Recaps

Jiang Jie led the Ashen Army, Paladins, and elven rangers into Stratholme to fight the undead while Dathrohan took a separate force through the main gate. The assault reached Elders' Square, where the allies began pushing forward, and Jiang Jie resolved to pursue archery and become a human ranger lord.

• Dathrohan rejected Jiang Jie's suggestion to change the forces' assignments and left to lead his troops through the main gate.
• Jiang Jie told Hawkspear that the Ashen Army would lead the charge and that the rangers could fight as they saw fit.
• Jiang Jie led a force of thirteen hundred through Eastwall Gate and reached Elders' Square, where Oryx prepared Alonsus Chapel as a refuge for the wounded and fallen.
• Jiang Jie charged into the undead, and Fenna, the Paladins, priests, mages, Nathanos, Hawkspear, and the elven rangers joined the battle.
• The allies advanced through the undead as the rangers' arrows and swordsmanship helped protect the front line, and Jiang Jie decided to seek a fine bow and study archery.

The Ashen Army and the rangers fought their way through Stratholme, where Oryx purified his mother Anastari, then reached the city’s deepest quarter and faced a Death Knight he recognized as his father. Meanwhile, Arthas and Kel’Thuzad prepared to march on Silvermoon City and the Sunwell, leaving necromancers to spread the Scourge plague through the Ghostlands.

• The Ashen Army and the ranger force battled gargoyles and undead bosses in Stratholme, losing many soldiers before killing Stonespine and Maleki the Pallid.
• Oryx recognized the banshee Anastari as his mother and purified her with the Ashbringer’s flames, then sent her remains to Alonsus Chapel for burial.
• After a night at Alonsus Chapel, the allied forces reached Stratholme’s deepest quarter and found Ramstein, abominations, and a Death Knight; Oryx tearfully called the knight “Father!”
• Arthas surveyed the ruined Deatholme and asked where Tichondrius had gone; Kel’Thuzad said the Dreadlord was in Stratholme trying to undermine the Holy Light forces.
• Arthas and Kel’Thuzad discussed the dangers of attacking Quel’Thalas, and Kel’Thuzad claimed he had already arranged for its runic barrier to fail.
• Arthas agreed to march toward Silvermoon City and Sunwell Plateau while Noth and Heigan remained behind to establish necropolises and plague cauldrons in the Ghostlands.

Kael'thas and Sylvanas faced the Scourge’s advance while the Sun King refused to seek outside aid, hoping victory would restore the Sunstrider Dynasty’s prestige. Kael'thas secured only Krasus’s personal promise of help, while Sylvanas ordered a retreat to the Elrendar River and placed her faith in Quel'Thalas’s runic barrier.

• The Sun King refused Kael'thas’s plea to seek aid, arguing that High Elf dignity outweighed the lives of some of their people and that defeating the Scourge would restore the dynasty’s prestige.
• Kael'thas contacted Antonidas, who refused to send Dalaran’s battle mages without a request from the Sun King but said Krasus would offer personal aid after handling a problem.
• Sylvanas received reports that the ranger forces could not stop the Scourge and ordered Lor'themar and Halduron to retreat to the Elrendar River.
• Sylvanas told Kalma that the Silver Hand would send troops after the rangers helped take Stratholme, and insisted that the runic barrier would stop the Scourge.

Dathrohan led two hundred Paladins in an assault on the demon-held castle in eastern Stratholme, despite Angela and Erigor warning him to wait. After the demons overwhelmed his forces, Dathrohan pushed into the castle’s deepest room and found a wounded Dreadlord.

• Dathrohan ordered Erigor, Angela, and Korfax to clear the Undead while he took two hundred elite Paladins to attack the castle.
• The Paladins fought the demons, but the Infernals and Felguards inflicted heavy casualties, and Dathrohan realized only he could face a Felguard directly.
• Dathrohan led his remaining adjutants and Paladins toward the castle’s depths as more demons poured into the passage.
• An adjutant urged Dathrohan to kill the demon summoning reinforcements, so he charged through the passage and entered the innermost room.
• The doors shut behind Dathrohan, leaving him face to face with a wounded Dreadlord.

