Night of the Dragon Night of the Dragon is a novel by Richard A . Knaak and was released on November 18 , 2008 — five days after the release of " " . It is a follow - up to the novel " Day of the Dragon " , and also provides insight into events leading up to " Wrath of the Lich King " . Cover . The cover of the book features : ( top row ) the twilight dragon Dargonax ; ( bottom row , from left to right ) Vereesa Windrunner , the dragon mage Krasus , and the draenei Iridi . Back of book description . Grim Batol : its dark legacy stretches back into the mists of Azeroth ' s past . But most know it as the site of a terrible tragedy - - where the vile orc s corrupted the hatchlings of the noble Dragonqueen , Alexstrasza , and used them as weapons of war . Though a band of heroes , led by the enigmatic mage , Krasus , defeated the orcs and freed the captive dragon s , the cursed mountain stands as another ravaged landmark within the . . . WORLD OF WARCRAFT But now Krasus - - known to some as the red dragon Korialstrasz - - senses the malice of Grim Batol rising once more to threaten those he holds dear . Determined this time to confront this evil by himself , he is unaware of the quests that will draw others to Grim Batol and reveal the monstrous truth that could not only herald their deaths , but usher in a terrible new age of darkness and destruction . Characters . Minor characters . " Note : These characters were only mentioned or had little to no role during the story . " Plot . Zzeraku , an imprisoned nether dragon , struggles in vain to escape from skardyn , a race of fish - like dwarves , who are holding him down with magical cables . He is confronted by a woman with a scarred side , whom it is later revealed to be Sinestra , a black dragon and Deathwing ' s prime consort . Sintharia ( Sinestra ' s dragon title ) , was using a Chrysalun Chamber to trap the wayward nether dragon , and little by little fed the nether dragon to her newest creation , the twilight dragon Dargonax , which means " Devourer " in draconic . A cloaked figure , later reveled to be the draenei Iridi , makes her way from Ratchet to Menethil Harbor . While there , the harbor comes under attack by raptor s from the surrounding area . In an attempt to enter Grim Batol , she encounters Krasus and Kalecgos who with her assistance defeat two members of the twilight dragonflight . Iridi carries an extremely powerful staff revealed to have origins with the naaru , which she wields masterfully . This staff disappears whenever it leaves her hands , and she can summon it at will . The staff ' s twin belonged to Iridi ' s companion , who was slain by Zendarin , taken , and then used for powering Dargonax . A few events occur that at the time seem unrelated , but they lead up to a greater climax . Also , a mission undertaken by the dwarf Rom attempting to defeat an unknown adversary in Grim Batol is described . During this mission , Vereesa Windrunner aids them in an attempt to kill her traitor cousin , Zendarin . The group is later captured and imprisoned in Grim Batol by skardyn and dragonspawn . The book ends with a epilogue , where it is revealed that Deathwing has been hiding at the bottom of Grim Batol for the whole time , watching and learning from the mistakes from the other antagonists from the book , and with the mountain once again empty he plans to use the many dragon eggs hidden there , from all different dragonflight s , to start his work again to create a superior dragon flight for his own purposes to control the other dragonflights . Notes . This is the first Warcraft novel in which orcs do not play a major role .