Recaps

Aaron woke in Dalaran after a night of fighting and realized the Scourge might be using the battle to distract the defenders while its missing necropolises pursued another objective. He hurried to the command post to confirm his suspicion about the Book of Medivh.

• Aaron woke on Dalaran's wall and found Vereesa exhausted beside him, so he told her to rest while he watched the battle.
• Aaron observed that both the defenders and the undead were weakened, while the dragons remained ready to fight.
• A dragon told Aaron that the battle had settled into a war of attrition since the bone giant was destroyed and reassured him that the Scourge likely could not make another one.
• Aaron noticed that the Scourge's necropolises had disappeared and wondered whether they had gone to Quel'Thalas for the Sunwell.
• Aaron realized the Scourge might not need to breach Dalaran to obtain the Book of Medivh and hurried toward the command post to verify his suspicion.

Aaron suspected the Scourge was infiltrating Dalaran to steal the Book of Medivh, and persuaded Antonidas to inspect its vault. They discovered the guards were missing and a thief was still nearby as an enemy attacked.

• Aaron asked Arthas whether anyone had infiltrated Dalaran, then warned the mages that the Scourge might be targeting the Book of Medivh.
• The mages said Antonidas had strengthened the book's security, but Aaron remained uneasy and insisted on checking it himself.
• Antonidas took Aaron to Dalaran's secret treasure vault, granting him special permission to enter.
• Aaron noticed Truthguard reacting and realized someone had entered; Antonidas discovered the mages stationed in the vault were missing.
• A sinister voice announced that Lord Varimathras had sent Aaron a gift, and a frost-wreathed black warhammer struck from around a corner.

A Death Knight attacked Aaron and Antonidas in Dalaran’s treasure vault, then escaped after leaving behind a dangerous sphere. Antonidas and Aaron contained the poison, and Antonidas proposed returning the gift to their enemies.

• The Death Knight struck at Antonidas, but Aaron cast a Divine Shield that protected him from harm.
• Aaron recognized the attacker’s warhammer and suspected he was Orgrim, then fought him while Antonidas recovered.
• The Death Knight feinted, threw a box and a rune-covered book at Aaron, and used the book’s spell to enlarge a sphere nearby.
• The Death Knight teleported away after throwing Aaron an iron sphere marked with Fel runes, despite Antonidas hurling a fireball at him.
• When the sphere began releasing poisonous smoke, Aaron shielded it and Antonidas made it disappear, saying they should return the gift.

Antonidas sent the poison gas bomb after the Death Knight who had stolen the Book of Medivh, but could not follow him without knowing his destination. Aaron realized the Scourge was likely targeting the Sunwell, and he left for Quel'Thalas with Vereesa and Stellagosa to warn the High Elves.

• Antonidas explained how he had tracked the Death Knight's teleportation and redirected the poison gas bomb to him.
• Aaron urged Antonidas to pursue the stolen Book of Medivh, but Antonidas said he could not teleport to the enemy's destination safely or recover the book.
• Aaron and Antonidas concluded that the Scourge was likely heading for the Sunwell and that Silvermoon City might face an attack before reinforcements could arrive.
• Aaron reassured Antonidas that dragons could help maintain the portal to Quel'Thalas, then woke Vereesa and told her the Scourge's likely target.
• Stellagosa agreed to accompany Aaron and Vereesa to Quel'Thalas, while Krasus gave Aaron a dragon-scale communicator.

Aaron and Vereesa warned Kael'thas that the Scourge might attack the Sunwell, and he brought them to Silvermoon City so he could report the threat. After hearing Aaron explain the Burning Legion's plan, Kael'thas agreed to alert Quel'Thalas's leaders while Vereesa hurried Aaron to meet Sylvanas.

• Stellagosa opened a portal to the Covenant City Academy of Magic, where Kael'thas saw Vereesa, Aaron, and Stellagosa arrive.
• Aaron told Kael'thas that the Undead had stolen the Book of Medivh and might target the Sunwell next.
• Kael'thas opened a portal to Sunfury Spire and brought the group to Silvermoon City.
• Aaron explained that the Burning Legion needed the Sunwell's power to enter Azeroth and that the Scourge's necropolises might be preparing to besiege Quel'Thalas.
• Kael'thas said he would report the threat and might need Aaron and Vereesa to address the Silvermoon City Council.
• Vereesa pulled Aaron toward the ranger-general's residence to find Sylvanas.