Fenna and Jiang Jie led the Holy Light Allied Forces through a fierce battle against the Undead in Stratholme’s slaughterhouse. As the forces fought toward Baron Rivendare, Oryx watched the baron, whose father no longer recognized him.

• Fenna rallied the Paladins, Warriors, and Priests, then charged the Undead with Ashbringer as the Holy Light empowered her allies.
• Jiang Jie led the protection Warriors in breaking through the portcullis, while mages, rangers, and other fighters destroyed waves of Undead.
• Jiang Jie and Fenna fought at the front with their divine swords, cutting down even Abominations, while Oryx fought behind Jiang Jie.
• Oryx kept his eyes on Baron Rivendare, intent on his mission despite the battle, and knew that his father no longer recognized him.

Baron Rivendare sent Ramstein the Gorger and his elite undead guards against Jiang Jie’s group, but Jiang Jie quickly destroyed the guards. Fenna and the High Elf rangers battled Ramstein while Oryx charged toward his father, and Rivendare warned Jiang Jie that the Scourge would consume Lordaeron.

• Baron Rivendare ordered the undead to attack and unleashed Ramstein the Gorger and his Black Guard Scouts.
• Jiang Jie killed every Black Guard Scout with a Legendary area attack, inspiring Oryx with his strength.
• Oryx overcame his fear and charged toward Baron Rivendare, determined to face his father.
• Fenna purified undead with the Ashbringer as Nathanos, Hawkspear, and three hundred High Elf rangers cleared the way for her to fight Ramstein.
• Baron Rivendare warned Jiang Jie that the Lich King's Scourge would soon devour Lordaeron.

Jiang Jie’s forces defeated Baron Rivendare and Ramstein the Gorger, and Oryx purified his father before reaching High-Ranking Paladin. After the survivors returned to Alonsus Chapel, the story shifted to Dathrohan facing Tichondrius alone.

• Jiang Jie overwhelmed Baron Rivendare and knocked him from his deathcharger.
• Oryx purified Rivendare’s Sword with the Holy Light, then used it to cleanse his father and gained the rank of High-Ranking Paladin.
• Fenna killed Ramstein the Gorger with the Ashbringer, and the allied forces destroyed the remaining undead after an hour of fighting.
• Jiang Jie ordered his soldiers to regroup and return to Alonsus Chapel, where Angela appeared as he watched the west with foreboding.
• Dathrohan recognized Tichondrius, realized the demon had sealed the room against outside communication, and charged him with his warhammer.

Tichondrius killed Dathrohan, took over his body, and led the surviving Paladins while concealing his identity. He redirected the forces toward the city gates to avoid being exposed at Alonsus Chapel, and Angela went to find Jiang Jie.

• Tichondrius killed Dathrohan and took possession of his body, retaining his ability to wield Holy Light energy.
• Tichondrius killed the remaining demons and led the surviving Paladins out to join the Brotherhood of the Light.
• Tichondrius ordered Angela to summon the Ashen Army and the rangers to the city gates instead of Alonsus Chapel.
• Angela cast a spell and appeared before Jiang Jie.

Jiang Jie discovered that Tichondrius was hiding inside Dathrohan and struck before the demon could expose himself. Fenna summoned more than a hundred heroic Paladin spirits and gained Legendary-level Holy Light, while Tichondrius stood revealed before the allied forces.

• Jiang Jie persuaded the Archmage to have the forces meet at Festival Lane, where Fenna sensed the buried Paladin spirits and gained their promise to answer her summons.
• Jiang Jie used the gaming pod's scan to discover Tichondrius's soul inside Dathrohan, then concealed his suspicion as the commander urged the allied forces to head for the Ghostlands.
• Jiang Jie asked for two hours to tend to the wounded and offered Dathrohan a healing potion, then suddenly struck him with Internal Energy after identifying him as Tichondrius.
• Tichondrius's control of Dathrohan's body failed, and the body collapsed as the demon's black energy formed his true shape above it.
• Fenna awakened over a hundred heroic Paladin spirits, whose Holy Light empowered her to cross the Legendary threshold.

