Getting combat personnel up there was simple, too. The Gryphon Riders only needed to unload their armor and bombs, then carry Mages and Rangers up. At two hundred people per trip, she could easily transport eight hundred to a thousand before the Orcs noticed.
But Sylvanas had not done that. Instead, she had subtly steered the Orcs toward that path, then allowed them to escape into it. Her original plan had been to keep the enemy around to justify her presence, giving the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion sufficient reason to remain in Proudmoore rather than enter the enormous meat grinder of the Arathi battleground too soon and fight to the death. But who could have imagined that a second large force of Orcs would enter the Wetlands so quickly?
Sylvanas did not dare tell anyone about her frustration. After thinking it over for a long time, she wrote Yu Lin Bloodhawk a letter and had one of his Gryphon Rider Bodyguards deliver it.
When Yu Lin Bloodhawk received Sylvanas's letter, he was flirting with the Succubus.
Uh... wrong!... He was interrogating the Succubus. At any rate, that was what he told the Elf soldiers guarding her.
It was not that Yu Lin Bloodhawk was such a genius that he had already learned Demonic. Rather, this Succubus already knew a little of the High Elf language. Though she spoke it badly, Yu Lin Bloodhawk could just about understand her.
How could a demon know the High Elf language?
According to the Succubus, the High Elf language was not particularly unfamiliar to demons. The reason dated back to the Burning Legion's first invasion, when the Well of Eternity still existed. Through their magical research, the Highborne High Elves had made contact with demons, eventually succeeding in opening a Portal and bringing them