With Deathwing dead, the remaining Aspects return to their seclusion and leave the Alliance and Horde to their own battles. However, when Y’sera returns to the Emerald Dream, she finds that the war against the nightmare has taken a turn for the worst. The Emerald Dream is on the verge of total corruption. Y’sera joins the final struggle but even her presence fails to push back the nightmare.
Y’sera declares the Emerald Dream lost and in a final action takes to the skies in an attempt to locate the spirits of the great demi-gods. (Speculation is that if a demi-god is slain, the spirit returns to the Emerald Dream to heal and regain physical form.) Aviana is found high above, witnessing the destruction of the Emerald Dream. Aviana informs Y’sera that Cenarius has regained physical form and has remained hidden and untainted. Y’sera flies to Cenarius’s location, rescues him and returns to the frontlines. Y’sera orders the remaining defenders to hold off the Nightmare as long as possible as She, Aviana and Cenarius emerge from the dream. Y’sera and Aviana contact the greatest of druids including Malfurion Stormrage and Remulos, in an attempt to seal the portals to the Emerald Dream.
With Y’sera, Aviana, Cenarius and the druids, they manage to fight off the corrupted green dragonkin and Y’sera’s lieutenants and manage to close all but one of the portals. While in the process of sealing the last portal, a loud shriek is heard from the portal and a flood of darkened, corrupted spirits, creatures and entities spew forth from the portal into Azeroth. Too much for them to handle, they retreat. Y’sera goes to see Alexstraza, Aviana flees to an unknown location and the druids retreat to Darnasus and Thunderbluff. The Alliance and Horde are contacted and informed of the new threat but neither is willing to dedicate any troops to assist them. So the heroes are called upon and they answer it.
A new quest is offered by the archdruids in Darnassus and Thunderbluff to stem the tide of the Nightmare. (This allows access to the Emerald Dream. Attempts to access the Emerald Dream before accepting this quest will result in death.) You meet up with Y’sera and her remaining dragonkin, Alexstraza and the druids not too far from the portal. A plan is decided and the attempt to push back the Nightmare begins. The battle goes well and the Nightmare is being pushed back until an army of Ancients emerges from the portal. Now at a disadvantage, your group is being pushed back. Even Alexstraza! Then from the skies come Aviana with her army of harpies (It is speculated that Aviana is the matriarch of the harpies and without her guidance, they became hostile. With Aviana’s return, she has successfully banded them together to fight the Nightmare.) The tide has changed once again and the Nightmare is pushed back into the Emerald Dream. This is a phased area and once the quest is complete, the druids, harpies and Y’sera erect a barrier which prevents the Nightmare from emerging again and along with that, a blessing is given to the heroes by Y’sera to allow them to travel into the dream through the portal.
The story is now in full swing and the heroes press forward to drive the Nightmare from the Emerald Dream
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