Raised by orcs who escaped internment camps, Signe grows into a gifted hunter, befriends Grimface during a migration, and begins training in Durotar while questioning Thrall’s leadership. The author explicitly left the sketch unfinished.
The Grin's officers and fighters face Fenris, Kaylish, and an undead host in a prolonged battle that strains their combined strength. The aftermath tests Vord's faith in a former comrade and leaves the clan confronting the power of the death knights ahead.
Drak’nora remembers losing her family in the orc internment camps before reuniting with her brother Grimface and finding a new home in the Grin. Her growing bond with the former death knight Vord leads through battle, courtship, and a hard-won family blessing as both struggle to balance love with clan duty.
Vord stages a brutal return to the Scourge as part of a secret mission, leaving Drak'nora and the Grin to untangle whether his betrayal is real. In Northrend, his search for missing allies collides with Urja's grief and the Lich King's hunters.
Grimnir and Yagyu separately negotiate a Blacktooth Grin presence at Conquest Hold and Agmar's Hammer, seeking shelter and supplies while promising support against the Alliance.
Grimnir gathers a divided band of Grinners to search Northrend for the returned Gorfrunch and bring him to Yagyu alive before the rival hunt reaches him. The pursuit tests old loyalties as scattered clues lead from an empty grave to the frozen wastes.
Shadiel orders Signe and Grimnir to raid Alliance positions in Northrend for supplies, prompting plans against Wintergarde Keep and the Westfall Brigade. Signe later reports that her expedition failed and drew an Alliance counterattack onto Venomspite.
Elyndis abducts Vord and subjects him to physical torture and illusions of the Grin’s destruction inside Naxxramas. As Grimnir mounts a rescue and Londra reaches Vord through his visions, Drak’nora takes a dangerous route to his cell and a confrontation with his captor.
In a future conquered by the Burning Legion, Kamura and Minigrim are sent into the past to prevent Gorfrunch's assassination and the war that followed it. Memories of the Grin's catastrophic losses shadow their mission as they infiltrate Stromgarde to confront the old Warchief.