Ah, Brian, I LOVE it when readers dig deep enough to see these thingsā¦
ā¦The answer is material for a short story; and I'm trying to recall back to the scene in Stormed Fortress - when Dakar crosses the Skyshiels, and his seer's gift "sees" the future meeting at Alestron (I won't say which characters, this is not meant to spoil).
Before the book was "split" to Traitor's Knot, and Stormed Fortress - that scene was puzzled into the action slightly differently - and there was a Fellowship insight into that vision - which said something about Dakar's wild talent being one of Athera's mysteries, that even years of Fellowship effort, and applied study, could not fully unravelā¦I cannot recall if that insight stayed in the cut/paste/splice rework of that sequence from and "ending" build to an "opening" buildā¦I think the depth to it got cut, but a reference may still remain.
That reference will be expanded, later, depend on it. And that little (hoots to you!) "apparent" anomaly in the glossary of Stormed Fortress will come to countā¦watch for it in the next books!!
And let's see if that little reference point in Stormed Fortress survived the maceration.