Recaps

Sylvanas led four thousand rangers and mages toward Tranquillien Outpost, unaware that Arthas had prepared an ambush. Dick and his small force raced to reach the battle, but Sylvanas’s troops were already surrounded when the chapter ended.

• After losing most of the Ghostlands strongholds and receiving a third plea for aid, Sylvanas decided to march from Fairbreeze Village to rescue Tranquillien Outpost.
• Sylvanas ordered Lor'themar and Halduron to lead support forces, then advanced beyond Quel'Thalas’s defensive runes with four thousand rangers and mages.
• Arthas spotted the elves through his gargoyle link and sent his undead forces converging on Tranquillien from three directions.
• Dick led paladins, priests, and elven warriors through repeated undead attacks, then urged them to ride double and hurry toward Tranquillien.
• Sylvanas realized her army had been ambushed when nerubians erupted beneath the ranks and gargoyles dropped Plague Jars onto the mages.

Sylvanas fought through Arthas’s ambush at Tranquillien Outpost and was nearly killed after reaching him, but Dick and the paladins rescued her. The survivors fled toward Liadrin’s Holy Light Barrier as elven fighters stayed behind to cover their retreat.

• Sylvanas realized Tranquillien Outpost had been destroyed and led the Rangers against the undead, believing that killing Arthas was their only chance.
• Sylvanas defeated two abominations and confronted Arthas, but he slowed her with Howling Blast and trapped her with the final abomination after she shot him with Chimaera Shot.
• Arthas shattered Sylvanas’s sabers and prepared to kill her, but Dick’s Holy Shock diverted Frostmourne and his Dragon Hook pulled her away.
• Sylvanas escaped Arthas’s grasp by slipping out of her glove, while a fallen abomination blocked his Death Grip from reaching her.
• Dick carried Sylvanas as the group threw holy water at their pursuers and rushed toward Liadrin’s Holy Light Barrier, while elven fighters stayed behind to cover the retreat.

Dick led Sylvanas and the surviving Paladins toward Quel'Thalas while Arthas's forces pursued them. When they encountered Marduk the Black, Dick discovered that Flash of Light could disrupt the Death Knight's defense, giving him a way to break their stalemate.

• Dick rescued Sylvanas, gave her a War Bow, and ordered the wounded survivors to retreat toward Quel'Thalas.
• Sylvanas led the party through the woods toward Windrunner Village, hoping to reach Halduron's reinforcements near Goldenmist Village.
• Sylvanas detected an approaching Undead force and warned the party, so Dick led the Knights in a charge against the Death Knights.
• Dick recognized Marduk the Black and used the Dragon Hook to topple his Death Charger, then stunned and struck him repeatedly.
• Dick used Flash of Light on Marduk, disrupting his attack and creating an opening that revealed a way to break the stalemate.

Dick used the Fire of Justice’s stored Holy Light to defeat Marduk, who was then killed with help from Sylvanas and Liadrin. After six Paladins died in the battle, Dick and Sylvanas struggled with their guilt, while Dick feared Arthas was nearing Dar’Khan and the collapse of Quel’Thalas’s Defensive Runes.

• Dick pierced Marduk with repeated Flash of Light attacks and brought him down with Judgment of Order, but Marduk regenerated by sacrificing a Ghoul and seized Dick with death energy.
• Sylvanas shot Marduk with a Chimaera Shot while Liadrin healed Dick, giving Dick the opening to kill Marduk with a blast of Holy Light.
• Sylvanas defeated the remaining Death Knights and Ghouls, but Dick and Myra lost six comrades and buried their armor and weapons as crude gravestones.
• Dick rebuked Sylvanas for speaking of remembrance and blamed himself for bringing the fallen knights into danger; Sylvanas later confided her doubts to Liadrin.
• Dick concluded that Arthas had likely contacted Dar’Khan and that the Defensive Runes were close to collapsing.

