: you do not become one of the most powerful sorcerers in
: the world by being stupid. on top of his fearsom
: physical aspect, he would have to have a cunning,
: sharp, quick mind to get to that level of magical
: competency and sheer power.
: the deciever also wouldn't have attracted a following
: like the scholomance by being wimpy on the magical
: side, either.
: the quote that "... these two had it out..."
: indicates that either they fought entirely army to
: army, or else man to man. the rest of the story
: involving those two indicates that they've been at
: each other's necks more or less evenly for as long as
: they've both been around. nothing as sudden and
: decisive as rabican's surprise defeat of shiver at
: madrigal.
: there are simply too many unknown factors involved to say
: that much, except that they're both characters to be
: feared.
: your assumptions really are groundless here about who is
: so much more powerful than the other in exactly what
: ways.
: lank
Really, I think that The Watcher is a genius, but he is not as rational (hence Mad Goat of the Fens) as The Deceiver. Therefore the Deceiver used his rational, stable, controlled thought and hit the right buttons on the watcher, you could make the watcher be irrational and angry, being more easy to outwit.
