Faritha bowed her head, "You are most generous, your holy grace?" She said sincerely. The spoke more at length on magic before notes were made to bring it to Morrigan's attention. The queen's de facto secretary was no doubt hard at work in the library or hard at play somewhere in the harem, but never truly all that far away.<br/><br/>"The patriarchy is dead wood in need of reform. The elves are on the edge of revolution as it is. All they need is one push. Elven armies were once great, but they have atrophied with nepotism and lack of new vision. They are no truly ready for someone as quick-witted and cunning as you." There was no mere sycophantic flattery in Faritha's words. Everything was backed up by Ileosa's own elvish spies within the ancient elven tree cities. While Korsova was ill-equipped to conquer elvish lands, they were powerful enough to let the internal stresses of defeat in war wrack the elvish homeland.<br/><br/>Faritha sipped her juice and stroked her own hair in though. It was hardly something so simple and poetic as the age of elves being at an end. The elves simply needed a new way of living. Stagnation had wormed its way into the elven empire and though the coalition was not in the clearly superior position. They didn't have to win the whole war, just one decisive battle. Ileosa had carefully made sure she had her pieces in the right place, and the elves had done nothing.<br/><br/>The elven mistress looked over the charts and proposed several forms of bait for this trap. "The simple answer is offer your flank and then turn and bite hard. Use your orcs and cavalry. The only thing up in the air is if that beautiful champion of yours makes it back soon with reinforcements Harpies are fickle, but strong women seem to at the very least pique their interest." She sighed, "Regardless the battle must be a crushing defeat for the elves. They are set in their ways, not stupid. Too many baited traps will tip them off.'<br/><br/>It wouldn't be long before the perfect spot to hold a battle presented itself. It was in a valley leading to the grand forest of the elves. They would not have to travel far to fight. The appealing part was that their forest was within easy retreat, but the valley was easily cut off at a narrow pass. A pass that once held by human and orc could not be easily traversed. "Bottle them in and secure the victory..." Faritha said, finding herself stroking the queen in thought as Ileosa finished her battle strategy. "Tell me, highness," she smiled, "are your strategies for the bedroom so complete?"<br/><br/>She giggled, "You must also explain where this lust of your men and women for the female ass has come from. Back home my backside never got so much attention."<br/>"The rulership of the elves say such unkind things about you too... things I might lose my head for repeating.." She gave Ileosa a sultry look.