In person, Elonthradiel was oddly charming and so, so funny. Not like funny “ha, ha” more like “oh you’ll flay my children in front of me if we don’t ship the new monetization features *and* discover the location of The Necrolance of Gronthx this quarter” funny. Since it was hard to read what mood he might be in and what his reaction would be to any given thing, people quickly became afraid of being called into meetings or having to share negative news with him.