Originally Posted by
Douglas
Assuming both that everything is as it seems and that Ardon knew all along, the far more pertinent thing Ardon did is this:
He intentionally actively prevented a competitor for a woman's attention from making his interest known, thus denying her highly relevant information in order to manipulate her into sleeping with him instead of the competitor.
If Odi had successfully expressed his feelings, as he attempted to do several times but was stopped by Ardon each time, and Ell chose in spite of that knowledge to ignore him and sleep with Ardon, then Odi would unambiguously be in the wrong here and Ardon in the right. If Odi had voluntarily kept his feelings hidden, this would also be true. Either way he'd still be pissed off, but I would side definitively with Ardon.
The fact that Odi was shut out by a deliberate information concealment campaign is what makes this morally ambiguous.