Chapter Summaries

Dick crawled through a silent jungle while wounded, starving, and near death, then survived by eating a venomous snake. A patrol found him and carried him away, and he woke to blue sky and warmth, realizing he had survived.

• Dick crawled through the jungle despite his injuries, exhaustion, and thirst, driven by the urge to keep moving.
• Dick lay down, but when a black snake approached, he seized it and ate its flesh despite being bitten.
• Dick regained enough strength to crawl onward, though he began to feel the effects of the venom.
• A captain sent Morris to inspect Dick, and the soldiers recognized him as one of their own and carried him back.
• Dick opened his eyes during the jolting journey, saw the blue sky and warm light, and realized he had survived.

Dick, Darrowshire’s sheriff, accepted a quest to rescue Timmy’s friends from Blackwood Lake after learning they had been captured by Gnolls and Murlocs. As he prepared to lead a militia party, he reflected on the Scourge’s coming destruction of Darrowshire and wondered whether he could change its fate.

• Dick patrolled Darrowshire and greeted the villagers who knew him as a kindhearted sheriff.
• Joseph Redpath asked Dick to investigate Timmy’s report that Gnolls had captured his friends, and a quest appeared to Dick.
• Dick questioned Timmy and discovered that Murloc Raiders from Blackwood Lake had also taken the children.
• Dick agreed to lead a rescue party, and Timmy hurried home to prepare before guiding them to the lake.
• Dick considered the coming Scourge invasion and wondered whether he had been sent to Darrowshire to prevent its tragedy.

Dick and Dawi led a small party to Blackwood Lake to rescue children held by the Murlocs, and Dick charged into the village to draw the attackers away. As Dawi and Timmy entered to save a child, Dick discovered that the purple-skinned Murloc was stronger than he had expected.

• Dick used his superior strength and a longsword earned from earlier quests to help defeat three gnolls.
• Dick, Davi, and Timmy spotted the Murloc village at Blackwood Lake, where Timmy identified the purple-skinned Murloc that had taken Aruf.
• Dick and Dawi saw the Murlocs dragging a crying child toward a boiling pot, so Dick took Dawi's shield and planned to draw the Murlocs away while Dawi and Timmy rescued the child.
• Dick charged the village and fought off the Murlocs as Dawi and Timmy rushed inside with two militiamen.
• The purple-skinned Murloc attacked Dick with a trident, and its force nearly knocked him down.

Dick defeated Slark and the Murlocs, then rescued the dying inner court knight Hunter, who revealed that the Cult of the Damned had infected grain and that Prince Arthas was investigating the plague near Andorhal. After returning to Darrowshire, Dick accepted Timmy’s rifle and discovered its powerful properties, preparing to carry the warning to Andorhal.

• Dick killed Slark and drove the remaining Murlocs away before escaping Blackwood Lake.
• Dick found the tortured inner court knight Hunter, who told him the Cult of the Damned had spread the plague through grain and urged him to warn Prince Arthas.
• Hunter died after revealing that the Murlocs of Blackwood Lake and the Trolls of Zul'Mashar were accomplices, and Dick resolved to deliver the intelligence to Andorhal.
• Dick returned safely to Darrowshire, where Timmy gave him his late father’s Dwarven Rifle as thanks for rescuing the children.
• Dick cleaned the rifle and discovered it was Timmy's Toy Gun, a masterwork with accuracy, durability, damage, and knockback bonuses.

Dick was hunted by Kel'Thuzad’s forces while carrying plague intelligence to Andorhal, and two Trolls nearly killed him. Jaina Proudmoore rescued him, and he warned her that the plague’s masterminds commanded greater forces than she realized.

• Dick reached the forest near the Bulwark after surviving repeated attacks by Kel'Thuzad’s forces, but two Mossflayer Trolls blocked his way.
• Dick shot one Troll in the face and was struck by the other, landing badly injured and unable to move.
• Jaina Proudmoore froze the Troll and rescued Dick before it could kill him.
• Dick identified himself as Dick Tang, a former corporal, and said he needed to report plague intelligence to Prince Arthas.
• Dick warned Jaina to summon the Order of the Silver Hand because the plague’s masterminds had powerful forces at their command.
• Jaina vanished with Blink, and Dick resolved to avoid being so helpless the next time he faced danger.

After recovering from a Troll’s attack, Dick told Arthas and Jaina that Kel'Thuzad was behind the plague and that tainted grain had spread it from Stratholme to Andorhal. Arthas demanded evidence, and Dick said they could find it by tracing the grain shipments.