Aaron warned Sylvanas that the Scourge attacking Quel'Thalas posed a greater threat than she believed and explained why Dalaran had held out. As Sylvanas questioned him about the undead, a ranger arrived with a summons from the council.

• Sylvanas greeted Vereesa and was confused when both Vereesa and Stellagosa answered to the Windrunner sisters' nickname, so Aaron explained it to Stellagosa.
• Vereesa warned Sylvanas that the undead planned to attack Quel'Thalas, and Aaron described Ner'zhul's escape and the Scourge's recent activities.
• Sylvanas doubted the undead could threaten Silvermoon, so Aaron explained that Dalaran had been spared a direct assault because the Scourge sought the Book of Medivh and that dragons were helping defend the city.
• Stellagosa identified herself as a blue dragon sent to aid the mortals, and Sylvanas thanked her before asking Aaron to explain the undead's abilities and weaknesses.
• A ranger arrived and told Sylvanas that the council wanted her to come over.

Aaron watched Sylvanas and Vereesa attend a Silvermoon Council meeting about the undead threat, then spent the day telling Arator stories. The commanders returned from the meeting looking dissatisfied, leaving the council’s response uncertain.

• Stellagosa complained about Sylvanas’s intimidating manner, while Aaron hoped the Silvermoon Council would take the undead invasion seriously.
• Aaron spotted Liadrin training Arator and learned that Sylvanas had tacitly allowed him to study the Path of the Holy Light.
• Council messengers summoned Liadrin and the other military commanders, leading Aaron to believe Silvermoon was preparing for the undead threat.
• Arator returned and asked Aaron for stories, and Aaron recounted his recent battles before remembering the two Cult of the Damned mages he had left in Darrowshire.
• Aaron’s stories wandered from the Scourge to Draenor and Velen and Kil’jaeden, while Vereesa took a sleepy Arator to bed.
• The meeting ended, but Sylvanas and Liadrin returned with expressions that suggested its outcome was unsatisfactory.

Aaron told Sylvanas, Liadrin, Vereesa, and Stellagosa about devastating futures he had seen for Quel'Thalas, including Silvermoon City's fall and Sylvanas becoming a banshee. The council chose to send rangers to scout before committing troops, and Sylvanas began preparing for the undead threat.

• Liadrin complained that the council had rejected stronger action, then asked Aaron to describe the worst future he had seen.
• Aaron warned that Silvermoon City could fall, the Sunwell could be corrupted, and most of the High Elves could die; he also revealed that he had seen futures in which the planet fell.
• Sylvanas asked whether Silvermoon City could be held, and Aaron described a future where the undead reached Quel'Danas and she became a banshee.
• Sylvanas told Aaron that the council had ordered rangers to scout the enemy before sending troops, then asked him to mark the undead's route on a map.
• Aaron marked the Dead Scar, and Sylvanas questioned how the undead could enter Quel'Thalas before Aaron suggested they were more likely to come by sea.

Sylvanas and Aaron prepared for a Scourge attack on Quel'Danas, but Orcs arrived by sea first, followed by Undead and demons. After the High Elves drove them back, Sylvanas suspected they had established a foothold at Azurebreeze Coast and sent scouts to investigate.

• Sylvanas sent Dragonhawk Riders to scout and began gathering Quel'Thalas's legions near Silvermoon City.
• A Dragonhawk Rider reported that two or three thousand Orcs were sailing toward Quel'Danas without any Undead among them.
• Sylvanas took reinforcements to Quel'Danas, where the High Elves held off the Orcs until Undead and demons arrived.
• Silvermoon City's Archmages helped push the combined forces back into the sea, and the enemy ships withdrew southeast.
• Sylvanas suspected the Orcs had established a foothold at Azurebreeze Coast and sent Dragonhawk Riders to scout it.

After the Dragonhawk Riders discovered the Scourge on the Azurebreeze Coast, Sylvanas organized a land-and-sea attack on its camp. Aaron found an active Demon Gate inside, and Stellagosa offered to try to handle it as its light grew brighter.

• Two wounded Dragonhawk Riders returned from the Azurebreeze Coast with news of the Scourge’s forces and buildings there.
• Sylvanas arranged troops and transport ships, then launched a simultaneous attack on the Scourge camp while the enemy assaulted Quel'Danas.
• Sylvanas’s forces quickly defeated the small force of Cult of the Damned members and Orcs, then found the camp strewn with Murloc remains.
• Aaron followed the blood trails to a log-walled structure and discovered an operating Demon Gate inside.
• Aaron sought a mage to shut the gate, but the available High Elf mages lacked the needed skills.
• Stellagosa said she had experience with portals and offered to try to handle the Demon Gate.

