The Lord is more alive than dead

Does the Night's Veil get destroyed anyway?

The answer to this question will be a spoiler.

Let's just say that at the beginning or in the middle of the Walkthrough, the player's task is to preserve the Night's Veil (and the dragons that support it) and, as much as possible, prepare for the battle with the elf. The mages can be left for later (unless the elephant riders start acting recklessly) – they won't go anywhere.

I also tested the "curse" from the sphinx on the dragons in the old version, hoping to trick the system and have it affect them right before the battle with Faeldaen.

Of course, because I knew that someone would definitely try to do that =)

You should thank Nival for the division into sections – I was inspired by their mission "Higher Vampire." As well as "Dark Facets" by AstralLein, by the way.

I'm not sure if it's a feature that the elves don't attack (except for attacks on dragons).

It is a feature. But only if you don't lose the stack of dragons. In the original mission, as you know, Faeldaen harassed these dragons, so Nikolaus needs to prevent this.

I want to express my gratitude to the author for his work once again.

Thank you for playing the map.