User blog comment:QueenArasene/The Aura bore Alice/@comment-4868839-20130221142617

- Should mahjarrat be able to trace each other via their auras?

I say yes, but I don't think aura and race awareness should be an "all or nothing" kind of package deal. I'll use Jhallan and Karshai as my examples. Both Mahjarrat were inert for a very long period of time, but neither were suspected as dead by the rest of their kin. Now, we've been lead to believe that Karshai is moderately/immensely powerful, especially in comparison to Enkhra and Athana-wtf, while Jhallan is incomprehensibly weak in comparison to the other Mahjarrat.

This is where assumption starts.

The instant Karshai reveals himself, he's greeted by two of the Mahjarrat, leading us to believe they can locate members of their race exactly; however, Jhallan is not. We can either throw this up to "Jhallan is too weak for them to care," or "Jhallan is too weak to be effectively located."

I prefer the second option by far, and I'll recap everything now.

I believe every Mahjarrat should be able to detect every Mahjarrat currently on Gileinor, including those who are inert/death-sleeping. I also believe racial awareness goes hand-in-hand with aura strength/magical potency, meaning that the most powerful Mahjarrat should be able to be located to their exact coordinates (Lucien, Karshai, Azzandra) while moderately powerful Mahjarrat should be able to be pinpointed around 5 square miles (Enkhra, Khazard, etc.), but the weakest of the Mahjarrat (Jhallan) can not be accurately located until the other Mahjarrat is within 1 mile proximity. Inert Mahjarrat's presence can be detected on the realm, but never accurately pinpointed or detected, no matter what the proximity.