Stellagosa studied the demon gate and began trying to close it while Aaron guarded her. As demons emerged and threatened Stellagosa, she froze the succubus holding her hostage.

• Stellagosa explained that safely closing the demon gate required studying its runes, then began examining it.
• Aaron sent the High Elf soldiers, Sylvanas, and Vereesa away from the gate while he stayed to protect Stellagosa.
• Several imps emerged from the still-active gate, and Aaron killed them while Stellagosa worked on its runes.
• A Felguard emerged and attacked Aaron, who fought it with Frostmourne as the gate began glowing again.
• A succubus came through the gate, grabbed Stellagosa, and threatened to kill her unless Aaron stopped fighting.
• Stellagosa encased the succubus in ice before she could make another demand.

Stellagosa tried to drain a demon gate’s energy, destroying wave after wave of demons before a Pit Lord emerged. Aaron and Stellagosa killed the wounded Pit Lord and shut down the gate completely.

• Stellagosa froze and shattered the succubus who had threatened her, while Aaron killed the Felguard.
• Stellagosa transformed into a dragon and destroyed successive groups of demons to drain the demon gate’s energy.
• Stellagosa halted the gate as a Pit Lord began to emerge, triggering an explosion that tore through the demon and left it badly wounded.
• Stellagosa froze the Pit Lord, then two arrows struck and shattered him; Aaron purified the demon with the Holy Light and closed the gate.

Aaron and the High Elves pursued the Scourge’s plan to use the Sunwell, while Aaron learned that the Cult of the Damned had sacrificed Orcs to power the demon gate. The Orcs retreated from Quel'Danas, leaving Aaron to wonder whether they would turn against the Scourge.

• Vereesa checked that Aaron was unharmed after the demon gate exploded, and he explained how its energy had been diverted.
• Sylvanas ordered the soldiers to leave the fleeing undead to Dathwither and his apprentices, then led the High Elves toward Quel'Danas to prevent the Scourge from reaching the Sunwell.
• Aaron flew toward Quel'Danas with Vereesa and Stellagosa, spotted the returning Orc forces, and was struck by lightning after the Orcs noticed him.
• Aaron learned that the Orcs had nearly reached Sunwell Plateau before the Silvermoon City Council's Archmages drove them back.
• After Sylvanas returned to Quel'Danas, Aaron heard that the Orcs had fled after seeing the demon gate and confirmed that the Cult of the Damned had likely sacrificed old and weak Orcs to activate it.

A giant Scourge necropolis arrived off Quel'Danas and began pouring endless undead onto the island, forcing Sylvanas to prepare for a war of attrition. When Cult of the Damned cultists threatened settlements in Eversong Woods, she sent Vereesa to join Lor'themar and the rangers in hunting them down while the battle for Quel'Danas continued.

• After two quiet days, a gigantic necropolis appeared off Quel'Danas with an unprecedented army of undead, including Tuskarr and Magnataur.
• The necropolis teleported undead across the island, scattering the defenders as Sylvanas repeatedly redeployed troops against the seemingly endless attacks.
• Sylvanas planned to gather Silvermoon City's troops and crush the Scourge, but Silvermoon City reported Cult of the Damned activity in southern Quel'Thalas.
• Sylvanas sent Vereesa to Eversong Woods to find Lor'themar and lead the rangers against the cultists, while Liadrin offered help from Covenant City and stayed to treat the wounded.
• Sylvanas embraced Vereesa and urged her to stay safe before she departed.

Vereesa, Aaron, Lor'themar, and their forces hunted down Cult of the Damned members in Eversong Woods and discovered they were raising buried elf and troll corpses. They reached Windrunner Village and found it in chaos, where Cendalín urged Vereesa to deal with the undead.

• Vereesa led rangers, paladins, and soldiers into Eversong Woods after Windrunner Village reported Cult of the Damned members in the area.
• The high elves found and surrounded a dozen or so cultists commanding skeletons, then forced them to surrender.
• Vereesa, Aaron, and Lor'themar examined the skeletons and realized the bones belonged to elves and trolls.
• Vereesa chose to continue to Windrunner Village to report the cultists' capture and learn why the village had appealed directly to Silvermoon City.
• The group arrived to find Windrunner Village littered with rubbish and its residents panicking, and Cendalín asked Vereesa to deal with the undead.

