Is it actually possible for her not to guess that he might be Vale Athrimir?
In the whole of the Hinterlands, there is only one person whose disappearance had caused such a shockwave that it made many of the acting powers pause and stall. What made it worse was that there isn't even a single news of where he is.
It could be said that that singular act had made Vale more famous than ever.
Kinkiller, they call him. Coward—why else would he run when enemies eat into his land? He is famous for this and more. Oh, different descriptions of him have gone around the Hinterlands, carried like wildfire in a dry forest.
They said he was only a Knight, a mere Knight, when he went to the borderlands and unified it. Why, isn't he only a Knight when he entered the Rift and closed it? Then he made war with his kin, killed his brother, and sat on a hallowed throne.
Then... when war came to his doorstep, he ran.
