And a very minor spoiler it is; it has nothing whatsoever to do
with the plot.
On page 223 (which is to say, four pages into Chapter the
Eighty-ninth) of that noble work by the esteemed Paarfi known as
/Sethra Lavode/ (formerly /The Enchantress of Dzur Mountain/, which
I perceive was not even used as a subtitle, which I think
unfortunate), the third volume of that work whose entirety is
called /The Viscount of Adrilankha/, there appears the following
line:
"Well, and before Lord Tigarrae, no one had ever
teleported himself, either"
I seemed to recall a reference to teleportation in /Five Hundred
Years After/, and indeed, on page 534 (or four pages into Chapter
the Thirty-fourth) of that noble work, we see:
As recently as the past Athyra Reign; in fact, a mere seven
hundred years before the events we have had the honor to relate,
the wizard Tigarrae of Plainview published a three volume work on
the subject, in which he claimed to have successfully teleported
himself from one end of his test chamber to the other. To be
sure, an attempt, after the publication of his work, to repeat
the experiment before witnesses resulted in failure and death for
Tigarrae; yet the work stands, even today when such uses are
commonplace, as an excellent manual for students in the magical
sciences.
Anyway, I found myself wondering if Lord Tigarrae was perhaps also
known as Geoffrey Fourmyle of Ceres, or perhaps even Gully Foyle of
Terra...
Hmm.
And one more thought: I wonder if that work of Lord Tigarrae might
perhaps be the precise work from which a certain novice Teckla
sorcerer might have learned to teleport himself.