I don't quite follow your points here. Make a clear cause, please. You're talking Verdas decaying, that Elf prisoner becoming Silent Monk, Wilvya (or what she's called) cooking the Magisters, what have all this in common with me thinking that Quartermistress was a kind person and because of her kind heart was stationed to guard the cave instead of hunting Sourcerers, like the others. I'm pretty much lost in your logic.
