I've been wearing the Aetherium Crown as of late, hopefully going to keep it on, funny thing is, the author of the book Aetherium Wars "Terrance Dreloth I think?" Well, anyways, I discovered that in the game I play, you can run away from him if he doesn't get close enough, him and all the other supposed guards ( I call them bandits), they won't attack, it is kind of amusing to have them run after you, and if you are far enough they won't even run after you, kind of nice; however, it has been getting more challenging for me while playing, because, he's pretty crafty in some of the stuff they do, he started this thing where he would send the guards off one way when he would stay on the other side, when I was near a town one time, I thought he was with all his other little crew when he was all along waiting at the edge of town for me! Also, the ething he did was send a decoy that looked like him and out of the corner of my eye, saw him standing t's o the right, that's when I jetted into the wilderness! I am curious to see if he will think up of creative ways for me to fall into his little trap lol, this all pretty amusing to me, hopefully some of you have had the same experience

Nope, he attacked and he fell. End of story. Your encounters though sound quite amusing and a lot of fun. A shame Beth didn't make the other enemies that crafty.