After Tichondrius escaped, the allied forces buried Dathrohan in the city he had sworn to protect and reorganized under new command. The army entered the Ghostlands, where Jiang Jie and the ranger forces prepared to race ahead toward the Scourge at the Elrendar River.

• Fenna wounded Tichondrius with the Ashbringer, and Jiang Jie, Angela, and the rangers attacked as he fled in bat form, but they could not kill him.
• Jiang Jie identified Tichondrius as the one who had killed Dathrohan and taken his place, and Dathrohan's adjutant requested that he be buried beneath the Paladin statue in Festival Lane.
• Angela returned with orders naming Fina Goldensword supreme commander and Jiang Jie and Erigor Dawnbringer deputy commanders, while Dathrohan's remaining troops joined the Ashen Army.
• The allied forces reached the Ghostlands passage, where Erigor and Korfax stayed to establish an outpost while Jiang Jie and Fenna led the Ashen Army onward.
• At the ruined High Elf outpost, Lansal Hawkspear urged the rangers to hurry toward the Elrendar River, and Jiang Jie and Angela agreed to ride ahead with them.
• Jiang Jie reassured Fenna that he would be safe as he and the ranger forces prepared to race ahead toward the Scourge.

Sylvanas Windrunner and the High Elven rangers tried to stop Arthas and the Scourge at the Elrendar River. After Sylvanas destroyed the bridge, Arthas froze the river solid, allowing the undead to charge across.

• Sylvanas surveyed the Scourge from the Elf Gate and prepared three thousand rangers for battle.
• Sylvanas warned Arthas to withdraw, but he refused and offered to let her leave alive.
• Sylvanas fired an arrow at Arthas, who cut it apart with Frostmourne, and the rangers unleashed a barrage against the advancing undead.
• Sylvanas ordered the elven bridge destroyed as the Scourge overwhelmed the rangers, sweeping thousands of undead downstream.
• Arthas plunged Frostmourne into the Elrendar River and froze it into a thick crossing, then sent the undead charging across.

Sylvanas’s forces retreated after the elven gate fell, and she ordered a last stand to buy time for civilians fleeing the Scourge. Jiang Jie and the High Elf ranger lords rode north to pursue Arthas, while Lor’themar feared his past decision to share the runic barrier’s secrets had enabled the betrayal.

• Sylvanas ordered her rangers to retreat to the second gate after undead and gargoyles overwhelmed their defenses.
• Sylvanas sent Lor'themar to warn the Sun King and Silvermoon Council that the High Elves had been betrayed, and Lor'themar suspected Dar'Khan had exploited the barrier secrets he had shared.
• Jiang Jie and the ranger lords reached the destroyed gate and river, and Jiang Jie understood that Dar'Khan's betrayal had weakened Quel'Thalas's defenses.
• Jiang Jie sped ahead on his warhorse to find Sylvanas and help rally the High Elves against the Scourge.
• Sylvanas remembered her sisters and, after praying that Vereesa stay away, ordered her rangers to fight to the death so fleeing people could escape.

Sylvanas and the remaining rangers made their last stand at the Eastern Sanctum against Arthas’s Scourge. Just as Arthas was about to kill her, Nicholas Jiang intervened and carried her toward the forest, declaring that human forces were coming to aid the High Elves.

• Arthas surrounded the Eastern Sanctum with more than a hundred thousand undead and ordered them to attack the rangers.
• Sylvanas fought on as her rangers fell and were resurrected as undead, until she was the last defender standing.
• Arthas reached the sanctum’s highest level and severed Sylvanas’s leg with Frostmourne.
• Nicholas Jiang blocked Arthas’s strike with Warbreaker, then seized Sylvanas and leaped from the sanctum.
• Nicholas Jiang told Sylvanas that Stratholme had fallen, the Ashen Army was clearing the Dead Scar, and rangers from Quel'Lithien Lodge were approaching.

