Quote Originally Posted by The King of Kings View Post
But wouldn't that mean he had to enter the Tower in order to get to that balcony in the first place?
Well there is two possibilities I think...

A. it didn't matter that he had a mark of eld, if he renounced the tower it was going to refuse him access, its like he was hoping that he could slip in the door when mordred opened it. Similarly how the 3kings talked about with Roland and his guns.

B. Remember the torn up baby clothes? other threads have explored the idea that they weren't really Roland's baby clothes, but CK's original mark of Eld... He tore it up for some reason only a luntic can really conclude, and maybe he figured since Mordred was born, going to kill Roland, and then enter the tower, that he didn't really need his own mark anyway.

Maybe he did go out on the balcony to wait for mordred, but i also thing that CK didn't want to fight Roland inside the tower, for many reasons, cramped, maybe he figured Roland had a better chance inside the tower, so he went out on the balcony to try and take out Roland before he even entered.