Obviously not. Harrowmont knows there's evidence against Bhelen's alibi in Jarvia's hideout. He sends the Warden to retrieve it. The warden retrieves it.
Bhelen ends up paying...
Harrowmont doesn't know. He suspects. And to make sure that, like with cowardice, we are on the same page here, I define alibi as 'a type of defence found in legal proceedings by demonstrating that the defendant was not in the place where an alleged offence was committed.' When Trian died, Bhelen was with Harrowmont himself. Finding the letters saying that Bhelen had Trian killed or had the DN attacked does not poke holes in Bhelen's alibi as there are none to poke. He really wasn't there.
People do not cheat if a win is certain. Because that would be stupid. And you just got done trying to convince us of Bhelen's cunning, so...
Do you believe that Bhelen in general thought that he was going to lose? If he doesn't, then your logic would mean that Vartag couldn't have had any reason to give those forged notes to House Helmi and Dace.
I agree with thesuperdarkone about how Harrowmont not even having fighters would hurt his support more than if he did and those fighters won several matches but ultimately lost to Piotin or to another one of Bhelen's men.
Right. Why get your hands dirty. I got it. The problem I have with such logic is that it could easily be used in just about any situation.
Take the Opening scene in Orzammar's commons. Why should Harrowmont and his men stick around and fight, when they could just flee, and thus 1) not be seen as participants in a chaotic, unlawful street fight; 2) live to plot and scheme in the safety of their own quarters another day?
The fact that if Bhelen loses he's willing to stage a coup signifies to me that he's not afraid of fighting. No one gets arrested in that street fight so I doubt the legality of it played a part (and who, after getting attacked by another group of people, thinks about whether what they're doing is legal before responding anyway?).
The situations are completely different. Bhelen didn't do it personally to avoid because it was more convenient to have the DN do it or, failing that, mercenaries. He could be suspected of being involved but, unless you slaughter your way through the carta and retrieve his letters, there will never be any proof. It's the smart thing to do. You seem to define cowardice as 'Not doing every little thing yourself,'
Oh right. Because destroying all his fighters in the ring won't make him look even worse?
You're not only stating an opinion as fact here, but you're employing faulty logic.
My logic is not faulty just because you disagree with it. I will admit, however, that we are not outright told by anyway 'Yeah, so the reason this happens is because Bhelen wants to embarrass Harrowmont.' That is my view. And Harrowmont's fighters, we find out, do beat several of Bhelen's fighters. They do not ultimately win but they do have a good showing. Harrowmont looks worse, IMO, if Bhelen has a ton of champions and no one stands for Harrowmont.
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