Jiang Jie rescued the wounded Sylvanas from Arthas and a vast Scourge force, then escaped with her into the eastern mountains. After treating his own injuries, he offered to help her with the Frostmourne wound that had severed and frozen her leg.

• Jiang Jie carried Sylvanas through the Scourge pursuit while she used the Barov Family Longsword to parry arrows.
• Jiang Jie and Sylvanas escaped after Arthas called off the pursuit and marched toward Silvermoon City with the key to its runic barrier.
• Jiang Jie and Sylvanas collapsed in the eastern mountains, where he drank healing potions and meditated to expel Frostmourne's lingering power.
• Sylvanas treated her severed, frozen leg, and Jiang Jie asked whether she would trust him to help.

Jiang Jie removed Frostmourne’s lingering frost magic and helped Sylvanas reach Silvermoon City, where Liadrin healed her broken leg. Sylvanas then prepared to meet the Sun King and Prince Kael’thas, asking Liadrin to heal the injured Jiang Jie.

• Jiang Jie expelled the frost power from Sylvanas and set her broken leg, while she insisted on traveling to Silvermoon City rather than meeting the rangers.
• Jiang Jie and Sylvanas found supplies and arrows at a ranger outpost, tamed a dragonhawk, and flew to Silvermoon City.
• Halduron welcomed Sylvanas and told her that the Silvermoon Council and half the archmages had gone to the Sunwell to reinforce the failing Runestone Barrier.
• Liadrin used the Holy Light and a troll potion to heal Sylvanas’s leg so she could stand again.
• Sylvanas requested an immediate audience with the Sun King and Prince Kael’thas, introduced Jiang Jie as the commander who had saved her, and asked Liadrin to heal him.

Jiang Jie recovered while learning that Silvermoon City faced an overwhelming Scourge threat, including Naxxramas and dozens of frost wyrms. As he admired the city’s magical defenses and splendor, he realized the Runestone Barrier was already compromised and the city was likely doomed.

• A high priest healed Jiang Jie while Halduron welcomed Lordaeron’s reinforcements and learned that Fina Goldensword commanded them.
• Halduron dispatched dragonhawk riders to summon the rangers from Quel'Lithien Lodge, while Liadrin left to tend to wounded refugees and rangers.
• Jiang Jie inspected Naxxramas through a telescope and saw dozens of frost wyrms circling the fortress above Silvermoon City.
• Jiang Jie realized the Scourge had likely seized the Key of the Three Moons and that Dar'Khan might already have attacked the Silvermoon Council and severed the Sunwell’s connection to the High Elves.
• Jiang Jie admired Silvermoon City’s beauty and magical infrastructure, but concluded that its dependence on magic and compromised defenses left it facing destruction.

Jiang Jie met the Sun King in Silvermoon City as the Scourge advanced toward the city and the Sunwell. Pressed to reveal the source of his warnings, he was secretly threatened by the prophet whose name he was about to give.

• Jiang Jie considered the Scourge's overwhelming strength and focused on what he could still change, including protecting the Isle of Quel'Danas.
• A Silvermoon guard summoned Jiang Jie to the Sunstrider Court, where the Sun King, Prince Kael'thas, Grand Archmage Belo'vir, Vandellor, Sylvanas, and Lor'themar awaited him.
• The Sun King acknowledged that Jiang Jie's warning had come true and said the Scourge was heading for Silvermoon City and the Sunwell Plateau.
• Jiang Jie claimed that a blood-raven prophet had warned him and others about the Scourge, then prepared to identify the prophet as Medivh.
• Medivh warned Jiang Jie that he would send the bronze dragons after him if he revealed his name.

