I'm not sure the distance really matters. My issue is this: in Mardox's CS it says that he only recently became a member of the Council. Because of his performance during the bandit attack. Serheim was blinded during this same attack and Maire's mother died as well. In Maire's CS, however, it says she joined the Council, filling her mother's vacant spot, in her early twenties after the attack. Maire is 26 now. The timelines don't quite mesh.