Hanged: Posting for Erik.<br/><br/>Also, I had an idea.  What if the framing for the scene was changed so that instead of the narrative hyping Karn up, it was the Kingdom sponsoring him instead that was doing the hyping.  You could see it right?  There's this young man who's been fighting Grimm for awhile, they want him to be a hunter, and since Karn wants to go to Avalanche, the Kingdom's representatives try to sell Karn up, make it seem that he might be too good and so on.  But there's resistance, some of it about Karn's past, some of it bristling at the idea that Karn's too good, but the Headmaster decides that he should be allowed to take the tests.  There's more arguing back and forth about the combat portion, the representatives argue he should get an automatic buy-in there, and then Armina maybe goes "Oh, well if he's so good, he can pass an extra long duel test then."<br/><br/>And then things can progress more or less the way it has.  I think it preserves the essence of the post.  There's still calling out to his history and size, there's still some character hype which I'm personally in favour for because it feels good to have good things said about your character, testing Karn on teamwork is still a good reason to have an extra long duel, but it also means that nothing is definitively said about Karn's abilities.  Commentary comes from people in the world that aren't related to the other characters, so it says nothing about the other characters.  These people might just be as equally wowed by the other PCs.<br/><br/>EDIT: OH!  And if it's already set-up that governments sometimes contact academies and try to put pressure on them, it might open up potential avenues to get involved with Professor T's homeland.