Chapter Summaries

Dick recruited Kanrethad and the Council of the Black Harvest by offering them access to Karazhan, then helped Thaurissan arrange elemental aid against Ragnaros. After completing their deal, Thaurissan revealed a second crystal matching the Naaru crystal Dick already held.

• Plugger sent Dick and his companions to meet Kanrethad, who confirmed that he had tamed Sorenor.
• Dick offered Kanrethad and the Council of the Black Harvest access to Karazhan in exchange for their loyalty, and Kanrethad accepted.
• Dick gave Thaurissan a token to contact the Water Elementals and promised the Air Elementals would help if the Dark Iron Dwarves recovered Thunderaan's remains.
• Thaurissan agreed to attack the Molten Core with the Water Elementals' aid, returned the Shadow of Flourishing Leaves to Dick, and received the plans for Sulfuras.
• Thaurissan opened another box and revealed a crystal identical to the Naaru crystal Dick possessed.

Dick traded Thaurissan a detailed weapon-forging diagram for the Ata'mal Crystal, then joined the Dark Iron and druid forces preparing to invade Molten Core. He opened the way through Ragnaros's flaming defenses with a newly manifested Naaru's Shield.

• Thaurissan revealed that his soldiers had found the Ata'mal Crystal, and Dick explained that only someone aligned with order could use it.
• When Thaurissan asked what Dick would offer for the crystal, he requested better forging plans; Dick drew the Firelord Hammer plans, and Thaurissan gave him the crystal.
• Four days later, Thaurissan assembled Dark Iron warriors, conjurers, druids, and other allies at Molten Core's entrance, where they prepared to challenge Ragnaros.
• Brann Bronzebeard and Solos Skyshard opened the flaming cavern entrance, and flame spirits attacked Dick and Thaurissan.
• Dick destroyed the flame spirits and manifested a large shield of holy light, earning the name Naaru's Shield and expanding his Paladin's Path.

Dick led his team into Molten Core to kill Obsidian Lord Garr and Baron Geddon, while the Dark Iron Dwarves attacked Ragnaros’s forces. His party engaged Garr, and Dick left the obsidian soldiers to his allies before joining the fight against the isolated lord.

• Dick explained that Hamuul’s Archdruids were hunting Majordomo Executus while Thaurissan led the Dark Iron Dwarves against Ragnaros’s other minions.
• Dick and his team used the Shadow of Flourishing Leaves to slip through the fighting and reach Garr’s cavern.
• Dick prepared his party for battle, and Wilfred’s demon, Destroyer Atrius, charged Garr as Wilfred weakened the Obsidian Lord with curses.
• Dick struck Garr’s obsidian soldiers with Holy Light while Jaina, Liadrin, Velinde, Demitier, Das, and the others fought alongside him.
• After the obsidian soldiers fell, Dick hurled Anveena’s hammer at Garr and joined the fight, leaving the Obsidian Lord isolated.

Dick and his companions defeated Garr and Baron Geddon in Molten Core, and Dick recovered the two halves of Thunderaan’s prison. Thunderaan’s faint voice urged them to take the last of his will from Ragnaros.

• Dick and his companions overwhelmed Garr, and Dick found the pale blue crystal sphere containing one half of Thunderaan’s prison among Garr’s remains.
• The group moved through Molten Core and found signs that Elder Hamuul’s forces had fought their way ahead while pursuing Majordomo Executus.
• A furious Firelord attacked the group, but Jaina silenced it and drained its mana while the others fought it.
• Firelord attempted to destroy the group in an explosion, but Dick shielded his companions and then recovered Baron Geddon’s dark red core from the magma.
• After Dick held the crystal sphere’s left half, Thunderaan’s voice spoke to him and urged him to seize the rest of his will from Ragnaros.

Dick and his allies followed Majordomo Executus to Ragnaros’s resting place, where the Firelord awakened and killed Executus for leading intruders to him. Ragnaros then sealed the group inside a ring of flame and prepared to make them kneel.

• Hamuul told Dick that Executus had agreed to lead them to Ragnaros, then gave him the Eye of Divinity and the Ancient Petrified Leaf.
• Dick recognized the objects as the start of powerful Priest and Hunter legacies, then followed Hamuul and the others deeper into Molten Core.
• Hamuul freed Executus, who summoned Ragnaros from the magma lake.
• Ragnaros appeared amid boiling magma and collapsing stone, then rebuked Executus for bringing intruders to his sanctum.
• Ragnaros burned Executus to ashes with a flick of his finger and sealed the surrounding area with rings of flame.
• Ragnaros confronted Dick and his allies, declaring that they would kneel amid the flames.

