OK, thanks for the encouragement and advice everyone, I'll give it a try! I'll hunt a few trolls first and see how that goes. It sounds like the Elder shouldn't be too much more difficult than they are.

One other question; it sounds like Swamps should be my text target, but I haven't found any yet on my map. Where should I be looking? I have found Mountains and Plains, but that's it. I did learn the hard way to stay out of the plains :)