Recaps

Dick and the demigods prepared a brief assault to rescue Eonar from her hidden chamber near Argus, while Freya returned to help defend the Krokuun Plains. Dick entered the chamber just as Eonar, exhausted and surrounded by demons, prepared to make a last stand.

• Dick, Odyn, Velen, Illidan, and Freya located the Creator's Chamber and planned to open it for only one second so Dick could rescue Eonar.
• Freya contacted Eonar, learned of a natural breach to the southeast, and was told that high-ranking demons had already entered the chamber.
• Dick ordered Freya to return to Argus and tell Thorim and the others to hold the Krokuun Plains, then waited with Odyn, Velen, and Illidan near the breach.
• After fifteen minutes, Dick used his speed to pass through the opening into the chamber before its demon guards could react.
• Eonar fought the demons with the last of her strength, remembering the destruction of the Pantheon and the loss of her body on Neharan.

Dick reached Eonar’s corrupted realm and attacked the demons besieging her, revealing the overwhelming strength of his order angel form. After the Doomguard Witches trapped him, Eonar freed him with her Life Staff, and Dick struck down their leader.

• Dick entered the Creator’s Chamber and saw demons corrupting Eonar’s floating island while she struggled to defend it.
• Dick summoned a Silver Legion and routed the demons attacking the mountain, killing several demon warlords with Solar Lances.
• The four Doomguard Witches tried to torment Dick with whispers, then trapped him in a Fel Energy Net.
• Eonar threw her Life Staff at Dick, breaking the net and freeing him.
• Dick appeared behind the witch leader and pierced her chest with his Order Lightsaber.

Dick rescued Eonar by killing the leader of the Doomguard Coven and defeating the three remaining witches in an overwhelming battle. Eonar thanked him and Elune, while Dick returned to his ordinary form and reported that they had come to save her.

• Dick killed Snariel by piercing her with a sword infused with lightning, Holy Light, and order.
• The remaining Doomguard witches attacked Dick, but he blocked their assault with the Aegis of Aggramar while Eonar struggled to maintain the plane’s seal.
• Dick bound one witch with the Code of Humility and struck another with Solar Lances, breaking the witches’ encirclement.
• Dick killed the witch attacking him with the Sword of Order, then pursued and captured the last fleeing witch.
• Dick returned to Eonar and said he had come to rescue her in the name of Elune, and Eonar thanked him and sent the captured witch underground.

Dick rescued Eonar from her collapsing chamber and escaped the Burning Legion’s blockade with help from Odyn, Velen, and Illidan. Kil'jaeden wounded Dick before a green light carried the group away, and the demon ordered Argus sealed to trap them.

• Eonar recognized Dick’s power, learned that Elune had recovered and the Old Gods were gone, then joined him as a leaf-like Insignia.
• Dick became the Order Angel and escaped the Creator’s Chamber as Eonar’s withdrawal caused the mountain and floating island to collapse.
• Velen disrupted the Legion fleet with a Holy Light crystal while Odyn struck a strategic-class ship and Illidan attacked its interior, helping Dick cross the blockade.
• Kil'jaeden ambushed Dick and nearly tore his back apart, but Illidan caught him as Odyn and Velen blocked Kil'jaeden.
• A green glow transported Dick, Velen, Odyn, and Illidan away; Dick vowed to repay Kil'jaeden, who ordered the Argus Sector sealed.

Anduin led Helljumpers Team Eleven through a live-fire exercise against captured demons while worrying about Dick and the expedition to Argus. After the battle, news from the royal scribe unsettled him, but the chapter ended before revealing what it said.

• Anduin ordered Helljumpers Team Eleven to begin its twenty-seventh training exercise against demons emerging from Portals.
• The Assault Armor team formed a defensive line and cut down the charging demons with heavy firearms.
• Anduin, troubled by Dick's month-long silence from Argus, charged into the remaining demons with his Chainsword.
• Anduin killed the last fleeing Succubus with Holy Light and climbed out of his Assault Armor.
• The royal scribe brought Anduin two pieces of news, and his expression began to change.

