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If i play zeal for the lord and discard my opponents blocking evil character but there is no one else in play can i discard someone from my hand? This is how i understood the card to be because it says "Interrupt and discard two evil characters of different brigades. Cannot be negated if used by Phinehas, son of Eleazar." It does not say the character has to be in play.

no, cards default to in play if it does not specify. however, you can still discard just the one evil character in play.

If there are two different colored evil characters in play, you MUST discard two.  But if one of the colors is protected from discard then you tried to discard it but couldn't, you still get to discard the one not protected.

Then you discard that one brigade, and that is end of the story.

but you also have to discard your own EC unfortunetly 

If it is in play.

And a different color than the one you are targeting!