Chapter Summaries

Snyder Rain prepared to relocate the Highborne of Suramar and Eldre'Thalas, believing the division among the elves could no longer be stopped. With Maiev Shadowsong at his side, he arranged to leave after the World Tree’s blessing ceremony and confirmed the migration plans with Prince Tortheldrin and Elisande.

• Dath'Remar Sunstrider urged Snyder Rain to oppose Malfurion and Tyrande, but Snyder said the elven division was inevitable and advised him to prepare to leave.
• Snyder told Dath'Remar that the people feared the Highborne and that he felt oppressed, then returned to planning the relocation of Suramar and Eldre'Thalas.
• Maiev Shadowsong joined Snyder, gave him the seed he had requested, and agreed to leave with him to protect their future people.
• Snyder told Maiev they would depart the next day after the World Tree's blessing ceremony.
• Prince Tortheldrin and Elisande arrived, and Snyder confirmed that the migration would begin the following day to find a new home and destiny for their people.

Snyder secured Elisande and Prince Tortheldrin’s loyalty by offering water from the Well of Eternity to cure the Highborne’s magic addiction. He planned to raise a sunken continent as their new home, while Maiev stayed behind to protect Suramar and oversee the portal.

• Snyder showed Elisande and Prince Tortheldrin water from the Well of Eternity, and both pledged loyalty to him.
• Snyder told Elisande to establish a stable portal in Suramar and ordered Prince Tortheldrin to gather the Highborne’s legacy and troops.
• Snyder revealed that he planned to raise a sunken continent and make it a new home for his people.
• Snyder assigned Maiev to provide crystallized Well water for the portal and protect Suramar while he led the expedition.
• Maiev accepted Snyder’s decision to leave her behind and stayed with him for the night.

Snyder Rain brought the Hand of the Bright Moon to Mount Hyjal and announced that he would lead the people of Suramar City, Eldre'Thalas, and Dank LS away. He and the Dragon Aspects began blessing two seeds, while unfamiliar faces arrived in Dank LS.

• Snyder Rain led the Hand of the Bright Moon to Mount Hyjal, where Jarod asked whether they were truly leaving.
• Snyder said leaving was inevitable, then spoke with the Elemental Lords, who promised to help guide and protect his voyage.
• At the summit, Snyder interrupted Malfurion's ceremony and presented the Seed of Elements for blessing.
• Snyder told Malfurion and Tyrande that he would lead the people of Suramar City, Eldre'Thalas, and Dank LS away, and argued that the division had already begun over the small Well of Eternity.
• Malfurion ended the argument, and Alexstrasza and Snyder tossed Gani's seed and the Seed of Elements into the sky to begin the blessing.
• Many unfamiliar faces arrived in Dank LS.

Maiev led the first troops through a portal to Suramar City, where she organized the arriving elves, secured the city’s defenses, and arranged shelter with Elisande and Prince Tortheldrin. After the blessing ceremony, Nordrassil sprang from Malfurion’s seed, and Cenarius blessed Snyder’s seed, bringing the Mother Tree Faledor into being.

• Maiev ordered the Hand of the Bright Moon and Shamans through the portal first, leaving Naisha and the Sisterhood to guide the remaining elves and maintain it.
• Outside Suramar City, Maiev met Elisande and Oculus, confirmed that a portal to Snyder’s new land could be opened, and assigned Shamans to build temporary shelters.
• Prince Tortheldrin arrived with Eldre'Thalas’s ancient books and offered his army to Maiev, who placed elite forces in charge of Suramar’s defenses and assigned the rest to patrols.
• After Nozdormu’s blessing ceremony, Malfurion planted his seed in the Little Well of Eternity, and Nordrassil grew into a towering World Tree.
• Snyder asked Cenarius to bless his seed so his people could have Druids, and Cenarius’s nature magic helped bring the Mother Tree Faledor into being.

Snyder arranged Druids to help his people establish a new home, then learned from Jarod that Suramar City was in trouble. Meanwhile, Prince Tortheldrin uncovered a plot by nobles in Eldre'Thalas and Suramar over Snyder’s Well of Eternity water, while another elf hurried home with a secret that could change his family’s fate.

• Snyder declined Ysera’s offer to open portals to the Emerald Dream and asked Malfurion to send Druids to help his migrating people.
• Jarod reported trouble in Suramar City, and Snyder ordered the Hand of the Bright Moon to build a portal there.
• Prince Tortheldrin sent his captain to muster troops and watch nobles who might oppose his pledge of loyalty to Snyder.
• Highborne nobles in Eldre'Thalas plotted to seize the Well of Eternity water and contacted allies in Suramar City.
• Prince Tortheldrin obtained evidence of the nobles’ conversation, while an elf in Suramar discovered a secret and raced home.

