I would point out Hendricks now has a beard, which appears to be part of the uniform code for the Einenjaren. I bet Gard said to Hendrick’s “you know you would look good in a beard” when Valkyrie says that to you, you are as good as chosen.
Einenjaren live as long as Odin, he dies so do they finally, and he is slated to die at Ragnarok which will probably occur on the 31 October, allowing the Kringle Mantle to shift. Even Jim wouldn’t kill Santa........Would he?
I think Eb’s behaviour is a combination of old age and Peabody’s ink giving him a form of dementia. In that regard Eb isn’t a bad guy, he is ill, but he is still the most powerful and destructive wizard on the planet and will need to be contained. He clearly wanted Thomas out of Harry and Maggie’s life, and Harry had already anticipated Eb abducting Maggie, frustrating that course of action for now, a war between the White Court and the Svartalves would however achieve his aim of ending Vampires. Eb would have been Captain of Wardens during the publication of Dracula and the decimation of the Black Court so he would have had a hand in it. He single handedly revived the war with the Red’s with a satellite, so engineering a war between the Whites and the Greys would be within his wheelhouse.