Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27295021-20180515171739/@comment-27295021-20180515174254

It wouldn't have mattered if the strongest player was on the hero side, because since they're both "The Dark One" and both draw their power from the same Darkness, it could be explained away with a simple; "Our power comes from the same Darkness - the Dark One is not a title, it's an entity - a parasitical magical force that corrupts the heart and soul of its host and becomes part of you the moment your name is on the Dagger. And since both our names appear on two different Daggers - we're more branches of the same tree than separate beings. That's why I can do nothing to hurt him without hurting myself."

And then they'd have to find a way around fighting him directly, since anything they did to him also happened to Weaver. A battle of wits over a battle of magic. Maybe they somehow snatched the Dagger from him and used that to force him to release the hostages and then Weaver used both his Dagger and the Wishverse dagger at once to get rid of the Darkness later.