The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5

>Adler: Snap to the sobering thought that your army is less than useless right now, they're actively humiliating you by making you the laughingstock of the realm.
>Adler: Change of plans. Confront Estemere directly and nip this in the bud. You know how to get into his throne room undetected.

I'd imagine that one of the problems of being as long-lived being as elf is that maintaining face becomes super important. Imagine people keeping giving you grief for something that happened a hundred years ago, and looking towards a good thousand years more of that waiting for you!