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>5. Other? - I assumed that Sethra could leave really quickly to go
>tell Vlad to hurry up and get to Dzur mountain. Sethra might not be
>able to "leave" to go off adventuring, break sticks and bring back souls,
>but could probably make a quick teleport to Adrilankha, pat Vlad on the
>back, and tell him it's okay to go off to Sethra's Abode. It would take
>all of a few minutes, and it helped to reach her goal of getting Vlad to
>trapse off to the Paths.
How'd she find him? It's not entirely unreasonable that someone might have
been keeping an eye on Vlad--he was still fairly unskilled--but we're
starting to rewrite the book. And the tracker might have been
inappropriately curious when Sethra calls up "I need to know where Vlad is
right now", and a few seconds later Kiera the Thief walks in.
I am inclined to take "impossible to leave Dzur Mountain right now" at its
word. Suppose Sethra leaves Dzur Mountain, even for a few minutes, and the
Jenoine attack. Their first course of action will be to put up their
version of teleport blocks to keep Sethra out. Now, if the blocks will
work--or even significantly impede her--Sethra can't risk leaving. If the
blocks won't work (e.g. because of her oneness with Dzur Mountain), then
there's no reason why she can't leave indefinitely, including to visit Vlad
in the first place without the rigmarole.
I don't see a scenario where she can risk leaving for a few minutes but not
for a few hours. The Jenoine aren't quite Warpsmiths, but I wouldn't want
to give them a few minutes' gap.
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