Warning: this contain major spoilers. if you brought the book and want to find out for yourself avoid this. Rest of you who don’t care here all you need to know.
The Horde
- Thrall will not accept the Horde without the Forsaken being apart of it and trusted by everyone.
- Thrall, Baine, Lor’themar Theron, Thalyssra, Rokhan, Kiro, Ji Firepaw, an unnamed Mag’har, Gazlowe, and Lillian with Calia as her advisor are apart of the council.
- Lillian Voss has Calia as her advisor and Calia doesn’t want to be the leader immediately. Calia is also more belligerent than expected. Derek Proudmoore is also now apart of the Forsaken.
- Most of the leaders now live in Orgrimmar.
- Talanji is a member of the council but leaves but by the end of the book she is about to rejoin.
- Orgrimmar is in full work day and night trying to recover from the Fourth War.
- Bwonsamdi is getting weaker and thus so too Talanji to the point she can feel it self. If one dies, so does the other.
- Talanji breaks the oath with Bwonsamdi between him and her father in order to save each other. Bwonsamdi needs the Horde to help him.
- Loa can be weakened much by killing their followers, destroying their shrines; killing and destroying the most important deals the most damage.
- Vulpera can now amputate and replace limbs.
- There is a shortage of soldiers and supplies in Zuldazar
- Bwonsamdi gives Zekhan a vision of death about Saurfang where the elderly Orc is happily spending time with his family.
- Talanji and Zekhan discover the existence of the Maw. Zekhan questions his faith on hopelessness [?] and begins to start to understand the views of the Undead Night Elves.
The Alliance
- The Armistice is very fragile, very fragile at the moment. Another war is too costly.
- Anduin slightly questions the methods of Alleria and Turalyon but hasn’t forgotten Teldrassil, the destruction of the fleet, and other skirmishes of the War.
- He wonders if this’ll have an effect on their own honor as people look on their two statues in Stormwind.
- Anduin is ashamed of who he is. He doesn’t have much time for himself considering his age. Jaina confronts him about it.
- Thrall visits the Kaldorei in Mt. Hyjal. He isn’t trusted nor welcomed. He speaks with Tyrande who isn’t moved or persuaded by words or gifts. She wishes actions against the Banshee Loyalists. Thrall promises to bring her Sylvanas’s head. Tyrande accepts.
Hunt for Sylvanas
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Sira, Nathanos, and the tribe known as Widow’s Bite, led by the daughter of Shadra, wish to kill Bwonsamdi so the Troll souls can be sent directly into the maw while the tribe is out for vengeance against the Queen herself.
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Multiple assassinations are taken out upon Talanji.
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Alleria and Turalyon are sent by Anduin as well as Shaw in a smaller group which leads to the Shaw/Flynn romance plot.
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Flynn shoves Anduin to tightly hug Shaw. Now Shaw and Flynn are dating.
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They (Turalyon and Alleria) interrogate prisoners by shackling them with the light and Alleria uses void magic to penetrate the mind. The victim ends up losing a small bit of their memory from the magic. Anduin approves.
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Maiev arrests Sira and takes her to the Stormwind Stockades while Sylvanas is very, very angry at Nathanos for failing the mission and leaves him until further orders. Looks like this bit will be solved throughout the expansion and the pre-patch.
Sylvanas & the Maw
- Bwonsamdi is struggling with keeping Troll souls from traveling into the Maw.
- Sylvanas wants cosmic power for fate’s cruelty.
Other
- The Vale is nearly completely healed of N’Zoth.
- The world is still hurt by the Cataclysm.
- Blood Magic can alter the weather
- Bwonsamdi had past romances and hints he may had a romance with Eyir.
And with everything Blizz has done (and failed) to make him a “good guy” its no shock he is not suffering in the maw where he belongs.