Another thing that bugs me is that the Traveler's Ward is clearly explained to be a spell Venat has to deliberately cast (so much so if she doesn't know about you having it the only logical explanation must be time travel) while we are repeatedly told Hydaleyn is so drained she can't even communicate key information to us from afar. Yet she's still mass casting primal immunity on hundreds of people on the First. On a world that doesn't have any primals.

Maybe things would have gone down a bit easier if she was smarter with the resource allocation, just saying.