Thank you! Honestly these things have been bothering me for years. I actually have another Vanyel-lives headcanon that involves the Companions NOT enabling his self destruction, and Tantras (or somebody, but Tran's my favorite) thumpi g Van on the head and yelling "It's a trap you idiot!" (because obviously if Leareth wanted him dead, he would have killed him long distance, instead he saved Savil for last, killed her in the most gruesome, obvious way he could, thereby ensuring Vanyel would go insane with grief and head north to take him on personally, so that Leareth could then seduce him to the dark side/steal his power/make him his sex slave/whatever.) so instead they send a couple of Heralds with mindspeech, fetching and farsight to scope out the situation, and they figure out a way to stop Leareth, because I said so and my babies deserve a happily ever after, dammit ;_____;

Basically, all my Van/Stef fic assumes this ^