Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald is simply one of the strongest cast-from-exile commanders in Magic
Stone Wall: The Man in the Pallid Mask is not a dangerous enemy, as he only deals 1 horror per attack, but he has high fight and evade (making it hard to actually hit), 3 health (which means most successful attacks won't one-shot him) and spawns at the furthest location from all Investigators and is Aloof (so it is time consuming to just get in a position to attack him at all)
The idea behind this was to keep the group from being led by simply following the more experienced designers
If you attend local events, using a personal playmat is standard practice
We might as well leave our own army some kind of backdoor out of these sweepers with this kind of game plan
He explains that, while Leo was fighting for Luna, Aporia fought for Z-one, and because he was thinking of Z-one while Dueling, Aporia felt hope