Anduin addressed seven hundred junior commanders preparing for the invasion of Argus, laying out the scale of the Burning Legion’s forces and the deadly odds facing Azeroth. He left them with a stark warning that he and Garrosh would lead the way into battle.

• Garrosh complained to Baine about training the new commanders, and Anduin arrived, reminding Garrosh that he still owed him for losing their wager at Xakan.
• A human major condemned Anduin for embracing Baine, but Garrosh quietly asked Anduin to handle the commanders and keep them from causing trouble.
• Anduin took the loudspeaker and began addressing the gathered commanders before Brigadier General Matthew, Thaurissan, and the other captains arrived.
• Anduin recounted Azeroth’s past wars against the Burning Legion and described the victories at Draenor and Xakan that led to the planned invasion of Argus.
• Anduin revealed that Argus held eighteen million demons while Azeroth could send only about 180,000 soldiers, and warned that enemy starships could destroy many of their ships before they reached the planet.
• Anduin told the commanders not to fear death, declaring that he and Garrosh would be among the first to enter the battle.

Anduin rallied the Alliance officers to set aside their hatred and prepare to fight on Argus, while Garrosh pledged the Horde’s support. In Ulduar, Algalon returned with Eonar’s Titan Spirit, and the awakened Creator offered to confront N’Zoth’s lingering influence.

• Anduin condemned those spreading claims against the Guardians and vowed to lead Stormwind’s Helljumpers into the first battle on Argus.
• Garrosh clasped Anduin’s hand, pledged to lead Horde forces to Argus, and called for Azerothians to stand against the demons.
• Thaurissan and Matthew agreed to take their troops to war after hearing the younger leaders’ declarations.
• Elune welcomed Algalon to Ulduar, where he delivered the leaf-shaped halo containing Eonar’s sleeping consciousness.
• Elune restored Eonar, who awakened on Azeroth and learned that N’Zoth’s soul still corrupted mortals through dreams.
• Eonar promised to deal with N’Zoth because it had preserved its soul within a plane governed by life.

Dick’s forces held the Krokuun Wall after thirty days of battle, while Jianxi and Taixi fought Sargeras’s hounds and the Iron Burning Legion was reduced to its last three thousand soldiers. Velen warned that Kil’jaeden might attack Mac’Aree with starships, and Hatuun said his people would make Krokuun Wall a nightmare for the demons in three days.

• Jianxi fought Shatug with demonic warhammers while Taixi battered F’harg, and Dick’s Solar Lance stopped both hounds from escaping through portals.
• Velen told Dick that Kil’jaeden might risk destroying Mac’Aree with starships if the Legion’s portals were lost, and that he suspected Kil’jaeden and Sargeras were using each other.
• Dick watched the Iron Burning Legion’s remaining three thousand soldiers hold the battlefield after thirty days, then sent rested spirit warriors through the Valarjar Gate to relieve them.
• Dick asked Hatuun about his people’s work, and Hatuun said Krokuun Wall would become the demons’ nightmare in three days.

Uther and Anarell fought their way through Eredar demons in the ruins of Mac'Aree, where Uther planned to claim the dead as soldiers. After Anarell defeated the demons, Hasabel confronted them beside a surge of portals, and Uther awakened the resentment of Mac'Aree's dead.

• Uther explained that Mac'Aree's buried dead could become soldiers and sent Anarell to face the charging Eredar demons.
• Anarell used his twin swords and frost powers to freeze the demons, while Uther recited a lesson about death.
• Anarell killed the last fleeing demon, and four portals opened as Hasabel and more demonic forces emerged.
• Hasabel declared Mac'Aree her domain and challenged Uther, who answered that it belonged to death.
• The resentment of the Eredar slain twenty-five thousand years earlier rose beneath the ruins, ready to take revenge.

