Naturally, someone reported this to Alleria and Sylvanas as well. Alleria sighed and said, "Let him curse! Maybe it'll make him feel a little better. I want to curse too, but I'm nowhere near as good at it as he is."
The person making the report worried that it would affect morale.
Sylvanas, however, said, "What are you afraid of? A few curses will hurt morale? Let me tell you, as long as he's here, morale won't be low! He's a legend-an undefeated legend!"
From then on, Yu Lin Bloodhawk had free rein to curse as much as he pleased, though the targets of his abuse never changed. Naturally, he never stopped to consider who had first lit the fuse of this political struggle. Alleria and Sylvanas both knew that the current outcome had stemmed from his speech that day at Falthrien Academy, but neither would tell him.
The decisive battle continued into late November, and the Allied Army's defensive line was riddled with holes like a leaking toilet. Even giving their all, the Elf Burning Legion struggled to hold everything together. Finally, a few days before the end of November, the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion received urgent orders from Allied Command.
But these were not orders for an immediate retreat. Instead, the entire force was to rush to reinforce the left flank. The whole force set out at once, hurrying toward the defensive positions there. Only one of Lordaeron's main burning legions defended the left flank, but since it had never been the focus of the orcs' attacks, it had held out until now.
No one yet knew why the orcs had suddenly changed the direction of their offensive, shifting so much of their strength toward the Left Wing. Concerned for the safety of the central defensive line, Allied