• Jaina waited with the Paladins while Dick recovered, then demanded that he reveal what he knew about the plague.
• Dick refused to share his information until Arthas arrived, but warned Jaina that mages and nobles were involved.
• Arthas arrived and dismissed his attendants so Dick could speak privately with him and Jaina.
• Dick identified Hunter’s badge and reported that the Cult of the Damned had spread plague through grain shipped from Stratholme to Andorhal.
• Dick named Kel'Thuzad as the Cult of the Damned’s leader, shocking Jaina, who insisted her former fellow apprentice had disappeared.
• Arthas asked for evidence, and Dick said Kel'Thuzad was moving through Lordaeron to control tainted grain distribution, so they could follow the shipments.

Dick told Arthas that Baron Rivendare had betrayed the kingdom and joined the Cult of the Damned, prompting Arthas to investigate in secret. Jaina learned that Kel'Thuzad might be behind the Plague and continued her inquiry, while Kel'Thuzad prepared a scheme at a farm near Lordaeron.

• Dick told Arthas that the Hunter had been betrayed and that Rivendare was working with the Cult of the Damned to build an undead army near Zul'Mashar.
• Arthas angrily confronted Dick, then ordered Falric to trace grain shipments and Marwyn to investigate Rivendare in disguise.
• Jaina asked Antonidas whether Kel'Thuzad had gone missing and learned that he had pursued forbidden Warlock magic before leaving Dalaran.
• Jaina rejected Antonidas's order to return home, ended their call, and went to Dick's room to continue investigating.
• Near Lordaeron, Kel'Thuzad installed steamers at Mr. Agamand's farm and departed for Andorhal, eager to see the events unfold.

Dick agreed to help Jaina find Kel'Thuzad, and the two traveled toward Andorhal, where they discovered the Cult of the Damned raising the dead. Kel'Thuzad appeared before them after Jaina sensed that they had been spotted.

• Jaina broke into Dick's quarters and asked him to help find Kel'Thuzad, and Dick insisted that Arthas come with them.
• Jaina arranged to meet Arthas in Andorhal and gave Dick a Violet Badge as payment.
• Dick led Jaina along a shortcut toward Andorhal and told her an important person would one day be buried on a nearby hill.
• Dick and Jaina spotted Cult of the Damned mages robbing Andorhal's cemetery, and Jaina sensed Kel'Thuzad's powerful presence.
• Kel'Thuzad planned the plague's spread and the creation of an undead army, assigned Araj and Foster their missions, then appeared before Jaina and Dick.

Dick and Jaina fought Kel'Thuzad at Lake Mirondal, but he overwhelmed them with frost and shadow magic. To keep them alive, Dick claimed he could lead Kel'Thuzad to a Titan artifact and offered to serve the Lich King, leaving with a Scourge Mark burned into his hand.

• Jaina recognized Kel'Thuzad and confronted him, while Dick held her back as Kel'Thuzad explained his devotion to the warlock tomes and the Lich King.
• Dick shot at Kel'Thuzad, who repelled the attack and battled Jaina, overpowering her with frost spells, life-draining magic, and curses.
• The quest to rescue Jaina appeared as Dick watched her collapse, and Kel'Thuzad prepared to kill them both.
• Dick offered to lead Kel'Thuzad to a Titan artifact in Tirisfal Glades and promised to persuade Jaina to join the Scourge.
• Dick showed Kel'Thuzad Jaina's Violet Badge and claimed they had secretly pledged themselves to each other; Kel'Thuzad spared them but branded Dick with a Scourge Mark.

Arthas defeated Kel'Thuzad in Andorhal and set out for Stratholme, unaware that the battle was staged. Dick and Jaina argued over Arthas’s choice, and the real Kel’Thuzad revealed himself to Dick before ordering him to leave with the Tirisfal Brotherhood.

• Arthas fought through Andorhal’s undead, killed Kel’Thuzad, and ordered Falric to burn the corpse before leading the Paladins toward Stratholme.
• Jaina recognized that Stratholme was a trap and blamed Dick, who left her alone; she later apologized to him while believing he was gone.
• Dick hid nearby, heard Jaina’s remorse, and then sat downstairs reflecting on the power behind the events.
• Kel’Thuzad appeared in a new body, questioned Dick about his knowledge of the plague, and struck him with a Lich Palm.
• Kel’Thuzad told Dick that the Tirisfal Brotherhood had ordered them to leave that night and warned him to behave for others’ sake.

Dick and Kel'Thuzad led their group to the hidden valley, where an unknown influence began affecting Kel'Thuzad's emotions. Dick used the distraction to kiss Jaina and slipped something cold into her mouth, leaving her startled.