Maiev confronted Suramar’s unequal distribution of magic crystals, restored a Half-Withered elf, and took control of Darkmoon Stronghold. Arluin revealed a noble rebellion and pledged his loyalty, while Prince Tortheldrin continued a separate plan to aid the Withered and prepare his troops.

• Maiev remembered her life in Suramar’s slums as Elisande led her toward Darkmoon Stronghold.
• Maiev stopped guards from taking a Half-Withered elf, and the Hand of the Bright Moon restored him with a magic crystal; Maiev promised the gathered elves more magical energy.
• Maiev replaced Darkmoon Stronghold’s guards with her own forces, then heard Arluin’s offer of loyalty and his warning that nobles from Eldre'Thalas and Suramar were plotting a rebellion.
• Maiev sent Arluin to Moon Guard Stronghold to summon the Moon Guard and ordered a check on the relocation to Darnassus.
• A rogue spy told Prince Tortheldrin that Eldre'Thalas’s young nobles had donated their families’ magic crystals to help the Withered; Tortheldrin ordered troops prepared and went to see Maiev.

Maiev Shadowsong exposed a planned rebellion by the nobles of Eldre'Thalas and Suramar and set a trap to catch them. She demonstrated that Snyder Rain's crystal could restore Suramar's magical energy, while the conspirators moved toward their meeting place.

• Prince Tortheldrin reported the nobles' joint rebellion to Maiev and pledged loyalty to Snyder Rain.
• Maiev assigned Prince Tortheldrin command of the Moon Guard and devised a plan with Elisande to lure the nobles into a trap.
• Vandros and Melandrus urged Elisande to resist serving Snyder, but she refused and left to gather Suramar's elves.
• Maiev used a crystal containing water from the Well of Eternity to create a magical field that revived the elves and began restoring the Withered.
• Prince Tortheldrin led the crowd in cheering for Snyder Rain as the greedy nobles headed to their secret meeting, where Maiev's trap awaited them.

Maiev and Elisande’s plan to stop the nobles’ coup succeeded, but the old noble used the Eye of Aman'Thul to threaten everyone. As he detonated it, a portal opened and a vast elemental force enveloped the artifact.

• Maiev assigned Elisande to guard the crystal and Prince Tortheldrin to watch outside the city, then arranged for Thalyssra and Oculus to help counter the nobles’ plot.
• Advisor Vandros, Melandrus, and the nobles planned to seize the crystal by disguising their fighters as guards and luring Maiev away.
• Oculus prepared a portal for the army, while Thalyssra disguised herself as Prince Tortheldrin and the real prince hid with the Moon Guard near the crystal.
• The nobles took over guard duty and short-circuited the crystal, but Maiev and Elisande arrived as bait while Prince Tortheldrin’s Moon Guard surrounded and defeated the conspirators.
• The old noble revealed the Eye of Aman'Thul, drained the survivors’ life energy to charge it, and detonated it as a portal opened and elemental force enveloped the artifact.

Snyder stopped the rebellion, raised a new continent, and created portals linking it to the old lands. After ordering preparations for the new home, he received word that Dath'Remar wanted to see him.

• Snyder sealed the magic eye and the old noble, then used the Hand of the Bright Moon and the Elemental Lords to raise a continent three times the size of the Broken Isles.
• The Firelord burned the rebel nobles’ relatives to ashes, while N’Zoth, Azshara, Cenarius, and Malfurion sensed or discussed the new continent’s arrival.
• Snyder used the remaining magic eye energy and the nobles’ ashes to create matching portals between the new continent and the old lands.
• Snyder ordered Prince Tortheldrin and Elisande to calm the civilians and send scouts, then reassured Elisande and tasked her with finding a place to plant a tree for their new home.
• Snyder withdrew his consciousness from the elemental space after the Elemental Lords argued, and a guard reported that Dath'Remar requested an audience.

Snyder prepared to establish his kingdom on a new continent, assigning allies to investigate the land, train druids, build defenses, and maintain order. The preparations continued as Snyder and Maiev ended the night together.