Hasabel faced Uther and Anarell as they attacked Mac'Aree’s portal transit zone with an army of the dead. Anarell’s forces overwhelmed the demons, and the chapter ended with the fallen rising to fight for him as the Legion’s forces began to rout.

• Hasabel recalled her rise from Argus Awakener Academy to becoming the Legion’s guardian of Mac’Aree’s portals.
• Uther raised Death’s Verdict, awakening buried skeletons and spirits, while Anarell summoned a vast army led by a skeletal Stone Shadow Leopard.
• Uther intercepted Hasabel and claimed her as his opponent while Anarell commanded the undead to break through the portal zone.
• Hasabel sent U'kanna, Dashidio, and Elgar to lead armies of flame, venom, and darkness against Anarell’s skeletons.
• Anarell donned the Helm of Domination and ordered the undead to tear apart and devour the demons.
• Anarell raised fallen Eredar as undead fighters, turning the Legion’s own dead against it and triggering a rout.

Anarell commanded a vast undead army against Hasabel’s demons while Uther battled the Portal Guardian in the Mac'Aree Ruins. Uther defeated Hasabel with the blood-devouring axe The Cursed Throat, and the battlefield fell silent as the demons’ defeat avenged the dead.

• Anarell used his power to command undead Eredar and skeletons, trapping Elgar and the other demon lords behind an overwhelming tide.
• Uther fought Hasabel as she shattered space around them, then triggered three dormant plagues that weakened her.
• Hasabel opened portals to summon more demons and mocked Uther when Death's Verdict vanished into his Bag of Holding.
• Uther crushed a dark-red crystal and summoned The Cursed Throat, whose power devoured his blood and healed him as he charged through Hasabel’s black holes.
• Uther struck Hasabel with The Cursed Throat, drained her life, and beheaded her.
• Uther threw Hasabel’s skull toward the battlefield, and the Mac'Aree Ruins fell silent as the demons faced defeat.

Kil'jaeden visited Shattered Sword Hall and ordered the fallen titan Aggramar to destroy the Azerothian forces in Krokuun. Aggramar exposed Kil'jaeden's resentment over having sacrificed his world, and Kil'jaeden left without answering.

• Kil'jaeden assessed the Legion's setbacks in Krokuun and Mac'Aree and concluded that Azeroth was preparing a major war against Argus.
• Kil'jaeden entered Shattered Sword Hall and endured the maddening whispers surrounding Aggramar, who sat upon the Burning Iron Throne.
• Kil'jaeden told Aggramar that he had forged his body at great cost and demanded that he crush the invaders from Azeroth.
• Aggramar mocked Kil'jaeden for admitting he could not defeat the invaders, while Kil'jaeden called him Sargeras's dog and struck his leg.
• Aggramar said Kil'jaeden resented him because Sargeras had ordered Kil'jaeden to destroy his beloved world, and Kil'jaeden left without responding.

Dick and Velen prepared for the final battle as the defenses at Mac'Aree and Krokuun weakened, but Aggramar suddenly arrived and destroyed the Krokuun Wall. The demons poured through the breach, beginning the decisive battle.

• Uther reported that the Argus War Council had defeated his forces in Mac'Aree, though the Army of the Light joined the fight to help him.
• Dick and Odyn recalled their heavy losses defending the Krokuun Wall, while Dick and Velen discussed bringing Illidan back and opening a Sargerite Gate.
• Velen warned Dick that Kil'jaeden was likely preparing for war, and Dick asked whether Velen would hate him if he had to destroy Argus.
• Aggramar descended onto the Krokuun Wall and struck it with Taeshalach, shattering the defensive line despite Dick's attack.
• Demons surged through the ruined wall as the Valarjar and a smaller rampart faced the decisive battle.