• Kel'Thuzad learned that hunters had found a structure beneath a lake, though the area drove people mad, and Dick explained that he had avoided its effects by covering his ears and closing his eyes.
• Kel'Thuzad forced Jaina to accompany the expedition, while Dick warned that the valley was corrupted by the Old Gods and filled with illusions and whispers.
• Dick disguised himself as a clumsy cultist and swapped the rune-engraved key in Grayson's bundle for another one.
• Kel'Thuzad, Dick, Jaina, and the cultists passed through a concealed gorge into the valley, where Kel'Thuzad sensed that the place was influencing his emotions.
• Dick seized Jaina and kissed her, then put something cold onto her tongue, making her eyes widen.

Kel'Thuzad used undead soldiers to cross the mind-controlling lake and uncover a hidden palace beneath it, where Dick revealed that a Titan seal had been broken and a monster was awakening. As the creatures attacked, Kel'Thuzad fought them and demanded to know who Dick was.

• Kel'Thuzad sent thirty-odd cultists toward the lake, where they fell under its influence and slaughtered one another until Grayson remained alive, badly wounded.
• Kel'Thuzad raised the dead as Skeleton Mages and Warriors, then transformed Grayson and another warrior into Death Knights.
• Kel'Thuzad led his undead, Dick, and Jaina across the lake to the ruined palace at Tyr's Fall, where Dick directed him to break a sealed stone slab.
• The group followed a hidden passage into a well-preserved underground palace, where Dick revealed that the broken Titan seal had also contained a monster.
• Kel'Thuzad sent the undead to fight the creatures emerging from the palace, then demanded Dick's identity, and Dick introduced himself as Dick Tang.

Dick explained Tyr’s Fall and Xal'atath’s deadly history to Kel'Thuzad, then led him to the sealed Zakajz. As Kel'Thuzad claimed Xal'atath and the seal vanished, Dick seized his chance to awaken Zakajz and turn the conflict in his and Jaina’s favor.

• Dick told Kel'Thuzad and Jaina how Tyr died fighting the Old Gods and how Zakajz had been sealed beneath Tyr’s Fall.
• Dick revealed that Xal'atath was the remnant of an Old God and had destroyed its previous owners, but Kel'Thuzad declared that he would master it.
• Dick warned Kel'Thuzad that Pos could not be defeated while Zakajz lived, so Kel'Thuzad used Blink to carry Dick and Jaina into the cave.
• Kel'Thuzad approached Xal'atath while Dick silently moved toward Zakajz, whose body held the sword Strom’kar, also called the Warbreaker.
• Kel'Thuzad took Xal'atath, removing Zakajz’s purple restraints, and Dick leaped onto the creature, intending to pull out Strom’kar and awaken it.

Dick and Jaina fled Kel'Thuzad and reached Tyr's hidden side hall, where Dick tried to retrieve the Silver Hand and trigger the temple's destruction. The chapter ended with Jaina mortally wounded by the Faceless One and Dick collapsing in despair, the Silver Hand abandoned beside him.

• Dick severed his marked hand to escape with Jaina while Zakajz held Kel'Thuzad back.
• Dick directed Jaina to Tyr's hidden side hall, where they found the relics and learned the temple could self-destruct.
• Dick began digging beneath Tyr's statue for the Silver Hand while Jaina stayed behind to hold off the undead and the Faceless One.
• Dick retrieved the Silver Hand, but the Faceless One pierced Jaina with its claw.
• Dick dropped the Silver Hand and slumped to the ground, believing there was no point in going on.

Dick believed Jaina had died, but she revived through Time Warp after he destroyed the valley and escaped with her. In a vision, Norgannon explained that Dick had been sent to alter Azeroth’s timeline, leaving Dick to wonder how he could change the world.

• Dick bound the Silver Hand to his severed arm, carried Jaina’s body, and took up the Silver Hand Warhammer, triggering the Titans’ self-destruct mechanism.
• A flash of shattered starlight transported Dick and Jaina outside the valley as magma, lake water, and collapsing mountains destroyed it.
• The quest notification confirmed completion of “Clinging to Life,” and Time Warp restored Jaina to an unharmed state.
• Jaina woke, mistook Dick’s embrace for an attack, and blasted him unconscious with an Arcane Explosion.
• Dick saw a vision of the Titans shaping Azeroth, and Norgannon explained that Dick was a Timewalker tasked with changing the world’s timeline.
• The main quest required Dick to reach 70% world alteration within 100 years, and he wondered how to turn the world around.

Jaina and Dick traveled toward Eastweald after King Terenas ordered Uther to rescue Arthas, while Dick pursued a quest to save Stratholme. At Andorhal, Uther’s defenders faced a breakthrough by the Undead, until a young attendant suddenly manifested the Holy Light and became a paladin.

