Malif has found an elf who will teach him to make the gloves of dexterity that I have been searching for! All we have to do is kill some weenie birds and take their eggs, but I suspect if it were that easy, he wouldn't need us to do it. As long as no one bites it trying to get them, I think it will be easy to get the other's cooperation since we have done all sorts of running about for other people's quests.