick, and he combined them with Holy Light, lightning, and order to form a vast Soul Storm.
• Heimdall, the Dragon Aspects, Thorim, and Mimiron fought to keep Yogg-Saron's tentacles away from the souls.
• Mimiron destroyed the Flame Colossus in an explosion that swept away nearby tentacles, but Yogg-Saron launched a deadly attack at him.
• Dick and Anveena completed their fusion as the Order Angel and formed a legion of silver Spirits from the storm.
• The Order Angel directed the Spirit Legion's charge, and its attack broke Yogg-Saron's Dark Kingdom and brought victory.

Dick and the Guardians nearly defeated Yogg-Saron with the Order Angel’s Spirit Legion, but the Legion vanished after Heimdall fell into the Old God’s mouth. As Yogg-Saron claimed victory, Dick activated Ulduar’s energy systems and prepared a final attack.

• Dick sustained the Order Angel’s barrier as the Spirit Legion overwhelmed Yogg-Saron’s tentacles, and Heimdall joined the charge.
• Nozdormu used his remaining time magic to restore Thorim, Hodir, Ysera, and Alexstrasza to the fight.
• Mimiron gave Thorim Dick’s runed pouch and ordered him to throw its contents into Yogg-Saron’s belly.
• Yogg-Saron’s Mind Crush tore open the pouch, and Heimdall caught the bronze warhammer before a tentacle hurled him into the Old God’s mouth.
• Heimdall’s fall caused the Spirit Legion to vanish, leaving Dick exhausted as Yogg-Saron regained the advantage.
• Dick unlocked the High Guardians’ Authority and restarted Ulduar’s energy cycle, then warned Yogg-Saron not to eat whatever he found.

Dick detonated the damaged Val'anyr inside Yogg-Saron, destroying the Old God and leaving the Prison Plane to collapse. After Dick woke in a peaceful place, Elune thanked him for saving Azeroth and asked what reward he wanted.

• Dick used Val'anyr to channel Ulduar's energy into Yogg-Saron, and the shattered hammer detonated the Old God into blue motes of light.
• The blast swept the Prison Plane clean of darkness and shattered its shields, while the plane began collapsing into the Twisting Nether.
• Dick passed out from exhaustion, and Freya confirmed he only needed rest as the Guardians and Dragon Aspects cleared the battlefield.
• Dick woke in a peaceful meadow, where he found Elune holding Anveena.
• Elune thanked Dick for removing Yogg-Saron and healing Azeroth's last festering sore, then asked what reward he wanted.