A friend of mine had a question so I thought I would ask it here since my answer was pretty weak.
according to the Coppermind Profs weakness is “Failure and the fear of it”
And the books say the reason the reckoners didn’t fight higher epics usually was because he was afraid to fail.
So why was Prof able to fight Steelheart with his powers, woudnt he be afraid that he would fail and then everyone would die because of it?
My answer was that his only job was to distract and its very hard to fail at that since, by virtue of attacking your fulfilling your mandate.
Anyone have a better reason?