Dick and Odyn fought Aggramar, whose strength overwhelmed them despite Dick managing to wound him. After Dick called for plan two, Illidan used the Sargerite Keystone to teleport all three away from the battlefield.

• Dick and Odyn attacked Aggramar, but he shattered Dick’s chains and spear-image and broke through the defenses at Krokuun Wall.
• Dick charged his Sword of Order while Odyn intercepted Aggramar’s flaming whip, giving Dick time to strike the fallen Titan and wound his chest.
• Aggramar counterattacked and knocked Dick aside, but Dick and Odyn kept him occupied as demons advanced across the battlefield.
• Dick told Velen through the Mind Link to summon Illidan and prepare plan two, then he and Odyn drew Aggramar away from a direct clash.
• Illidan opened a gateway with the Sargerite Keystone, and Dick and Odyn pinned Aggramar in place until all three were swallowed by it.

Hatuun led the Krokuun Broken and the defenders into a desperate counterattack while Velen’s healing light strengthened them. As Kil'jaeden confronted Velen, the prophet revealed a hidden plan and crushed a purple crystal, causing the Krokuun Plains to collapse.

• After Dick and Odyn removed Aggramar from the battlefield, Hatuun rallied seven thousand Broken to defend their families and Argus.
• Hatuun led the Krokuun Broken through the first defensive line as the spirits and Valarjar charged the demons.
• Velen spread healing light over the defenders, helping them hold the line against the demon vanguard.
• Kil'jaeden emerged behind Velen and attacked, but Velen’s Inner Fire shield stopped his claws.
• Velen and Kil'jaeden argued over Velen’s departure from Argus and Kil'jaeden’s pursuit of power before they prepared to fight.
• Velen crushed a purple crystal, and purple light burst from fissures as the Krokuun Plains collapsed.

Dick, Odyn, and Illidan used the Sargerite Keystone to bring Aggramar to the space outside Azeroth, where Elune and Eonar helped restrain him. They began breaking through his dark body so Dick could enter Aggramar’s soul and silence the Dark Whispers.

• Dick and Illidan transported Aggramar, Odyn, and Dick through the Sargerite Keystone, spending a third of its energy.
• Aggramar recognized the unfamiliar star domain and attacked Dick with Taeshalach as they emerged near Azeroth.
• Elune and Eonar appeared and weakened Aggramar with moonlight and life energy, while Odyn struck him with the Spear of Judgment.
• Elune explained that Aggramar’s soul was still resisting the darkness and told Dick to enter it and cut off the Dark Whispers.
• Dick, Odyn, and Illidan attacked Aggramar’s body while Elune and Eonar restrained him, opening deep wounds in his Dark Titan form.

Dick entered Aggramar’s body and reached the Titan spirit imprisoned within its chaos-corrupted core. When Aggramar briefly regained awareness, he begged Dick to kill him before the chaos awakened, and Dick obeyed.

• Dick’s allies wounded Aggramar’s body while Elune and Eonar’s power helped reach the Titan spirit within.
• With Elune’s help, Dick left the Order Angel’s body and entered Aggramar’s shell, pushing through its magma-filled energy pathways.
• Dick broke through a wall of chaotic energy and found Aggramar’s spirit imprisoned in darkness, still resisting corruption.
• Dick poured his power of order into Aggramar and urged him to awaken, enduring repeated attacks from the Titan’s body.
• Aggramar briefly regained his reason and ordered Dick to kill him before the madness awakened.
• Dick apologized and pierced Aggramar’s undefended spirit with a blade of order.

Dick entered Aggramar’s spirit to suppress the chaos consuming him, where Aggramar revealed his defeat by Sargeras and asked Dick to inherit his legacy. Aggramar died, leaving Dick Taeshalach and a mission to find the imprisoned Titans’ souls as Sargeras advanced on Argus.

