User blog comment:Omnicube1/ROUND 7: Gerald Tarrant vs. Alex Mercer/@comment-1017446-20110426233027/@comment-422690-20110427012429

Rebuttal 3:
 * 1) Tarrant is a good ranged fighter, as well. Plus, as I said earlier, the Coldfire can be Worked directly at Mercer's position, freezing him instantaneously. Tarrant uses Coldfire for a variety of purposes, and is more agile than a normal human, thanks to his Unlife.
 * 2) There's really not much more to say here.
 * 3) Stealth will only work once. Tarrant learns inordinately fast, and he has to to be able to selectively evolve an enitre ecosystem. As I said earler, Tarrant uses Coldfire defensively, so that can easily freeze the tendrils. The Dark Fae is also what allows him to shapeshift, meaning that he can track Mercer as he flies.

His knowledge of the world is not, in fact, ancient. He is descended from one of the colonists from a highly-advanced Earth, one that has actually surpassed our current one in terms of technology. He uses ancient-style weapons and magic because the nature of the world he lives in restricts everyone to those kinds of weapons. Tarrant has had, again, 10,00 years to study and refine his skills, and he was a reknowned scholar of Earth before he became the Hunter, meaning that he studied everything and anything connected to it. He knows anatomy well, as well as many other scientific fields and how the Fae can be worked to better them. Think of this: he is powerful enough to comletely and utterly change how magic is used on Erna.