Well, if the Hero-King didn't have an inferiority complex before... There's nothing like an Elder cheating to make all of your allies powerless, fighting it and getting crushed, only for another elder to intervene and trivialize the whole experience with a wave of its hand.
That's the sort of BS that would make me give up. What's the point of playing these games if the only thing controlling if you win or lose is the whim of the elders?