• Dick merged with Aggramar’s spirit form and entered his soul to contain the chaos within it.
• Aggramar showed Dick how Sargeras had defeated and corrupted him after destroying Neharan.
• Aggramar asked Dick to kill him, inherit his power, and seek the crystal holding the Father of Gods and the other Titans’ souls.
• Dick pierced Aggramar’s will, killing him as the Titan urged him to keep hope and warned that Sargeras was heading to Argus.
• Dick received Taeshalach, whose rusted shell fell away to reveal its restored blade, then joined Elune in preparing for war.

Velen triggered a vast arcane storm beneath the Krokuun Plains, destroying much of the demon army but leaving him vulnerable to Kil'jaeden. Kil'jaeden seized Velen and ordered the starships to bombard the Broken and Valarjar, whose defensive shield blocked the first volley before he prepared another.

• Velen crushed the Black Crystal, unleashing an arcane storm that tore through the Krokuun Plains and killed more than a hundred thousand demons.
• Kil'jaeden ordered the starships to fire on the storm, and their bombardment destabilized it, blasting a vast fissure across the plains.
• Kil'jaeden struck down Velen and fought off the Valarjar as Thorim, Hodir, Heimdall, and Eir tried to rescue him.
• Kil'jaeden summoned Kin'garoth and Varimathras to battle the Guardians, then threatened to keep Velen alive to witness the Legion's invasion of Azeroth.
• The starships fired on the Broken and Valarjar, but the Large Energy Defense Device raised a seven-colored shield that blocked the volley.
• Kil'jaeden recognized the shield and ordered another bombardment, testing how many strikes it could withstand.

Velen shielded Valarjar and the Krokuun Mountains from the Legion’s bombardment, but Kil’jaeden ordered another volley. Thorim, Hodir, and Forge Master Ignis sacrificed themselves to slow the attack, leaving Velen to declare that Azeroth would never fall.

• Kil’jaeden’s starships bombarded Krokuun, and the ethereal energy shield reached its limit as the defenders watched in terror.
• Velen broke free of Kil’jaeden and used a Holy Light Shield to stop the bombardment, collapsing from the effort afterward.
• Kil’jaeden seized the weakened Velen and ordered another volley, determined to destroy everything Velen protected.
• Thorim charged into the descending beams and detonated his guardian core, briefly shielding the defenders before dying.
• Hodir sacrificed himself with an ice storm, then Forge Master Ignis leaped into the bombardment and gave his life as well.
• Velen praised the guardians’ courage and told Kil’jaeden that Azeroth would never fall.

Velen’s sacrifice held off Kil'jaeden’s bombardment until the Azeroth Alliance Forces arrived through the Sargerite Keystone. Dick and Odyn rescued Heimdall, and the Alliance fleet’s opening attacks shifted the battle above Krokuun in Azeroth’s favor, leaving Kil'jaeden facing his doom.

• Kil'jaeden prepared another bombardment, and Heimdall chose to sacrifice himself to protect the Valarjar while Eir fought Varimathras.
• Velen sensed the arrival of the Azeroth Alliance Forces and told Kil'jaeden that hope had ignited.
• Odyn’s strike stopped the bombardment from hitting Heimdall, and Dick used Taeshalach to cut through the destructive beam before calling the Alliance Forces into battle.
• The flagship Tempest Keep emerged from the portal, and Turalyon ordered the fleet to prepare its bombardment and ground assault.
• More than seventy Azeroth Assault Starships joined the battle and destroyed one-fifth of the Demon Starships in their first volley.
• The Alliance fleet’s second bombardment struck as Kil'jaeden realized he had misjudged Azeroth and could not escape his doom.

Azeroth’s fleet began its assault on Argus, while the Helljumpers and Iron Burning Legion landed amid heavy demon fire and overwhelmed the disorganized forces. Dick defeated Kil'jaeden, who spoke with Velen before Dick carried him away as he exploded in the sky.