Vereesa and Aaron discovered that the Scourge had arrived at Windrunner Village with more than ten Necropolises and a fleet, forcing the villagers and rangers to retreat. Aaron left to warn Covenant City as the Scourge began landing and advancing inland.

• Cendalín told Vereesa that skeletons and a flying fortress had frightened Windrunner Village, and that attempts to seek help had failed.
• More than ten Necropolises appeared over the coast, and Vereesa and Aaron recognized them as Scourge forces.
• Aaron stopped panicked villagers from fleeing toward the shore as the Scourge fleet arrived and Meat Wagons cleared the landing area.
• Aaron and the others abandoned plans to attack the Necropolises and evacuated with the villagers while the Scourge unloaded troops.
• Aaron stayed behind to return to Covenant City and warn its inhabitants.

Aaron tracked the Scourge’s advance through Eversong Woods and found the High Elves retreating to Silvermoon City, where the army’s overwhelming strength forced them behind the city’s magical barrier. As the barrier threatened to fail within days, Silvermoon’s leaders debated abandoning the city, risking that the Scourge could use its Sunwell energy to summon the Burning Legion.

• Aaron warned VanCleef about the Scourge and hurried from Covenant City to follow the Undead’s route toward Silvermoon City.
• Aaron saw the High Elves evacuating settlements near Tranquillien and found rangers setting traps to slow the Scourge.
• The Scourge army reached Silvermoon City with Frost Proto-Dragons, Undead giants, and numerous other forces, and the High Elves retreated behind the city’s barrier after losing half a legion.
• Silvermoon City’s Archmages warned that the barrier might hold for only two or three days, prompting councilors to consider evacuating to Quel'Danas.
• Aaron recognized that abandoning Silvermoon City could let the Scourge draw on the Sunwell and summon the Burning Legion.

Anasterian refused to abandon Silvermoon City or surrender the Sunwell, and led the councilors to reinforce Quel'Danas against the undead. He summoned Aaron and revealed that he had seen a vision of a demon destroying the Sunwell.

• Anasterian overruled the councilors' debate, insisting that Silvermoon City must not be abandoned and the Sunwell must not be handed over.
• Anasterian rallied the Archmage councilors to fight and led them through a portal to Quel'Danas.
• Aaron sought Stellagosa's help to reach Quel'Danas, while Kael'thas opened a portal for him.
• Aaron arrived as the undead attacked the High Elves' defenses and watched the Archmages' spells weaken the assault.
• Anasterian told Aaron that he had seen a vision of the Sunwell being destroyed by a demon.

Anasterian told Aaron that visions of the future had convinced him to try to avert Quel'Thalas's destruction, then sent him back to Silvermoon City. When Felhounds and demons shattered the High Elves' defense at Quel'Danas, Aaron joined Sylvanas to cover the retreat as flaming phoenixes formed a barrier against the enemy.

• Anasterian told Aaron that he had seen the Sunwell destroyed by a terrifying demon and asked what Aaron thought of his decision to avert the future he had glimpsed.
• Anasterian sent Aaron back to Silvermoon City, saying he and his people would handle the defense.
• Felhounds and other demons joined the undead assault, draining the High Elves' mana and breaking their defensive line.
• Sylvanas ordered the High Elves to retreat to the plateau while covering soldiers surrounded by undead.
• Aaron charged into the enemy ranks with Bladestorm and Holy Light, and Sylvanas joined him to provide cover.
• More than a dozen phoenix-shaped flames flew from Sunwell Plateau and created a wall of fire that helped the High Elves withdraw.

Aaron and Sylvanas returned to Sunwell Plateau as Anasterian’s fire spell and Sylvanas’s Tar Trap briefly slowed the undead advance. With demons gathering and the High Elves battered, the defenders fought to buy time for Anasterian and the archmages to cast a powerful spell, their last hope against the overwhelming enemy.

• Anasterian unleashed numerous phoenix flames with Flamestrike, and Sylvanas stayed behind to set a Tar Trap that reignited the fading fire when an abomination crossed it.
• Aaron and Sylvanas returned to Sunwell Plateau as undead and demons advanced toward its walls.
• The High Elves prepared to defend the plateau while magical defense towers and Sunwell-powered Arcane Constructs attacked the approaching forces.
• Anasterian and the archmages began preparing a powerful group spell as demons charged the walls.
• Sylvanas rallied the High Elves and drove back the first demons, while Aaron feared they would lose if the archmages’ spell failed.

