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Do evil protection forts only protect characters from discard abilities or from being discarded in general?  As in, what would happen if I played Plague of Flies and a protected evil character in territory had a toughness of */6 or less?

Plague of Flies
All Evil Characters in play decrease 6/6 for remainder of turn. If result is 0/0 or less discard character(s).

Assyrian Camp (for example)
Protect Assyrian Evil Characters in your territory from discard, conversion, and capture unless King Hezekiah is in play or set aside.

Actually, if your opponent plays Plague of Flies in battle on Assyrian Archer for example, once the battle is over he'll go back to his territory, where he is re-protected and cannot be discarded. At least, that's how I've been told it was played. However, you appear to be a playtester, so I would expect you to know what you were talking about...

I do know reduction as a defensive tactic can be pretty useful, as it bypasses a LOT of hero anti-discard protection, which is only against Special Abilities.

Being reduced below 0 in battle does not kill characters. I am 99.99% sure about this.

even if it says to discard the character?