Arthas used Lor'themar Theron's memories to help Dar'Khan Drathir decipher the Defensive Runes, giving him seven days to open them. Meanwhile, Dick's exhausted party planned to reach a secret dock at Goldenmist Village and cross into Quel'Thalas, where Dick hoped Sylvanas would warn the King of the danger.

• Arthas showed Dar'Khan Drathir Lor'themar Theron's memories and threatened to expose their dealings if Dar'Khan failed to undo the Defensive Runes within seven days.
• Arthas declared that he would handle the invasion himself once the runes were opened, while Lor'themar served as his foremost general.
• Dick and his companions halted near Windrunner Village, and Sylvanas explained that Goldenmist Village had a secret Ranger Corps dock with five magically powered boats.
• Dick warned that Arthas might have ambushed the river crossings, but Sylvanas revealed the dock was their best route into Quel'Thalas despite the risk.
• Dick ordered the group to rest before setting out for Goldenmist Village and asked Sylvanas to warn her King that Quel'Thalas's defenses were in danger.

Dick awoke from a nightmare in which he relived the deaths of comrades and was comforted by Liadrin before leading the group toward Goldenmist Village. The squad fought through an undead ambush, but the arrival of a familiar figure left Liadran stunned: Lor'themar.

• Dick woke from a nightmare and nearly struck Liadrin with the Fire of Justice before realizing where he was and apologizing.
• Liadrin soothed Dick, and after he rested, she cleaned his hammer and asked about it; he invited her to call him Liadrin.
• Dick rallied the group, and the knights rode toward Goldenmist Village with Sylvanas leading the way and shooting down undead along the route.
• Dick led the squad into the ruined village and used Consecration to expose an undead ambush as gargoyles attacked from above.
• Sylvanas destroyed most of the diving gargoyles, then a black-energy sword flew toward her as a tall figure appeared among the ruins.
• Liadrin recognized the figure as Lor'themar and reacted in disbelief.

Dick and the paladins fought Lor'themar, now a powerful death knight, while Sylvanas prepared the Magic Ships for their escape. As the ships fled, Liadrin tried to reach Lor'themar, but he shot her; Sylvanas rescued her and escaped, while Lor'themar disappeared into the darkness.

• Sylvanas dodged Lor'themar's Black Arrow, and Dick sent her to prepare the Magic Ships before fighting the death knight.
• Dick charged Lor'themar, wounded him with a compressed Holy Shock, and was carried away by the surviving paladins as Sylvanas covered their escape.
• Sylvanas summoned the Magic Ships and shot at Lor'themar, who appeared with her broken arrow and challenged her to a duel.
• Liadrin stepped between Sylvanas and Lor'themar and pleaded with him to stop, but Lor'themar shot her as Sylvanas struck him with a Chimaera Shot.
• Sylvanas caught Liadrin and carried her aboard the last Magic Ship, while a wounded Lor'themar watched the ships depart and vanished into the darkness.

Dick woke in Silvermoon City after Sylvanas rescued him, discovered that completing her mission had raised his attributes and advanced his rank, and surveyed the city and the Sunwell from his room. He ended the chapter resolved to find a way to stop Arthas, whose forces had killed eleven knights during the escape.

• Dick awoke in the Hall of Light as his new rank activated and his body recovered from severe injuries.
• Dick checked his attributes and learned he had become a Rare Elite with a new Elite Power bonus.
• Dick looked out over Silvermoon City and reflected on its splendor and its coming destruction by Arthas.
• Dick used an engineering telescope to locate the Isle of Quel'Danas and considered the Sunwell and Sylvanas's effort to change Quel'Thalas's leaders.
• Dick remembered the eleven knights killed by Arthas's forces and resolved to oppose him.

Dick warned Anasterian that Arthas sought the Sunwell to provide a vessel for Kel'Thuzad, and Quel'Thalas had begun preparing for war. A new quest revealed that Dick still had to preserve the high elf empire's political structure and population, while warning that danger came from more than the obvious enemies.

