In blind isolation, he stared uselessly into the darkness, and tried to recover his balance. He felt certain that he was going to lose Elena. He ached to talk to her, to dissuade her, cling to her.
This is Troy, the General of the good guys, and like Covenant, from Earth.
He has formed a one-sided juvenile obsession with Elena and his dithering implementation of a strategy of 'divide and conquer,' of his own forces must ensure the defeat of the Land and Lord Foul's victory.
Yes, his generalship is that bad.