Anasterian unleashed a devastating phoenix spell against the undead and the Necropolis, then drew on the Sunwell to destroy the floating fortress in a massive explosion. As the blast disrupted the Ley Lines, he teleported everyone on the Isle of Quel'Danas to Silvermoon City.

• Anasterian sent a blazing phoenix through the undead and demons on Quel'Danas, burning a path across the island and punching a hole in the Necropolis.
• Aaron urged Anasterian to strike the Necropolis again, and Anasterian agreed despite the Archmages' exhaustion.
• Anasterian channeled the Sunwell's power into himself and hurled Flamestrike at the Necropolis.
• Flamestrike turned the Necropolis into an exploding fireball, and the blast disrupted the nearby Ley Lines.
• Anasterian teleported everyone on the Isle of Quel'Danas to the streets of Silvermoon City.

Anasterian sacrificed himself by becoming an arcane being linked to the Sunwell, then detonated himself to destroy the Pit Lord and the Sunwell. With Silvermoon City's barrier failing, Kael'thas rallied the High Elves to face the attacking undead and demons.

• The High Elves returned to Silvermoon City and discovered Anasterian was missing.
• Aaron saw that Anasterian had transformed himself into an arcane life-form connected to the Sunwell.
• Anasterian detonated himself, destroying the Pit Lord and the Sunwell along with Sunwell Plateau.
• Sylvanas urged the High Elves to reinforce Silvermoon City's gates as the Sunwell-powered barrier weakened.
• Kael'thas mourned Anasterian as the barrier fell, then ordered the Quel'dorei to prepare for the enemy.

Silvermoon City's barrier collapsed, forcing Kael'thas and Sylvanas to defend the city against the Scourge's aerial and ground assaults. Just as the High Elves faced imminent defeat, Lord Korialstrasz and dozens of dragons arrived, turning the battle in their favor.

• Kael'thas ordered the mages to attack after Silvermoon City's protective barrier shattered, and the High Elves pushed back the first wave of undead and demons.
• Vrykul dragon riders and gargoyles attacked from the air, and Sylvanas took command and directed the rangers and mages to support the Dragonhawk Riders and eagle riders.
• The Scourge advanced with fel-enhanced siege engines, and some reached the walls, allowing demons and undead to climb up and fight the High Elves.
• Aaron feared Silvermoon City would fall as necropolises approached, but Stellagosa recognized the answering roars as Lord Korialstrasz's reinforcements.
• Dozens of dragons arrived, attacked the undead and demons with dragon breath, and moved to confront the necropolises, shifting the battle in the High Elves' favor.

After the battle for Silvermoon City turned in the High Elves’ favor, Kael'thas led a pursuit of the fleeing enemies while Aaron stayed behind to heal the wounded. A banshee attacked Sylvanas and the rangers, escaped Aaron, and left Sylvanas behaving strangely as she pursued her alone.

• The dragons helped the High Elves rout the Scourge, and the surviving undead and demons fled toward Eversong Woods.
• Kael'thas told Sylvanas to pursue the fleeing enemies, then mounted Al'ar and set off to avenge his father, Anasterian.
• Aaron stayed in Silvermoon City to heal the wounded with the red dragons, priests, and Blood Knights.
• Aaron heard a banshee’s howl, found injured High Elf rangers, healed them, and rushed to help Sylvanas fight the banshee.
• The banshee screamed at Aaron and escaped through the woods; Sylvanas ignored his question and charged after her alone.

After the Scourge retreated, Aaron found Anasterian’s fading soul at the ruined Sunwell and learned that the Sunstrider king refused eternal life in the Halls of Valor. Kael’thas arrived just as his father was about to disappear.

• Aaron and the reinforcements found the Scourge fleet gone and spent several days clearing scattered undead from Eversong Woods.
• Sylvanas returned to the ruined Windrunner Village and warned Aaron not to tell Vereesa about a banshee.
• Kael’thas struggled with the Sunwell’s destruction and the threat that restoring it could bring the demons back.
• Aaron went to the Sunwell’s former site, where Xal’atath gathered Anasterian’s fragmented soul.
• Anasterian declined Xal’atath’s offer of eternal life, and his soul began to dissipate.
• Kael’thas arrived and recognized his father as Anasterian was vanishing.