Alright, so as far as I played, I'm decently enjoying the game, Azzyran is best girl, but that's my bias towards bee girls talking, and mechanic wise, I would say the game's battle system is an improvement from the CoC 1, as far as CoC 1 fights were easy when you passed a bunch of time farming exp. Will come back to the game when it will get some kind of real ending. Instead of the "prologue/chapter 1" game that we have now. As for the Etheryn situation right now, ya know, I am not really into elves, so as far as I'm concerned, she's just a real good unit to take with that Death Hawk of hers, you know what they say, "more units equals dead quicker".
Just don't touch Azzyran (yes, I know there's this scene with the other knightess, just... I accept it. But don't do more. I'm serious.)