Throughout the series, King Hugo makes many decisions that some could see as...stupid: relying on two children to save his Kingdom, not appointing a new Master of the Beasts for ten years and falling for plots so paper thin you shouldn't even be able to see them! In short, he's not a very good king and you wonder how such an incompetent buffoon could have been allowed to ascend to the throne so unprepared... but it all makes sense in Series 23 (or Special 20) where it's revealed that Hugo had an older brother, Prince Angelo. This meant that Hugo was originally the Spare to the Throne, meaning that he was never meant to be King and thus never trained to lead Avantia in anything! No wonder he keeps making so many mistakes, he's in a position he was literally never trained for!
When we last see Ria in Series 22, she's on the deck of her flagship as a flaming ship comes baring down, completely destroying it! You'd expect that to be the end of her or at least the cause of some horrific scarring... except, nope! She turns in Series 24, looking like it had never happened. At first, it seems impossible that she could have gotten away at all, let alone unscathed... but then again, this isn't the first time Ria's escaped from certain defeat. Remember, at the climax of Verak: The Storm King, Ria used magic to teleport out of danger. If that strategy worked once, why couldn't it work again on Makai?
In Series 20, Malvel returns from the dead, and he isn't the only dark magic-user to have died...
In Tempera: The Time Stealer, Elenna is remade by the new timeline into a maid in Jezrin's palace, a position that would likely afford her - a young attractive girl - and the other maids very little protection from the people they work for. Considering the kind of people Jezrin and Malvel are normally - not to mention Harkman in this timeline - and how much authority they wield... yikes. A visit to Tempera might not be only the only danger to them.
It gets worse. We don't know Elenna's exact age in this book, only that several years have passed since Ferno: The Fire Dragon; considering that Elenna was 12 in the first series, the chances of her being over 16 - the age of consent in the UK - are very minimal.
When Ospira performed the ritual that was supposed to summon her a beast, a sinewy red arm reached from the fire to grab her wrist and a voice spoke in her head... this is never explained or brought up again. Which means that whatever it was is STILL OUT THERE!
Another from Ospira. At the end, Tom asks Epos to take Derthsin's amulet to Stonewin Volcano and drop it in the crater where it would be destroyed by the lava. All seems well until you remember where Tom's father, Taladon, first found it... Stonewin Volcano. It seems unlikely that the lava will do anything other than dely the amulet's inevitable recovery...
