In an effort to try and keep up with Ala more I am cutting down my characters, targeting those that I don't really play as much anyway (funnily enough seems to be all my loners!)

Although most of them don't need reasons for being gone I've created them anyway:

Aláwo - I'll go with she's hiding in Southern Alacritia keeping away from everyone and everything
Andromeda - Left Ala in search of Gaia and Phaes, I know at this point Gaia is back, but Andi doesn't know that!
Chord - His search for adventure has taken him out of Ala
Shakespeare - Wanted to get as far away from Imp as he could get, perhaps has gone to try find Sol or Scorp
Talvi - Well she has just been wandering around Ala anyway, so as with Chord this wandering has just gone a bit further now.

Can I say that Chord told Rhy he was going away for a while?