Quote Originally Posted by Sicno View Post
That's just how it goes with such a clearly well designed element. More seriously tho, I feel like a lot of the responses I've dealt with are answered by things I've already said and I just keep paraphrasing it. I feel this will get nowhere.
Welcome to the club.

The fact of the matter is that the Watcher references scholars in the plural and credits them again, in the plural. Not just Hermes. Whether he was regarded as foremost by researchers in Elpis, whether the incumbent Fandaniel knew of celestial currents or not, it does not change this. So any insistence to the contrary is just wasting time because it is already a known fact that multiple scholars were involved.