Spheres of Influence: Alliance

"Most of these same concerns have been raised earlier in the meeting prior to its recess. Simply put, there's too many unknowns regarding the elves to safely assume anything about them, and no safe method of forcing them to open communications or otherwise finding out more about them in regard to these artifacts. It could simply be they want them returned so our artificers and mages cannot reverse engineer them, it could also, like you feared, mean they have millions of such artifacts. There's no way to know, all we do know is they cracked open the High Kingdom 900 years ago in the Dwarves war with the Elves, that these same Elves are alive today and, we can only presume they have similar or the same power but have not used it for reasons unknown. As to the reward money not benefitting Kor Vurneus, we have brought that up in the previous session also and there are ways to utilize it to benefit the Alliance without benefiting Kor Vurneus, directly. But suffice it to say, thats not something we should decide right now before we even have the money."

"More than this, the High Elves, whatever we may think of them, are isolationist for the time being and this works to our favor because we have recently become aware of other Elven nations who are not Isolationist in the Underdark beneath the Earth, who actively attack and raid other nations for slaves. The surface Elves are not the most dangerous faction of Elves currently known at least in terms of willingness to inflict violence on other nations. Of course we would very much like to research their magic and technology, but this is not the time to do so."