I think its pretty much implied that those woods are normally safe and clearly they weren't that far from where she lived.
Not sure at what point Mum gets picked up but obviously those woods were monitored as someone spotted the Sharran spy lurking nearby,
if everyone was safely home in their beds then no one would have seen anything at all. So someone - most likely more than one - was watching out for any kids undertaking this ritual.
Yes its dumb but I doubt Selune herself has much to do with how her folks interpret and carry out such rituals in such widely scattered communities. We don't even know if SH's group had a (still standing and used) temple and a priest to interpret things just that her folks were devout and hoped she would follow in their footsteps.
Perfectly possible that some communities do this ritual in a more supervised and safe way but SH's group had gotten complacent. Lets be honest the father isn't the brightest - not telling his daughter the werewolf thing - was he waiting to see if it showed up for her before he bothered to mention it?
Blaming a goddess for how her people interpret and carry through with things seems strange, unless its something that habitually goes wrong, and we only know of this one case.
Last edited by Bethra; 26/12/23 05:14 PM.
