>>5336105In addition, the dark elves present a particular issue as well. Your Reptilian race (and even the kobolds) are mostly dispassionate. They dislike the Bogbarri, and make no qualms about expressing such to you and to one another, but your social and military doctrine is centred around the usage of unpleasant, mammalian assets—through infiltration, subversion, manipulation, even interbreeding when absolutely necessary. You can swallow a bitter pill. The Drow are different elves than the Elf-specialist knew, but they ARE elves—passionate individualists, warrior-poets, flighty and haughty and prideful. The mockery of the Bogbarri, the boasts and threats, the grating voices of these enormous bugbears… It sets them on edge such as you have never seen.
Even Paeris, only half an elf and no favourite of the Drow, is nearly provokes to violence when they interrupt his attempts to tune his lute and practice his craft of elven bard-song. He’s seemed… Quiet, reserved, almost dejected for a while now, but this worsens it. You are shocked to see Oluwadamilare actually step in to physically pull his fellow Degenerate away from launching himself at a bugbear twice his weight with dagger in hand. The bright side is that it seems to garner the half-elf a modicum of respect from the Drow; the downside is that is founded on a hatred of one race of your alliance by the other.
This, too, needs to be addressed.
How do you plan to bridge the divide and tame the bugbears?
>Share some meat and mushroom-wine, and attempt a cultural exchange of revelry and bread-breaking>A joint exercise—take a force mainly composed of these two factions into a test-battle against a dwarven company-town, and bond them through battle>Hold a strictly-regulated competition, to get out some aggression and set up a hierarchy>Throttle and coerce the bugbears into compliance like the barbarians they are; ply the elves with honeyed words, as worthy allies>Write-in 