Chapter Summaries

Al defeated the stone guardian and recovered a Titan construct core, then entered a vast underground environment filled with dinosaurs. He identified it as a Titan species laboratory and prepared to face what lay ahead.

• Al drew the stone guardian away from Hemet, then used [Freedom's Protector] and a barrage of spells to destroy it while preserving its core.
• Al found and stored the low-grade Titan construct core among the guardian's fragments, then led Hemet into the cave.
• Al and Hemet crossed a dark tunnel filled with bats and emerged beneath an artificial sun overlooking a vast tropical rainforest.
• Hemet marveled at the dinosaurs, and Al recognized the place as a Titan species laboratory and readied himself for new challenges.

Al and Hemet followed a blue beam from a Crystal Tower to a colossal palace, where they activated four Discs of Norgannon and awakened the Stone Guardian Nablya. The chapter left them facing the Titan Keeper, while Hemet leered at her and muttered that she did not look like a good person.

• Al identified the Four-Colour Crystals’ powers and found a white Crystal Tower with a giant blue crystal at its peak.
• Al placed seven blue crystals into the tower’s sockets, causing it to send a patterned beam through the forest.
• Al and Hemet followed the beam to a colossal metal palace, then activated three more Crystal Towers to open its entrance.
• Al and Hemet entered the palace and found four Discs of Norgannon at the center of the hall.
• Al touched the discs, awakening Nablya, who introduced herself as Khaz'goroth’s disciple and the Observer.
• Al caught Hemet staring beneath Nablya’s dress and flicked his bald head as Hemet muttered about her appearance.

Al learned from Nablya that the crystals were Titan blessings and that Khaz'goroth's earth crystals had been destroyed to prevent corruption from spreading. Before entering dormancy, Nablya gave Al her remaining crystals and urged him to protect the world, leaving him and Hemet to search the testing grounds for more.

• Al deduced that the colored crystals carried the powers of Norgannon, Eonar, Freya, and Aman'Thul, and asked why no crystals bore Khaz'goroth's blessing.
• Nablya explained that Neltharion's corruption had tainted Khaz'goroth's power, so she destroyed the earth crystals to protect the testing-ground creatures.
• Nablya said the crystals could evolve living creatures, but Khaz'goroth's experiment had failed, and she warned Al about a powerful escaped test subject and the secrets at Fire Plume Ridge.
• Nablya revealed she knew Al intended to take the crystals, gave him the blessings, urged him to stay true to his path, and sank into the ground to enter dormancy.
• Hemet encouraged Al to honor Nablya's hope by becoming strong enough to protect the world, and Al agreed to scour the testing grounds for crystals.

Kael'thas endured Dalaran politics while eagerly seeking the academic work of Aier Salona. At the Council of Six meeting, Antonidas revealed that Aier's Bloodpetals and Jinkela could greatly improve spellcasters' meditation, then called for them to be destroyed and their sellers arrested.

• Kael'thas criticized Dalaran's Magic Monthly and asked Solarian for Aier Salona's latest research.
• Kael'thas attended the annual Council of Six meeting despite resenting his political duties.
• Antonidas explained that Bloodpetals released gas that could increase spellcasters' meditation speed two to three times.
• Antonidas said Jinkela made Bloodpetals docile and increased their gas production without harmful effects.
• Antonidas identified Aier Salona as the source of the Bloodpetals and Jinkela, then called for a vote to destroy them and arrest the adventurers selling them.

Kael'thas accepted the Kirin Tor council's decision to ban Bloodpetals and Jinkela after recalling Al's socialist ideals, and resolved to fight for those ideals. In Dalaran, Millhouse received the remedies his father had bought by selling a family heirloom, but Kirin Tor enforcers confiscated them and left the family devastated.

• Antonidas and the council members voted to approve the ban, and Ansirem Runeweaver joined them while Kael'thas abstained.
• Kael'thas remembered Al's published words about socialism and declared that he would continue fighting in accordance with Al's ideals.
• Orvido gave Millhouse a Bloodpetal and Jinkela, explaining that he had sold the Staff of Jordan to pay for them.
• Kirin Tor enforcers stormed Orvido and Millhouse's home, seized the remedies, and kicked Orvido aside.
• Orvido told the crying Millhouse that the world had always been this way.

