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Snark Knight:
He didn't beat Ebenezar though. He tricked him.

I don't think either of them wants anyone else on the Council to know about what went down on the dock. Harry won't spill the truth about Thomas publicly if he can at all avoid it, especially if they find a way to heal him and bring him out of stasis any time soon. And going public with the fact that Ebenezar would have killed Karrin and/or Harry without even using the blackstaff if Harry hadn't tricked him would raise some serious questions from Langtry about his fitness to continue in his job (if he survives BG, which I wouldn't bet on at all).

Mira:

--- Quote from: Snark Knight on July 23, 2020, 01:45:19 AM ---He didn't beat Ebenezar though. He tricked him.

I don't think either of them wants anyone else on the Council to know about what went down on the dock. Harry won't spill the truth about Thomas publicly if he can at all avoid it, especially if they find a way to heal him and bring him out of stasis any time soon. And going public with the fact that Ebenezar would have killed Karrin and/or Harry without even using the blackstaff if Harry hadn't tricked him would raise some serious questions from Langtry about his fitness to continue in his job (if he survives BG, which I wouldn't bet on at all).

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 Yeah, that is why Harry was in tears, Eb lost it, the Blackstaff isn't supposed to lose it, ever.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Harry cheated, using Eb’s emotions against him, but that’s the point cheating is allowed. Harry wasn’t out to kill Eb, he just needed to get the Water Beetle out far enough to make it impossible for Eb to follow. He achieved his aim through planning and not luck. He beat Eb fair and square. Harry outwitted the craftiest wizard in a fight.

Mira:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on July 23, 2020, 11:49:26 AM ---Harry cheated, using Eb’s emotions against him, but that’s the point cheating is allowed. Harry wasn’t out to kill Eb, he just needed to get the Water Beetle out far enough to make it impossible for Eb to follow. He achieved his aim through planning and not luck. He beat Eb fair and square. Harry outwitted the craftiest wizard in a fight.

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  You might say Harry cheated, but what he really did was find a work around.  He anticipated that Eb might try to stop him, he knew he didn't have the skills, experience, nor if push really came to shove the Blackstaff to defeat him, so he came up with a plan.  It worked and he won because he survived, but it also revealed that Eb is out of control.  If Eb had been in control and thinking, he may have spotted that it was a double he was fighting, or better yet, he may have actually talked to Harry instead of trying to intimidate him..  Face it, Harry doesn't respond to intimidation very well, coming towards him riding a small mountain was an attempt at that.

Conspiracy Theorist:
He’s a wizard they cheat, we have it from the best of authorities, Mouse.

Eb was underestimating Harry, it is clear when Harry deflected rather than tried to outright destroy the Boulder that Harry had become far more subtle than the raw apprentice he knew. That should have signalled Eb to take care, but he didn’t and Harry was able to play him.

And Eb is out of control, a piece of information Harry didn’t previously have and now Harry is aware that Eb is capable of doing things as a member of the senior council which are wrong and purely selfish. Harry is now open to the possibility of Eb’s involvement in Thomas’ attack on Etri, to destroy Thomas and set a Svartalf/Whitecourt war in motion for his own vindictive reasons. Of course if Thomas was examined by someone like the Archive or the Winter Lady, both of whom could have been appointed as Emissary they might have determined any mental meddling. I think Eb had his own plan to kill Thomas which the rescue interrupted, hence the attack on Harry. Harry put Ed’s neck in the noose.

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