Jiang Jie revealed that Dar'Khan had betrayed Silvermoon City and learned that Lor'themar had unknowingly given him the Runestone Barrier's secret. The Sun King left for the Sunwell to confront Dar'Khan as the Scourge reached the city, while Jiang Jie spotted a blood raven.

• Jiang Jie told the Sun King that the Runestone Barrier was weakening and that the Scourge had obtained the Key of the Three Moons.
• Jiang Jie revealed that Arthas had called a cloaked High Elf mage Dar'Khan, and Lor'themar confessed that he had told Dar'Khan the barrier's secret.
• Sylvanas vouched that Lor'themar had not betrayed Silvermoon deliberately, and the Sun King ordered him taken away without convicting him of treason.
• Belo'vir reported that Dar'Khan was at the Sunwell, so the Sun King went there to confront him while Kael'thas and the others remained in Silvermoon City.
• A guard reported that the Scourge had reached the city, and Jiang Jie saw a blood raven after the leaders went to prepare for battle.

Jiang Jie met Medivh, who revealed that he knew Jiang Jie was not Nicholas and explained that the future was uncertain while the past could not be changed. Medivh said the Bronze Dragons would not target Jiang Jie as long as he did not threaten the world, and that they would protect him from the Infinite Dragonflight if needed.

• Jiang Jie tried to have Xiao Feng scan Medivh, but Xiao Feng said the gaming pod lacked enough energy and estimated Medivh's power to be extraordinary.
• Medivh told Jiang Jie he knew Nicholas had died and that Jiang Jie was not the Barov heir, but said he had no time to investigate Jiang Jie's origins.
• Medivh explained that no one could see the future clearly, and Xiao Feng connected this uncertainty to quantum mechanics and Schrödinger's cat.
• Jiang Jie realized that no fixed original course of the world could be known and worried that the Infinite Dragonflight might target him.
• Medivh told Jiang Jie the past could not be changed and argued that the Bronze Dragons would protect him from the Infinite Dragonflight.

Medivh reassured Jiang Jie that the bronze dragons would protect him and warned him to stay away from Kalimdor and Mount Hyjal. After Medivh vanished, Arthas arrived at Silvermoon City and demanded access to the Sunwell, as the High Elves assembled to face the Scourge.

• Medivh told Jiang Jie that the bronze dragons would protect him and urged him to do what he believed was right while staying alive.
• Medivh warned Jiang Jie not to go to Kalimdor or Mount Hyjal, then vanished after revealing that Arthas had arrived.
• Arthas used magic to demand that Silvermoon City surrender and let him enter the Sunwell, threatening to destroy everything the High Elves cherished.
• Prince Kael'thas and Silvermoon's leaders gathered on the skybridge with the High Elf armies as Jiang Jie assessed their strength.
• Jiang Jie saw the Scourge's floating fortresses, frost wyrms, and more than 150,000 undead surrounding Silvermoon City, while distant reinforcements waited or approached.

Kael'thas ordered the High Elves to attack Arthas, but Arthas used the Key of the Three Moons to reverse the Runestone Barrier's energy and destroy it. As Silvermoon's defenses and mages were devastated, Jiang Jie rushed toward the strongest arcane currents so the gaming pod could absorb the energy.

• Kael'thas answered Arthas's taunts by ordering the High Elves to attack with a massive Flamestrike.
• Arthas revealed the Key of the Three Moons and used it to reverse the Runestone Barrier's energy.
• The Runestone Barrier exploded, devastating Silvermoon City and killing or disabling many High Elf mages.
• Grand Archmage Belo'vir realized Dar'Khan's betrayal had enabled the barrier's destruction, though Kel'Thuzad and Lich King Ner'zhul had discovered how to use the key.
• Xiao Feng urged Jiang Jie to find the densest arcane energy, and Jiang Jie ran through Silvermoon City to let the gaming pod absorb it.

