Sentinal and the Defending player

By cyberlettuce, in Rules questions & answers

Something has come up a couple of times in my games. My playing partner has used a character to sentinel against one of the attackers that are engaged with me. On revealing the shadow card, it says "Defending player must discard their hand." Now who is considered the defending player?

I have taken it thus far to mean that I am still the defending 'Player' although my partner has used her 'character' to defend for me thus I discard my hand. Does anyone have any thoughts or confirmation on this?

the defending player is the original player- not the one who is sentinel

rich

Great thanks rich