• Dick left Liadrin's bedside after promising to change the situation and followed Sylvanas to meet Anasterian.
• Sylvanas told Dick that Quel'Thalas had begun preparing its defenses and that she had requested Dar'Khan's arrest while Halduron watched his tower.
• Dick told Anasterian that Arthas wanted the Sunwell's power to turn Kel'Thuzad into a lich.
• Dick swore that Dar'Khan had colluded with the enemy and warned Anasterian that Lor'themar's death had exposed the defensive runes.
• Sylvanas told Dick that Anasterian had already mobilized the remaining forces and begun evacuating the populace.
• Dick received the quest "Sunset of the Phoenix Dynasty," which required him to preserve Quel'Thalas's political structure and keep more than a million high elves alive.

Sun King Anasterian sent Sylvanas and Dick to confront Archmage Dar'Khan, while he prepared Quel'Thalas for the possibility of war. The group found Dar'Khan in his tower, but he revealed an illusion and escaped with the Key to Transcendence.

• Anasterian ordered Sylvanas to bring Dar'Khan to Phoenix Hall and secretly mobilized the Firewing Guard and Kael'thas's Sunreaver mages.
• Sylvanas changed into combat armor, then led Dick and two squads of spellbreakers to Dar'Khan's tower, where they met Ranger-Lord Halduron Brightwing.
• Dick blessed Sylvanas and Halduron with Blessing of Might, and the three joined the spellbreakers in breaking into Dar'Khan's laboratory.
• Dar'Khan revealed the Key to Transcendence and declared his intention to reach the Sunwell and achieve transcendence.
• Sylvanas shot Dar'Khan with a Demon-Breaking Arrow, but Dick discovered that the apparent target was an illusion and Dar'Khan had escaped.

Quel'Thalas prepared for Arthas's invasion as Anasterian struggled to evacuate its civilians and Dick fought on the southern front. After another costly battle, Dick and Halduron worried over Arthas's absence and Dar'Khan's unexplained disappearance, suspecting a hidden plot.

• Anasterian ordered civilians evacuated to Sunstrider Isle and Quel'Danas, then sought help from the Order of the Silver Hand to shelter the rest in Lordaeron.
• The undead and High Elves fought a brutal battle at the three southern sanctums, with Holy Water helping the defenders inflict heavy losses.
• Dick and Mael-Dawnblade led twenty-six Elven Paladins into the undead ranks and helped repel another assault at An'owyn Sanctum.
• Dick returned to Silvermoon City and found Liadrin still unconscious in the Hall of Light.
• Halduron told Dick that Sylvanas had killed a death knight, while Arthas remained absent and Dar'Khan's magical traces had vanished.
• Dick and Halduron suspected Dar'Khan's betrayal concealed a deeper secret.

Kael'thas returned to Silvermoon City with Krasus and Rhonin to help defend Quel'Thalas, and Anasterian gave him command of the Firewing Guard and tasked him with finding Dar'Khan. The chapter ended with Rhonin spotting Dick in the streets of Silvermoon City.

• Halduron welcomed the news that Kael'thas had arrived, while Dick left the Hall of Light still troubled by an unexplained feeling of unease.
• Kael'thas introduced Krasus and Rhonin to Anasterian and the Silvermoon Council, but Sylvanas interrupted to object to Rhonin being called Vereesa's husband before leaving for the front.
• Anasterian put Kael'thas in command of the Firewing Guard and ordered him to stop the undead invasion, find Dar'Khan, and disable the defensive runes.
• Kael'thas told Anasterian that Krasus would help track Dar'Khan in exchange for permission to study the Sunwell after the war, and agreed to meet Dick.
• Krasus encouraged Rhonin after Sylvanas rejected his relationship with Vereesa, and Rhonin recognized Dick walking through the deserted streets.

Dick realized Dar'Khan was conspiring with demons to use the Sunwell to summon a great demon, but his warning arrived too late. Dar'Khan activated the Purple Key, opening dark-green rifts across Silvermoon City and calling the Burning Legion to Azeroth.

