Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20161209153206/@comment-25073873-20161213084438

Aeren shrugged, and looked at the sword, as a glyph appeared in the air around Pride's blade, before it solidified, to trap the sword in place. Then another Glyph appeared behind Pride, and fired a Puncturing Sweep, the glyph firing four rapid short ranged blasts of light...

Aeren obviously tricked Pride into getting well within his range of Glyphs, so he could attack omnidirectional and thus bypass defense. All his talking was just a distraction.