• Dath'Remar visited Snyder's hidden city, refused to abandon Kalimdor, and kept the Well of Eternity water he had obtained from Illidan as a safeguard.
• Snyder asked Jarod Shadowsong to lead the Hand of the Bright Moon to investigate earth elementals being suppressed in a woodland east of the new continent.
• Fandral Staghelm arrived to teach druidism, and Snyder showed him Faledor's seed and asked him to help find a place to plant a tree.
• Snyder praised Prince Tortheldrin and ordered him to build a defensive fortress around the portal as a bridgehead for migration.
• Snyder asked Maiev to establish a prison agency, then carried her away to their resting place.

Prince Tortheldrin welcomed Elisande and Fandral Staghelm to Eresal Fort, where they studied a map and planned to inspect the continent’s center for a future tree planting. Snyder planned new cities and faster migration, while Queen Azshara ordered Vashj to congratulate him once his kingdom was established.

• Prince Tortheldrin showed Elisande and Fandral Staghelm around Eresal Fort and gave them a map of the new continent.
• Elisande and Fandral Staghelm agreed to inspect the continent’s center in three days and study its soil and terrain.
• Queen Azshara attacked Vashj in a fit of anger over her changed appearance, then ordered her to bring gifts to Snyder after his kingdom was established.
• Snyder told Oculus to lead the first migrants north to build Sulages, a city devoted to knowledge and spellcaster training.
• Snyder explained that he planned a port city to support the kingdom’s navy and commerce, then resolved to accelerate the migration.

Snyder coordinated the first migration and planned a lawful kingdom, while Elisande and Fandral found a site for the capital and the magic tree. Snyder prepared to seek the Spellweaver’s blessing for the weakening seed and a cure for magic addiction, as elves in Northrend decided to ask the blue dragons how to draw magic from crystals.

• More than fifty thousand elves began migrating to settlements near Eresal Fort, and Snyder approved Arluin for the Watchers, which he planned to base near the capital.
• Fandral communed with nature and found a pool, fertile soil, and suitable terrain for the tree and a central city; Elisande sent Snyder the news and began mapping the area.
• Snyder told Maiev that the seed’s magic was fading and that he needed the Spellweaver’s blessing to preserve its energies and investigate whether it could cure magic addiction.
• Snyder decided to finish the capital’s construction plans before traveling to Northrend, and Maiev agreed he should go.
• Elves suffering from magic addiction in Northrend agreed to send a representative to ask the blue dragons to teach them how to absorb magic energy from crystals.

Snyder arrived at Wyrmrest Temple seeking the Dragon Guardians while a Shandaral emissary battled a blizzard to find help for his people. An Elemental Spirit granted the emissary elemental power and a way to suppress the elves’ magic addiction, and Snyder was summoned by the Life-Binder.

• Snyder teleported to Northrend and headed for Wyrmrest Temple, planning to seek the Spellweaver and later visit Shandaral.
• Shandaral’s emissary set out to ask the Red Dragon Queen for aid, carrying the only magic crystal his people could spare.
• As the emissary nearly froze in a blizzard, an Elemental Spirit answered his plea, healed him, gave him elemental power, and promised to lead his people to a new home.
• The emissary returned to Shandaral and demonstrated his powers, convincing the elves that his story was true.
• The emissary crushed the elemental stone, suppressing Shandaral’s magic addiction and melting the snow around the settlement.
• A message informed Snyder that the Life-Binder requested his presence.

Snyder visited Alexstrasza at Wyrmrest Temple to find Malygos, then flew to Shandaral to assess the elves who had begun relying on elemental power. His attack on the outpost triggered its defenders to rally, leaving the awakened elves ready to protect their home.

• Snyder met Korialstrasz and asked Alexstrasza where he could find Malygos.
• Alexstrasza told Snyder that Malygos was at the Nexus and agreed that he would see Snyder because Snyder had saved blue dragons.
• Snyder flew from Wyrmrest Temple, using a flame shield and wind-element wings, and headed for Shandaral.
• At Shandaral, Snyder blasted a hole in the outpost wall and transformed, making the guard sound the warning bell.
• The messenger rallied the despairing elves by reminding them that the Elemental Spirits protected them, and used Strength Totem to empower them.
• The elves took up weapons, prepared supplies, and vowed to defend their home.

Snyder tested the elves at their stronghold by attacking them as an Eredar demon, then healed them and offered them a home on a new continent where magic was permitted. The elves began considering his offer until Gul'dan Skystar reminded them that the elements had saved them, and Snyder revealed himself as the Elemental Spirit Gul'dan had once seen as a blue dragon arrived.

