After receiving the letter, Yu Lin Bloodhawk wrote back and bluntly asked whether Sylvanas had lost her mind. Was the girl really that stupid? How could she fail to solve such a simple problem? If she had told him sooner, it would have been settled long ago.
The civilians refused to relocate only because they had yet to feel the threat of war. Once they felt their lives were in danger, getting them to move would be easy.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk's solution was simple. He told Sylvanas to kill a few of the Troll prisoners she held every day, dress them in armor and put weapons in their hands, then secretly dump their bodies near the Elf civilians' settlements at night.
Once the civilians reported the bodies, she could make a show of dealing with them. First, she would create a tense atmosphere of impending war, then tell the civilians that fighting was about to break out there. Ideally, that alone would persuade them to relocate.
If those Elf civilians still refused to move, Yu Lin Bloodhawk said that once the Hinterlands Fleet returned, he would have Evil Spikes and the others urgently lead their troops to Shalandis Isle in secret.
After they reached Shalandis Isle, he would have Xie Ci and the others lead the Trolls under their command in a few raids disguised as Amani Trolls and capture those Elf villagers. Finally, Sylvanas and her people would pretend to defeat the Trolls and rescue all the Elf civilians.
Then they would warn the Elf civilians again that war was imminent. By that point, even the shrewdest among them would believe it, and they would scramble to relocate.
To be honest, Yu Lin Bloodhawk's plan was downright underhanded, but both the Farstriders and the Windrunners adopted it. As a