• Jaina complained that Antonidas wanted her to return to Dalaran, while Dick comforted her in the royal carriage heading toward Eastweald.
• Dick revealed that the silver Hand of Tyr had grown onto his stump, and Jaina examined it with her magic.
• The chapter explained that Jaina had told King Terenas about Kel'Thuzad's trap for Arthas, prompting the king to order Uther to lead a rescue force.
• At Andorhal, Uther’s exhausted paladins struggled to hold the line as Abominations broke through the city wall and Undead surged toward the defenders.
• Uther charged to stop the Undead, but a young man in an attendant’s robe unleashed the Holy Light, transformed his sword into a warhammer, and became a paladin before Uther’s eyes.

Dick chose the paladin class and awakened the Silver Hand into the Fire of Justice while helping Uther’s forces repel an undead assault at Andorhal. The battle ended with Araj withdrawing behind the city walls, and Dick turned his attention to Uther’s fate.

• Dick received a quest to help Uther withdraw the exhausted paladins and chose the paladin class by taking up the Silver Hand Warhammer.
• Dick’s Holy Light and order power transformed the artifact into the Fire of Justice, drawing Uther’s and the other paladins’ attention.
• Dick destroyed a low-level abomination and cleared nearby undead with a powerful strike, helping stabilize the battlefield alongside Jaina’s Blizzard.
• Uther returned to the main front, and the paladins rallied as Dathrohan rejoined the fighting.
• Araj withdrew his undead behind Andorhal’s walls after the attack failed, and Dick joined Jaina on the way to Uther while considering how his survival might alter the future.

Jaina and Dick persuaded Uther to organize a rescue mission for Arthas, while Dick resolved to change the fate of Alexandros Mograine. Trapped in Zul'Mashar, Arthas fought to hold off plague trolls as Falric set out for Light's Hope Chapel after losing his horse, Invincible.

• Jaina gave Uther King Terenas's private orders, and Dick claimed his intelligence showed that Stratholme had not yet succumbed to the plague.
• Uther agreed to seek help from Alexandros Mograine at Light's Hope Chapel, and Dick received credit for completing his quest involving Uther.
• Arthas and the few surviving knights defended their camp against plague trolls while a black-robed knight demanded that curse mages summon Mal'Ganis within four hours.
• Falric escaped the encirclement on Invincible to seek reinforcements, but the exhausted horse collapsed in the plague mist.
• Falric killed Invincible to end his suffering, then continued on foot toward Light's Hope Chapel to find help for Arthas.

Dick arrived at Light's Hope Chapel with Jaina and Uther, where an exhausted Falric warned them that Prince Arthas was in trouble. Uther and Alexandros led a force toward Zul'Mashar as Baron Rivendare welcomed Mal'Ganis, who claimed Arthas for himself.

• Dick rode with Jaina's carriage toward Light's Hope Chapel, carrying the High Knight's badge Uther had awarded him.
• Dick befriended Erigor, who promised to teach him basic paladin combat techniques.
• After reaching Light's Hope Chapel, Dick found Falric collapsed and learned that Prince Arthas was in trouble.
• Uther and Alexandros led 600 paladins and attendants toward Zul'Mashar with Falric.
• Baron Rivendare summoned Mal'Ganis, who rebuked him and ordered him to follow Ner'zhul's instructions while Mal'Ganis dealt with Arthas.

Dick led the paladins through Zul'Mashar, recovered an ancient troll tablet, and tried to stop Arthas from going to Stratholme. Mal'Ganis revealed himself in the camp and escaped after provoking Arthas into vowing to destroy the city rather than let its people become the demon's slaves.

• Alexandros Mograine led the paladins in a charge against the plague trolls while Erigor and Dick's squads advanced through Zul'Mashar.
• Dick sent Erigor to destroy the plague cauldrons, split up the knights to search the stronghold, and recovered an ancient tablet connected to Hakkar.
• Dick divided the trolls' magical weapons among the knights, earning the name "Dick the Generous," then entered headquarters as Arthas insisted on going to Stratholme.
• Dick and Uther persuaded Arthas that ascetics could cleanse Stratholme, but an urgent messenger arrived before Arthas could agree.
• Dick recognized the messenger as Mal'Ganis and attacked; Mal'Ganis broke through Dick's Holy Light Shield, revealed himself, and escaped after declaring that Stratholme's people would become his slaves.
• Arthas vowed that he would destroy Stratholme himself rather than let Mal'Ganis turn its people into servants spreading the plague.