This would go a long way toward keeping these newly arrived high elf civilians in Quel'Danil, bringing its permanent high elf population to a new, relatively stable level and facilitating its future development.
The second benefit, his trusted officers believed, concerned the Seaside Plain. Although its population was already large, its defense and administration were handled almost entirely by troll soldiers and human soldiers, with only a handful of high elf soldiers. That was a very unhealthy situation.
If this continued for long, the people living there would gradually forget the high elves' presence and could easily begin to think of the land as their own territory.
This was especially true of the vast numbers of human refugees. Trouble was even more likely to arise in places where the high elves had gone too long without making their presence felt. It was therefore essential to station a certain number of high elf troops there permanently and have them regularly demonstrate their presence through patrols or other means. That would also nip potential future threats in the bud.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk gained a great deal from this discussion. He had been fretting over how to retain the newly arrived high elves, never expecting these officers to come up with such a good solution before he did. The warnings from these officers of the Army General Staff also put him on his guard.
That's right! The Seaside Plain has indeed been developing better and better, and its population keeps growing, but the high elves have been all but invisible there for far too long.
For now, the human refugees, trolls, and people of other races still acknowledged that it was high elf territory, and the last bloody crackdown remained fresh in the minds of those who intended to cause trouble. But if