Thaurissan guarded the Molten Core entrance while Dick and his companions battled Ragnaros, whose power and summoned armies threatened to overwhelm them. Naralex began gathering starlight for a decisive attack as Dick rallied the group to protect him.

• Thaurissan ordered the Dark Iron Dwarves to stay out of the battle, then urged Angerforge to pray to the Pantheon and reclaim their former faith.
• Dick and his companions found that Ragnaros’s golden flame shield resisted most of their attacks, while the Firelord summoned waves of fire elementals and Lava Giants.
• Hamuul, O'mulon, and Naralex used their druid forms and powers to damage Ragnaros and hold back the surrounding magma and enemies.
• Naralex asked the others to protect him for three minutes as he gathered starlight to unleash Starsurge.
• Dick rallied his companions, and the group fought the incoming enemies around Naralex as he prepared his attack.

Naralex’s Starsurge detonated Ragnaros’s mortal avatar, and the group survived the blast behind layered defenses. They concluded that Ragnaros had returned to the Firelands, but when Dick touched the Elemental Core, it began glowing again and Anveena urgently warned him to let go.

• Ragnaros attacked Hamuul while Naralex prepared Starsurge, and Hamuul evaded the Firelord’s blow so Naralex could strike.
• Naralex’s Starsurge pierced Ragnaros’s shield and caused his magma body to explode, while Dick warned the others and helped shield them from the blast.
• After the explosion destroyed Ragnaros’s forces, the group emerged from the protective sanctuary and found the Elemental Core above the magma.
• Jaina sensed that Ragnaros had returned to the Firelands, and Hamuul confirmed that the Core remained quiet after several minutes.
• Dick touched the Core and told Liadrin that Ragnaros was plotting revenge, but the Core began glowing and Anveena warned him to let go.

Dick faced the Elemental Core’s hidden explosive trap, which would detonate when his Order Power ran out. With Thunderaan’s help, he unleashed his full power to destroy Ragnaros’s remaining influence, triggering a revelation about his identity and unlocking Titan-related access.

• Hamuul sent everyone else away while he, Naralex, and Dick stayed with the unstable Elemental Core; Dick revealed that Ragnaros had rigged it to explode and that he could suppress it for only twenty minutes.
• Thunderaan offered to retrieve the last fragment of his will from the core and disrupt Ragnaros’s power briefly, and Dick agreed to risk trusting him.
• Hamuul and Naralex opened a Portal to a deep-sea trench, where Dick would use the water pressure to contain the explosion.
• Dick entered the trench, released the core from his grip, and Thunderaan retrieved his will while briefly slowing its expansion.
• Dick poured all his Order Power into the core, destroying Ragnaros’s remaining power, as the Fist of Tyr activated and identified him as King of Order Tyr, Dick Bronzan, unlocking Titan permissions and the Titans Path quest.

Dick and the Archdruids ended the war against the Firelord, and Dick discovered treasures in the cooled Magma Core, including a flame that gave Anveena a physical form. After returning to Silithus with Jaina and the others, Dick reached the storm-shrouded valley, where the Windseeker asked him to restore him so he could meet someone waiting there.

• Order Power consumed Ragnaros's remaining power, Dick survived the Magma Core's cooling, and Hamuul pulled him through a Portal from the depths of the sea.
• Thaurissan hosted Dick and the Archdruids in Shadowforge City, where Dick broke open the obsidian sphere and found the Eye of Sulfuras and Flames of Sulfuras.
• Anveena had Dick imbue the Fire of Justice with the Flames of Sulfuras, then appeared in physical form as a miniature High Elf.
• Thaurissan assigned five thousand Dark Iron Warriors and Conjurers to Dick's command for the War of the Shifting Sands.
• Dick returned to Silithus with Jaina, another veiled lady, and Anveena, and reached the storm-shrouded valley.
• The Windseeker told Dick that someone was waiting for him in the valley and asked him to restore his form before they met.

Dick and his companions freed Thunderaan from the Blue Crystal Orb and restored him in a powerful storm, allowing him to reunite with Aishir. Thunderaan departed to challenge the rulers of Skywall and the Firelands, leaving Dick with a new storm-forged weapon and blessing.

• Dick, Jaina, and Liadrin brought the Blue Crystal Orb, Vial of Rebirth, and elementium longsword together to restore Thunderaan.
• Thunderaan emerged as a colossal Prince of Wind and dispersed the storm barrier around Crystal Vale.
• Thunderaan reunited with Aishir, while she returned the Blue Crystal Shard to Dick.
• Air Elementals and six Elemental Lords gathered as Thunderaan announced that the Four Winds Legion would attack the Firelands.
• Thunderaan left Dick the Storm Longsword and blessed him as lightning struck the weapon.