• Dick recognized that Dar'Khan's supposed alliance with Arthas was a decoy and warned Sylvanas that demons were his real allies.
• Krasus led Kael'thas, Rhonin, and the Firewing Guard to Dar'Khan's hidden laboratory beneath Silvermoon City.
• Dick sent a warning through a Communications Stone, urging Kael'thas to capture Dar'Khan and stop him from opening a Portal.
• Dar'Khan exploded the Purple Key before the group could stop him, opening spatial rifts throughout Silvermoon City and summoning the demons.

After demons emerged through Spatial Rifts across Silvermoon City and the undead attacked the front lines, Dick realized his actions had helped push Azeroth toward a demonic invasion. He urged King Anasterian to destroy the Sunwell, but the king had him imprisoned and ordered the defense of the city and front lines.

• Dick and Anasterian learned that the Communications Stone had shattered, while Lana'thel reported demons pouring through Spatial Rifts across Silvermoon City and a Spellbreaker reported an undead assault on the sanctums.
• Dick realized the demons could use the Sunwell to bring Archimonde and Kil'jaeden into the world, and feared his changes to history had made the invasion more dangerous.
• Kael'thas returned with Rhonin and the Firewing Guard and explained that Dar'Khan had bound the multiplying rifts to Silvermoon City's Defensive Runes; Sylvanas then shot a hidden succubus.
• Dick demanded that Anasterian destroy the Sunwell to deny the demons its power, but Anasterian struck him and ordered the Spellbreakers to imprison him.
• Anasterian ordered Kael'thas to seal the rifts and Sylvanas to hold the front, while he took the Spellbreakers to guard the Sunwell; Rhonin privately concluded Dick's warning could come true.

As demons and undead threatened Quel'Thalas, Kael'thas visited the imprisoned Dick and learned that the Sunwell’s energy had made the high elves dependent on arcane power. Dick claimed he could cure that dependence, and Kael'thas agreed to join his plan, leaving their alliance poised to begin.

• Kael'thas oversaw the evacuation of civilians from Sunsail Anchorage and considered how to defend Quel'Thalas on two fronts.
• Kael'thas apologized to Dick in the Mana Prison but refused to release him until the war ended.
• Dick warned Kael'thas that the demons and undead would overwhelm Quel'Thalas and explained that the high elves would collapse without the Sunwell’s arcane energy.
• Kael'thas reacted with alarm when Dick revealed the secret of the high elves’ mana addiction and asked how he knew it.
• Dick said he had a way to cure the addiction, and Kael'thas lowered the prison barrier and agreed to join him.

Kael'thas and Dick proposed destroying the Sunwell to stop the demons, with Arcan'dor as a cure for the high elves’ mana addiction. Kael'thas sent an expedition to the Broken Isles to find its seeds, while Silvermoon City prepared to hold out for seven days.

• Lana'thel reported that demons were gathering around Silvermoon City and powerful beings in the void were targeting the Sunwell.
• Kael'thas announced his plan to destroy the Sunwell, and Dick explained mana addiction and proposed finding Arcan'dor to cure it.
• Dick revealed that Suramar and Arcan'dor had survived near the Maelstrom on the Broken Isles, and Kael'thas gave the expedition seven days to find seeds.
• Rothman agreed to lead the expedition, joined by Halduron, Capernian, Sanguinar, and navigator Parsa'reyn.
• Kael'thas vowed to defend Silvermoon City while the expedition searched for Arcan'dor, and those gathered joined Dick in declaring that the city would never fall.

Kael'thas began evacuating Quel'Danas and preparing to destroy the Sunwell, but Anasterian revealed that the Sunwell had a soul of its own. When demons attacked the island, Anasterian joined the effort to redirect the Sunwell's explosion, while Arthas led a hidden troop toward the battle.

