When does honor actually defeat trickery.
To a very deep extent trickery assumes that the physical world both does and doesn't exist.
Its a death paradox. The only way trickery ever actually works is if a person is already buried so deep in paradox that the only way out of death is to accept death.
In this sense honor and trickery can be the same thing, as long as the environment is clear to all concerned the character of the trickster matters very little.
The honorable trickster is the unification of being human and being divine because the only way for a trickster to escape death is to make the landscape clear so as to make his character irrelevant.
Honor is the escape hatch for a trickster. Leverage that forces the trickster to be honorable.
The honorable trickster is a man or a woman who can see all sides to what's real thats normatively blocked to otherwise honorable people who can only see in a straight line.
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