The Sun King reached the Sunwell after its barrier collapsed, killed Dar'Khan, and called the High Elves to defend the Sunwell. Silvermoon City fell to the Scourge, leaving Kael'thas and the dwindling High Elf forces facing a disastrous battle without the Sunwell's power.

• The Sun King arrived at the Sunwell and found its Runestone Barrier destroyed, its energy suppressed, and the Archmages slaughtered by Dar'Khan.
• The Sun King charged Dar'Khan and killed him with Flamestrike, then cast his corpse and Bloodsurge out of the Sunwell Shrine.
• The Sun King discovered that the imprisonment spell had Dalaran magic woven into it, and he called the High Elves to gather at Sunwell Plateau and defend the Sunwell.
• The Scourge broke through Silvermoon City's defenses as Frost Wyrms, Anub'Rekhan, and other Undead overwhelmed the High Elves.
• Belo'vir and the other mages lost access to the Sunwell and struggled with dwindling mana amid Silvermoon's chaotic Arcane energy, while Kael'thas fared slightly better.

The Sun King ordered Kael'thas and Silvermoon's powerful spellcasters and elite troops to teleport to Sunwell Plateau to break the binding spell, leaving the rangers to defend Silvermoon City. Their departure convinced the terrified High Elves that they had been abandoned, so Jiang Jie urged Sylvanas to rally them and restore their hope.

• Kael'thas fought Arthas in Silvermoon City but was overwhelmed by Frostmourne.
• The Sun King summoned Kael'thas and Silvermoon's mages and elite troops to Sunwell Plateau to restore their connection to the Sunwell and rebuild the runestone barrier.
• The Grand Archmage and Grand Astromancer teleported away with the summoned forces, while the ranger forces remained to protect Silvermoon's civilians.
• The High Elves saw their leaders and strongest troops leave and panicked, believing Silvermoon City had been abandoned.
• Jiang Jie found Sylvanas fighting near the garden bazaar and asked her to tell the city's survivors that the rangers remained and reinforcements were coming.
• Sylvanas ordered a surviving mage to amplify her voice so her message could reach all of Silvermoon City.

Sylvanas Windrunner and Nicholas Jiang rallied Silvermoon City's defenders against the Scourge, while Jiang freed Lor'themar from prison. Arthas led an undead army across the strait toward the Sunwell Plateau by freezing the sea with Frostmourne.

• Sylvanas Windrunner urged Silvermoon City's people to fight, and defenders across the city declared their resolve to protect Quel'Thalas.
• Nicholas Jiang called on the High Elves to stand with humanity, and their voices rose in a renewed declaration of resistance.
• Jiang Jie freed Ranger-Lord Lor'themar from prison so he could join the battle.
• An ancient red dragon sensed the Sunwell's explosion and changed course toward the Sunwell instead of Silvermoon City.
• Kel'Thuzad urged Arthas to attack the Sunwell Plateau before the High Elf mages could restore the Runestone Barrier, and Arthas led fifty thousand undead toward the northern coast.
• Arthas used Frostmourne to freeze the strait into a broad road of ice and rode toward Quel'Danas with the Scourge following.

As Arthas escaped toward Quel'Danas with Naxxramas, Jiang Jie and Sylvanas focused on saving Silvermoon City as reinforcements arrived. Fenna and the Ashen Army rallied the city's defenders, and Liadrin joined them after Fenna saved her from the Scourge.

• Jiang Jie stopped Sylvanas from pursuing Arthas and urged her to defend Silvermoon City until the portals reopened.
• Hawkspear, Nathanos, and their rangers sealed Anub'Rekhan's breach as the Ashen Army charged into the city behind them.
• Fenna led the Ashen Army along the Dead Scar, destroying undead and inspiring elven Paladins and Priests to fight.
• Ghouls killed several Priests and Liadrin's mentor Vandellor, leaving Liadrin helpless against the attack.
• Fenna rescued Liadrin and sixteen other Priests, then urged Liadrin to become a Paladin and join her.
• Liadrin took up weapons from the battlefield and followed Fenna into the Ashen Army.