Low-ranking mages in Dalaran protested their exclusion, and Kael'thas and his allies turned the crackdown into a campaign for reform. After Runeweaver and Karlain helped spread Bloodpetals through the city, Antonidas conceded the protesters' demands, and Dalaran celebrated Freedom Day.

• Orvido led a march of mages through Dalaran, where they shouted slogans for justice, freedom, and the advancement of magic.
• Modera reported the march to Antonidas, who ordered her to disperse the crowd and arrest anyone who resisted; the marchers submitted without fighting, and most were soon released.
• Runeweaver intercepted a dwarf carrying Jinkela 2.0, then chose to join Kael'thas's cause; Karlain eventually decided to join them as well.
• Runeweaver and Karlain secretly supplied the Brotherhood of Al with Jinkela and Bloodpetals, which the group used to fill Dalaran with the rapidly spreading flowers.
• Antonidas accused Kael'thas of conspiring against Dalaran, but Kael'thas and the two Archmages demanded equal access to magic and freedom of trade.
• Dalaran legalized Jinkela and Bloodpetals, restored adventurers' trading rights, and declared the day Freedom Day; Antonidas admitted he had lost the political contest.

Al climbed Fire Plume Ridge while Hemet waited below, then defeated a flame lord and studied its elemental core. Three days later, Hemet was exhausting himself with training while Al casually camped and washed up above the volcano.

• Al shielded Hemet from the heat and sent him to wait safely while he flew toward the summit alone.
• Al dodged a barrage of Pyroblasts from a flame lord and used Partial Elementalization to extract its core.
• Al examined the core for three days while Hemet, believing Al was still fighting, trained himself at an abandoned camp.
• Al relaxed in midair above the volcano, recovering mana and washing up, unaware Hemet would be devastated if he learned the truth.

Al discovered a hidden Titan workshop beneath Fire Plume Ridge and realized it was connected to Khaz'goroth. He left the chapter accepting that he would have to face Azeroth's dangers himself.

• Al used Hyperthymesia to realize the secrets of the Titans were hidden beneath the lava at Fire Plume Ridge.
• Al placed the Lesser Titan-forged Core into a socket on the lakebed and was teleported into a sealed chamber.
• Al found a dormant workshop containing a furnace and Stone Guardians without Creation Cores.
• Al recognized the workshop as a place where Khaz'goroth had made lesser guardians and worried about being drawn into a larger fate.
• Al considered the dangers threatening Azeroth, then resolved to rely on himself rather than run away.

Al discovered a hidden cache of creation cores and activated Khaz'goroth's forge, but absorbing its output nearly destroyed his body. Khaz'goroth intervened, restored him, and secretly infused him with Titan powers before Al woke with a hammer-shaped mark on his back.

• Al found twenty-five creation cores hidden in the forge and tried to activate it with four empowerment crystals, but lacked the power needed to use it.
• Al discovered a concealed red button behind a wall, restarted the forge, and fed the creation cores into its reversion system.
• When the forge released brown smoke, Al inhaled it and absorbed an excessive amount of Khaz'goroth's power, causing his body to begin elementalizing.
• Khaz'goroth awakened, stabilized Al with earth power, and used the spilled crystals to infuse him with the powers of Aman'Thul, Norgannon, Eonar, and others, adding a seal before vanishing.
• Al woke unharmed but found his crystals gone and a pale green-marked hammer tattooed on his back.

After escaping the Titan ruin, Al returned to Hemet and used divine earth power to awaken the dwarf’s ancestral strength. They set off together to settle their score with Mosh, while Hemet listened to Al explain Uldaman and slowly realized he had been recruited to carry the beast’s corpse.

• Al examined his new divine traces and the Hammer of Khaz'goroth tattoo, then spent three days studying and collecting twenty-five construct cores.
• Al found Hemet exhausted from doing push-ups and mistakenly suspected he had been doing something else.
• Hemet apologized for being unable to help Al, so Al demonstrated his earth power and offered to make him stronger.
• Hemet agreed to the dangerous procedure, and Al infused him with divine earth power, transforming him into a towering stone-skinned giant who could use Avatar.
• Al gave Hemet a robe, explained that his transformation came from his ancestral earthen heritage, and told him the story of Uldaman as they walked toward Mosh.
• Al revealed that Hemet’s new strength would let him carry Mosh’s corpse, and Hemet belatedly realized what Al had planned.

