Chapter Summaries

Dick joined Brann and Lorewalker Cho at the Halls of Stone after they uncovered the Tribunal of Ages’ secret: the Creator, a Titan apparatus tied to the origins of life. After defeating its Iron Vrykul guards, Dick reached the machine and wondered about the power of its makers and the challenge awaiting him.

• Dick returned to the Storm Peaks with three legendary gifts from Algalon and learned that Brann and Lorewalker Cho had found the Tribunal of Ages and a secret in the Halls of Stone.
• Brann confronted Dick over the dwarves’ origins, and Dick gave him a stone book of ancient history as an apology while receiving two Discs of Norgannon that raised his Divergence to 61% and unlocked new skills.
• Dick learned that a machine called the Creator lay beyond a guarded door, and Brann and Cho persuaded him to let them witness the discovery despite the danger.
• Dick opened the door using his authority over Azeroth, revealing the Creator and a Runemaster surrounded by Iron Vrykul soldiers.
• Dick killed the soldiers with Solar Lance and shattered the Runemaster with a powered punch, then approached the Creator’s controls and reflected on the challenge it represented.

Dick led Heimdall, Eir, and their Val'kyr forces into the Halls of Lightning to confront Loken, crushing the Iron Vrykul and Iron Dwarves guarding its entrance. The chapter left Dick preparing to reach Loken while eyeing the dormant Iron Burning Legion below, which he intended to claim after killing him.

• Dick asked Heimdall and Eir about Algalon and considered summoning the Star Spirit Observer, but Heimdall warned that Algalon might trigger Azeroth's reset command.
• Dick entered the Halls of Lightning through Loken's storm-filtered portal, which could not stop him or Odyn's forces.
• Dick smashed through the Iron Vrykul ambush and blasted a long passage clear with a Solar Lance.
• Dick and Heimdall cowed the remaining Iron Soldiers into fleeing, though Dick later killed nearly a hundred with another Solar Lance.
• Dick spotted almost thirty thousand dormant Iron Burning Legion soldiers beneath the Halls of Lightning and resolved to claim them after killing Loken.

Dick advanced through Loken’s palace and confronted the corrupted Guardian in the Celestial Planetarium. He summoned a powerful force of allies to face Loken, who finally showed fear as they prepared to judge him.

• Anveena and Lei Shi attacked the Storm Elemental guarding Loken’s palace while Dick continued deeper inside.
• Sylvana and the other Val’kyr cleared the Iron Burning Legion as Dick approached the Celestial Planetarium beneath its enormous starry dome.
• Dick, Heimdall, and Eir defeated the two Runes Giants guarding Loken.
• Loken declared that Yogg-Saron would be freed and the Pantheon would fall, while Dick condemned him as a ruined shell controlled by the Old God.
• Dick opened a portal with a fragment of rock and summoned Archaedas, Ironaya, Algalon, Ymiron, Nozdormu, Alexstrasza, Malygos, Ysera, and the others to confront Loken.

Dick and the assembled Guardians overwhelmed Loken, who escaped toward Ulduar before Odyn killed him with Gungnir. Loken died in the Storm Peaks, leaving one of the chief culprits dead.

• Algalon, Nozdormu, Malygos, and the others attacked Loken, while Dick noticed that Titan energy escaped from Loken's wound.
• Loken unleashed the Might of Creation, but Dick's Solar Spears broke through his defenses and shattered his Sapphire Crown.
• Loken fled through a spatial passage toward Ulduar, surviving the combined efforts of Dick, Malygos, Nozdormu, and the Queen of Dreams.
• Odyn struck the passage with Gungnir and pierced Loken's chest as he emerged; Odyn said the blow was for his daughter, Helya.
• Loken fell into Ulduar's Endless Chasm and died after declaring that he would not accept this future.

After Loken’s death, Dick organized the coming assault on Ulduar and discovered that the throne in the Halls of Lightning controlled a hidden Titan system. Its database revealed the World Barrier around Azeroth and showed that the Burning Legion had already reached worlds within its protected region, leaving Dick to recognize that Azeroth’s true frontier lay one million light-years away.

• Dick watched Odyn kill Loken, then ordered the Guardians and dragons to prepare a sustained assault on Ulduar.
• Dick dismissed everyone and sat on Loken’s throne, activating the Halls of Lightning system with his High Guardian authentication.
• The system revealed that Loken had repeatedly tried to access the Azeroth Planet Database without sufficient permissions.
• Dick learned that the Wall of the Great Dark Beyond protected Azeroth by blocking cosmic-level beings and powerful spatial travel, but remained active despite past attacks.
• The database showed that the Burning Legion’s invasion worlds and Draenor lay within the Wall’s million-light-year range, and Dick concluded that the Legion had already found ways to breach its protections.

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.