Warlord Maragrim proposes a radical plan: an alliance with one of the established kingdoms to gain legitimacy and territory. The party is recruited as intermediaries — but every kingdom fears what a legitimised Gritfang nation would become.

A worg pack goes feral, breaking free of their riders and attacking settlements. Investigation reveals something in the desert is driving animals mad — a corruption spreading from ruins that the Tribes have been unknowingly camping near.

The Red Eater's visions intensify: she sees the Tribes caught between the expanding Suntouched Dominion and something emerging from the Iron Depths below. She needs the party to verify her visions before the War-Council will act.

Vex'ka's intelligence network has been compromised — agents are being killed across multiple kingdoms simultaneously. Someone has identified the Shadow-Chief's operatives, and the resulting intelligence blindness leaves the Tribes vulnerable.

Blacksmith-Master Korg's experiments with pre-Cataclysm materials produce a weapon of extraordinary power — and it attracts attention. Multiple kingdoms send agents to acquire or destroy it, and the Tribes must decide whether the weapon is an asset or a threat.