Well, then I'll take that as a no, ( has just the very barest trace of humour in it, not unkind. )

In the past, rifters have come and gone from Thedas. Returned, after being here for a period of time. Provost Niehaus, for example, of Research. What has also happened — uh, with your son, actually — is, someone returns to Thedas and they don't remember. Having been here before.

( recently, she'd mentioned my ex-husband and received an astonished, you were married? — it hardly seems out of the bounds of possibility that whoever (in diplomacy? research? she hasn't had cause to check in so long,) is running rifter orientation currently might not have even known on first impression to tell him. not have known him by sight or even name, to avoid the part where she has to do it,

she assumes we've met goes without saying, clocking him from voice alone when he hadn't actually told her his name, and maybe she can get through this without having to go into much detail about that. )

There've been others, as well, from. Well, your neck of the woods. If it's useful to you, I speak Sindarin.