Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-98.141.47.111-20140113121113/@comment-821448-20170130060905

Oh, I almost forgot what the gems do to you if you take them outside. Well that sucks. But maybe she could write a story in which she tackles that issue, and shows how other kingdoms and rulers have a hard time trusting the royal family when they can't even visit them, and are not too trusting to visit Deltora themselves due to it. Or if he decides to pass on the title of king, and the Belt, before he actually dies, he could travel as a kind of chief advisor to his own child.