Al and Hemet tracked the rampaging Mosh to a clearing, where Hemet insisted on fighting the beast alone. Hemet killed Mosh with his final charge but died from his wounds, leaving Al grieving as he murmured that he had fulfilled his oath.

• Al and Hemet found signs of Mosh's slaughter and followed the beast to a clearing.
• As Mosh charged, Hemet stopped Al from intervening and transformed with Avatar to face it alone.
• Hemet endured repeated clashes with Mosh, refusing Al's pleas to stop as his body fractured and his life force faded.
• Hemet awakened Dragon Roar, then used Heroic Leap and Thunder Clap to crush Mosh's skull.
• Al rushed to Hemet and tried to treat his wounds, but Hemet died after asking if he had been brave and saying he had fulfilled his oath.

Al revived Hemet by using a Titan-forged core and his divine earth power, then brought Mosh’s corpse to Marshal’s Refuge. Two days later, Al reopened his workshop and offered Jinkela for mithril and thorium ore, prompting the adventurers to rush off to mine.

• Al used a Titan-forged core and nearly all his divine earth power to revive Hemet, whose stone heart began beating again.
• Al and Hemet carried Mosh’s corpse to Marshal’s Refuge, where Williden welcomed them and adventurers marveled at the trophy.
• Al returned to his alchemy workshop and slept after giving Hemet a few instructions.
• Two days later, the workshop reopened with a banner offering Jinkela for mithril ore and Jinkela 2.0 for thorium ore.
• Will Heavyfist read the offer aloud, then used Running Wild to race out of camp as the other adventurers rushed to mine.

Al rebuilt the behemoth Mosh into a giant magical robot using a mysterious four-colored crystal and advanced engineering. The adventurers admired the completed Battlecast Behemoth, Type Zero, while Hemet proudly claimed credit for helping Al develop it.

• Al struggled to fabricate mithril components with Goblin tools while Hemet forged parts for the machine.
• Al discovered that Mosh had swallowed a powerful crystal from the Titan Testing Grounds, which had driven the behemoth mad.
• Al decided to use the crystal to modify Mosh and inserted it into the behemoth's spine after sending Hemet away for safety.
• The crystal powered the rebuilt Mosh, whose body Al had transformed with metal armor, blade arms, mechanical wings, and Stars of Elune for eyes.
• The adventurers marveled at the completed robot as Hemet announced its name, Battlecast Behemoth - Type Zero, and boasted that he and Al had developed it.

Hemet lost control of Type Zero during a test flight, and Al exhausted himself using Telekinesis to prevent the falling mech from destroying Marshal's Refuge. After paying for the damage, Al received a letter addressed to his mentor, Aier Salona, from Kael'thas Sunstrider.

• Hemet activated Type Zero's thrusters, lost control, and sent the mech flying wildly over Marshal's Refuge.
• Al measured Type Zero's flight performance and power limits as it ran out of energy and began falling toward the settlement.
• Al used all his strength to slow Type Zero, but the mech still damaged buildings, including his alchemy workshop.
• Al paid Williden 5,000 gold coins to compensate for the destruction, then kicked Hemet when the dwarf mistook his complaints for a fatal illness.
• Williden gave Al a letter and a golden Sunstrider crest found on a dead adventurer, and Al read that Kael'thas Sunstrider had written to his mentor, Aier Salona.

Nielas Aran struggled to secure funding for Stormwind’s mage forces as the kingdom faced growing Gurubashi Troll threats. When he arrived at Stormwind Keep with Barathen, he found Magna Aegwynn lounging on the Lionheart Throne, and she revealed that she had asked for him.

• Nielas Aran returned to his mage tower, where he studied Master Al’s writings and used a potion on a Bloodpetal.
• Nielas Aran received Barathen’s message about Magna Aegwynn and went to Stormwind Keep.
• Nielas Aran urged Barathen to fund research and mage training, but Barathen said the treasury was strained by military spending against the Gurubashi Trolls.
• Barathen stopped Nielas Aran from attacking Magna Aegwynn for sitting on the Lionheart Throne and introduced her as his honored guest.
• Magna Aegwynn greeted Barathen and asked whether Nielas Aran was the man she had requested.

