At the start of Garun and Shak, in Hag's prison, without her buddies I think there was nothing to be gained with such dwells against an elf.
At the beginning of turn 2 I moved to the center—you need to see the center, a huge forest splits the entire zone in half. Ran around the center, took a couple of Grove and flew into the treasure zone on 126. Temple, Dragon Utopia, got the 20 ini ring, bought the machine ring and the 10 ini ring. Ran to look for the elf, found his treasure zone, bracers in the temple. After a couple of days I attacked the elf. Elfinas without curses and knives; the elf took two max Dragon Utopia, but didn't distribute artifacts and spells for the finale, so in the end the orcs overwhelmed him with meat.
Thanks for the game.