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Were it possible you think, to just take all your elf prisoners and shove them in a cage or something, so that they can keep making more elves. Like what the humans do with their animals, but with elves it might just be too difficult... that, and you're sure you don't have the patience to farm elves when you'd be too tempted to just scoff them down.
Though you're not so stupid or cruel to relish in the suffering of these people, you're aware that you're acting a bit brutally with them. But at the end of the day you made your decision to align with the humans, this is their land after all. The elves are your enemies but they aren't even human enemies so it's hard to have sympathy for them. Not when the humans would also just kill them for their hostile banditry and crimes committed upon the locals.
The only difference is, you just have a different way of disposing the bodies, instead of just burying them in the forest.
<span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-i">"An oath I swear trolloc, upon escaping these magical bonds I shall deliver your head in offering upon the shrine of L'thoec. For the vile slaying of my moon, there can be no other outcome."</span></span>
<span class="mu-g">"Chant-ress name is Moon? Strogga didn't kill her, Strogga been try-ing to find Moon."</span>
After "interrogating" your way through a few prisoners for a nice full belly of gnashed-up elf bodies, all you're able to learn is that a pair of her handmaids carried the enchantress off shortly after your showdown with the couple. Beyond that though, no one seems to have any idea where she would have gone to since no one ever expected a defeat like this or a need to escape.
Ironically though it's the champion, conversing with him that brings you some interesting possibilities.
<span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-i">"...no... she would never... she would not abandon me, as I would never abandon her. We would sooner die together than-"</span></span>
<span class="mu-g">"Moon will come back then for elvie? Strogga have one, soon an-other?"</span>
<span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-i">"-no! N-No... no of course not! She withdrew to safety! Truly that is so, she would not risk to return... by the gods I pray not..."</span></span>
Funny how defiant and hostile the champion was before, but you consider the possibility of his lover coming back for him and suddenly his stoic guise from centuries of experience crumbles like a young fool. Anxiety overtaking him before he can calm himself and regain his composure, letting on more than he should you think. It's not a certainty for sure, maybe the enchantress will do the smart thing and leave this area, go far away and never return.
But the champion seems so convinced that she wouldn't abandon him, that it causes him so much worry and upset.
It's an appealing possibility to you, when before you were going to just eat this high and mighty elf for dinner. Not like the enchantress would know if you had killed him or not. But the idea of keeping him alive as bait for her... it seems foolish and dangerous, but perhaps worth the effort?