Aegwynn used Charm Person to ensnare Nielas Aran in Stormwind Keep while Barathen endured the humiliation and worried over his kingdom. In Un'Goro Crater, Al learned that a Dalaran symposium was tied to political maneuvering and agreed to attend, encouraged by his grandfather to defy the politics.

• Aegwynn charmed Nielas Aran and drew him into her arms, while Barathen waited furiously outside the hall.
• Barathen composed himself and entrusted Marshal Tom with keeping order in Stormwind City.
• Al read Kael'thas's letter inviting him to a Dalaran academic symposium attended by Silvermoon's Archmages, then burned it and decided to pursue another opportunity.
• Al contacted Belovar, who explained that the symposium involved political interests surrounding the Bloodpetals and the Jinkela formulas.
• Al agreed to attend the symposium at the end of the month, and Belovar urged him to ignore the political maneuvering and be himself.

While Hemet exhausted himself supporting Al’s frantic preparations for the Dalaran symposium, Aegwynn manipulated Nielas Aran and left him heartbroken. Barathen encouraged Nielas to travel to Dalaran, where he hoped to seek Al’s help against the Gurubashi.

• Hemet spent five sleepless days gathering materials for Al’s research as the Dalaran symposium approached.
• Aegwynn seduced Nielas Aran, then declared that she no longer needed him and intended their unborn child to become Azeroth’s next Guardian.
• Eighteen days after Aegwynn left, Nielas Aran remained devastated and confessed to Barathen that he had trouble sleeping.
• Barathen warned Nielas Aran to avoid Aegwynn and gave him a copy of Dalaran Monthly.
• Nielas Aran learned that Al would attend the symposium and resolved to seek his guidance on defeating the Gurubashi.
• Barathen assured Nielas Aran that Stormwind City would support him.

Kaynell remembered how John’s kindness and tragic death changed him, and he left Ayou Farm for Dalaran to seek Mentor Al. The story left him determined to pursue a new life after entrusting his savings to John’s daughter, Katie.

• Kaynell learned that Master Al would leave for Dalaran and decided to go after him, then recalled how John had first befriended him at Ayou Farm.
• Kaynell told John about his father’s murder by nobles, and John shared how nobles had caused his wife Hannah’s death and how he had kept going for Katie.
• Kaynell confessed that he had exaggerated reports of assassination attempts against Lord Al, while John praised the project and continued working at the farm.
• Five months later, John was killed after opposing nobles who wanted to grow Bloodthistle on land leased by Ayou Farm.
• Kaynell questioned the supervisor about John’s death, learned the circumstances, and chose not to seek revenge until he had enough strength.
• Kaynell left his savings to Katie and set off for Dalaran to find Mentor Al.

Kael'thas hurried to Southshore after hearing that Al had arrived, while Al and Hemet's landing in Type Zero had terrified the town into fleeing. Kael'thas met Al at the empty tavern, and Al immediately punished Hemet for mocking the elves.

• Kael'thas rushed through Dalaran with Solarian to reach Southshore, where his retinue included Anasterian Sunstrider.
• Zaris spotted Type Zero approaching Southshore and fainted, while Marshal Ford Redpath sounded the alarm and the townspeople fled.
• Al and Hemet landed in Type Zero, woke Zaris, and asked him where they were and how to find an inn.
• Kael'thas arrived by portal the next morning and exchanged insults with Hemet before greeting Al deferentially.
• Al invited Kael'thas into the tavern, then sent Hemet back outside for stepping through the door with his left foot first.

Kael'thas explained that Anasterian sought to place Rommath on Dalaran's Council of Six, while Antonidas demanded valuable inventions and research rights in return. As Al approached Dalaran aboard Type Zero, Antonidas and the other council members mistook the enormous construct for a possible threat before welcoming him.

• Kael'thas told Al that Anasterian planned to increase Quel'Thalas's influence in Dalaran by appointing Rommath to the Council of Six.
• Kael'thas listed Antonidas's demands, including Jinkela formulas, construct blueprints, Ayou's breeding techniques, and ten years of shared research results.
• Al considered Antonidas's demands and formed a shocking plan.
• Antonidas and the other council members waited near Dalaran, where Antonidas warned Modera that Al was more than a scholar.
• The council spotted Type Zero approaching and prepared for a threat, but Antonidas recognized Al and stopped them from sounding the alarm.
• Antonidas greeted Al with a Dalaran mage's salute, leaving Al confused.