A Practical Guide to Evil

[The Glyphstone]

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No.. i will continue to claim Black is an extreme hypocrite. The playing field he overcame was not slanted. It was as even as things are likely to get.
His initial fight were internally, with among other things the former black knight. Good was not even in the picture there.

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Your focus is too narrow. Stop looking at Black's attitude from the perspective of the reader, where the world doesn't exist until the Prologue starts, and from his internal viewpoint where he's born into a world designed to make Good win over Evil every time in the end. His personal struggle was against other Evils - but his entire nation, everyone he knows and is friends with (And most people he hates) are stuck as the losers in a rigged game. Their victories are hollow because they will always be temporary, and the opposition gets free handicaps no matter how far in the red they are to ensure it ends up that way. Is he right? Not really. Is he a hypocrite? No, he's only doing to the Heroes on a personal level what the Gods have been doing to everyone Evil for centuries. His complaints aren't about him personally, they're about the entire system he's trapped in. The reason Black is who he is is that unlike every other Evil person in the world except Malina and the other Calamities, he takes the long view and considers the benefit of his nation above himself.