• Snyder broke through the elven stronghold's gate and attacked the weakened defenders, who fought back with weapons and elemental magic.
• Snyder and the Shamans unleashed powerful spells at the same time, causing an explosion and an avalanche that left the elves exhausted while Snyder remained unharmed.
• Snyder revealed that the battle had been a test, healed the elves, and invited them to join him on a new continent where magic was not forbidden.
• Gul'dan Skystar argued that the elves should not betray the elements that had saved them, strengthening their resolve to stay.
• Snyder transformed into the Elemental Spirit Gul'dan had seen before, as an elf who had transformed from a blue dragon emerged from the forest.

Snyder recruited Gul'dan and the elves of Shandaral, then opened a portal to settle them in Sulages. After they arrived, Malygos blessed Snyder's magic seed in exchange for Snyder's promise to join the fight against Deathwing.

• Snyder revealed his elemental form to Gul'dan and secured the loyalty of Shandaral's elves, giving Gul'dan a book of Shaman spell insights.
• Snyder contacted Elisande in Sulages and arranged for her to receive the elves from Shandaral.
• Snyder opened a portal, and Gul'dan led the elves through to their new home in Sulages, where Elisande welcomed them.
• Snyder waited in Shandaral and met Malygos, asking him to bless the magic seed.
• Malygos agreed to bless the seed after Snyder promised to join him in hunting Deathwing once his people had settled.
• Malygos bestowed his Arcane blessing on the seed, completing its final form, then returned to the Nexus.

Snyder returned to the new continent, founded the kingdom of Aikat'er, and used the Water of Eternity and a magic seed to create a powerful tree and awaken its guardian, Faledor. The chapter ended with the four Elemental Lords awakening in prepared bodies.

• Snyder returned to the completed central city, reunited with Maiev, and inspected the planting site with her.
• Snyder held the kingdom's founding celebration, announced the names Faletai'an, Hailidos, and Aikat'er, and poured Water of Eternity into the central pool.
• Snyder planted the magic seed, which grew into a great tree and blessed the elves and the continent with six kinds of energy.
• The tree awakened as Faledor and vowed to protect the continent and its elves.
• After the celebration, Snyder placed prepared bodies at the four cardinal points, and the Elemental Lords entered them and awoke.

Snyder oversaw the new kingdom’s founding, saw Fandral Staghelm and the Druids off, and discussed the Watchers, a dangerous investigation, and the need for an heir with Maiev. After Maiev took Snyder to their bedroom, he emerged the next day and summoned Captain Jarod.

• Snyder and the four Elemental Lords reshaped a mountain into a sacred place for Shamans to cultivate.
• A month later, Snyder saw Fandral Staghelm and the Druids off from Dankfort, explaining why he wanted them to connect with Hailidos’s nature and elements rather than rely on the Emerald Dream.
• Snyder blessed the Druids’ fleet against a storm, and Fandral used his communication crystal after Hailidos disappeared from sight.
• Maiev told Snyder that the Watchers’ training was complete and their base and prison had been established near Faletai’an.
• Snyder planned to select a team for Jarod to lead on a dangerous investigation, while Maiev urged him to try for an heir and teleported them to the bedroom.
• The next day, Snyder emerged from the bedroom and ordered a guard to summon Captain Jarod.

Snyder assigned Jarod to lead a dangerous exploration mission, planned a unified military and food production for Aikaite'er, and then encountered Lady Vashj arriving with a group of serpentine creatures. Lady Vashj promised to explain how they had become these creatures.

• Snyder gave Jarod an energy detector and ordered him to explore a dangerous location with a thousand people, then teased him about finding a partner.
• Snyder decided to reorganize Aikaite'er's many forces under the king's direct command and sketched a framework for its military.
• Snyder marked plains as future food production centers and considered bringing other species to Hailidos after Jarod's mission.
• Sensing aquatic serpentine creatures approaching, Snyder teleported to meet them and prepared a spell in case they proved hostile.
• Lady Vashj recognized Snyder, and he realized who she was before asking how she and her companions had become serpentine creatures.

Vashj recounted how Azshara and the Highborne became the Naga after the Well of Eternity’s destruction, then brought Snyder the queen’s congratulations and gifts. Snyder sent Azshara a necklace called Aikatelle’s Devotion as Vashj departed.

• Vashj told Snyder how Azshara tried to shield Zin-Azshari from the tsunami after the Well of Eternity exploded, but the city was swallowed by the sea.
• Azshara accepted N'Zoth’s offer to save her people, and shadow power transformed the Highborne into the Naga.
• Vashj explained that Azshara still thought of Snyder and had sent gifts to congratulate him on founding his kingdom.
• Snyder crafted a necklace from magical energy, a blue crystal, and pearls, named it Aikatelle’s Devotion, and gave it to Vashj for Azshara.