User blog comment:Alchimous/Icyene Character/@comment-4909238-20121115080801

Well, before the whole Fall of Hallowvale, your Icyene could have went for some reason (maybe to fight in another area, to visit a family member etc.) so they missed it.

Then, somehow, probably by word of mouth, they learnt of it and vowed never to return; there, they began to hide away.