As Theramore prepared to invade Dustwallow Marsh, Dick gathered the factions’ military observers and sought ways to counter the Qiraji threat. The Zandalari warned of the insects’ overwhelming ancient power, while Dick arranged for Sylvanas to study a powerful relic and asked the Explorers’ League to find ancient construct remains for testing.

• Theramore mobilized its adult men and coordinated with an orc army as the Zandalari supplied potions that confused worker bugs and enabled soldiers to fight them more effectively.
• Jin’rokh warned Princess Caliea and Gath’riss that the Zandalari could not use their ancient weapon against the Aqir, and recalled that nearly all of a three-million-strong troll army had perished in the final battle.
• Dick gave Sylvanas the Ancient Petrified Leaf and urged her to uncover its secrets before the War of the Shifting Sands began.
• Dick gave Whitemane the Eye of Divinity, and Mograine entrusted her to remain beside Princess Caliea while Isillien led the Scarlet Knights to war.
• Dick asked Brann and Archdruid Naralex to help locate remains of Anubisath Kobolds and Obsidian Statues so he could investigate their weaknesses, and they agreed to retrieve them.

The forces gathered in Silithus destroyed Hive'Zora, but Aqir scouts emerging through the Scarab Wall revealed that the threat was escalating. Dick confronted the Hidden Path outside the wall and learned that its members had come to oppose the darkness behind the war, leaving Immorel Shadowguard asking why he had come.

• The Seventh Legion and Dwarf Mountaineer Corps destroyed Hive'Zora with a bombing attack, suffering over 2,000 dead and wounded.
• Brann Bronzebeard reported that the Scarab Wall shook and three Qiraji Lashers attacked his excavation party before mysterious hooded figures saved him.
• Lakes Claw identified the dead insect as a Qiraji Lasher, and Sylvanas recognized the bow-and-arrow emblem on the rescuers' cloaks as belonging to the Hidden Path.
• Malfurion asked the commanders whether to wait for the Aqir or break open the Scarab Wall and lure them onto a prepared battlefield.
• Dick fought three hooded figures near the wall until one called a halt, and Rexxar explained that the Hidden Path was guarding powerful fighters from the Old Gods' whispers.
• Dick offered cooperation to Immorel Shadowguard, who invited him to explain why he had come.

Dick joined the gathered leaders and armies at the Scarab Wall as they prepared to break the seal holding back the Qiraji. Anachronos entrusted him with the Scepter of the Shifting Sands, and Dick realized the desert itself had imprisoned the Qiraji in Silithus.

• Archbishop Benedictus attended the Alliance gathering at the Scarab Wall while secretly worrying that the battle would expose him to C'Thun and anger his master, N'Zoth.
• A force of 140,000 soldiers assembled in Silithus, with the Alliance and Horde positioned on opposing wings despite their distrust of one another.
• Dick strode onto the Scarab Platform to break the seal, while Fandral Staghelm watched the Scarab Wall with cold, murderous intensity.
• Anachronos appeared and gave Dick the Scepter of the Shifting Sands, which the dragons had reforged from its four pieces.
• Dick sensed that the scepter connected to the Silithus Desert and realized that the desert, not just the Scarab Wall, had kept the Qiraji trapped there for a thousand years.

Dick broke the Scarab Wall with the Scepter of the Shifting Sands after rallying the armies of Azeroth, and the Qiraji forces poured out to meet them. Dragons and demigods joined the battle, which ended with both sides charging into the renewed War of the Shifting Sands.

• Dick delivered a speech urging the gathered races to unite and fight for Azeroth, then struck the Scarab Platform with the Scepter of the Shifting Sands.
• The Scepter dissolved, the seal cracked, and the Scarab Wall collapsed to reveal a vast army of Qiraji, including General Rajaxx and the Anubisath.
• Dragons and legendary demigods arrived as the soldiers cheered and prepared to fight.
• Malfurion and Hamuul led the Guardian Druids in a charge, while the Alliance Forces assembled cavalry, infantry, and war machines and the mages and warlocks attacked the bugs.
• Fandral Staghelm and the Feral Druids separated Rajaxx from his troops as the human heavy cavalry and the Qiraji charged, beginning the War of the Shifting Sands anew.

During the battle against the Aqir, Dick assembled a small strike team to slip past the front lines and enter Ahn'Qiraj, hoping to turn the losing fight around. The group reached a sleeping Kurinnaxx and prepared to attack.

• Broxigar and Thrall destroyed an Anubisath giant, while Daelin and the other defenders fought to keep the Aqir from breaking the Alliance lines.
• Dick gathered Broxigar, Rhonin, Vereesa Windrunner, Immoral Shadowguard, and Rexxar for a secret mission, and promised the raid would bring glory if they died.
• Dick used his pendant to transport himself, Broxigar, and Rhonin away, while the three hunters concealed themselves with camouflage.
• The strike team crossed into Ahn'Qiraj and found the remains of Night Elf warriors desecrated by the Aqir, angering Rhonin and Broxigar.
• The group encountered a sleeping silithid called Kurinnaxx, and Dick raised his shield as they prepared to kill it.

