Quote Originally Posted by denthor View Post
Council of clans? Hilga has a family that is/was the head of a clan. Could it be possible she is going to get summoned or must be at this meeting or family members?
It would be interesting if she got a vote. Your hypothesis certainly fits--maybe she was out of reach of water spell or messenger they use to announce the council, and even if she did get the message, there's zero narrative reason to show her mentioning it, since the Order (and the audience) already discover that information in a much more dramatic way. I think it would be hard to set things up so that her vote matters, though--if the council involves all the clans, there are probably too many for Hilgya's one vote to matter. Alternatively, it might only include the larger and more prominent--the fact that she could run away from, then financially ruin (all while contemplating mass murder as a backup plan) hers, without causing a big enough stir for somebody to mention it to the protagonists, implies that her clan wouldn't be among those select few.

Then again, every vote counts, and if the Giant decided to let the vamps get to exactly 50% minus one vote for dramatic effect, it wouldn't bother me too much.