• Kael'thas ordered the civilians and residents of Quel'Danas to evacuate through Portals to Eastweald, angering Anasterian as he prepared to detonate the Sunwell.
• Kael'thas told Anasterian that the Sunwell had to be destroyed to stop the demons and said that Rothman and Halduron had found a replacement, but Anasterian revealed that the Sunwell had nurtured a soul.
• A Pit Lord and other demons attacked Quel'Danas as a rift opened over the sea, and Dick warned that the demons must be kept from reaching the Sunwell.
• Kael'thas, Sylvanas, Dick, and the Spellbreakers rushed into battle, while Anasterian ordered the mages to channel the Sunwell's explosion toward the sea and Silvermoon City.
• Arthas led a troop of black-cloaked riders through demon-occupied Silvermoon City toward Quel'Danas, intending to turn the demons' plans to his advantage.

Kael'thas and Dick fought to hold back the demons attacking Quel'Danas, but Dick discovered that Arthas had reached the Sunwell. The chapter ended with Dick warning Kael'thas to return before Arthas could act.

• Kael'thas trapped the Pit Lord in a depression, but it attacked the Spellbreakers and killed fourteen of them before his Flamestrike scroll halted the demons approaching from the sea.
• Kael'thas unleashed his phoenix Oh against the Pit Lord while new spatial rifts appeared along the battlefield.
• Dick battled the Infernal Giant and destroyed its unstable Fel Flame Core, which blasted him into the air.
• Dick spotted Arthas riding toward the Sunwell with his Runeblade and realized the demon attack had been a diversion.
• Dick shouted to Kael'thas that Arthas was at the Sunwell and urged him to return.

Dick reached Sunwell Hall as Arthas fought Kael'thas and tried to stop Lor'themar Theron from using Kel'Thuzad's ashes, but the ashes entered the Sunwell before Dick could intervene. The chapter ended with Dick shot by a bone arrow and plunging toward the corrupted well water.

• Kael'thas drained the Pit Lord's fel energy and life force, then teleported with Dick to the Sunwell steps.
• Kael'thas entered Sunwell Hall, leaving Dick to fight Thassarian; Dick spared him and sent him away to seek redemption.
• Dick found Marwyn dead and reached the Sunwell's core, where Arthas and Kael'thas battled while Anasterian lay wounded.
• Dick saw Lor'themar Theron throw Kel'Thuzad's ashes into the Sunwell Water, spreading dark energy across its surface.
• A bone arrow pierced Dick's arm as he swung from the second-floor railing, and he fell toward the well.

Dick fell into the corrupted Sunwell and called for Anveena, the life nurtured within it, as Arthas and Theron pressed Kael'thas and demons threatened Quel'Danas. Anveena finally answered, but she was angry and refused to save the Elves who had imprisoned her.

• Theron watched Dick sink into the Sunwell, then joined Arthas in attacking Kael'thas while Dick struggled against the dark vortex.
• Dick realized Anveena was his only hope and shouted for her to emerge before the Sunwell's corruption consumed him.
• Arthas and Theron gained ground against Kael'thas as demons overwhelmed the defenders at Quel'Danas and a Great Demon began emerging through a rift.
• Dick's Divine Shield shattered, and he was swept into the vortex as he begged Anveena to save the Elves.
• Anveena appeared in golden light and told Dick she would not save the Elves because they had imprisoned her for six thousand eight hundred years.

Dick met Anveena, the Sunwell spirit and daughter of Elune, and persuaded her to lend him the Sunwell’s power to fight Arthas. After helping Kael'thas escape, Dick fled the Sunwell Hall as Anasterian activated the Greater Disintegration Array, ending an era.

• Dick learned that Anveena hated the High Elves because Dath'Remar had imprisoned her in the Sunwell, and he promised to take her to Elune and her celestial siblings if she helped him.
• Anveena sent Dick out of the Sunwell and gave him its essence, empowering him as he drove Arthas back and severely wounded him.
• Anveena warned Dick that he could not control the Sunwell’s power outside the hall, so he sent Kael'thas after Arthas while he tried to save Anasterian.
• Anasterian gave Dick Flamestrike for Kael'thas, named his son the next Sun King, and remained behind to activate the Greater Disintegration Array.
• Dick dragged Kael'thas from the hall and through the portal as a beam of white light erupted from the Sunwell.

