Let's supose that Player A has Elrond with Vilya and controlling his son elrohir.
His company faces an attack from a Dragon Creature and tries to Cancel the attack with Flatter a Foe.Vilya. Elrond only. +4 prowess, +2 body, +6 direct influence until the end of the turn. If Elrond is at Rivendell and your play deck has at least 5 cards in it, you may take 3 resource cards of your choice from your discard pile and shuffle them into your play deck. Elrond makes a corruption check modified by -3. Cannot be duplicated on a given turn. "...mightiest of the Three."-LotRVI
Player B plays Webs of fear and treachery in response.Flatter a Foe. Flattery attempt. Playable on a character whose company is facing an attack of the type listed below. Character makes an influence check (modified by his usual direct influence and +2 if a diplomat). If successful, the attack is canceled and the hazard limit for the character's company is decreased by two. The influence check is successful if the result is greater than: 10 against a Dragon; 11 against Men or Drakes; 12 against Trolls, Orcs, Elves, and Giants.
How does it interacts with Vilya? I mean how many DI is considered to have Elrond unused? 4, because uses Vilya Extra Influence to control Elrohir?Webs of Fear and Treachery. Except for unused general influence and unused normal direct influence (including influence modifications given in a character's card text), all modifications to each influence attempt are reduced to zero. "'For Boromir was loyal to me and no wizard's pupil. He would have remembered his father's need...'"-LotRI