• Turalyon ordered the Helljumpers and Iron Burning Legion to land while the fleets launched fighters and prepared their defenses.
• Demon antiaircraft fire destroyed some landing pods, but the surviving troops and support ships devastated the demons gathered in Krokuun.
• Dick defeated Varimathras with Taeshalach, and Freya collected the relics of three fallen Guardians.
• Dick confronted Kil'jaeden, stopped his escape, and overcame his Soul Storm with a devastating strike from Taeshalach.
• Velen listened as Kil'jaeden confessed his jealousy and voiced hope that Velen could prove him wrong, then Dick vanished with Kil'jaeden before a burst of green fire lit the distant sky.

After the Krokuun Great Star War ended in Azeroth’s victory and Kil’jaeden’s death, the Eredar Twins organized converts into a New Eredar movement while the surviving Eredar War Council planned to summon Sargeras. Nester Orris and Nolan set out to recruit more converts in Antoran, as the War Council prepared to sacrifice a captive in Mac’Aree to open a passage for their master.

• Azeroth’s fleet and ground forces defeated the Burning Legion at Krokuun, killing Kil’jaeden and opening the route to the Antoran Wastes.
• The Eredar Twins ordered Nester Orris to recruit more than a hundred thousand Eredar converts and gave him authority to gather followers.
• Nester met his friend Nolan and announced that they would go to Antoran to recruit Eredar, starting with Nolan’s parents and their old acquaintances.
• The Eredar War Council decided that it could not defeat Azeroth’s forces without summoning Sargeras through a transit passage.
• The War Council chose to sacrifice a captive held in Mac’Aree and planned to send an infiltrator to seize the opportunity.

After the victory at Krokuun, Dick gathered the leaders to plan the attack on Antorus and debate whether the demonized Eredar of New Eredar posed a threat. He argued that Azeroth’s vast capacity and growing contact with other civilizations demanded a new approach, introducing his Interstellar Era Theory as the next major question.

• Turalyon reported that the fleet had recovered after three days, though its captains mourned their lost ships and ground forces needed more time; Dick planned to attack Antorus and rejected a proposed massacre of the remaining demons.
• Trixis told the leaders that Nester Orris had gathered more than thirty thousand demonized Eredar into New Eredar, which the Army of the Light feared could threaten security around Mac'Aree.
• Turalyon warned that the Eredar were dangerous and advised against bringing them to Azeroth, while Taylor argued their small numbers made them a minor concern; Velen said he trusted them little and preferred Hatuun’s people.
• Dick challenged the leaders’ assumptions about accepting other peoples and revealed that Azeroth had about eighty-seven million inhabitants but could support six billion.
• Dick introduced his Interstellar Era Theory as a way to consider Azeroth’s future relations with other worlds and civilizations.

Dick urged Azeroth’s leaders to build a populous, united interstellar civilization capable of defending itself, then issued Ulduar Order No. 0001 to halt large-scale wars on Azeroth for a century and grant Xakan and New Eredar equal standing. He left the generals inspired and determined as the expedition prepared to attack Antorus in three days.

• Dick argued that Azeroth’s small population and reliance on exceptional heroes left it vulnerable to the Burning Legion, and challenged the generals to prepare other civilizations to fight alongside Azeroth.
• Turalyon estimated that 500,000 equipped Xakan soldiers could defeat at most 1.5 million demons in defense, prompting Dick to condemn the leaders’ treatment of Xakan Elves as maids.
• Dick called for Xakan and New Eredar to become equal partners in an interstellar federation and urged the leaders to build a civilization able to survive future wars.
• Dick issued Ulduar Order No. 0001, banning large-scale wars on Azeroth for one hundred years beginning in Year 28 of the Dark Portal and making Xakan the first test case for his strategy.
• Dick announced that the forces would attack Antorus in three days, and the assembled leaders vowed to make their banners and bloodlines endure.
• Velen praised Dick’s speech as they departed, and Dick declared that Azeroth’s journey among the stars had only begun.