[FastJack]

I'd vote for Harlequin.

I wonder how many write-in votes he gets each year?

[Doc Chaos]

Probably not that many, since most of the people who know (of) him probably either hate him or want him outright dead

[Kot]

No, no, no... I'd really vote on him. We had local government elections just now in Poland. And on the lowest level (the equivalent of a mayor, and city council) i didn't really have any choice. Harlequin would be an interesting local official.

[Doc Chaos]

Uhm... coming to think of it like that... when I look at german political parties...

QUINN! GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE!!!

[Semerkhet]

If you believe Ghostwalker and Malcolm Carella, he's not just "mentoring" her.

Talking to Carella was fun, because it's the first time the PCs have seen anybody seriously bad-mouth Jane or her allies. For the most part, I've played up Jane as a helpful role model with a bit of a temper. The players like that she helps out, stays out of their way, and occasionally flips out and kills bad guys.

I enjoyed GM'ing this moment of "Oh shit, who are we really working for?"  I've personally removed most of the "Jane as Deus Ex" moments from the DotA series.  I've also given the players the impression that Jane is moderately more powerful than them, but not too powerful.  Without Jane constantly upstaging them, the team actually likes her.  

A few spoilery thoughts: (edit: what, no spoiler tags in this forum?)
Spoilers Ahead


In the third installment there is a poorly explained reason why she is limiting her own magical powers.  I let the players guess among themselves why she's wearing a personal mana void amulet.  They figure it is to avoid the curse associated with acquiring the Sextant.

All this talk of Harlequin v.s. Ehran reminded me of a big misconception I had running DotA.  The intro fiction to Dawn, as has been mentioned, depicts a conversation between Harlequin and Ehran wherein Ehran asks if Harlequin would ask Jane to look into the stolen Sextant issue.  Given the, AFAIK, still secret relationship between Ehran and Jane Foster I just assumed that Harlequin would leave Ehran's involvement out of it when asking Jane to do the work.  So in the final scene of Dawn it is mentioned that Jane gets into the limo with a visibly "middle-aged" but unnamed elf, I just assumed that was Harlequin.  Nothing that happened in Midnight disabused me of that notion.  Not until Darkest Hour, when it suddenly becomes apparent to me that the authors intended all along that it was Ehran directly working with Jane.  Reading Bobby Derie's draft for the follow-up adventures to DotA just confirms that, as Harlequin was supposed to be more directly involved in the follow-up.  Anyway, I'm stuck with the players in my game working for Jane and a mysterious elf who introduced himself as Caimbuel and does not wear clown make-up.

[Kot]

Hey! You should've used Big Red Letters to warn about spoilers. Those tags don't work here. Or just use this image:

[Semerkhet]

Hey! You should've used Big Red Letters to warn about spoilers. Those tags don't work here. Or just use this image:

Sorry, first time posting on these forums and I was unaware that the spoiler tags don't work here.  Post edited to add big red letters.

[Kot]

Or you can always use small letters in a quote. That'd work fine.

[FastJack]

Well, in your defense, you could always have Ehran use Caimbuel  as an alias/joke on Harlequin.

[Fizzygoo]

@Fastjack...um, little "weird" though...Daddy using by bf's name. [Insert trideo talk show E! style about how we all know that Ms. Foster and Harlequin are totally seeing each other complete with beach bikini pics of them making out and a sworn affidavit from the Sasquatch gardener. "chirp chirp, growll, grrrr," says the Sasquatch. "Oh so that's what Harlequin is like in the bedroom, I see," says Joan Rivers (of course she's still alive, plastics the gift that keeps on giving).]

[FastJack]

Granted, there's nothing that says they aren't a couple, but there's also nothing that says they are anything more than Master/Apprentice.

[Fizzygoo]

[begin French accent] But we are talking about love, no? The long hours spent together, master and apprentice, entangled in the raw emotional stew of the astral together. But of course they are lovers.[end French accent]

Yup, never seen anything official myself either. But a woman's womb is often a political playground. Queen Elizabeth I understood that quite well. Harlequin would have some interesting leverage (at the very lest something would change) if he was to become the father of Erhan's grandson/daughter. The thought's probably crossed all three of their minds...whether they liked the thought or not.

[Bradd]

Granted, there's nothing that says they aren't a couple, but there's also nothing that says they are anything more than Master/Apprentice.

Ghostwalker and Malcolm Carella both seem to think they're a couple, and they're both at least somewhat credible.

[Nomad Zophiel]

OK, granted the dating pool of Immortal Elves is small if they want to stay within their subspecies but when you've got a guy who measures his age in Ages and a woman whose age is double digits it gives a new meaning to robbing the cradle.

[FastJack]

It's definitely one of those GM's call types of issues.