On 12:42 PM Maximilian Wilson wrote: > The problem I see with that is, why not have Kiera steal the staff > from Loraan instead? She'd be at least as good at it as Sethra would, > and presumably better than either Morrolan or Vlad. We have seen some long-term effects of Vlad being there. And we have seen elsewhere that the powers-that-be do work with long-term plans, sometimes without knowing how or why they are doing stuff. So Vlad had to be there.