1. What is statecraft?

2. When is loyalty a virtue? Is there any kind of loyalty which is not a virtue?

3. How splendid is the wealth of the King and Queen of Kamalant?

4. How practical is the wealth of the Chief and Lady of Roshan?

5. How necessary is the wealth of Sandwriter's understanding of the natural world?

6. When is Antia in danger? From what or whom?

7. When does Antia discover her strength and talents?

8. What good has Antia ever done in the past for herself or anyone?

9. What has Antia accomplished to remedy her betrayal of the secret of Roshan?

10. What actual countries, modern or in the past, is Hughes writing about in her descriptions of Kamalant and Komilant, and Roshan?