Sylvanas and the defenders fought to hold back the demonic invasion until the Sunwell drove the Great Demon back, though its final strike devastated Quel'Thalas. After Kael'thas mourned his father, Dick gave him Flamestrike and proclaimed him king as the High Elves swore loyalty to him as the Sin'dorei.

• Sylvanas killed a red Felguard commander with a Chimaera Shot, then used her sabers when she ran out of arrows.
• Mael-Dawnblade and the surviving Paladins held the line while the mages bombarded the demons and the Spatial Rift continued to widen.
• The Sunwell sent two beams of power toward the rift and Silvermoon City, forcing the Great Demon back into the Void before its final strike shattered Quel'Thalas's defenses and sank part of Quel'Danas.
• Kael'thas blamed Dick for leaving Anasterian behind and punched him, but Sylvanas pulled him away.
• Dick gave Kael'thas Flamestrike and asked him to carry on Anasterian's legacy; Kael'thas vowed to restore Quel'Thalas and named its people the Sin'dorei.
• The elves swore allegiance to Kael'thas, and Dick proclaimed him king in Anasterian's name.

Dick discovered that Anveena had moved into Fire of Justice and negotiated limits on her control of the weapon, while Kael'thas became the new Sun King and began rebuilding Quel'Thalas. A month later, as the elves returned and settled under an agreement with the Silver Hand, Dick reunited with Jaina and watched Kael'thas's coronation begin.

• Dick handed Flamestrike to Kael'thas, who awakened its power and transformed it into Sunstrider's Pride.
• Dick found Anveena living inside Fire of Justice; she agreed to remove its barrier only when he urgently needed the hammer, leaving it half-sealed in ordinary circumstances.
• Dick reflected that his intervention had saved Sylvanas, preserved the Sunstrider succession, and spared hundreds of thousands of elves from death.
• Kael'thas named the fel-scarred ravine the Dead Scar, organized defenses, and planned a new capital on Sunstrider Isle as elven refugees returned.
• Kael'thas's government agreed with the Silver Hand to settle elven refugees in territories across Hillsbrad Foothills, the Arathi Highlands, and Eastweald while Quel'Thalas was rebuilt.
• Dick reunited with Jaina at Sunstrider Isle, and the two watched Kael'thas's coronation ceremony begin.

Kael'thas was crowned Sun King as Dick completed his major quest and collapsed from a new power, while Jaina took him away through a portal. Meanwhile, Arthas and Kel'Thuzad began plotting to summon Archimonde through Dalaran, Magni forged Ashbringer, and Uther emerged transformed and ready to confront Arthas.

• Kael'thas was crowned Sun King, and the phoenix and falling maple leaves marked the Sin'dorei's return to having a king.
• Dick received quest rewards and attained Lord Rank, then collapsed as Jaina carried him through a portal to safety.
• Kel'Thuzad revealed the Lich King's plan to Arthas, and they agreed to help Archimonde descend upon the world by seizing Dalaran.
• Magni Bronzebeard finished forging Ashbringer after learning that Muradin had died.
• Uther emerged from the ruined Wizard's Tower with a blood-red runeblade and told Alexandros he was ready to settle the score with Arthas.

Darion fought undead in Eastweald while Dick’s regiment trained recruits and prepared to receive an elven commander. Dick remained incapacitated by his painful transformation into a lord, and the chapter ended with him confronting the unexpected arrival of Liadrin Delor as his first follower.

• Darion killed a death knight with the Blade of Wrath and ordered recruits to search the battlefield.
• Dick’s Stratholme Regiment remained stretched thin by its garrison at Deatholme Fortress, while Dick secretly trained recruits to become Blood Knights.
• Major Herod drilled Eastweald recruits harshly and then led Darion toward headquarters to meet the arriving elven commander, Knight Myra.
• Dick remained physically and magically sealed during his lord-rank transformation, with more than four days left in the process.
• Liadrin Delor became Dick’s first follower, and Norgannon’s power bound their fates together.