Dick and his companions battled Moam, an unusual Obsidian Destroyer who absorbed magic and unleashed devastating explosions. After Moam fled and was captured, he offered to serve them, and Dick stopped Broxigar from killing him.

• Broxigar and Windseeker killed Kurinnaxx, and Rhonin found a purple robe and a Qiraji Ritual Dagger in a chest beneath its corpse.
• The group reached a reservoir where Moam ambushed them with an elemental explosion, which Immorel and Dick shielded them from.
• Dick warned the others not to use magic against Moam after Rhonin's fireballs empowered the creature and triggered another explosion.
• Broxigar, Rexxar, Immorel, and Vereesa attacked Moam physically while Dick and Rhonin defeated the elementals he summoned.
• Moam tried to flee when his mane began glowing, but Dick struck him with a Hammer of Justice and the group cornered him.
• Moam pleaded for his life and offered to guide the group to the Faceless One or the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, so Dick stopped Broxigar from killing him.

Dick discovered that Moam was caught between order and chaos, and he was attacked by C'Thun before Anveena's silver flames freed him. The group reached the platform and confronted Ossirian the Unscarred, while Dick identified the crystal controlling the giant as their target.

• Dick touched Moam and saw that the Obsidian Destroyer was a Half-Hero caught between the powers of order and chaos.
• C'Thun attacked Dick's mind, but Anveena's silver flames drove the Old God back and burned Moam.
• Dick told Rhonin, Vereesa, and Immorel that C'Thun remained trapped by the Titans' Seal as Moam led the group toward the platform.
• Ossirian the Unscarred appeared, and Broxigar and Rexxar charged into battle against the blue Anubisath giant.
• Dick identified the floating crystal as C'Thun's control nexus and ordered Rhonin, Immorel, and Vereesa to destroy it while he fought Ossirian.

Dick fought Ossirian the Unscarred to weaken the crystal carrying C'Thun's chaotic power and free the Anubisath from its influence. After overcoming C'Thun's fear illusion, Dick cracked the crystal, but Ossirian's thrown sword struck toward him.

• Dick and his allies battled Ossirian while the ranged fighters attacked the crystal, and Dick ran in to strike it himself.
• C'Thun attacked Dick's mind with an illusion of Silverpine Forest, where black snakes overwhelmed him and his companions walked away.
• Dick rejected C'Thun's despair, burned through the illusion with silver flames, and struck the crystal hard enough to leave a notch.
• C'Thun roared for help, and Ossirian hurled his battered stone sword at Dick as he raised Naaru's Shield.

Dick and his allies destroyed the crystal that let C'Thun control Ossirian, ending the battle in the Ruins Battlefield. Dick awakened Ossirian as a Titan jailer and claimed command of the Anubisath.

• Ossirian overwhelmed Dick, Broxigar, and Rexxar while Rhonin directed Broxigar to attack the crystal and Rexxar joined Dick in fighting the giant.
• Dick and Rexxar used the Thorn Hook to pull Ossirian off balance as Rexxar's beasts and hawk struck him, toppling the giant.
• Moam absorbed Rhonin's magic and fired a scarlet beam that shattered the crystal, allowing Dick to destroy the released black mist with Holy Shock.
• Dick struck Ossirian's golden mask off and revealed the warrior's scarred face after C'Thun's influence ended.
• Dick used the Fist of Tyr to open Ossirian's chest and touch the dim crystal inside, awakening the Anubisath warrior.
• Ossirian rose, knelt before Dick, and pledged to fight for him as Dick declared himself commander of the Anubisath.

As the Alliance neared victory against the Aqir, Brann revealed that Dick had entered the Anubisath mind network to take control of the obsidian giants. Dick succeeded, and the giants turned the battle around; Jaina declared that she loved Dick and rejected the throne, while Daelin reluctantly wished her happiness.

• The Alliance and Aqir armies fought to a costly stalemate as commanders suffered heavy losses and the Aqir began to falter.
• Fandral brought General Rajaxx’s head into the command tent, and Malfurion announced that the Aqir were close to defeat.
• Brann explained that the Anubisath shared one mind and that Dick had gone to control them through their strongest member.
• Matthew reported that at least thirty obsidian giants had emerged, and the commanders discovered they were fighting for the Alliance under a blue Anubisath Warrior with Dick riding on its shoulder.
• Jaina told Daelin that she loved only magic and Dick and did not want the throne, and Daelin left after wishing her happiness.